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Reply | Refwatch - Maidenhead United v Rochdale
at 13:02 23 Mar 2025
So disappointed with yesterday. Not the result but that we gave them an easy game. Does JM posses a hairdryer, I doubt it.
On the main topic of the thread, the expectations for this season. I can’t put this a eloquently as Fitz but after finishing 16th last year, and with the same 3 forwards, same two in central midfield and the same centre half, I was thinking about 10th would be an acceptable improvement. We are in 7th and in a situation that every team below us and one above us, Gateshead would swop for. Not for the first time I will mention the objectives JM was set, bearing in mind this is a three year plan. There is no chance he was asked to get us promoted in first, or even a top 4 finish. 5th place is still achievable and the team have provided the hope of Wembley and a trophy. This despite the club’s infrastructure making life more difficult with postponements.
Outside of Barnet there isn’t a set of supporters that are not bemoaning points dropped or wasted opportunities, so I don’t want to hear that. That is football, ruthlessness is utopia.
By Jesus were we entertained with the run of three goals a game and not many points to show for it under BBM. The frustration of the fans then to now is incomparable. They were going mad
I don’t recall many on here suggesting anything less than a very solid play off position at the end of the season would represent failure, but please speak up if you did.
Where doing alright.
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Reply | Refwatch - Maidenhead United v Rochdale
at 17:47 22 Mar 2025
Alty ,Southend and Gateshead have a worse last 6 match point returns than we do. Would imagine there will be Gateshead supports saying Rochdale and not them for the play off. If Alty do win that will be some resurrection because I think their two losses against us really hit them mentally. We will see. |
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Reply | Good luck with that one Oldham
at 18:07 19 Mar 2025
OMG. The clubs are 6 miles apart, there can’t be a reasonably savvy football supporter with in a 30 mile radius that doesn’t know he is toxic to club’s.
Naivety on the part of their board doesn’t cut it. He must interview like a dream. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Boston United
at 17:56 19 Mar 2025
EEL did play some nice passes last night. But the risk of upsetting the equilibrium was not worth the rate of return and therefore the selection wasn’t justified, regardless of fears about an aerial bombardment. Contrary to some others I think he is better than Ferguson and therefore strengthens the bench. He is a replacement for an injured Hogan right now, no more.
Crossed fingers it’s lesson learned but I doubt it.
With East I suspect from the comments about his episode that he was never going to last 90 minutes last night. However if I am right he should be good for Saturday. In any case I wish him well
More drama yet to unfold this and next month. We control our own destiny. I would think Gateshead and Alty supporters are more worried than ourselves right now.
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Reply | Oldham Match Thread
at 21:37 15 Mar 2025
Off the highlights: we have play 3 teams in playoff positions in the last fortnight and looked the better side in all of them. Hope that the players can use that they can mix it with good sides as a positive motivation. Oldham although scoring a late equaliser will be more worried by the result.
I think we have the tools to finish above them. Gateshead are also going through a poor patch.
Some nice passages of play today which if repeated against lesser sides may yield goals. The resolve was there which bodes well.
Boston are on a good run but so are we. If Bird is able to recover and East is recovered enough to play a full part (no given) then we can still control and win the game on Tuesday.
Loving the upturn in form. Long may it continue.
Well done lads.
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Altrincham
at 22:02 11 Mar 2025
This has been a bizarre season. The team only seems to prosper once they have have stressed the supporters to the max, and then revert when the supports start believing we have turned a corner.
Well done lads an important win, that will have taken the wind out of Altrincham’s sails. They must hate us even more than ever.
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Reply | Match Thread Gateshead
at 22:21 4 Mar 2025
To control the controlables that’s all we can do. To that end job done tonight. Oldham are in a slump at the moment. There is still so much to play for and there will be plenty of twists and turns yet. We have lacked consistency for so much of the season. Now would be a good time to put that right. We have the squad to put a strong run together, do we have the gnarl and grunt? I would like to think we do.
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Gateshead
at 18:58 4 Mar 2025
Wow, JM has at least proved flexible in his team selection. Just surprised that after our first win in a while that this number of changes have been made. Interesting |
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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 18:54 2 Mar 2025
Good professional performance yesterday from the whole team. We must, must go again with the same intensity again against Gateshead. If there is a sniff of playing a competing game at Wembley that should be enough to motivate the players to find depths of stamina game in game out. The only player who seems to be underperforming against his usual standard is Beckwith, who to be fair has dance virtually every dance this season.
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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 17:24 1 Mar 2025
BJ referenced him not being fully match fit after the Tamworth game.
Strange penalty shoot out at Oxford. Woking won it 2-1 |
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Thread | Pete Hannam RIP
at 16:58 25 Feb 2025
Sadden to rely the passing of Pete Hannam. He first walked up to Spotland for a match at the age of 8, and was a fixture at home and many away games thereafter. His final game being just on Saturday. Laterly being the organiser of the Comrades Club box at the ground.
He drove for Nutalls for donkeys years and also captained Castleton darts team.
Condolences to all the family. |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 16:00 16 Feb 2025
Not at all, I wouldn’t lay odds against us reaching the play off, and would probably back us at a shade of odds on. The FA Tropy should not really get in the way of that. Interesting that 7th placed Altricham are the side we play in the next round of the Trophy. Will both teams go at it full bore. I hope they do.
I am at least consistent in saying we are inconsistent. Despite the two recent draws it is no easy task to predict which version of of Dale will turn up for any game.
There was a comment about physicality, and I agree a player like Jimmy Ryan, when fit, would be a real asset in this team. |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 22:11 15 Feb 2025
Were you at the game? If so did you watch or were you just looking at your phone.
Hogan was the calming influence who got his head on most of the stuff coming in. Sorry, but there is no justification for you comment about Hogan on today’s performance. I know we all see games differently but suggesting Hogan was a liability is so wide of the mark.
One another topic I thought BJ’s comments about the first half were odd. I thought we needed the half time whistle because we were on the back foot at the time. |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 17:56 15 Feb 2025
Southend made little use of the possession we afforded them. Thought Beckwith had a poor game by his high standards. Neither keeper was worked hard enough for either side to deserve the victory.
Hogan had a sound game and didn’t deserve the OG against him. Mitchell also put in a shift, but Gilmour would be our MoM for me.
We are so inconsistent we are struggling to have an identity. Still think we will get a play off place because the stats show we win more than we loose.
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Reply | Oldham game
at 18:15 5 Feb 2025
Well said. I was very disappointed with that effort and it hurts more because it’s a derby. But let’s not start wringing hands or bed wetting about the play offs on the strength of that.
We have been around the play offs for months and I can’t see that changing on the balance of the season to date. We are a very frustrating team to watch. The fans, including me think the team could be better placed than we are, but that should not mask the reality of what we actually are in the context of this league.
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Reply | Oldham game
at 14:33 4 Feb 2025
Might seem on an Oldham Game thread but I am going to talk about the match.
I see this as our biggest, most, important game since we exited the EFL. We seem to be in fine fettle so no excuses for not putting in a big performance tonight. Unless Oldham play a low block, which I can’t see happening or being tolerated by their fans. If we play to our strengths and get the crowd engaged early I think we will have too much for them.
A month ago I wouldn’t probably have been able to say that, so the rearranged fixture might have worked in our favour. Like everyone I prefer points on the board to games in hand. Tonight begins the task of turning those games into a positive move up the table.
If the players want it as much as the fans do tonight can really be the catalyst to spark a surge up the table.
Give it some welly.
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Reply | FA Trophy 5th Rd.. Worthing v Rochdale Match thread
at 21:38 1 Feb 2025
The highlights shone a light on how profligate we were in front of goal. Burger was stuffed by the Ref, getting booked for diving when it was a clear penalty..
This is getting interesting now, and the money is an added bonus. Can we target this competition and keep a play off place? I think we can at least in the short term.
Could we give any player a mini break. Beckwith doesn’t get much rest bite, or Gordon on the other side. If East needs rest we have decent options of the bench in there.
Tuesday is massive (not least for the ground staff) beat them, and Ebbsfleet and we could even be nudging 3000 gates at Spotland again.
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