I think that we've all known deep-down that we were probably no better than the 4th best side in the league. What we saw today proved that. Barrow have got better whilst we've got worse (since we last played them).
Even if we'd had all players fit today, we wouldn't have won. Barrow were far bigger than us and we couldn't cope with the physicality. The same applied in the defeat at home to York. When that happens the discipline goes too.
It's probably hard for Gary Thornton to declare that he's not getting the backing from the club, if that is the case. If he has got the backing of the club, we have to question why he recruited so many players that aren't good enough to get us out of this league.
I'm not against trying to develop youngsters but you've got to have players like Liam Harrison and Oliver Wilkes around. For the second year running, we've very seriously under-estimated the quality of the opposition. With one promotion place up for grabs next season, there needs to be very serious investment in the team or else we'll still be in this division in 2018 and the supporter base will be dwindling to nothing, especially with the awful fixture scheduling this league has.
