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Patience is paying off for shrewd Dale

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The Football League Paper says…
PATIENCE is a virtue – but it’s often appears to be a dirty word in football. Everyone wants immediate results and no one is prepared to wait.
Thank goodness, then, for Rochdale (see pages 34-35). A dozen years ago, Dale considered scrapping their academy due to a combination of factors – financial difficulties, the cost of maintaining it and a relative lack of players coming through.
Thankfully, the Lancashire club decided not to go ahead with the closure and, instead, they tried to reverse the situation.
It wasn’t a decision t...

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