BARROW Raiders head coach Paul Crarey says they are all big games from here on in.

Raiders are on their travels again this weekend as they face bottom-placed Dewsbury Rams.

That game is followed a week later with a home clash against a Swinton Lions team currently just one spot below the Cumbrians in the Championship.

Speaking after Raiders 38-12 away defeat against Halifax Panthers, Crarey told the club’s official YouTube channel: “We have got to regroup. We’ve got some big players coming back with Ramon (Silva) and Stacky (skipper Jarrad Stack).

“They are going to put the boots on, Greg Worthington gives us a little bit of steel and help through the middle.

“We’ll go to Dewsbury and give it a good go there, because they are big, big games, Swinton, Dewsbury, Whitehaven, Widnes all of them now until the back end of the season are real big.

“We’ve got that little cushion (Raiders are one point better off than the Rams and Haven). Points difference will be a big thing.”

Crarey felt that the major turning point in the defeat to Panthers came after a scuffle resulted in Brett Carter being sin-binned and Delaine Gittens-Bedward seeing red from the bench.

That left Raiders low on numbers which really hurt them in the end admitted the head coach.

He added: “There was an incident in the corner where it looked as though one of our lads was getting choked and Bretty (Carter) just grabbed him and tried to pull him off him.

“Then probably with D (Gittens-Bedward) getting involved, he was a substitute in that corner, it made things miles worse, and the referee had to act.

“Bretty got a yellow and Delaine got a red. Because he wasn’t on the field that meant we had to take somebody off the field, so we were down to 11 men.”

Raiders did go back to 12-men when Carter emerged from the sin-bin, but by then much of the damage had been done.

Crarey said: “It was a big turning point of the game when the two fellas were, one sent off and one binned.

“And probably that’s what cost us being in it competitively.

“I can’t fault the effort of the players, they have been great over this last month.

“They’ve give everything they’ve got, the fans were great and they stopped and appreciated the effort, but we ain’t going to win when we go down 11 men and 12 men for the remainder of the game.

“It just sucks the juice out of you and you make poor decisions when you are fatigued.”