COLWYN BAY have a week to recuperate bruised bodies and bruised pride after a 5-0 defeat at Barrow in the FA Cup.
John Boardman, John Lawless, Jamie Olsen, Mark Quayle and Robbie Williams are all now nursing injuries and will welcome a week without a game, while manager Gary Finley must reflect on lessons learnt in a game in which Cowyn Bay's defence was exposed by the pace of the Barrow attack.
Colwyn Bay stood off and gave their opponents far too much room to run at them and paid the price.
Up front Anthonty Murt worked hard but he and Neil Black got little support and the Bay created very little from midfield.
A nightmare start for keeper Jamie Speare, returning to his former club, helped Barrow take a 2-0 lead in the first 16 minutes which wrecked the manager's pre-match game plan and left the Seagulls chasing the game.
"We talked before hand about giving nothing away in the first 20 minutes and yet we gifted them two goals and never recovered from that. We never threatened, never got a foothold in the game, gave the ball away too easily - it was was a bad day at the office," admitted Gary Finley afterwards.
Speare came for an early corner but got nowhere near it, and as Colwyn Bay struggled to clear the ball fell to defender Steve McNulty who picked his spot just inside the post after only two minutes.
Then after Wilson hit the bar, Speare tried to punch away a cross from the same player instead of gathering it into his midrift and the ball hit Barrow's Matt Henney and rebounded into the net.
Bay might have got a foothold in the game had a John Lawless shot found the net to make it 2-1 instead of hitting the underside of the bar, but after surviving three other near misses to keep the score to 2-0 at half-time, they badly needed to get a goal early in the second half to put some pressure on the home side - but instead they conceded one from another corner while John Boardman was off the field having treatment,.
Chris Thompson scored with a running header with no one picking up his run from the edge of the box, and there was no way back from there.
Rogan got a fourth after a penetrating run through the heart of the Bay defence and then Wilson got the fifth from a rebound after his first shot had been blocked by Speare.
Neil Black had a chance to get a late consolation goal when he broke clear but keeper Tim Deasy came off his line to block the shot with his body.
Barrow are two divisions higher and their performance highlighted the gulf between those divisions.

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