TONIGHT’S match with Wrexham is the biggest of Barrow AFC’s season, according to boss Paul Cox.

The Bluebirds welcome the Welshmen to Holker Street this evening on the back of a huge win over Dagenham and Redbridge on Saturday (7.45pm kick-off).

Victory over the Daggers kept Barrow well in touch in the play-off race, but was the latest in a string of inconsistent results.

The win, forged on the back of Liam Hughes’ penalty and Moussa Diarra’s winner, followed defeat at Eastleigh, which itself came after a stirring triumph over Tranmere.

Cox knows his team must claim their first back-to-back league wins of 2017 tonight against Wrexham and put that roller-coaster form behind them as they strive to ensure they stay in and around the play-off picture.

“It all means nothing if it’s one win and one loss. “It doesn’t mean a thing,” said Cox, who should have both Ross Hannah and Dan Rowe available after injury this evening, though Jordan Williams serves the second of a two-match ban.

“I think it’s the biggest game of the season on Tuesday now. If we were to win then, you look at the other fixtures, there are teams around us who have some horrendous fixtures, and it will be squeaky-bum time.

“There is an internal pressure with us, but I don’t think there is an external pressure. I don’t think anyone in their wildest dreams would have had us in the third round of the FA Cup, quarter-finals of the FA Trophy and in and around the game play-offs after a 26-game unbeaten run. I never did.

“We want to be in that pack. I’ll be looking at how hungry the whole squad is now to go and finish the job.”

Tonight is the first of what Cox describes as ‘nine cup finals’ before the end of the National League season.

It is followed by trips to Solihull Moors, Chester and Maidstone United, though it is not away from home where the manager is concerned.

Instead, he is aware visitors such as Wrexham, North Ferriby and Woking may arrive with the intention of sitting back and defending, as other sides have done.

But he is hopeful his side have overcome issues with putting chances away, having netted twice against a Daggers team who often had nine or 10 men behind the ball on Saturday.

“I want the boys to go and enjoy the rest of the season,” he said. “I want the whole club to go and enjoy it.

“For me, we are a year, 18 months, ahead of where I thought we would be. We’ve got to be greedy now.

“It was a massive result, but it’s a waste of time doing it against the Tranmeres, the Lincolns, the Dagenhams, if we’re not going to be consistent with the teams who are not around us.

“We’ve got to really put our foot to the floor, and really go about teams – particularly at home, because we’re quite capable of getting results away from home as well.

“Dagenham came with a 4-4-1-1 or a 4-5-1. They sat deep against us, and apart from the header at the end, I can’t think of Flatty (goalkeeper Jon Flatt) having a save to make.

“On the other hand, what we’ve done now is probably got over that edge of dominating possession and dominating chances without scoring.

“We just need to be a little bit more ruthless.

He added: “You just want that little bit of fire in the belly, that little bit of desire to finish off the season really well, and I think I’m getting that in abundance from the players. They’re working hard in training, they haven’t shifted from the mind-set that I think they can achieve and they think they can achieve.

“We’ll see what happens. We have to put our foot to the ground, push on now and really see what’s possible.”