A Season from a fourth fight against relegation will be reward enough for Saturday's hosts to Daggers, Macclesfield Town.

In the past three seasons the Cheshire side have staved off relegation back to the Blue Square Premier, once remarkably three seasons ago, when then boss Paul Ince inspired the side to eight victories from their final nine games to avoid the drop.

Presently, the Silkmen are in the middle of a run of just one loss from their previous five games and that 1-0 reverse to Lincoln was due to a highly controversial penalty decision that left manager Keith Alexander, his staff and players enraged.

Macc come into tomorrow's game at the Moss Rose on the back of a fine 2-1 away win at Cheltenham last Friday evening, the lasting memory of which will be a wonder goal from Macc's 18-year-old striker John Rooney, younger brother of Manchester United and England's Wayne.

John Rooney's tremendous strike from well outside the area is the latest in a series of decisive winners that the talented teenager has produced to help Macc's cause.

He first found the net last season at Victoria Road, when he netted the Silkmen's consolation in a 2-1 defeat.

He then conjured a spectacular winner in a 'winner take all' Cheshire derby at the end of last season against Chester, which saw the Cestrians relegated and Macc saved from the drop.

He also came up with an unstoppable effort that put Macc on the scoresheet in the Johnstone Paints Trophy tie at Carlisle, but it didn't stop the Cheshire side losing the tie.

Although only recently restored to the first-team line-up, Rooney the younger has contributed four goals to the cause already this season and is occasionally watched by his world famous elder brother when Wayne is free of United and England commitments.

Macclesfield got off to a poor start to the new campaign - former Lincoln and Northwich boss Alexander's second full season in charge since taking over from ex-Manchester City midfielder Ian Brightwell at the end of 2006-07 season.

A goalless draw on opening day with newly relegated Northampton was followed by two defeats and Macc didn't score a goal in their first four matches.

They also were beaten a number of the fancied sides early on, losing a derby with Crewe 2-1, 4-1 to Chesterfield and 2-1 to Rotherham, but a second-half revival in that defeat by Chesterfield, where they found themselves four in arrears by half-time, seems to have been a turning point in their campaign.

Since boss Alexander seems to have hit on his best side, although his plans have been disturbed by a groin injury to skipper and central defender Paul Morgan, that has already ruled the ex-Bury man out for a month.

Nat Brown has slipped back into a defensive role from central midfield and there is unlikely to be much change to the Macc line-up to the one that was successful at Cheltenham.

Daggers will continue to be without Danny Spiller, whose hamstring injury has been confirmed as a tear, following a scan, while Josh Scott will have another late test on his ankle problem.

Tommy Tejan-Sie should make his second start in the first-team after impressing in the wins over Darlington and Bradford.

Wes Thomas has recovered from last week's illness, but Jon Nurse, after his impressive showing in the Bradford win last weekend, looks highly likely to retain his place.

It is unknown at this stage who will be replacing the departed Scott Griffiths but Scott Doe came on for him last Saturday and could replace him this week.

Likely line-ups:
Macclesfield: (4-4-1-1): Brain, Reid, Brisley, Brown, Tremarco, Sinclair, Bell (c), Bencherif, Daniel, Rooney, Sappleton.
Dagenham & R (4-4-2): Roberts, Ogogo, Antwi, Arber, Doe, Green, Thurgood, Tejan-Sie, Gain, Benson, Nurse.
Referee: Mr O Langford (W Midlands).