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Lets start all over again
at 14:51 30 Jan 2023

Ah me yes, I remember Manchester North End; at the time I remember saying 'As long as the merged club is called Rochdale Football Club and plays at Spotland, we accept the unconditional surrender of Oldham and Bury' which just goes to show what a smug little fecker I was back then! Although I do still believe the idea would be difficult, not to say impossible, to sell to any of the ORB axis (I was going to go with BRO but that seems at bit pally), I also understand that the idea is still attractive, especially to people like jokerthief who, after a lifetime of watching mediocre (and sometimes, like now, that's the kindest word we can use) football at the Dale, find themselves staring at the abyss that is Div 5.

I happened to mention MNE to my best mate who is a rabid City fan (and because he is my best mate, very pro-Dale), and my assertion that 'there is room in Manchester for another premiership team' makes him positively foam at the mouth with irritation. Thing is sometimes I get so fed up, as I'm sure we all do, with the aforementioned 'mediocre' football that the idea of amalgamating North Manchester talent is some way does seem alluring. But at the end of the day, I reckon the practicalities would be just too difficult to overcome; we're just going to have to live out our football lives as individual nobodies.

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