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Reply | Off Topic: Thick End of The Wedge
at 22:50 29 Jan 2014
I'm just glad no-one has posted an image or a cartoon of a duck.
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Thread | Programmes wanted, help appreciated.
at 23:16 20 Dec 2013
Hi all I am trying to obtain the following two programmes for a friend of mine who is a Scunthorpe fan.
League Cup
Rochdale v Scunthorpe
10/10/60
20/10/60
I assume one of these was home and one was away but this is the only info I have.
Bizarrely my friend has said that photocopies would do ( I can arrange to copy and return them if you have them).
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance [Post edited 20 Dec 2013 23:18]
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Reply | Manager of the Month
at 23:25 4 Oct 2013
Oh shit, I have money on us tomorrow.
Had I seen the MOM thing before I placed the bet I might not have bothered.
Here's hoping it won't be the kiss of death! |
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Reply | Look at the furore...
at 23:23 23 Aug 2013
That's not a bad read, proportionally there seem to be more reasonable posts on there than I would have expected. If that thread is a fair representation of their message board they seem a decent bunch.
I think there is some truth in that bigger clubs should expect to do better.
If we had 6000/7000 every week we might want to know where the money was going and why we weren't achieving more.
There are clubs that buck the trend. It was alluded to in that thread that we may be punching above our weight as a league two club. Equally the likes of Bradford and a few years back Hull linger/lingered in this division despite average gates of 10000 plus.
On the other side of the coin I recall Colchester spending a few years in the Championship despite being a club of similar size to us. I think their average gate in the Championship was probably no more than 5000 and they survived for a while (although the one Colchester fan I know believes that the only reason they were so successful was Perkins!).
I think that being a Dale fan automatically moderates your expectations.
We have no delusions of grandeur, no real past success to live up to and, lets face it , a pretty uninspiring town.
For those reasons every success we have is far sweeter, far more rewarding and far more enjoyable than many fans of 'bigger' clubs will ever appreciate.
Who'd have thought when we were promoted to League 1, and then achieved 9th place in League 1, within a very short space of time many of us would see avoiding relegation to the Conference as an achievement.
All the highs and lows that you need from football happen here, at our football club. The only difference between us and the big boys is that few people either hear about, or are interested in our highs and lows, but to us they are life and death. |
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Reply | The penny dropped?
at 00:44 23 Aug 2013
And how long will it be before your current board call in their debts? |
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Reply | BURY F.C.
at 23:51 28 Jul 2013
Ha ha.
I believe our season tickets are more expensive than yours.
But I think we also intend being solvent beyond Christmas.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. |
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Reply | How Long?
at 11:16 14 Jul 2013
Dale Pea, it seems you are in the deepest doodoo.
You better not go anywhere near Ireland, the good people of Eire will no doubt ambush you for your email address before passing it on to Waterford football club.
We all know that a football club having your email address is only a short step from America's NSA sending you to Guantanamo Bay. |
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Reply | Favourite crisps
at 00:36 5 Jul 2013
Oh dear, we seem to have fallen into disrepair.
There is a clear disparity between maize based snacks and potato crisps.
For my money on the maize based snack route there are a few champions:
Scampi Fries
Roast Beef Monster Munch
Bacon Frazzles
When it comes to crisps Seabrooks win every time with good 'no nonsense' crisps which taste good.
There is, though, a matter that has been puzzling me for years:
Why do Walkers package their Cheese and Onion crisps in blue packets when the internationally accepted convention is that Cheese and Onion should be green whilst Salt and Vinegar is blue?
I understand that they have a strong brand but they are almost asserting that black is white with their unconventional approach to colour/flavour schemes.
Bollocks to their sunflower oil, somebody needs to explain this debacle! |
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Reply | Tory Toff
at 00:49 6 May 2013
Met him a few times with work
Always seemed a decent guy, toff or not.
A pretty astute man really, He gave up leadership ambitions a good few years ago to work in media.
He might have been a good leader.
He is certainly good at media. The chemistry between him an Diane Abbott has always brightened a Thursday night and he knocks out some good tv shows.
He also does a lot on Radio Four, all of it top quality.
Unlike some he has the ability to put aside his political objections and approaches his work with true objectivity, which is a trait I have seen decline rapidly since Margeret Thatcher's death! |
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Reply | Mrs Thatcher
at 20:59 8 Apr 2013
And you would advocate a return to the state run monoliths of the seventies would you?
Nationalised industries deny competition.
As much as I despise our current crop of energy suppliers I believe our current energy supplies would be more expensive without any competition in the market place. |
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Reply | Photos
at 15:48 11 Jan 2013
Anyone remember this? |
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Reply | One of the, darkest days in English football has it reached its final conclusion
at 23:12 11 Sep 2012
I think this is a simple one to answer.
We are trying to by influence rather than gain it through the projection of force.
It won't be written down anywhere but I would assume that Whitehall mandarins are taking a gamble that money buys loyalty and as we don't seem inclined to maintain our Armed Forces to the required standard it is not much use trying to forge loyalties in the old fashioned way, via armed support.
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Reply | One of the, darkest days in English football has it reached its final conclusion
at 22:53 10 Sep 2012
I'm not sure I agree with your points.
Whilst the railways might be seen as a monopoly, they clearly can be run by the private sector, indeed the private sector built them. The question is whether there is any merit in having the private sector do a job if it can be done more cheaply in the public sector? I'm not sure there is.
As for corporate welfare, I think that is more of an American import than anything to do with government. Clearly a degree of mutual back-scratching goes on between those in power and those with vested interests.
You might call it corruption but then again any of us might also use similar tactics in our daily jobs, the difference being that, in that instance , you would call it networking rather than corruption.
I suspect somebody with Richard Branson's acumen would contribute to the coffers of the government of the day rather than a political party. He seems more pragmatic than political, and although he backed the Tories at the last election he has frequently criticised them since. |
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Reply | One of the, darkest days in English football has it reached its final conclusion
at 20:05 10 Sep 2012
Pretty much disagree with everything BannedForever has said so far.
Well those bits I could decipher.
I have never agreed with the government propping up national industries and losing money in the process; I didn't see the point in maintaining a coal industry when it could be imported cheaper than it could be mined (other than the obvious ethical issue).
However there is something in that post about the rail industry.
I don't know whether the figures are correct but I have certainly heard elsewhere that the privatised rail industry costs us more than than the nationalised industry did (in current financial worth). This is the only instance where I could be convinced that there is any merit in a nationalised industry. We can't do without a rail network, if we need to pay for it why not do it in such a way that the country benefits, rather than shareholders and overpaid executives? |
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Reply | official site still shite
at 18:14 5 Sep 2012
I can't believe the new site hasn't been taken down yet.
Traffic must have gone through the floor. I don't have the patience to deal with this utter shite.
Surely when the new sites start hitting club's online earnings via the shop something will have to be done about it.
I assume somebody monitors traffic to the site, and it must be down. I used to be a regular visitor and these days just use this site, bbc and sky sports.
The company that designed this pile of shite must bear the responsibility for this. And this is one of those few occasions where the data won't lie!
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Reply | Fans' Forum Bingo
at 00:38 9 Aug 2012
These are good ideas, problem is I suspect with the way the economy is at the minute we just couldn't sell the advertising space.
The shopping bags might be too small an audience for anyone to take a punt on and I suspect we just couldn't sell as many spots on the team sheet as bury.
The folk of bury have probably got more to spend than the folk of Rochdale, or at least an advertiser would see it like that.
Lets face it to an outsider The Rock is far more impressive than our crappy town centre! |
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Reply | Fans' Forum Bingo
at 01:10 8 Aug 2012
Separate shampoo and conditioner or combined? |
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