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Really think it’s now the time to move on from the Bloomfield debate. Clearly there are differing views on the forum about whether he was pushed or did he go because he was ambitious and wanted higher grade football. He will always be a legend but he’s gone and he’s not coming back.

I think the problem is that we all saw big cash being spent and assumed these guys were good to go to improve the squad.

We needed a central midfielder and the Morely chase was clearly going nowhere. Boom here comes a million Euro player. 3x our record transfer fee this guy is going to be amazing and we can stop talking about the other guy back at Bolton. It’s now mid Feb and nothing. The other signings were for positions where we have cover and depth. Anders is well covered by Taylor, Bradley and Low. Lowry by Humphreys etc.

Wrexham, for example, signed a fit striker in the form of Smith. He’s playing a scoring. Therefore he’s improved their team. We sign 12 and 2 get in the team.

It was to me an irresponsible window. Especially with the fees involved. And to spend so much on players who are apparently not even fit enough to be in a match day squad is mind-blowing. Our 3 highest transfers in our history not one start between them. One to still make the bench.

Great post

Simonson has got a hard task to match up to Morley, although there were positive signs yesterday in his brief appearance.

Well done @WestLondonWanderer. At last someone has achieved something which was beginning to look beyond the wit of the Gasroom - namely the relatively simple task of correctly spelling the surname of Xavier Levi Simons. Someone even managed to stretch it to Simmonds!

I agree with those who think Xavier may be the missing link to fill the gap resulting from Aaron Morley’s departure. We’ll need to sign him permanently if that proves to be true. He certainly looked the part during his five minute cameo yesterday.

Now back to bed.

His information on Magnus is also incorrect.

Magnus played in the quarter final of the Danish Cup over two legs on the 8th and 13th December playing a total of 135 mins. Viborg won and will appear in the semi-finals in Apr/May.

He completed two full games after 6th October both in the Danish Cup with his last full game being 8th December.

The Danish league has a huge winter break. Brondby last played at the end of November and only just had their first game back yesterday against Viborg. That’s an 11 week break!!

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.

vanilla comment I know