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A huge factor in this is the gaffer: it's clear the players will run through a brick wall for him and are totally on board with the project - it will have a magnetic effect on them staying here and "finishing what we started".
It was evident the last time we had a bright star manager who gets Rochdale - the players we were able to sign and their subsequent performance levels, were above our means - based on the manager's 'pull'.
The difference now is we are not a selling club; or if we are to sell a player, we are financially able, for the 1st time in my known history of the club, able to dictate/hold out for the real value of the player.
I'm even relaxed about the possibility of the gaffer leaving - the way he carries himself, his openness, honesty and how he speaks about the club; it's gonna take a really special offer/club to turn his head before we have reached our ceiling.
Never mind staying off the mulled wine, you need to give the turps a rest for a bit. The gaffer has got us squeezing every last bit of advantage where we can - right up to the laws of the game and just before the line of sh!thousery.
I am proud of our respectable history, I am proud of our current team being able to win games, be successful and be role models for our younger generations.
I do not want to be cheering on gobshytes "getting in the face of the referee" and looking for a fight.
You only have to look at rugby to see that tough, hard, fooking monsters of men can play sport with all that aggression but be respectable.
What a game! Well done to them, looked like it had slipped away but they kept going and got it in the end. Fingers crossed for a good draw for them and the other home nations - would be fantastic to see them there with us next year!
Eyup Chaff lad, this board, including its previous incarnation, has been around since year dot.com (I've been clocking on for 25ish years), and I for one am grateful for your hard work in keeping it going, mate.
I'd proffer that as much as Jim and the players are doing to get us up the league and (re)attract fans through the gates, these sort of things, as understandable as it was today, are gonna have a fair negative impact on that.
There will be a tipping point in time when the cost of getting the pitch sorted properly is outweighed by the loss of gate receipts (Sat - Tue rearrangements) and the unreliability of watching football at Dale (alternative venues suggested/just can't be sure if it rains a lot), putting people off.
I'm actually surprised that the negative impact of the pitch on our season last was not enough to warrant getting it done close season; it must be the most critical component required to have a functioning football club.
I'm fully aware of the legal 'battle' with the last company to work on it, and the cost of work needing to be done.
At this current, precarious, point of the club's history what really matters is points on the board and getting back into the league (4).
Fans through the gates will never sustain the club long term. As we have seen from our most successful period of history, the academy and player development leading to sales are the key. The Brighton model being the pinnacle example of what we were doing under Hill. Reputation snowballs and we were renound as a "place to go " for young talent.
Get back into the league, get the academy back and get the network/channels/filters up and running again, that is above everything else.
As has been described by Jim several times, they have gone into every last detail (switching 2nd half ends for example) in an effort to squeeze as much advantage as possible; Fitz has highlighted stats that this method has borne rewards.
The football is often terrible to watch, I'm feeling in danger of social services feeling my collar for forcing my boy to watch; but needs must currently, and our need is promotion.
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