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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 12:25 19 Feb 2024
Saturday was eventful, and I don't think I have had more "WTF" messages from mates about BFC since 2019 than I did when that Twitter request for space on a flight went out. Possibly the most I have winced at a BFC Tweet since Steve Dale had the club's Twitter password.
Not a lot we could do about the initial flight (apparently IOM underwrite away teams going there so everyone flies on the morning of the game), but thereafter it got pretty weird all afternoon culminating in IOM accusing us of never wanting to play the game and our manager putting out a surprisingly well argued rebuttal and enhancing his own popularity significantly.
Ultimately we are a volunteer run club these days, and everything about the experience was new. Still, we managed to get everyone there and get it played against the backdrop of this morning's announcement that we are installing a 3G pitch over the summer.
Ended up winning 2-0 yesterday morning in front of about 80% of the people who had gone to IOM in the first place and went back top of the NWCL. And the IOM referred to us as "Bury AFC" throughout, which annoyed all the right people. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 13:49 29 Jan 2024
I suspect the issue is that the cretins from Saturday can be identified but there are clearly more cretins at play - the comments on the club's FB post certainly suggest that the right to act like a knob has quite a bit of support.
And TBH given where we are with various authorities at present the club has to look like it's doing something. Although when we only open one side of the ground properly, the instruction to the players is a bit ridiculous, and will presumably get ignored.
Also drinking during the game at Gigg goes all the way back to July 2023. Most people have lived without it before - I'd suggest the club suspend it for now and bring it back for the last couple of games. |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 13:15 29 Jan 2024
How do? Had a feeling this would have piqued some interest over here so thought I'd put a perspective from our side of Heywood.
Reality is we have a small, but consistent and persistent group of cretins (which will be no surprise to you) who have discovered you can spend the afternoon getting leathered relatively cheaply at NWCL level football.
Probably the second best thing about vacating the Football League (after not having to care about what the EFL itself does or says - I hope you're enjoying that one too) was getting rid of pathetic testosterone, tribal BS that so often infects live football - most of us now are enjoying the surprise luxury of having our ground back, and meeting the decent folk you find at non league clubs we'd never met before. It's largely just nice being at games. Sadly we have still got a spare bank of turds that seem to believe football is the justification for being as obnoxious as humanly possible.
Blows my mind anyone is self-indulgent enough to run on the pitch when we are in the middle of appealing a two game stadium ban (which is hugely disproportionate when you think nothing like that will happen to WBA, or Port Vale, or Sheff Weds in the last fortnight alone but surely going to get upheld now), but there we are. Further blows my mind that some people are piling on the club for doing the only thing left open to it and banning the sale of beers during the game. |
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Reply | Lets all laugh at dale
at 10:29 27 Apr 2023
No apology necessary, I assume relegation from the League is a pretty horrendous reality to face - although less so than it used to be now the gap between L2 and the NL is basically non existent. I wouldn't know, we took a rather more direct route out of the Football League of course.
Which, as a side bar, POs me significantly itself. We achieved a decent amount in 120 years in the league or whatever it was - 3 divisional titles, many promotions including back to back ones in the 90s, 1000 goals in all 4 divisions and there is only one thing we are being remembered for now which, aside of anything else, required us being singled out in a way the EFL have contorted themselves not to do to anyone else. Derby.
I'm sorry for your cousin's experience (I'm assuming they are a Bury fan) but honestly it has got toxic AF around the very existence of AFC, which continues to baffle me tbh. A good mate of mine described AFC as "watching football that looks a bit like Bury but surrounded by all the people you liked sharing Gigg with, without the obnoxious p***heads". Couldn't agree more. I desperately want the merger to go through as it is the only way it won't feel like Steve Dale has in any way won, but the hideous between the groups isn't going away if we go back to Gigg.
Quite honestly fixture list day is going to be hard for you lot next season, and there are a thousand little rhythms of your footballing life which will uncomfortably change - you aren't in two cups anymore, the FA Cup is going to start 3 weeks earlier, you will have some depressing sounding opponents who bring nobody to Spotland. But honestly you get used to it all quickly - I assure you anything is better than the 2019/20 season of a big blank nothing we went through. And tbh there looks like a decent attitude towards life in the NL on here. |
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Reply | Lets all laugh at dale
at 15:02 26 Apr 2023
Hi Kel
Your post was pointed out to me, and after reading it I decided to go back and look at my contribution to the thread on the Bury board, which is I assume what you mean. To my personal disappointment you are right - I was, to put it bluntly, being a bellend.
I can only apologise, whether to you or any of your other Rochdale brethren who have come to the same understandable conclusion.
I was greatly saddened at the need to walk away from this Forum (which was once a fantastic place to chat football, music and other bits of life in a great spirit with fans from lots of clubs) when I did in 2019, as it regrettably became impossible to be a Bury fan on here anymore.
I am sure Dale fans have had the same experience on Bury forums, and I genuinely regret posting the embittered nonsense I have that has clearly annoyed some of those of you on here who were, as you allude to, very supportive at what was a very difficult time.
If it is any consolation at this rough time for Rochdale, at least your fanbase(s) aren't about to vote a second time to not let the only viable footballing option use your own ground. |
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Reply | Cardiff v Chelsea
at 13:53 1 Apr 2019
Whilst Colin is right about the decisions in their game yesterday, both of which were terrible, it is worth noticing:
1. If Cardiff had made any attempt to score a 2nd at any stage they may have killed the game off earlier (as opposed to doing what every Warnock team does when they go 1-0 up) and
2. Wasn't the officials that left Ruben Loftus-Cheek on his own in the area in the 91st minute. |
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Reply | Gordon Taylor
at 14:17 28 Mar 2019
Trade union leaders invariably are, and he has the luxury of a pretty cash rich membership.
However, I still strongly suspect footballers are better looked after when they need it than ever before and he has to take some of the credit for that. |
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Reply | Gordon Taylor
at 11:16 28 Mar 2019
Got to agree, he's been an excellent union leader.
His job isn't to make football fair, nor to make people like him, it's to look after the interests of professional footballers. Even at L1 / L2 level the life of a footballer is clearly better, more permanent and well-rewarded than it was when he took over at the PFA. |
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Reply | Bolton again
at 11:14 28 Mar 2019
May as well stick a pin in this thread though - we'll all be back here in 2 years. |
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Reply | Grant Holt autobiography
at 11:13 28 Mar 2019
Pretty poor he asked for paying though. I'm sure if he'd just said "I'm sorry mate, I'm working on my own book and it's still not finished so I can't talk about Dale too much just now" you'd have accepted that.
But the implication from what you say is he would have scooped his own book if you'd paid him to do so. |
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Reply | Crewe
at 11:09 28 Mar 2019
I have no sympathy for Crewe whatsoever if that happens.
It's only ruining them now because they placed success of the club over protection of vulnerable young men for a number of years, destroying countless lives in the process. |
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Reply | Grant Holt autobiography
at 16:30 27 Mar 2019
I thought Left Foot in the Grave was the better book actually - found the insight into what a mess Torquay were really interesting. As was every mention of Jon Gittens. |
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Reply | Grant Holt autobiography
at 10:43 27 Mar 2019
It's good when you get a lower division one though because the stories are better or more relevant than yet another Premier League mercenary writing one at 23, one at 30 and a slightly more honest one when they retire (although there's no way Holt isn't gonna be overly Norwich-focused in his, that's just market economics).
Phil Stant's was fascinating, though admittedly only two thirds of it was about football and a third was on his time in the Falklands. Tom Youngs' was a good account of a guy who was permanently sweating on whether there was another contract coming. |
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Reply | Scunthorpe sack McCall
at 10:14 26 Mar 2019
It would be fantastic if Salford don't go up.
The Class of 92 are surely going to get bored eventually, although less endless smoke being blown up them in the media would speed that along.
Hill going there would be interesting. Can't see him and Gary Neville getting along. |
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Reply | Operating Losses
at 10:11 26 Mar 2019
Genuine question - what has the Hogan sell-on gone on?
Is it just on keeping the club ticking over? Because if so and you are still making a sizeable operating loss in a season that contained a Hogan unbudgeted windfall and the cup run then this year's figures are surely going to be awful. You bought Spotland out before the Hogan money didn't you?
If not and it is stashed away for some purpose does anyone know what that purpose is? |
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Reply | We’re Doomed.....
at 09:20 21 Mar 2019
Not anymore you wouldn't.
Desire is still there but there's a reason one of the highest paid players at the club can't get near the team. Big injury 10 mins into his 2nd game back at the club and he just can't do what he was so good at - the fussing, harrying, driving the team forward like an angrier Roy Keane. It's a shame because he was so good.
On a rare start did manage to get himself sent off for a magnificent foul in the Trophy at Mansfield though, reminded me of the good times. |
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Reply | We’re Doomed.....
at 17:51 20 Mar 2019
Turning to Dale first Hill has made some poor decisions. You guys on here would have laid into us something fierce if we'd signed Wilbraham or Perkins. You appear very reliant on Henderson (who is off if you go down) and a good clear out is needed.
If it happens, then trust me L2 is pretty poor. Nice that 3 of the 4 sides in the automatic race play football too (Lincoln not so much).
But you're still nowhere near certs to go down. 2 quick wins and teams around will start to get nervous. Though your GD is genuinely mind blowing.
On to SD2 and I don't think you can say he's not cut cloth - he's only been at the club since December and contracts don't end til June. The summer will give us a clearer indication. But we aren't spanking money like that idiot Clark did, indeed we have more players out on loan than we have in and have a lot fewer goalkeepers (1) than you do.
But we can't get rid of Dawson, Edwards etc unless someone wants them. And so we are restricted as some contracts don't end til 2020. Throw in he is less publicity obsessed and we have had no grand project chat about music festivals or new stadia and it is a lot more encouraging than his garbage speaking predecessor (who, incidentally, is the subject of a very unflattering chant these days). |
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Reply | We’re Doomed.....
at 14:00 20 Mar 2019
Greetings from across Heywood
Relegated by a mile mid-April last year, 4 points clear of 4th with a better GD and game in hand this year, as games are running out.
Even if you go down (and no guarantee that you will though AFC Wimbledon turning up doesn't help you), there are some perks to it. |
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Reply | Bolton again
at 13:56 20 Mar 2019
You may be right about when it properly turned, and of course the Allardyce era is the time Bolton fans remember fondly. And why wouldn't they - I make no apology for being immensely jealous of how good that Bolton team was, and Jaaskelainen must be one of the most brilliant, underrated signings in history.
But Bolton fans never gave Megson a chance. They were complaining about him from the second he arrived at the club because he "wasn't a big enough name". Big names being historically desperate to manage Bolton of course. Now he doesn't peddle attractive football anywhere but they were hard to beat and stayed in the PL. Which of course they haven't exactly been doing since.
Anyway, looking at today and they wouldn't have that two-week extension if there weren't a bona fide buyer who will honour at least the tax liabilities in full. So you have to assume that they aren't going under just yet - which is good news. Fingers crossed the FPP test actually does its homework so their fans don't have to go through this again. |
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Reply | Bolton again
at 22:59 19 Mar 2019
Seems amazing now that they were such collective pricks to Gary Megson from the second he arrived at the place, for delivering hard to beat, Premiership football.
As a Bury fan I don't want them to go bust, weirdly I need them around to hate. Has been that way for 30 years now.
Even if they survive tomorrow how do they get out of admin once they're in it? Feel for the fans who are still there- although even now there's some of them going on they should get rid of Parkinson. How easy a manage do they think mediocre players who aren't getting paid are? |
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