ACCRINGTON Stanley head into tomorrow’s home game with Stevenage outside the League Two play off places despite taking 12 points from their last five games.

Such is the congested nature of the table a win this weekend could lift the Reds as high as second while defeat could see them slip to 10th.

It means there are plenty of equations for fans to work out on Saturday afternoons but Coleman insists he is not interested in where Stanley are now, only where they end up in May.

“The only position I am concerned about is where we are at the end of the season,” said the Reds boss whose side have a game in hand on five of the seven teams above them and two games in hand on leaders Luton.

The first of those comes on Tuesday against Swindon, a point and a place above Stanley in the standings, but Coleman’s focus is on Stevenage.

“We’ve got two home games coming up and people equate that to six points and it doesn’t happen like that,” he added.

“I am focussing on Stevenage and if we win that we can put ourselves in a healthy position going into the midweek game.

“We have to focus on the first game and win that game and see where it takes us. We have to concentrate on our own business and not look at the other results, they are not always going to go our way. We have to take care of our own business and it is still in our own hands to go up.”

Stevenage are something of a bogey side for Stanley in recent seasons with a goalless draw on the final day of the 2015-16 season costing the Reds an automatic promotion place while Boro also beat Coleman’s men in the 2011 play-off semi-finals and came from behind to win 3-2 with two goals in the final seven minutes when the sides met in October,

Indeed, in 11 meetings between the sides since both escaped non-league, the Reds have won just two.

And Coleman is hoping that tide can turn this weekend.

“Historically they always raise their game against us we don’t have a good record against them and hopefully we can right a few wrongs on Saturday,” he said.

“They have had some terrific wins this season and the game we played against them was a great game of football but we were disappointed not to come out on top, I am still scratch-ing my head as to how we didn’t. It will be a tough game on Saturday.”

Seamus Conneely trained this week but Saturday could come too soon for the skipper to return to action.