The Barrow AFC Post
Match19 Aug 2034
9 matches without a win for Barrow AFC
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Barrow AFC are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Aug 2034
9 matches without a goal for Barrow AFC
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 9 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market21 Aug 2034
Robbie Meakin is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barrow AFC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom21 Aug 2034
Robbie Meakin signs for Oldham Athletic while still at Barrow AFC
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Robbie Meakin has agreed terms with Oldham Athletic for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Aug 2034
Beryly Lubala 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 2034
Graduation day at Barrow AFC
13 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2034
Barrow AFC beat the market to Domen Elsnik from Colchester United
Colchester United will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Domen Elsnik has pre-agreed a move to Barrow AFC, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad21 Aug 2034
Nikita Bogatyrev falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Aug 2034
Isaac Fletcher runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Jacob Bell steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
- Market Barrow AFC promote Thomas Taylor from within
- Market One of our own: Simon Scott joins the Barrow AFC first team