Doncaster could hold the key to who wins the one automatic promotion place from League One to the Championship.
After beating Barrow on Sunday, when the Furness side were League leaders for an hour they follow up this weekend with another game against the current leaders, Workington Town.
Richard Horne’s injury-hit side went into Sunday’s clash at the Keepmoat Stadium in desperate need of a pick-me-up after going five games without a win.
Chief executive Carl Hall had addressed worried fans with a 20-minute video interview on the club website last week – delivering something of a rallying call with the club’s place in the League One play-offs hanging in the balance.
And Doncaster’s players provided the perfect response with a battling victory against a Barrow side who had gone top following Workington Town’s surprise home defeat by North Wales Crusaders.
Worried Town fans will now be concerned that Doncaster are going to follow the exploits of the Crusaders who put together back-to-back wins against Barrow and Town.
Barrow host London Skolars on Sunday and, as the fixture pattern seems to have been established, Town travel to the capital to play the Skolars next week.
Both Town and Barrow will have to improve dramatically from last week to return to winning ways, although Workington do have the harder task at the Keepmoat Stadium.
Doncaster, in fact, before North Wales were the only side to travel to West Cumbria and earn a win at Derwent Park.
On the Barrow win, coach Horne said: “It’s always good to be back climbing the ladder. It wasn’t the most open game but the energy we turned up with is what’s been missing in previous games.
“If we turn up with that we know we’re in with a chance, no matter who we play.
“The lads have been working hard to rectify things so they deserve a lot of credit.”
