While tomorrow’s Vanarama National League game against Altrincham could potentially be the biggest game in the club’s history, the day will also mark a significant anniversary.

It will be one year to the day that Danny Cowley was named by the club as the successor to former boss Alan Devonshire.

Together with his brother and assistant manager Nicky, Danny has taken the club to new heights and their determination to drive them forward has impressed both inside and outside the walls of the Avanti Stadium.

And with one game of the regular season remaining – Saturday’s home fixture against Altrincham – they stand on the verge of achieving what Danny has dubbed as “the impossible” and securing a place in the Vanarama National League play-offs.

Chairman Lee Harding said: “I’ve got to say that having got to know Danny and Nicky over the course of this season they have a determination to achieve the impossible.

“It’s like finding the Holy Grail for them.

“It’s a difficult task in front of us but they seem to relish it.

“Losing in the cup at Oxford would have knocked the confidence of many teams, then there were the defeats by Boreham Wood and losing to Stourbridge in the Trophy.

“We’ve responded to them all positively and you start to think that any team finishing above us is going to have to have had a very good season and that’s proved to be the case.

“I saw that Dan used the word ‘miracle’ to describe our situation last week, but I think that’s being a bit unfair on what he and the players have achieved.

“It has come on the back of enormous amounts of hard work and graft. You don’t get something for nothing and in a 46-game season, you tend to finish where you deserve to be.

“So they deserve enormous amounts of credit for the determination and drive they have shown because they aren’t just running on empty, they’re running on fumes now.

“But everyone is doing it with a smile on their face.

“It has been an ongoing process really over recent weeks and every game we’ve had has been potentially the biggest in the club’s history.

“Having lost three in a row, it was important to stop the rot against Forest Green Rovers, then the trip to Gimsby was important and when we won there the game at Gateshead was important and then the one at Wrexham.

“It’s all brought us to where we are and this really is the big one.”

Harding is expecting a big crowd at the Avanti Stadium for Saturday’s game, which kicks off at 5.30pm and will be screened live on the BT Sports television channel, and he hopes a vocal backing will make a difference like it has done in recent home fixtures.

“The players do respond to the crowd,” added Harding.

“You saw that against Cheltenham and Bromley.

“Cheltenham brought about 200, but that meant we had 900-plus Braintree fans there making a lot of noise.

“Then the Bromley game on Good Friday, they didn’t bring many but we had a big crowd that really did take us by surprise.

“We had to open up emergency turnstiles to get everyone in in time, but the vociferous noise they made really did drive the team on.

“And that could be the difference again – it really could help us.

“The game being on TV could affect how many come, but there’s nothing like being at the game and being a part of that atmosphere.

“It could be the best party that we’ve ever had.”