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Our defence 10:18 - Sep 2 with 5730 viewssamueloneils

Surely someone will correct me but is this the youngest and least experienced back line we have ever had.?

Gordon 22 39 appearances
Ferguson 24 29 appearances
Beckwith 22 94 appearances

Gordon has 6 starts for Sheff Utd but all others for all 3 are at NL level.

Considering this what a cracking performance from them as a unit over the last 2 games.
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Our defence on 16:33 - Sep 2 with 5345 viewsblackdogblue

Who cares?

Results do the talking 👍

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Our defence on 16:47 - Sep 2 with 5300 viewsDaleiLama

If you're good enough, you're old enough. Ask Luke and George and Daniel to name but a few

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Our defence on 17:31 - Sep 2 with 5178 viewsDale_4_Life

long may this continue..

Agree if your good enough your old enough!

Defense Gods please look away.
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Our defence on 17:37 - Sep 2 with 5155 viewsYadHoDale

Joe Rafferty, Craig Dawson, Paul Butler are just three examples of young defenders who played well when given their chances and developed into excellent players at Dale. I hope Kyron, Kyle and Sam can turn out just as well.
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Our defence on 18:36 - Sep 2 with 4994 viewsdavidab2202

Alan Reeves was another around that age and he wasn't bad either and for us old timers Ray Aspden comes to mind but think he might have been a little bit older than the current boys are
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Our defence on 19:14 - Sep 2 with 4862 views442Dale

These are always interesting threads!

Couple of examples off the top of the head and having checked The Book:

At the start of 95/96 after an injury to Peter Valentine, we had a back four of Alex Russell who was 22, Paul Butler 22, Dave Bayliss 19 and Kevin Formby 23. Only Butler had played a significant number of games at the time.

At Exeter in 87/88 we had a centre back pairing of the 18 year old Jason Smart and Zac Hughes who was 16.

Alan Reeves is actually a deceiving one, older than you think as he turned 24 during his first season with us.

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Our defence on 20:21 - Sep 2 with 4670 viewsEllDale

I think I remember a time around 1977/78 when the squad was wafer thin that Ian Bannon and Billy Boslem played together in the back four?
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Our defence on 11:29 - Sep 4 with 3674 viewsPeaky

Our defence on 19:14 - Sep 2 by 442Dale

These are always interesting threads!

Couple of examples off the top of the head and having checked The Book:

At the start of 95/96 after an injury to Peter Valentine, we had a back four of Alex Russell who was 22, Paul Butler 22, Dave Bayliss 19 and Kevin Formby 23. Only Butler had played a significant number of games at the time.

At Exeter in 87/88 we had a centre back pairing of the 18 year old Jason Smart and Zac Hughes who was 16.

Alan Reeves is actually a deceiving one, older than you think as he turned 24 during his first season with us.


Some good memories of this era
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Our defence on 12:27 - Sep 4 with 3507 viewsdingdangblue

2014 when we beat Coventry 1-0 at Spotland in League 1 our back 4 was Rafferty 20,Eastham 23,O'Connell 20, Tanser 19 - which was very young.
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Our defence on 13:09 - Sep 4 with 3416 viewsD_Alien

Our defence on 20:21 - Sep 2 by EllDale

I think I remember a time around 1977/78 when the squad was wafer thin that Ian Bannon and Billy Boslem played together in the back four?
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Don't forget Brian Hart (i've been trying to for decades)

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Our defence on 13:20 - Sep 4 with 3376 viewsdawlishdale

Eek. I'd actually almost forgotten about him...but sadly, still have nightmares about Billy Boslem.
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Our defence on 13:20 - Sep 5 with 2680 viewsrochedale

Our defence on 12:27 - Sep 4 by dingdangblue

2014 when we beat Coventry 1-0 at Spotland in League 1 our back 4 was Rafferty 20,Eastham 23,O'Connell 20, Tanser 19 - which was very young.
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Tanser had a blinder that game. I was sat in the main stand for some reason and remember how well he played at full back, pretty sure he got man of the match too.

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Our defence on 15:21 - Sep 5 with 2492 viewsdavidab2202

Our defence on 13:20 - Sep 5 by rochedale

Tanser had a blinder that game. I was sat in the main stand for some reason and remember how well he played at full back, pretty sure he got man of the match too.


And gone on to have a reasonable career in football with well over 250 appearances in senior football
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