The Barrow AFC Post
Match19 Aug 2028
The wait goes on for Barrow AFC
17 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match19 Aug 2028
After 13 games, Barrow AFC finally taste it again
The first defeat in 13 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Walsall; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The step up is real for Nikoli Degtiarev
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Ronaldo Herrera is a medical away from Barrow AFC
The deal with Harrogate Town is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Barrow AFC walk away from Remar McNeil
$340.0K was the most the club would pay and West Bromwich Albion were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Barrow AFC
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Door shut on Mathis Servais
Barrow AFC asked and Aston Villa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market21 Aug 2028
Harry Russell steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Harry Russell has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Jacob Carter joins the Barrow AFC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jacob Carter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Edward King steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
- Market One of our own: Mark Jones joins the Barrow AFC first team
- The dugout Juan Múnera gets it from the manager