League Two Form Guide

		P	GD	Pts
1	Stockport	6	+14	18
2	Doncaster	6	+13	18
3	Wrexham	6	+13	15
4	Sutton Utd	6	+4	13
5	Harrogate Town	6	+5	11
6	Notts County	6	+6	10
7	Mansfield	6	+3	10
8	MK Dons	6	+1	10
9	Bradford	6	-2	10
10	Crawley Town	6	+3	9
11	Swindon	6	0	9
12	Colchester	6	0	8
13	Gillingham	6	-1	8
14	Grimsby	6	-1	7
15	Barrow	6	-3	7
16	Tranmere	6	-4	7
17	Walsall	6	-5	7
18	Salford	6	-1	6
19	Morecambe	6	-5	6
20	Crewe	6	-5	6
21	AFC Wimbledon	6	-3	5
22	Accrington Stanley	6	-5	5
23	Forest Green	6	-11	3
24	Newport County	6	-10	0

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Buckley's Seventh Heaven

By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 16/06/2007

ALAN Buckley is currently sitting in 7th place in the all-time list of Grimsby managers whose spells in charge of the Mariners have lasted 31 games or more. It has been a remarkable turnaround from the nadir at Plainmoor of a 4-1 defeat back in January, their seventh consecutive defeat.

Buckley is just four points away from where he was at at the same stage in 1997, which led to the Mariners' annus mirabilis of two victorious Wembley appearances and promotion to what is now the Championship.

Buckley's first spell back in 1988 is perhaps more comparable to his current and third reign at the club however, being in the same division and with the Mariners being in a similar place in the league when he took over. Grimsby are currently 5 points ahead of where they were at the start of Buckley's first spell at Blundell Park.

The full table is shown below:

Manager	Year	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	GD
George Kerr	1979	31	17	6	8	42	31	57	11
Lawrie McMenemy	1971	31	16	6	9	60	48	54	12
Bill Shankly	1951	31	16	6	9	57	34	54	23
Tim Ward	1960	31	14	10	7	51	38	52	13
Alan Buckley II	1997	31	13	9	9	47	29	48	18
Allenby Chilton	1955	31	14	3	14	39	42	45	-3
Alan Buckley III	2006	31	13	5	13	40	44	44	-4
George Fraser	1921	31	12	8	11	43	41	44	2
Ron Ashman	1973	31	10	14	7	35	27	44	8
Tom Casey	1975	31	11	9	11	32	41	42	-9
Bill Harvey	1968	31	11	8	12	34	39	41	-5
Brian Laws	1994	31	11	8	12	39	38	41	1
Charlie Spencer	1937	31	11	8	12	52	51	41	1
David Booth	1982	31	11	8	12	47	45	41	2
Alan Buckley I	1988	31	10	9	12	42	47	39	-5
Mike Lyons	1985	31	11	6	14	44	48	39	-4
Russell Slade	2004	31	10	9	12	35	34	39	1
Lennie Lawrence	2000	31	9	7	15	31	46	34	-15
Wilf Gillow	1924	31	9	7	15	35	45	34	-10
Frank Womack	1932	31	8	9	14	52	69	33	-17
Johnny Newman	1976	31	9	6	16	33	44	33	-11
Bobby Kennedy	1969	31	7	12	12	26	33	33	-7
Jimmy McGuigan	1964	31	6	14	11	38	49	32	-11
Paul Groves	2001	31	7	10	14	32	41	31	-9
Billy Walsh	1954	31	8	6	17	30	53	30	-23
H N Hickson	1902	31	7	8	16	36	57	29	-21
Bobby Roberts	1987	31	8	5	18	37	51	29	-14
Tom Johnston	1962	31	6	8	17	42	60	26	-18

Last season's successes, combined with some new summer signings, should hopefully see Buckley assemble a squad more in his own mould than that which he inherited from Graham Rodger. As I showed in an earlier article, Town's league position under Alan Buckley was ninth, so the play-offs is the very minimum Town should be aiming for this season. With the names above him in the table being associated with some of the finest managers in the club's history, any further rise up the table is likely to see Town in the top few places in League Two this season.

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