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Reply | not one for the kids - Quick Quiz
at 11:41 12 Aug 2024
I thought they only did that for Division 2 (The Champ). I have a book which is all the panini sticker albums from about 85-93. I will take a look. |
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Reply | not one for the kids - Quick Quiz
at 11:00 9 Aug 2024
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John pender charlton
Mark stuart Charlton
John hollins Chelsea
Steve Kinsey city
Paul Simpson city
Martin hodge Sheff wed
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I would have guessed all of these except Pender, who ironically was born in Luton were i now live. [Post edited 9 Aug 11:02]
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Thread | not one for the kids - Quick Quiz
at 09:37 9 Aug 2024
I stumbled upon my panini 1987 sticker album the the other day. I had a flick through it to look at Players/Managers with Dale links
Charlton has two players that would go on to play for Dale
Chelsea one person who would go on to have a Dale connection
Man city two players who would have Dale connections
Sheff Wed one player who would go onto have a Dale connection
10 bonus points to whoever can name them all.
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Reply | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 20:16 4 Aug 2024
Cheese and onion pie tips are always welcome.
Another related question…. Best pie eaten in the national league last year ? |
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Reply | Jake Burger
at 09:32 31 Jul 2024
I wonder how much input Sam Beckwith had into this signing. They both came through the Luton Ranks from an early age, so i am guessing may have played together several times.... |
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Reply | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 09:26 31 Jul 2024
Thanks for all your help guys.
On Friday night we ended up at the Moorcock Inn. Cheese and Onion Pie and Mushy peas. quite pricey i thought. Great Views out of the back of the pub.
Saturday night we ended up at the Oxford Inn. Very busy, Cheese and Onion pie and Mushy Peas (if it aint broke...). Nice walk around Whitworth Res to try and walk off the pie. |
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Reply | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 06:17 26 Jul 2024
stop press. The Mrs is thinking the Oxford followed by a nice walk around Whitworth Res with the Kids. Spent half my time walking around that Res back in the day. |
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Reply | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 06:15 26 Jul 2024
yep i thought so Mark. Remember the long winding road to get there, we used to go all the time when i was a kid back in the 80s. |
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Reply | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 19:53 25 Jul 2024
Thanks all.
Appreciate all the suggestions. Does the red lion in whitworth do food then? And the place in Tod, is that the pub known as Lumbutts?
I will get the Mrs to look into the other places
Thanks all. |
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Thread | Nice pub for Tea on Saturday evening
at 15:17 25 Jul 2024
I'm back home in Rochdale this weekend with the family. Saturday PM i said i would take the Mrs and Kids to a decent pub for some grub.
Requirements are...out of Rochdale somewhere, out on the Moors or countryside, decent grub, kids friendly, probably with 7/8 mile of Rochdale.
Any Recommendations? |
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Thread | The rest is football podcast
at 20:48 28 Jun 2024
Wolves v Rochdale in 2003 gets a mention on the podcast from a few days ago.
Episode entitled . Do players talk amongst themselves… |
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Thread | who will help a town like Rochdale
at 09:02 4 Mar 2024
Full page article in the times today about Rochdale, including a bit about the Dale although he does not seen to have got the memo about the Yanks.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/who-will-help-blighted-towns-like-rochdale-zf
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he Rochdale by-election has been turned over every which way but one. George Galloway has become the first MP since Winston Churchill to enter parliament for a fourth separate constituency. There has since been plenty of speculation about what all this means for Galloway, what it all means for the Labour Party, what it all means for Reform UK and what it all means for the general election.
Rishi Sunak even dragged the podium into Downing Street for an impromptu Friday-evening press conference to tell us what it all means for the future of democracy. But nobody seems interested in what it means for Rochdale.
Rochdale is one of my towns, if not any longer my kind of town. My father lived there for many years and long ago I wrote a novel about the place. It was a tale of good lives lived and made meaningful with embroidery, gardening and Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. It was, in fact, a nostalgic story about the good that a community provides. And truly, it did.
Rochdale was once the epicentre of a technological revolution. Innovations in spinning and weaving, and the construction in 1804 of the Rochdale Canal turned this small town on the river Roch into one of the most important centres for cotton processing in the world. By the end of the 19th century, the sounds of the woollen mills, the silk makers, the bleachers and dyers meant the town buzzed with the associated trades of textile manufacturing, just like corporate lawyers and auditors gather around the City of London. The Pennine Valley then was Silicon Valley today.
The newspapers of the 1840s conducted a debate about how unequal Britain was becoming. Was there any hope that benighted places down south could ever catch up with somewhere as dynamic as Rochdale? Reflection upon prosperity turned Rochdale into an ideas factory too. The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, created the modern co-operative movement that remains an important part of the federal Labour Party. The Rochdale Pioneers established voluntary programmes that provided affordable food and clothes in their stores, education classes, the building of houses and work for unemployed or badly paid members on land cultivated by the co-operative.
These benefits derived from the “Rochdale Principles”, devised by the Pioneers as the basis of the co-operative movement, which they remain to this day. A better orator than Sunak would surely have used the Rochdale Principles to illustrate how modern politics mocks the ambitions of those who went before. The Rochdale Principles demand that membership be open to all, that the co-operative should be subject to the democratic control that grants one person one vote, that all should be a paid a dividend in proportion to what each contributed, that the co-operative should be strictly neutral with respect to politics and religion.
That doesn’t sound much like Rochdale today. At Spotland, the home of Rochdale’s football club, the present is overwhelming the past. After many and varied troubles, Rochdale AFC, in the pioneer spirit, are owned by their fans. The trouble is that there aren’t enough of them and they don’t have any money. In the shadow of the two big Manchester clubs, Rochdale cannot compete and, on Thursday, unless a couple of million pounds has been forthcoming, 117 years of Rochdale football club may come to an end at an extraordinary general meeting.
It would be terribly sad. Towns like Rochdale need community institutions because the place is visibly struggling. The cotton industry fell victim to cheaper imports as long ago as the 1960s and the whole population can’t work in shops. There are 110,000 people in this town and I worry that too many of them seem defeated. Every time I am in Rochdale I am struck by the fact that this is a sick place, by which I mean, to lapse into the local tongue, that the people are poorly.
In the 2021 census, a fifth of all residents were recognised as disabled under the Equality Act and a fifth described themselves as not in a good state of health. A boy born in Rochdale will have about three years fewer of life expectancy than the average born Englishman. In that census, Rochdale ranked in the bottom fifth of local authorities for the health of its population.
Rochdale is also a poor place. Stand on George Street and count as ten children go by. Three of them will be growing up in a home blighted by poverty. If the gang comes from Milkstone, round the back of the railway station, five of them will. One in six of the families here struggle to keep the heating aflame and one in eight to put food on the table. The census data records Rochdale as the 15th most income-deprived place in the country. This poverty has consequences. The children of Rochdale are behind the national average on language development, reading ability and mathematics capability by the end of the foundation stage. They never catch up.
This is the point about Rochdale to which attention must be paid. Rochdale is a bi-cultural town, 74 per cent white and 19 per cent Asian and there is no question — the election of the divisive Galloway confirms and exacerbates this — that there are tensions. In the case of the Heywood sex grooming scandal, worse than tensions, much worse. But, still, it is reasonable to say that people in Rochdale can live together. The town has not been the site of race riots like Bradford and Oldham.
The core problem that Rochdale faces is not the ethnic composition that will receive too many write-ups but the fact that there isn’t enough money. In Yorkshire Street even the pound shops advertise money off. Fifteen miles away Manchester is thriving but the wealth doesn’t trickle down here. A quarter of the population are economically inactive and this bloodless phrase hides an epidemic of illnesses.
The people of Rochdale have been sounding the trumpets from the city walls. The protests pile up: Gillian Duffy to Gordon Brown, a Brexit vote over 60 per cent, the return of the fedora fool as the next MP.
Galloway has promised he will save Rochdale AFC, move Primark to the centre of town and make the market a rival to Bury. He won’t, of course. He has a historic grievance and a futile campaign to wage about a desperate conflict far away that means little or nothing to most locals. It is obvious that Galloway has nothing interesting to say about Rochdale. The trouble is that nobody else does either. |
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Reply | Podcasts
at 14:56 21 Dec 2023
There is also the Dale Way.
Ran for about 5 episodes from 21/11/2021 to 10/1/2023 |
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Reply | Paul Cook and his various voices
at 16:01 27 Sep 2023
I did a quick google, apparently is not the first time this has happened!
A few clips online are worth looking at. |
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Thread | Paul Cook and his various voices
at 09:35 27 Sep 2023
Did anyone see the post-match interview with Paul Cook last night on TNT Sports?
The guy seems to be almost bi-polar switching between various personalities mid interview. You have the gruff Scouser and then he switches to a fast high-pitched voice, then back again…
I have noticed this before with him, very strange.
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Reply | "Just a girl from Rochdale"
at 08:35 20 Aug 2023
Another dale link to todays World Cup final, is Alex greenwood. When jack O’Connell was at dale she was a regular at every home game. Very young scouse girl at the time, but sat next to Her a few times in the hospitality section, where the WAGs congregated.
Good luck to her today, I had no idea she was a footballer at the time. |
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Reply | Fixture planning
at 14:01 28 Jul 2023
That is good to hear. I did think i had not seen them for a while. Yes you cant blame them! Not been the best 3 or 4 years really! |
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Reply | Fixture planning
at 08:19 28 Jul 2023
Good point. Are they all still with us? |
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