GRAHAM BARROW HAS NOT APPLIED FOR THE JOB

So what? He has integrity and loyalty. He WAS in a job so because of loyalty may not have applied. 

Different now, appoint him, no brainer, any terms he wants. None of the other candidates come anywhere near. Nowhere near. Obvious 

Yes you are, because it is perfectly possible for the Board to approach him with a job offer given we have no manager in place.

But the club have come out and said due to amount of managers that have applied for the job we don't need to go looking this time.

I'd give the new manager until the end of the season to prove himself, after that give him 1 year deals.

Only the board and Graham Barrow himself will know officially if he has applied by the closing date. He has neither confirmed or denied whether he has applied. The rest is at best informed speculation. The board have said they had many good applicants by the closing date and had no need to head hunt, although head hunting had been an option at the start of the process had no suitable candidates been forthcoming. I expect them to stick to that declared position. If Graham has applied, in time, you would expect him to be short listed. Who ever is selected whatever our own preference will desperately need our patience and support to eventually get us out of the position we are in. It won't happen overnight and just hopefully will result in us retaining our status. Moaning that we should have appointed this person or that person will help not one bit. Let us all turn up and get behind the blues, the new Manager and team need us to show some unity.

Good post sir.

McCarthy my arse! It's the bloody board who dropped us in the mire. McCarthy merely exploited the offers made to him. At least there are a few more who now believe, as I always have, that it is still the Burr and McCarthy legacy that has dragged us back by at least two years. Just for good measure the board also sought out a CEO with a record for ruining a club like Stockport. I thought we would have had a fighting chance in the event that McCarthy was sacked at the end of last season,...but the board opted to keep him, allow him to sign a very poorly balanced squad, wasting the full budget in the process, and then unnecessarily drag out a replacement process to drop us further into the mire. One point from the last three games under Shaw, who stubbornly refused to play, and starting with Joyce in all three matches. Beggars belief.
On the issue of Graham Barrow, the whole debacle of the current fiasco began with an advertised job for a manager which was duly interviewed for, before then bringing in Burr who didn't apply! 
Doesn't anyone on the board realise just how much of a crisis we are in? It wouldn't be any worse if Vaughan had bankrolled the whole fiasco as an act of vengeance!
Get Barrow and Holden in as a dynamic duo for the short term and the future, or pass through the National North on the way to oblivion.
For the small group of happy clappers, please don't attempt any chastisement of my comments, as I'm totally sick of putting up with your pathetic moral stances. By all means raise your own views, and leave me to raise mine. 

Has anyone considered that Barrow might not want to manage again? Also whilst I would prefer a younger manager to come in it might be worth asking him to come in as an experienced part time coach?

The fact that Barrow is no longer in employment puts a different complexion on things. IF he is interested in the job, I'm sure the Board will consider him, regardless of whether his application is late. If he does apply and the Board decide to appoint him, I hope it's for sound footballing reasons not for any so called  'legendary'' status.

Harry Redknapp and Frank de Boer are also out of work worth a punt

I don't think you need to worry.

You confident that this is the case Al?

If Barrow is interviewed and doesn't get it I will be astounded

I know. Just had to vent my spleen over that dodgy cnut.