When can we officially welcome Barrow FC back into this forum?

[PuB]

Barra went down in strange circumstances, poetic justice they come up in strange times too?

Anyway, congrats and welcome to football league

 

[LS Bantam]

Congratulations Barrow, Halifax or Harrogate next please

 

[AdamStag]

Carlisle have to get past the Barrow vs Tranmere Cup rivalry first.

I half wanted tranmere to stop up tbh, their fans are challenging haha

 

[Boz]

Carlisle have to get past the Barrow vs Tranmere Cup rivalry first.

You've a good memory.

Hope there are no last minute glitches, it will be good to have Barrow back in the FL.

 

[AdamStag]

Congratulations Barrow, Halifax or Harrogate next please

Agreed

 

[hellogregory]

Absolutely can’t wait for our “derby” and the 3 hour pacer train journey touring all the hidden away shit holes of West Cumbria.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Hello League 2!
We're planning to stick around for more than 12 months and expect to form rivalries with every club that gets linked with poaching our manager (currently it's Bolton). Looking forward to some close fixtures and our not-really-a-rivalry rivalry with Carlisle - last time I was there they had Jansen, Dobie and Delap all playing.

I can see there are some 'characters' in this forum too.

 

[Trapdoor]

Not looking forward to playing barrow next season. Its bad enough having to play forest green. It's starting to feel uncomfortably tinpot in this league.

 

[BarraMatt]

Sounds like we only have to worry about finishing 23rd next year if Carlisle are as shit as Hello Gregory suggests.

 

[hellogregory]

Sounds like we only have to worry about finishing 23rd next year if Carlisle are as shit as Hello Gregory suggests.

We have a good manager now so I expect us to be a bit higher than 24th.

Last season we started the season off with that Scottish fucktard and allowed him to build a squad. At one point it was looking like costing us our league status, thankfully we fired him just in time.

 

[hellogregory]

Not looking forward to playing barrow next season. Its bad enough having to play forest green. It's starting to feel uncomfortably tinpot in this league.

You’ll be in League 1 next season so no need to worry. This is finally your year in the playoffs.

 

[The Terminator]

Well Done Barrow - The signs were there last season when we played you twice that Evatt knew what he was doing, the question was - Did he have the right players to do it? Well in the end he did.

I remember in April 2018 when we beat you 4-1 and you was very lucky to stay up after Woking failed to beat Dover on the last day and you lost to Chester.

I thought you were an awful side tbh, just long throws and long balls which in the main we dealt with. Dan Jones got sent off, the long throw went and we ran out easy winners.

A few months later we drew 2-2 and you were a completely different side under Evatt, a passing team with a real attacking intent, I sensed there was something in that team.

 

[chipmunx]

Barrow will be the only 2 games we play that I’ll expect 3 points from.

we always used to beat you pre-season.... lets do it for real now

 

[chipmunx]

Well done.

Connor Brown, discuss.

our 3rd choice wing back behind Josh Kay and Brad Barry. Decent player - always puts 100% in and can play on both sides of the pitch. Will wait to see our retained list before saying any more...

 

[Back in the DHSS]

I never thought I’d see the day when Barrow were back in the league.
Well done!

 

[The Jovial Forester]

We have removed the bit on our twitter profile that says 'only league team in Cumbria'.

Isn't Barrow proudly really Lancashire? Congratulations anyway, I always enjoyed the trip.

 

[BarraMatt]

Well Done Barrow - The signs were there last season when we played you twice that Evatt knew what he was doing, the question was - Did he have the right players to do it? Well in the end he did.

I remember in April 2018 when we beat you 4-1 and you was very lucky to stay up after Woking failed to beat Dover on the last day and you lost to Chester.

I thought you were an awful side tbh, just long throws and long balls which in the main we dealt with. Dan Jones got sent off, the long throw went and we ran out easy winners.

A few months later we drew 2-2 and you were a completely different side under Evatt, a passing team with a real attacking intent, I sensed there was something in that team.

Absolutely correct. We somehow managed to scrape it. That summer we announced a massive budget cut so we thought we were doomed to the Glue Leagues. Evatt came in, our "moneybags American/Barrovian owner" handed over to a consortium of local businessmen and the rest is apparently now history.

 

[Indian Dan]

I never thought I’d see the day when Barrow were back in the league.
Well done!

Just need Workington back now!

 

[Huntsman94]

Congratulations Barrow! Any excuse now to bring up the 4-3 from a couple of years back

In all seriousness well done and look forward to playing each other next season.

 

[B2TF]

Se

Congratulations Barrow, Halifax or Harrogate next please

See you soon.

 

[BlackHaddock]

At last some good news for proper football fans.

Well done Barrow.

 

[Railway Blue]

'back'? I didn't realise this forum dated to the 70s

That was my first thought too Shoddy!

 

[Railway Blue]

Ah yes the AGM cup. Brings back fond memories.

Bet NL fans are overjoyed at getting an away day at King's Lynn instead of York....

I went to King's Lynn this season and it was a fabulous 4 days and probably our two games against KL were the best we played this season. B & B in London Road, Peterborough and time spent touring the Fens. Loved it.

 

[Conker]

Does Barrow need to do anything to the stadium to meet the grade or is it okay.

 

[Railway Blue]

Well the voting papers didn't go out yesterday, the votes delayed, it's all kicking off over the are NLN/NLS "Elite" leagues and as the National League hasn't made a comment nobody knows what the hell is going on... so time for the EFL/FA to intervene and just invite us to be members and give the NL a Friday deadline ultimatum to sort the mess out or there will be no 2nd promotion place this season or ever....

I'm really quite excited for you guys getting back into the football league. It gives me hope that we might achieve it before the fat lady sings.

 

[chipmunx]

Does Barrow need to do anything to the stadium to meet the grade or is it okay.

it's ok - and we've just build a fanzone building at the home end and are just starting to put a roof on the Holker Street end which is due to finish in August - but that wasn't needed to get in the EFL

 

[Monkey Tennis]

And yes, we know our ground is a dump. But it's our dump.

 

[AdamStag]

Not looking forward to playing barrow next season. Its bad enough having to play forest green. It's starting to feel uncomfortably tinpot in this league.

At least they’ve done it properly though and not through inflated finances (and I appreciate that’s how mansfield did it too)

 

[AdamStag]

it's ok - and we've just build a fanzone building at the home end and are just starting to put a roof on the Holker Street end which is due to finish in August - but that wasn't needed to get in the EFL

In a roundabout way your ground is that catastrophically shit it’s actually good.

Proper older style dilapidated dump, give me one of those over an identikit stadium any day

 

[shoddycollins]

Isn't Barrow proudly really Lancashire? Congratulations anyway, I always enjoyed the trip.

Don't know which side of the fence our own Barra fans fall on but I've met Barrovians who argue for either way. Younger generations (at this point, anyone under the age of 50) have only ever known Barrow as part of Cumbria, before then it was a detached part of Lancashire, but Cumbria wasn't invented by a committee of civil servants in the seventies as some of the killjoys who take umbrance with any mention of the place will pompously argue, it was always the term to describe Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness, and the Cumbrian Mountains extend into all three. Before that it was an independent kingdom.