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Sack McNulty
at 17:57 24 Feb 2025

24th Feb - I am happy to stick with Big Jim (for now) and see how the next few weeks play out.

Lose on Saturday with NO shots that the keeper has to save and I might change my mind on Sunday 02nd March.

I am sure Big Jim will know its a results business.. More than anything clear the minds of the players.. reset and go on Saturday knowing its win or bust.

Two wins in the next 6 days puts us back on the rails at least.

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Sack McNulty
at 17:49 24 Feb 2025

Yes and the answer is goals..

Score 2+ goals a game and have a strong no nonsense pairing at centre half.

Pace on the wings helps..

Plus a direction of travel that is predominately forward... and positive.

Get the ball quickly into channels with willing runners who can cross a ball into forwards who are hungry to pop the ball into the net.

Stockport / Wrexham and Chesterfield all had a we will outscore you mentality and it showed on the pitch and it showed in the league table after 46 games.

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Toilet Gate
at 15:33 20 Feb 2025

It was more than that…

Ripping the seat from the toilet in the first instance causing damage that now the club will have to pay to repair.

Unless the person woke up this morning and in embarrassment has returned to the Shay to apologise and refit / clear up his damage. Thing is they would not have the guts or the realisation what they did to go and do this.

Yes this was Macclesfield part 2.

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Match thread Halifax Town
at 14:20 20 Feb 2025

Our shooting is woeful..

I saw one insipid soft header (Mitchell) on target second half straight into the keepers arms.

No other keeper save. It was either..

1. Shots blazed over the bar (by impressive distance)

Or

2. Shots hitting defenders legs.

Part of the problem is we are tortoise like in transition allowing opponents to easily get back and defend deep in numbers.

Halifax keeper had not one meaningful save to make all night. Do the players reflect and actually work on hitting the ball with purpose between the goals on target as yet another game slips by.

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Toilet Gate
at 12:54 20 Feb 2025

Idiotic and shameful.

Don’t come back to any Dale game YOU are an absolute disgrace to the club and yourself TBH.

How come this element of scrote has leeched its way onto Dale.

Hopefully the perpetrators will be identified / named and shamed and then banned for life.

Tools of the highest order.

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Match thread Halifax Town
at 07:10 20 Feb 2025

16 league games this season when we have scored 1 or less goals.

Astonishing!!

Hendo the shining light last night how he is only being deployed in this 5 minute cameo role beggars belief.

Halifax not great…. Dale no better.!

Goals = playoffs not X stats.

Barnet have SCORED 66 - Dale 27 less…

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The race for seventh, midweek 18th/19th Feb
at 15:34 19 Feb 2025

James ……..

A few times you have posted this seasons target was 7th or higher. In other words a play off place.

Where have you seen this because I cannot remember this being a thing set out by the club or the team management.

I may have missed .. I am curious.

Whilst this will be an improvement on 23/24 it’s a funny target to set 7th place.

I hope we get on the front foot tonight BTW right from kick off and for 90 minutes plus..

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The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 14:52 17 Feb 2025

Win this and 90 minutes from a Wembley final.

Agreed a marketing dream that will be played out in under 2 weeks time.

I am sure the club will go into overdrive this week with its promotion of the game and its importance...

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The race for 7th (Saturday 15th Feb)
at 06:21 14 Feb 2025

In the race for 7th spot the following fixtures take place tomorrow.

What price an away day win Double for Dale Saturday / Wednesday! Up The Dale

Southend V Dale

Gateshead v Altrincham

Halifax v Boston

Hartlepool v Maidenhead

Barnet v Solihull Moors

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Leadership team
at 18:04 13 Feb 2025

Got to be a good thing...

Now for the difficult bit... actually moving the club forward..

Good Luck to all involved.

Edit. 12 supporters comment on the biggest off field news in a long time. Has apathy really set in this deep?

I guess this shows the most important thing is what happens on the pitch any given match day. Always has been always will be.

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Pitch covers
at 14:03 9 Feb 2025

Agree 100% and alluded too on another thread.

Would like to see the manufacturers instructions for the best storage conditions for maximum shelf life.

If they have been there since the Oldham game that is another CBA job to add to the list.

If taken off on the day around midday I can just about accept why they are left where they are.

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Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 10:18 9 Feb 2025

Jim is going nowhere and that’s a worry after the borefest of yesterday.

To cautious and sooooo slow in the build up from the back. Yesterday both East and Gilmour holding hands close to the edge of our own box.

Waller and Hogan (take your pick) both guilty of the ultra safe short ball when TAR was 35 yards further advanced, in space and would have been a more positive ball forward.

When we do some nice stuff we don’t shoot.

When we fizz the ball across the goal line it’s aimless as we never have a forward anticipating the tap in opportunity.

Give the players 3 days off I say - reconvene Wednesday morning for some soul searching. Train hard Weds and Thursday and travel south On Friday. We need to freshen this up and quickly as much more will test the patience of the hardiest of Dale fan.
Bloody awful yesterday. Jim and the players all need to step up and offer so much more.

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Ebbsfleet (H) match thread
at 15:56 8 Feb 2025

HT 0-0

Ebbsfleet are bad.

Dale not much better. If they can up the tempo and be more direct (and shoot more!!) we should still win this easy enough. Dale have been slow ponderous and too negative first half..

Lacking in a leader on the pitch it’s a terrible watch so far.

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Investment in solar energy
at 09:15 7 Feb 2025

Great news indeed.

Well done to all involved - great initiative that should reap rewards down the line.

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Oldham game
at 18:14 6 Feb 2025

I actually thought we should have beaten Forest Green home and away.

Common theme is that we out footballed Forest Green over 4 halves of football and didnt score one goal. One for the analyst that one.

180 minutes could easily have had 6 points and our overall haul was 1 point and we scored NO goals.

Watch the Oldham highlights immediately followed by Forest Green home and away. Thats 270 minutes of nice and pretty but ineffective football.

Shooting is wasteful (High or wide or both) or powder puff. Simply put we just don't look hungry enough when we get on the bigger stage and our finishing reflects that.

The drill the forwards do in the warm up every pre-match is a waste of time if they will not shoot on target when they get a chance in the actual match.

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Oldham game
at 18:24 5 Feb 2025

Just watched the highlights and its shows clearly that we are not ruthless enough.

Mitchell 4th minute pulls the ball wide off target.

Good work by Dale a few mins later, ball fizzed across goal, nobody on hand to stub a toe on it.

The great run from Okeke.. skied over.

More good work in the half but no shots that actually got passed any defenders legs. Really committed defending admittedly.

Second half the only shot on target that the keeper had to "save" was Allarakhia and that was from an acute angle, TBF Tarryn did well on another day maybe it goes in.

Mitchell header flys wide again not on target.

Terrible night at the office - Cant wait to see how the players respond on Saturday now but more errant wasteful shooting will not win us many football games.

Too slow in the build up and shots not off quickly enough, that must be the reason so many efforts last night hit the legs of defenders.

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Head Steward type fella...
at 18:03 5 Feb 2025

Agree - Brilliant we have finally got rain covers.

I have a question i hope can be answered?

How should they be stored? rolled up and dumped at the side of the pitch yesterday as the groundstaff short on time (fair enough).

How do they need to be stored and where will is the best place to store them?.

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Oldham game
at 09:51 5 Feb 2025

I wouldnt say that DDB.

Play offs should and could be very different. Have we the hunger to grab that last 7th spot and take our chance? I am not convinced.

A real worry last night the performance was miles off but so was the teams body language.

Did we muster a shot in anger on target all night? I don't think we did.

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Oldham game
at 06:38 5 Feb 2025

Pretty much sums it up.

Mitchell and Rodney could do worse than watch the 90 minutes together and honestly assess there own performances v Fondop who was excellent for Oldham.

Dale started great and Mitchell has a glorious chance and doesn't even hit the target? Then lots of neat creating passing / running off the ball for the opening 7 minutes (SEVEN) after that it was 83 minutes or so of Oldham being better than Dale in the running / shooting / battling / tackling / defending aspects of the game.

Big Jim got it badly wrong, the players just seemed to stop believing and that's unacceptable.

Less said about the subs and the timing of the subs the better. Buyabu looked like a rabbit in headlights on the left hand side. The whole side looked miles off last night.. they need to come out of the traps right from the off Saturday thank goodness we get a chance in 4 days to put that horror show behind us.

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Head Steward type fella...
at 06:26 5 Feb 2025

Only fair to bookend with a comment.

Much better last night by the stewards so well done for that.

Stewarding 8/10

Dale 4/10

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