Barrow (H) : Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:13 pm  

Short turn around after the second half collapse against Leigh. Unbeaten Barrow rock up to Odsal this Sunday. Hopefully we will see the return of some of the injured players.

Re: Barrow (H) : Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:17 pm  

Best of luck to the marketing team! Reckon it will be season ticket holders only turning up.

Re: Barrow (H) : Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:22 pm  

This game could prove pivotal to our season. Morale is on the floor and I don't think we'd recover from being 1 win in 4. If we can get a victory, 2/4 isn't bad when you consider the players we have to come back. Plus some of the teams above us have some very thin squads so will be really hurt when injuries bite.

It will be one hell of a scrap if we want the win. Not sure if we have the heart for it though

Re: Barrow (H) : Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:24 pm  

Early forecast is heavy rain and 40mph winds. Another mud bath of a game on the cards.

Re: Barrow (H) : Mon Feb 14, 2022 10:34 pm  

Daft as it sounds this seems a bigger game than Leigh. We were never going to get anything from tonight, we need to be competing and beating the teams around us. League is already and probably was before round 3, a two horse race and the rest fighting to be best of the rest

[Bullseye]

Re: Barrow (H) : Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:11 am  

Really don't fancy us at the moment. It's a must win game. With a poor weather forecast it'll be a sparse crowd. Better not be a repeat of the Sheffield performance.

Re: Barrow (H) : Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:28 am  

If Jowitts out, it'd go with an extra forward like Butler at HB. It's going to be another mud bath so don't think we'd get much change out of playing a full back/Winger there.

Re: Barrow (H) : Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:28 am  

Bullseye wrote:

Really don't fancy us at the moment. It's a must win game. With a poor weather forecast it'll be a sparse crowd. Better not be a repeat of the Sheffield performance.

Is it really a 'must win'? In what sense? Surely you saw enough last night to know that any hopes of promotion are futile. This league is completely busted and things aren't going to change any time soon. My hat goes off to anyone still bothering to turn up to games because I'm just completely apathetic towards it all now. This league will never be a level playing field.

Re: Barrow (H) : Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:32 am  

I can't see us winning this either. Our players will be huffing 20 minutes in, and Barrow will taste blood and finish us.

And I imagine the teams' morale is almost as low as the fans...

Re: Barrow (H) : Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:36 am  

Nothus wrote:

Is it really a 'must win'? In what sense? Surely you saw enough last night to know that any hopes of promotion are futile. This league is completely busted and things aren't going to change any time soon. My hat goes off to anyone still bothering to turn up to games because I'm just completely apathetic towards it all now. This league will never be a level playing field.

I feel exactly the same. It isn't fun anymore.

But then when we were "billy big balls" in SL, winning stuff by cheating the salary cap, I imagine the lower teams in that league felt the same.