Welcome to RochdaleAFC.com v.7

As you can see, we've moved. We've left the old League Two website, and go ourselves a brand spanking new look website to celebrate life in League One. We like it, and we hope you do too. We reckon this place is a million times better than the old gaff, and whilst it'll no doubt take a day or two to get used to it, the move is most certainly worth it.

Amongst other things, we reckon the advantages of the move are:

 

• whole new Dale stats section (will become apparent when the season starts)
• Dale blogs facility
• easier to post links on the messageboard
• easier to post images on the messageboard
• the ability to stick youtube clips into messageboard postings
• more messages per thread page
• the ability to customise the forum to the way you want it (4 options available)
• massively improved PM system (ie it actually works)
• new look Dale newsfeed
• special new Dale videowall
• player profiles linking to stories regarding that player
• easier to search the site for specific stories
• faster server hosting the site
• next game / last game displayed on front page (currently displaying WC info)
• the time actually works on the messageboard
• the League tables work and have us down as being in League One.

There are other advantages from my own point of view, such as being able to add stories to the site from my phone, plans for new sites to come aboard the network, and a flexibility for future improvements that wasn't there previously. If all things being well, all the stories from the old site should have been transferred over though it hasn't be possible to do the same with the messageboard due to Data Protection stuff. That said, we've brought a few posts over just to fill the place up, ensuring current topics can be continued.

 

We fully accept that based on past experience, there will be some out there who hate the new look site and can't work out why the need to change. Well we hope that the improvements go some way to easing your transition, and we'll point out the barrage of criticism that accompanied our move away from Rivals into the old place. If you hate this place so much, give it a couple of months and see whether you still feel the same. Maybe things were better off in the old Alternative Dale website days, and do I win £5?

It was questionable anyway just what future there was remaining for Club Fanzine, with pretty much all of the editors jumping ship to launch this new network. Squatters rights don't exist on the web, and there was the very real threat of having the plug pulled at any time.

The one downside of the switch is the need to re-register on the messageboard, but by our calculations it takes less than a minute to register for the forum which is less time than it takes to realise why we aren't listed in any League Two lists any more. Any problems with registering, please email to colcav@hotmail.com and we'll see what we can sort out. The new place has been tested to death but as with anything, there may be the odd teething problem here or there.

There's hopefully more still to come but aside from all of that, it'll still be the same old same old, just with less visiting Bury supporters for some unknown reason. Except for when they celebrate their annual title win in September. It might take a few days for the redirect on RochdaleAFC.com to kick in, so add the site to your favourites now to save yourself going through the old site as you've forgot we've moved.

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