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It's hard to compare one season to the next on attendances. For example, what you would expect to be the best attended home games v Oldham, Halifax and York, have all been Tuesday nights this season, whereas last term they were all on Saturdays.
Not sure which figures you're using, ATP, but the overall average at this season's home games (2684) is down 62 on last season's 2746.
The average number of Dale fans (2360) is down 62 on last season's 2392, yet 43 up on our relegation season and 132 up on our first season back in League Two, under Stockdale.
Obviously, with a number of home games still to come, the current figures will swing one way or the other, but that's where we are as of today.
Surely you've been watching football long enough to know that 'Former players invariably seem to score against their old clubs' is a bit of a fallacy.
Most goals come from strikers, who by dint of their position will tend to score against most opposition, whether they played for them previously or not.
Neither Rodney, Hogan or Gilmour have scored against Halifax yet in our colours, for instance.
How would we have to win all our games in hand to scrape seventh?
Other teams will also drop points, so it's impossible to say with any certainty what has to be done.
What we do have to do is win some of those games in hand, as well as at least one of the two in the league we have against Altrincham, plus some others!
The picture will be much clearer after that week when we have Gateshead, Wealdstone and Altrincham at home.
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