A game of two halves. Warnocks tactical changes at half time made for a far more balanced second half, Taarabt was awful, he looked unfit, overawed by the opposition and couldnt make a basic 5 yard pass. Derry had one of his less effective days as spuds passing through midfiled was slick and quick.

Kenny was excellent as we have come to expect and Young had a decent game - for me I thought Heidar was exceptional first half - he won virtually everything in the air, just a pity that no one was close enough to pick up his touches when they did second half Bothroyd scored.

If we play like we did second half no problems, easier 3 teams worse than us, like the first half we will be well and truly in the mix to drop.

Not many people will go to spuds and get a result,apart from Man City.....D'oh!

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I disagree Melaka, i though Bothroyd was great and made a lot of difference. His movement is better than Heidar's, and yes Heidar won nearly every ball in the 1st half but he flicked on, and we weren't playing that type of football. When Jay came on and was able to hold the ball up as opposed to knocking it on, we improved vastly.
I think spurs play some of the best football you will see in the league when they are knocking it around like that, but im impressed with the character we showed in the 2nd half.
I dont think Anton put a foot wrong all game. Mackies energy was fantastic and when it comes to Adel, the more we can get in January the better... When one player brings down the performance of the whole team you cant play him. He needs the freedom to run at people and to shoot like he was last season. He is passing to often and when he does its lacking, he has linked up with SWP and Joey superbly at times but on the whole its really disappointing.

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I thought from day one that bringing a manager out of academy football into the hard league of div. one was dodgy to say the least, but was prepared to back the boards decision and give it a go.I have watched Rochdale now for 55 years, and I must admit that the last few matches have been as bad as I have seen for a long time. I am sorry to say that now is the time to arrest this situation quickly, please do not let all the hard work of the past few years go to waste . We have to get an experianced manager in place , before we get into deeper shit . We cannot be playing in div 2 next year, fearing we shall lose more supporters than we have allready.

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I have to agree with RBlock on Bothroyd, I thought that he did well when coming on, can't see the "lumbering" myself I thought that we'd shipped that out to Millwall's sub's bench.

I still think that Taarabt has too much talent to write off just yet, let's see what happens if/when he scores a goal to boost his confidence a bit. It wouldn't surprise me if his head's been filled with all sorts of crap from agents who want their cut, "friends" or whoever. His brain must be like scrambled eggs at the moment.

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as warnock said, we probably showed them too much respect 1st half..and bale is a top player on top form...
2nd half we really had a go and got back to 2-1 and most thought, "maybe" but their 3rd was quality and killed us off.
no fulham collapse and i felt we did ok.
spurs are a good team, whether it hurts to admit or not...given space and time, awesome. hope we get into man city OR ELSE!

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3 points is 3 points but there were some terrbible performances particularly the full backs

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cracking game we so deserved a draw ,but in end their class told we made a few mistakes and got punished their finishing was leathal while we missed a few ,biggest difference in the teams was the benches they had a 2nd team of stars on the bench we only had punchen smith as attacking options

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Time for the impatient short termers to get off Bothroyd's back methinks. Cracking team performance against a team that didn't bottle and look like champions elect. All turned up today...great stuff despite missing out on a a worthy draw.

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Fantastic game. I kept expecting City to come out and shred us but they never did. Faurlin was fantastic.

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Best team performance of the year. Amazing stuff. Finally NW had the formation and tactics that will take us on and upwards. Lets hope we play like this over the coming games against 'lesser' teams. If we do then 7 points form the next 3 games should be very achievable.
I am very proud of the lads, well done everyone!

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