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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Forest Green Rovers
at 23:57 11 Feb 2026
As you rightly alude to DDB, it isn't logical to think of it as 2 points dropped in any way, not least the fact we didn't drop any points.What happens in other games is completely out of our control. If York had gone 3-0 up and conceded 2 in the last minute, it wouldn't have felt like 2 points dropped, so neither should this. Maybe York scored 10 disallowed goals during the game. I don't know or care. It's what we do on the pitch that I care about and we are flying. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Carlisle United
at 12:23 7 Feb 2026
Not very enthusiastic is he, old Sparky?
Interesting to hear him say they won't be pressing from the off. Sounds like they are going to go for the "low block" and let us have the ball, which I think tends to suit us (cf. Hartlepool, York), but I've been wrong before. |
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Reply | Forest Green
at 06:51 6 Feb 2026
I think at this point the only incentive can be to promote his 'green' agenda - the £18.4m losses in total are seen as the cost of making him famous and promoting his particular brand of politics. Otherwise, I really can't see the point. |
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Reply | Borehamwood Tuesday
at 13:58 3 Feb 2026
He's had nearly a full week of rest, he should play in my opinion and I hope he does. But yes, 50/50 whether he will. |
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Reply | Solihull Wednesday
at 10:17 22 Jan 2026
Agree, seems to have been a dearth of 'big' home wins under Jim. Agree also that to finish top of the pile, these are the ones the team needs to win - like Wrexham did versus Notts County when they were in this league.
That said this team seems very confident, even to the last minute yesterday, of getting the full spoils, and from an away perspective, have won the big games, York aside. Certainly we're a differennt animal to seasons gone by.
And fantastic that we've a brand new carpet in January to play on - something teams of the past would have killed for!!
It does seem we've escaped having a rotten pitch relatively unscathed in terms of results, though lost Mani D and Becks in part due to it. |
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Reply | Craig Dawson! Why not???
at 14:57 12 Jan 2026
Not laughable at all. I'm sure Craig has great memories, and to some degree owes a small amount of his success to the Dale launching his pro career, and I've always understood he was a Dale fan too, so that adds more of a chance to it. But i would think it'd be more realistic when he's 38/39. As others have said, he'd likely have to relocate too which makes it even less likely.
Ultimately, given it is not possible for it to be about the money, it would need to be purely a matter of him WANTING to do it, and for many reasons that may well not be the case. The days where players returned to their starting clubs because it was one final pay day don't really apply when a player has achieved what he has in the game. He was playing in the Premier League last season, in my eyes it's not completely unrealistic to think he could get a contract in Saudi (or even the Championship / Serie A) for a couple of years and earn a few (more) million quid.
But if he wanted to then no doubt he'd be welcomed back with open arms. It certainly shouldn't stop us approaching him.
In my eyes given his longevity in the Prem I think he was very unlucky not to play for England, particularly given some of the, in my view, inferior players who have donned the shirt. Randomly, off the top of my head, were Phil jones or Wes Brown really that much better than him? Or did they get the nod because they played for more fashionable teams? Is Dan Burn better than Daws in his prime? |
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Reply | Twelve Games in what next?
at 12:12 5 Oct 2025
I've got us down for 28 Points based off below.
After yesterday, I'm finding it hard to pick games I think we will lose. I'm sure we will, but I don't feel comfortable predicting we will lose based on our performances so far. The two games we have lost, I wouldn't have predicted we would lose, and similarly I would have preducted a win or draw for us v Carlisle, FGR.
Sat 18 Oct 15:00 Yeovil Town H (W)
Sat 25 Oct 15:00 Woking A (W)
Tue 4 Nov 19:45 Scunthorpe United H (D)
Sat 8 Nov 15:00 Boston United A (D)
Tue 11 Nov 19:45 York City A (D)
Sat 15 Nov 15:00 Aldershot H (W)
Sat 22 Nov 15:00 Tamworth A (D)
Sat 29 Nov 15:00 Eastleigh H (W)
Sat 6 Dec 15:00 Boreham Wood H (W)
Sat 20 Dec 15:00 Altrincham A (W)
Fri 26 Dec 15:00 Morecambe A (W)
Tue 30 Dec 19:45 Hartlepool United H (W) |
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Reply | Refwatch - Forest Green Rovers v Rochdale
at 17:21 4 Oct 2025
Wow. Wonderful performance full of skill, tenacity and some smart gamesmanship. We are seeing this team evolve - they have become that little bit more ruthless. Smith had 2 chances to bury the game but we largely controlled it throughout in my view. Delightful to see Mitchell get hauled off. |
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Southend United
at 12:33 19 Sep 2025
Fair point TS, Rodders in for Amantchi or Barlow perhaps from the start. Personally I thought he had a poor game at Truro but he's often a threat and pretty unstoppable when playing well. Would be a horrible sub for the oppo to have to deal with! |
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Southend United
at 11:21 19 Sep 2025
Huge game, even this early in the season. Hoping for a strong crowd and an equally strong performance. Mani D is a big loss, but he was never going to play every game, and the point of having a big squad is to address these things. We didn't have him in the team in the play offs when we went 3-1 up.
I'd like to see Gomez Mancini play a significant part. He and McBride are both pushing for starts, as is Burger after scoring mid-week.
We'll need everyone to play to their best tomorrow, v much looking forward to what I expect will be a highly competitive game. Up the Dale!
I'd go with the below:
Whatmuff
Gordon
EEL
Beckwith
TAR
Berkoe
East
Gilmour
McBride
Barlow
Amantchi |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Sutton United
at 01:11 26 Aug 2025
Agree, the ref, as is standard in this division, was terrible. A more blatant yellow when their big CM was late and struggling through the back of East, you will never see.
As for the game, the atmosphere in the ground, rather than being optimistic and joyful, was nervous and angry. How a manager can achieve that when you’ve won 4/5 of your first games is remarkable and it should send strong signals to the board.
The thing is, that atrocious decision at the weekend isn’t going away, because however we look at the table now, which we know will be incredibly tight at the end of the season, we know we threw points away due to Mcnulty’s ineptitude. Yes I’m still annoyed about it. For me, bigger than the c*ck up itself of the team selection, clearly insane given its unprecedented nature across the football league, is his attitude about it afterwords. If he’d just confirmed it was a mistake and that it won’t happen again, that would really help the fanbase. But he’s aloof,and doesn't come across as someone capable of learning from their mistakes.
Bromley
Spennmoor
Southend
Brackley
We were lucky to scrape a win today. I’m glad we did. I thought we played well in most of the first half. Gordon in particularly I think is a great player. TAR needs to produce more consistently, and I’d say TA is also too hit and miss currently.
Not sure how Mani D got MOTM, others (Pritchard, Whatmuff, Beckwith, HG) didn’t put a foot wrong.
As others have said, we haven’t really played the tough teams yet this season - the real test of how good we are with be v Southend, Hartlepool, Forest Green, Carlisle and York. We need to play better against them than we have played the last 2 games to demonstrate improvement from last season despite the huge squad he has been given.
That he’s won such a large % of his games as manager and the jury is still out on Mcnulty says everything. That said, I don’t want him gone as we have a terrible record of replacing managers and the squad has been built with his tactics in mind. |
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Reply | BRACKLEY TOWN
at 13:16 24 Aug 2025
You have to wonder - I mean, are they not laughing at him behind his back about this?
For me, it is absolutely unforgivable to throw 3 points away like that. Play the B team in the silly cup competition, not the league, not when you’re top of it, and certainly not when it’s still August.
Not only did he put 11 ‘B team’ players under huge pressure to perform together and gel as a unit with no prior games, having failed miserably he now hasto place huge additional pressure on the ‘A Team’ to perform in the next game. Is he not embarrassed? I am, and it wasn’t my decision!
It’s the league, not a cup - this decision is remarkably stupid. He probably thinks it was clever. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if a premier league manager had done that he’d probably have been fired the next day. |
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Reply | BRACKLEY TOWN
at 18:45 23 Aug 2025
What the hell was that. Truly horrendous management, something you wouldn’t even see on Football Manager.
After such a superb performance mid week, I’m both embarrassed and angry about that. I feel so sorry for the travelling fans.
I don’t think I’ll listen to the interview. |
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Reply | 🎥 Live Screening: Boreham Wood v Rochdale AFC
at 10:02 10 Aug 2025
I think if we'd had Mitchell up top yesterday it would have ended 0-0.
It's the sort of game of which we dropped points regularly last season and I am happy to see yesterday's increased clinicality as a marked improvement.
Yes I think we can do better to stop chances but if we continue to be that deadly it won't matter.
I think Mani has the potential to be one of the best players in this division and arguably the one above, looking an excellent signing and upgrade. |
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