| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 16:59 - Dec 19 with 2398 views | wimborne_dale |
Bolton 0 Tranmere 3
Keith Hill is a football genius. |  |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:13 - Dec 19 with 2319 views | Dalenet |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 16:05 - Dec 19 by James1980 |
To continue with my latest bee in my bonnet after a loss. Evans has managed 8 different clubs in a managerial career that has spanned over quarter of a century. |
and he has good experience in taking brown envelopes and driving the coach. And his gob is a fog horn.
Seriously James. Are you suggesting that we have to accept third class all of the time. BBM is a young manager but he isn't wet. I am not for throwing the towel in but he has to show he is learning. Anyway time to go for a walk with a nail in my shoe |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:17 - Dec 19 with 2286 views | electricblue |
New signings in Jan required then......... |  |
| My all time favourite Dale player Mr Lyndon Symmonds |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:43 - Dec 19 with 2178 views | James1980 |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:13 - Dec 19 by Dalenet |
and he has good experience in taking brown envelopes and driving the coach. And his gob is a fog horn.
Seriously James. Are you suggesting that we have to accept third class all of the time. BBM is a young manager but he isn't wet. I am not for throwing the towel in but he has to show he is learning. Anyway time to go for a walk with a nail in my shoe |
No no no no and five times no. It was just to highlight how inexperienced our gaffer is and to remind some to cut him some slack. Hence my reply to TVOS that it would probably be more appropriate on another platform. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:45 - Dec 19 with 2176 views | boromat |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:17 - Dec 19 by electricblue |
New signings in Jan required then......... |
What we need is a few Saturday away fixtures postponed and played on a Tuesday.
January is never a good window for permanent signings can only imagine permanent signings from non league and some loanees coming in.
Think we'll replace Bola. Be nice to get some more height in the team. A Wilbraham/Calvin type and another Lund style midfielder. The full back situation is a pain as well with McLaughlin we all called it when he re-signed on. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:23 - Dec 19 with 2073 views | funkkk |
Think the idea that, as long as we stay out of the bottom four, everything will be fine is ridiculous. It's a poor defeatist attitude that saw us wallow in the bottom tier for all those years. Nor can we rely on us keep pulling off the odd win away from home.
We seem incapable of putting together a run of results or even performances. Some of the teams below us who've had a poor start will inevitably click at some point, and then we'll be in trouble. My concern is we won't do similar as we never learn from good or bad results/performances. |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:25 - Dec 19 with 2069 views | Dalenet |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:45 - Dec 19 by boromat |
What we need is a few Saturday away fixtures postponed and played on a Tuesday.
January is never a good window for permanent signings can only imagine permanent signings from non league and some loanees coming in.
Think we'll replace Bola. Be nice to get some more height in the team. A Wilbraham/Calvin type and another Lund style midfielder. The full back situation is a pain as well with McLaughlin we all called it when he re-signed on. |
Aye. Just our luck. If only we were due to play the Gills tomorrow it would now be off. | | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:28 - Dec 19 with 2058 views | AtThePeake |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:45 - Dec 19 by boromat |
What we need is a few Saturday away fixtures postponed and played on a Tuesday.
January is never a good window for permanent signings can only imagine permanent signings from non league and some loanees coming in.
Think we'll replace Bola. Be nice to get some more height in the team. A Wilbraham/Calvin type and another Lund style midfielder. The full back situation is a pain as well with McLaughlin we all called it when he re-signed on. |
If we're in need of a Calvin type then things are even worse than I thought |  |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:29 - Dec 19 with 2054 views | James1980 |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 17:45 - Dec 19 by boromat |
What we need is a few Saturday away fixtures postponed and played on a Tuesday.
January is never a good window for permanent signings can only imagine permanent signings from non league and some loanees coming in.
Think we'll replace Bola. Be nice to get some more height in the team. A Wilbraham/Calvin type and another Lund style midfielder. The full back situation is a pain as well with McLaughlin we all called it when he re-signed on. |
An unreliable source on Twitter has said Matheson is going out on loan in January. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:30 - Dec 19 with 2044 views | 442Dale |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:25 - Dec 19 by Dalenet |
Aye. Just our luck. If only we were due to play the Gills tomorrow it would now be off. |
Have they changed the rules on sport? |  |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:41 - Dec 19 with 1987 views | D_Alien |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:30 - Dec 19 by 442Dale |
Have they changed the rules on sport? |
I could be wrong, but those who "have to travel for work" in Tier 4 are still allowed to do so
I presume that includes footballers |  |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 19:07 - Dec 19 with 1887 views | blackdogblue |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 15:53 - Dec 19 by diver |
On Radio Manchester commentary Calvin Andrew rates Dooley highly says he is good at going forward perhaps he is lacking confidence or being stifled by poor tactics? |
Catching up & that post has cheered me up no end.
What the fook would Calvin know about going forward 🤣
Thanks for that one |  |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:20 - Dec 19 with 1710 views | off2div1 |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 16:59 - Dec 19 by wimborne_dale |
Bolton 0 Tranmere 3
Keith Hill is a football genius. |
Was it on Radio Bolton |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:21 - Dec 19 with 1705 views | EllDale |
Whilst I’ve never left Spotland before the full time whistle in over 60 years of watching Dale I’d had enough at halftime today.
Switched off the iPad and went shopping with the wife instead.
Is it me or did we switch from one extreme to the other today? The slow passing game was changed to a game plan where Jim McNulty launches hopeful punts downfield.
Our home performances have been execrable in the main for four years but we’re plumbing new depths this season. | | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:23 - Dec 19 with 1701 views | Dalenet |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:21 - Dec 19 by EllDale |
Whilst I’ve never left Spotland before the full time whistle in over 60 years of watching Dale I’d had enough at halftime today.
Switched off the iPad and went shopping with the wife instead.
Is it me or did we switch from one extreme to the other today? The slow passing game was changed to a game plan where Jim McNulty launches hopeful punts downfield.
Our home performances have been execrable in the main for four years but we’re plumbing new depths this season. |
Not you mate. We all agree. | | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:49 - Dec 19 with 1637 views | downunder |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 14:43 - Dec 19 by D_Alien |
No, but they can make their views known - not so much to the players, who're playing with one leg tied behind their neck at home |
Ah! That would be the aforementioned Hopper? |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:55 - Dec 19 with 1619 views | 442Dale |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:21 - Dec 19 by EllDale |
Whilst I’ve never left Spotland before the full time whistle in over 60 years of watching Dale I’d had enough at halftime today.
Switched off the iPad and went shopping with the wife instead.
Is it me or did we switch from one extreme to the other today? The slow passing game was changed to a game plan where Jim McNulty launches hopeful punts downfield.
Our home performances have been execrable in the main for four years but we’re plumbing new depths this season. |
That’s quite sobering actually. It is indeed 4 seasons of home performances that have been pretty poor in the main. It’s not going to bring supporters back in their droves. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:59 - Dec 19 with 1599 views | D_Alien |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 20:49 - Dec 19 by downunder |
Ah! That would be the aforementioned Hopper? |
Haha! Very good! | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:00 - Dec 19 with 1596 views | macro |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 18:25 - Dec 19 by Dalenet |
Aye. Just our luck. If only we were due to play the Gills tomorrow it would now be off. |
Elite sport carries on in Tier 4 |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:12 - Dec 19 with 1562 views | 49thseason |
Today, we scraped the barrel and put out a team that simply had little chance of competing , it was literally men against boys. A squad might comfortably include 1 or at at the most 2 young kids, the best of the best in the junior ranks. Today was a day for strong men to stand up to a big physical challenge, we simply don't have enough men for that task The squad isn't big enough in both senses of the word , they are too few and too small. But , apparently, this is what we can afford. On the rare occasions we have our best squad available we can produce L1 performances but the reality is that the availability of that "best team" is a 1 in 10 matches phenomenon. Its one thing bringing a single youngster into an established team for occasional games, its something else to pin your faith on lots of youngsters without the experience of 9 or 10 seasoned professionals around them.
I doubt BBM expected much more from his team today, thankfully the 3 points on Tuesday cover the cracks to an extent, 35+ points from 28 remaining games 1.25 PPG ? keeping the Goal Difference column in single figures would be good too. |  | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:24 - Dec 19 with 1523 views | mikehunt |
We have to find a way to play against teams who press us. This will now be known throughout the division. Any team who employs that tactic and we are stuffed. Today our guys often had three men surrounding them. Where was the outlet for a simple pass to cut out three players instantly? Nope, we resort to turning back and directing the ball back towards our goal. Then when someone rushes at us we lump the ball forward - to no one. We didn’t have a target man today. So why employ the tactic? Because we don’t have any other plan? It’s a real worry. Fully fit we have a team that can just about compete but even one missing and we flounder. I fear the worst this season. The nature of our defeats are gutless and clueless. Pains me to say that.
And why our home form should be so different when, without crowds, it shouldn’t make a ha’aporth of difference is also beyond me.
Like some one has already said, our luck is going to run out very soon and relying on the odd flukey win isn’t going to save us. |  |
| The worm of time turns not for the cuckoo of circumstance. |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 23:08 - Dec 19 with 1354 views | boromat |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:24 - Dec 19 by mikehunt |
We have to find a way to play against teams who press us. This will now be known throughout the division. Any team who employs that tactic and we are stuffed. Today our guys often had three men surrounding them. Where was the outlet for a simple pass to cut out three players instantly? Nope, we resort to turning back and directing the ball back towards our goal. Then when someone rushes at us we lump the ball forward - to no one. We didn’t have a target man today. So why employ the tactic? Because we don’t have any other plan? It’s a real worry. Fully fit we have a team that can just about compete but even one missing and we flounder. I fear the worst this season. The nature of our defeats are gutless and clueless. Pains me to say that.
And why our home form should be so different when, without crowds, it shouldn’t make a ha’aporth of difference is also beyond me.
Like some one has already said, our luck is going to run out very soon and relying on the odd flukey win isn’t going to save us. |
If we have Lund, Beesley or both in the team gives us a direct option which we missed today against a team that pressed us. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 23:27 - Dec 19 with 1316 views | Dalenet |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:00 - Dec 19 by macro |
Elite sport carries on in Tier 4 |
Aye - I wasn't thinking straight. I forget that football is work | | | |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 23:28 - Dec 19 with 1306 views | 442Dale |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 23:27 - Dec 19 by Dalenet |
Aye - I wasn't thinking straight. I forget that football is work |
Bloody hard work to watch. | |
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| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 23:54 - Dec 19 with 1277 views | Yorkshire_Dale |
| Match Thread: Rochdale vs Gillingham on 21:00 - Dec 19 by macro |
Elite sport carries on in Tier 4 |
"Elite" is hardly an adjective to describe our woeful lot | | | |
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