ACCRINGTON Stanley boss John Coleman takes his side to Rotherham United tonight insisting that the club’s ‘Back the Boys: Play-Off Bid 2011’ campaign has not put any extra pressure on his players to reach the top seven.

Coleman was left frustrated on Saturday as Stanley’s home match against Southend became the seventh Reds match to be postponed since the start of December, leaving them 18th in League Two.

Stanley were only five points outside the play-off places when the club launched their campaign to attract new fans in mid-January, also outlining their ambition to reach the top seven this term for the first time since promotion to the Football League.

But they now find themselves 12 points adrift, facing a daunting task to climb the league in the final three months of the season – even if they do have games in hand on some of the sides above them.

Stanley travel to Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium tonight to face a Rotherham side fourth in League Two, but the Millers have won just two of their last nine games.

Even the arrival of 34-year-old former Burnley striker Ian Thomas-Moore – the son of boss Ronnie Moore – has so far failed to turn around Rotherham’s form.

Coleman said: “We’re unbeaten in our last three away games so we have just got to go into the game with the belief that we can get a result.

“The fact that we haven’t played too much recently probably won’t help us. It has been very stop-start in the last four weeks.

“The postponement was frustrating on Saturday.

“It was the fact that no-one saw it coming. We were up for the game.

“I don’t think the club’s campaign puts us under any extra pressure to reach the play-offs, though. Not at all.

“The campaign is more about asking the fans to back us than the play-offs, so it doesn’t add any extra pressure.”

On-loan Burnley centre back Kevin Long is available again but he may only be on the bench as he builds up match fitness following a month-long injury lay-off.

The 20-year-old made his Stanley debut against Rotherham earlier in the season but was sent off after only 18 minutes for a professional foul on Millers striker Adam Le Fondre, who has now scored 87 goals in the last four seasons.