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Reply		The Run in
at 10:15 12 Mar 2026

The next week feels huge...

This time next week we will be staring down the end of season 8 game to go barrel after playing these two tricky away games.

Sat 14th Mar
Eastleigh v Rochdale (5.30)
Aldershot v York

Tue 17th Mar
Southend v Rochdale (game in hand)
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Reply		Fan numbers
at 16:04 8 Mar 2026

With the increased numbers yesterday (over 3000 Daleys) there was also a combination of common sense stewarding..

I didn’t notice a wand!! And generally received a smile and an enjoy the game comment.

Much more alligned with where we want to be as a family club.
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Reply		Fan numbers
at 10:46 8 Mar 2026

Winning football matches increases attendances so we have that in our locker!!

3000 plus home fans was very encouraging the question really is how do we push on towards 4000?

An extra 750 + doesn’t seem like too daunting a target?
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Boston United
at 18:00 7 Mar 2026

Perry MOM for me… wow…

Never put a foot wrong all day.

Class from Hendo to create for the goal and pleased we ground out another 3 points in the end.

U block - great stuff… looks to be swelling in numbers.

Home crowd 3000 plus all going home happy tonight!!!
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Boston United
at 12:36 7 Mar 2026

Expect a decent home crowd today pushing 3000

Top at 5pm is in our hands!!!

Up the Dale!!!
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Reply		Dale Sign Francis
at 06:47 6 Mar 2026

Well this is Francis early chance to impress.

Gilmour out for 4 weeks so slotting in there are big shoes to fill.

Thought he was a little off the pace v Brackley Tuesday night.. obviously needs time to adapt to the Dale way of playing.

This really is a big 3 weeks for this side.. onwards and hopefully upwards by the end of April.
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Reply		Buyabu's Baby...
at 17:39 5 Mar 2026

Congratulations Jili

Great story.
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Reply		The Run in
at 09:47 4 Mar 2026

Not looking too far ahead... a HUGE 3 weeks to navigate then take a look at the final run in.

Sat 7th Mar
Rochdale v Boston
York v Eastleigh

Sat 14th Mar
Eastleigh v Rochdale
Aldershot v York

Tue 17th Mar
Southend v Rochdale (game in hand)

Sat 21st Mar
Rochdale v Tamworth
York v Brackley
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Brackley Town
at 09:45 4 Mar 2026

Excellent 3 points... Not at our absolute best but what a night regarding results.

We badly missed Gilmour, Francis for me a little off the pace but lets see how he settles in with games under his belt.

Mani D hitting top form, 2 very good finishes lets hope this continues.

The rally cry from Jim, lets all get to Spotland on Saturday and get right behind the lads.. smaller in numbers but the number is growing. The town has to wake up soon that Dale are having THE season of all seasons.
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Reply		Refwatch - Halifax Town v Rochdale
at 09:02 25 Feb 2026

Looked very tired second half and got overrun a bit…

Yes we can go again…. And absolute worse case we get a chance to hopefully win 2 games one at home and one at Wembley for promotion.

Terrific season - still plenty more joyful moments to come.

In Dales AND York City’s hands…. A strange quirk.

Hopefully fire our way back to the top by next Wednesday morning.
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Woking
at 10:23 22 Feb 2026

Excellent win and Dale stay top of the National League.

Another team MOM performance difficult to pick one player out over the other 10.

Onto Halifax now.. on Tuesday.. this is just relentless...

York 3 successive away games - Scunthorpe / Morecambe / Boreham Wood.

Dale in comparison Halifax (A) Aldershot (A) Brackley Town (H).
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Woking
at 16:43 20 Feb 2026

and a chalked off goal that was unjust...
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Scunthorpe United
at 17:40 18 Feb 2026

only for his effort to be curled just wide.... Sadly more often than not..

There is a real player to be had in there.. the injury potential is a massive concern plus I just think he needs a good arm round the shoulder and some coaching in technique for keeping the ball on target.

If he clicks in the remaining games we will go very very close to this league title.
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Reply		Refwatch - Yeovil Town v Rochdale (n/t)
at 07:13 18 Feb 2026

[Post edited 18 Feb 7:15]
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Reply		Refwatch - Rochdale v Scunthorpe United
at 21:59 17 Feb 2026

The shooting is woefully bad…. Either wide or blazed over the bar or recycled / passed back when ignoring runners.

We have gone top tonight despite our best efforts to fook it up!!

The reluctance to shoot has now manifested into not shooting from the penalty spot.. absolutely beggars belief.
[Post edited 17 Feb 22:02]
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Reply		Security
at 21:56 17 Feb 2026

The mood not helped with a shot shy performance but the stewarding is a disgrace.

People not allowed to use the toilets as the whole stand kettled into one corner (again)!

Stewards smirking at long standing Dale fans hiding behind his yellow jacketed mate and the totally unnecessary barrier.

I would urge any Dale fan to e mail the club in the morning how have we fallen so far in decency. This is the family stand FFS!!

If it carries on it could get nasty and the fault would lie entirely with whoever is making these stupid decisions.
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Reply		Security
at 17:46 17 Feb 2026

Over the top and over thinking a problem that doesn't exist.

Not great.

The club need to do much better than this.
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Reply		Refwatch - Yeovil Town v Rochdale
at 10:18 15 Feb 2026

It’s still very much in Dales hands..

Two big consecutive home games on Tuesday and Saturday.

Need to ramp up the ruthless streak in front of goal.. 57 goals in 30 games for Dale.. an average of less than 2 goals a game makes the promotion task much more difficult.

Still unbeaten in 2026… the table could look a lot different again this time next week.
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Reply		Gilmour Extends
at 15:59 13 Feb 2026

Superb news

Really pleased to read this.
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Reply		Devante Rodney
at 13:49 13 Feb 2026

Great player like you say with power and pace.

If we can get the best out of him for the next 17 games we will take some stopping.

Could do with Devante hitting peak power between now and season end.
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