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Barnet cemented Third Division top spot as Ken Charlery sealed a 2-1 success over Swansea at Vetch Field.

The St Lucia striker's stoppage-time finish was enough to ruin sad Swansea's unbeaten home record - making them rue a host of missed opportunities.

Martin Thomas' 85th minute special had levelled Darren Currie's sensational opener seven minutes earlier, but Barnet keeper Lee Harrison was the thorn in Swansea's side.

The Essex man beat away waves of Swansea invasion as Kris O'Leary, Stuart Roberts and Julian Alsop all threatened. But it was his spot-kick save from Steve Watkin on 55 minutes that choked the home fans.

David Johnston-Smith -
Two points to make really:

1. Full credit to the club for the stand they took against the racists today - programme, cyril marching round with a banner, the board opposite the North Bank etc. For the first time ever i didn't hear any racist chanting or jeering. The real test will be whether the club continue to ram home the message week in week out. If they don't they won't win. If they do, they've got a chance.......
2. I can't believe we lost that. I'm not really saying Barnet didn't deserve the win, but I felt that this was yet more ammunition for all of us that have been pointing out the obvious - WE NEED A DECENT CENTRE FORWARD. We did all the hard work and couldn't finish it off. Alsop was a disgrace today - it's time we put him out to grass, and quickly. Can't really fault Watkin for the penalty - well I can, but I won't cos I felt he played his socks off around the field today. Roberts was outstanding. Appleby had one moment of near perfection, but wasn't fully firing. O'Leary had a fairly good first half but a crap second. And what the hell was the point of us, having conceded the second with virtually NO time left, wasting time to bring Bird on - utter madness. Last year we'd have gone belly up after the first. This year we scrambled bravely for a point only to balls it up at the death.

With decent forwards we'd have been far enough in front so that we wouldn't have to lose games like that. C'est la vie.....

Martin White -
Hollins, for all his smoothness, PR, and for what he has done in turning the playing side around since Corky, has now lost the plot. I don't want him to go, just to acknowledge that he has made tactical mistakes which has cost us points, none more so than in today's game.

What is the point of us having substitutes to change the course of a game? We were struggling to break down a fairly average Barnet team, and what does Hollins do? Take off our most creative players in Roberts & Appelby. Roberts was replaced by Steve Jones (after it seemed like an eternity of taking his tracksuit off, putting it on again etc) which allowed JJ to push forward (where he should have been from the start - top scorer you know). But to replace Appleby with Lacey was an insult to the fans. I've nothing against Lacey, but it was clearly the wrong move, with the more damaging potential of Bird & Coates twiddling their thumbs. And to add insult to insult, Bird comes on after Barnet snatched the winner with a minute to go.

We still need a striker & a creative midfielder, like we have done for the last 12 months. For the midfielder we could do no worse that Barnet's Currie who strolled around the Vetch like he owned it. Buy him!!

Mark Evans -
I'd like to begin by saying how impressed I was by Barnet and how much they have improved since last season. I hate to be the one to say it but if you are honest with yourselves, then you'll know Barnet thoroughly deserved the three points. We were absolutely crap, giving the ball away far too easily and at the end that cost us a point at least. I think throughout the ninety minutes Barnet only had three good chances infront of goal and from two of them they scored!! We created many chances and threw everything into the box, yet we only scored one goal and even that took something special from Thomas.

We are now down to eighth in the league and to be honest if the players give the same or even worse performance than the one today then we'll be finding ourselves slipping down the table very quickly.

Bringing Birdy on five fugging seconds before the final whistle made no sense at all to me, did anyone else understand that??

The only positive thing I can say about today's visit to the Vetch was the club's campaign to kick racism out. It seemed to work today but whether or not they can keep that up will be another matter.

At the moment we have major problems to deal with on the field and if we play like we did today against Barnet or like we did against Caernarfon last Tuesday then basically I'll be leaving the Derby match at half-time!!

This has to be the straw that broke the camels back. To all those people who forecasted the swans for automatic promotion I hope you watched the game today.

Paul Davies -
There are a number of reasons which were evident today why I will guarantee we will not get promoted automatically:-

1. O'leary was completely out of his depth, should never be in the first team, poor passing throughout the 90 mins.
2. I didn't realise that Appleby was playing until the 40th min (looked like a sulking kid all day).
3. Alsop was completely ineffective, far too slow to keep up with watkins speed of thought and touch.
4. John Hollins decision making was all to cock. Why did he delay bringing on the sub when it was obvious the game was drifting away, and what was the point in putting Bird on with approx. 3 seconds left in the game. (Someone please explain).

Personally I hope we get a good dicking against Derby so people can clearly see that this team needs urgent strenthginig in midfield and attack. All you doubters were wrong you should have listened to mol,mags etc., an average team cannot have luck every week.