The bees travel to Rochdale

Tonight, , the Bees travel to play Rochdale at Spotland. The Dale are currently 8^th with 47 points from 27 matches. Earlier this season, the two sides drew 0-0 in a rather uninspired match at Underhill. Last season, Barnet did the double over Rochdale, winning 3-2 at home with a Tresor Kandol hat trick and winning 2-0 at Spotland with goals from Dean Sinclair and Barry Cogan.

Barnet will be at full strength, except for goalkeeper, Rob Beckwith who is still out with dislocated fingers. Michael Leary returns from his three match suspension and Sagi Burton is likely to start on the bench, as Barnet player of the month, Joe Devera continues at centre back alongside Ismail Yakubu. Bees' boss, Paul Fairclough will be looking to get back to winning ways after Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Morecambe. Barnet have won two and drawn one of their last three away league matches.

Rochdale are also 'an away side' having remained unbeaten away in the league since the opening day of the season. Like Barnet though, Rochdale have trouble winning at home having won only 4 out of their 12 games at Spotland this season and having lost 5 times. The Dale have lost their last two home matches. On Saturday they went down 2-0 to Peterborough.

Rochdale boss Keith Hill may include defender, Marcus Holness and forwards Adam Rundle and Ben Muirhead in tonight's starting line up, while new striker, Lee Thorpe is expected to keep his place after replacing Glenn Murray who has moved to Brighton. Gary Jones will make his 300^th league appearance for the club tonight.

A look at the players from Rochdale:

In goal is James Spencer, who was signed in the summer from Stockport County, for whom he made over 100 first team appearances.

In defence; Simon Ramsden began his career at Sunderland and was signed in January 2006 from Grimsby Town. He made 32 league starts last season. Former Sheffield Wednesday youth player, Rory McArdle was at Spotland on lengthy loan periods for the last two seasons and signed permanently  for the Dale in the summer. Thomas Kennedy was signed in the summer from Bury and made over 150 first team appearances for them. Marcus Holness is on loan from Oldham Athletic. Nathan Stanton made over 250 appearances for Scunthorpe before moving to Rochdale in 2006. Marcus holness was signed this season from Oldham and has made 8 league starts.

In midfield, former Bee, John Doolan, who joined Barnet from Mansfield Town in 1997 and left for Doncaster Rovers in 2002, was signed from Blackpool in January of last year. He made 40 league starts for Rochdale last season. David Perkins was signed in the January transfer window from Morecambe for whom he made over 150 Conference first team starts. Left sided midfield player, Adam Rundle was released by Mansfield Town in the summer of 2006 and moved to Spotland. He was formerly with Carlisle United and Darlington.

Gary Jones is in his second spell at Spotland, having had two seasons at Barnsley in between. He has played over 340 times for the club and seems set to break the Rochdale appearance record this season, which is 345 by Graham Smith. Lee Crooks, who played in the Premiership with Manchester City, was signed from Bradford City a year ago. He has also played for Barnsley and Northampton. Joe Thompson has come up through the youth system at Rochdale and had made 7 first team starts.

Up front there is former Manchester United youth player, Ben Muirhead who signed in the summer from Bradford City; former Tranmere striker, Chris Dagnall, who scored in the 1-1 draw against Barnet at Spotland two seasons ago and scored 17 goals from 32 appearances last season; former Kettering Town player, Rene Howe who has arrived from Peterborough and Adam LeFondre, who joined the club from Stockport County in the summer following a loan spell last season at Spotland. He scored 7 goals from 14 games last season. Youngster, Kallum Higginbottom has made 12 starts this season scoring 2 goals.

Rochdale's latest signing is the much travelled striker, Lee Thorpe who has signed from Brentford. Thorpe scored 4 goals from 21 appearances for the West London club having joined them in the summer from Torquay United. Thorpe has also played for Grimsby, Lincoln, Bristol Rovers, Swansea, Blackpool and Leyton Orient.