MICKY Moore’s future as Barrow AFC manager will be decided over the coming hours and days.

Moore has held the position on an interim basis for three weeks since the end of August, and is due to hold talks with AFC managing director Andrew Casson and the board early this week.

Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Torquay United – sealed only thanks to Byron Harrison’s injury-time leveller, and which Moore labelled the worst display of his six-game tenure – was set to be the last match before a decision on a permanent successor to Paul Cox was made.

Moore and Casson had been due to speak at the end of last week, but the broken arm suffered by Thierry Audel in training – an injury which will sideline him for around eight weeks – put those talks on hold as the recruitment of defenders Paul Bignot and Jordan Thompson became a priority.

Moore must now hope he has shown enough in his six games in charge – which have yielded a single win, three draws and two defeats – to persuade the club he deserves more time.

“The situation is that I’m here on an interim basis,” said Moore. “The plan would have been to have talks prior to Saturday’s game, but with Thierry breaking his arm, they were put on hold, because the need was to go and get players.

“I spoke to Andrew and the board and said ‘let’s get Saturday’s game out of the way’. We will revisit on Monday, Tuesday, and I think that will be the first time where we can have some proper reflection in terms of where we are going, what we are doing, and how we have done. They can listen to my ideas and what my plans would be.

“I have to say the club have been fantastic with me. Andrew and the board have been really good, enabled me to bring players in, enabled me to bring Marcus (Bignot, who is part of the back-room staff) in, so I can’t thank them enough.”

Moore admitted Barrow had let themselves down with their display against Torquay, who arrived at Holker Street for their first match under new boss Gary Owers looking for a maiden victory of the National League season 11 matches in.

They came close as James Gray gave them a fifth-minute lead they held onto until two minutes into injury-time, when Harrison bundled home.

Moore felt the team had been on an upward curve before the poor display against the Gulls, and said: “I know people will laugh and joke when I say it, but when Paul left and we spoke about whether I wanted the job, I said I did, but the two things I needed were time and luck.

“If you include the two games where I had literally just taken over, we’ve played six games and the two we lost were Tranmere and Fylde – we didn’t deserve to lose them. The ardent Barrow supporter who follows them week-in, week-out, year on year, would be honest enough to say we didn’t deserve to lose them.

“I look since the Fylde game, and the performances have been good, we’ve made a lot of progress in a short time with the way we want to play.

“But today, we let ourselves down, not only in terms of the result, but with our general performance, and that’s the biggest thing, that’s the biggest frustration and the biggest disappointment – how we played today.”

Barrow suffered hamstring injuries for Adi Yussuf, Jack Barthram and Moussa Diarra in the Torquay game, with Moore now having to wait and see how serious those problems are.

“In the last week, as it stands at the moment, we’ve definitely lost David Nieskens, we’ve definitely lost Thierry Audel; potentially we’ve lost Adi Yussuf, potentially we’ve lost Jack Barthram, and potentially we’ve lost Moussa Diarra,” said Moore.

Diarra was not substituted, as Barrow had used all three of their permitted changes from the bench, but More added: “Moussa’s hurt his hamstring as well, that’s why for the last 10 or 12 minutes we just stuck him up front, because we had used up all the subs.

“I think everyone knows what Moussa Diarra is about, so it was a big thing for us not to make it any worse, so just stand up at centre-forward and be a nuisance basically.

“I haven’t had the opportunity to speak with Matt yet on all three of them. We’ll look at them over the next 24 hours.

“If Moussa goes, you’ve lost him, you’ve lost Thierry Audel, and potentially Jack Barthram. You’ve lost a whole back four.”