One of our most regular officials, Andy Haines, is the man in the middle for Saturday’s trip to the newly-named Montgomery Waters Meadow!
The Tyne & Wear referee will be taking take charge of his 25th Dale match, which we suspect is probably a record.
However, this is only his second away appointment in that lengthy list, with the last being the fine 4-3 win at Chesterfield in January 2008 in which David Perkins scored a hat-trick.
We last saw Andy in March at Dale’s 4-1 home defeat of Gillingham, while earlier last season he was again at the Crown Oil Arena for the 4-0 win over Walsall.
Further back in time, Mr Haines was the referee on 17th April 2010 when Dale clinched promotion from League Two with a 1-0 victory over Northampton.
The full list of Andy’s Dale matches is:
Sep 07 Rochdale v Macclesfield D 1-1
Jan 08 Chesterfield v Rochdale W 4-3
Apr 08 Rochdale v Bradford W 2-1
Sep 08 Rochdale v Chesterfield W 2-1
Apr 09 Rochdale v Port Vale W 1-0
Jul 09 Rochdale v Everton (friendly) L 1-4
Aug 09 Rochdale v Cheltenham L 0-1
Apr 10 Rochdale v Northampton W 1-0
Jul 10 Rochdale v Bolton (friendly) D 1-1
Oct 10 Rochdale v Yeovil L 0-1
Jan 11 Rochdale v Leyton Orient D 1-1
Jul 11 Rochdale v Leeds (friendly) L 0-1
Aug 11 Rochdale v Huddersfield D 2-2
Nov 11 Rochdale v Preston (JPT) D 1-1 (lost on pens)
Jul 12 Rochdale v Hull (friendly) L 0-1
Sep 12 Rochdale v Burton L 0-1
Feb 13 Rochdale v Chesterfield D 1-1
Jul 13 Rochdale v Blackburn (friendly) D 2-2
Aug 13 Rochdale v Chesterfield D 2-2
Jul 14 Rochdale v Wigan (friendly) W 2-1
Apr 15 Rochdale v Port Vale W 1-0
Jul 15 Rochdale Blackburn (h, friendly), W 2-1
Aug 15 Rochdale v Peterborough W 2-0
Nov 16 Rochdale v Walsall W 4-0
Mar 17 Rochdale v Gillingham W 4-1
So far this season he has refereed three games this term, showing 13 yellow cards and one red, that going to former Dale player Scott Wiseman in Chesterfield’s game at Notts County last Saturday.