Tommy Cannon 16:22 - Sep 5 with 12746 views | fermin | Some of you may remember that in the 1980s at a shareholder meeting a teenager told Tommy Cannon that he didn't own any shares in his own name and therefore couldn't sell off Spotland to line his own pockets (I think I have the story right). This almost certainly saved the club from oblivion. Anyway, I did not realise until yesterday that this teenager, Edward Lord, had gone into public life until I saw this article in the Telegraph about FA discrimination policies (about two-thirds of the way down): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/11073916/Edward-Lord-attacks-FA-o To think I got Tommy Cannon to sign my programme once (could even have been this one): http://www.comedykings.co.uk/index.php/other/sport/rochdale-fc | ![](/images/avatars/1236.gif) | | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 16:35 - Sep 5 with 11564 views | electricblue | As fans in 2014 we owe a lot to edward long.... Didnt killie n co cough up something in the region of £250k to get shot of cannon.... Dark days indeed...... | ![](/images/avatars/6227.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 17:47 - Jan 19 with 10053 views | BURYFC_1885 | So without the lucky intervention of a teenager, Dale would have 'almost certainly' folded at the hands of Tommy Cannon? Interesting. I thought I'd been told that Dale fans have all the answers. On this evidence it seems not. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 17:53 - Jan 19 with 10020 views | Thacks_Rabbits | Sure I read recently that Cannon has gone bankrupt. Serves him right just for those stipid self publicising program cover alone!!! | ![](/images/avatars/1161.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 17:54 - Jan 19 with 10016 views | MoonyDale |
Tommy Cannon on 17:47 - Jan 19 by BURYFC_1885 | So without the lucky intervention of a teenager, Dale would have 'almost certainly' folded at the hands of Tommy Cannon? Interesting. I thought I'd been told that Dale fans have all the answers. On this evidence it seems not. |
We certainly have more answers than your lot down the road, what exactly have you done? Bugger all.... | ![](/images/avatars/1141.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 17:58 - Jan 19 with 9996 views | RAFCBLUE |
Tommy Cannon on 17:47 - Jan 19 by BURYFC_1885 | So without the lucky intervention of a teenager, Dale would have 'almost certainly' folded at the hands of Tommy Cannon? Interesting. I thought I'd been told that Dale fans have all the answers. On this evidence it seems not. |
No luck about it my bury supporting chum. We spotted a chancer. So skilful was our chancer spotting that was within the capability of a young teenager, amongst others We also think we spotted a chancer currently at your club. Care to guess who? Amazing how we are the only ones who can see it. | ![](/images/avatars/6471.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 18:52 - Jan 19 with 9816 views | modelboydave | Has anyone ever seen Cannon at any Dale match since he left in 1988? | ![](/images/avatars/4528.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 19:47 - Jan 19 with 9643 views | YadHoDale |
Tommy Cannon on 18:52 - Jan 19 by modelboydave | Has anyone ever seen Cannon at any Dale match since he left in 1988? |
Scored against Gillingham the other day.... :-) | ![](/images/avatars/1135.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 19:50 - Jan 19 with 9631 views | judd |
Tommy Cannon on 17:47 - Jan 19 by BURYFC_1885 | So without the lucky intervention of a teenager, Dale would have 'almost certainly' folded at the hands of Tommy Cannon? Interesting. I thought I'd been told that Dale fans have all the answers. On this evidence it seems not. |
How was he or we lucky? What has age got to do with it? Desperately weak response | ![](/images/avatars/1067.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 20:32 - Jan 19 with 9528 views | BURYFC_1885 |
Tommy Cannon on 19:50 - Jan 19 by judd | How was he or we lucky? What has age got to do with it? Desperately weak response |
Well the OP implies that without that one fan, you'd have folded. That is lucky, no? | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 20:54 - Jan 19 with 9478 views | judd |
Tommy Cannon on 20:32 - Jan 19 by BURYFC_1885 | Well the OP implies that without that one fan, you'd have folded. That is lucky, no? |
Ever heard of research? Due diligence? Intelligence? That it only took one fan to disrupt the meeting does not imply luck at all. Far from it. By the way, I do read your board and I do like your style on there. | ![](/images/avatars/1067.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 21:04 - Jan 19 with 9459 views | BURYFC_1885 |
Tommy Cannon on 20:54 - Jan 19 by judd | Ever heard of research? Due diligence? Intelligence? That it only took one fan to disrupt the meeting does not imply luck at all. Far from it. By the way, I do read your board and I do like your style on there. |
The style of whom? I rarely post on Bury's board these days. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 21:19 - Jan 19 with 9415 views | chalkyncfc | I can still remember years ago seeing Cannon in a bar and he was getting a right verbal pasting from a Dale fan over something,I thought that he made made jokes about the club or summat and was getting his own back,I had no idea that he was the owner of Rochdale and I'm presuming not a welcome one | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 21:31 - Jan 19 with 9387 views | judd |
Tommy Cannon on 21:04 - Jan 19 by BURYFC_1885 | The style of whom? I rarely post on Bury's board these days. |
I stand corrected. Mixed you up with another shaker. Apologies | ![](/images/avatars/1067.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 21:36 - Jan 19 with 9374 views | kel |
Tommy Cannon on 21:19 - Jan 19 by chalkyncfc | I can still remember years ago seeing Cannon in a bar and he was getting a right verbal pasting from a Dale fan over something,I thought that he made made jokes about the club or summat and was getting his own back,I had no idea that he was the owner of Rochdale and I'm presuming not a welcome one |
Fuck off Chalky. | ![](/images/avatars/1007.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 10:46 - Jan 20 with 8984 views | chalkyncfc |
Tommy Cannon on 21:36 - Jan 19 by kel | Fuck off Chalky. |
You should be 'over there' kel sorting it out,its all but dead now Hang your hands in shame lad | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 11:32 - Jan 20 with 8875 views | EllDale | I always used to have this suspicion that Cannon originally got on the Dale board (or accepted an invitation to do so) because Bobby Ball got on Hornets board a year or so earlier. Keeping up with the Jones if you like. I mean they're both from Oldham so really should be Latics fans? Hornets were going quite well at the time and Bobby used to milk it in "Braces" as a result. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 16:06 - Jan 20 with 8725 views | 1mark1 |
Tommy Cannon on 11:32 - Jan 20 by EllDale | I always used to have this suspicion that Cannon originally got on the Dale board (or accepted an invitation to do so) because Bobby Ball got on Hornets board a year or so earlier. Keeping up with the Jones if you like. I mean they're both from Oldham so really should be Latics fans? Hornets were going quite well at the time and Bobby used to milk it in "Braces" as a result. |
It was far better when it was Nell Rackers than Braces, in my opinion. | ![](/images/avatars/1117.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 17:23 - Jun 7 with 4756 views | boromat | It's before my time but everywhere I look online it says Tommy Cannon bought RAFC but then also that he was voted off the board of directors in the end so how much of RAFC did he own? This has come about from this tweet from an expert of fan ownership. The 'supposedly' annoyed me and then got me thinking haven't we always been fan owned? Or at least fan owned to a certain extent. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 19:01 - Jun 7 with 4495 views | pioneer |
Tommy Cannon on 17:23 - Jun 7 by boromat | It's before my time but everywhere I look online it says Tommy Cannon bought RAFC but then also that he was voted off the board of directors in the end so how much of RAFC did he own? This has come about from this tweet from an expert of fan ownership. The 'supposedly' annoyed me and then got me thinking haven't we always been fan owned? Or at least fan owned to a certain extent. |
All depends on how you define the term ‘fan owned’. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 07:29 - Jun 8 with 4063 views | seasidedale | If I remember rightly, once the resolution to sell the ground failed he resigned, the debt were large and a big cost cut began, I don’t think that Cannon was bought out, I don’t think he had many shares | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 10:27 - Jun 8 with 3916 views | Sandyman |
Tommy Cannon on 07:29 - Jun 8 by seasidedale | If I remember rightly, once the resolution to sell the ground failed he resigned, the debt were large and a big cost cut began, I don’t think that Cannon was bought out, I don’t think he had many shares |
Was this the occasion when a young Edward Lord disputed Cannon's authority as Chairman as it was Cannon's wife who owned RAFC shares, not him? | ![](/images/avatars/1453.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Tommy Cannon on 11:22 - Jun 8 with 3837 views | judd |
Tommy Cannon on 10:27 - Jun 8 by Sandyman | Was this the occasion when a young Edward Lord disputed Cannon's authority as Chairman as it was Cannon's wife who owned RAFC shares, not him? |
Yes | ![](/images/avatars/1067.gif) |
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Tommy Cannon on 13:06 - Jun 8 with 3712 views | seasidedale | Yes,it was | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
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