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| Doug Tharme | 6.5 |
| Harvey Cribb | 6.5 |
| Cameron McJannet | 6.3 |
| Henry Brown | 6.2 |
| Donovan Wilson | 5.9 |
| George McEachran | 5.9 |
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| Luca Barrington | 5.8 |
| Jake Eastwood | 5.8 |
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| A New Beginning |
Grimsby v Rochdale Preview
By: Alex Green
Date: 07/08/2008 (Last updated: 08/08/2008)
THE season is finally upon us and after a few months of rumour and speculation. Town welcome play-off finalists Rochdale, to Blundell Park for the start of the 2008-09 campaign.
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Rochdale are ready and willing for the start of the new campaign after nearly escaping the clutches of the bottom rung of the Football League and ending nearly 40 years of soul destroying monotony. Alas it wasn't to be, a 3-2 defeat to local rivals Stockport County resigned them to yet another year in League Two for the time being at least and hope for an end to the run is high. Pre-season has been fairly positive with draws against Bolton and Hyde United, yes people Hyde! But with wins over Southport and two wins against Marbella and Rossendale - both games in which Rochdale managed to score 6 - was the sort of stuff we ourselves would have been looking for against lower opposition during our own torrid pre-season kick abouts. It is all in the end just semantics, a good pre-season or a bad one rarely means much by September and both sets of fans are still wondering how their team will perform come Saturday.
Gary Jones (not that one) will surpass Graham Smith's record of most appearances for the Dale on Saturday (318 league appearances) if selected to play. An achievement for any player to reach. Other then that Rochdale’s dip into the transfer market during pre-season have been sparse with the acquisition of our own Ciaran Toner and Jon Shaw of Halifax .I can't find much more activity which happened at Spotland. They took on our loanee Heslop on trial for a time been but nothing came of it. The play-off finalists seem to have kept a large number of the squad intact from last season with only David Perkins departing for Colchester and youngster Matty Hughes leaving for giants Celtic. With the transfer window open till the end of August Keith Hill can still add if he feels he needs to after the first couple of games. If last season is anything to go by Hill won't need to strengthen and playing a Town side who have faced much criticism of late after under performing Hill will feel he has a squad more then capable of bringing something back from the seaside and who would argue with him? Town usually start slow and with ex-players like Ramsden and Toner in the squad it would be a certain law for one of them to get on the score sheet.
Adam Le Fondre. Local born Le Fondre (born in Stockport honestly don't let the name fool you) was last seasons talisman with 16 goals to his name during the campaign one of which he got against ourselves in the 2-1 defeat back in October last year. The 21 year old number ten has already had a memorable start to his career scoring 4 goals against Wrexham in 2006 and also scoring on is Dale debut against Bury in 2004 (god don't you love Wikipedia?) After being sought by other big clubs during the summer months Dale fans will be happy to keep hold of their high flying youngster and another season as successful as last will most probably hail bigger and better things for the striker.
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Town a great record against Rochdale, the problem is it all a long time ago! Town have lost four matches on the trot to Dale and only won one of the last ten. P 43 W 21 D 7 L15 F75 A 61 Rochdale Head-to-Head (20th on The Opposition Ladder)
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Rochdale 3 Grimsby 1 (Sat 05th April 2008) Rochdale applied the final nail in the coffin to any lingering play-off hopes that the Mariners might have had with a comfortable win over Town.
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