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Thread | Money generating
at 13:06 16 Dec 2023
What about picking a game where everybody puts away their season ticket and buys a full priced one instead?
Maybe we could pick three from now till the end of the season.
I know we shouldn't have to, but at the same time the club needs money but nobody outside the club is going to help. |
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Thread | Them lot down road
at 18:41 8 Jun 2023
I see Oldham are doing some good business already.
They seem to have really took to being in the Nat Lge in a positive manner and I think it's the best way, the crowds they have been getting will no doubt have helped with their recruitment.
It's a shame we seem to have taken a different approach and though it's understandable, constant negativity isn't going to help, and not turning up to watch will really cost us in the long run |
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Thread | Season ticket prices
at 11:33 2 Jun 2023
I stand to be corrected, but i read that season tickets work out at £8.50 a game, if this is true I find it way under priced, I mean surely a minimum would be £10 a game, seems to me we have one of the lowest priced season tickets and one of the smallest fan bases, and I wonder how the club is to fight it's way back into the league with such a limited amount of income.
Is there anybody on here that thinks £10 a game would be too much? |
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Thread | Not my players
at 16:16 23 Feb 2023
Seems to be the excuse of the season failure.
Begs the question, has any Rochdale manager ever actually had the team they want?
I mean surely we are always getting the players that are left behind during each transfer window.
And if the players JB took on where half decent then we wouldn't have lost our first four and he wouldn't have had a job to apply for.
So it's a poor excuse, and he has failed to improve them in any shape or form.
He done well to get Lloyd and Malarkey here though in fairness
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Thread | The players
at 09:21 21 Aug 2022
Firstly can someone tell me the benefit of sacking RS on the eve of a tough away game?
Was it fear that he might have actually got a result?
There was no way McNulty could have done anything of significance with the team and it seems like we have just thrown a game away. And we couldn't afford to do that.
Now the players, I have looked back through the forum just to be sure, but there weren't too many unhappy as each new signing was announced, each player seemed to have either good pedigree and experience or looked to have a bright future in the game, we felt a good mixture of youth and experience was being assembled.
So we have ask why are they struggling so much with the basics. I'm sure RS thought he had signed players who could pass a ball under a bit of pressure.
I'm sure he felt he had players who could mark a man on set pieces.
So why are they the exact opposite.
We cannot pass under pressure band we cannot defend set pieces.
As a unit we have defended okay to be fair, and at times play some good football, but the vital moments, the good final pass, winning the all important header, we have failed miserably. Surely this lies with the players.
I guess time will prove wether RS just couldn't get his message across or wether the players just aren't good enough, let's hope it's the former.
One thing I feel, the formation is irrelevant if a team can't do the basics. |
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Thread | RS and the board
at 19:04 18 Aug 2022
Got to get this off my chest.
I think the board have handled the RS situation terribly.
If they were going to sack him then surely end of last season was the time to do it.
Instead they gave him our Crown Jewels, they watched as he did the retain list and overlook the leaving of some of our better players who he would have rather kept, they watched as he worked tirelessly during close and pre season to get a new squad together, bringing in players which overall received good praise from the fans.
They watched as he had to wait till the pre season finished before he could fill the squad out with loaners, one who hasn't even played yet.
They watched as he worked hard to get a new squad to work together, showing glimpses of a good side, whilst showing frustrating lapses in concentration and missing many chances in front of goal.
They watched all this unfold and then after 5 yes just 5 games, including a very pleasing cup win, they sacked him.
Now we start again, only with a manager who doesn't know the players, who will have to instill his way of playing, maybe the players will be less suited to that style,it's a big gamble, and what happens if he loses his first 4 games?? |
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Thread | OAFC
at 08:29 15 Aug 2022
Over 8000 at Oldham Saturday, has to be said very impressive they way they have responded to dropping into the National league.
It seems strange to me that it has to get to that stage before people support their local club, and you wonder what would be the outcome, should the worst happen to the Dale, and we suffer the same fate, would be good if we could get the fans in now and grow rather than waiting for a downturn.
Imagine Oldham going a season with those gates, relegation could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. |
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Thread | Jack the Kit man
at 23:16 19 Jul 2022
Is it true he is no longer the kit man and if so why not? |
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Thread | How would people feel about this
at 14:53 11 Jul 2022
SHARETWEET
Rochdale are in advanced talks with striker Ian Henderson over a return to the club this summer, sources have exclusively informed Football League World.
Henderson spent seven years at the League Two club before leaving to join Salford City in 2020 — scoring 125 goals and providing 42 assists in his 343 appearances and helping them win promotion to League One in 2013/14.
The 37-year-old left to join Salford City on a free transfer in 2020 but left the club when his contract expired earlier this summer and could now be set to return to the Crown Oil Arena.
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Thread | Liam Kelly
at 20:42 7 May 2022
Anyone else notice him walking off after the game, with no acknowledgement to the fans, cut a sad lonely figure.
I'm guessing he is off, not the Dale fans fault though was it. |
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Thread | Perspetives
at 15:15 12 Feb 2020
I hear a fair few people saying they are bored at watching The Dale and wish we tried to push on.
Id like to add a bit of perspective to this.
If you looked right now at the championship table the league positions match identically the average attendance, so its fair to say that gate size does matter, the lowest average attendances belongs to Wigan and Luton at 10,000 each.
We find ourselves in the same division as former Premier league side.
Sunderland, Portsmouth, ipswich and Bolton. How are those fans feeling.
Mk Dons Lincoln, Rotherham, Blackpool, Docaster, Oxford, Bristol Rovers, Peterborough, Tranmere all double our gate. Every right too better expectations than us.
League two we have.
Former prem team Bradford City. Ave 14,000
Big city club Plymouth. Ave 10,000.
16 clubs have better attendances than us.
National league.
We have seen off.
Notts County, Stockport (should we have followed their model) Chesterfield , Hartlepool, Yeovil, Torquay, Barnet.
Further down the pyramid, York city, Hereford, Chester, Darlington, Boston. Scarborough. Many of these worked on the same financial restraints as us.
And then of course there is Bury.
We own our own ground.
We will never compete on a level wage base so will not attract the same level of player.
Any good player we produce/ find are only with us until a better offer comes along. With the odd exception. We have to accept the broken toys, the injury prone, the over the hill as the sort of players we attract, we are lucky to have a fantastic academy that produces players we can sell.
We are achieving good cup runs which help with the running of the club.
We are in a catch 22, spend money, attract better players and maybe get success, but what if it doesnt work? Too what level can we do this, as a club who sees 4000 home fans as a success.
I wonder if anyone can give a plan to how we achieve a better situation than we have now, without risking the very life of the club.
Its not always exciting being a Dale fan these days but there is a good calm about it and who would have thought as we left the Rochdale division we would now be finding league one boring, i think that is an achievement in itself
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Thread | Facebook page
at 21:49 23 Nov 2019
Anyone know who the moderators of the AFC appreciation group are, looks like i may have been booted out and would be nice to know why |
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Thread | you will be a FAN my feiend
at 15:16 15 Jan 2013
If you can stay with your team through triumph and disaster and treat these two
Imposters the same
If you can support the boss instead of calling for his name
If you can share the responsibility instead looking for someone to blame
If you can back the board and trust they will do their best, yet question their decisions and put them to the test
If you can concentrate solely on your own and not care about the rest
If you can proudly kiss the badge you wear upon your breast
If you can express your joy and even shed a tear, and sing aloud without fear, and keep attending games even when relegation is near.
If you can do all this and expect no reward
You will be a FAN my friend |
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Thread | Wheres the sense
at 22:21 12 Jan 2013
I find a lot of the stuff on here a bit bewildering at the moment, we seem to have some very passionte fans and very sensible in their views.
It is now being said that the board would be happy to see the Dale go into non league, i rea about how worried people are about the future, how we have no say in the running of the club, i read about the low attendances and how these attendances are making it impossible for us to compete.
Lots of passion and worry from our loyal fans> What i dont understand is after all this i read i then read that people will not be renewing their season tickets, well that will help. Chairmen, managers, players, they come and go, its only the fans that stick it out and see the good times nd the bad times.
Not renewing your season ticket or boycotting the club surely only puts you in the same boat as those who dont care about the club.
Keep the faith, it was used a lot in Hillys reign, but it was easy then, surely now is the time we need to keep the faith, surely now is when The Dale need you the most.
Its a moment in our history that we will want to forget, but its been a whole lot worse and we survived an its only wth the fans help that we will contnue to survive. |
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Thread | its only four points
at 19:57 21 Jan 2012
Looking on the brightside, we are just about as bad as we can possibly get, if coleman comes in things will surely improve, we must believe that, and despite a season of many changes, upheaval and poor performances we are only four points from safety.
So lets keep the faith. |
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Thread | Replacing players
at 13:01 12 Dec 2011
How do you replace players with the class of Dawson (15 goals from centre half), and O'Grady who was to many the finest front man we have seen at Dale. Along with several others who helped Dale to a wonderful season last year. This is what the new man had to do and with no real time to do it. Easy isnt it.
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Thread | This Messageboard
at 21:47 12 Nov 2011
I used to love this messageboard, it used to be a great source of information for someone an exile like me. Now its just full of over the top madness, and so many threads about the same stuff. The smallest mistake in punctuation gets crucified. And now it is lets beat the manager time.
A new manager who lost one of the most important and influential players i've had the pleasure of seeing in Chris O Grady, along with other important players. Give to that the dreaded second season syndrome and the loss of our most successful manager. Yet everyone expects the club to just go along as if nothing has happened. Reality check needed i think, if there is one thing this club needs right now its a togetherness from club, players and fans alike. I lived in Rochdale during the dark days of the club and if anyone thinks it's bad now then they either have very short memories are at an age where they can't appreciate the strides made recently. Yeah its a struggle at the moment but it has been a lot worse, give the man a chance, and if he fails then our division awaits our return and on we go, together. |
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