The musical chairs at the top of National League North continues this weekend - with King’s Lynn Town hoping it’s finally their turn to take a seat at the summit.

Lynn are the only team not to have been able to look down at all their rivals – denied that privilege largely by their inferior goal difference.

Curzon blocked their path until Kidderminster’s midweek win at Scarborough saw them leapfrog both by a point. Scunthorpe, Chester and Brackley are breathing down Lynn’s neck, so it is imperative they get something out of the home game against Marine on Saturday.

Marine are hobbling along, third from bottom of a table held up by Needham Market – whose Boxing Day draw in west Norfolk was Lynn’s last home game.

The result was disappointing – one of those chances to go top missed – and despite attracting the second highest home attendance of the season of 1,213, it wasn't perhaps reflected in the decibel levels.

Lynn boss Adam Lakeland chose his words carefully when asked about it post-match– no one wants to bite the hand that feeds them – but he had clearly noticed.

“Superb to have extra numbers here, but you wouldn’t have thought it. It's a little bit disappointing. The supporters have been fantastic. We have loads who come week in week out here when we're at home and we have those who come week in week out whether we're home or away.

“The ones who just turn up when they want and willy nilly, it's frustrating. I don't really know what more people want. Last Boxing Day we were second off bottom and we got beat off Boston and this Boxing Day we've gone into the game, second off top and one point off top.

“We've come so far in 12 months, I think it would have been nice to have had a bit more noise and a bit more encouragement.”

It may have been the ‘expectancy’ that Lynn should beat a side at the other end of the table, but Lakeland says that’s a theme that will be repeated before the end of the season.

“In games like that - and there's going to be one or two more before the season ends - where you're not quite at it at home, when you're one of the teams that's up at the top of the league, everybody wants to beat you and everybody will raise their game and it's not easy to be here all the time, especially at a stage of a season where you're playing so many games, a lot of travelling, the pitches are heavier, it's difficult for the players.

“When you go to your Kidderminsters or your Herefords and your Scunthorpes, sometimes it's the crowd that suck the ball into the net for you and get you over the line.”