Phil Brown

[Yorkshire Blue]

Not under Moseley we wouldn’t.

With 2 games left the most Scunthorpe can get is 31 and the most Oldham can get is 43, which is what Grimsby, who finished below us, got last year but let’s keep this on topic please.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

With 2 games left the most Scunthorpe can get is 41 and the most Oldham can get is 43, which is what Grimsby, who finished below us, got last year but let’s keep this on topic please.

Wrong, most SCunthrope get is 31!

 

[Barling Magna]

So, would you sign for Barrow with average 2/3k crowds and a manager past his prime, or would you want to stay with a team on the up with a coaching team and set up equal to, or better than a lot of FL2 clubs, average crowds of 5/6k and the option to live beside the seaside. Tough old choices.

I agree with all of that EXCEPT the option to live beside the seaside, because Barrow is beside the seaside too.....Walney Island is a beautiful area.

 

[USAShrimper]

Honestly, Scunthorpe and Oldham kept Barrow up. They have been so poor, if we had been in L2 this season, we would have stayed up

I'm not a PB cheerleader. However, to get 7 points out of their last 3 games against FGR, Salford & Sutton has to be down to PB as manager, not Scunthorpe & Oldham. Not sure we would have stayed up in L2 this season. The performances at the start of this season would have had us fighting relegation with the likes of Scunthorpe & Oldham. If a manager is held responsible when things go "pear shaped" and ultimately lose their job, especially in the lower levels, then they should get the credit when they are able to have a positive effect. I think PB and Barrow are a perfect fit for each other right now.

 

[Medway Blue]

And Bridge, 3 of the best players who are actually our players.

Bridge and Dalby were Ricky Duncan recommendations. Not sure about Arnold, but Phil lucked into the other two. The bloke hasn't got the contacts. He had the same 3 or 4 agents on speed dial when he came back here and we were fishing in an exceptionally small pond.

 

[Dubai]

So, would you sign for Barrow with average 2/3k crowds and a manager past his prime, or would you want to stay with a team on the up with a coaching team and set up equal to, or better than a lot of FL2 clubs, average crowds of 5/6k and the option to live beside the seaside. Tough old choices.

Also costs a fcking fortune to live down in comparison to Barrow.

So the same salary could go a further up there than here.

Those “better manager” is all subjective, they signed for brown before…

 

[BoyWonder2]

Bridge and Dalby were Ricky Duncan recommendations. Not sure about Arnold, but Phil lucked into the other two. The bloke hasn't got the contacts. He had the same 3 or 4 agents on speed dial when he came back here and we were fishing in an exceptionally small pond.

Arnold is 100% a PB signing.

Dalby was someone PB was aware of, and had tracked previously. Bridge was the Duncan connection.

 

[mfurok]

Arnold is 100% a PB signing.

Dalby was someone PB was aware of, and had tracked previously. Bridge was the Duncan connection.

Bridge played for Brown in the last game of the 2015/16 season at Bury (when Moussa scored).

 

[Medway Blue]

Arnold is 100% a PB signing.

Dalby was someone PB was aware of, and had tracked previously. Bridge was the Duncan connection.

See, I was told Dalby was more Duncan. The connection being that Duncan was aware of him as a youngster as our youth recruitment reach stretches/stretched to East London. Dalby would have played regularly for Orient U18s against our U18s and was turning heads for their first team just as the slipped out of the EFL and we were play-off contenders in League 1. So I'm sure Brown was aware of Dalby, but I think that was through Duncan who was even more aware of him.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan….

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Phil Brown’s Barrow finish 22nd.

That’s one place below the 21st placed side he inherited. Stevenage who were behind them when Brown was appointed finished 3 points ahead. Colchester who were 3 points ahead in 20th, finished 11 points above Barrow. They were rescued by the abjectness (is that a word?) of Oldham which meant it turned out Barrow only actually needed 1 point from those final 9 games to stay up.

Will therefore be an interesting decision to see if 7 points from 9 matches is enough for an extension.

 

[Dubai]

Phil Brown’s Barrow finish 22nd.

That’s one place below the 21st placed side he inherited. Stevenage who were behind them when Brown was appointed finished 3 points ahead. Colchester who were 3 points ahead in 20th, finished 11 points above Barrow. They were rescued by the abjectness (is that a word?) of Oldham which meant it turned out Barrow only actually needed 1 point from those final 9 games to stay up.

Will therefore be an interesting decision to see if 7 points from 9 matches is enough for an extension.

Job done for him then ?

 

[Shrimper]

Relegation favourites if they appoint him full time

 

[USAShrimper]

Relegation favourites if they appoint him full time

A club like Barrow will always know that they are relegation favorites. The irony of that is that they will have a sharper focus from the first game of the season to try and avoid it. They have no preconceived notions of grandeur. They understand their status within the EFL. Unlike us in the last couple of seasons, the quote " We're a bigger club than Morecambe" springs to mind. Well done to Morecambe for staying in L1 for another season. Barrow will see every season they stay in the EFL as a success and will get stronger by it.

With major wealth being pushed further down the EFL and into the NL. It's nice to see a team like Barrow survive another season. How long were they out of the Football League? over 40 years. Let's hope it doesn't take us that long to get back.

 

[Strykr]

A club like Barrow will always know that they are relegation favorites. The irony of that is that they will have a sharper focus from the first game of the season to try and avoid it. They have no preconceived notions of grandeur. They understand their status within the EFL. Unlike us in the last couple of seasons, the quote " We're a bigger club than Morecambe" springs to mind. Well done to Morecambe for staying in L1 for another season. Barrow will see every season they stay in the EFL as a success and will get stronger by it.

With major wealth being pushed further down the EFL and into the NL. It's nice to see a team like Barrow survive another season. How long were they out of the Football League? over 40 years. Let's hope it doesn't take us that long to get back.

But we are a bigger club then morecambe!

Sadly we just arent as good at football as they are. ?

 

[Barling Magna]

But we are a bigger club then morecambe!

Sadly we just arent as good at football as they are. ?

And we shouldn't forget that we have never beaten them in the 12 league games we've played against them...in fact we've only avoided being defeated twice in those 12 games. 2 points out of the 36 we've played for. Jeeez....

And good luck to Barrow. Just need Workington back in the EFL now.....

 

[Userorange]

And we shouldn't forget that we have never beaten them in the 12 league games we've played against them...in fact we've only avoided being defeated twice in those 12 games. 2 points out of the 36 we've played for. Jeeez....

That is possibly the most disturbing statistic about our club I have ever seen.

When the Shrimpers cannot succeed against the Shrimps......

 

[HUMBLEPIE]

We nearly always get pasted by the shrimps.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Relegation favourites if they appoint him full time

Sacked by Christmas.

 

[OldBlueLady]

That is possibly the most disturbing statistic about our club I have ever seen.

When the Shrimpers cannot succeed against the Shrimps......

Every Club has its bogey team, and Morecambe are definitely one of ours!