Dale fan in peace

[Gullscorer]

Our form against the top half teams makes poor reading. What it does tell you is we’re a fair bottom half team.
Record v Top Half P.7 W.0 D.1 L.6
Record v Btm Half P.8 W.3 D.4 L.1
On paper Rochdale look good things. Just glad we don’t play on paper.

I would say more like a mid-table team, which is as likely as not where we'll both finish at the end of the season. But you never know..

[brucie]

Its a fair point that the division is hopeless really. Mansfield were in the play off positions when they came down here and looked like a team that should be back in the conference. No suprise really that they have lost every game since.

[brucie]

I actually don't think that the league positions are absolutely anything to go by at all. If you look at the match odds on betfair for this game Torquay are around 3 (2/1) and Rochdale are 2.6 (just over 6/4).
Despite our poor form I would actually make us favourites for this game. Home advantage,a couple of decent results and a far stronger squad than we had a fortnight ago.
That doesn't necessarily mean I think we will win but to my mind we are no more unlikely to win the game than Rochdale are.
A lay of the visitors (ie having the draw on your side) looks an attractive bet to me at the odds.

[ferrarilover]

Its a fair point that the division is hopeless really. Mansfield were in the play off positions when they came down here and looked like a team that should be back in the conference. No suprise really that they have lost every game since.

The only element of the last two posts that I'd disagree with is contained in this one. I think Mansfield looked a side who would be extremely lucky to be in the Conference.

Matt.