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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 20:54 - Dec 30 with 2665 views | Thacks_Rabbits |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 20:49 - Dec 30 by 442Dale |
The Mani thing is the most noticeable. Smith really struggles as a focal point.
With Mani (or Henderson) they know how to shift defenders and be an out ball - see Henderson’s goal on Saturday. It’s why Broome is being hung out to dry and leading to some fans screaming at him. But what’s he supposed to do when there’s no option nearby and he has to go long? |
Cheers for the insight. As I say I’m not there so relying on what they are saying.
Fingers crossed we improve second half!
Prichard off for Gavin but formation wise no idea! |  |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:04 - Dec 30 with 2577 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
2nd half...where's the urgency?
Has McNulty given up on this one? | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:31 - Dec 30 with 2378 views | DorsetDale |
Fifteen mins to go and no indication we're getting anything points wise.
It's been mentioned before, no need to panic and be overly critical. With games still in hand plenty of points to play for. Top 6/7 still to play each other next few weeks. Anything can (and probably will) happen. | |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:54 - Dec 30 with 2169 views | D_Alien |
Alty equalised at home to York in the 90th minute, then York took the lead again straight away
We need to get Mani back, and a decent replacement for Amantchi. Games in hand, but a real test for the management team now |  |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:55 - Dec 30 with 2140 views | Edindale |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 20:53 - Dec 30 by Trev |
With the improved squad we have got better playing against teams who don't press. Massive to that, of course, has been Whatmuff and Mani. |
Thought we also missed Beckwith tonight both defensively and offensively.
Given his movement Hendo should have started and would surely have converted one of our first half chances. I also thought that Pritchard and McBride didn't work. Galvin, Petit and Mancini all did well when they came on
Bad day at the office against a competent team with a tactical plan. Perplexing but we need to bounce back and regain our confidence.
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:57 - Dec 30 with 2111 views | Edindale |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:54 - Dec 30 by D_Alien |
Alty equalised at home to York in the 90th minute, then York took the lead again straight away
We need to get Mani back, and a decent replacement for Amantchi. Games in hand, but a real test for the management team now |
Borehamwood top and the form team.
Ollie Pearce cutting the points gap between us a York............... again! | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 21:59 - Dec 30 with 2089 views | 442Dale |
Only consolation was the impact of the subs and a realisation that by changing up the formation it can give the opposition more to think about. Mancini and Henderson made a real difference in a two and the latter showed that apart from Mani, he’s the only one we have to play that central striker role.
Additions are indeed required. |  |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:21 - Dec 30 with 1869 views | somdale |
Teams changed a lot recently and not for the better, need.
Whatmuff, Mani, Beckwith, big losses.
Rodney not the same player without Mani.
Need a period on consolidation, try and find more than one way to play.
Some really good sides around us and York especially, Boreham Wood doing the dark horse role.
Certainly not a time to panic, but certainly a rime to reflect. | | | |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:41 - Dec 30 with 1736 views | rich_dale |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:21 - Dec 30 by somdale |
Teams changed a lot recently and not for the better, need.
Whatmuff, Mani, Beckwith, big losses.
Rodney not the same player without Mani.
Need a period on consolidation, try and find more than one way to play.
Some really good sides around us and York especially, Boreham Wood doing the dark horse role.
Certainly not a time to panic, but certainly a rime to reflect. |
Agree and some time for perspective - Hartlepool were excellent first half, we were playing in an unfamiiliar 'home' with a depleted squad and we're one point off top at the end of the year with two games in hand and got more than 50 points before the halfway mark. It's been a great first half of the season. Also the pitch is getting sorted, we'll be back at home next month and Mani and Whatmuff should be back soon. And at least tonight we showed we can change formation and tactics when required and played like the home team in the last 20 mins - something to take into the next game. | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:47 - Dec 30 with 1696 views | frenzied |
Never looked like winning…second best all over the pitch.
Pool nullified Gilmore and East well.
First goal a poor one to concede ..no challenge .
A bad day at the office ..still all to play for | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:54 - Dec 30 with 1646 views | 442Dale |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:41 - Dec 30 by rich_dale |
Agree and some time for perspective - Hartlepool were excellent first half, we were playing in an unfamiiliar 'home' with a depleted squad and we're one point off top at the end of the year with two games in hand and got more than 50 points before the halfway mark. It's been a great first half of the season. Also the pitch is getting sorted, we'll be back at home next month and Mani and Whatmuff should be back soon. And at least tonight we showed we can change formation and tactics when required and played like the home team in the last 20 mins - something to take into the next game. |
That last 20 was an enjoyable watch because if nothing else it proved that we can shift away from our usual structure mid game. The mistake was it came at least 10 mins too late.
We don’t know enough about how many games/minutes Henderson can play to ensure he’s at his most effective, but he should have been no later than the hour mark. Pettit too. | |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:10 - Dec 30 with 1568 views | 442Dale |
McNulty’s interview was pretty much spot on about the first half. Admits they were disappointed with how we started the game.
Mentions all the crosses too, a definite air of frustration but also acknowledging these games will come along across a season. I just hope they’re as infrequent as they have been and other sides have one or two more than us. | |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:18 - Dec 30 with 1528 views | TalkingSutty |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 22:54 - Dec 30 by 442Dale |
That last 20 was an enjoyable watch because if nothing else it proved that we can shift away from our usual structure mid game. The mistake was it came at least 10 mins too late.
We don’t know enough about how many games/minutes Henderson can play to ensure he’s at his most effective, but he should have been no later than the hour mark. Pettit too. |
We shouldn't really be relying on a 41 year old forward who can probably only play about 60 minutes at the most. He's a icon and can still do a job but its a sad indictment on the likes of Rodney and Smith. Rodney is made of glass, a robust challenge and he picks up a injury, he limped off tonight. Smith looks to lack stamina and physicality. We've been short of another forward for quite a while because Amantchi proved to be a poor signing. We have a collection of forwards but only Mani is reliable when it comes to competing physically for the duration of a game and now he's injured.
Hartlepool did a job on us tonight, they pressed us from the front, didn't give us time to play out and physically bullied us for long periods of the game. Once Hendo came on the pitch he managed to hold the ball up and get us further up the pitch. Petit also made a difference. Too many good players missing at the moment and in the last two games its been very apparent. We wont get out of the league by trying to play total football, we need a target man up front to be at our best and we need to switch it up and go long at times to keep our opponents guessing. |  | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:22 - Dec 30 with 1502 views | NorthernDale |
The first half cost us, we looked like a team who had never played together before, we struggled to pass to each other and more often passed to a Hartlepool player. and was second to every ball, there was no structure. I would agree that Broome seem to struggled and looked poor in the way he walked the ball out of his box, like he didn't know what to do or who to pass the ball too in the first half, but this may have been the lack of support from the people around him. To give credit Hartlepool they deserved, they pressurised us and forced us to make errors, and in truth we could have conceded more then two goals in the half.
We improved in the second half, especially when we brought Mancini, Pettit, Galvin and Hendo on, but the damage had already been done and in the case of Mancinii, Pettit and Henderson we left it far to long. What I could not understand, was why we seem to have Rodney wide and Smith down the centre, despite the Hartlepool team being a big physical team, Rodney looks best in the central role. But overall it was a bad night in terms of the team selection and team performance in the first half especially. [Post edited 30 Dec 23:23]
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:38 - Dec 30 with 1426 views | 49thseason |
Agreed. Smith was lost without a target man, McBride was way off the pace as was Pritchard... TAR has been poor offensively since the end of October...
The pitch was a little tighter than we are used to but no excuse, we were bullied for the first 45 minutes 'Pools were stronger, bigger and pacier and made it count..Broome need half time to sort his head out , there was nothing moving up top so no outlet and was getting unwarranted stick. The lack of a target man was critical... no outlet and the pressure simply did not stop...Henderson should have been on from half time. In fact, Hendo, Pettit and Burger should have been on from half time ...The subs changed the game, we moved 20 yards up the pitch and started to get the ball in their box at last....
We are down to the bare bones but McNulty has to go for Brackley's throat on Saturday no matter who is available... square pegs in square holes as far as possible and foot on the gas...by the time we get back to the COA we will effectively have played 8 games away from home, 7 league 1cup , we have to get positive results from the next 4 games and stay in the race.... they are all winnable and 6 wins from 7 league games would be an excellent outcome at this time of the year and in the current circumstances.....time to play like the top team we are and let the others do the worrying. |  | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:50 - Dec 30 with 1376 views | dingdangblue |
Unfortunately York look like the real deal and can last the distance. Should've lost on Boxing Day and drawn tonight. Goals in the 96th min and 91st min giving them 3 extra points - that's what Champions do. |  |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 00:18 - Dec 31 with 1274 views | _Windydale |
A good victory against Brackley on Saturday puts us back on course—no time to panic. We've a good squad and excellent management to keep them fighting for the top.
Its Important to keep up pressure and fight that lead to our top spot. We don't have a divine right to pick up points from teams with their own survival/promo agenda.
Up against it tonight, and we need to be able to cope better against teams that like to go man-to-man and apply pressure in our half of the pitch.
Key players are out, and new heads are in, which is definitely affecting us. Rodney and Smith struggled to partner up. Walley ok defensively but slowed down the momentum when attacking, and Pritchard looked to be off the pace.
Great last 20 mins. Some of the other guys who came on who have been waiting in the wings maybe be given a chance next game [Post edited 31 Dec 1:12]
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 00:47 - Dec 31 with 1218 views | dannyuk |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 23:50 - Dec 30 by dingdangblue |
Unfortunately York look like the real deal and can last the distance. Should've lost on Boxing Day and drawn tonight. Goals in the 96th min and 91st min giving them 3 extra points - that's what Champions do. |
We have also looked the real deal up until today and one bad half doesn't change that.
The subs today showed we have a good squad, all of them played well when they came on especially Galvin to settle the game, then the rest to belatedly swing the game our way giving us the late chances. The starting team on Saturday will be interesting.
Hartlepool - they should have been out of sight first half and we can't afford many more periods like that. They were running through us with ease and it felt like every loose ball dropped their way. At times it was like they had 2 or 3 more players than us. Fair play to them they deserved the win. [Post edited 31 Dec 0:48]
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:18 - Dec 31 with 921 views | TalkingSutty |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 00:47 - Dec 31 by dannyuk |
We have also looked the real deal up until today and one bad half doesn't change that.
The subs today showed we have a good squad, all of them played well when they came on especially Galvin to settle the game, then the rest to belatedly swing the game our way giving us the late chances. The starting team on Saturday will be interesting.
Hartlepool - they should have been out of sight first half and we can't afford many more periods like that. They were running through us with ease and it felt like every loose ball dropped their way. At times it was like they had 2 or 3 more players than us. Fair play to them they deserved the win. [Post edited 31 Dec 0:48]
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It seemed like Hartlepool had a plan to turn the opportunity to play us at a neutral venue into a positive. They wanted to impose their game plan from the first whistle and simply swarmed all over us, as though they were the home team. If teams sit back and let us play then we will, Hartlepool did the opposite of that with a high energy forward pass and put us on the back foot. The game was won in the first thirty minutes.
Too many players had a off night and up front was similar to the Morecambe game, no physical presence and the ball didn't stick. Gilmore was desperately trying to fight fires but it was noticeable how just twenty minutes into the game the players seemed devoid of energy and where blowing, struggling to keep up with Hartlepools high energy start.
I called the forwards a mish mash of players on here before Mani picked up his injuries and i stick to that, it needed looking at six weeks ago. Rodney picked up his injury and he'll probably be missing again now. Amantchi was never good enough and Smith was injured at the time and still doesn't look fit to me. Hendo understandably can no longer do a full game. So although we had the numbers in terms of players up front, if Mani picked up a injury a problem was going to present itself. There's a reason why York score last minute winners and a shed full of goals, they have physically aggressive forwards who bully defences, we don't have that unfrtunately. It looked like men against boys last night.
We have also yet again collected players who can play on the wide left hand side but don't even get into the matchday squad, we did that last season and the squad was unbalanced. Shape shifting is required, especially in the forward line. On a positive note, beat Brackley and that's six wins out of seven and three out of four over the festive period. [Post edited 31 Dec 7:26]
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:28 - Dec 31 with 891 views | D_Alien |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:18 - Dec 31 by TalkingSutty |
It seemed like Hartlepool had a plan to turn the opportunity to play us at a neutral venue into a positive. They wanted to impose their game plan from the first whistle and simply swarmed all over us, as though they were the home team. If teams sit back and let us play then we will, Hartlepool did the opposite of that with a high energy forward pass and put us on the back foot. The game was won in the first thirty minutes.
Too many players had a off night and up front was similar to the Morecambe game, no physical presence and the ball didn't stick. Gilmore was desperately trying to fight fires but it was noticeable how just twenty minutes into the game the players seemed devoid of energy and where blowing, struggling to keep up with Hartlepools high energy start.
I called the forwards a mish mash of players on here before Mani picked up his injuries and i stick to that, it needed looking at six weeks ago. Rodney picked up his injury and he'll probably be missing again now. Amantchi was never good enough and Smith was injured at the time and still doesn't look fit to me. Hendo understandably can no longer do a full game. So although we had the numbers in terms of players up front, if Mani picked up a injury a problem was going to present itself. There's a reason why York score last minute winners and a shed full of goals, they have physically aggressive forwards who bully defences, we don't have that unfrtunately. It looked like men against boys last night.
We have also yet again collected players who can play on the wide left hand side but don't even get into the matchday squad, we did that last season and the squad was unbalanced. Shape shifting is required, especially in the forward line. On a positive note, beat Brackley and that's six wins out of seven and three out of four over the festive period. [Post edited 31 Dec 7:26]
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We've responded well to each loss this season, and we.must do the same against Brackley
Losing at theirs has been the one real black mark so far. Allowing them to do the double over us would introduce doubts about our staying power in the title race. We're still very well-positioned with games in hand, but falling away would also feed into existing doubts about our prospects in a playoff scenario
This next game could be a marker for the second half of our campaign | |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:45 - Dec 31 with 828 views | Daley_Lama |
Pritch got monstered by their number 2 (Benn) throughout the first half both physically and pace. Was hoping he and Tobi would swap when this became obvious mis-match. Galvin sub sorted that issue.
With Hartlepool being jolly unsporting and pressing our back line, we got to see 2024/2025 style scare moments of us trying to lose the ball on the edge of our box numerous times first half.
With the Sandy having kittens behind him, Broome and co went long but we kept rhe same Plan A set up. Gilmour and East 50 yards from the front line which meant any knock down was gobbled up by a Poolie.
That is the take away from last night, working out how we play when opposition nullify Plan A.
Well played Hartlepool, fantastic first half tactically and application. Second half Dark Arts skills shown also. Really good in midfield, aforementioned Benn outstanding going forward and pint-sized irritant Campbell a thorny problem throughout too. |  |
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:46 - Dec 31 with 815 views | TalkingSutty |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:28 - Dec 31 by D_Alien |
We've responded well to each loss this season, and we.must do the same against Brackley
Losing at theirs has been the one real black mark so far. Allowing them to do the double over us would introduce doubts about our staying power in the title race. We're still very well-positioned with games in hand, but falling away would also feed into existing doubts about our prospects in a playoff scenario
This next game could be a marker for the second half of our campaign |
Selection was wrong last night and that's not with hindsight. Hendo should have played the first hour, Smith playing central was a poor choice. Pritchard has been substituted at half time in the last two games and Petit should have been introduced at the start of the second half also. I would be looking at starting with Petit, Barlow and Henderson on Saturday and maybe Berger. | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 08:09 - Dec 31 with 755 views | TalkingSutty |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 07:45 - Dec 31 by Daley_Lama |
Pritch got monstered by their number 2 (Benn) throughout the first half both physically and pace. Was hoping he and Tobi would swap when this became obvious mis-match. Galvin sub sorted that issue.
With Hartlepool being jolly unsporting and pressing our back line, we got to see 2024/2025 style scare moments of us trying to lose the ball on the edge of our box numerous times first half.
With the Sandy having kittens behind him, Broome and co went long but we kept rhe same Plan A set up. Gilmour and East 50 yards from the front line which meant any knock down was gobbled up by a Poolie.
That is the take away from last night, working out how we play when opposition nullify Plan A.
Well played Hartlepool, fantastic first half tactically and application. Second half Dark Arts skills shown also. Really good in midfield, aforementioned Benn outstanding going forward and pint-sized irritant Campbell a thorny problem throughout too. |
There would have been a way to combat Hartlepool during that first thirty minute onslaught and that would have been to utilise Mani and turn them, bypass midfield and go long to him. His hold up play would have allowed us to move further up the pitch and give us another option. His absence resulted in the ball constantly being mopped up by their defenders and ending up back in our half, it was like a hot potato and we can't control the game. Reid gave EEL a torrid time and they overloaded at the back post everytime they got the opporrunity. The drop in performance and scrambling for results shouldn't come as a surprise though, any team with the quality of Watmuf, Beckwith, Barlow, Allarakhia, Mani missing would struggle. Rodney isn't properly fit neither and Smith certainly isn't match fit. As you rightly point out, Hartlepool were excellent last night. [Post edited 31 Dec 8:11]
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| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 08:59 - Dec 31 with 560 views | NorthernDale |
One Saturday, we need to beat Brackley and hope the results go in our favour, in that Boreham Wood are home to York, a win for us and a draw between them would put us back top.
This may be wishful thinking, but we can still hope the results go in our favour, other games of interest
Forest Green - Halifax (hopefully a draw), Carlisle - Wealdstone (a potential difficult game for Carlisle), Scunthorpe - Sutton (I expect a home win). | | | |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 09:22 - Dec 31 with 476 views | TVOS1907 |
| TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United on 08:59 - Dec 31 by NorthernDale |
One Saturday, we need to beat Brackley and hope the results go in our favour, in that Boreham Wood are home to York, a win for us and a draw between them would put us back top.
This may be wishful thinking, but we can still hope the results go in our favour, other games of interest
Forest Green - Halifax (hopefully a draw), Carlisle - Wealdstone (a potential difficult game for Carlisle), Scunthorpe - Sutton (I expect a home win). |
Wealdstone have lost 4-0 and 4-1 in their last two games; I expect Carlisle to see them off. |  |
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