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Reply | Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 14:34 20 Feb 2025
That includes a memorable hat-trick in a game against (i think) Brighton, a 3-3 draw
With the loss of Vinnie Leech through injury, he came in and filled that gap, and more
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 14:30 20 Feb 2025
"Part of the problem is we are tortoise like in transition allowing opponents to easily get back and defend deep in numbers."
It's not part of the problem, it's the key to JM's way of playing, which leads to invariably trying to unlock a massed defence and handing our opponents a huge advantage from every kick-off
I referred to the Yeovil game earlier, where it looked like we'd found the right balance. Setting our forwards free against a retreating (not settled) defence is the surest way to create good chances. That absolutely doesn't mean "hoof ball" - it means using a minimum of effective passes to breach a defence. Jim's going for some kind of maximum, and we're snookered [Post edited 20 Feb 14:34]
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 12:41 20 Feb 2025
Sadly, that's the only conclusion that can be drawn (an agreement)
How, or why, that could happen, or be allowed to happen, i've no idea, but if i'm wrong - and i've said this before - it'd be grounds on it s own for McNulty's dismissal
At the same time, i can't for the life of me imagine why Hendo would be party to it, at almost certainly the end of a stellar career in Dale terms. If it's not his last season as a pro, lack of deployment would indicate he wouldn't get another year at Dale
Forget Mitchell - until the end of this campaign, no Hendo, No Party |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 00:11 20 Feb 2025
The Yeovil performance, just before the Fans Forum was worth watching but that now stands as a stark reminder of McNulty's inability to produce anything like the kind of consistency required of a team more than capable of a playoff place
He's now being seen as the hindrance to the club's ambitions he threatened to be, right from the outset
It's pretty damned useless anyone saying "we need to sort our attempts on goal out" when the person responsible for us being so abject in the box is still in charge
It's impossible to sell this style of play. It's like going to a dry pub - what's the point? Entertainment is the ONLY point to be respected, win, lose or draw [Post edited 20 Feb 0:12]
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Reply | Leadership team
at 07:53 18 Feb 2025
All good points
As you say, the accounting lead (as would be expected with the Ogdens) came across well. At the same time, a former accounting lead was voted through for a further period as a director but one wonders what he's contributing these days
Perhaps he's acting as Adam Saul's underling, lining up the beans to be counted, as it were |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 19:09 16 Feb 2025
Could absolutely be a defining moment for McNulty
Grab it, go for it, send a message that he's on board with the revival of our brilliant football club which started when the Ogdens stepped in
Just don't go out onto the pitch before kick off, applaud the fans and then deliver the ultimate damp squib of a non-performance
The way the new management team market this will also be interesting |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 12:32 16 Feb 2025
Hmmm... does that qualify as "bed-wetting", a term you used recently to describe experienced fans who can see our loss of form with clear eyes and a dry repose at night?
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 18:20 15 Feb 2025
Failure to utilise Hendo's class in seeking the playoffs whilst parading him in meaningless fixtures against youth teams is the kind of utter bollocks that would be enough - on its own - to deserve the sack
It's as if it's some kind of arrangement, but Hendo is on a wage and if reports of him hanging up his boots in a couple of months are correct, he needs to be front and centre (literally) of the remaining games [Post edited 15 Feb 18:43]
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Reply | Club Advisory Board
at 12:24 15 Feb 2025
Great point
On that same theme, it's not that our current Trust rep has "gone native" as some suggest, he always was "native". A really decent guy, but imo not representative of the fanbase. There's a place for diplomacy, but it needs more than that [Post edited 15 Feb 12:44]
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Reply | Craig Dawson
at 23:42 14 Feb 2025
It's an interesting point. Is there anyone within the club setup (with any influence) who was around when CD was part and parcel of the Dale story around the time of our first promotion? Someone who could make that connection with him?
I ask this, because there's a multitude of fans who're very well aware of how vital he was to our success at that time, but that collective memory mightn't exist within the club itself - part of the reason why we sometimes feel as if there's a disconnect between club and fanbase |
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Reply | Club Advisory Board
at 18:30 14 Feb 2025
I doubt the intention is to represent the greatest number of fans and their views, as such
My take is that it'll be more of a channel for "issue resolution" - hence the reps from each home stand
There's also an 'ambassadorial' element, i.e. those involved may be expected to take the club to the fans, as well as fans to the club |
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Reply | Leadership team
at 13:48 14 Feb 2025
That's something i was pondering too
If you'd have asked me a year or so ago whether GD was fully up to his role, i'd have been highly sceptical. He seemed nervous at forums and unable to give a straight answer to questions, for instance about the list of shareholders
Now, i'm much more inclined to take a positive view of him. Perhaps he took on a poisoned chalice after the fall of the Bottomley regime and it took a while for him to get some kind of grip on things. More recently, including at the latest forum, he's come across much more impressively. That could well be down to the support of the Ogdens and since they'd be the last people to allow anyone in such a key role to get away with substandard performance, that must give him confidence and it showed [Post edited 14 Feb 14:32]
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Reply | Hendo
at 17:45 12 Feb 2025
Now you're taking the Mickey |
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Reply | Hendo
at 17:13 12 Feb 2025
At least we're having a proper debate on here about something football-related
Should last night's "crowd" be classified as Dale's lowest ever crowd? |
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Reply | Hendo
at 17:05 12 Feb 2025
Putting the keeper currently second in the pecking order (at the time) into cup fixtures has become a frequent occurrence among Premier League managers, including at the level of European competition. That's hardly something that could detract from his goal |
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Reply | Hendo
at 17:02 12 Feb 2025
I don't dispute he'd have been pleased to have put the ball in the net, but (having watched the highlights) his reactions upon scoring both were much more subdued than usual, having scored against an U-21 outfit
On the point of being involved in NL fixtures, it's the manager who needs to feel sharper and hungrier, having watched Hendo do what he does better than anyone at the club! |
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