Braintree Town’s players and staff now have ten days to revel in the wonderful form that they have found themselves in recently.

With no game this weekend, the Iron don’t have a Vanarama National League fixture until February 13 – when they are due to head to Southport – but it will give them time to reflect on home wins against Wrexham, Chester and Welling in the last two weeks.

Those nine points have lifted them back up to seventh in the table and within a point of the 50 target that boss Danny Cowley has set to guarantee league survival this year.

It has been a great comeback after the disruption caused by a string of postponed fixtures throughout December and January, but Cowley felt the current hiatus was very different from the previous break in action and would be beneficial to his team this time.

“The difference with this break from the one before is that we know that it is ten days, which is good,” he said.

“We can plan now, which we couldn’t before.

“We trained yesterday and coolled down with some organisational work and will then give some of the boys Saturday off because they haven’t had time off since the start of the season.

“They have earned it, but the boys who didn’t play 90 (minutes against Welling) will play on Saturday for the reserves.

“I will take the game on Saturday and there will be five or six of the first-team lads who need game time in there.”

Cowley was understandably delighted with his team’s nine-point haul from three home games in eight days, but added that he won’t allow anyone to get ahead of themselves as he realises there is a long way to go before there can be talk of a finish in the play-off places.

He added: “One more point will get us to our 50-point target and that’s what we have to do.

“We’re not getting carried away with ourselves as you have to work very hard to win football matches at this level.

“We won’t run before we can walk and we have to keep working hard.

“We now have the ten-day break, which is a bit frustrating, but we’ve done everything we could have to get a game on Saturday and Tuesday but there’s no-one available to play.

“Sometimes you just have to accept it. We now have a ten-day break, but it will be an enjoyable ten days on the back of three very good results.”