chavy Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 .eh ? Where's Chester come from Ken...I know it's not far from the Wirral but I was one of those kids that brought home a bird with 2 broken wings, a half squashed frog etc and hoped they would live - consequently I have even been known to holler for Wrexham, I love a good lost cause................. You're not a closet Welshman are you? Ken's having an identity crisis.....that Aussie sun has got to him I must admit never meeting a Scouse , welsh , Aussie before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 .eh ? Where's Chester come from Ken...I know it's not far from the Wirral but I was one of those kids that brought home a bird with 2 broken wings, a half squashed frog etc and hoped they would live - consequently I have even been known to holler for Wrexham, I love a good lost cause................. You're not a closet Welshman are you? Ken's having an identity crisis.....that Aussie sun has got to him I must admit never meeting a Scouse , welsh , Aussie before There's no crisis in being a "Mongrel" The first foreign language I spoke was Welsh (after Scouse that is) and having grandfathers both Mancunian & Hertfordshirian and cos I had a bent for accents I can talk Levensulme and Norff London, throw in about 5 holidays in Scotland and you start to get some idea of the mixed breed I am.............and this was even before I started my nomadic life My Dad used to call on Tom Finney and his plumbing business in the late 50's, hence an eye is kept on P.N.E. now and then, there are a few more but you don't want this old Heinz 57 boring you to death......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 There's no "west country" anywhere in you is there Ken? That's all we need, 2 Scrumpy drinkers on the forum....I wonder who the the other is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 There's no "west country" anywhere in you is there Ken? That's all we need, 2 Scrumpy drinkers on the forum....I wonder who the the other is ? I'm a Pastie and Scrumpy man, I have to make the definition as people may think I'm from Somerset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 There's no "west country" anywhere in you is there Ken? That's all we need, 2 Scrumpy drinkers on the forum....I wonder who the the other is ? I'm a Pastie and Scrumpy man, I have to make the definition as people may think I'm from Somerset. Understood mate.......bumkins that Somerset lot There's a rumour Brummie Barry is on the way down to Southend today !!! Is there any truth in this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 10, 2007 Author Share Posted November 10, 2007 There's a rumour Brummie Barry is on the way down to Southend today !!! Is there any truth in this ? Nah mate. I've only ever been to 4 Rochdale away matches. Bury (about 5 miles away) Preston, 30 min drive, Lincoln (don't know why) and Liverpool in the FA cup, when they stuffed us 7-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 10, 2007 Author Share Posted November 10, 2007 Who's Dale got in the cup this round? or aren't they bothering this year They're away to Southend on saturday. Allthough they should'nt bother really and save the petrol money You'll be alright down there MrBJ, chance to stock up on your jellied eels or what ever it is the southern softies eat Bugger, 10 mins gone Rochdale losing 1-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunderland Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Perhaps we should add Derby County to the lower league thread. They are woeful in the second half against West Ham. 4-0 down and looking a sorry bunch. Surely going down this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Chesterfield 1 - 2 Tranmere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 Rochdale dumped out 2-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Never mind MrBJ, you can concentrate on thr promotion push We could only manage a 1 - 1 draw against the bottom club Lincoln on Saturday At least Toadie's lot managed to thrash Yeovil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Never mind MrBJ, you can concentrate on thr promotion push I think Rochdale are just tired at the moment. Holding the rest of the table up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Never mind MrBJ, you can concentrate on thr promotion push I think Rochdale are just tired at the moment. Holding the rest of the table up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Never mind MrBJ, you can concentrate on thr promotion push I think Rochdale are just tired at the moment. Holding the rest of the table up As Benitez would say, "keeping it fresh for the title run in". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 here's one for mrbj Rochdale AFC: Walking tall at the bottom Shevchenkos come and Henrys move on but Rochdale just sit there forever. Unnoticed, except by the terminally afflicted and by gloating neighbours from Bury, the weavers from the valley of the Roch have spent 95 of their first 100 years on the bottom shelf, thus qualifying as The Most Unsuccessful Club in the history of English League football. Well, it's a title. Although apparently resigned to their destiny like a spider in the bath, Rochdale are mildly self-conscious in this, their centenary season. Rochdale FC: A celebration of drudgery Never the bride: Spotland Stadium the home of Rochdale AFC "Doesn't look too impressive on paper," admits the chairman, Chris Dunphy, "but we aim to be knocking on the door of the Championship in three years. Scunthorpe and Colchester have proved it can be done." Yeah, right. Only last season Chris decided 17 years on the board were enough for anyone who valued his sanity. There were more important things in life, like heating medieval churches without destroying the stonework – his speciality. However, as soon as he pledged to give more time to Chris Dunphy Ecclesiastical Ltd, he was press-ganged into the Spotland hot seat because Rochdale couldn't find a willing Uzbek. Whether you call it the Third Division South, League Division Four or Coca-Cola League Two, Dale have hogged Satan's Waiting Room with the tenacity of asylum seekers in the cargo hold. All they have to show for 100 years of largely fruitless endeavour is one solitary promotion in 1968. They came down again in 1973 and have refused to leave their comfort zone ever since. Even the Conference didn't appeal, though they flirted with non-League football a couple of times. The chairman of Rochdale Supporters' Trust, Scott Goulding, thinks I'm being unreasonable. "How can you say we're unsuccessful? Only one relegation in a century makes us the most consistent club in the country." He has a point. I was sorry to miss the centenary dinner, during which supporters were invited to nominate the club's most charismatic servants since 1907. After a prolonged silence, someone remembered Little Joe Richardson scoring a brace of goals in the 3-1 defeat of Blackburn Rovers that helped Dale to an improbable League Cup final in 1962. They lost the two-legged climax to Norwich City, but that was by the by. More noteworthy were the four-legged beasts that Joe bundled into the back of his van and sold on the streets of Liverpool the following day. Kidnapping Alsatians and flogging them as guard dogs for a fiver a time was how he supplemented his meagre earnings from football. Joe's demise was as bizarre as his life. While working as a drayman for Higson's Brewery, he was crushed by a giant beer barrel that rolled off the cart. Into the Hall of Infamy he goes, along with poor old Billy Rudd, who paid the price for ignoring tradition. Billy had the audacity to captain Rochdale's promotion-winning side before leading them to a club record ninth place in the old Third Division. He was promptly transferred to Bury, with the parting words: "And take your big ideas with you!" The town is uncomfortable with success. I suggested Rochdale might launch their second century by dropping the name Spotland and rechristening the stadium The Gracie Fields in honour of their most illustrious daughter. I wish I hadn't bothered. One glance at the grimy metal plaque that passes as a memorial to Gracie outside No?9 Molesworth Street would have prepared me for the blank expressions that greeted my remark. "They haven't forgiven her for moving to Capri," said my taxi driver. "She probably got out before they could sell her to Bury," I replied. So why are Rochdale so bad and why does anyone support them? For the answers to this conundrum I turned to Christine Fairhurst — or rather I stumbled over her and her meat pie on my way to the press box. "Pass" was her reply to the first part of the question; "because there's nowt else to do" to the second. She and her friend, Mavis Shellard, follow Dale all over the country. Extraordinary in itself but almost beyond credulity when I heard that Christine lives 67 miles away in North Wales and has no DNA association with Rochdale that genealogists have been able to detect. Perhaps the chairman could help. Was it the usual "Dad brought me here before I could crawl"? Chris nodded, apologetically. "I'll tell you something else," he said. "People who come to Spotland really care. I've been to Premier League grounds and they don't do passion like us." Only once in 45 years has he felt embarrassed, even slightly humiliated to be a Rochdalian. It happened on a wet Tuesday last October when they put an end to Macclesfield's record losing run by handing them a 1-0 victory. "I felt so sorry for our 400 fans in the drenching rain. How much worse could it get? Then they burst into song and I knew we'd be OK." We need clubs like Rochdale, don't we? Classic MrBJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 . "The Most Consistant Club in the Country" Consistantly What ?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 ."The Most Consistant Club in the Country" Consistantly What ?. Crap Ken Joe Richardson......what a way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 Good piece Chavy. I didn't know we had won the title of most unsuccessful club. Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Good piece Chavy. I didn't know we had won the title of most unsuccessful club. Brilliant Only one relegation in their history that takes some doing does that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 Good piece Chavy. I didn't know we had won the title of most unsuccessful club. Brilliant Only one relegation in their history that takes some doing does that I'll have to do a search for the year but i'm sure we avoided relegation once as the club's ground who where being promoted didn't meet the required standards, so we stayed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 . Doncaster Rovers 0 v Tranmere Rovers 0......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 18, 2007 Author Share Posted November 18, 2007 Chesterfield Vs Rochdale.....Postponed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Chesterfield Vs Rochdale.....Postponed Somebody forgot to bring the ball again ?........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Chesterfield Vs Rochdale.....Postponed I assume it was due to all those international call ups at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I hear it's getting a bit cold "up North" this time of the year & the snow is making an appearance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Chesterfield Vs Rochdale.....Postponed I assume it was due to all those international call ups at the weekend. I think it was more to do with the Pie and Gravy warmer was broke. There would have been a riot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 I hear it's getting a bit cold "up North" this time of the year & the snow is making an appearance Up in t'hills i believe but i haven't seen any yet. When it does come, shall i post you boys some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeungKen Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I hear it's getting a bit cold "up North" this time of the year & the snow is making an appearance Up in t'hills i believe but i haven't seen any yet. When it does come, shall i post you boys some? Pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavy Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I've just been reading about Sven getting 150 mill to spend next summer I'd rather be talking about Rochdale & Tranmere than talking about signing Ronaldinho , Kaka & Messi Never mind , we've got Crewe this Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 I've just been reading about Sven getting 150 mill to spend next summer I'd rather be talking about Rochdale & Tranmere than talking about signing Ronaldinho , Kaka & Messi I wouldn't Oh happy days, oh happy days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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