Clubs are into the final straight in the race for promotion from League Two.
Carlisle United are among the leaders bunching up for the big finish and manager Paul Simpson his players need to relish it.
He said: “Without a doubt these are the sort of games you need to relish, because this is where you want to be at this stage of the season.
“We’ve had a really good season, and I look at the crowds that are coming in and I wander around town at times, and there is such a positive feeling to the place.
“That’s what I wanted, and it’s what I want to keep. I hope it gets stronger and that we continue to win games of football. That’s why I want everybody to stay really positive, and whatever happens it’s been a big step forward from last season.
“There is an edge to all games like this but I think the players are handling it. It’s strange how it works out because I always give them three messages at the end of my final team talk, and the last thing I said to them on Tuesday was to go and send a message out about ourselves, that we were back at it.
“I felt that was what we needed to do because little doubts had started to creep in with supporters doubting it, players doubting it. I didn’t, and that is the honest truth. I don’t doubt it, I think we have more than enough ability in that group to be able to go and achieve something.
“I wanted the players to send a message to themselves and to the fans, and they certainly did that with the way they went about it. I would probably say that a draw was a fair result on the whole balance of the game, and I think it was just the nature of that equaliser that sickens me a little bit.
“I felt as though we could have dealt with it a little bit better, but the truth of it is that it’s gone now, we took the point, it’s another point closer to where we want to be, and it’s now a full focus on the next one at Barrow tomorrow.
“I know teams have games in hand, but I can’t do anything about that, we just have to do what we can to win our games. If we can win on Saturday it’ll set us up for the next one. If we beat Salford it sets us up again for the last one, and we have to wait and see what that will mean.”
