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Excellent post. A bit of common sense.

Matt Bloomfield loves our club as much as any fan.

"and we come from Walters Ash"

I'm thinking on my feet here....

The players can be called The Doddy Men.

That post is too sensible for the Gasroom!

There's a huge difference in our unwavering support for the club and MB being a loyal employer. I doubt if any of us could be tempted to a new club. MB has family, and income on the line we have Saturday and Tuesday. This is all too often forgotten when we can't get our heads round someone wanting to leave us so we have to come to the conclusion that it is because of something else.

Maybe it is better for people to believe that there was something afoot to push MB out the door when the reality was far more simple. Perhaps the ownership group were planning (but it appears had not finalised their plan) to replace MB in the medium to long term. Perhaps the two new parties simply didn't get on. Perhaps MBs side of the story has been told to people in the know, even though I am confident that the ownership group has not had their side similarly leaked.

But in what is being made a very complex argument I personally think it comes down to the simple fact that a guy who knows sport can be a very short career knew that his stock was hot and grasped the opportunity. He was smart enough to know that 12 months previously he was looking down on his career trajectory following a record string of results.

I feel no ill towards Luton. I hope he can turn them around. But he is history now. And one day history will be known, and when I say known not the version of Mavis in the tea room or what the guy who sometimes sits in front of my mum's cousin who heard it from a guy who delivers to a club every other Thursday.

If he has the team reverting to the "hoof it long to the big man" tactic then Dodo would seem appropriate.

No need to apologise.

Transfer Markt have trouble dealing with the Norwegian league season because it runs from around the beginning of April to around the end of November.

In his 862 minutes they include all European games played between July 1st and December but not one minute of his league games in the same period, any league games played in 2024 are put in the season 23/24 on Transfer Markt.

Another win would certainly be welcome soon! Hopefully Dodds (we need a nickname) gets off the mark sooner rather than later.

I appreciate the response (one of the likes is from me, to clarify!).

I suppose my counter is that the type of ownership we have will remain a present relevance, and with all the will in the world, it will be hard to comment on their future moves without perspective partly shaped by their past behaviour. I know personally I will be making data-led jokes at every gaffe of theirs.

But that's for another day!