Another Saturday come and goes, and with it three more points for the high-flying Bluebirds in their relentless quest for promotion to the Football League.

That’s now 11 wins in 12 league games. There may be some of our stalwart fans who can tell me when that last happened at Barrow, but it certainly isn’t within my time following the club.

Not when Darren Edmondson was seeing us through the challenge of Fylde and into the National League. Not when Paul Cox was leading a charge to the third round of the FA Cup and mounting an ultimately fruitless assault on the play-offs.

Forget those seasons. Forget their accomplishments and draw no parallels. This Barrow squad are better than both of them. They are perhaps better than any that has come before.

And yet, as Ian Evatt will tell anybody who asks, the most exciting thing about this team is how much better we can still become.

The next stage of this team’s evolution is to convert our dominance into goals. Much like at Notts County a week ago, Barrow could and should have scored five, six, seven on Saturday.

The chances were there, either missed or denied by superb goalkeeping. And in football, 2-0 is a dangerous score. One goal conceded, born of a defensive error, made for an unnecessary, nervy final five minutes as Barrow struggled against inevitable panic and dropped deeper in a bid to hold on to a lead which in truth should by then have been unassailable.

Yet even here there was a sense of progress. Other Barrow sides would not have won that match. They would have drawn or even found a way to lose it, in front of a 2,000-plus crowd and amid growing interest from a town re-energised and re-engaged with their local club. But not this team.

So, still top of the league. Still with a game in hand. Still playing the kind of dynamic, flowing football which – when we aren’t getting unjust (and rescinded) red cards – no team in months has been able to live with in the league.

Now is the time to buy into the manager’s message. Now is the time to start realising what we have on our hands with this squad.

The best team will not always win a league. Promotion is by no means certain in November. But make no mistake about what we’re privileged to be watching at Holker Street this season: the finest Barrow team in generations.

*Last Friday night saw a packed Co-op Bowls and Social Club for our fans forum.

Sat at the front in the stifling heat (cursing Mark Hetherington for making me wear the new jumper each director had received earlier in the day), the view out across the room was so encouraging.

It reminded me just how many people care about the future of this club and want to see it succeed.

Paul Hornby, Ian Evatt and Tony Shearer spoke strongly about their plans for the future of this football club. Investment from the owners continues. Construction projects are underway, at various stages of maturity, to deliver a new bar and fan zone, install a canopy roof on the Holker Street End and increase the ground capacity to over 5,000 in line with our ambitions to be a Football League club.

In parallel, we met the manager on Friday afternoon and gave him clear assurances that we are all aligned to the same goal of competing at the very top of this division.

Feedback to Friday night has been overwhelmingly positive. This vision for the future of Barrow AFC is one in which we all share.

Now it falls to all of us – not just the owners – to see that it is realised.

*Tonight at 5:30pm there will be a public meeting of the Bluebirds Trust, held at the ground.

All are welcome to attend and engage in what will be a pivotal night for the Trust and its role within Barrow AFC moving forward.

I am privileged to be working alongside the owners on a daily basis, seeing the energy and commitment (both financial and in time given) that they all invest in our shared goal to transform this club and deliver Football League football to the town.

One thing that strikes me more and more as we continue on this journey is that we – as a town, a community, a global network of Barrow supporters – can’t take our own foot off the pedal and hope that the other owners can deliver this alone.

Paul Hornby has briefed all fans on the financial commitment of running this club. It now falls to us to consider what we can do to share that burden and send a clear message to the owners that we, both the Trust as a 10 per cent owner and the wider community, are with them.

Tonight, the Trust must face the question of how we can support and sustain our shared vision for the club, and we would benefit from as many members of our community as possible making the first step of that journey with us.