PAUL Cox wants Barrow AFC to go all-out for victory in two crucial Easter weekend fixtures against Bromley and North Ferriby United.

The Bluebirds travel to London tomorrow, before hosting the Villagers at Holker Street on Monday, knowing anything other that two wins could well see them out of the National League play-off picture (3pm kick-offs).

Barrow sit three points behind fifth-placed Aldershot and sixth-placed Dover Athletic ahead of their Good Friday match-up, needing 11 points from their final four games to reach the 80-point mark they have targetted as good enough for a play-off spot.

If that goal is to be achieved, AFC must win all of their remaining fixtures – with a trip to Braintree next weekend and the visit of Dover on the final day concluding the campaign.

Cox, therefore, does not want his side to hesitate or falter this weekend, pushing them to give everything they have in search of six points, rather than finish the season wondering what might have been.

“It’s an important weekend for ourselves,” said the Bluebirds manager.

“It’s probably the most important weekend that we will have, with the Friday and the Monday. You could be looking at two different scenarios – you could be looking at being very well-placed with the games other people have to play, or we might be looking at ourselves and seeing that we have given ourselves a mountain to climb for the last two games.

“We need to have the focus on our last four games, particularly these two in quick succession now. We have to show that resilience we have shown throughout the season and really go for it in both of them. We can’t afford to sit back.

“I want us to be brave, and for the players to have a freedom to take chances and try to win rather than have what happened in the first half on Saturday (in the 2-2 home draw with Woking), when we allowed the game to become what it was. I don’t think we were as brave as we should have been.”

While Barrow enter the Easter weekend scrapping to be in the play-offs, Bromley have nothing to play for – sitting 11th, too far from the play-offs and all but mathematically safe from relegation – and North Ferriby are desperately fighting to avoid the drop.

But recent results against Maidstone and Woking have shown Cox and his team they cannot underestimate anyone in the league, no matter what their positions, and the manager knows his side will have to battle to take wins from each of their remaining fixtures.

He added: “You’ve got to earn the right against every team, and be brave.

“I don’t want us to get bogged down by the psychology of what could be. That does for a lot of teams at this stage of the season.

“I want us to play with a freedom, and just have a right good go.

“If we look back at the season, if we miss out it won’t be because we’ve lost a game here or drawn a game there. It will be because there are certain things that we needed to improve on throughout the season.

“The lads have worked extremely hard to get themselves into a fantastic position. I don’t want them to feel any kind of pressure – I want us to embrace these next four games, go for it.

“If we come up short, then we’ll sit down and analyse where, over a season, we have come up short. Not over the period we have just been through.

“I want us to enjoy it. We’ve come on leaps and bounds as a football club, and I want us to just go out and play, try to win, and enjoy it. It’s been a fabulous season, but for us to freeze and not to enjoy it, wouldn’t be right,

“We’ve just got to try to go and win it. It might leave us open to counter- attacks, but I would rather we go and try to win games, be positive and try to get positive results in both games.”