Rochdale Matchday Thread!

It'll only take a phone call to the fall guy to carry out the deed. But why would they sack him IF we're being taken over - that'll cost them money. He will become someone else's financial liability IF we're about to have new owners. However it's a difficult situation because the owners (I presume) will want to maintain League 1 status. Unfortunately DC has been found wanting for whatever reason since around the close of the January transfer window - I have my thoughts on this, others will have theirs and some will disagree. If he's fired it might just suggest to me that there's no imminent takeover.  

I didn't see the game so can't comment on the performance but from a purely result point of view 2 points from 2 on the road isn't a bad return, we now need to win Sat to turn those into good points. Should we expect to beat 10 men of course but I think some people fail to consider the opposition are allowed to make it difficult. We don't have a devine right to beat anyone in this league, remember the melt down after Accrington & look where they are.

We don't normally have a mid-season slump though, do we?

We normally start poor, pick it up around October/November, crash out of all the cups ASAP before dropping off the last 6/7 games.

Trying to put my slightly more positive hat back on today - 2 clean sheets on the road and undefeated. If we beat Walsall on Saturday its a very productive week, if we lose then it was thrown away.

Fine lines though - a goal hungry (greedy) forward and we probably would have beaten Southend, Plymouth, Shrewsbury, Bradford and Rochdale. Do we have such player in the squad. I did think it was going to be Reilly or possible Jack but certainly not happened yet. Reilly is adjusting to life outside of Scottish football but hopefully with some coaching from Marcus he might become as prolific as Jason Roberts. Trouble is we need it to happen sooner than later.

Just listened to he who can do no wrong post match interview
One comment was that his forwards are not forming partnerships ( or something like that) but how can they when he changes them every week
What world does he live in cuts it certainly isn't the one the rest of us live in

I watched last night's game.
It was a poor game all round. As they say - the first half was even, and the second half was even worse !
Once again we couldn't deal with pace, our perennial problem. At least Payney-boy made a bit of effort this time.
On to the next one.
UTG

true, but as we can see we are nothing special this season so you want to win against the weaker teams (especially when they've 10 on pitch) before the tougher games come along. Looks like Walsall will be a toughie.

Although our overall play was slow and boring at times. We still created quite a few chances. Even when playing against 11 during the first half, we hit the underside of the bar, Clarke missed a one on one where the keeper made a good save, Partington put the ball across the six yard box and it somehow stayed out.

During the 2nd half Partington, Sercombe etc seemed to tire but they have been out for a while. The keeper made 2 good saves to deny Sercombe, one from range, but one close, when the ball dropped to him at the back post. We also had a few half chances.

So although it was quite a poor performance,I don't think it was as bad as some are making out.