'Any loss damaging' - Notts boss Maynard on Barrow defeat

Stuart Maynard has been in charge of Notts County for over a year

Notts County head coach Stuart Maynard says "any loss is damaging" in their quest for promotion after they were upstaged by Barrow at Meadow Lane.

The Magpies were beaten 2-1 at home on Tuesday by a Barrow side that had lost their previous three games and had started the night 19th in League Two.

Despite the setback, Notts remain fourth in the table after results elsewhere went in their favour.

"The emotions are high," Maynard told BBC Radio Nottingham immediately after the loss. In both boxes we have come up short.

"I think any loss is damaging. Every time we go onto the pitch we want to get all three points, especially at home we want to win every game we play in."

The loss was Notts' second in a five-game run that has produced just one win and seen the club drop out of the automatic promotion spots.

But with Bradford City being the only team in the top eight to win on Tuesday, Notts remain well placed in the play-off spots with 12 matches remaining.

"We have a points total that we have set ourselves and we just have to keep aiming for that," Maynard said.

"There are still enough points left out there to get to where we want to get.

"I know we will bounce back. We have got a group whose mentality and attitude is to give everything."