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Reply | Big Game on Tuesday
at 21:13 6 Apr 2025
Have to say I was worried about that interview. We all manage people differently but I would have been inclined to say to the players who wants to put this behind them asap by coming in for light training and assessment of Sutton on Sunday morning. It’s gone so let’s file it in the past and used the frustration positively this week. But that wasn’t the vibe he gave off.
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 17:37 5 Apr 2025
Of course I’m disappointed, but is it massive? Odd I know but I can’t go into a rant or punch the wall with frustration. There are more important things than football. Not saying others shouldn’t vent their spleen if that what they need to do.
Onto Wednesday, with games running out for teams for the teams around us. Time for the players to get rid of their frustration and deliver some points.
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 13:44 2 Apr 2025
You could have a thread on its own about what the line up on Saturday might be. Would imagine you could get twenty different variations and still not hit on Jim’s starting eleven. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 13:13 2 Apr 2025
Get where you’re coming from and accept the comment about the right amount of adrenaline, because that in itself can lead to bad decisions/actions.
Regardless of your occupation tiredness does impact the speed and quality of decisions. That’s why when I have been hospitalised I always hoped the junior doctor attending me was at the start rather than the end of their shift. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 12:33 2 Apr 2025
From Forest Green down every team will have had similar results. The further down you go the longer the list get. Close results are what gets the blood pumping.
Jim was wrong to say the pitch was a cow field, cows would have starved to death. It did look like it had been heavily grazed by horses and had the poorest covering, not bare patches, I have seem for years. Poor from the ground staff. But no excuses should be used on that score, they both had to play on it.
Off the highlights only thought that was decent last night. Which Rodney turns up for a game is anyone’s guess, last night it was the decent one. There were definitely soon tired minds towards the end because there were some really bad decisions being made in the last few minutes. That team was missing numerous starters and none of us would have picked it before. On balance it was a decent point, even given the circumstances of the equaliser.
Not coming up on Saturday cos I ain’t seem them win when I have attended this season. That in my mind might help the result.
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 17:52 1 Apr 2025
A win tonight will give a boost to the fans. Knowing that whatever the other results on Saturday we will still be in the playoffs will calm some nerves.
Interesting that both sides have semi finals on Saturday. Can’t help wondering if some players will be wary of picking up injuries. But the respective league positions should make for a committed game. Although I would take anything but a loss as a reasonable outcome.
Given the number of changes on Saturday and the knocks I have no idea what the team selection will look like. These are the circumstances when the owners need to get a return on their investment in the squad.
Let’s have it lads.
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Reply | Would you take out of the cup & play offs if it meant McNulty being sacked?
at 14:11 30 Mar 2025
The average tenure of a manager can’t be much more than 18 months. We have had multiple times more failed managerial appointments than successful ones. So if we deem JM a failure on what he has achieved so far, then the odds are against us finding a better one. It doesn’t scream out to would be managers that we are a great opportunity when a play off finish and semi of a trophy is considered justification for sacking a manager.
Living in the south east I have heard numerous West Ham fans bemoaning that this or that manager doesn’t play “the West Ham way”, e.g Moyes. I think we are getting like those fans ,a bit precious about the what is an acceptable level of entertainment we are seeing. JM is not blinkered, he would never have made it as a player, if he disagreed with any manager whose style he didn’t like. Remember KH bought him to the club, he wasn’t a bad judge for most of his career. |
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Aldershot Town
at 09:57 30 Mar 2025
Well Aldershot were tailor made for us. You can see why they have both scored and conceded over 60 goals this season. Not many more teams, if any, will be so front foot against us in the remainder of the season.
Rodders is the epitome of the inconsistency the team has been this season. There are games where his seem to have his mojo working, like this and FGR away, and others where he is completely off the pace. Nice to see another corner routine pay off for the first. Beckwith has played so many games this season it is no surprise he is struggling with an injury. Although I quite like Kingdon as an option. EEL is a decent replacement for Hogan if necessary. I think yesterday will have demonstrated to the fans that our fortunes do not lie in Bird wellbeing.
The maths is starting to get difficult for the teams below us, they are starting to run out of games.
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Aldershot Town
at 14:51 29 Mar 2025
Both Gordon and Rodney start. JM’s phrase “out for sometime”, which he used for both these players and Bird is interesting. I expected at the time that both the former would be out for most of the remainder of the season but here we are, both back. Does give hope that Bird will also be back for at least a few games this season.
Bird is not the best all and end all for this team, but he should provide a spur to the other forwards to get their acts together.
We can deffo, beat these today, will we? This season it’s a coin toss as to what sort of performance the supporters will see. C’mon lads give us the heads’up.
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v York City
at 19:14 25 Mar 2025
Interesting selection. Would have preferred Barlow and Allarakhia to start, but let’s see. Hoping it turns into an inspired team selection by the manager. A win would certainly calm the supporters nerves and result in a match thread of no more than 3 pages.
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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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