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Reply | Grimsby friendly
at 13:43 20 Jul 2025
Yes because Rodney rarely plays the central striker in the front three. Would think Barlow, Rodney and Dieseruvwe would start the season.
Would like to see Rodney and Dieseruvwe in a two with a midfield three too. Either way, yes they’ll play together. It won’t ever be one or the other. |
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Reply | New stewarding
at 10:25 20 Jul 2025
There was a bloke in the Sandy turnstile scanning tickets too. Thought they were using those new machines that were installed?
The stewarding will need a review, they won’t be able to get people in quickly enough if they’re insistent on the scanning thing. Also what’s the point? The main issue at games these days are flares, scanners won’t be picking them up. |
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Thread | Grimsby friendly
at 16:25 18 Jul 2025
Lot of heavy rain forecast from tomorrow morning and although there hasn’t been much rain recently, wonder if the club are going to employ the covers for a few hours to protect the newly laid surface? |
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Reply | Pre season FCUM
at 16:35 12 Jul 2025
Played well. Dieseruvwe could have had a hat trick and offers a totally different option to what we have had before. Pettit impressed in midfield too. |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 17:17 11 Jul 2025
We’ve loads of players who play the same position as Kelly. |
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Reply | Signing #6 inbound...
at 22:33 10 Jul 2025
I agree and would extend that until the end of the EFL transfer window. It’s also something we should be actively looking to achieve as, something that’s already been said, it’s a route which works well for a club like Dale.
Would we want to keep East and Gilmour? Yes. Have we options if either went bringing in funds like so many players before? Definitely. |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 22:30 10 Jul 2025
Good shout but he was never dominant in the air. The only one mentioned has been Vincenti, but he was a wide midfielder.
We don’t need someone who wins aerial battles in central midfield, just someone who wins battles. |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 21:01 10 Jul 2025
Yeah he was playing RWB I think during Oldham’s playoff run. Scored twice too. |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 20:51 10 Jul 2025
Apart from Matty Lund, how many central midfielders have we had who were 6ft+ and dominant in the air?
Ironically, the only other I can think of off hand is Jason Taylor! |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 20:42 10 Jul 2025
To be fair to East, he was playing well during that that good run we were on before he missed the Oldham game. Burger stepped in at Boundary Park and did well, East should not have come straight back in after that. Then after being out for the whole of April, returning in the last day defeat at Braintree shouldn’t have seen him start against Southend. Poor choices by McNulty.
He’s never looked as good in a midfield two though and the formation doesn’t bring the best out of him, but we’ve done the ‘change the midfield shape to play a three’ to death. Whether we employ it now we have more options, time will tell. With his ability to get goals playing in a more forward role though, he would attract interest. He’d the one of the two I’d be looking to sell if the interest is there.
I’m pleased we’ve addressed the need to have more options in central midfield but McNulty has a big job keeping everyone happy. Can see us being the ones loaning players out rather than the other way round next season. |
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Reply | Boreham Wood (away)
at 19:51 9 Jul 2025
Disappointed that we are still taking part in that.
Notice Carlisle have decided not to. |
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Reply | Wonderwall dedicated to the memory of Paul Hazlehurst
at 18:48 9 Jul 2025
I’m sure with the Community Trust involved they would ensure all that sort of thing would be addressed. Presumably issues like that would have been raised at the CAB meeting too. [Post edited 9 Jul 18:51]
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Reply | Wonderwall dedicated to the memory of Paul Hazlehurst
at 18:38 9 Jul 2025
It was asked via the Trust at a CAB meeting last month:
https://www.daletrust.co.uk/2025/06/17223/
“ I’d like to query the status of the Sandy Lane “Wonderwall” (Paul Hazelhurst
memorial)
Club Response:
It is good feedback and pretty fair to say that this area (a memorial to former
director Paul Hazelhurst) has fallen into a pretty poor state over recent
years. This will now be picked up as a joint project between the Club and
RAFC Community Trust and we’ll look to restore it to its former glory asap.” |
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Reply | Matty Done Returns
at 19:31 7 Jul 2025
I don’t know about the coaching setups of all the other teams but we’ve certainly got a more experience than we did last season in numbers alone. |
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Reply | Matty Done Returns
at 19:09 7 Jul 2025
Taylor started as a player-coach four years ago and Done has been a coach since leaving Dale in 2022.
McNulty has plenty of managerial experience too over the last two years when you think what’s gone on. |
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Reply | Matty Done Returns
at 18:46 7 Jul 2025
The replies on Twitter illustrate that if there’s news to be announced, then delaying it achieves little apart from making the fanbase think it’s all a staggered media campaign. |
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Reply | Multi Ball new this season
at 15:03 6 Jul 2025
Do we have to be so personal with nicknames?
Whatever we all think about the manager, he produced a team that finished 4th, a team with the best home record for years that scored quite a lot of goals.
Yes, he in particular fell short in the big games and there were some other boring, poor performances, but ignoring how well we did over the season as a whole only serves to show that we are incapable of recognising how much better we are on the pitch now. It also means ignoring all the times we didn’t play slow, ineffective football. Unless the players were ignoring the manager themselves in those games.
And I dislike the stupidity of playing out from the back all the time as much as anyone. [Post edited 6 Jul 15:05]
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Reply | Multi Ball new this season
at 12:55 6 Jul 2025
It was always going to change, McNulty himself illustrated that the way we used Bird. For a while it was en vogue and pointing out the flaws and hoping we got results was all fans could do. |
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