Recent content by Fedora Dale

Came through the youth ranks at Rochdale. Winger/forward. Had a few sub appearances and got a goal - Cov presumably saw something in him and offered us a small fee, so off he went. In the tradition of irrelevant facts beloved of football fans, about 3 years ago his dad worked with a couple of...

From what I've seen of the highlights of Rochdale v Blackburn U21s, Jid is a useful player. Cheers!

Rochdale have signed CB Liam Hogan on a free from Oldham. Has a decent track record of promotions (Salford and Stockport) from this league, and with Ethan Ebanks-Landell and. loanee Dan Sassi injured we're down to three fit pure defenders (discounting the wing backs Tobi Adebayo-Rowling...

I see Michael Afuye is with Curzon now. Played for us at the start of last season - we signed him from Avro after a trial. Not quite good enough for The National League, and we eventually let him go out on loan after we signed a couple more players (to Guiseley or Farsley, can't remember...

Pretty well. The odd shaky moment, but generally pretty solid. We've only let in two goals in six games, so the defence as a whole aren't doing badly, and McNicholas gets a share of the credit for this. Thanks for loaning him!

Not a totally surprising result looking at the six ex-Rochdale players involved. All six are useful players, but the Wrexham trio of O'Connell, Cannon and Rathbone are older and played for Dale in League One. Of the Posh trio, Odoh played in L2, Nevett and Hayes in the National League last...

A very comfortable 3-0 win (which could have been several more) against Woking. Promising, and up to 4th.

Tough game at York tonight, and a reunion with a couple of last season's players (Sinclair and John), both of whom performed decently for Dale. Other than the veteran John-Lewis, I don't know much about the rest of York's team, but they've had a competent start and deserve respect. Should be a...

Don't know too much about Mike Marsh (other than he used to play for Liverpool), but if he does reasonably well as caretaker, he might be the answer...

Meh. Reasonably competent, but no world beater. Too much of a "coach", not really inspiring as a manager. You can do better.

Thanks to good goalkeeping, an excellent finish by Pereira, some hardworking defending with players putting their bodies on the line, and a soft referee who failed to use his yellow card in the face of their incessant time wasting and feigning of injury and some wayward finishing by the home...

Gills are the biggest club in Kent, and have been since Greater London was invented in 1965. Before then, it was Charlton; before Charlton were Woolwich Arsenal; before the Gunners were Royal Engineers (based in Chatham).

A fairly competent performance at Boston by Dale resulted in a pretty comfortable 3-0 win. Can't read too much into one game, but still pleasing - there finally seems to be green shoots of revival showing.

Highlight of his loan spell at Rochdale a few years ago was shouting "Don't tell him your name, Pyke" when he picked up a yellow for a late challenge on the opposing full back. The linesman just about kept a straight face...

We've (Rochdale) signed a couple of players: - Connor McBride, young winger previously with Gateshead. - Tobi Adebayo-Rowling, wing back who has spent the previous couple of years with Notts County.