Opposition View: Talking Rochdale v Gillingham with The Pearl Street Post's Matt Turner
03.09.26, 14:53 Updated 03.09.26, 14:53
Simon Head
Ahead of Gillingham's awayday trip to Spotland to take on Rochdale on Matchday 5, we caught up with Matt Turner from our sister site for Rochdale fans, The Pearl Street Post, to get his perspective on this weekend's clash, and an inside track on how Rochdale's season has started so far.
How are Dale fans feeling about their start to the season?
There would have been a very different answer to this question earlier in the week…
After starting with three straight defeats – a desperately poor opening-day loss at Newport, a home loss to Crawley in which a point was tamely surrendered and then a late loss at Colchester – there were plenty of supporters saying that new manager Ian Watson was out of his depth and advocating the earliest of changes.
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Simon Head is the founding editor of Gills 365. A veteran sports journalist and editor with more than 25 years in the industry, he has written for major news outlets, broadcasters and sports organisations around the world. Simon is a longtime Gillingham season ticket holder, and has been a regular at Priestfield since the mid-1990s.