We've not had the best of records against the Silkmen in recent times. Last season after Rovers were unlucky to go in behind, we got torn apart by Durrell in the second half and ended up well beaten at 1-4. Fortunately for us, he's out injured at present. The visitors haven't recorded a win in L2 (yet) and have just got rid of their manager and have the evergreen Danny Whitaker as part of a makeshift management team,taking charge for the first time. Ex Rovers keeper Rhys Taylor fell out of favour under former manager, Yates, but may be back in contention ahead of their Man United loanee keeper now.
For Rovers, the assumption is that Zoum might be out with a hamstring injury. If that is the case, would expect Buxton to move to left-back and Caprice to come in at right-back, thus preserving the McNulty-Monthe central defensive pairing. Otherwise, it's more likely that MM will stick with one up front, Norwood likely to replace Mullin. However, I did wonder if Micky would give the Norwood-Mullin pairing another go, as Paul wasn't given any game time in the Checkatrade and one up might seem a tad defensive given the opponent. It would be very hard on last weekend's MoM, Harvey Gilmour, were he not to feature.
I would expect the crowd to hover around the 6k mark, hard to gauge how many Macc will travel, couple of hundred at best. As for the result, anything could happen, but I'm not expecting a stroll.