Another Saturday, another day of disappointment. A goalless draw at home to the Millers has done nothing to halt the campaign against manager Graham Barrow.
Another Saturday, another day of disappointment. A goalless draw at home to the Millers has done nothing to halt the campaign against manager Graham Barrow. This lead to a protest after the game with fans calling for his head.
Yawn .
First half - virtually nothing to report, bar some off target attempts from both teams, a referee from York who gave virtually everything to the Yorkshiremen (that which didn't go their way was greeted with the "referees a w****r " chant, which the Sandy Laners were warned against using because we've apparently been too rude to refs this season and we had "the camera's" on us today as a result!!!) and a couple of yellow cards for Dale players .
Second half: Mono had a chance. Millers hit a few way wide to many "oohs" from their fans which the Sandy took great delight in sarcastically copying. The ref and the management were abused in best Queen's English, and the new chant "defend, defend, defend defend defend!" arose. Good job there's still a sense of humour amongst the Dale faithful or we'd have died of boredom.
Our players: The skipper was as faultless as ever in goal. Cardie screams permiership potential. Barlow had a good day. Bayliss and Mono were as solid as ever. Farrell did OK. Stoker left to our relief - so much so that Bryson was actually cheered on! Robbie has given up again. Bruno - eee aww. Peake was sublime, Lydiate wasn't. And after two games of screaming for Holty, he didn't do much.
The most interesting part of the day was a 50 + demo outside the main stand after the game, which was quite funny. One or two people were very, very irate at the decision to keep Barrow on. Chief Executive Keith Clegg looked on with disdain, stewards and police made their presence felt. This exciting development was even reported on Ceefax!
It might have been a small protest today after one days notice - if there are any fans left next week, it should be a good 'un.
Much amusement during after match drinks, when we were picking out which of Mr. Barrow's remarks would appear in the Observer next Wednesday . The favourites (in no particular order) are:
"The players battled hard for everything","The players have to look at themselves", "We had 90 % of the posession".
And it looks like the lowest away following ever is to hit Cambridge on Tuesday. 2 Dale goals in 9 games (810 minutes of football ) show why it is absolutely the right thing to do keeping the B&H team on. One win in 9 is top stuff isn't it Graham? You have to laugh or you'd go as bananas as Barrow has.
Today's team: Edwards, Carden, Barlow, Bayliss, Monington, Farrell, Stoker (Bryson ), Painter, Morris ( Holt ), Peake, Lydiate.
Sub not used: Priestley
Attendance: 2516 (so much for the millers bringing 2000 eh ?)