| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? 10:36 - Feb 14 with 6706 views | dingdangblue |
What would you choose? Obviously one would mean we'd create history, the day would be remembered forever, we'd be in the FA Cup quarter finals for the 1st time ever, with another potential massive pay day, the clubs profile would be raised in England and all over the world. Lots of long term benefits.
The other we stay in league 1. Better games week in week out next season but always the possibility we'd get relegated at some point in the future (more likely than promotion to the Championship).
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 10:53 - Feb 14 with 4596 views | Knowlesy |
Difficult to choose as I've already basically resigned myself to relegation.
Winning on Sunday would probably make for the best single day in my Dale supporting life. Staying up would be incredible but it's looking about as likely as a win against Spurs!
Sadly, though, it's looking like we'll do neither. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:07 - Feb 14 with 4560 views | dingdangblue |
We do beat Spurs
or
We do stay up
One choice. | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:13 - Feb 14 with 4540 views | Bobbyjoe |
Beat Tottenham, obviously, but then I would say that, cos I don't care which league we play in; I'd still go just as more or less often. Also, I'd quite like Tottenham to win the cup! | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:21 - Feb 14 with 4512 views | TVOS1907 |
Your last point contradicts your first one, BJ... | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:21 - Feb 14 with 4511 views | Rooleyblue |
League survival for me, as long as we give a good account of ourselves on Sunday. A draw would be ideal then defeat at Wembley.
If we go down we could lose out on the chances of playing Sunderland, Birmingham in the league.
Being greedy though both 😠| | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:23 - Feb 14 with 4498 views | rochdaleriddler |
League one survival, have you seen the crap teams in league two, probably no trips to oldham and accrington either | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:25 - Feb 14 with 4489 views | Knowlesy |
My apologies for ruining your thread | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:27 - Feb 14 with 4485 views | DaleFan7 |
I think beating Spurs is more likely than staying in League One.
However, I would prefer to stay in League One. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 11:33 - Feb 14 with 4464 views | dingdangblue |
You've not ruined it , you just said you'd resigned yourself to relegatetion and you can't see us beating Spurs. I feel the same and I'm sure plenty more Dale fans do, but if you had to choose one or the other? I think it a hard one to answer. Imagine the feeling if we won on Sunday - knocking out one of the best clubs in the world or imagine the feeling if we stayed up - I suppose if it went down to the last game it would be very nervy and euphoric and also a great achievement from where we are now - but Rochdale fc in the FA Cup quarter finals - that's once in a lifetime stuff. [Post edited 14 Feb 2018 11:37]
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:19 - Feb 14 with 4314 views | Bazzanne |
Easy one for me, league one survival every time. It would be nice to beat Spurs but our bread and butter is the league. We stand to lose a lot financially if we go down, which could affect us for years, We are no certainties to win our way back to league one for a long time to come. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:31 - Feb 14 with 4273 views | BartRowou |
I don't think relegation would as bad as that. At the Fans' Forum in August, when discussing "managed relegation", Hill not only talked about Championship clubs doing it (might have been Burton) but he did refer to the possibility that we might need to too.
It's not something I'm looking forward to but the main benefit for me would be for our youngest players to play at a more accessible level (Cannon/Adshead/Rathbone/Morley) and our more senior, recently contracted, players to be more effective than they currently are (Henderson, Andrew, McNulty & Lillis is a decent spine in Div 2).
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:34 - Feb 14 with 4267 views | frenzied |
Id take an absolute battering from Spurs if we could stay up as an option. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:35 - Feb 14 with 4262 views | aleanddale |
Beat Spurs for me.
Once in a lifetime dream the last 8 one game from the FA cup semi final.
League 2 on a cloud!!
I don’t think we will do either though - I know that’s not what you asked.
Wow - last 8 if we can somehow do this on Sunday!!! | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:48 - Feb 14 with 4217 views | Swissdale |
I'd go with beating Spurs. Winning that game alone would be worth £500k+ to the club, which would offset a big chunk of the costs of relegation (for a season at least).
Quarter finals of the cup for the first time ever in 100+ years of trying. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:51 - Feb 14 with 4208 views | MoonyDale |
Stay up every time. | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:56 - Feb 14 with 4184 views | sweetcorn |
It’s not even a tough one.. stay up
Beating spurs would be a good day, but i’d rather be watching league one football next season..
Can never understand the fans who put money benefits of the club first saying we can make more money if we win.. who cares, let the club accountants worry about that, id rather be playing the likes of sunderland next season than newport county | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 12:57 - Feb 14 with 4176 views | D_Alien |
Hill's answer was in direct response to the question "If we made it to the Championship, could we survive?" so his "managed relegation" wasn't with L2 in mind, but I agree with your general point about our prospects should we drop through the trapdoor
So, it's beat Spurs for me | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 13:21 - Feb 14 with 4110 views | dingdangblue |
I would say beat Spurs. Teams have been relegated and promoted in the past but Rochdale beating Spurs in the 5th round of the FA cup for a place in the Quarterfinal - that's once in a lifetime material. I've no fear of league 2 - hell under Keith Hill we've had our best times there. | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 13:43 - Feb 14 with 4070 views | Nigeriamark |
Beat Spurs
I know crowds would start lower in L2 but I would still go to my 6-8 games a year irrespective of what division. A quarter final would be unbelievable on top of having beaten Spurs. I also don't believe we will do 30 years in League one as we did in League 2 so rather get relegated in a year when there is something good happening to soften the blow | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 13:44 - Feb 14 with 4059 views | wimborne_dale |
Yes. and even if we do go down (and I'm not convinced that we will) then we've got a great chance of going straight back up. And being nr the top of Lg2 was a fantastic ride so I agree - beat Spurs, Quarter Final, more money, then win League 2 with over 100 pts  | |
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| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 13:48 - Feb 14 with 4031 views | JimmyRustler |
Stay in League 1 without a doubt but I suppose it would depend who we drew after Spurs when we won. With that being said, the euphoria of beating Spurs would die down pretty quickly for me whereas staying up when we're in such a precarious position would be a sustained effort and a journey which would be longer lasting in the memory (imo) | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 13:50 - Feb 14 with 4023 views | dawlishdale |
Absolutely HAS to be stay in League 1. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 14:03 - Feb 14 with 3961 views | Bobbyjoe |
I suppose the divide more or less defines what sort of Dale-watcher one is! Having said that I can't remember anything about the scores of games I saw either side of the Coventry game back whenever it was ('72?). So, basically, big cup games are, de facto, bigger, more exciting, more memorable and, therefore, more important than any others. (Except ones Paddy played in, obv!). | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 14:07 - Feb 14 with 3945 views | Shun |
Like ddb says, beating Spurs and getting into the quarter final of the FA Cup is once in a lifetime stuff.
But I'd still prefer to stay up. Just as when Hill returned a stronger manager after his Barnsley disappointment, I think Hill will learn from our current struggles and next season, whatever league we're in, will be a more enterprising one. | | | |
| Beat Spurs or stay in league 1? on 14:12 - Feb 14 with 3911 views | deeplishblue |
Beat spurs
Get utd next round
Pocket another £1M
Go down
Win the title next year | |
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