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Reply | Match Thread: Sunderland v Dale
at 22:02 11 Feb 2020
Yeah, there's an agenda - I come on here and criticise our manager and players, whoever they be, when I think they're getting it wrong. As they did tonight. I thought all (normal) fans did this.
It's really under-hand to suggest I have other motives. Please PM me and enlighten me as to why you think this is. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Sunderland v Dale
at 20:11 11 Feb 2020
I just don't get the unnecessary hostile reaction, Mr Debater, to someone putting up his viewpont here - isn't it what the forum is for? - especially when, sadly, I appear to be spot-on this evening. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Sunderland v Dale
at 19:24 11 Feb 2020
Busy night for the defence and midfield, I fear. No target/hold up striker, again, hence the ball will keep on coming back.
Good sides can attack en masse, of course, but only if they've got midfielders who can run with the ball and create overloads - can't see Done, Morley, Dooley and Ryan doing that.
There's a half-decent team in that Dale squad, employing the right tactics. They play with heart and effort, this lot, but they have to battle their way through BBM's daft decisions. |
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Reply | Leeds fans at FA Youth cup game.
at 17:15 7 Feb 2020
How sad is this - multi-generational gathering in the name of hating another team.
How many of them were at the youth team game before this one, and the one afterwards? |
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Reply | Sanchez
at 15:09 2 Feb 2020
He did indeed have a great game yesterday, near-faultless
It's important, however, to maintain perspective. He has been poor occasionally this season and cost us unnecessary goals. He also needs to work on his distribution.
This will have been noted by Brighton and clubs potentially interested in signing him, which might mean he's not entirely out of our bracket. |
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Reply | Not good enough
at 10:38 29 Jan 2020
Within the squad we have just enough ability to stay up, should BBM pick the right team and deploy tactics that suit said team.
Sadly he's showing no signs of doing the above and has stuck to his failing 'plan' for months now.
I'm incredulous that anyone still believes he will create a winning team playing attacking football, which is something we all want. Other managers with similar budgets and injury lists manage it.
He might have been a decent NumberThree (behind Hill and Beech) with his obvious intelligence and diplomacy but he's clearly not management material.
I wonder about Lee Riley, too. He did not make it as a pro himself and apart from looking after junior sides, has precious little senior experience. A more seasoned assistant might have given BBM at least a fighting chance.
It's great that the Board has been bold and trusted two untried individuals but it takes another bold move to accept it's not worked and move on. |
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Reply | Match Thread: MK Dons vs Dale
at 19:17 28 Jan 2020
Brian Barry-Stubborn.
Starts again without a big fella upfront, despite previous matches showing we desperately need a focus for our attacks.
Starts with (great goal-aside on Saturday) out of form, Stephen Dooley.
Starts with never-will-be-in form, MJ Williams.
And I bet we muck about with it again at the back, causing no end of problems.
Prediction: we struggle until he makes the substitutions/tactical changes with which we should start games.
Hope I'm wrong, of course, and that we play well and win. |
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Reply | Match Thread - Wycombe Away
at 18:08 18 Jan 2020
Nope, I wasn't at the match but in all the games I've watched this season, which is most of them, we've tended to sit back and try to hold a lead rather than 'bomb forward' and seek more goals.
If we've suddenly developed a new, enterprising policy, I'm delighted. Fortune favours the brave. Usually, if not today.
And no need for the offensive language. |
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Reply | Match Thread - Wycombe Away
at 17:29 18 Jan 2020
Much the same as the timid 'beaten before we start' mindset we showed at Newcastle, conceding late goals is largely a psychological issue.
Good teams, whatever the score and whatever the stage of the match, push on and play progressively in search of another goal.
Poor teams, above all else, consolidate and retreat further back because they do not believe in themselves enough to hold on to a draw or extend a lead. As we all know, this invariably leads to the very thing they are trying most to avoid - conceding a goal.
It is a manager's job or someone he specifically delegates to instill self-belief and encourage a more positive outlook. Clearly, BBM isn't very good as this as it happens again and again. |
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Reply | Tue 22nd October 2019
at 17:01 9 Jan 2020
It's not hard to find. And it's not as if it's a minor issue (two home wins in 11).
I've enjoyed this week as much as anyone.
Don't see what's so offensive in me wanting more of it and suggesting how it might be achieved, two days before we resume our league programme. |
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Reply | Tue 22nd October 2019
at 16:20 9 Jan 2020
Our home league form is abysmal: two wins in 11 matches.
The cup run is fantastic and enjoyed by all but it mustn't kid anyone that we don't have serious problems at Spotland.
Playing more progressively - with strikers in the starting 11 and a few less holding midfielders - might help. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Burton away
at 17:07 21 Dec 2019
I agree none of them are world-beaters, to say the least, but picking them at least shows an intention to attack rather than contain, hold, and get a sneaky 1-0, at best.
He'd rather fill his team with holding midfielders. So, sadly, what happened today and most other Saturdays this season is set to continue. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Burton away
at 16:55 21 Dec 2019
He's got FIVE strikers on the bench - Wilbraham, Andrew, Gillam, Tavares and Baah.
He doesn't play them because he believes in defensive sideways football. Surely we all know that by now. |
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Reply | Match Thread: Burton away
at 16:21 21 Dec 2019
Pyke, Williams, Ryan and Done (on this season's form) are among the worst players to wear a Dale shirt for the last 20 years. BBM picks them ahead of better players, regardless of injuries. Can't blame the board for that. |
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Reply | Hill Ranting Again
at 12:26 8 Dec 2019
Of course he wants to move on and forget it, what manager wouldn't after overseeing such a debacle?
It's disturbing that he can't see why anyone would think any differently from him. Psychiatrists have a term for this. |
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Reply | Boston (H) - Match Thread
at 18:08 1 Dec 2019
BBM has 'built' a team without talent, heart, energy, intent, intelligence and a discernible plan. This is nothing to do with what funds he has at his disposal, as Boston proved today. On every single facet of team-play they exceeded us.
BBM is proving himself as stubborn and inept as the bloke he replaced but, unlike his predecessor, he does not have two promotions to show he has some managerial nous, albeit sporadically.
He needs to go now. The after-shock of a new manager coming in might keep us in the FA Cup and fire us up as we go into the Christmas league games. Otherwise, folks, is more of the same. |
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Reply | Removal of the current CEO
at 10:17 27 Nov 2019
The near-forensic examination of what is going on at Dale right now is exactly what is needed, post-Bury.
We need to be fully cognisant of David Bottomley's background and modus operandi and, more to the point, his motives in placing himself at the epicentre of the club in just a couple of years.
Also, while we're at it, we need to know why Chris Dunphy left in such a hurry and to form a profile of the new incumbent, Andrew Kilpatrick, of whom so little of us know.
In years gone by, we had the the great Les Barlow at the Rochdale Observer to do this digging on our behalf. These days, the local media does not have the resources so we must do it ourselves.
In short, Trust members, fellow Daleys, don't let this one drop. |
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Reply | What a dreary season it’s been
at 12:21 26 Nov 2019
It as good as negates the whole point of this forum if, every time anyone dares criticise the manager or players, posters trot out the routine line about how we lucky we are to have a football club, it could be so much worse etc. What has happened at Bury and Bolton has added to this fatalistic acceptance/paranoia.
We all know and appreciate the constraints on how the club is run but what has that got to do with playing a right back at left back (Keohane); a 6ft 4ins centre-forward (Wilbraham) on the wing; clogging up the team with holding midfielders and the whole team playing so negatively?
And, btw, almost every club in the division has a spate of injures right now. I'd argue, Rathbone aside, that most of our lot are interchangeable and there is no significant weakening of the team. |
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