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Thread | This Forum vs Facebook
at 13:17 19 Apr 2023
It has been on my mind for good while now that in my opinion, there are many distinct differences between this forum and the Facebook page of Rochdale AFC Appreciation.
Do the majority on here look at both as I do?
I don't post or comment a lot on here but avidly read the posts and subsequent comments as I learn a lot about various issues going on at the club ( that I may have missed) and see different points of views on games / the footballing side.
The majority of the time, people's honest and often well educated opinions on here are respected, challenged, responded to, mistakes corrected, lots of witty replies (Judd does make me laugh), good banter but mainly the respect is there.
Again, IMO, the Facebook group is very much an opposite and seems to be lots of petty arguments, opinions given that are replied to as 'just wrong' and the level of intellect seems somewhat lacking.
I have always believed that people's opinions are personal and although a reply does not need to agree, one should never say it is incorrect as it is just an opinion. They should simply be respected and to use an age old phrase, 'agree to disagree'.
I have posted once on the Facebook group and got told I was wrong, shut up, sworn at and ridiculed so I only ever view it now, but it does sometimes make for frightening reading when I see what and how some people post.
It is called Rochdale AFC Appreciation but there doesn't seem to be any appreciation at all of anything. When we win the players and managers are great, when we lose it is the total opposite. Same with the current chairman who was hailed as a hero for stepping in to save the club from MH and now is the villain.
Whereas on this forum, everyone is well aware of the ups and downs of our fortune, but take a far more pragmatic viewpoint on affairs based on respect.
Just my opinion!!!! |
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Thread | Macc FC
at 13:36 13 Oct 2020
Just seen that Macc FC is going to be started with Robbie Savage as Head of Football |
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Thread | Baldy Mourinho
at 11:58 9 Mar 2020
Following Jose Mourinho’s recent public criticism of Tanguy Ndombele at Spurs, I started to think about other reasons why the chants came out for KH calling him Baldy Mourinho.
Yes he has been the most successful Rochdale Manager there has been so managerial success is a likeness to Mourinho but there are many other traits that they have in common.
Arrogance
Great success then great lows with sackings that follow
Public criticism of players
Public criticism of fans
Never their fault
Lone wolf scenario
Do you think KH took the comparisons too literally?! |
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Thread | Teams we have played in years gone by
at 12:58 25 Oct 2019
Being drawn against Wrexham got me thinking about all of the teams (over the past 34 years that I have been a Dale fan) that we used to play in the league and some now that we rarely played.
For instance Halifax, Notts County, Yeovil, Torquay, Barnet, Hartlepool, Maidstone, Stockport, Wrexham, York, Chester, Hereford, Boston, Kidderminster, Rushden and Diamonds & Darlington are all in non-league (think Rushden may not exist anymore)
Also Oldham, Swindon, Bolton, Blackpool, Bradford, Ipswich & Portsmouth were all once top division teams.
All in all I don't think we have too much to complain about residing in the 2 lower division for all this time.
I don't think I could cope with yoyo-ing up and down the leagues and then falling into non-league!
I am very proud to be a Dale fan. We are a decently run club with a small but loyal fan base so long may it continue. |
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Thread | Tackling Midfielder
at 12:04 7 Mar 2019
Just thought I'd break away from the obvious subject at the moment and see what people thought about how (in my opinion) we have lacked a tough tackling midfielder since the likes of Gary Jones, Stephen Dawson and Keith Keane were protecting the back 4 |
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Thread | Macc Manager
at 13:30 27 Nov 2018
Sol Campbell in at Macc |
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Thread | bury on GMR again
at 09:08 20 Feb 2017
Just heard on GMR - sorry, BBC Radio Manchester, that once again bury are the guests for the football phone-in hour tonight.
The guests are the apparently fantastic Stewart Day and his vision for the Championship and his new saviour, the Premier League standard Manager, Lee Clark.
Are they only on because they have won a game??
Is Day spinning his rubbish to the radio too?? |
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Thread | Day at bury
at 09:20 1 Dec 2016
Just heard part of an interview with Day at bury on BBC Radio Manchester saying that the next manager needs to bring the youth through and that his regular first team players are not guaranteed a shirt unless they can prove they are worthy to him.
Really starting to sound like he thinks he is the manager now
First class k**b |
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Thread | Maidstone Comment
at 12:31 24 Nov 2016
First time post so please be gentle!
I can't get a comment that I saw on the Maidstone chat site out of my head when the draw for the 1st round of the FA Cup was being made and they found out they were getting us.
The comment was along the lines of "what the hell are Rochdale doing near the top of League 1 and the Championship?!!!"
I thought cheeky gits, we deserve it. Wasn't happy at all with the poster.
Over the past 30 years most teams have moved around apart from the main stays in the old 1st division (now prem league).
Swindon - used to be in top league and managed by Hoddle
Oxford - I remember putting Panini stickers of the team in a book in the mid 80s when they were in the 1st div!
Yeovil - they were giant killers in the cup from non-league
Sheffield United, Bolton and Wigan in the Prem
Doncaster in the championship
I could go on and on.
Ahh feels better now I've got that off my chest! |
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