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Reply | Continuing To Reward Failure BBM
at 21:04 14 Jun 2025
Not only did he get a secret contract renewal, he was the one who let the cat out of the bag at that fateful fans forum where Roger blubbed his way through the last half hour.
For those who cannot remember the sequence, the bearded wonder Director was bumbling his way through an answer on BBM and mentioned the end date of BBM's contract.
Had BBM kept his mouth shut at that precise moment, the whole history of the club could have been so much different.
Instead, BBM interrupted, announcing he had just signed a contract extension, and suddenly the house of cards Roger had carefully built was blown wide apart, leading to a couple of years of EGMs, lawsuits, new Directors etc. It was at that precise moment everyone knew Roger was not a man to be trusted, and the penny dropped he had to be relieved of his duties.
No wonder he started blubbing!
The Irishman later tried to hold the club to ransom for a golden handshake in a very underhand way, before engineering his move to City Youth. After City, he has left every club he has worked for in a worse position than when he arrived. By the law of averages, Cardiff might have timed it right! |
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Reply | Turnstiles on Thursday
at 19:37 12 May 2025
"As requested by supporters we have allocated the Study Centre as a Prayer Room."
If we didn't piss about with it at the back we wouldn't need a prayer room. |
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Reply | Southend (H)
at 11:12 12 May 2025
I'm not entering any spat, but would respectfully remind spatters marketing and advertising are two entirely different things.
Emails are one form of marketing.
Bus Stop posters are one form of advertising. |
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Reply | Southend (H)
at 14:06 8 May 2025
Things like bill boards, bus stops etc are booked well in advance often by big companies buying multiple display sites. Artwork is usually agreed weeks in advance. The cost of this media is also very expensive.
Whilst display advertising will always play a part, getting the match onto people's mobile devices is the key which is a science in itself. |
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Reply | For generations to come
at 17:42 7 May 2025
That's a cracking long winded negative diatribe which can be blown apart easily.
Not many towns in England have world beating companies although we've had our share in the past.
The newest theatre was opened in 1978 by arguably our most famous export after whom it was named.
I can think of five food pubs in the Borough which provide fine dining if you're happier spending under £30. If you want a Michelin Star and two mouthfuls for £50 sod off to London!
Compare us to a comparable town. You picked Lytham to support your point. I'll pick Scunthorpe. Play your music now!
I agree there's an issue with small mindedness and a lack of aspiration, but if anyone who had innovative ideas for Rochdale read your nonsense, they'd understandably have second thoughts. We remain as ever, a town built on its people. Superfluous things like paintings, an Egyptian pot, or John Bright's ink well are just bollocks.
EDIT: Just to add that video is the most professional, inspiring thing I've ever seen the club put out beating the Darlington play-off tickets comfortably. [Post edited 7 May 17:45]
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Reply | Twelve months on...the return of the feel good factor?
at 13:11 3 May 2025
There were several eye-witness accounts that a van would turn up every Monday after a Saturday home match onto which a barrel would be loaded never to be seen again. And I mean several.
Interesting that since the infamous AGM I don't think anyone has seen the bearded wonder about town, Tesco or Spotland.
Like the barrels, he's vanished. |
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Reply | 25/26 Squad
at 22:24 28 Apr 2025
I think calling Sir Alex a "crap coach" is quite remarkable. I don't like the bloke but a recent "must watch" bbc documentary on his career on th'igh player, would suggest he might be in the top ten coaches the UK has ever produced. |
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Reply | TVOS Preview - Rochdale v Hartlepool United
at 20:43 26 Apr 2025
Yes but in our record season 2016-17 we were playing the likes of Sheffield United, Bolton, Coventry and Charlton. You can't have it both ways.
However, I agree BBM was shite but although McNulty gives me the enthusiasm of an upcoming bout of typhoid, his record does actually compare quite well. It's not a load of bollocks as league tables are the only real data fans can compare. |
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Reply | Online Ticketing Issues
at 20:02 26 Oct 2024
Well I'm a complete computer retard and I've managed to buy two seats together at the first attempt without any problem, even though I'd forgotten my password and had to reset it. Plus I've printed off the bar code thingy and the whole thing took about 6 minutes.
It just goes to show there's always someone worse off than yourself. [Post edited 26 Oct 2024 20:08]
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Reply | Trust chair steps down.
at 23:04 27 Sep 2024
Farewell Chair. As I said to you once, this club has a strange habit of throwing up great individuals at the right time for the right reason. The Main Stand is named after one!
You're not in that league though, but you've stepped up at the right time and done a marvelous job. As a fan, thank you. |
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Reply | Sir Peter makes his debut
at 20:16 31 Aug 2024
Bonus Question Answer perhaps....
99-00 season. Parkin's first.
4 clean sheets in first five League games.
No idea on kits. Don't give a shite! |
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Reply | Sir Peter makes his debut
at 17:33 31 Aug 2024
That Ferguson looks alright. Doesn't miss much in the air. An ugly old fashioned uncompromising Centre Back.
Best home performance in ages and we should have had 8. |
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Reply | Aaron Morley
at 13:57 31 Aug 2024
Mark Howson, who was born in Morley, has just signed a one year contract extension at Middlesbrough. [Post edited 31 Aug 2024 17:30]
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Reply | Semis
at 13:33 11 Jul 2024
I'm not sure it was the wrong decision if going by the letter of the law.
I agree in the spirit of football it wasn't a penalty, but how many times do you see a full back clear the ball up the line only for his follow through foot to catch the boot of an opponent who is trying to block the clearance?
That's always a booking (wrongly in my view). So yesterday's attempted Dutch block would've been a free-kick anywhere else on the pitch. In which case the penalty was technically the correct call, even though it just felt wrong.
I'd also point to Peter Cavanagh's red card at Boston years ago, which from memory, he received for raising his studs in a challenge. Yesterday's Dutch lad who caught Kane committed a challenge far worse.
Football is broken! |
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Reply | Meet The Board Tonight
at 22:10 3 Jun 2024
I spoke to the young lad later on and he said, "I've been coming to forums for a few years now, and on this occasion I became overwhelmed by the top table not bullshitting me with lie after lie like the previous few years. It made me pass out in shock." |
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Reply | Club Statement. Deal done
at 18:18 10 May 2024
Fantastic news. The last few years have been wearisome and worrying. Thank God they're gone.
There's no guarantees the Ogden family will be the second coming but, all of their statements so far are free from the bull shit which usually accompanies takeovers elsewhere that we've seen. There's no bones being thrown to supporters, no confident predictions, no claims to be lifelong fans etc. In fact there is nothing resembling the out and out lies some of our former Directors/employees were guilty of spewing out every time they opened their mouths.
Their rhetoric so far has been understated, quietly delivered, and is unflappable and a bit deadpan. You only have to listen to SPO on you tube to quickly ascertain that he's all of the above, measured, and not prone to the sort of extreme mood swings that we'd often associate with football people.
A breath of fresh air. |
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Reply | Away Attendance Today
at 23:16 23 Dec 2023
Given the amount of people who cheered in the Main Stand when our goals went in, there were easily over 1400 Daleys there. Blokes on their sponsor's balcony were going bonkers when we equalised. I've never seen any of them before, anywhere, so they might have been fakes.
Interesting to listen to rugby talk in the home stands. Most folk know I think rugby is a shit sport watched by shit people, but the narrative spun by their locals was that Fiji had been denied a Spotland International by our Board. I put them straight, but shit rugby people don't change no matter which county they are from.
Still, a good football turnout, better than anything shit rugby could muster. [Post edited 23 Dec 2023 23:19]
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Reply | Tonight's AGM
at 12:22 22 Dec 2023
Our Board need to remember it was the fans putting their predecessors under a level of scrutiny which triggered the run of events which ultimately led to them becoming Directors.
Not only should they remember, they should be reminded. Every day. |
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