Happy days for Dale in the Cup
KEITH Hill will instruct his Rochdale side to carry on ‘playing happy’ today when they cross swords with Carlisle in the FA Cup.
There’s a place in the third round at stake, the target of all non-league and lower league clubs at the outset of the competition as it means a potential money-spinning draw against one of English football’s giants.
But Hill insists the players should not be under pressure to advance in the cup when they face opponents currently topping League Two.
“I keep getting questioned this moment nation of negativity and it they do every other – with we’re playing really does annoy me. an intent and a gameplan training happy. “The football world is so designed to win.
“There is a good, allinclusive destructive at times and it “We are prioritising smell to the way should be so brilliant, every game – The FA Cup, we are doing things and there should be pride in the Checkatrade Trophy, we’re a very young side our Football League and the league, they are all which is learning well and the way that it has been important, they are all an winning. We want to be done. It’s still carrying opportunity to be successful able to take one game at a four divisions, which is and that’s what we time but it’s almost as if amazing. It’s very competitive want,” he said. we are not allowed to. and there are good “I’m looking forward to
“I do question sometimes players playing all the way it, I’m looking forward to about our expectations what people’s agendas through the system. But every game that we play. or our intentions, are and why they are we seem to employ the “I love working with and it’s not that people are coming after people – and ‘let’s create chaos’ mode these players, for this club trying to wind me up, but they do come after people, all the time. and the way that we do the questioners are almost they try to create a negativity, “I am very aware of that While Hill has always things. It’s really important trying to increase pressure they try to break and when you consider maintained that consolidating we take advantage of on me and the players,” what is good at this some of the managers the club’s place in the ability of the players Hill told the club’s official moment in time. who have lost their jobs League One is Dale’s but we have to turn that website. “I don’t know why we already this season, it’s an bread and butter, they will into winning, winning, “We are very happy at have turned into this industry which has no approach today’s game as winning mentality.”
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‘We are very happy, we are playing happy, training happy’