BURY welcome Wigan on Saturday a club on the up.

The super Shakers are on a remarkable run which has sent shock waves throughout League One and made the rest of football sit up and take notice.

One of the biggest crowds of the season so far is anticipated on Saturday, and how David Flitcroft’s men deserve it.

The fans have rarely had it so good in living memory as their heroes break records left, right and centre in the league.

Third in League One, six wins in a row, an all-time away record, loads of goals, great football, a bright young boss nominated for September's League One manager of the month, a top scorer in Leon Clarke who is up for the divisional player's prize, an ambitious owner and crowds are up.

It doesn’t get much better than this.

Comparisons are rightly being made between the current Bury squad and two legendary line-ups of the past – Dave Russell’s team that won the third tier title in 1960-61 and Stan Ternant’s side that repeated the feat in 1996-97.

Victories at home to Wigan on Saturday, at Gigg Lane against Rochdale next weekend and at Bradford the following Tuesday would see them match the club record nine straight wins set by Russell’s champions.

They are also one of the Football League’s highest scorers this season, netting 21 goals in their first 11 matches.

But Flitcroft’s men have not lost the steely core that was a feature of their last campaign, continuing to set a new benchmark in Bury’s history with their away form.

They broke the previous record of eight matches unbeaten on the road, coincidentally set in 60-61 and equalled in 96-97, with the 1-0 victory at Tranmere on the final day of last season that clinched promotion.

That momentous win also set a new mark of eight straight victories away from home.

Their unbeaten away record has continued this season and now stands at 17 matches.

It is still very early to suggest the current Bury side may be on their way to claiming the club's third third-tier title, but they are certainly on the right track.

They are on a very similar trajectory to Ternant’s side, which finished third in the bottom tier in 1996 to earn promotion, just as Flitcroft's men did last season, then followed that by going straight up the following year.

Those heady days will live long in the memories of Shakers fans, as will the painful decline back towards the bottom tier, which followed two seasons in what is now the Championship – chairman Stewart Day’s stated goal.

The pleasure and pain of promotion and relegation can possibly explain the caution with which sections of the Bury support have greeted the club’s current rapid rise.

But history does not always have to repeat itself and while the chairman must not dismiss the lessons of the past, he should not allow them to cloud his vision of Bury’s bright future.