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    super waluigi wrote:
    crazy comments wrote: First match I have watched at the community stadium since the Stevenage fiasco, reason I have not made any posts on here for a few weeks. Please ask me? why did I bother to travel all the distance from Southampton to watch a team that had no commitment desire or passion to win a game of football. I've watched a lot of football games the last few weeks in both Championship, Div one and two games,and it certainly opens your eyes to see why certain teams achieve success and others do not. I could easily tell you why,but dont worry super waligu I will keep my trap shut. If people are stupid enough to believe that JW is the man to take this club forward then let it be. Surely now is the time to start blooding some of the younger players otherwise we will not know if they are up to the standard required, especially if a load of the senoir players are released end of the season.
    Welcome back Crazy, it has been a while. Don't take it personally Crazy, but I do often wonder if you HATE Colchester United. You say that you have watched Championship football and L1 and L2 recently, and make out that everyone else that you watch is playing wonderful football. Truth is that Preston and Walsall drew 0-0 and Scunthorpe drew 0-0 with Brentford. Thats on top of Westham (championship best team) drawing 0-0. There was other games that also finished 0-0 but I think you have the basis of what I am trying to say here. Sure I would like to see a win of any kind, or a defeat/draw with a more exciting football, but that is not always going to happen. My advice Mr Crazy, is to keep staying away and perhaps go to Arsenal, because they are the only team that promise goals at both ends. Or follow an American sport, such as basketball, because that sport is made for people with a short attention span.
    No I dont hate Colchester United super waluigi ,otherwise I would not do a near 340 mile round trip from my home to watch the U's. I did say that I had watched other games in the last few weeks,but I never mentioned that everyone is playing wonderfull football. That would never be the case as all teams have setbacks now and again. In my opinion the manager plays a major role to how his team plays and performs. What I have seen is a few clubs that have had the fighting edge over their opponents, just by their sheer determination and fight to win the ball, players with flair knowing where the other is moving into space to create openings, something I never witness to much with John Ward's teams. I always read your views and thoughts super, and believe it or not I think many of your blogs are spot on and 100% correct and a few otherwise that we wont mention. To me football is entertainment and that has been missing not just in one match this season at the communty stadium but far to many others. I dont need to take your advice in staying away, I intend to after watching such clueless shambolic so called football on Saturday."
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U's held to a goal-less draw by lowly Dale

Colchester United were held to an uninspiring goal-less draw by struggling Rochdale this afternoon.

The U's edged a game of few chances but there was little to choose between the two sides, in an even contest at the Weston Homes Community Stadium.

Colchester enjoyed the better of the attacking play, in an even first half.

Freddie Sears ran at the Dale defence before shooting over the bar and Steven Gillespie warmed the gloves of keeper Peter Kurucz, before Ian Henderson curled a shot over.

The teams went in goal-less at the break but Rochdale almost broke the deadlock five minutes after half-time through Michael Symes, whose close-range effort was brilliantly saved by U's keeper Ben Williams.

Sears fired over from a tight angle for the U's with 13 minutes to go.

But Symes sliced a shot wide for Dale after being sent through by Gary Jones and Williams palmed over Jason Kennedy's header from a corner in stoppage-time, as Colchester had to settle for a solitary point.

See Monday's Gazette for a full match report, pictures and reaction to Colchester United's game with Rochdale.

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