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Best thing on here for years this

Yep, i'm not sure i've seen anyone really pro Rice.

The main arguments on here have been between those certain Bloomfield was pushed out and others not being as certain.

Lots of talk about "data" saying stuff must be right, but a lot of it very tongue in cheek.

Northampton came to do a job and they did one. If we had sat in the away end and watched that we would have applauded the work rate and bodies on the line attitude of the Cobblers’ players.

At the end they reminded me of Gaz era wycombe.

When starting Hanlan and Lubala, surely it'd make more sense to play them the other way round. Lubala is much better at holding it up and Hanlan way more of a threat out wide than he is in the middle.

Shame Udoh wasn't around as well, as again he'd probably be a better central option than Hanlan.

high wycombe was an important location for the Paper Industry long before furniture and early wwfc sides were known as the Ink-Men and occasionally “the Sheafboys”

The biggest concern for me is that we’ve gone from crisp confident passers to one of those teams that passes it around the back and then hoofs it to no one.

Confidence in that system seems to be waning as the weeks pass as we can’t cope with the press the opposition apply when we pass out wide or to the central outlet.

Without Morley and Kone we seem to lack the creativity to play that system.

Leahy and Hanlan just can’t do those roles anywhere near as effectively in it cascades through the rest of the team.

Far too sensible... people won't like that

I always assumed he must stay over in the week, but then they had a car share group too.

So maybe it was only midweek games he really stayed over for?

Either way that is a horrible early start and hell of a long trip, especially in a climate many of us are fortunate enough to work at home a lot of the time.

You're right though - he could have stayed under the circumstances presented, but impossible to know the full details of what those were etc.

But for anyone who has really been "f'cked" over at work, that usually doesn't end with you moving into to a job with far better terms .

We looked so much better once Kone, Grimmer and Fred came on... one of those 3

I boil it down to this:

We KNOW Matt got up at 4:30am everyday, missing his girls and driving too and from Ipswich every day. He’s told us this very much.

As someone that’s only commuted from Wycombe to Reading (when the A33 junction was being redone so it was a fuck of a journey), you really have a lot of thinking time and you really really really have to love every aspect of your job to do it

Every.

Single.

Day.

There’s only so much you are willing to sacrifice. Especially when a young family is involved.

The ground started moving under his feet and no doubt the doubts started creeping in and I 100% can see him thinking “this isn’t the job I thought it was anymore” and looking elsewhere.

Thats also not fucking him over. If he was Happy to move to the Head coach model the club have been hinting at since day one, he’d still be here.