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He was raised in Kilbarrack, where quite a few people were executed by the British Army as part of the Irish independence fight 100 odd years ago.

Probably understandable that he doesn’t want to pay tribute.

As long as he’s not actively disrupting anyone else paying tribute it’s not really an issue.

Ainsworth was able to get that little bit of extra out of each player and make some average players outstanding. Our band of rejects and misfits collectively were something special and was why we loved them so much. A 40 year old with one knee, a centre half out of retirement who couldn’t train as he had arthritis, etc etc these were a real band of brothers and I doubt if we will see the likes again. What Bloomfield seems to be doing is more refined in tactics and style. I love them both and will certainly not talk down one to talk up the other.

That's excellent. I was hoping someone would eventually come up with a way of ranking teams from the same league

To be honest I am still struggling to comprehend this incredibly sad news. I don't think it's sunk in yet.

Dave and I share a real passion for Wycombe Wanderers and football and despite being from different generations, bonded as two statto's together. We discussed and debated current matches and aspects of our history several times, often passionately and thinking back to those times now I am reminded just how fun it was.

Both Lynden and Dave have showed such great kindness to me over the years. Lynden and I have both had our battles with Cancer and every time we meet she greets me with such a warm smile.

Dave, completely off his own bat, posted every single Wycombe Wanderers line-up from 1887-1990 to me, whilst I was living in Workington. I might have been living 300 miles away but every time I came home to find another envelope waiting for me, it felt like I was back in the Chair Metropolis, at Adams Park. A few years later his generosity shone again when he gifted me a significant number of Wycombe Wanderers programmes to add to my collection. I cherish them and they mean even more to me now.

Dave is THE Wycombe Wanderers statto. He leaves such a huge legacy, especially with the wonderfully crafted history book co-written with @Steve_Peart, published in 1996. I can remember the day I bought the book and it is by far the one I've read the most. It brings the history of the club alive, vividly sharing all of the stories over a century and more. Some once lost to history, they are now our history.

I'd like to send my heartfelt condolences to Lynden, Sarah and David, his family and all of his many friends.

Rest in Peace Dave. I will miss you.

The untimely passing of Dave is a huge loss to his wife Lynden, his children Sarah and David, and his grandchildren, and my condolences go to them.

I first got to know Dave in the late 80s/early 90s when, along with Adrian Wood and Rob Cairney, we produced the matchday programme. When we were promoted to the Football League, we realised that we did not have a fully documented history of the club with line-ups, so we decided it was time to publish one. For the next two years we would spend a lot of time on the microfiche machines at Wycombe library, Dave more so then me, poring over the Bucks Free Press reports and news. Dave was responsible for all of the stats.

Dave, as the club's official statistician, was a stickler for accuracy. I remember when we had beaten Bournemouth 3-2 away in 95-96, and two goals were credited to John Williams. Dave knew that Williams had not touched the ball for the first, it was an own goal, confirmed on video. Dave was quite certain it should go down as an own goal in the programme but manager Alan Smith was having none of it. Williams was having a lean spell in front of goal and Smith wanted to boost his confidence, so Dave reluctantly had to give way. Once Smith had departed, Dave made sure the goal was recorded as an own goal.

I always looked forward to conversations with Dave, he told it as it was, strong opinions, no mincing of words, and with a great sense of humour. He liked his football team to be on the front foot, attackers taking on defenders, not passing sideways and backwards. That led to a spell when his attention wandered to football away from Adams Park, but he was always a Chairboy through and through, ever since his first game in 1964. He was a a well travelled football groundhopper, in all four home nations, and also for cricket and speedway. For many years Dave was a member of Surrey CCC and Bucks CCC, and I will always have the memory of our trip to see Bucks play Suffolk at Copdock a few weeks ago. Lovely weather, beautiful ground, excellent company, Bucks lost but still made it to the final. Dave wanted to go to West Bromwich for the final but circumstances didn't allow. He was so pleased that Bucks won the championship.

Dave was someone I looked up to and admired, as a great historian of the club and as a person. I will sorely miss him.

With it being the interlull, I thought it would be a nice week to show appreciation for the Wycombe media team. Between @bluntphil, Matt Cecil and all the team, we are always Champions League level in that area! Well done to all!!!!

I went ages without any dreams about buses and then two came along at once

We have a new recruit going to his first game today ...

I thought ,courtesy of the trust ,we were supposed to play in our first choice colours, unless there is a clash.

I could understand the need for us to change against Northampton as their maroon would possibly clash with our dark blue, and obviously we can’t wear red.

I am of the generation that believes you should wear your first choice colours at all times, unless there is an absolute necessity to change. I hate the terms home kit and away kit.

ironic that on the clubs birthday, we couldn’t even wear the colours for which we are famous when there was absolutely no need to change

And can I remind you that extra TV revenue will not do the slightest thing to help clubs in financial difficulty because everyone is getting more, which will fuel wage and transfer fee inflation, and the bigger clubs will get more so it might well make things miles worse for a lot of teams