With the way the game is nowadays, there is never a good time for a football chairman to go on holiday. That it as true as the fact that every football chairman is as entitled to his time off as the next man. While our Chairman enjoys his time on the Iberian Peninsula, we hope, we'll be following the side to the golden sands and warm breezes of Morecambe Bay.

Last season's pair of games ended all square, so we haven't actually got the better of these in any competition yet. That's unusual for us, since we usually emerge with the upper hand in meetings with the League's newest teams. Steve Fletcher gave us the lead at Christie Park last season but The Shrimpers came back with a Matt Blinkhorn goal to claim a share of the points. Nostalgia fans will find the report here.

And it is almost nostalgia time, too, since a maximum of only five of that day's starters might see action for Chesterfield tomorrow. Quite something, considering that only eleven games have taken place between the two meetings. Team news indicates that Jamie Ward should return after suspension to partner Jack Lester up front, while Jamie Lowry may have recovered from the injury sustained in last week's cowardly challenge by a Brentford player. Dan Gray broke his nose in training and Tommy Lee is still a way off returning to offer competition to Scott Carson, and Rob Page and Lloyd Kerry have to serve the last of their three-game bans.

Of course, a sixth member of the Chesterfield side that day will be in action, in the shape of Barry Roche, who left us for Morecambe in the summer, and we hope Barry will show glimpses of his usual Chesterfield form. The Shrimpers will add Danny Adams to long-term absentees Michael Howard and Paul Lloyd, but the aforementioned Blinkhorn will be available again after cartilage surgery.

Morecambe have drawn their last three, but this constitutes something of a rally after losing three of their first four League games. Our current run of three straight defeats equals the worst under Lee Richardson's management, although his first game - an unsurprising defeat to high-flying Swansea - was the fifth in a 2006-7 sequence that saw Roy McFarland removed from office after four. Lee rates the recent situation as difficult, recognising that it is "Not comfortable for supporters, directors, players or me as the manager." While "..there have been too many disappointments..." he feels it is going too far to call it a crisis, adding that "With everyone back from suspension and injury we have a squad that can compete, and we expect them to do so."

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