By Paul Fairclough Barnet manager

The battle to win promotion from League Two is always a tough one and there are plenty of contenders again this season.

Last year the teams that came down from League One took the top four positions and I can see that probably being the case again.

Those teams that dropped down last season - Bradford, Brentford, Chesterfield and Rotherham - will have a big say on the destination of the title.

All of those clubs have had money problems in recent months but, to use Brentford and Bradford as examples, to bring in big-name managers like Terry Butcher and Stuart McCall you have to have some resources.

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I am sceptical that their resources are as meagre as they claim and both have signed several players this summer.

They are big clubs who don't want to stay in this division and will be expecting to bounce back straight away.

I expect MK Dons under Paul Ince to be in with a big shout too. You can always count on Lincoln to be there or thereabouts and I think Alan Buckley has brought Grimsby on in leaps and bounds too.

Of course, there will be a surprise package as well. Wrexham got the fright of their lives last season when they almost went down but I think they might just mount a promotion challenge this time.

As for the clubs who were promoted from the Conference last season - Dagenham and Morecambe - I expect them both to be in League Two in 12 months.

Dagenham boss John Still knows what it is all about at this level from his time with Peterborough and Barnet and Morecambe manager Sammy McIlroy has bags of experience in this division too.

Of the pair, I would expect Dagenham to do better as their style suits League Two.

They have always had a physical approach, are well-organised and can be uncompromising. When you come into the Football League you need to be a little bit that way.

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Morecambe will be more like Hereford, whose boss Graham Turner has always stuck to trying to play good football in pursuit of success. They passed their way up to this level and got some good results in their first year back last season.

There are plenty of other clubs who will expect to feature at the top of the table.

Darlington are very much a sleeping giant with a fantastic stadium and they are just waiting to take off.

They have huge resources compared to some of their rivals - but there are a lot of clubs in this division prepared to throw money at a promotion bid. It is going to be a very interesting season.

As for Barnet, well again we are one of the favourites to go down.

But we have proved people wrong for the last two years and hopefully we will continue to do so.

If you can get an average of two points a game then you will definitely go up

I have changed the shape of my squad into a smaller, tighter unit and I am really pleased with my summer signings.

We have brought in hungry young players who, in the case of Neil Bishop from York City, are going to eat up this division and I expect us to be pushing for promotion.

A good start is important but it is not the be all and end all.

It is also important not to get too down when you do get a run of defeats because it will happen.

To go up, it is all about keeping things rolling along nicely. Unfortunately, there are plenty of things that could stop you.

Last season we got within two points of the play-offs before Christmas but then got embroiled in a good FA Cup run, where we beat Colchester and Northampton and reached the fourth round for the first time.

But by the time we came out of the Cup at the end of January, we were 10 points adrift, albeit with games in hand. That was a big blow to the players - it had become a big gap.

So it is important not to take your eye off the main prize, which has to be promotion, and the key to that is consistency.

If you can get an average of two points a game then you will definitely go up but to get in the play-offs last season you still needed 71 points.

That is a total that needs to be chipped away at from the start and, whoever you are, going up will not be easy.