Since he was appointed as manager of Torquay United in the summer of 2007, Paul Buckle has helped turn the Gulls into a club almost unrecognisable from the one that he was appointed by.
At that point, Torquay had just been relegated from the Football League for the first time in their history and only had three players under contract and no reserve side or youth set up.
Fast forward to 2011 and Buckle is now the third longest serving post-war Gulls' manager and the club, which returned to the Football League in 2009, is enjoying a level of stability that it hasn't experience for a long time.
On Saturday, he could become the first Gulls manager to lead them into the fifth round of the FA Cup, should they beat Crawley in their fourth round tie.
If he was to achieve this feat, then the only challenge left for Buckle at Plainmoor would be to take Torquay into League One and consolidate their place in the division in the following season, which, if it was to happen, wouldn't go unnoticed by Championship Chairmen with a eye for talented lower league managers.
