This Saturday we look to boost our play-off chances at home to bottom of the table Altrincham (writes Simon Hahn)

Despite a good point at Chorley we slipped to seventh in the table three points behind Stockport County in the final play-off place, but we still have the bottom eight in the table still to play.

We met Altrincham on the opening day of the season when we came from behind twice to earn a dramatic 2-2 draw, Terry Galbraith scoring both goals.

Since our meeting in August it has been a tough struggle for Altrincham that has seen them bottom of the pile for the last few months.

They changed their manager in December with assistant, Matt Doughty taking over in the hot seat. Alty have only once in the league so far, although that was away from home. Last weekend they lost 1-0 at home to Halifax Town.

Their last six results are: LLDLLL

Quakers’ last six results are: DLDWLD

 Altrincham were relegated from the Vanarama National last year after finishing third bottom of the division having spent just two campaigns in it.

Before this season the sides last met during the 2010/11 campaign following the Quakers relegation the previous year from League Two. Despite Altrincham being relegated that year they managed to take four points from Darlington in the two league games. The sides held each other to a 2-2 draw in August, before Altrincham took all the points from the Arena in the reverse fixture with a 1-0 win.

The two sides also met in the Conference in season 1989-90, and again in the FA Cup in 2001. Both of those games are featured in Saturday’s matchday programme.

League table:

Vanarama National League North

                                                P          W        D         L          F          A         PTS     GD

AFC Fylde                              28        19        5          4          80        41        62        +39

Salford City                            28        15        8          5          58        27        53        +31

Kidderminster                         26        16        5          5          48        22        53        +26

Chorley                                   27        14        9          4          41        23        51        +18

Stockport County                   28        14        8          6          44        31        50        +13

FC Halifax Town                    27        14        6          7          58        36        48        +22

Darlington                               28        13        8          7          61        44        47        +17

Tamworth                                28        14        5          9          48        48        47        0

Harrogate Town                      28        12        6          10        48        40        42        +8

Gloucester City                       27        13        3          11        46        42        42        +4

Brackley                                  24        11        8          5          37        28        41        +9

Curzon Ashton                        28        9          7          12        41        53        34        -12

FC United of Manchester       28        8          9          11        43        45        33        -2

Nuneaton                                27        8          8          11        37        43        32        -6

Boston United                        28        8          8          12        38        54        32        -16

Alfreton                                  26        8          5          13        51        64        29        -13

Gainsborough Trinity              28        7          8          13        40        56        29        -16

Worcester City                        28        6          10        12        34        40        28        -6

AFC Telford United               27        6          9          12        25        32        27        -7

Bradford Park Avenue           28        7          4          17        27        55        25        -28

Stalybridge Celtic                   27        4          3          20        24        62        15        -38

Altrincham                              28        1          6          21        25        68        9          -43

Kick off on Saturday night is 3:00pm, updates on the game will be made from the club's Facebook, Twitter, Mobile App and Website. Live Commentary will be broadcast from Darlo Fans Radio at 2:50pm. Darlo Fans Radio and the mobile app are both kindly sponsored by Tempest Jones.