A BRILLIANT atmosphere under a good leader – striker Jordan White feels that is the key to Barrow AFC's recent turnaround.

The Bluebirds have won four of their six matches since manager Ady Pennock arrived, heading into tomorrow's home encounter with Dagenham and Redbridge (3pm kick-off).

White scored the winner last weekend as they beat FC Halifax Town 1-0 at the Shay, with the points tally under Pennock almost matching that from the previous 17 games.

And the Scottish front-man believes the run of results – including three back-to-back away wins – are down to the impact of Pennock and his management team of Grant Holt and Lindsay Davis.

“The atmosphere is brilliant,” said White, a summer recruit under former boss Paul Cox. “All the boys are together, we’ve got a good group of boys and we’ve got a good leader. That makes a massive difference.

“With all the coaching staff involved and the people Ady has brought in, you couldn’t ask for any more. He’s given us everything and all the boys are buying into it.

“We just need to keep working hard, building on each game, each week, and take things from there.

“I think it says a lot that we hadn’t won an away game all season, and now we’ve won the last three. That says a lot.”

Those three away wins have contrasted with defeats in AFC's previous two home matches – against promotion-chasing Macclesfield Town and play-off contenders Bromley.

But Maidstone are the only other side to have lowered Barrow's colours at home, while top-10 sides Aldershot, Boreham Wood and Woking have all been sent packing without a point.

White knows the importance of good home form, and feels the Bluebirds can take confidence and impetus from their recent away results into tomorrow's encounter.

“Our home form’s not the worst,” he said. “The last few games, results haven’t been what we would want at home, but we can build on these away results on Saturday and take it from there.

“If you’ve got good home form, then that can take you a long way, especially when we are picking up points away from home as well.”

White has found himself employed as a substitute in the recent run of away wins, coming on in the second half of each, and scoring the winner at Halifax last weekend.

That came as he replaced Adi Yussuf up front, having been deployed to a less familiar role out wide in the victories over Eastleigh and Gateshead.

But the former Wrexham and Stirling Albion striker knows Yussuf and Byron Harrison – who have started up front recently – are quality front-men, and is happy to be used wherever he is required, while hoping his displays are enough to earn him a start.

“You look at the strikers we’ve got – Byron, Adi, Holty coming in as well – we’ve got a good bunch there,” White said. “We all stick together and we’ll get there in the end.

“I want to push for a start all the time. I work hard behind the scenes, as hard as I can to get in the team. Hopefully, I’ve done enough.”

He added: “The times I’ve come on and I’ve played out there, we’ve been winning, so it’s more about the team, it’s not about me coming on and trying to get a goal. If I can nick a goal, then fantastic, but it’s more for the team, keeping that defensive shape. We do shape a lot in training and you keep an eye on other positions, because you never know when you’re going to go into them.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter where you play, I just want to be on the park. I’m happy wherever I am.”