Barrow v Portvale match thread

[blue nige]

Stevenage still have to play Scunny !

[walneyroad]

I'm tellin ya now, that James Phillips is a [SwearFilter],laughing his head off as they came over to Barrow.

Yes now he's back in charge it's back to Radio Carlisle United, as the last hour is proving!

[Fazered]

Much improved performance. Didn't put the crowd to sleep so a much better atmosphere. Vale were too strong for us in the end. Shame

[Jonty]

Better than performance than the Carlisle game but after a decent first half, we never came out in the second.
Scored a good breakaway goal through Kay after a great ball from Hutton and we had a couple of chances to add but didn't, needed more quality in the final third but overall looked good and stopped Vale playing.

Second half they stepped it up and we were never in it, too deep and the midfield again went AWOL. Apart from Beadling getting stuck in, Banks and Rooney were anonymous and we didn't win anything. The first goal came from a terrible Rooney corner cleared by their first man, Banks then missing a header and claiming a foul, Vale broke 4 on 2 and scored at the back post. Straight from the kick-off we could've been behind, a ball in behind Glennon and their striker dragged it wide. There were another 2-3 occasions when Glennon was missing again hopelessly out of position and we got away with it. Good save from Farman and a couple of good interceptions all day from Platt who I thought was back to his best. No surprise when Vale did win it at the end. A ridiculous cross field ball from Banks was going out anyway until Hutton inexplicably decided to handle it? Even the ref seemed surprised at what he'd seen. Then we couldn't clear the free kick, Gotts lost it, Banks put a half hearted tackle in and they crossed it back in and scored. Don't forget they hit the post early on at 0-0 too...

Positives: looked more up for it especially in the first half and looked more of a threat going forwards. Kay looked lively and took his goal well and was a bizarre decision to take him off as he didn't look to be too tired and was our only attacking threat. Effort was there again overall but the quality isn't.
Platt was excellent I thought my MOM, back to his old self.

Negatives: Glennon was/is awful, wasted numerous set plays and was caught out so many times before we finally changed it. Good to have Grayson back but Brough is a huge miss, hopefully he's back soon. Midfield apart from Beadling went missing again in that second half, didn't compete enough and Banks/Rooney could both have been hooked in that second half...bring back White next time? Some ridiculous decision making at times too with dangerous passes in our own half mostly from Banks and as for Hutton for the free kick? Never seen anything like that at this level, you'd see it on Cav Park maybe... Holloway won a few flick ons but needs to stay on his feet more, stop backing in and looking for the foul.

Port Vale are a good side can find their men well, good on the break and you can see why they're up there. In all honesty they could've won by 3 or 4 and the luck was with us for the large part. Got to be better defensively though the goals were criminal and we should in the end have seen that out for a point which would've been a good point...

Stevenage might be our saving grace, just got to get to the end pick up a few points here and there and then start again in the summer...

Good fair summary- agree with your Positives and Negatives.

[blue nige]

Unless he's injured How do James and Gordon get picked before Stevens it's beyond belief !

[Moribund]

Battled hard the officials can all do one their 7 was offside countless times. what the referee was giving yellow cards to us for were ignored the other way. Should of been a free kick for their 19 Amoo playing the man not the ball in the lead up to their opener and it looked like the man at the far post was offside for the winner. Amadi - Holloway held the ball up well got no protection from the officials at all. Hard to take that second goal after doing many thing right today but a glaring miss by Gordon proved to be the turning point. Port Vale definitely one of the better sides in the league in my view. But lucky to be walking away winners. Great goal from Kay thought he did well.

That Gordon chance (if you mean where he fluffed it) was flagged offside, so wouldn't have mattered either way.

[mall]

Stevenage still have to play Scunny !

"Stevenage still have to play Scunny !"..Oh hell fire !!

[Pedro]

I'm tellin ya now, that James Phillips is a [SwearFilter],laughing his head off as they came over to Barrow.

Yes now he's back in charge it's back to Radio Carlisle United, as the last hour is proving!

It was a disgrace .We keep being told if you phone in Barrow will feature.
95% of the Carlisle content was Philips,Simpson there Captain total syciophantic giving them at least 35 minutes and Barrow about 5 minutes

[McMark]

Battled hard the officials can all do one their 7 was offside countless times. what the referee was giving yellow cards to us for were ignored the other way. Should of been a free kick for their 19 Amoo playing the man not the ball in the lead up to their opener and it looked like the man at the far post was offside for the winner. Amadi - Holloway held the ball up well got no protection from the officials at all. Hard to take that second goal after doing many thing right today but a glaring miss by Gordon proved to be the turning point. Port Vale definitely one of the better sides in the league in my view. But lucky to be walking away winners. Great goal from Kay thought he did well.

That Gordon chance (if you mean where he fluffed it) was flagged offside, so wouldn't have mattered either way.

Couldn’t see the liner for the crowd on the popular side.

[SKIPPER]

Stevenage still have to play Scunny !

Scunny only lost 1-0 at FGR today.

[cottingham bluebird]

Thought barrow were good today and played some good football. We were well on top when they scored their 1st from a break from our corner then that knocked the wind out of our sails.
Unlucky to concede the 2nd but that's football on to next game and hopefully get something from it. Keep the faith

[mall]

Stevenage still have to play Scunny !

Scunny only lost 1-0 at FGR today.

And ?

[Matty]

After giving my frustrations an hour to reside that was the best performance I've seen for a good number of weeks which is saying something, but today shows we need to start scoring as the odd goal here and there isn't going to do us any favours. Realistically Vale could have had 3 or 4 this afternoon.

[blue nige]

Thought barrow were good today and played some good football. We were well on top when they scored their 1st from a break from our corner then that knocked the wind out of our sails.
Unlucky to concede the 2nd but that's football on to next game and hopefully get something from it. Keep the faith

How were we unlucky with that second goal it was pathetic!?

[Scott]

Thought barrow were good today and played some good football. We were well on top when they scored their 1st from a break from our corner then that knocked the wind out of our sails.
Unlucky to concede the 2nd but that's football on to next game and hopefully get something from it. Keep the faith

How were we unlucky with that second goal it was pathetic!?

Got to agree it was suicidal all round, same with the the first goal hopelessly exposed on the counter.
Not unlucky for the second but poor decision making from firstly Banks to play a cross field pass like that which he got wrong, then Hutton to ridiculously handle it. After that twice we failed to clear the free kick, Banks then didn't do enough to stop them putting it back in to the box and the lad at the back post was unmarked with an easy finish.
Not unlucky, poor decision making and concentration. You make your own luck and they let us off the hook before that with a few misses plus one off the post. We haven't had much luck recently but today we did and still lost...