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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 22:03 6 Apr 2025
Chomp.
The voting buttons are there for one to signal their agreement or otherwise to a message, if you want to make it personal, it’s not a problem. You’d start an argument in a phone box.
Do you actually have anything interesting to say about the game yesterday? or I take it you prefer to Police this messageboard for people you disagree with. You are definitely the kinda guys who knows everything, you must know why we are so down as a fan base, give us some insight, you know everything.
Why not have the balls to say what you actually think after a game, how the stewarding was yesterday? Cmon say something interesting, that adds to the debate. [Post edited 6 Apr 22:39]
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 20:30 5 Apr 2025
Read my answers, and the room.
There will be a lot of defending to do on and off the pitch after today’s debacle. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 20:14 5 Apr 2025
I’ve answered your questions. Accept them or not. That’s fine. We see things differently, that’s fine. I don’t have any desire to be right, I’d love McNulty to demonstrate that my scepticism is misplaced, disappointingly he continues to fuel my scepticism.
Up the Dale eh. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 19:52 5 Apr 2025
You’ve said a few times that our going out today was nothing to do with the first half. I think it has everything to do with it. So do a lot of other people.
You like to quote the odd win as a counter to everything that’s wrong with Jim’s tenure. It’s at odds, increasingly with the views of fans, fans I talk to at away games around the country, I listen to the views of commentators. Dale are rather nice to play against if you do your homework, if you want it more, show more determination. But you continually take a stance at odds with what I hear. The old, ‘you only post when we perform poorly’ gets wheeled out. So forgive the shorthand, but the way I see it, you defend, what in the light of the evidence, is indefensible.
I’ll re crunch the figures on Jim’s performance at some point next week, I suspect it will show, Jim’s teams perform consistently - inconsistently.
Getting into the play offs will extend our season, and potentially delay our rebuilding for next season. The Ogdens need to get a grip and realise that either Jim isn’t the man for the job, or appoint a Director of football - now, to advise on recruitment, style of player, coaching. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 19:30 5 Apr 2025
So if the first half had nothing to do with being knocked out of our only semi final for sixty odd years by a bunch of amateurs - had we been 3-0 up at half time, do you think we would have had a better chance of getting to Wembley?
I’m sure you understand my point, but why waste 45 minutes of football boring everyone senseless, when you could be playing it like you really really wanted to play at Wembley.
So the 442 pre game team talk, would be, “ don’t worry about the first half, let’s play tippy tappy, ineffective tripe - we’ll nick it by the odd goal like we normally do. “.
I think Colin Murray does a five live show, with a defend the indefensible slot, you’d be good at it. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 18:52 5 Apr 2025
We should have battered them in the first half instead of doing the predictable tippy tappy which was perfect for Spennymoor as a pressing team. But we don’t cause the opposition problems going forward because of the obsession with possession and recycling. The fact is we were lucky not to be a goal down at half time.
You do know this was a part time team playing in a division below? Did you realise that? |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 18:32 5 Apr 2025
You are boiling the game down to failure to defend a last minute cross. We should never have been in that position. The approach to the first half cost us. Jim McNulty sets us up to play with his philosophy irrespective of the opposing team. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 18:24 5 Apr 2025
Oh style is part and parcel. The excellent BBC Tees commentators noted the discontent from the home fans during the first half. They noted we were playing out from the back, but playing very narrow, only seeking outlet via Gilmour or Weston. We didn’t seek to go wide. Early in the half, they noted the high line we played and the risks it posed for us. A risk which very nearly crystallised. They saw it.
I attended the Maidenhead game with a former semi pro footballer, his first Dale game, he noted our style as looking like a training game. Passing with no end product, low intensity and aggression levels.
I post what I see, but I also triangulate views with others. An awful lot of peoples view is in line with mine.
When you look at football teams, they often reflect the personality of the manager. That’s what we have at Rochdale. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 18:05 5 Apr 2025
I kept my counsel through the game because I feared what would happen would happen. I post win lose or draw, sometimes we win when we deserve to, often we draw when we should win, Southend, Maidenhead, Woking and sometimes we lose when we should win. Bromley was more understandable because they are a league above, today? Yet another Jim McNulty inspired opportunity missed.
You can say he’s improved since last year, yes, marginally, but as we showed v Bromley and today he just can’t get a team to perform in a big game. Barnet - a challenge, keep the game tight - nope York - stay in the game - nope . Defend a lead? No chance. You get what you get with Jim. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 17:53 5 Apr 2025
Same as at Maidenhead, he was on the wing pleading for the ball most of the first half. Cut a frustrated player. Suspect he’ll head back south after the season ends. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 17:29 5 Apr 2025
Why do you think we had a poor first half? I wouldn’t expect the manager to head a clearance in the final minute, that would be silly. He isn’t allowed on the pitch.
I did expect him to fire the team up, come out all guns blazing. Instead, as the excellent Tees radio commentary team said, we were very predictable trying to pick out the two midfielders playing a high line. This against a team a league below us, we were very lucky not to be a goal down in the first half. Scored in the second, but held onto the lead for approximately 1 minute and took the lead from a dubious sounding penalty.
The way we started the game was down to Jim McNulty. I expected better.
Simply, he has to do something he hasn’t done yet in his managerial career - win matches consistently. |
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Thread | Big Game on Tuesday
at 17:15 5 Apr 2025
Down at Sutton, who did us a favour today drawing with Sarfend. Alty breathing down our necks though with a good win… |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 14:36 5 Apr 2025
Aldershot await the winners today.. |
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 11:14 5 Apr 2025
They retract well below the pitch and the top is rubber, so reducing risk of injuries and it’s finished with a disk of artificial grass. There’s a nice little vid on tik too explaining. Quite ingenious I think.
Gate 6,837.
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Reply | FA Trophy semi
at 07:56 5 Apr 2025
Wind forecast the gradually drop through the day. Shouldn’t be a factor. Get sprinklers on it after the last cut and the pitch should play fine. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 10:00 2 Apr 2025
What will get McNulty the sack is if he starts blaming fans for negativity. He started to go there after the York debacle, if we continue with the same inconsistency next season it will be a third season of his post match excuses. People aren’t stupid, opposition fans see it for what it is and the Woking fan nails it with what’s required to get out of this league. Criticism and pressure will build quickly next season, I suspect the fans will start to show more of their disappointment at style of play and inconsistent performances and results. The board won’t be able to afford crowds to dwindle.
But, a win at Wembley just might buy him some more time. We might sell more season tickets on the back of Wembley glory, the reality of a 0-0 Tuesday in December versus say Tamworth - a new cohort of fans might be a bit harder to please.
Over to you Jim. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 07:06 2 Apr 2025
Scrolling through our results this season, the pattern is inconsistency. Irrespective of quality of pitch, fixture congestion, injuries. We’ve had enforced breaks too due to our own pitch. Look back to last season, it’s what you get with Jim McNulty, inconsistency. Inconsistency of results that is. He is consistent in his post match interviews though, comes across like a politician, trying to explain why nothing was his fault.
Failure to acquire a striker capable of leading the line, failure to see we need a strong holding midfielder, failure to know who his best side is. Needs to be put right, but first needs acceptance that mistakes have been made and responsibility taken.
We’ve gained six points from the last 18 available. Sure we’ve moved up the table, but that’s as much to with Altrincham and Gateshead form dropping off badly.
Still all in the melting pot this season, he may get away with it. Hope he does, and we win the Trophy and do well in the playoffs - anything else will be a missed opportunity.
I wonder if Jim did swing the players by the Wembley arch on the way back from Woking. Bet the thought never entered his head. [Post edited 2 Apr 7:29]
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 22:05 1 Apr 2025
Sorry, we did start to overplay, at one point Allarakia opted to turn back towards our goal instead of playing it forward, he ran straight into a Woking player who robbed him and started a break for them.
All this mention of the pitch, as if it’s somehow a surprise. We’re playing in the fifth tier on merit, the pitches aren’t going to be bowling greens we know that; and the free header six yards out Mitchell missed was nothing to do with the bloody pitch. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Woking v Rochdale
at 21:42 1 Apr 2025
So a game we took the lead in, controlled, created chances, which were missed, started to overplay, sat back, invited pressure. Ended up hanging on and possibly lucky not to lose with the one on one at the end.
Two points dropped. |
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