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Reply | Tom Myles Signs
at 07:55 1 Aug 2025
I've not seen Whatmuff play yet but the fact we're clearly going to rely on him as first-choice this season has actually made me a bit excited. He must be very, very, very good for his age. |
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Reply | The Fitzture List - Rochdale Rising: Inside McNulty’s push for sustainable suc
at 09:03 31 Jul 2025
Thanks for conducting this interview and writing this article Fitz. It's nice to get some proper insight into Jim's thought process instead of the standard soft-serve questions from the club media. Would love to see more of it.
Unfortunately for me personally, all it's done is make me feel even less connected to that thought process of Jim's though.
“Quite simply, most of our players had never been in those kinds of situations before" - had the Spennymoor players been in loads of FA Trophy semi-finals?
"Last season, in any other division in the Football League − not all of them, but most of them − we were one place away from an automatic promotion place." - Only one league has three automatic promotion places so not only is that not relevant cause we're not in the Football League, it's also not true. And what's the point here anyway? If we were in a different league, we'd have been closer to the automatic promotion places but still not finished inside them? Great.
He's not in the social media circle yet somehow fully aware that people don't like him using the word 'clout.'
Stuff about being 'deeply connected' and 'new curiosities' gives me Flitcroft vibes.
Now that the dust has settled from last season I really don't think Jim's doing a bad job overall and certainly hasn't been bad enough to get the boot, yet every time I listen to him or read from him, I just find myself wishing I hadn't. |
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Reply | Quick comment!
at 16:20 14 Apr 2025
I agree with the majority of this post, but my issue is those crunch matches and the frustration is that in a league where you have to be either completely dominant and win the league, or show a mental rigidity to get through tough play-off fixtures, I don't see us having the right attributes to achieve either of those under Jim.
We'll go into the play-offs with a fanbase that's pretty disillusioned, a team that has little confidence of seeing out a game away from home, a manager that has a shocking record in more high-profile games and without a group of our best performing players.
If we were playing 3 home games against mid-table teams in the play-offs I'd fancy us. Given that we'll have to play an away game against a team like York or Forest Green, we might as well cede our place now. |
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Reply | Stockport
at 12:22 31 Mar 2025
Shows how difficult it is to be competitive and sustainable in the lower leagues. County have increased ticket prices and are still selling out regularly and still so far away from being sustainable. |
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Reply | Good luck with that one Oldham
at 15:44 19 Mar 2025
A magnificent hire for Oldham Roughyeds. A truly wonderful person who did nothing but good for Rochdale Association Football Club and is universally adored by all connected with the club and particularly the users of this forum. Not that you will need it as such an intelligent, morally superior individual with magnificent business acumen and leadership skills but good luck David, we're all behind you 100%! |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 09:57 18 Mar 2025
Majority of them have been fairly easy tbf. The only one that caused me as many issues as our own was Leamington's. |
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Reply | DAZN
at 10:37 17 Mar 2025
Hmmm. The stonewall Halifax penalty against Beckwith at the Shay the other week that our commentator described as 'shoulder to shoulder' and not being enough to send the attacker to the ground is a good example of how (some) of our lot can be pretty badly biased too. |
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Reply | Online shop.
at 20:10 10 Mar 2025
The link is just a screenshot of what's on the site. |
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Reply | Online shop.
at 19:43 10 Mar 2025
The white shirt that's in the advert block isn't on sale anymore on that page though. |
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 16:24 3 Mar 2025
The only thing I disagree with there is that I think we've been crying out for it since the start of last season rather than this one! |
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 14:51 3 Mar 2025
Did he play in a front two with Mitchell a few times towards the end of last season to little effect or did I imagine that?
Either way, Bird is clearly a different type of striker to Rodney... it might be worth a try. Not that the shape will ever change. |
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 14:48 3 Mar 2025
I think part of that inflexibility shown by Jim is in part down to Kairo's limitations though. There's little point putting the ball into the penalty area in the air from deep positions when we know Kairo isn't going to convert those kinds of chances - recycling possession and then trying to work the ball into the kind of area where Tobi can put in a low cross is going to be much better for Kairo, but the problem is that every team knows that's what we want to do now. Thankfully Jim seems to have spotted the issue now and signed a player that will give us the opportunity to be more flexible in how we create chances.
Agree that I maybe should have dived deeper into Rodney's role and how little support he's offering. The isolation that Kairo has had in some of the recent games (it was clear to see at Halifax from high up behind the goals just how far away his two fellow forwards are often away from him) is a major part of it as well.
I agree with your last point - give him the chances and he'll score goals - I just think it's only specific types of chances that he wants and that narrows down our options dramatically. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 18:35 26 Feb 2025
Possibly, but it's hard to build a squad in a few days. When we beat them that season at their place I don't think they'd won a game yet and they still looked like a team of strangers and kids. I think there were accentuating circumstances at Bolton but the Scunthorpe spell showed he's a busted flush. |
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Reply | TAMWORTH
at 18:33 26 Feb 2025
On the corner issue specifically, I get why we tried to do something different in the final minutes when every corner we had before that floated into their keepers' arms unchallenged. Woeful. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 17:00 26 Feb 2025
I don't want Hill back but in all fairness to him that budget was not huge by all accounts and he was hired about 30 hours before the end of the deadline just after the takeover had gone through. They'd only signed one player all summer then signed 8 on deadline day. I'm not defending the job he did there cause he still underperformed IMO but I don't think it's particularly fair to point to his budget without mentioning those constraints too. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 17:42 25 Feb 2025
I wasn't at the recent Hendo night, but someone told me that Hill himself made a comment there about his style not being suited to modern players. Perhaps someone who was actually there can remember but I believe it was something along the lines of players during his time coming to the club and wanting to learn and him not being sure how Jim manages to do it with current players now. |
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