PETE Wild hopes home form will drag Barrow over the line as their play-off push splutters at just the wrong moment.

The Bluebirds have collected only one point from the last five games and their top-seven place remains vulnerable.

Barrow blew a two-goal half-time lead to lose 4-2 at form team Doncaster at the weekend to head into the Bantams clash still needing a win to make sure.

They also entertain promoted Mansfield on the final day and boss Wild is backing a strong home record to conquer the nerves.

Barrow lost their last outing in West Cumbria against Swindon 17 days ago but that was just the third time they have been beaten on their own soil.

Wild said: “Because we have been so good at home over the season as a whole, it means destiny is in our own hands really.

“So we will go into the game knowing that if we get this done and dusted, what a fantastic achievement it will be for the football club.

“The players have got to lift themselves as much as I’ve got to lift them. They’ve got to find something from deep within.

"There’s a lot to think about for the game and the team we pick.”

Barrow’s 2-1 victory at Valley Parade in November to spoil Graham Alexander’s Bantams baptism was part of a seven-game winning streak that saw them hit Christmas in second spot behind Stockport.

But the second half of the season has been a different story – and the current slump has left them looking nervously over their shoulders.

Cole Stockton, Dom Telford and Bingley-born Ben Whitfield all came off the bench in the Doncaster loss and could start as Wild considers shuffling the pack in search of a first win since Good Friday.

He thought that was coming at the weekend.

“The players are fuming, they’re tearing strips off each other in the changing room because they care,” he said after the game.

“They want to get it over the line. We saw that as an opportunity to get over the line, we had it in the grasp of our hands and we’ve thrown it away.

“We’ve got to keep believing.”