After falling to a fifth defeat in six games, David Hodgson admitted his Darlington side was not good enough.

Following the 5-0 thumping at home to Carlisle United last week, Hodgson was hoping to see a positive reaction from his players, but the defeat at Barnet on Saturday means Darlington have now lost more games than they have won this season.

Quakers' miserable run of form means their play-off dream has become exactly that and Hodgson admitted: "Good sides bounce back, obviously we are not a good side then.

"After last week's defeat, I told the players before the game that at half-time they would have to look at themselves in the mirror and ask whether they had done everything asked of them. But by half-time there were six or seven of them that were a shadow of themselves - maybe that was a consequence of the Carlisle game.

"Barnet had ten men behind the ball in the first half which made it very congested and hard to break down, but they could have had three men behind the ball and we still would not have scored.

"When the game started to open up a bit in the second half, and we put some fresh legs on, there should have been no reason why we could not have opened them up.

"We had enough chances to score and had we scored before them then we probably would have won."

Keeper Sam Russell, who endured an uncharacteristically poor game against Carlisle, also came under-fire from Hodgson for his role in Tresor Kandol's winner.

On the wet surface, left-back Joe Kendrick was unable to control the keeper's throw and from the resulting Barnet attack Kandol headed the 80th minute goal.

Hodgson said: "Why Sam threw the ball to Joe when he has got nowhere to go but we've got three forwards on the field to aim at I don't know. They went and scored straight away from that.

"We got what we deserved after that stupid mistake."

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