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I will happily share exactly what I know by phone or in person but not in a public forum

Expectations are high and rightly so, however, we have to take the point for what it is.

Tough away game at a scruffy and unfashionable side scrapping for their lives. We have to remember this is also his 1st league game in this division for us, so probably a learnt a hell of a lot from this one.

My take was that the pitch was diabolical and doctored in a certain way. Possibly Crawley rolled the fuck out of it to flatten it and let the ball bounce and pick up unnatural speed for passes and through balls.

Looking back, I think Sonny Bradley was hinting in his interview about “winter pitches” and about how tough the game will be, and not knowing what type of pitch to inspect etc.

Also, it seemed as though whenever the ball was within a metre or so of touchline it seemed to bounce out of play. I know that pitches are designed to have a camber away to help with drainage, but thinking about it, I’m sure something was doctored here.

I’m counting time wasting as early as 10th minute from Crawley. The Bolton mascot a week ago was pictured faking injury as a celebration after their late winner. They were a throwback to the rock and roll days of GA’s magnificent reign. The stop start nature was very frustrating and broke up any momentum.

We can’t be arrogant like fans of clubs like Plymouth etc. Crawley had some decent players, posed a solid threat and scored a banger of a goal (I thought Skura was at fault for McCleary miscommunication which lost ball in build up). 4 points in total off this fixture is a promotion winning return, and providing we match it for majority of our remaining opponents, we can do this. If you can’t win it, then don’t lose it, onto next one.

I think Dodds went with the long ball game as he thought that would be our best chance to win, and not because this is the style he wants to implement. We played differently at Preston and I’m really hoping that he will be a guy that mixes it up every game based on the opponents.

With all that being said, I could be talking complete bollocks.

These are all unprecedented times for Wycombe fans and in truth, I think we have all lost our heads after that January window. It’s like 3 decades of Christmas’ and Birthdays rolled into one. If it’s not this year, it will be next year and if it’s not with Dodds, it will be with someone else.

We have a massive part to play here as fans. Go and dust yourself off and remember how fortunate we are to be in this position. This Bristol Rovers game is going to be a game for the ages, 3 points will swing everything, we have to be there in numbers and be as loud as possible. Sing your hearts out for the lads!

Indeed, it is absolutely shocking.

There seems to be some people who really don’t like DR , I am reserving comment because I don’t know enough about the situation.

I do know that Mike wasn’t involved and he is still so early in his tenure and I don’t want to be a churl until there’s something to churl about .m

Anyhoo I’m down for Tuesday (parking booked ) hope today oops yesterday was settling in and we will get back to winning ways.

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Skura is one of those rare players who look as if they could play anywhere on the pitch and occasionally does!

Crawley 1-2 Wycombe

Wycombe 1-0 Bristol

I believe 3 horses shall be punched as per @PukkaPie's insight on his astrological charts

We have been long ball for weeks now .

Thank God we did not lose.

Looks like Gaz did not say it - but did not not say it...and in the absence of him saying it, assumptions have been made.

Exeter away, 2-2 we had 2 wins in 5 after that. Currently have 2 wins in 5. We had stopped putting teams away towards the end of the year.