Steve Evans wants Rotherham United to make most of home comforts to get rivals twitching

The Millers' three remaining games in March are all at home.

And although gatecrashing the League One play-offs seems unlikely for a team 14th in the table, with just 11 matches to make up a 16-point gap, at the very least Rotherham need to take some positivity into next season.

Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Wrexham was, Evans argued, undeserved, but they won their previous two, and following it up at home to Exeter City, Wycombe Wanderers, then Crawley Town the other side of the international break could go a long way towards that.

“Our support in the second half against Leyton Orient (in the last home game) was so good,” said Evans, whose side have picked up 30 of their 44 points this season at the New York Stadium.

“I think everyone could see from the league table that Leyton Orient are a really good team with really good players but I think the fans will have been pleased to see us take control of that second half and put them to the sword, really.

“It's important we build on that.”

Evans is refusing to give up on the top-six finish which was the target when a remodelled squad kicked the season off.

“We have to go for it until it's mathematically impossible,” said Evans, who hopes to have Liam Kelly and Zak Jules back to face the Grecians. “Rotherham United during adversity can turn things.

“We don't do things easily on or off the pitch. It's really tough.

“We're off in the international break (their away game moved to April 8 due to Bolton Wanderers' call-ups) and that comes at a really good time for us. It allows us to get three or four players back on the pitch who can play a big part.

“If we can look after the next two games it puts us in a position where the players are fresher and players are becoming available.

“We could be as close as we've been all season to being at full strength.

“We won't be making teams nervous at the minute but one or two in the play-off pack will be looking nervously at us if we can win the next two.”