It's a record no club would want. Grimsby's 1-1 home draw with Macclesfield on Tuesday night was their 15^th drawn game of a disastrous campaign and stretches their winless streak to 24 games.

The Mariners last celebrated a victory as far back as September 15 when they went to fellow strugglers Torquay and recorded a 2-0 success.

Since, then manager Mike Newell has lost his job, back in November and after a period in temporary charge, in which caretaker boss Neil Woods secured just three draws and three defeats from his first six games - including an embarrassing FA Cup exit at the hands of non-league Bath City - the club's former Academy manager was somewhat surprisingly confirmed as new boss just before Daggers travelled to Blundell Park on the opening weekend of December.

That day, a battling Grimsby forced a 1-1 draw with Daggers as the Mariners were eager to impress their new boss.

But matters haven't improved much for Woods and his team. They were second bottom that day, they come to Victoria Road on Saturday in exactly the same position, without a league win to show for three months' toil.

You don't have to look far to see the Humberside team's problem. Ex-Millwall and Stoke midfielder Peter Sweeney is the side's top scorer and has only four goals to his credit.

That paucity of goals has prompted Woods to sign the injury-prone, much travelled Lee Peacock in January. Peacock, who once cost Premier League Manchester City £500,000 in his pomp, joined from League 1 Swindon, where he was highly popular until suffering knee problems that required a couple of operations.

In all, Peacock has served seven clubs, also including Championship Sheffield Wednesday and Bristol City and has already opened his Grimsby account with a double and is clearly the man that Woods is looking to for his side's salvation.

Nowhere at Victoria Road is Grimsby's current sad plight felt more heavily than by first-team coach and Academy manager Wayne Burnett, who had some of the best years of his career on Humberside, serving the Mariners for six seasons and playing well over 100 games in their black and white striped shirts.

He is also inducted in the club's Hall of Fame by scoring one of the side's most important goals - a winning golden goal that won them the Football League trophy for only the first time in their first Wembley appearance - a 2-1 extra time victory over Bournemouth.

In the same season, under manager Alan Buckley, Wayne was part of a Grimsby side that won promotion to the Championship courtesy of a 1-0 win over Northampton in a Play-Off final and the following season, the Mariners were just two places and a few points short of another Play-Off place that could have taken them to the Premier League.

But the ITV Digital fiasco proved the end of that Grimsby side as a £2 million deficit menat they could no longer afford to pay their major players, including Wayne. That side broke up and the Mariners quickly suffered back-to-back relegations from which the once famous club have never really recovered.

Daggers' recent recruit Damien McCrory is another saddened to see the Mariners' plight. In the December 5 fixture, he was playing for the opposition, one of 11 games he had on loan with Grimsby from Plymouth.

Neil Woods also attempted to land the young Irishman permanently in January, but John Still's persuasive words and Damien's fears for Grimsby's League longevity, prompted him to join Daggers instead.

Damien McCrory's former teammate at Plymouth, midfielder Yoann Folly has now also joined the Daggers on an initial month's loan on Wednesday and trained with the club for the first time yesterday. An experienced 24-year-old, who has played in England for the past seven seasons with Southampton, Sheffield Wednesday and latterly Plymouth, Paris-born Folly originally joined the Saints from St Etienne for £250,000. A French under-21 international, who has also played for the full Togo side in an international friendly, Folly will go straight into Daggers' squad for Grimsby's visit.

West Midlands referee Andy Penn takes charge of a game involving Daggers for the second time this season. He officiated in the Carling Cup defeat at Cardiff City in the opening week of the season.

Likely teams:- Dagenham & R: Roberts, Ogogo, Doe, Arber, McCrory, Green, Pack, Folly, Gain, Nurse, Benson, Scott, Montgomery, Thomas.

Grimsby: Colgan, Widdowson, Lancashire, Atkinson, Hudson, Devitt, Leary, Bore, Coulson, Wright, Peacock, Akpo Akpro, Proudlock, Jarman.