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Reply | The race for seventh, midweek 18th/19th Feb
at 21:57 18 Feb 2025
Ninth tonight after the final whistles but down to 11th at one stage.
Seven points off a playoff place but with a minimum of four games in hand on everyone above and five games on some. |
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Reply | Leadership team
at 20:19 17 Feb 2025
Good news and evidence that the foundations are being put in place for a sustainable business with a clear plan.
I might have been tempted to add another position, that of a person with an accountancy background as Financial Controller with the brief to scrutinise every penny going out and every penny of revenue and to have a holistic approach to procurement.
The rump of the old board should be non-executive directors at best. |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 20:06 17 Feb 2025
Living in Calderdale I see quite a few Halifax fans on a regular basis.
Despite their league position the consensus is that their home form is mediocre at best.
They’re in the top seven mainly courtesy of a good away record. They looked a decent team at Spotland in October.
The last three home games have seen wins over Boston (1-0), and Ebbsfleet (2-0) with a 2-1 defeat to AFC Fylde sandwiched in between which isn’t too bad on the face of it though.
They tend to blame three factors - the pitch, an over cautious manager and a lack of atmosphere (the average attendance since the New Year is a tad over 1500).
The opinion is that any team which is well drilled with a compact defence will stifle the home team.
Unless they have managed to get onto the pitch to roll it and do some other remedial work this week it will be extremely bald and bumpy.
Hopefully BJ and his staff will have done their homework and plan accordingly. |
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Thread | Match thread Halifax Town
at 10:55 17 Feb 2025
Given that there is a choice of sitting down the side of the pitch or standing behind the goal on Wednesday night where are people planning to watch the game from? |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 10:50 17 Feb 2025
I was thinking more of associated costs eg transport, food and drink, programme, halftime draw.
Costs which increase if you take the family. |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 10:26 17 Feb 2025
It will be interesting to how many season ticket holders have taken up the option by close of play on Wednesday. You’d like to think that most will have done so but fears about the pitch plus the cost of a forthcoming glut of fixtures may deter some people I suppose.
I go in the Sandy so the deadline doesn’t apply and I’m hoping to buy a ticket for this cup tie in person before the game this Saturday. I’ll be asking for a paper copy as I don’t trust my antiquated relic of a phone! |
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Reply | If bury were 2.0, these were 1.0
at 10:00 16 Feb 2025
I always thought it was absolutely scandalous what happened to Park Avenue. Had some good awaydays there with Dale.
Great ground (and with the cricket ground next door as well) and a decent history. You can still see traces of the old ground if you look carefully enough. |
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Reply | The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 21:17 15 Feb 2025
The Shay pitch is atrocious at the moment and the weather forecast shows rain all week.
A local journalist refers these days to Halifax playing on “home soil” but that dirt is bumpy and rutted. |
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Reply | Craig Dawson
at 20:48 14 Feb 2025
If only Carlsberg did dreams of a sentimental return to roots…. |
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Reply | Leadership team
at 17:35 12 Feb 2025
No longer Monarch of all he surveys? |
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Reply | Hendo
at 17:27 12 Feb 2025
As the saying goes, although perhaps not in the same context, “two’s company, three’s a crowd”. |
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Reply | Tonight’s games
at 15:30 12 Feb 2025
That’s the issue, I don’t think they’ve an adequate alternative kit. |
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Reply | Hendo
at 15:08 12 Feb 2025
If we started adding Lancashire Cup goals from the 1960s and 1970s then I should imagine that Big Reg’s career goal tally would increase. |
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Reply | Why Do Managers See Different?
at 20:38 11 Feb 2025
Going off comments during the game tonight is it worth giving Corey Edwards an extended run, |
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Thread | Tonight’s games
at 20:32 11 Feb 2025
Altrincham and Hartlepool both winning at the moment so Dale are down to ninth as it stands.
A minimum of three games in hand on other teams though and Hartlepool will have played five more.
Halifax also in action - drawing at Southend. |
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Reply | Pitch covers
at 10:22 10 Feb 2025
Or the saga of that pile of tyres at the Pearl St/Willbutts Lane corner.
It took ages for those to be shifted. |
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Reply | Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 19:36 9 Feb 2025
There can’t be a Plan B when the players are all clones. Small, whippet like.
No way would someone like Peter Vincenti or Calvin Andrew have got anywhere near a BBM or a BJ team.
There are times though when you need lads like to win against certain teams. |
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Reply | Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 09:49 9 Feb 2025
The Ebbsfleet manager is on their website in a video taken in a team huddle on the pitch after the game telling them how good they were and how it was their best performance for a long time.
Totally different perspective. |
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Reply | Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 22:23 8 Feb 2025
We might be able to detect if there’s a sea change in loyal support in summer when season tickets go on sale.
Many people, myself included, bought them for the first season in the NL as a gesture of solidarity after relegation and then renewed them for this season buoyed by the arrival of the Ogdens.
Would the prospect of a third season of McNultyball deter perhaps a few of the previously diehard fans?
I did something this afternoon that I’ve never done before and went into the Dale Bar at halftime mainly to try and warmup. This was immediately the whistle went and I was staggered to find that the place was packed with people who had drifted in there whilst the match was in progress. |
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