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League One: Peter Beagrie picks the division's most impressive teams

Image: Perfect pairing: Orient's Mooney (L) and Lisbie have rifled in a combined 23 League One goals

Much of the focus in League One this campaign has been on the struggles of pre-season favourites Sheffield United and Bristol City.

Incredible
Rosler's drive, passion and desire are all reasons why he has embraced and graced English football, while his knowledge, preparation and attention to detail mark him out as a special manager - but anyone who has read his book or has been lucky enough to meet him personally, will know he is also an incredible man. Peterborough fans will be breathing a huge sigh of relief after bringing a five-game losing streak - and a run of one point out of 18 - to an end with a fine 1-0 win over promotion rivals Wolves last time out. Posh's automatic promotion hopes had hit the skids, with just four goals scored in seven games; that is very un-Peterborough of them but their season has been like that, too. Thirty-one points from a possible 36 at the start of the season signified that they meant business in their quest to return to the Championship but this has been a different Posh to other League One years. Not so much a swashbuckling approach and trying to outscore the opposition, they have been more conservative, failing to score five times and finding it difficult at home with the pitch not helping them play a high-tempo, passing game. Chairman and manager are not best pleased at the moment but they will be hoping the bad run is over and that the eight-point gap that has emerged between them and the top two will not be too debilitating - and in Lee Tomlin, Britt Assombalonga and Grant McCann they have match-winners, too, so everything is still to play for.
Funds
Meanwhile, Rotherham's season and future gets brighter by the day. A five-game unbeaten run, quality additions to the squad and chairman Tony Stewart breaking the news to worried fans that manager Steve Evans, linked with the hot-seat at near neighbours Sheffield Wednesday, is going nowhere. United have a fine new stadium, and an ambitious chairman who is backing his manager with funds to bring in players over what could be a pivotal Christmas period, with Newcastle's James Tavernier and Haris Vukcic and Wigan's Nouha Dicko all arriving. Additions were a must for Rotherham to maintain their progression and after Evans had been vocal about the ability but not scoring prowess of his strikers, the signing that could make the biggest difference is Dicko. Dicko and Tavernier started last time out against Gillingham and both got on the score sheet, while Vukcic made a cameo appearance as a substitute so the Millers' squad now looks like one capable of preserving a top-six position. In a division that is very competitive, I look all the way down to 12th-placed MK Dons as potential play-off contenders - so who would have thought at the start of the season that we would be talking about a title race that Sheffield United and Bristol City are out of before Christmas. Football is a funny old game. Which League One teams have caught YOUR eye? Let us know using the feedback form below.

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