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With Sutton and Lincoln both doing the business, makes you glad we took care of our 3rd round fixture at the first time of asking and we didn't have to sit through a potentially nervy replay.
Not a brilliant match by any stretch,but.........much better than watching all this Prem crap we are dished up day after day ,week after week......the Glory of the FA cup at grassroots...great stuff and fine finish.
Lincoln fully deserved that, shouldn't have even gone to a replay. Always a shame when there aren't upsets in these type of games, but Ipswich didn't deserve anything, the team has stopped playing for MM it is clear.
Could be an East Anglia double as I think the bloke up the road in Norwich will get the tap on the shoulder tomorrow if they lose at Southampton tonight. Well I don`t know,I`ve seen Ipswich,Preston,Leeds in matches recently and none of them have impressed me. Throw in Rotherham and Burton and I`m sure Dale could compete with all of those IF the impossible happens. No need to be scared of Huddersfield either,Dale can certainly beat them if we get the rub of the green.
Lincoln are a bit of a Shrewsbury team for me. By that I mean I associate them with bad Dale results or performances. The obvious 7-1 twonking during Parkin’s second spell is the most obvious. I remember going to an away game there early in Paul Simpson’s managerial stint and suffering a bad show, too. Then there was the time we surrendered a two-goal lead against them at Spotland under John Hollins.
There are no doubt a fookton of good results over the years, too (I seem to vaguely recall a string of wins in the early ‘90s)but, for some reason, these are the ones that come immediately to mind whenever anybody mentions Lincoln City.
Ah yes, of course, just before Hollins started. Was Hollins’ first game the drubbing away at Kidderminster? Again, I’m away from stats and records, so relying on memory here. I seem to remember that game was on Boxing Day and we were ripped apart by a blond, pony-tailed Scandinavian.
EDIT: Actually something tells me a home defeat to Southend may have been his first game.
I seem to remember a game against Lincoln at home in the late nineties that was targeted as a "boost attendances" game - don't know whether it was free for some or reduced ticket prices. Perhaps free for gold bond members maybe?
Anyway it resulted in a reasonable gate - a chance to show the people of Rochdale what the team was capable of.
It was indeed 'Goldbond Day' when every member of the lottery was offered a free ticket in return for their support of the draw.
Membership was huge back then and I can recall we actually had to stop giving away tickets because we issued as many as the ground would hold. There was a good article about it in The Rochdale Observer and we even had season-ticket holders coming in clarifying that they would still be able to get in and watch the game. It was total bonkers.
Sadly on the day it was hammering it down and people couldn't be bothered even though it was free. The result compounded the misery and left Commercial Department staff perplexed about just what you had to do to get people to come and watch their local team.
Just goes to show you that the club has been doing incentives for an awful long time now!
I remember the goal from the touchline, but not certain of the opposition. I thought it might have been Hereford, but someone will doubtless clarify it.
I also seem to remember someone putting a 'worldy' past Kevin Rose at the Pearl Street end (when he was the opposition keeper). It may be the Flounders goal, or someone else (Jimmy Graham ?) v Bolton. (Rose played for both clubs).
“It is easier to fool people, than to convince them that they have been fooledâ€
Rose was beaten from distance by Wayne Goodison and Micky Holmes when playing for Bolton in a League Cup tie. We won the first leg 2-1, lost the second 5-1.
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