| Look at the furore... on 23:23 - Aug 23 with 1245 views | dribdrab |
That's not a bad read, proportionally there seem to be more reasonable posts on there than I would have expected. If that thread is a fair representation of their message board they seem a decent bunch.
I think there is some truth in that bigger clubs should expect to do better.
If we had 6000/7000 every week we might want to know where the money was going and why we weren't achieving more.
There are clubs that buck the trend. It was alluded to in that thread that we may be punching above our weight as a league two club. Equally the likes of Bradford and a few years back Hull linger/lingered in this division despite average gates of 10000 plus.
On the other side of the coin I recall Colchester spending a few years in the Championship despite being a club of similar size to us. I think their average gate in the Championship was probably no more than 5000 and they survived for a while (although the one Colchester fan I know believes that the only reason they were so successful was Perkins!).
I think that being a Dale fan automatically moderates your expectations.
We have no delusions of grandeur, no real past success to live up to and, lets face it , a pretty uninspiring town.
For those reasons every success we have is far sweeter, far more rewarding and far more enjoyable than many fans of 'bigger' clubs will ever appreciate.
Who'd have thought when we were promoted to League 1, and then achieved 9th place in League 1, within a very short space of time many of us would see avoiding relegation to the Conference as an achievement.
All the highs and lows that you need from football happen here, at our football club. The only difference between us and the big boys is that few people either hear about, or are interested in our highs and lows, but to us they are life and death. |  | |  |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 10:03 - Aug 24 with 1165 views | DorsetDale |
| Look at the furore... on 19:52 - Aug 23 by Dale_Pea |
The way some of their posters talk about life up here really does baffle me. I love living around the Manchester area, always plenty to do. My grandparents live down in Devon and I get bored just going there for a weekend! |
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| YOU do not have the right to give someone else permission to tell me what I can and can't do. |
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| Look at the furore... on 10:24 - Aug 24 with 1137 views | sandylaner1 |
if we had 6000/7000 crowds hilly would get us in the championship within 3 years |  | | |
| Look at the furore... on 10:58 - Aug 24 with 1109 views | dilligas |
Yeovil and scunny have proved it can be done | | | |
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