The Barrow AFC Post
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Jacob Brown
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A fracture rules Tom Barkhuizen out for 119 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barrow AFC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tyler Walker keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barrow AFC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Jake Richards, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Jake Richards is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market21 Aug 2028
Eliot Meredith puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barrow AFC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Jacob Brown in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barrow AFC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Barrow AFC
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
The crowd has taken to Igor Tyjon
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market Andrew Allen steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
- Market One of our own: Anthony Collins joins the Barrow AFC first team
- Market Barrow AFC promote Anthony Wright from within