JOHN Coleman sat and stared proudly as the latest Conference table was beamed out on a live sports news reel.

The Accrington Stanley manager had the best seat in the house in front of the club bar's big screen as Sky Sports - guests at the Interlink Express Stadium for the evening - showed how the Reds had extended their lead at the top of the ladder to 16 points.

Goals from Andy Todd - his second in as many games - and Paul Mullin had been enough to see off second placed Morecambe in front of their biggest crowd of the season.

And the latest table made particularly pleasant viewing.

It's almost a full day since Stanley last lost a league game.

Twenty two and a half hours to be precise. But there won't be a day goes by that Coleman will allow his players to fall into a sense of security that they are home and dry.

While there was time to bask in the glory of yet another success in front of the cameras, the talk was mainly about the importance of maintaining a winning habit, in particular looking ahead to Saturday's home game against Burton Albion.

Scoring goals at the right time has been a key factor, certainly in the last two games, and Stanley's first half double really knocked the stuffing out of the Shrimps.

Todd opened their account with a sublime effort after latching on to Romuald Boco's knock down. The winger charged forward a few yards, before taking a little look up and picking his spot.

And after striking the ball sweetly with the outside of his right boot, he found it.

It was no more than Stanley deserved after dominating virtually all of the opening period.

In the first 20 minutes, Michael Welch went close with a header, Gary Roberts looked to have been impeded with a clear run on goal, Todd had a shot deflected into the side netting, Mullin glanced a header wide while Boco bobbled a shot off target following a determined build-up by Craney and Roberts.

All Morecambe had to offer was Jim Bentley's header over the bar.

After getting a first, though, Stanley were quick to add a second, and shortly after Mullin was denied on the break, he took advantage of a defensive mix-up to score from the tightest of angles.

As the striker and former Stanley defender Darran Kempson competed for a long ball forward, Kempson misjudged the position of goalkeeper Steven Drench and got too much power onto a header back to his stopper.

Had Drench left it, the chances were it would have gone out for a corner.

But in his attempt to stop it, the 20-year-old - on loan from Blackburn Rovers - could only get his fingertips to it.

The ball held up for Mullin, who got his angles spot on to coolly slide it along then over the line.

Wayne Curtis had three attempts to pull a goal back for Morecambe, but blazed over with the first then had the next two blocked by Mullin and Robbie Williams respectively.

Drench's night almost got worse as he struggled to keep hold of Craney's low drive and knocked the ball out with his knee as it spun away from him.

Morecambe rallied after the break, and Rob Elliot was quick to smother Garry Thompson's right foot effort from the edge of the area.

Stanley broke through Todd down the right, and Boco was unlucky to see Kempson's heel get in the way of his shot.

Mullin almost added a second moments later but glanced wide from Roberts' whipped in free kick. Williams was unlucky not to turn it in at the far post.

Morecambe made their first change, with Danny Carlton replacing Jimmy Kelly, but Roberts should have put the game beyond reach on the counter attack after getting hold of Craney's through ball, but curled his shot away from the far right hand post.

The late introduction of Andy Mangan prompted the usual onslaught as Stanley sought to make use of the youngster's pace.

He would have hoped to have done better than blast wide after beating John Hardiker to a long ball to put the icing on the cake.

Success over Morecambe, however, still tasted sweet.