COG is vital part of the Dale machine

September 30th, 2009 by jacko_dale

Rochdale continued their fine home form on Saturday with a thumping 4-1 defeat of recently relegated Hereford.  The topic on many people’s lips after the game however wasn’t yet another goal for Chris Dagnall, a goal on Simon Whaley’s home debut, the obligatory Will Buckley goal or a first senior league goal for Craig Dawson. [...]

A Derby Day to Remember

August 31st, 2009 by jacko_dale

16.50, Saturday August 29th 2009. Keith Stroud draws the curtain on one of the most memorable Dale games of the decade. Keith Hill’s men have finally ended the 16 year winless run against Bury at Spotland, and what a game it was. Whilst most hyped-up games fail to live up to expectation, this game had [...]

D-Day for Dale

August 27th, 2009 by jacko_dale

It’s one of the first games that every football fan looks for when the fixtures are published, the game that brings the part time fans out of the woodwork, the game where the form book is thrown out of the window. I am of course talking about the first local derby of the season.

This bank [...]