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Got to try and find some. The club is meandering with little known direction, so if we can somehow find a positive in blowing a two goal lead by saying that Gateshead were nailed on to win with 25 minutes late, then it’s something.
Go back to pre season, would we have taken 21 points after 17 games? That’s where I am, even if it’s obvious we could be doing much better.
Very refreshing to see Gateshead leave 2 players forward when we had corners. I thought that wasn't allowed anymore! Very welcome point against an excellent Gateshead team - proving you can be a possession based team and still pass quickly and get the ball forward in a positive manner.
Its a BRILLIANT goal to cap a BRILLIANT start by Rochdale - Don Goodman 26/08/10
Keith Hill was a defender yet for the majority of his time as manager, we were an attacking, positive side who won more matches than we lost, often scoring a number of goals out of keeping with having a defender in charge.
Vic Halom was a striker, yet we didn't score more goals than the opposition in most of his matches as manager.
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When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?
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vs Gateshead - match thread on 22:36 - Oct 24 with 2360 views
Explain why we’ve brought Mcdermott here but dont play him whilst the 11 on the pitch have given up? Second half was much less……. Spineless, clueless brainless and useless. Why not give Kelly 15 mins. Jez barely moved in the second half. Ffs press their 2 centre halves, it was fking obvious. Mitchell just stood the whole half staring at their no 6 and pointing!! Utter sh1 te
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vs Gateshead - match thread on 22:57 - Oct 24 with 2190 views
Nevett got a whack on his left knee tonight, Hayes is due to go back at the end,of next week, Taylor's confidence looks shot, clearly Rodney isnt going to play. Is Clayton fit or trying to play carrying an injury? Oduroh will be suspended. The whole team looked like it had drunk its Horlicks at half time, sleepy and ready for bed....God knows what McNulty said to them but its clearly not having the desired effect. All the pace had gone, they just stood off and got run over, no movement, no intent. Clearly they can only manage 45 minutes, its just a toss up as to if its the first half or the second. 9 home games, 9 points and the dismal Tuesday nights continue. We are now at the point of having to score twice to even think of picking up a point. Things is looking grim.
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vs Gateshead - match thread on 23:13 - Oct 24 with 2072 views
Enjoyable game that tonight and sometimes people forget there is another team on the pitch who are also entitled to have periods in the game when they will create chances. Gateshead played some lovely football and are obviously a well drilled unit,comfortable with the ball at their feet and when it's not they move into space to receive it, they don't stand still. We pressurised them in possession and played with energy ourselves during the first half, took our chances and Gateshead managed to find ways of missing the target when it seemed easier to score. The second half was different, we ran out of steam and couldn't get close enough to them, they scored two good goals and came close to snatching it but so did we when Jez had two late chances. In a ideal world we would have had more quality options on the bench to make earlier changes and inject some energy but we don't. Overall a draw was the right result and when you factor everything in it was a good point against a team that I think will finish in a play off place. The players deserve some credit for sticking with it tonight.
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vs Gateshead - match thread on 23:29 - Oct 24 with 2005 views
To be fair Gateshead are a good team, with pace and ability, they could have scored four tonight. Rochdale played well in the first half, but second half we sat back and allowed Gateshead to dominate the game. Crucially the team to reverted to style pedestrian passing backwards football in the second half, why do we make problems for ourselves by passing the ball backwards and even worse, we passing the ball on the edge of our penalty box, sometimes we got away with it, I lost count of the times we lost the ball by p*ssing around with the ball and this down to McNulty.
Yes, the squad is paper thin, but I am beginning to think that McNulty is part of the problem, in that the team is coached to play the pedestrian football style.
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vs Gateshead - match thread on 23:39 - Oct 24 with 1977 views
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