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Bad day at the office. Don’t understand why when we took Taylor, Green and Morris off and brought on 3 young loanee smaller, younger and weaker players on and still pumped the ball forward? We go again Saturday.

And struggling to understand how four days can make such a difference. Got what we deserved. Nothing up front, midfield overrun. Only the usual decent defensive performance from our centre backs kept us in it. None of the players who came in gave Hurst something to think about for Saturday.
Barrow just wanted it more-were quicker to the ball and produced really good delivery from both wings particularly in the first half.
The referee was poor, giving one of the worst penalty decisions ever. Khan took the ball cleanly.
Only real candidate for MOM was Crocombe- not just for his penalty save but for his handling which just gets better every week.
Bring on the 5 hour journey home.
Oh and Barrows ground is a shocker. Never seen so much metal work obscuring the view.

Massively under par this evening, with no quality in our play on show.

Disappointing, and whilst I’m sure changes were justified because of 3 games is a week, the team looked unbalanced and seriously lacking.

The game should probably have been put to bed at half time by barrow. Rode our luck all night and we was totally ineffective in possession.

Safe journey home to you and the rest.

Flat all round. Unbalanced without a left back fit. If we want to get into the play-offs, we definitely need better than Taylor up front. He's ok but he's not strong enough to dominate defenders, unreliable in holding the ball up, average at best in the air, fairly slow and isn't a finisher. We can't carry him the whole game for just one or two clever flick ons, the output from the sum of his efforts isn't enough to be a nailed on starter. He works his nuts off, but it's starting to frustrate me that he's our first choice striker. We have much better quality in pretty much every other area of the pitch although those qualities didn't turn up tonight..but a bit more mobility up top could have pulled their defence around a bit..

Probably our worst performance of the season.

We outwork most teams but Barrow were prepared to fight just as hard as us and we couldn't get a grip. Taylor won very little, while Holohan and Clifton were often outmuscled.

The enforced changes didn't help. Efete actually had a solid game but he's never going to offer much on his unfavoured side, while Cropper looks like he's still getting match fit. A few players, Holohan and Green in particular, looked a bit off the pace which is surprising given our usual fitness standards.

The subs made us worse. Taking Khan off actually created the opportunity for the goal as the cross came from a position where he would usually be. Richardson was much slower to get across from his no. 10 position. It was a good finish from Waters but he was able to run across Smith far too easily for me.

I think the games we've been chasing at the end have shown us how bad our decision making can be. We find it so difficult to break into the final third - we seem to spend so long stroking it across our back line to no end - and when the ball finally drops for us we almost always do the wrong thing. I completely lost it when Richardson decided to turn back into three Barrow players when Hunt was available for a simple lay-off.

I'm not really sure where that performance came from, but I think when we're not able to outwork an opposition's midfield we're going to struggle as we have little guile to make the difference.

Merge please admin

Theres a fellow on social media trying to seriously argue that Barrow were the best team we’ve faced this season…. We were as poor as ive seen a Paul hurst team for a long while.

Come on Town
That’s out the system now
Do the business sat at a struggling Pool
The i player jinx strikes again
400 away fans amazing 👍

I can’t take this tired long journey can’t play on Saturday on Tuesday stuff. Barrow where away to Gillingham on Saturday 600 mile round trip live and train around Manchester and travel up to Barrow to play . We were outfought everywhere on the pitch.