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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.

[Post edited 5 Feb 9:44]

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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

[Post edited 5 Feb 6:26]

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Head Steward type fella...
at 15:44 4 Feb 2025

If the game goes ahead tonight please can you make sure that all the Oldham fans are in their seats not swarming around at the bottom by the perimeter wall.

Its basic stewarding any less is not acceptable especially after the last 2 Oldham visits.

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Oldham game
at 15:42 4 Feb 2025

Looks like the rain has eased and its due to stop completely by 4.30pm.

That's over 3 hours to carefully remove the covers and do some final prep on the pitch..

Carefully removed as the last thing we want is all that water on top to be allowed to seep into the problematic area in the corner of the main stand.

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Oldham game
at 15:38 4 Feb 2025

Go and read that out in the dressing room!!

Excellent post.

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FA Trophy 5th Rd.. Worthing v Rochdale Match thread
at 17:56 3 Feb 2025

Great tie... at Spotland.

Looking forward to it.

The Spotland Marketing machine to slip into 6th gear overdrive.....

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The voice of the fan in the boardroom
at 13:42 30 Jan 2025

Murray really nice bloke / good intentions.

The role though should be time bound for one season.

It’s all a bit comfortable now and it’s time to elect the next Trust member who would like the role.

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Boston Match Thread
at 13:08 29 Jan 2025

Firstly an apology to Boston, The players and team management, the club officials and the supporters. Yesterday was a new low.

The original fixture was postponed after mild temperatures and hardly any rain. I did not think it could get any worse than the original postponement and then I hear the news at 6pm last night (In disbelief) driving to Spotland.

The club needs to find the immediate short term solution and fast. Yes it might cost but what is the alternative?. Get to season end and then do the pitch renovations and drainage properly and that might be very expensive.

A real test for Cameron Ogden.

This was a total Shambles right from the moment no pitch inspection was tweeted.

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Hornets beaten by Widnes
at 13:49 27 Jan 2025

BBC Weather Rochdale…

They have not been very accurate over the last 48 hours TBF and it’s currently glorious in Rochdale with blue sky and bright sunshine.

Hoping for the best after the mood boosting win on Saturday.

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Hornets beaten by Widnes
at 11:48 27 Jan 2025

Much dryer than forecast yesterday so the pitch should have held up ok.

Currently much dryer Monday than forecast with pockets of blue sky over Spotland and a stiff breeze.

It’s the 30 hours of bad weather forecast from 4pm Monday up to kick off that will decide if we play or not.

Can the forecast be wrong for 3 consecutive days?

Of course the groundstaff might have covered the pitch but we don’t have the correct type of cover to help.

I am not holding out much hope tbh but fingers crossed.

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Yeovil podcast
at 11:08 26 Jan 2025

Oh yes!!!

How about a league game?

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Pitch update
at 10:59 26 Jan 2025

Thought the pitch held up pretty well yesterday.

Some heavy rain forecast and a game of rugby this afternoon not ideal. It will be a busy 3 days for the ground staff to maximise our chance of getting Tuesday nights game on!.

Massive chance to register 2 wins in 4 days to finally leapfrog Oldham.

Realistically this was always on the cards.

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Yeovil podcast
at 10:52 26 Jan 2025

Best 45 minutes of football since we played Woking at home earlier this season.

The two lads on the left an absolute breath of fresh air.

Big Jim got his tactics spot on - this is the football that will get a fair few absentees back to Spotland on a match day.

It would be great to firstly get the game on this Tuesday and then as importantly carry on as we left off.

4 goals in one half when was the last time we did that??

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Pitch update
at 09:29 25 Jan 2025

It’s currently snowing now at Spotland

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Forest Green away thread
at 10:33 18 Jan 2025

Come on Dale big performance required today.

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Pitch update
at 11:44 13 Jan 2025

I would not want to move from Spotland BUT if we got a new Chesterfield or York scenario i could see the benefit.

No to a merger though (been mooted for at least 25 years) Manchester North End?.

The club needs to get the drains and the pitch sorted once and for all. When the drains are sorted a ride on water hog would also be a good investment one that can take all surface water off the pitch when it really teams down. Below removes 6000 gallons an hour OFF the playing surface and then you water cannon it down a drain of your choice.

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York Match
at 11:37 10 Jan 2025

6 degrees during the day Monday Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

Plenty of time to work on the pitch to get the game on.

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