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  1. Tyrone Shoelaces
    They’ve just sacked their second manager of the season tonight and the third in total. They’re making the Chicken Chokers look good.
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    Yeah, just like anybody called White was always nicknamed Chalky.
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    Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl
  4. Tyrone Shoelaces
    Maybe Chaddy has “ The Stig “ driving it for him ?
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    I’m thinking of going by canoe. Can anybody tell me which canal to take ?
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    Hi Andi,  things had been rocky between the clubs until a couple of years ago. Then Hornets got a new board who made big efforts to get things back on track. The football club felt the same way and relations between the two clubs were really good. The best they’d been for a long while. Then the football club got a new board.

    They went through the ground rental agreement with a fine tooth comb. Previously it had mostly been “ gentleman’s agreements “. They wanted a big cut of the car parking for our games. So nobody gets paid now and car parking is free. They wanted to charge us exorbitant amounts for use of the scoreboard - stewarding etc. So then we were only allowed to use 1/8th of the ground with a limit of a 1,000 unless we paid exorbitant charges. We’d agreed a fee for the use of the ground for the England v Fiji game last year with the old board. Rochdale is the home of Fiji rugby league. The new board wanted £60.000 up front for us to stage the game ! So the game went to Salford and everybody lost out.

    They closed our club shop, then they closed the club office, took down all our signage outside the ground. Finally they removed all our memorabilia from the main stand ! If it wasn’t written down in black and white we couldn’t have it. They didn’t want us at the ground but they knew we had a cast iron lease of the ground so they decided to freeze us out by other methods. 
    Well, look were it’s got the bastards - relegation from the football league unless they get a miracle.

    Up The Rovers. Tyrone. ( John C. )

    1. oneandycrawford

      oneandycrawford

      Hi John

      Thanks so much for filling me in. Finding stuff out about Hornets is so difficult nowadays. I saw about the Fiji game and wondered what had happened. Talk about cutting off their nose to spite their face!!

      You have to wonder what the football club board were hoping to achieve. You could (almost) understand it when they were in an upwardly mobile state a few years ago but the last two or three years have seen steady decline. Creating antagonism when both clubs would be better pulling together just seems bizarre.

      As you say Up the Rovers - and hopefully, sometime in the future, Up T'Hoooooorrrrrrrnnnnnnnneeeeeettttts.

      Cheers Andy (Neil T.)

    2. Tyrone Shoelaces

      Tyrone Shoelaces

      Thanks Andy, I think they were new to the job and had delusions of grandeur. They know better now. Hornets have friends on the local Council and I believe the football directors were told in no uncertain terms that all the shit had to stop if they wanted support from the Council. Will shall see.

      Regards John C.

  7. Tyrone Shoelaces
    I’ll PM you.
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    I’ve lived in Rochdale since we moved from Blackburn when I was 5 years old. They used to be my second club but since the new board took over and destroyed the relationship between the two clubs I’ve stopped going to the football. As I said previously I’ve probably been to Spotland as often as I have to Ewood over the last 60 years. Back in the day I had several mates who played for them. They’ll never get another penny from me now, or any members of my family, if I can help it. If the new board resign as they should do I’ll reconsider. Their treatment of Hornets has been nothing short of disgraceful. They seem to be the sort of people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
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    The Sir Douglas Quintet - She’s About A Mover
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    Do what I do and turn on the TV right on KO time. That way you miss all the usual bullshit about teams and players. Plus in the case of Channels 3 and 4, you miss the incessant advertisements.
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    You wouldn’t learn any of that reading Th’ Obby. It’s beyond useless now. I think it’s produced in somewhere like Warrington. Hardly any local news and full of nonsense.
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    James Brown And The Famous Flames - I’ll Go Crazy
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    Over the years I must have been to Spotland nearly as many times as I have been to Ewood. I don’t go now at all since the new current board started shitting on the Rugby League club that shares the ground with them. They’ve wrecked the chances of Hornets doing anything and now they’ve wrecked the football club. What goes around comes around.
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    Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
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    Easily forgotten I suppose.
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    It didn’t help that’s for sure. Same story at Leicester.
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    Yes, you’re right about the Liverpool game in Jan 1950 - 52,468 at a 0-0 draw. 52,221 at the replay at Anfield. That was a 2-1 defeat. I’ve no means of knowing about games that don’t directly involve Rovers. Sorry.
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    Don Martin was the stand in keeper I believe. He certainly went in goal when Roger Jones was injured in the later Shrewsbury game. I once read that Pele was Brazil’s stand in keeper back in the day !
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    The Coasters - Ain’t That Just Like Me
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    I was probably back home and in bed by the time those photos were taken. Me and my pal Alec had queued up all night to get our tickets along with another half a dozen fools. When the game was originally scheduled we’d a full compliment of players to choose from. The game was postponed at least once because of the weather and when it was actually played both Billy Wilson our first choice left back and Eamon Rogers our midfield dynamo were suspended. Both were badly missed on the night. Unfortunately that was City’s best performance in the whole cup run and we couldn’t live with them. Their transition from attack to defence was really rapid, nothing like the pass-pass-pass of the Pep teams today. The saddest thing for me to see the great Bryan Douglas coming on as sub when the game was pretty much gone. He was unable to affect the game against the new style of midfield player in City’s Colin Bell. It was like the changing of the guard - out with the ball players and in with the hard running athletes. The team that night - Blacklaw Newton, Coddington, Mulvaney, Calloway Metcalfe, Sharples, Martin, Connelly Darling, Fryatt Sub. Douglas.
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    I don’t know. Just imagine Waggott rubbing his hands at the thought of that. The game that actually got played had 43,000 on.
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    I could only find 5 home games were the gate exceeded 50,000 since 1945. WBA FA Cup 1951-52, Burnley FA Cup 1951-52. Liverpool FA Cup 1957-58. Blackpool FA Cup 1959-60, Burnley FA Cup 1959-60. Which one have I missed ?
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    Man City in the FACup in the late 1960’s was the last 40,000 plus gate. Yes, it was packed.
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    Dave Berry And The Cruisers - The Crying Game
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    The Music Explosion - Little Bit O’ Soul
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