Barrow 3 Gillingham 0: Match reaction from Gills boss John Coleman after League 2 defeat at Holker Street

Gillingham manager John Coleman felt his team threw in the towel during the second half at Barrow and labelled the performance a disgrace.

Coleman’s now gone five games without a win since taking over at Gillingham and they ended the day 19th in League 2 after a 3-0 defeat.

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All three goals came in the second half and Coleman started his post-match press conference with an apology to the fans that made the long journey to Cumbria.

He said: “Firstly, I'd like to apologise to the fans. If I'd travelled six hours, paid hard-earned money that I'd been working for all week, to see them just boot the ball up forward with no idea, no passion, no fight, no drive, no desire. I would be absolutely livid.

“I'm livid myself. I'm livid for the lack of responsibility they’ve shown to the fans. I think it's been an absolute disgrace.

“We didn't start the game very well at all. It was 20 minutes before we put two passes together. We got a foothold into the game, had a couple of chances. The game petered out to a nothing, first-half, 0-0.

“We're rallying them, trying to have a go, saying ‘we can get back on top here, we can win this game’. Then we proceed to just boot the ball up to Joe (Gbode) and hope that he just fights and wrestles for it.

“No idea of how to pass the ball. Everything we've worked on in training this week, which was very, very promising, very positive, the way we approached training this week. I went into this game super confident. It evaporates when players just don't seem to want to care.

“I've been managing 25 years. I've got to say, that is up there with one of the worst feelings I've had as a manager, but also one of the worst performances I've seen from any one of my teams, with