Spitfires 'shell-shocked' after cup exit (From Daily Echo)

Spitfires 'shell-shocked' after cup exit

9:06am Monday 9th November 2009 in

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SKIPPER Tom Jordan said the nature of Eastleigh’s FA Cup first round exit had left the players “shell-shocked.”

“It’s hard to take,” the towering centre-back said after a replay was snatched from Eastleigh’s hands by Barrow after Jason Walker’s last-gasp goal in a 2-1 result.

“You do think when it goes to the final stages that we have got our replay, which is the least we deserved.

“Then there was the sucker punch right at the death.

“So at the moment we are a little bit shell-shocked.”

After dominating the first half-hour Eastleigh went behind to Andy Cook’s 36th minute volley – Barrow’s first shot on target.

Makeshift centre half Andy Forbes eventually pulled Eastleigh level with five minutes to go.

But Jordan felt Eastleigh should have had a chance to level earlier when Richard Gillespie was pulled down by Barrow goalkeeper Stuart Tomlinson on 71 minutes.

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