philsussex
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Looking forward to going there again. Good day out although we never win there! Great pub near the ground called The Cemetery.
Under Gus we will win EVERYTHING next season
Looking forward to going there again. Good day out although we never win there! Great pub near the ground called The Cemetery.
Looking forward to going there again. Good day out although we never win there! Great pub near the ground called The Cemetery.
It was a bit dead the last time I went in there...
Rarely feel this chuffed for another club, but you've got to say the people that have stuck with Rochdale for 36 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) years are surely amongst the best fans in the land! Look forward to playing them next year!
first half of the season with average gates of less than 3k and even toward the end of the season stuggling to get 5k, and with a tiny capacity, there really aren't many Dale fans anyway. But good for them.
I'm chuffed for them, we beat them in the play off final a couple of years back and now we swap places with them Hopefully we don't stay down there quite as long as they did.
Although to be honest I'd gladly take thirty six years in the basement division for the chance to come out of administration and have a bit of stability again.
It is true that there aren't that many of them, just to illustrate why, I thought this might be of interest.
Within a 40 mile radius of their ground is;
Oldham 4.98 miles
Bury 5.4
Man City 9.37
Man Utd 11.75
Burnley 11.85
Accrington 12.71
Blackburn 14.8
Bolton 14.89
Stockport 15.17
Huddersfield
Wigan
Bradford
Preston
Macclesfield
Leeds
Barnsley
Sheff Wed
Sheff Utd
Liverpool
Everton
Rotherham
Blackpool
Crewe
Tranmere
Port Vale
Chesterfield 40.49
You guys have;
Crystal Palace 39.59
Portsmouth 40.4
As a Stockport fan I know how it feels when 99% of your town support some other team. I hope you realise how lucky you are to have such a big catchment area.
I used this to compile the data.
It was a bit dead the last time I went in there...
If we visit them this time next year they may be in grave danger of us burying them.
Hope they keep their heads above ground, by the grates of God!
Was there last when Phil Stant played,think we drew 1-1 ? Was there when Bellotti was smuggled out. They have a pub on the ground,or did have.