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Reply | Pitch update
at 08:40 2 Jan 2025
I understand several weeks of rain followed by 48 hours of torrential rain Tuesday and Wednesday morning made the situation impossible.
sticks in the throat still when between 2.30pm and 5pm New Years Day overhead conditions were near perfect.
Lets hope we get the game on when Saturday comes. |
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Reply | Tickets
at 11:16 29 Dec 2024
The decision needs reversing immediately.
Dale put back to back wins on the board… could be 3 wins on the bounce on New Years Day…
Winnable tie in a cup competition we are taking seriously and we close half the bloody ground.
Is it to much trouble to open and run some incentive to actually attract fans rather than pop up a barrier.
Very unhappy and a touch frustrated by this. |
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Reply | Fylde away match thread.
at 10:14 28 Dec 2024
Excellent 3 points and a dominant display.
More of the same please New Years Day!!
Winning football will put more on the gate.. the easiest win in project 5000.
Up The Dale! |
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Reply | Boston - Saturday
at 16:10 20 Dec 2024
Weather Forecast really is a shocker.. (again).
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Thread | Boston - Saturday
at 18:03 19 Dec 2024
Boston much improved or a real chance for Dale to register consecutive wins?
Cant help but think if we have any hope of kicking on and remaining top 7 this is one we really need to get 3 points.
If we can find a way to WIN more consistently the remainder of the season will be exciting, hopefully one to remember.
Dominate and clearly the better side - Win - 3 points
50/50 great game - could go either way - Win - 3 points
Up against it and clearly not at our best? - Win - 3 points....
Hopefully that winning mentality and winning feeling continues on Saturday and we get into the winning habit in the final half of the season. Lets really kick on starting this Saturday.
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Reply | Tamworth Tuesday
at 14:55 18 Dec 2024
Cannot complain about the result especially scoring 3 goals and a clean sheet. The National League table looks a little better this morning.
Tamworth workmanlike (at best) but unlucky not to take the lead 1-0 when down to 10 men.
We will never know if we would have found the key to unlocking the Tamworth defence if they had 11 players on the pitch. It certainly looked hard work breaking them down for extended periods.
Loving 3 points, back in the playoffs and another home game on Saturday to go and repeat the win.
I dont enjoy the tactics, its too slow and laborious and just when you think we will really up the tempo the game slows again. I have accepted its different and i do think every player is committed to the cause and gives 100%. Whether this brings back a few hundred who sit on the fence i doubt but its not changing.
Winning helps... Lets beat Boston and go for another shot at 3 wins from 3 on Boxing day.. something we have struggled to do (Only once?) all season.
Nothing in this league.. with some ruthlessness a playoff spot should be there for the taking. |
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Reply | Tamworth Tuesday
at 17:45 17 Dec 2024
Another home game on Saturday too... by the time we play Oldham we will probably be above them anyway.
Absolutely Up the Dale. |
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Reply | Tamworth Tuesday
at 17:05 17 Dec 2024
A win tonight and back in the play offs.
Right back on Oldhams coat tails!
Hoping for a positive performance and a loud vocal crowd!!
Up the Dale!! |
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Reply | Dagenham match thread
at 06:50 16 Dec 2024
Dammed lies and statistics .....
Dale league win % currently 50%.
Only two teams matched or bettered that in 2023-24 Chesterfield and Barnet.
a huge week coming up... i would just like the team to become much more ruthless.
UTD. |
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Reply | Dagenham match thread
at 15:06 15 Dec 2024
I am not in a panic yet and two cracking home perfromances this Tuesday and Saturday will get me all excited again thinking we can go 3 wins from 3 hence 9/9 come 5pm boxing day.
Just when we get a chance to kick on we fluff our lines.. most recently Eastleigh, then Wealdstone, then Dagenham...
Just one goal in the last 3 league games (270 + minutes of cut and thrust league football) is the one stand out statistic. That was a comedy own goal away at Gateshead.
I think the players have settled into a comfortable slippers mode. Part tactics, part leadership part culture they train full time and yet are starting to look nervy and toothless up front.
I am happy to see what the reaction is at home this Tuesday and Saturday and hope that we start playing to our strengths at pace but this is a recorded message that has echoed all season.
Unless the management and players have an upturn in form we could be in the bottom half of the table by 5pm on Saturday 21st December.
Tamworth & Boston both picked up of late... neither will be easy.
Come on Dale lets have some honest assessment of where we are at as a team have we the kahunas to become serial winners. |
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Reply | FA Trophy...
at 17:30 9 Dec 2024
I would hope we take it very seriously,
The giants of Oldham are out  this represents a good opportunity for a cup run maybe even silverware!! |
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Reply | V Gateshead match thread (n/t)
at 06:26 2 Dec 2024
Fantastic win and a very welcome away 3 points.
with Oldham postponed and our FA cup second round free weekend it seems quite a while off until our next League game v Dagenham on the 14th.
Rode our luck but came through what is a really tricky place to get anything on a cold Tuesday night.
Players returning to the fold is a bonus.. Manchester United and then Leamington next up in the same week  |
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Reply | Shareholders AGM 2024
at 17:52 26 Nov 2024
Post Covid the working landscape has changed dramatically.
Why not 5.30pm? seems a decent time to me with plenty of notice. We are in the age of flexible working and employers having to consider reasonable requests for earlier finishes or time off.
If shareholders want to attend I don't see why a start time 2 hours earlier would prevent many from attending. A nice sensible finish time too with no rushed AOB. |
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Reply | Potential threat from the weather to Saturday's match
at 14:56 22 Nov 2024
Its a big ask to get this on.
More freezing temps until mid morning Saturday and a deluge of cold sleety rain.
If the games on Dale will need to adapt and quickly as its not going to be the beautiful game any more it will be who rolls the sleeves up (or more likely down) and gets to grips with atrocious conditions quickest.
Have we a side that will revel in these conditions? i guess we will find out tomorrow. |
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Reply | Mount Rushmore
at 17:34 19 Nov 2024
I would offer two suggestions... One exclusively players.
Chris Dunphy
Andrew Kelly
Fred Ratcliffe
David Clough
And a players version - Hilly gets in as an ex player but for obvious reasons also Manager.
Keith Hill
Gary Jones
Ian Henderson
Lyndon Simmonds |
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Reply | BIFFOs Half Season Tickets & Black Friday Deal
at 17:22 19 Nov 2024
With a fanfare of trumpets and a statement of intent regarding the second half of the season these half season tickets (Dale not Owdum) could sell really well.
It would make for a really nice Christmas present for the lucky recipient. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 14:12 15 Nov 2024
its just unsavory the way its all been handled.
I had some respect for the Phoenix when they first laid out their objectives.
Then came the name change by the back door and 2 stars on the shirt is just laughable and a real smack in the teeth for the thousands cheated out of hard earned money.
Attempting to brush all the terrible behavior under the carpet and act like all is Rosie in the garden whilst shaking pom poms is cringe central.
The new plastic pitch actually does a pretty decent job at mirroring a plastic club with zero humility. |
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Reply | Mcnulty
at 17:17 12 Nov 2024
Great stuff..
Fitz will be spot on.
The Lad is doing great and this decision can be a pivotal moment in our season.
Big Jim to lead us to the playoffs and then the player finish the job and get us promoted..
Please. |
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Reply | Mcnulty
at 17:27 11 Nov 2024
Burton are pretty stable and are a decent club.
Big Jim loves the Dale though and thankfully I expect him to stay. There is so much potential at the club and most definitely unfinished business.
There is one thing that might also be in our favour... Burton whilst not southern is a lot further south that some might imagine. You have to be absolutely sure if your going to uproot your whole family, who I assume are pretty settled with an established routine in the North West. |
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Reply | Sutton match thread
at 10:38 10 Nov 2024
Agreed the club did a great job with the Remembrance day tribute.
Dale got there in the end and on 90 minutes just about deserved the 3 points. It was a nice surprise to see TAR start the game he makes a huge difference on that RHS. Rodney back off the bench will give us some much needed strength up front in the next few games starting with Wealdstone on Saturday. Burger probably should have at least hit the target 5 minutes before we actually scored.
Not much between the two teams it could have gone either way thankfully we got the winner with the late late show.
Positives for me is the team all look really together and after 17 games we are 6th with important players returning to action.
Hard to be anything else but positive when you win in such dramatic circumstance but we do look like we are trying to score the perfect goal rather than get more crosses pinged into dangerous areas.
Up the Dale. 2-1 winners and onwards to the next game. |
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