Crewe Alexandra v Barrow, match thread

[BarrowLad71]

Feel like we’ve played the same game 15 times + this season. Give away soft goals , no idea what we are doing yesterday for some of them.

The second goal Raglan is trying to play the offside trap on his own? Jesus. We come out play some nice football for 10/15 minutes and look like we are ‘ showing effort and really care ‘ and then resort back to 40 yard lumps to nobody.

We are pathetic all over the pitch let’s be honest it’s gone on too long now these players aren’t arsed, Gallagher had to tell sone of them yesterday to go and applaud the supporters.

Not sure how anyone was applauding back mind , players families having pops at supporters says it all.

Lose next week and it will be toxic

Positives were Anderson’s looked fine & was home for 7.30pm

[blue nige]

When is the penny going to drop every manager this season has played with Wingbacks we haven't got any ,it's a difficult system to play yet here we are again, Gallagher talks about a high press but with this system it's easier said than done.
Every Manager bangs on about training that's done without the pressure of having to win, that pressure is going to get worse, our board/ management team have to wake up we're sleepwalking to non league and I'm sick of " we've got good player's " we have but they have to show commitment desire and to understand each person's role, worrying times doesn't cut it !

[Jonty]

Under Evatt we had the “perfect storm” season, this one is like the “Murphy’s law” season, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

With news that MJ Willams is out for 10-12 weeks, Josh Gordon 4 weeks, added to long term injuries over the full season, Ive never known a Barrow side with so many players out on the treatment table at some point. Have we just been unlucky?

Don’t think we’ve had a full squad to choose from

[blue nige]

Under Evatt we had the “perfect storm” season, this one is like the “Murphy’s law” season, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

With news that MJ Willams is out for 10-12 weeks, Josh Gordon 4 weeks, added to long term injuries over the full season, Ive never known a Barrow side with so many players out on the treatment table at some point. Have we just been unlucky?

Don’t think we’ve had a full squad to choose from

No Jonty don't think we're unlucky it surely has to be how and where we're training it's just unbelievable!

[Barrow afc 2018]

We’ve just become a retirement home for professional footballers, easy money. The irony is we’ve been saying this since pre season friendlies. It was always a risky strategy and its failure is even more dramatic. I wouldn’t even be surprised if our owners walk away from this as the silence from them has been deafening.

[Wintergreen]

With news that MJ Willams is out for 10-12 weeks, Josh Gordon 4 weeks, added to long term injuries over the full season, Ive never known a Barrow side with so many players out on the treatment table at some point. Have we just been unlucky?

Don’t think we’ve had a full squad to choose from

No Jonty don't think we're unlucky it surely has to be how and where we're training it's just unbelievable!

Agree with you both and all the more reason to cut the new Head Coach a good deal of slack as he truly has inherited a mess. Now where have we heard that phrase before?

[spirit of 1990]

Starting a game with an average midfielder up front (who TBH is actually much better than Hemmings, Walker & Cameron) shows just how limited this squad is….either through injuries or by simply not being good enough. You had a feeling the game was over after twenty minutes, Fletchers goal gave some hope but realistically you just knew it was going to be beyond us.

This isn’t defending the team but thirty seconds before they scored we should’ve had a free kick, it was right in front of us and it was a foul, 100%. Liner somehow misses it, half a minute later the ball is in the nets! That’s just how it’s going for us.

Both Anderson’s looked decent, hopefully as they bed in things will improve.

With the news about Gordon, a new face up front is a must now, I dread to think what’ll happen if we have to rely on the three strikers we already have.

[theotherbarrow]

Thought Joe Anderson looked very good when he was brought on for the last 20 minutes, looks to have good pace, pretty aggressive and always wanted to push forward when he won or was passed the ball.

[Barrow afc 2018]

When Mr Wood first came to Barrow he did great things he was a round peg in a round hole. Since taking on all of these new duties and job titles IMHO he’s wearing too many hats and struggle to retain status quo i.e. we’re not even treading water we’re sinking badly.

Maybe time for a massive restructuring on how things are run and operated. Even if we have to take a backward step doing so, we need a plan to aspire too and the worry for me is our top leadership are so so quite. Surely they realise as fans themselves that us supporters also need assurances and leadership.
If we know what’s broken it gives us a chance to help fix it.

[theotherbarrow]

This isn’t defending the team but thirty seconds before they scored we should’ve had a free kick, it was right in front of us and it was a foul, 100%. Liner somehow misses it, half a minute later the ball is in the nets! That’s just how it’s going for us.

Looked nailed on to me! Thought the ref totally bottled that one, being the last man gave him a decision he didn't want to make early in the game....

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

With the news about Gordon, a new face up front is a must now, I dread to think what’ll happen if we have to rely on the three strikers we already have.

Thankfully I doubt we will need to rely on Hemmings he is out for 10 weeks at least after having an operation on a torn hamstring

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

When Mr Wood first came to Barrow he did great things he was a round peg in a round hole. Since taking on all of these new duties and job titles IMHO he’s wearing too many hats and struggle to retain status quo i.e. we’re not even treading water we’re sinking badly.

Maybe time for a massive restructuring on how things are run and operated. Even if we have to take a backward step doing so, we need a plan to aspire too and the worry for me is our top leadership are so so quite. Surely they realise as fans themselves that us supporters also need assurances and leadership.
If we know what’s broken it gives us a chance to help fix it.

The fact the owners wouldn’t raise the playing budget this season whilst all around us did then add to that the silence from them is imo all to ominous

[Cromwell58]

Third goal before halftime killed us off but second half the effort was there but we have no one that looked like scoring same as last season, we need a Stricker must be someone in lower leagues that is scoring we can get.

[Jonty]

Injuries this season at some point. It’s the worst Ive ever known:

Williams - early on -hernia and now out for 10-12 weeks
Adu-poku- hamstring
Fletcher-? Can’t remember but he was out for a while
Harper- hamstring
Hemmings
Foley- surgery
Healey- knee
Canavan- hamstring
Smith - ankle
Shipley- concussion protocols
Winterbottom- shoulder
Walker ?
Cameron?

Never know anything like it

[mall]

I think that even if we had a decent right fullback in for next week we would still struggle to get anything without someone who we could be confident of hitting the back of net-much as I appreciate Fletch's efforts.