THE League 2 table is hard to assess at the moment because some teams have played several more games than others.

Shrewsbury Town, for example, have played 26 games whereas, up until last Saturday, we had only played 22 and so that is something you need to be aware of when you are looking at the table.

The league leaders Rochdale are a good side. Over the last two or three seasons, they have been quite consistent and have kept a significant number of the squad together.

Gary Jones in midfield, Nathan Stanton and Rory McArdle at the back, and one or two others, have been there over a period of time.

They have also managed to find others like Jason Kennedy from Darlington, whom I went after, and Will Buckley and now they have signed Chris O'Grady to play alongside Chris Dagnall in attack So they have added good players to an already strongish squad and it is no surprise that they are doing well.

After being relegated last year, Bournemouth, who are a big club at this level, are one you would expect to be doing reasonably well although they have stuttered of late.

Dagenham are a bit of a surprise package at the moment but the season is not over yet.

Shrewsbury are up there and, as a big club, you would expect them to be. But they have played more games than anyone else.

Notts County are just on the fringe of the play-off zone. But they have not played anything like the number of games that Shrewsbury have so I would be surprised if they did not, at least, finish in the play-offs.

Chesterfield were a decent side when we played them and Rotherham are strong, too.

When we played Bury earlier in the season we battered them for 10 minutes and they were unable to get out of their own half. But then we got caught with a free-kick.

I thought they were OK but there are better sides in the division.

Aldershot are a decent side with some good players.

The two sides who are over-achieving at the moment are Accrington and Dagenham.

Morecambe have got into a good position, too, for a smaller club. They drew a lot of games earlier in the season and have now turned draws into wins.

Seven consecutive victories rocketed them up the table and confidence grows when that happens.

Now they have to sustain that and I think there are bigger and better clubs in the league.

At the other end of the table, Steve Staunton at Darlington has changed quite a number of players.

It will take time for that to settle but until avoiding relegation is mathematically impossible you always feel that you have got a chance. It will be difficult with just eight points on the board at the moment and they have a massive task.

Grimsby are a very big club to be in the position they are in.

But they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, detached from the rest of the pack.

Two or three consecutive wins, by any team in the bottom seven or eight in the division, would lift them clear.

That is what everyone down there will be looking to try to achieve.

Barnet appear to have gone into freefall and have had a very poor run.

At one point, they were third or fourth in the table but since November they have struggled to get any sort of result.

It will be interesting to see how they fare over the next month or two.

We have a fair idea of how the league stands with around half of the games played but with three points for a win and teams being so closely packed in the table, then two or three wins on the trot really changes the whole picture.

By the same token, teams who are close to the play-offs now can, by losing three or four matches on the run, start having to look their shoulders.

There are a lot of games to play and everything to go for for lots of teams.