Surely it won't be the Barrow nightmare III?

Good win for Barrow against Fev but I'm hoping for an almighty backlash from us.

I expect us to perform this weekend but follow it up with some rubbish in a week or two.

4 games in June. Barrow & Donny at home, Whitehaven and Dewsbury away. If we have any thought at matching last years league position , we need 8 points from those 4 games.

Agreed.

This should be a 6 points from 8 minimum phase of fixtures. Although I would have said 8 out of 10 and included a win at Batley.

Hopefully the bodies back help but it’s the mindset that needs working on.

Barrow know what it takes to beat us. We need to show up starting Sunday

Gaskell back today.

We started like a house on fire and scored 3 quick fire tries before giving away some silly penalties allowing Barrow to claw it back to 16-12 at half time. Since the break we've started well and are now 26-12 ahead. Hopefully we can kick on and score some more points and not let Barrow back into the game.

Eribe Doro sent off for head butting and punching a Barrow player. We are 26-12 ahead with 24 minutes to go.

The game descends into chaos with more fighting as Barrow go in to score in the corner.

Sounds like another game that could slip through our fingers. Time for EOC and the players to earn their money.

Gilly wins it for the Bulls!

Made that hard work. Total control for 15 minutes then Barrow realised they couldn’t match us unless they dragged us down to their level. And it worked, the slow play, the niggle, the cheap shots disrupted our discipline. At one point I think we were 6:1 down in the penalty count.
Then Doro reacted to a forearm to the jaw and got himself a red card.
But that brought out our excellent scrambling defence which hasn’t been about for a few weeks.
Lots of good play though, Appo got MoM, started the game, played lots of minutes. And another mention for Fulton, can’t stop scoring.

We made that hard work. A good win but quite a bit of dumb rugby on display surrendering ball and field position on the first tackle multiple times.

Discipline almost cost us the game. Doro might miss a few games now which is a shame although hopefully KR will decide he’s a thug and leave him alone please…

Barrow's niggly gameplan almost paid off. Luckily we had too much class in the end but we really made hard work of it.

Gaskell should've been MOM as he was instrumental in nearly all our tries. Honourable mentions for Appo and Myers who both also played well. Ott also had his best game for us.

Doro's reaction probably deserved a red card but I'm not going to be too hard on him. Barrow's gameplan was awful and there'd been so much niggle that it was going to kick off at some point. The late flare up with Fulton getting a yellow card was dealt with very poorly by the referee. Fulton gets a proper clothesline then gets up and has a go at the perpetrator, then gets totally blindsided by a Barrow player running in yet he gets marched for 10mins. He wins the penalty yet is the only one sent from the field. Bizarre.

Yeh credit to the Bulls for digging deep in the final 25 minutes and finding a way to win. After Doro saw red, the last thing we needed was to concede a try moments later - but we did. Some brain farts gifted Barrow position and possession and they punished our mistakes - particularly in the 1st half.

Gaskell came up with some nice touches and made a difference without ever really looking like he was at 100%. Let's hope he is due a sustained run without injury now. Pleasing to get the 2 points when a couple of sides above dropped points unexpectedly.

Tough two points. Some very shaky moments and plenty to work on but getting the two points is what matters. Barrow really are a horrible side to play.

Teams above ud dropping points and will again in the next couple of rounds due to playing each other. So we could be in a good position come the halfway point with tough, but "winnable" games. Next rounds will define where we want to finish IMO happy to float around 4th/5th, or push on for a second place finish.