STEPHEN Clemence admits he was unhappy with his Barrow side conceding a stoppage-time equaliser to draw with Colchester United.

But the Bluebirds boss acknowledged the U's for their possession and felt his team gave the visitors too much time on the ball, following the 1-1 draw at Holker Street.

It looked like Barrow were heading for all three points after Elliot Newby put them ahead on the half hour mark.

However, Lyle Taylor netted in the second minute of stoppage time to rescue a point for the U's, after the hosts conceded late again to drop points.

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Colchester enjoyed 58.2 per cent of the possession in the game, as they claimed an away draw.

Clemence told the Barrow AFC YouTube channel: "I'm not happy right now.

"It's the third time in four games that we've conceded after the 90th minute, so it's becoming a bit of a problem for us.

"We need to get over that mentally and get over it quickly, because we can't let that keep happening.

"I didn't feel like we played very well today or as well as we have done but I felt we'd done enough.

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"We still were the better team, we still had more shots and more crosses but it wasn't enough.

"I felt in the second half we dropped off and that wasn't the instructions.

"We've got to still get pressure up the pitch and get after them and we gave Colchester too much time on the ball.

"The message at half-time and after that was always to get the second goal - we're not set up to be a team that sits back.

"You have to give Colchester credit - they passed the ball quite well.

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"We haven't had too many teams who come to our place and out-pass us or have more of the ball than us.

"There's things we've got to get better at but the biggest thing for us is to get over that hurdle of conceding late goals and we need to do that quickly."

Clemence had watched the game away from the dugout due to a touchline ban.

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The former Spurs and Birmingham City midfielder admits he was hoping his team would hang on for the win, in the closing stages.

"I'm up in the gantry and hoping the boys can hang on and you get to the 92nd minute and you're thinking the boys can do it," added Clemence.

"But it's a long ball forward, we haven't challenged very well for the first one, we haven't won the second and then we probably should have put the ball out of play.

"Is it a free-kick? I don't know but I think we could deal with it better than we did."