Chairman still positive despite Barrow's position
This is Barrow's sixth season in League Two since winning promotion in 2020
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Barrow chairman Paul Hornby is calling upon everyone associated with the club to remain calm as they try to pull away from danger in League Two.
The Bluebirds have dropped to 21st, only four points above the bottom two, albeit with games in hand on all the teams around them.
Head coach Paul Gallagher has overseen three defeats since taking over last month, while seven new players were brought in during the transfer window.
"We've just got to stay calm," Hornby told BBC Radio Cumbria. "We're in this together, we all need each other.
"We need the Barrow support more than anything. The support will drag us over the line."
Gallagher replaced Andy Whing, who left the club in December after a 3-0 home loss to Tranmere Rovers with the team in 18th, but only four points have been picked up in the eight matches since Whing's departure.
It has been a season of struggle right from the off with the Cumbrian side never being any higher than 14th and only once winning back-to-back games.
Home form has been a particular problem with just two victories at Holker Street, the last of which was in September.
Chairman Hornby attributes the issues to a huge turnover last summer, which saw 17 players arrive to compensate for 14 departures, while players talked of a lack of clarity from Whing as results struggled to materialise.
Since finishing eighth in 2024 under Pete Wild as they missed out on the play-offs by a single point on the final day, Barrow are now on a third permanent head coach with Gallagher in charge.
And while Hornby recognises that lessons need to be learned, he wants to park all that until safety has been assured for another League Two season.
"The time for negativity, the time for repercussions, that's at the end of the season," he said. "We know that, we'll have a review at the end of the season on what went well, what went bad.
"Just now, all that needs to be parked. We need to be focused on supporting Gally, supporting the new signings, supporting the team and making sure we get through this season.
"I'm sure we can. There's never been a thought in my mind that we could be relegated."
