ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman wants an atmosphere to remember when Notts County visit the Wham Stadium.

Both sides sit perilously close to the League Two dropzone, locked together on 26 ponts – one clear of the bottom two – with the Reds a place better off than their visitors.

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That means tomorrow’s clash is a huge game for both sides and Coleman wants the home supporters, who travelled in numbers for last weekend’s FA Cup fourth round defeat at Middlesbrough, to play their part.

“Our fans have been brilliant recently,” said Coleman who praised the supporters for the role they played in helping 10-man Stanley to a 1-1 draw with Carlisle in their last home game.

“You don’t get many times that an Accrington fan gets to go to two Premier League grounds in one season.

“They have been fantastic, they were fantastic against Middlesbrough and I hope we can give them more things to shout about between now and the end of the season.

“They were brilliant against Carlisle, they were one of the big reasons why we camped out in their half for the last 10 minutes.

“We are going to need them on Saturday. It is a massive game against a big club in Notts County who will have a decent following. We drowned out the Carlisle fans – and there were a lot of them -–so we need to do the same again on Saturday.”

The Reds haven’t won a home game in the league since mid-October but head into the weekend unbeaten in three on their own patch, a run that included an FA Cup win over Luton Town.

And Coleman insists his side are close to turning a corner on home turf.

“The people who have come to watch us at home, we haven’t had the results but we haven’t been playing badly,” he added.

“They can see we are giving it our all and we need to get ourselves out of this mess that we have only got ourselves to blame for being in and we have got to fight our way out of it.

“Ever since I walked through the door here in 1999 our fans have been fantastic. They have grown in numbers and grown in decibels.

“They are able to come and have a drink and a talk to me after the game.

“In this day and age there are a lot of people who perhaps wont come and talk to be because they are scared but they will make their feelings known on social media where it gets a wider audience than it probably should and carries more weight than perhaps it should.

“We are going to need them, desperately need them, between now and the end of the season and particularly on Saturday.”