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Thread | Why Do Managers See Different?
at 16:58 5 Feb 2025
Over many years of watching Dale, I've often stood on the terraces and wondered if our manager is watching a different game to me. I first started to notice it when Graham Barrow was manager but last night I stood on Sandy Lane and shook my head in disbelief at some of the things I was watching and wondered how JM didn't see the same things as me.
Practically every fan around me was in disbelief that Devonte Rodney played 86 minutes for example. Why didn't our manager see he was offering nothing and practically giving the ball away every time he got it? Harvey Gilmour was the same. He lost possession every time he tried a forward pass, he was outmuscled constantly and yet he played all game.
We continued to hoof the ball upfield towards Kairo Mitchell, yet at no stage did we give him any support or play a second striker. What did we expect him to do? There is no point him flicking it on, he's upfront on his own ffs. If that is our only form of attack, which it clearly was, get somebody around him and try to play off the second ball. Even when Hendo came on, he didn't play as a striker, he played as number 10 and so nothing changed.
No Plan B whatsoever but it just frustrates me when our manager sees things so differently to the fans on the terraces. |
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Thread | Mount Rushmore
at 14:37 17 Nov 2024
If you could put any four individuals from the club's history into a Dale themed Mount Rushmore, who would it be and why?
Only condition of entry is a link to the club in some form.
I'll start off with:
Ian Henderson
Gary Jones
David Kilpatrick
Keith Hill
DFK over Fred Ratcliffe as he was before my time, as was the likes of Reg Jenkins.
The rest should be self explanatory. |
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Thread | Scott Quigley - Explain
at 17:12 2 Jan 2023
I don't get to see many matches live, but I've taken in Doncaster and Barrow in recent days.
Can somebody explain what Scott Quigley offers our team and quite how he's managed 180+ minutes in these fixtures?
For me, his workrate is appalling, he fails to hold the ball up and offer any of the attributes of the proverbial target man. He gives the ball away continously and is forever arguing with the referee and throwing his arms out. Perhaps if he wasn't so inept, he'd challenge for headers infront of his marker and stop fouling him.
Calvin hasn't played for us for a few years, but I'd rather have him upfront now than Quigley. |
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Thread | Atmosphere
at 15:41 11 Aug 2022
I feel as though the lads responsible for trying to get the atmosphere going in The Sandy Lane deserve their own thread.
Tuesday was my first game of the season and despite only 1400 home fans, they kept the noise levels and positivity going and they deserve credit for that. People and fans are quick to moan, so give them the credit the deserve when something good happens.
Keep it up lads, us oldies appreciate the singing and improved atmosphere.
Can the club help in any way? Music choices just before kick off, same again at half time and full time if the result goes our way. Just a thought and may already have happened, if not reach out to them as it can be a combined effort to improve atmosphere.
Moggy would have been proud. [Post edited 11 Aug 2022 15:45]
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Thread | Club Shares
at 21:11 12 Oct 2021
If any supporters reading this thread wish to buy shares and are unsure how to do it, you can e-mail shares@rochdaleafc.co.uk and the club will supply you with an application form.
All new shares will be approved by The Board of Directors. |
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Thread | David Kilpatrick Funeral
at 14:21 4 Oct 2021
The funeral of our former Chairman will take place at 12.15pm on Tuesday 12th October at St Andrews Church in Dearnley. The cortege will then pass Spotland at 2pm and pause outside Main Reception on the way to a family-only committal at the crematorium.
Mr Kilpatrick's family would dearly love to see Dale supporters in attendance at the church and also at the wake at Spotland afterwards. |
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Thread | Scoreboard Update
at 10:17 19 Jul 2021
Work will begin on Wednesday to install the new scoreboard. It will now be located at an angle in the corner of Willbutts Lane / Pearl Street, meaning more fans will be able to see it. The club will provide photographs of the installment once the groundwork has been completed. Suppliers Scanlite do not currently have any further scoreboards available, so we will monitor this when the season gets underway.
David Clough's statue will arrive at Spotland on the week commencing 2nd August and it will be placed in The Main Stand. Thank you to all the fans who made donations to make it possible, everybody who knew David well will shed a tear when it arrives. |
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Thread | Rochdale AFC Superfan
at 15:57 8 Feb 2021
This article was written by QPR fan Matt Dickenson of The Times and is a beautiful piece about what your local football club can mean to one man.
David Clough adored Rochdale — now they will immortalise him in bronze
The lifelong fan raised £400,000 for the club and left them his entire estate last year — to be spent on the supporters, not a new striker
According to those who knew David Clough, the idea of a bronze statue immortalising him in his flat cap and thick glasses would have horrified a modest man. He was the last to seek recognition
Salt of the earth? Clough was the very definition of the phrase as he cycled home from work at the local bakery and, most familiarly, did his rounds selling scratchcards and collecting weekly draw tickets for his beloved Rochdale AFC.
“David collected money for the club virtually every waking hour, supported by his dearly loved wife, Dorothy, who took care of the paperwork, and counted t’brass,” the club noted of their most devoted supporter. “Many fans will remember seeing him on the streets of Littleborough on his bike, completely wet through, dutifully collecting 50p here and there for his beloved club, with a smile and a profanity.”
Without the likes of Clough, lower league football clubs would wither. He was a real-life version of Gordon Ottershaw in Ripping Yarns; obsessed by Barnstoneworth United, even after six years without a win; teaching his son (first name Barnstoneworth, middle name United) to recite the great teams off by heart; hurling pot plants through the window in despair at another loss.
Clough was a lifelong Dale fan who witnessed the club’s only three promotions, from their first in 1969, living on the same street as record scorer Reg Jenkins. He took up helping with the Goldbond cash draw and scratchcards, selling hundreds of them weekly and dutifully amassing the coins from his collection rounds.
He could not drive so everything had to be done by bike, which he carried out, unfailingly in all weathers, for almost 30 years. By the time Clough died last June, aged 78, it was estimated that he had single-handedly raised more than £400,000 for Rochdale. Pretty astonishing, but there was more.
Clough and his wife had not been able to have children – “they fostered, which tells you what sort of people they were,” Richard Wild, a close friend, explains – so he left his entire estate to Rochdale. Almost £250,000, it turned out.
Wild, a Championship assistant referee who befriended Clough when he was also working on the club’s fundraising, is one of the executors of his will. He was by Clough’s side when he passed away in a nursing home.
“David said that he didn’t want the money going on a centre forward who would disappear after a couple of years,” Wild says. “He wanted it spent on something to benefit the fans, something he would always be able to look down on and see.”
A new electronic scoreboard at Spotland Stadium, now the Crown Oil Arena, is already in the planning and there are discussions about other ways to upgrade supporters’ facilities that are hard to maintain at a League One club badly hit by the pandemic. Clough’s devotion and generosity will make a lasting difference.
Then came the idea for a statue. Another fan, Mark Cryer, who never met Clough, heard about the bequeathal and thought it was only appropriate to mark Clough’s loyalty.
The notion of a statue was taken from Valencia, who commissioned a lifelike bronze of Vicente Navarro Aparicio and erected it in the fan’s seat at the Mestalla. Aparicio had continued to watch matches despite losing his sight, and there are plenty of parallels with Clough.
One of his last games supporting his beloved Dale was an emotional afternoon in May 2018 when they were saved from relegation by Joe Thompson, who had twice recovered from cancer and then scored the winning goal. Clough was at the match in a wheelchair, blind after a stroke.
“We were commentating for him, screaming our heads off when Joe Thompson scored that goal to save us,” Wild says. “At the final whistle, knowing we were safe, David burst into tears.” He would enjoy one more game, a home win over Accrington Stanley, before passing away.
An initial target of £2,500 to build a statue was quickly passed – a decent version will cost several times that – and the total is climbing towards £6,000, helped by donations from fans of other clubs who have been touched by Clough’s story.
The statue will sit in Clough’s seat in the main stand, where he enjoyed his passion of supporting the Dale through thick and thin. “Hopefully it will be just as he was, with his flat cap and those thick glasses,” Wild says. “He won’t mind me saying he was a quirky looking chap but he was the most wonderful, down-to-earth man you could meet.
“He would have hated all this attention, not his style at all, but it’s great that fans not just from Rochdale but other clubs think he is worthy of this recognition. The world would be a much better place if there were more David Cloughs. We miss him dearly. He would have been 79 on Thursday.” His voice cracks a little as he says it.
To donate visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/davidclough
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Thread | Cloughie's Statue
at 17:48 5 Feb 2021
Could I request the help of fellow fans to help us reach our target of £10,000 for Cloughie's statue? The appeal has today had four donations from Newport fans (there may be more but some are anonymous), purely and simply because a thread appeared on their messageboard. It got me thinking, that the more forums we can post a thread on, the more donations we will get.
I would therefore kindly ask that if you are a member of other team's forums, that you copy and paste the article from Matt Dickinson of The Times (at bottom of this message) along with a link to the Just Giving page. It is such a heart-warming story, that you can see from the reaction of Newport supporters, that other fans will donate if they get to hear about it.
If you are able to add a thread on another forum, please let us know on here and we can then tick that particular club off. It just saves the people behind the campaign registering on all the different forums if some Dale fans are already contributing and have usernames.
Thank you kindly.
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David Clough adored Rochdale — now they will immortalise him in bronze.
The lifelong fan raised £400,000 for the club and left them his entire estate last year — to be spent on the supporters, not a new striker
According to those who knew David Clough, the idea of a bronze statue immortalising him in his flat cap and thick glasses would have horrified a modest man. He was the last to seek recognition
Salt of the earth? Clough was the very definition of the phrase as he cycled home from work at the local bakery and, most familiarly, did his rounds selling scratchcards and collecting weekly draw tickets for his beloved Rochdale AFC.
“David collected money for the club virtually every waking hour, supported by his dearly loved wife, Dorothy, who took care of the paperwork, and counted t’brass,” the club noted of their most devoted supporter. “Many fans will remember seeing him on the streets of Littleborough on his bike, completely wet through, dutifully collecting 50p here and there for his beloved club, with a smile and a profanity.”
Without the likes of Clough, lower league football clubs would wither. He was a real-life version of Gordon Ottershaw in Ripping Yarns; obsessed by Barnstoneworth United, even after six years without a win; teaching his son (first name Barnstoneworth, middle name United) to recite the great teams off by heart; hurling pot plants through the window in despair at another loss.
Clough was a lifelong Dale fan who witnessed the club’s only three promotions, from their first in 1969, living on the same street as record scorer Reg Jenkins. He took up helping with the Goldbond cash draw and scratchcards, selling hundreds of them weekly and dutifully amassing the coins from his collection rounds.
He could not drive so everything had to be done by bike, which he carried out, unfailingly in all weathers, for almost 30 years. By the time Clough died last June, aged 78, it was estimated that he had single-handedly raised more than £400,000 for Rochdale. Pretty astonishing, but there was more.
Clough and his wife had not been able to have children – “they fostered, which tells you what sort of people they were,” Richard Wild, a close friend, explains – so he left his entire estate to Rochdale. Almost £250,000, it turned out.
Wild, a Championship assistant referee who befriended Clough when he was also working on the club’s fundraising, is one of the executors of his will. He was by Clough’s side when he passed away in a nursing home.
“David said that he didn’t want the money going on a centre forward who would disappear after a couple of years,” Wild says. “He wanted it spent on something to benefit the fans, something he would always be able to look down on and see.”
A new electronic scoreboard at Spotland Stadium, now the Crown Oil Arena, is already in the planning and there are discussions about other ways to upgrade supporters’ facilities that are hard to maintain at a League One club badly hit by the pandemic. Clough’s devotion and generosity will make a lasting difference.
Then came the idea for a statue. Another fan, Mark Cryer, who never met Clough, heard about the bequeathal and thought it was only appropriate to mark Clough’s loyalty.
The notion of a statue was taken from Valencia, who commissioned a lifelike bronze of Vicente Navarro Aparicio and erected it in the fan’s seat at the Mestalla. Aparicio had continued to watch matches despite losing his sight, and there are plenty of parallels with Clough.
One of his last games supporting his beloved Dale was an emotional afternoon in May 2018 when they were saved from relegation by Joe Thompson, who had twice recovered from cancer and then scored the winning goal. Clough was at the match in a wheelchair, blind after a stroke.
“We were commentating for him, screaming our heads off when Joe Thompson scored that goal to save us,” Wild says. “At the final whistle, knowing we were safe, David burst into tears.” He would enjoy one more game, a home win over Accrington Stanley, before passing away.
An initial target of £2,500 to build a statue was quickly passed – a decent version will cost several times that – and the total is climbing towards £6,000, helped by donations from fans of other clubs who have been touched by Clough’s story.
The statue will sit in Clough’s seat in the main stand, where he enjoyed his passion of supporting the Dale through thick and thin. “Hopefully it will be just as he was, with his flat cap and those thick glasses,” Wild says. “He won’t mind me saying he was a quirky looking chap but he was the most wonderful, down-to-earth man you could meet.
“He would have hated all this attention, not his style at all, but it’s great that fans not just from Rochdale but other clubs think he is worthy of this recognition. The world would be a much better place if there were more David Cloughs. We miss him dearly. He would have been 79 on Thursday.” His voice cracks a little as he says it.
To donate visit www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/davidclough
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Thread | Silver Shirts
at 14:11 7 Sep 2020
Rochdale Vets are now wearing the silver away kit but are short of a couple of XL shirts. Clearly the years haven't been kind as never used to wear XL lol.
Do any of you have this shirt in such a size that you'd like to sell or donate to a local team? |
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Thread | Oldham Friendly
at 14:24 25 Aug 2020
We beat Oldham today 1-0 with Baah being described as 'frighteningly good.' Matt Done played up-front all game.
'It could and should have been 5' was the other comment made. |
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Thread | David Clough Funeral
at 07:37 26 Jun 2020
It will be held at Rochdale Crem on Thursday 2nd July at 11.50am. It would be great to see Dale fans in attendance to give a club legend the send off he deserves. Wearing of club colours is welcomed. |
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