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| When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf? |
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| Match Off! on 10:57 - Dec 17 with 3156 views | kel |
Someone’s slacking. |  | | |
| Match Off! on 11:22 - Dec 17 with 3030 views | TVOS1907 |
| Match Off! on 10:57 - Dec 17 by kel |
Someone’s slacking. |
Guiseley off too. | |
| When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf? |
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| Match Off! on 11:56 - Dec 17 with 2916 views | EllDale |
| Match Off! on 10:57 - Dec 17 by kel |
Someone’s slacking. |
“Tinpot club”. Just like Stockport….. |  | | |
| Match Off! on 12:08 - Dec 17 with 2883 views | D_Alien |
Will this be the longest break due to unplayable pitches since early 1979?
On that occasion, our next home game was against Hartlepool too, although we'd also played at Darlington the week before |  |
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| Match Off! on 12:08 - Dec 17 by D_Alien |
Will this be the longest break due to unplayable pitches since early 1979?
On that occasion, our next home game was against Hartlepool too, although we'd also played at Darlington the week before |
If the Hartlepool game goes ahead, it will have been 23 days between matches.
Excluding the summer break, that will be the longest gap since last December-January, when there were 28 days between the Newport and Tranmere games, but that was down to Covid postponements...
In terms of weather-affected, it has just beaten 22 days between Peterborough (away) on 10/11/10 & Tranmere (home) on 1/1/11 and 22 days between Morecambe (home) on 28/12/09 & Aldershot (away) on 19/1/10.
However, after playing Wigan (away) on 21/12/96, we didn't play again for 24 days (Chester (away) on 14/1/97), so it is certainly the longest weather-affected break in 25 years.
A few more...
No games from 1/1/85 to 2/2/85 - 32 days
No games from 5/12/81 to 13/1/82 - 39 days
No games from 3/2/79 to 3/3/79 - 28 days
No games from 29/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 28 days [29/11/76 was an FA Cup tie v Northwich]
No league games from 26/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 31 days
No games from 20/12/69 to 17/1/70 - 28 days
No games from 29/12/62 to 2/2/63 - 35 days
No games from 1/2/47 to 1/3/47 - 28 days
So, this current sequence has been beaten a few times, but not since 1996/97.
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| Match Off! on 12:16 - Dec 17 with 2831 views | 442Dale |
| Match Off! on 12:12 - Dec 17 by TVOS1907 |
If the Hartlepool game goes ahead, it will have been 23 days between matches.
Excluding the summer break, that will be the longest gap since last December-January, when there were 28 days between the Newport and Tranmere games, but that was down to Covid postponements...
In terms of weather-affected, it has just beaten 22 days between Peterborough (away) on 10/11/10 & Tranmere (home) on 1/1/11 and 22 days between Morecambe (home) on 28/12/09 & Aldershot (away) on 19/1/10.
However, after playing Wigan (away) on 21/12/96, we didn't play again for 24 days (Chester (away) on 14/1/97), so it is certainly the longest weather-affected break in 25 years.
A few more...
No games from 1/1/85 to 2/2/85 - 32 days
No games from 5/12/81 to 13/1/82 - 39 days
No games from 3/2/79 to 3/3/79 - 28 days
No games from 29/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 28 days [29/11/76 was an FA Cup tie v Northwich]
No league games from 26/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 31 days
No games from 20/12/69 to 17/1/70 - 28 days
No games from 29/12/62 to 2/2/63 - 35 days
No games from 1/2/47 to 1/3/47 - 28 days
So, this current sequence has been beaten a few times, but not since 1996/97.
[Post edited 17 Dec 2022 12:36]
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The quickest of checks based on remembering both 09/10 and 10/11 saw wintry conditions around Christmas/new year: 22 days break both seasons. It will be 23 between Harrogate and Hartlepool.
Edit: Also 23 days at the start of 1987 after winning at Burnley on NYD. There was only a 5-0 defeat at Northampton between them and the 7th Feb as well. [Post edited 17 Dec 2022 12:21]
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| Match Off! on 12:34 - Dec 17 with 2762 views | TVOS1907 |
| Match Off! on 12:16 - Dec 17 by 442Dale |
The quickest of checks based on remembering both 09/10 and 10/11 saw wintry conditions around Christmas/new year: 22 days break both seasons. It will be 23 between Harrogate and Hartlepool.
Edit: Also 23 days at the start of 1987 after winning at Burnley on NYD. There was only a 5-0 defeat at Northampton between them and the 7th Feb as well. [Post edited 17 Dec 2022 12:21]
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Yes, but if we include cup games, the FRT ties v York and Chesterfield spoil the sequence somewhat | |
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| Match Off! on 12:43 - Dec 17 with 2731 views | 442Dale |
| Match Off! on 12:34 - Dec 17 by TVOS1907 |
Yes, but if we include cup games, the FRT ties v York and Chesterfield spoil the sequence somewhat |
Ah. Had a look at Wikipedia where it was just league. | |
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| Match Off! on 20:44 - Dec 17 with 2227 views | TVOS1907 |
| Match Off! on 12:12 - Dec 17 by TVOS1907 |
If the Hartlepool game goes ahead, it will have been 23 days between matches.
Excluding the summer break, that will be the longest gap since last December-January, when there were 28 days between the Newport and Tranmere games, but that was down to Covid postponements...
In terms of weather-affected, it has just beaten 22 days between Peterborough (away) on 10/11/10 & Tranmere (home) on 1/1/11 and 22 days between Morecambe (home) on 28/12/09 & Aldershot (away) on 19/1/10.
However, after playing Wigan (away) on 21/12/96, we didn't play again for 24 days (Chester (away) on 14/1/97), so it is certainly the longest weather-affected break in 25 years.
A few more...
No games from 1/1/85 to 2/2/85 - 32 days
No games from 5/12/81 to 13/1/82 - 39 days
No games from 3/2/79 to 3/3/79 - 28 days
No games from 29/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 28 days [29/11/76 was an FA Cup tie v Northwich]
No league games from 26/11/76 to 27/12/76 - 31 days
No games from 20/12/69 to 17/1/70 - 28 days
No games from 29/12/62 to 2/2/63 - 35 days
No games from 1/2/47 to 1/3/47 - 28 days
So, this current sequence has been beaten a few times, but not since 1996/97.
[Post edited 17 Dec 2022 12:36]
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To extend this further, if we play at Doncaster on 29th December, it will be our first away game for 40 days.
This has only been beaten five times in the club's history, with the record being a 56-day gap between away games from 5th December 1981 to 30th January 1982.
If both the Doncaster and Barrow games are postponed and not rearranged before we travel to Hartlepool on 21st January, we will have a new record (63 days). | |
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| Match Off! on 21:16 - Dec 17 with 2174 views | D_Alien |
| Match Off! on 20:44 - Dec 17 by TVOS1907 |
To extend this further, if we play at Doncaster on 29th December, it will be our first away game for 40 days.
This has only been beaten five times in the club's history, with the record being a 56-day gap between away games from 5th December 1981 to 30th January 1982.
If both the Doncaster and Barrow games are postponed and not rearranged before we travel to Hartlepool on 21st January, we will have a new record (63 days). |
When i referenced the 78/79 gap to the Hartlepool game earlier, it was because i'd genuinely forgotten about the longer intervals since listed
Much was made of the Hartlepool fixture at the time, with a gate just below 2000 i seem to recall - getting on for twice our average during those dark days! It also seems as if much less has been made of those longer, more recent breaks, not sure why | |
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| Match Off! on 21:41 - Dec 17 with 2141 views | EllDale |
My mind went straight to 1979 as well.
It snowed heavily during the last week in January and the weather was awful for weeks after that.
I think that it was the first time that the M62 had been closed since it had been opened and lorry drivers stayed overnight in pubs in Milnrow after having been stranded.
The pitch at Spotland wasn’t the best in the world at the best of times in that era and it wasn’t the only bleak thing about the club. | | | |
| Match Off! on 22:20 - Dec 17 with 2066 views | Sandyman |
Wasn't there the "sausage test" mentioned on here some time ago as the method for deciding whether a Dale game would be on in cold conditions? R17ALE?
Clitheroe failed it today...
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| Match Off! on 22:41 - Dec 17 with 2035 views | TVOS1907 |
| Match Off! on 21:16 - Dec 17 by D_Alien |
When i referenced the 78/79 gap to the Hartlepool game earlier, it was because i'd genuinely forgotten about the longer intervals since listed
Much was made of the Hartlepool fixture at the time, with a gate just below 2000 i seem to recall - getting on for twice our average during those dark days! It also seems as if much less has been made of those longer, more recent breaks, not sure why |
Senility? | |
| When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf? |
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| Match Off! on 22:43 - Dec 17 with 2028 views | TVOS1907 |
| Match Off! on 22:20 - Dec 17 by Sandyman |
Wasn't there the "sausage test" mentioned on here some time ago as the method for deciding whether a Dale game would be on in cold conditions? R17ALE?
Clitheroe failed it today...
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Is that where Northwich Victoria got the name of their original ground from? | |
| When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf? |
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| Match Off! on 22:43 - Dec 17 with 2023 views | D_Alien |
| Match Off! on 22:41 - Dec 17 by TVOS1907 |
Senility? |
Probably, though i'd like to see us win promotion at least once in my lifetime | |
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