DALE DELIVER A HAT-TRICK!

JIMMY McNulty hailed his Rochdale troops after disposing of Wealdstone to keep their their play-off hopes alive.

- Mark Rooney

"It's been a very productive week," the Dale boss said after three home wins in seven days, beginning with last Saturday's FA Trophy win over Altrincham.

"The Trophy win set a great tone and then to go and beat a high-quality technical team in Gateshead both deserved victories and then this.

"The thing on my mind today was can they keep the energy to keep us going? I think they really did that today."

Dale started the game on the front foot and they took the lead in the ninth minute when Tobi Adebayo-Rowling played a neat one-two with Ian Henderson and his low angled drive beat goalkeeper Luca Gunter.