So in the spirit of that last item..
TEN REASONS WHY... ...We're glad we're stuck back in the UniBond
It's a drop of only one division from the Conference, so it's just as if as if we'd lost the last game of last season at Kidderminster, instead of winning it. It's better than NorthWest Trains Division Two. A drop of four divisions to the very bottom of the non-League pyramid would have been just too much to bear. We can see more away games because, unlike the Conference, it's not a national league. Most of the other clubs are in Lancashire or Cheshire. The refs will still be crap. We'll be the best supported club at both home and away games by a mile. We'll win more games than we did last season. We'll be part of the race for the UniBond championship and we might even win. We'll still be playing our games at Holker St. We can enjoy Kenny Lowe's forty yard passes from midfield. Barrow AFC are still alive.
...We should never have been expelled from the Conference
We won our last game and finished clear of the three relegation spots. The club which started and finished last season is still in existence. The best guarantee of meeting old debts is to ensure that Barrow play at the highest level that their performances on the pitch allow. Football should be about what happens on the field, not off it. We've got a better team than half the clubs in the Conference. We're amongst the six best supported non-League clubs in the country. We deserve to play in the Conference. The decision to expel us was not even put to a vote. We were denied an appeal by an administrative sleight of hand. We'll get back there one day. And we'll win it. Issue 041 - October 1999