| Willbutts Lane on Friday 15:18 - Dec 18 with 10314 views | Dale_Iain |
Thought I'd make a thread about this to see what sort of response it gets.
Me and a few mates have decided we're going to go in the Willbutts Lane for the Cheltenham game. The thinking is that, as we all know, the noise that can be made in there is a lot better than the other stands, and we think that this is a time where the team needs as much support as we can give them.
Basically I'm just trying to encourage anyone who feels the same way to join us in there. Let's really make an effort and get behind them. We call ourselves Rochdale supporters...so let's support them! |  | | |  |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 15:19 - Dec 18 with 8253 views | judd |
Don't you be going waking me up from my slumber, noisy gets. |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 16:42 - Dec 18 with 8149 views | sandylaner1 |
quite tempted / 10
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 16:53 - Dec 18 with 8133 views | rochdale1987 |
I'm up for it mate, if a better atmosphere doesn't get anything out of the players and we still get turned over, we are f*cked though, still worth an effort lol |  | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:30 - Dec 18 with 8079 views | YouTubeDale |
Good idea.
Let's make some noise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:35 - Dec 18 with 8063 views | Ralphs12 |
Good idea |  | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:38 - Dec 18 with 8050 views | sweetcorn |
Sounds a good plan.
Has my insider got it right, theres a bar in there? tempted. can't remember if it has, only time i've been in that stand is during the play-offs vs rushden. |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:41 - Dec 18 with 8051 views | DaleAwaydayBot |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:38 - Dec 18 by sweetcorn |
Sounds a good plan.
Has my insider got it right, theres a bar in there? tempted. can't remember if it has, only time i've been in that stand is during the play-offs vs rushden. |
Yup its like the type of bar you'd see at Away ground like Plymouth |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:50 - Dec 18 with 8022 views | sandylaner1 |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:38 - Dec 18 by sweetcorn |
Sounds a good plan.
Has my insider got it right, theres a bar in there? tempted. can't remember if it has, only time i've been in that stand is during the play-offs vs rushden. |
its the away stand, course it has a fookin bar.
and you can use the chair infront as a foot rest | | | |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:54 - Dec 18 with 8016 views | sweetcorn |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:50 - Dec 18 by sandylaner1 |
its the away stand, course it has a fookin bar.
and you can use the chair infront as a foot rest |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:56 - Dec 18 with 8011 views | MoonyDale |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:38 - Dec 18 by sweetcorn |
Sounds a good plan.
Has my insider got it right, theres a bar in there? tempted. can't remember if it has, only time i've been in that stand is during the play-offs vs rushden. |
As far as I can gather the bar under the stand is just for away fans, don't quote me on it though. I went in there last season but couldn't get a drink of an alcoholic nature
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:56 - Dec 18 with 8001 views | sandylaner1 |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:54 - Dec 18 by sweetcorn |
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hes posted the 2 best welcome to beast entries on youtube
number 1 is going to win | | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:05 - Dec 18 with 7983 views | sweetcorn |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:56 - Dec 18 by sandylaner1 |
hes posted the 2 best welcome to beast entries on youtube
number 1 is going to win |
Prefer the second one myself, not enough people in the first one for it to be effective. | |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:13 - Dec 18 with 7968 views | sweetcorn |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 17:56 - Dec 18 by MoonyDale |
As far as I can gather the bar under the stand is just for away fans, don't quote me on it though. I went in there last season but couldn't get a drink of an alcoholic nature
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:15 - Dec 18 with 7965 views | MoonyDale |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:13 - Dec 18 by sweetcorn |
You gotta be sh*ttin me. |
No am serious, things may have changed for this season but back end of last season I couldn't get near the bar. Only the away bods could drink the good stuff. | |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:50 - Dec 18 with 7930 views | Dale_Iain |
Glad to see that there are others who like the idea. Spread the word. Really think that if we can get a good atmosphere going in there it may just help. Let's forget all this negativity and get behind them like proper supporters do. | | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:15 - Dec 18 with 7901 views | maybee |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 18:50 - Dec 18 by Dale_Iain |
Glad to see that there are others who like the idea. Spread the word. Really think that if we can get a good atmosphere going in there it may just help. Let's forget all this negativity and get behind them like proper supporters do. |
Sorry to bring bad news, but the Willbutts Lane stand won't be open to Dale fans on Friday.
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:17 - Dec 18 with 7886 views | Ralphs12 |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:15 - Dec 18 by maybee |
Sorry to bring bad news, but the Willbutts Lane stand won't be open to Dale fans on Friday.
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:20 - Dec 18 with 7874 views | Daley_Lama |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:15 - Dec 18 by maybee |
Sorry to bring bad news, but the Willbutts Lane stand won't be open to Dale fans on Friday.
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Sorry to say but that made me chuckle. 
I assume it's because of staffing levels, no need to open it and incur stewards when the crowd will be 1 man and his dog. |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:30 - Dec 18 with 7852 views | TalkingSutty |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:20 - Dec 18 by Daley_Lama |
Sorry to say but that made me chuckle.
I assume it's because of staffing levels, no need to open it and incur stewards when the crowd will be 1 man and his dog. |
Whats wrong with the TDS stand ? Change the plan and all pile behind the goals (plus you can have a beer). There are plenty of want to be singers behind the goal the problem is there isnt enough of us to make much noise. |  | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:30 - Dec 18 with 7848 views | ChaffRAFC |
I like the intention behind the idea Iain, I just don't think it will work. I think all you'd get is the noise spread further apart. You'd have a handful of singers in the Sandy, myself included, a handful in the Pearl Street and a handful in the Willbutts. If we wanna get behind the team vocally, it needs to be together. We make more noise away from home than we do at Spotland because we're all together and there's no way people will all go in one place at home, we have two stands, adding another splits it further.
Like the idea of a big effort in supporting Rochdale, I just reckon we go the extra mile where we were.
Personally, if it were up to me, I'd shut the Sandy, give the Pearl Street to away fans and put the two sets of "behind the goal supporters" in the Willbutts but that will never happen for various reasons. |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:37 - Dec 18 with 7825 views | TalkingSutty |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:30 - Dec 18 by ChaffRAFC |
I like the intention behind the idea Iain, I just don't think it will work. I think all you'd get is the noise spread further apart. You'd have a handful of singers in the Sandy, myself included, a handful in the Pearl Street and a handful in the Willbutts. If we wanna get behind the team vocally, it needs to be together. We make more noise away from home than we do at Spotland because we're all together and there's no way people will all go in one place at home, we have two stands, adding another splits it further.
Like the idea of a big effort in supporting Rochdale, I just reckon we go the extra mile where we were.
Personally, if it were up to me, I'd shut the Sandy, give the Pearl Street to away fans and put the two sets of "behind the goal supporters" in the Willbutts but that will never happen for various reasons. |
So no Dale fans behind either goal when playing at home, thats a strange one Chaff  | | | |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:47 - Dec 18 with 7798 views | BlueDutch |
It is a good idea, but the club won't allow it I don't think. Perhaps if we sing the "Norman Whitehead" song repeatedly, Mr Coleman will get the message as regards width. But then again Barcelona don't have wingers.
Is Ron Aldo obsolete then? |  |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:51 - Dec 18 with 7786 views | ChaffRAFC |
| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 19:37 - Dec 18 by TalkingSutty |
So no Dale fans behind either goal when playing at home, thats a strange one Chaff |
True but there's no other way round it given our attendances. We've got a ground that holds just over 10,000 and we've got about 2,000 fans to accomodate. To get them together in a bid to make more noise is difficult given the size of the Pearl Street and there's not enough space to be sat with family and friends. We have a 3,000 seated stand that is empty every home game. | |
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| Willbutts Lane on Friday on 20:59 - Dec 18 with 7733 views | Dale_Iain |
Shame if it is shut. Do you know the reason why, Maybee? Because I'm pretty sure that the club said at the start of the season, when they said the stand would be open to home fans, that the only two exceptions would be the Bradford and Port Vale games, due to the larger followings.
And Chaff the idea (wasn't actually my idea by the way) was to, hopefully, get the Sandy Laners who like to sing and the TDS lot who like to sing all together in the best stand for acoustics, quite like an away game. I hope it will be open, but if not, we're back to the usual problem of the TDS hardly ever making an effort and the Sandy Lane trying occasionally but the sound barely reaching the halfway line. We always say "Oh we'll make a big effort for this one", but it hardly ever happens. That's why I think it's worth trying something different here. | | | |
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