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Reply | Former director?
at 14:39 3 Sep 2025
Yes, but he may still be involved in our accounts! |
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Reply | Former director?
at 19:08 2 Sep 2025
It’s bloody serious, and, if he is anything to do with Dale on any basis, he should be gone immediately. It’s not an oversight, it’s a deliberate act and being effectively struck off for 2 years is career suicide to anyone with integrity.
To try and give you a basic idea, it’s like me giving you financial advice, on something I’m not qualified of licenced to do, whilst not being insured to give that advice.
It’s absolutely damming!!!! |
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Reply | BRACKLEY TOWN
at 10:27 24 Aug 2025
It’s weird you mention Thacks and that game as I was thinking about Dave Sutton and his tenure after McNulty’s absolute brain fart today! As other have said, this was the most arrogant contemptible decision I have ever seen in 40 plus years of watching Dale. He has embarrassed the club, himself, annoyed everyone and blown any positivity out of the water with one pathetic ridiculous, arrogant and downright disrespectful decision.
The similarities between him and Sutty are there to see. I liked Dave Sutton a lot having got to know him pretty well and that was my favorite era watching Dale. He came in to management because we had nobody else and was cheap. He was physio and manager and was pretty much doing everything at one stage or other. He inherited a struggling side and gradually improved the squad narrowly missing out on the play offs (we should have got in them twice if I remember but for a bad end of season run and the Burnley game, although I may be wrong) He brought a lot of excitement to the club and signed some fantastic players (Reeves, Whitehall, Stuart, Lancaster, Peake? Even John Ryan who was excellent first season) and had a very attacking approach. But despite this positive start things unravelled.
McNulty, like Sutton, has built an excellent and much improved squad after a couple of years, however, despite this, managing and utilising this squad (albeit just one game this season) has been shown to be beyond their capabilities. McNulty has the uncanny ability to cock things up and cause division, as did Sutton. McNulty does not learn and continues to do what he feels right, despite not one fan defending him, ditto Sutton. Both were well liked initially and decent people, however Sutton went on the back of losing the squad and the fans despite a lot of patience from the board. I would say the board have been extremely patient with Jim and yet like Sutton, he is unwilling to accept and admit his mistakes and like Sutton this will be his undoing. 2 major stupid decisions last season and one this has already cost the club potentially millions and it cannot go unchallenged at any level. He needs to be told by the fans, by the board and by the backroom staff and players. It cannot be repeated again.
I’m half expecting Jim to say that if Manchester United offered Onana for Whatmuff we would want cash as well and that if Beckwith was Brazilian he would have won 70 caps!
I hope him learns but I have seen nothing to suggest he will and personally, one more error like the above and he would be gone. To quote the excellent EGP, “Sutton proved he had the ability to build a fantastic squad but the inability to manage it”!!! |
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Reply | BRACKLEY TOWN
at 16:57 23 Aug 2025
💯 right. McNulty may have assembled a great squad and had a good start but this debacle is utterly unacceptable and the club should refund everyone that went and spent money. It’s not only incredible arrogant (Doubt they needed a team talk) but it’s childish and pathetic. 3 changes or even 4 ok. Why rest a striker who has 3 in 3, why rest the keeper, why everything in fact.
Its actions like this and his stubborn mentality that cost us last season and 4 games in he does it again. Should fine himself 2 weeks wages!!!!!! |
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Reply | Joe Pritchard Signs
at 20:25 10 Jul 2025
Another midfielder that lacks height. We won’t be winning a thing in the air in midfield (again) might be a decent player I really don’t know, but what we were crying out for was an Ollie Banks type player, obviously Jim would sooner sign 4 players in the same position than the one type of player we really need.
I honestly can’t remember the last 6 foot plus midfielder we signed. Kitching?
Are we going to have Mani dropping deep or Rodney playing a 10 role?
The signings mostly so far look promising but reminds me of when Terry Dolan used to collect defenders, Jim clearly sees midfield as vital but we totally lack anyone who will win headers!!! |
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Reply | Pearl St. Turnstile Debacle.
at 14:11 7 Apr 2025
Club has been an absolute shambles for years, it takes no common sense or intelligence at all to know that, so many incredibly simple things that could have made this a special day for all concerned especially occasional fans, but as usual those in charge utterly cocked it up!
Everyone knew this was a big match and high profile so have all turnstiles open from 1, offer 25% off all food and beverages for those in before 2, put on a kids game of 5 a side or a penalty competition (or both) vs Spennymoor or even a supporters game of say 20 minutes each way (could even charge for it and include sponsors and a couple of legends from each club) Have all turnstiles fully up to speed tech wise.
There is absolutely no marketing ability or brains at this club and there seems not to have been since Richard, Franny, Les etc left. This should have raised the profile of the club and dragged in hundreds of new fans (admittedly having Jim Southgate in charge doesn’t help) but there are so many missed opportunities.
The whole club needs a shake up, get rid of the numerous dead weights that do absolutely nothing or use the clubs name and pay nothing for the privilege and get some proper professionals in that know what to do. It won’t happen obviously but it bloody should! |
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Reply | Another great passes
at 22:21 18 Jan 2025
Met him at Spotland when Alec Stepney was there as commercial manager and big Ron was helping out. I can’t remember who was manager as I was only about 6 but it could have been Vic Halom. Don’t remember a great deal other than he shook my hand and asked if he was signing for us. He laughed and said something like I’m not good enough. |
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Reply | Dale vs Manchester United U21s
at 21:44 3 Dec 2024
Typical Jim though. Large crowd of fans that would not normally be there in a pointless game and he plays tvvat all and ends up with a 0 - 0 that will send everyone home thrilled and dying to return. If I was the chairman I would be spitting feathers at his continuous negative pi** about approach, especially in a pointless game like this.
We should have gone out and played aggressively and with an attacking (plan b) approach which could be used in future games if needed, but nope, let’s play the same as ever. Bore the sh1t out of everyone and make tonight a waste of time. Joke!!!!
Just seen we lost not that it matters. Waste of time! [Post edited 3 Dec 2024 21:51]
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Reply | Radcliffe 2 - Bury 3 3rd round FA cup qualifying
at 21:49 4 Oct 2024
I don’t really understand why you keep poking Rob. All that matters is what has happened in the last 6 or so years of our clubs existence. Yours died, your fans ignored the truth, you enjoyed the ride! I hated the last 6 years and that tvvat Bottomley, but we never swapped our cow for those magic beans and although we could have easily gone under, we didn’t for reasons above.
I miss clubs like Colne Dynamos, bury, Bradford PA etc, but if they can’t learn from their numerous mistakes, what can you do? |
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Reply | Rochdale sign Hogan
at 14:55 28 Sep 2024
Think this is a fantastic signing tbh, and I’m not generally automatically positive. Steady, gives his all, not scared to put his head where it hurts and plenty of know how and experience in a youthful squad. Think Guy Branston and that’s what you get! |
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Reply | Refwatch - Eastleigh v Rochdale
at 18:14 21 Sep 2024
The thing baffling me is this. I’m assuming Hendo is on a decent contract still but plays next to no time. If Jim is not going to bloody use him what’s the point? May as well have a kid on the bench and save cash.
This isn’t a slight on Hendo, more at the logic of Jim! |
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Reply | tomorrow can't come quick enough
at 22:33 11 Aug 2024
Nope, now selling magic gloves with 6 digits, £2.99 a pair or £3.99 with a season ticket for giggle 🤭 |
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Reply | not one for the kids - Quick Quiz
at 22:28 11 Aug 2024
Not sure of the year but somewhere I have. Keith welch sticker or 2, in pretty sure they did a club badge and one player from lo clubs from about 86, think I have an Alan ainscow sticker and a team one as well.
Got a feeling John Seasman was a sticker at one stage but might be wrong |
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Reply | Demonstrations outside Rochdale Police Station
at 16:07 8 Aug 2024
Well said! The airport bell ends should get at least 8 years each then, let’s see if the labour driven agenda actually has some bollocks when it comes to the punishment of those that caused a large part of these riots!
Maybe if Starmer had been stronger when he was with the CPS and dealt with the likes of institutional grooming in the Muslim community and Saville and his BBC mates, this would never be happening, but then I guess Labour forget the sins of Blair (lying war criminal) quicker than Boris, but hey they are all in it for themselves! |
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Thread | Rob Burrow.
at 18:34 2 Jun 2024
Awful but inevitable news. Thoughts with his family and Kev. Absolute legend and man of dignity!!! |
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Reply | Garnacho goal of the season
at 10:47 29 Nov 2023
If he does not win it united fans will blame VAR, they blame everything else on that! |
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Reply | Oldham Thread
at 16:39 21 Oct 2023
Immensely proud of our defence 😠 |
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