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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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Reply | Sack McNulty
at 11:18 25 Feb 2025
I suspect a 'Head of Football Operations' is basically going to do the same job as a Director of Football. Looking at George Delves' history, he last worked on the footballing side at a club as 'Head of Education' at Sheffield United 10 years ago.
If we'd hired a manager with that kind of experience there would be uproar that we'd plumped for the cheap option - but everyone seems to be really positive about this move.
Again, this is nothing against GD - I've only ever briefly met him in passing and I think he has spoken quite well at the forum when I've been there in the past, but I'm not convinced he's qualified to do the role he's been appointed to. In my view we're absolutely crying out for some experience and ruthlessness on the footballing side and have been for some time. I hope I'm proven wrong but I don't see how GD brings that. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 13:09 24 Feb 2025
Gates are falling, the sky is falling.
Average attendance as things stand is 34 less than last season's average attendance. We've still got York to come and Hartlepool who always bring a fair few on their last away game.
Everyone on this forum always massively overplays how much the attendances are falling. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 10:45 24 Feb 2025
Won 3 out of 40 games at Scunthorpe.
Will always love Keith for what he did for us but the game has changed so much in the last 10 years and it's left him behind unfortunately. |
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Reply | Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 13:30 23 Feb 2025
I think Jim's plan *was* still to try and play his way yesterday, but Barnet pressed us well, we lost confidence and the players took matters into their own hands.
That performance yesterday screamed a team that wasn't playing for it's manager and once that happens there's only one outcome. |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 10:17 20 Feb 2025
Chucking that toilet seat from such a height was so unbelievably stupid and I hope whoever did that was caught on camera and is banned for a long time. |
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