Mahoney is out injured - has been for about a month, so he won't be playing.
Clemence has us playing some attractive attacking football at present and we are also probably the most threatening i've ever seen a Barrow team from set pieces - particularly corners, where we've headed in 4 goals in...
The only decent things about Newport today were;-
1) their keeper had a great game.
2) their manager was honest and didn't make the usual excuses and admitted they were beaten by a better team on the day.
Newport were totally toothless, not one shot (on or off target) in the entire match.
pleasantly surprised by Accrington so far - but my god the Vale (central) defence is shite still. I don't think the game is over yet though - the wind seems to be a big factor and Vale will have it 2nd half.
Accrington lead 2-0, but probably should be 3-0 or 4-0 up.
Newport at home. We should be looking to win this one given Newports lack of fit defenders and leaky defence in their last 2 games. We rested Gotts and Eccleston yesterday (both had minor niggles so were not risked) and they'll both strengthen the team if they come back in. Farman will also be...
yep, that's pretty much his level every week.
We must have already scored nearly as many goals from corners as we did all last season.
our last away game was a 1-0 win at Harrogate. Eccleston (the right back we rested yesterday) scored with a header from another Ben Jackson corner.
Just occasionally footballing miracles do happen....
Grimsby 1 Barrow 2.
A bit tense at times 2nd half, but we held on for (i think) only our 2nd ever win at the fishy folk.
Not many sides will end up winning at Grimsby this season, so a great result.