David Webb will make the trip down from County Durham to referee Dale’s second home league game of the season against Walsall on Tuesday.
The official, who joined the league list in 2008, is taking charge of a match at Spotland for the first time since September 2013 when he refereed the 3-2 defeat of Wycombe.
However, we saw David at the final match of last season when a second half collapse at Barnsley led to a 5-0 defeat and a red card for Joe Rafferty.
In September 2012 he was in the middle at Spotland for a 2-0 win over Barnet, but prior to that David had refereed three consecutive 2-2 draws involving Dale.
That sequence started in April 2011 when he was in charge of the excellent home game against Brighton.
In October 2011 he was back at Spotland for the 2-2 draw with Colchester, while the following March, Mr Webb was in the middle when we grabbed a point from a 2-2 draw at Huddersfield.
Other Dale games refereed by David are the 2-0 home loss to Dagenham in October 2008 and the 2-1 loss at Hereford in the closing weeks of our 2009/10 promotion campaign.
The full list of Mr Webb’s Dale matches as a referee is:
Oct 08 Rochdale v Dagenham L 0-2
Apr 10 Hereford v Rochdale L 1-2
Apr 11 Rochdale v Brighton D 2-2
Oct 11 Rochdale v Colchester D 2-2
Mar 12 Huddersfield v Rochdale D 2-2
Sep 12 Rochdale v Barnet W 2-0
Sep 13 Rochdale v Wycombe W 3-2
May 15 Barnsley v Rochdale L 0-5