Ian Holloway said that the Swindon Town supporters can help the team run through the difficult periods of the campaign.
Swindon begin a set of key fixtures in League Two during November against Tranmere Rovers, hoping to build on a dramatic win over Rotherham United last week.
Holloway explained the key role he believed the supporters could play in that by willing the players to run more.
He said: "I'm a builder, and I've been like that throughout my whole career, so I can get a group going, and that's what it's about.
"You have to be able to get that group up, as the level is very similar in this league, so it is about whether you produce something in the group that makes them believe that they can be together.
"If you watched Liverpool the other night, their fans made their team run an extra probably five kilometres on that evening against Real Madrid.
"Their fans were right behind them, and that's what we need. Our fans are brilliant. The away fans are unreal. The noise when we equalised the other day was incredible. The lads responded to that.
"We need to do that. We don't need to wait for the team to start. We need you to start us going because it's a long, hard, gruelling period."
Holloway added that he believed Town had forgotten some of the basics in recent matches and needed to get back to the hard work that had them thriving.
He said: "It's all about what we do to the opposition when we haven't gotten the ball. We have to have that pressure that we've been creating ever since I've been here, after the first month or so.
"I took away some options, and I went, 'This is what we're focused on, and I think we're getting away from that.'
"We need to reinstate what we do, what is valuable for us, and that is: when you haven't got the ball, you are going to chase it, you are going to run and you are going to make life a living hell for whoever you're playing against, whether that's in their half, in the middle section, or deep in our area.
"We all press and close like our life depends on it, because I think that's what good teams are, and that's what good teams do.
"Don't judge yourself with the ball. I think we started to do that with the two weeks out. 'Look at us. Whoa.' Survey said: Uh-uh."