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1st September - Chester (A)
9th September - Wrexham (A)
12th September - Franchise (H)
16th September - Peterborough (H)
23rd September - Notts County (A)
26th September - Wycombe (A)
30th September - Boston (H)

Some very hard games coming up, this will prove how could we really are.
Wycombe,Notts County,Franchise & Peterborough all expected to be up there with us.

15/21 points will be a good return.

7 games in a month? Crikey.

Tough games, we might slip up this month.

Crap. I'm going paintballing on the 30th. Damned friends' birthday celebrations  :x

If we come out of that on Top still then they'll be no stopping us.

im not worried about most of them games th we should win them. apart from Wrexham, Mk and Wycombe perhaps

Moved this post here as its relevant to the debate....

    ....this is what the Rochdale league top 3 looked like after 5 games last season.

1st Notts (finished 21st)
2nd Rochdale (finished 14th)
3rd Barnet (finished 18th

Notts went into the final game with a chance of the Conference, Barnet weren't far off.

Point being....I suspect so far we may have played some of the poorer teams in this Div......so feet on the ground until we've seen what the likes of MKD, Walsall and Posh are about.

  If we come through this looking good, then it will be time to start getting excited

should make all the home games, and probably wrexham and notts county.


tough games, but i'm hopefull...

but did any of those three teams win all five games?

doubt we'll get through with maximum points, but can see us remaining unbeaten. the only fixture which worries me is Franchise.

hopefully i should be able to make all of those games, providing nothing else goes wrong.

Can't disagree with that.

We will lose eventually so I just hope we can bounce back in the following fixture. Chester and Wrexham will be very tricky - infact they're all tough ones - What a difficult month  :|

Why do you call it 'The Rochdale League'?

Chester won't be as hard as Wrexham

I'm glad you know in advance ;)

 :soapy tit wank: we'll probably stuff Wrexham 5-0 and lose at Chester now ive said that

 Rochdale have been in it for something like 25 years now....got to love their fans,  no plastics there.

Longer than that, this is there 33rd consecutive season in this league.

2nd in this divvy is Darlington who've been here since 1990.

Arsenal have the longest stay in any division - Top flight since 1919 - BORING BORING ARSENAL  :D

But everybody seems to think football became a new game and history was re-written as soon as the Premiership began... :roll:

In which case they haven't been there for more than what 15 years?

I don't buy into that at all.

We've had a bloody eventful last 14/15 years though, in our brief history!

  I've lost a few years , there then.  At least Rochdale did make it to the PO's once, something the scum have never managed.

We're screwed in Sept anyway - Wise will get MoTM, and then that's it for the month. Least we've got a nice points cushion to sit on and are currently the best side in England

Not saying I agree with it at all! But everybody raves on about the whatever record "in the Premiership" and it seems that anything before the formation of the Premier League has been wiped off the slate.

That's just shit media pundits who like to buy into the whole "There is only one league in British football" because then they don't have to know or care anything about the other 72 sides. Oh, and the armchair divvies whose entire view of football is shaped by such pundits as they've never been to a game in their lives, obviously

 Its not strictly true, because you'll get stuff like Chelsea are going for " a remarkable 3 titles in a row, only achieved by ManUre , Liverpool ....(and cough splutter whisper it quietly) Huddersfield Town.

And thus making every 14 year old 'uddersfield fan with internet access the ability to remind the rest of the world this fact.

I think it is fair to say that we will drop points in September and maybe (shock horror) lose a game.

If we are still in the top three by the end of the month (and I think we will be) then we will be up there for the long haul.

Interestingly enough (well, interesting in a boring kind of way) when we won the Div 4 Championship in 86-86, we lost at home to Wrexham on the opening day of the season (0-1) . In 95-96 when we won the Div 2 Championship the first team to beat us was Wrexham (3-4). On the 9th September we are away to.............yes, that's right...........Boston..........

D'oh! No I mean Wrexham.

I do think that could be where we drop our first points this time round as well.  I believe we will make it 6 wins out of 6 at Chester and follow that up with a draw at Wrexham.

Ohhhhhhhhhh :D

I want your babies.

Day of the Notts County game.

What are the chances of getting from Birmingham to Aberystwyth (3 hours, sheep permitting) to drop my daughter at university, set up her room, then get back to Nottingham for kick-off?

Slim I would say - not a word often associated with me  :oops:

it depends if you drive like a mentalist 8)

what's she studying at aberystwyth? it's my second choice, sounds like a good uni and a lovely place. shame it's in wales though...

1-1 at Wrexham I'm afraid :?  But we'll make up for it by drubbing Franchise FC. I will have to come back to you on the score though :wink:

Wales in general is very inbred and strange in my personal experience. I went to Aberthingy once, it was a bit like the land that time forgot. They have a strange cable car kind of thing and a 'camera obscura' which is equally strange. Nice scenery though 8)


And lots of sheep.



And lots of sheepshagers I would imagine.

I'm looking at Swansea at the moment. About as Welsh as I am prepared to go...ie full of English students!

Back to the point, I think we will lose two games in September and people will think we have lost it and will get relegated.

October will see us back on top!

This run if games against the tougher teams in this league is where Ince could prove invaluable.

This is not something that could possibly be proved or disproved, but I feel that Ince, in the forthcoming fixtures, could be the difference between W2 D2 L2 and W4 D1 L1.

The latter being with Ince playing of course.

Just my gut feeling of course :shrug:

i cannot honestly seeing us drop points.its inevitable but when?? the later the better

I agree. It is hard to imagine this team losing to anybody!
I think Franchise and Wycombe will be the tough tests, maybe Posh but I'm not convinced

I know what you mean, we seem to be able to just play averagely well and win.

But we will meet some one when they are having a good day and we are having an off day. It will happen.

We only lost 4 games when we won Div 3 in 95/96 and I can still remember them quite clearly now:

Wrexham (A) 3-4. We played ok but were sloppy at the back, they were up for it and played quite well. We threw away a 3-2 lead.

Shrewsbury (H) 0-1. We played ok, missed a load of chances.  They had a couple of chances and scored one on the break. The longer the game went on the more ragged we became.

York (A) 0-2. Shaun Taylor missed the game through injury, Eddy Murray stepped in and clearly was out of his depth. We lost a game we would have won at a canter at full strength.

Oxford (A) 0-3. With McMahon out injured we just lost our way. Luckily he managed to steady the ship by bringing in David Preece on loan who was the perfect replacement for McMahon and the rest of the season was a bit of a stroll in the park.

Four defeats, four very different reasons for those defeats. That, as they say, is association football.

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