Rotherham, Daggers' hosts tomorrow, are a club on the up.
Currently lying third in League 2, one place above John Still's side, to make Saturday's clash at the Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, the division's game of the day - the Millers made a major step towards returning to their native borough this week.
The football club put in a bid for the brown field site that they have identified as their new home and one on which they want to build a new 12,000-15,000 stadium.
The Millers are in their second season playing in neighbouring Sheffield, at the multi purpose Don Valley Stadium, but playing at one of the country's largest outdoor arenas has its problems.
Not only do they have to compete with summer Rugby League and occasional pop music concert that does untold damage to a pitch that had to have three tonnes of sand put on it this season, but with their 4,000-5,000 crowds, Rotherham barely fill a small proportion of the vast Don Valley bowl on matchdays.
They have to be back in Rotherham for October 2012 and although they will have to spend the next two seasons at Don Valley, they hope to be in their new home by 2012-13.
By that time they would hope to be back in the Championship, where present boss Ronnie Moore took them with successive promotions in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
Moore's entire football career has been spent between two clubs - Tranmere Rovers and Rotherham - to whom he gave both yeoman service as a player.
When he lost his job as Tranmere boss in the summer, he was the first man that the Millers turned to, when their own manager Mark Robins moved to neighbouring Barnsley in September. After a slow start, Rotherham really picked up in November and four successive wins won Moore the manager of the month award.
Results have bottomed out for him since and their impressive 4-2 away success in the division's Yorkshire derby last weekend at Bradford, was their first success in five games.
Adam Le Fondre, signed for £100,000 from Rochdale, by outgoing manager Robins before departing for Barnsley, has been one of the successes of the Moore reign and tops the division's scorers with 19 goals in all competitions. Two goal hero of the Bradford victory, ex-Altrincham, Stockport and Chester midfielder Kevin Ellison, is also into double figures. He has 11 goals this campaign.
Not so successful has been another front-running capture, Tom Pope from Crewe. Robins spent £150,000 to secure Pope from Gresty Road, but he only has a couple of goals to his credit and isn't making the Millers starting line-up.
Keeping him out currently is the much-travelled Herts-born striker Drewe Broughton, who includes a loan spell here at Dagenham, during the Garry Hill era, among the many clubs he has served.
There is unlikely to be any change to the side that performed so well at Bradford last weekend, to the one that hosts Daggers.
Daggers' loanees Adam Miller and Nanna Ofori-Twumasi will begin their second month's loan with the club in the game, while Josh Scott's influential contribution to the final half-hour of the win over Bury, could see him win the vote to partner Paul Benson upfront.
Scott Doe, deputising for Will Antwi (ankle ligaments), was voted man-of-the-match in the victory over Bury. Manager Still says Antwi is still a week away from resuming first-team action, so the impressive Doe will continue to deputise.
Likely teams:-
Rotherham: Warrington, Joseph, Mills, Sharps (c), Green, Rundle, Law, Roberts, Ellison, Le Fondre, Broughton.
Dagenham & R: Roberts, Ofori-Twumasi, Doe, Arber (c), Day, Green, Miller, Gain, Currie, Benson, Scott.
Referee: Mr A Bates (Staffs)
