Nowt wrong with Spotland at all, from last time we were there. Pretty nice ground. Just a shame its not nearer the motorway!

I can go back to the Athletic Grounds to be honest [which IIRC were nearer the motorway, or would have been if the motorway had been there then]....though, I can't [iactually[/i of course as they they don't exist now, but you get my drift.
I remember Spotland too from those days - seeing Park Avenue playing against 'Dale and and long gone are the corrugated sheets at the end of the ground....I have to say it was much improved from those days the last time the Bulls were there. Small but nicely formed, I think! Looking forward to the match.

Puggy,

I was referring to Rochdale the Town.

As for Spotland, I’ve been there 7-8 times with my Football Club.
Just hope you don’t use the same Stewards as you do for the Football…not helpful in the slightest.
The PA system is very loud but as the PA man plays Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and general “Madchester” music I’ll let him off
Parking is awful and it’s miles away from anywhere.
The Pub at the end of the road at the back of the away end is pretty decent.

I would also recommend the Fish & Chip shop directly behind the away end (if it’s open)

My eight year old nephews are stuck in the tastes of twenty years ago too. I'm embarrassed for them and I'm embarrassed for you.

We were once at a game with Cas at Leigh when one of their elderly fans exclaimed in exasperation (try it in a comedy Lancashire accent) "You've not got t'brains God gave geese". It's stuck with me for over 25 years.

I'll never forget a game against Wigan and as Shaun Edwards stood on the touchline waiting for a kickoff, a tiny old octogenarian with no teeth and flat cap screamed:

"EDWARDS!! If my dog wor as ugly as thee, I'd shave its arrse an make it walk backwards!!!"

You not into the Madchester scene then?

Not a huge amount. I like some things (The Fall, Magazine, Barry Adamson, and I've had Inspiral Carpet's Saturn V stuck in my head on and off for twenty years or so), but the Stone Roses thing turned into hagiography and a pox on that kind of thing. Anyone with an Oasis haircut in 2013 wants shooting. This is unfortunately every band of young lads under the age of 20 I've seen down at rlOld Chapelrl in the last fifteen years.

The Stone Roses first album is a classic IMO. However it has been played to death so I haven't wanted to listen to it for at least a decade.

Saturn V happened to be the first song played at my wedding reception.

That's weird, I think I have Saturn V in my head more often than any other song too. I still don't know the words properly so have to mmmmmm those bits.

And now, thanks to this, it is back in my head again.

It's a great album. But if everyone who now claims to have been at Spike Island all stood at one end of the country it'd flip over and land on our heads.

If every one who claimed to be at Leeds Uni when The Who played their first gig there, then the refectory would have fallen through the earth's crust.