Perhaps I need to play up the importance of games more often.

Over the last two weeks I’ve written about the fixtures against Ebbsfleet United and Chorley as a barometer of where we are as a club and a statement of what we want to achieve.

Six points and six goals were exactly the kind of statement I had in mind, and to follow that up with another comfortable win over Maidenhead United has left the Bluebirds occupying a playoff berth.

It’s important to observe a note of caution. We know that we can’t win every game... there. I’ve observed caution. Now back to the excitement.

The team that we have at Barrow this season are playing the best football that I’ve seen in my (admittedly relatively brief) time watching the club.

After some horrendous luck early in the season that denied us crucial points, we now feel like we have real momentum.

To be in the play-off places so soon after we were seemingly buried toward the bottom of the deck is an incredible turnaround and the players and management team should be rightly proud of saving the season.

I say ‘saving’ because it really was that important. You can’t guarantee a play-off place in September but if our poor run had continued then we would certainly have lost one.

However, cool heads prevailed, luck turned and we started getting what our performances deserved – points, and lots of them.

Now we turn to another pivotal clash. Saturday sees us visit the ground of top-of-the-league Bromley, a site of several recent disappointments.

I remember a few years ago dragging myself out of bed in Manchester after a heavy Friday night to make an early train to Bromley only to see us capitulate 5-0. Not a highlight in the pantheon of away days.

This time we’re not trying to make a statement that we deserve to be higher up the table. We’re not trying to make a statement that we can overcome bad luck to upset the league leaders.

We’re going to Bromley to test ourselves against a promotion rival. Yes, they have home advantage and an artificial playing surface (I may write a 400-word rant on those one of these weeks). But we have belief.

We have Ian Evatt and the best starting eleven we’ve had in years. We have an away support ready to give their full-throated backing. And we have momentum.

Evatt wants a perfect storm. We have all the ingredients to see it happen.

*It was great to see and hear an increase in volume off the pitch on Saturday, partly in response to Ian Evatt’s request but also because the football on the pitch is excellent to watch with no little creativity.

But perhaps the atmosphere needs a little more ‘bite’. I love this journalist’s rather unflattering description of visiting Holker Street: “A scaffold from the Middle Ages; the game a public hanging, with the players and the officials all having nooses around their necks.

“I sensed local spectators wanted to witness brutality. They wanted to witness gore. They wanted suffering.”

Maybe a little over the top but you get the idea. Those who remember will tell you that when we came up in 2008, the bond between players and fans in the run-in was unshakeable, then, when we arrived in the league, we knew we had to make Holker Street hostile. It was loud, passionate and challenging. And it worked.

Ian Evatt was right to highlight a contrast between the atmosphere that Barrow fans generated at Chorley and that of most home games.

He’s talked about that ‘perfect storm’ with everyone pulling together to create something special. So perhaps it’s time to cast off those inhibitions and ‘Bring the Noise’. The team certainly deserve it.

*Non-League Day preparations continue apace. Tickets have been going out to schools, work which continues this week.

Three-and-a-half thousand free under-16 tickets is a huge amount and we are determined to get as many of the next generation as possible into Barrow AFC to support the club and enjoy the day.

And don’t forget, adult tickets are only costing £9 so you can take the whole family for under a tenner – excellent value and a good chance to see a football team on the up.

The Bluebirds Trust, Edmondsons, Volker Stevin and NG Bailey are working hard with the club to make this possible.

We’ve also seen some brilliant entries to the poster competition, entitled Furness Families Against Hate, the winning design of which will feature on players’ T-shirts.

There are also collections for youth projects in the ground and after the game there’s a gig in the Cross Bar from 6pm.

So make sure you save the date (October 12) for the visit of Dover, and if you haven’t been already, this is a great chance to join us at a home game.

Cheap tickets, family friendly and our local team playing great football; surely what Saturday afternoons are for.