In defence of Nils Ramming - is Dale's loan keeper warming to task?

Naturally, after five games in which we’d lost four, a mess of a pre-season and comprehensive defeats against some of the division’s worst sides, it was easy to write Ian Watson off.

The fans forum perhaps allowed some of us to realise the tough circumstances in which he was forced to work, with the late return, influx of new signings and ridiculous injury list all playing their part in our troubling start.

But Watson has responded with two clean sheets and four points against two of the more fancied sides in this division (even if Oldham were dreadful at times on Saturday).