Barrow joint-boss Dave Bayliss warns of squad clear-out

Bayliss's Barrow have just three wins in 16 league games this season

Barrow joint-boss Dave Bayliss has warned that players within the first-team squad could be axed indefinitely for recent poor performances.

The Bluebirds slipped out of the FA Cup last weekend to Unibond Premier side FC United, extending their winless run to eight games in all competitions.

"Contracts don't last forever," Bayliss told BBC Radio Cumbria.

"They haven't performed so far this season and I can't see some of them playing in a Barrow shirt again."

Having lifted the FA Trophy with May's 2-1 defeat of Blue Square Premier champions Stevenage at Wembley and secured a third season of non-league top flight football, there was optimism at Holker Street for the current campaign.

New signings were made during the summer in the shape of Shaun Pearson, Danny Forrest, Ciaran Donnelly, Andrew Nicholas and Andrew Milne, although the latter two have struggled to make an impact and have been loaned out to Vauxhall Motors and Gainsborough Trinity respectively for first-team football.

Meanwhile league form has yielded just three wins in 16 games in Blue Square Bet Premier this season, to add to the disappointment of Sunday's cup exit.

"If people want a manager who have been involved in football for two and a half years who doesn't make mistakes, well there are people have been in football for 25 to 30 years who still make mistakes," Bayliss continued.

"You've got to look at the top managers in the world, I'm not saying we're the top managers in the world, but look at Sir Alex Ferguson and some of the players he's bought in the past, [Massimo] Taibi and [Juan Sebastian] Veron, great players who came to the club and couldn't settle.

"We have made mistakes, we openly admit that, but if we make a mistake we put it right very quickly, but I think people get carried away.

"We won the FA Trophy, two third-rounds of the FA Cup and promotion all in the space of three years, so we are doing something right, but we are going to make big mistakes.

"It's how football goes, you do make the wrong decisions, you live and die by them, and we're big enough to take that."