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Bolton paid a reported 1.2m on a player from Peterborough. To sell a wanted player to a title challenging team, with a wealthy owner, they aren't just rolling over. Especially as the player showed he was playing well. My random guess with no knowledge but trying to think it out, was somewhere near 2million.

I'll reiterate my post above again, as I feel a key point is being missed. The same people who ran Bloomfield out of town currently run our club, and have a massive impact on the culture of said club. How they treated Bloomfield remains relevant, as it speaks to how they will run the club ongoing (and likely ruin the culture, in my opinion).

I am perfectly happy for people to disagree with me - that's the point of discussion. I am glad your posts are actually engaging with the subject matter, even when you disagree with me, for instance. But this is not "middle-aged man shouts at a cloud". This is "Will our club be recognizable five years from now?"

To me the undercurrent is probably how you view football. This is a completely subjective theory, but I would posit that perhaps those who say "Our owners may be of terrible character and destroy our club ethos but they are rich! Hey-ho - come on your Chairboys!" may view the intersection of football and real life differently to those who say "Hang on - they railroaded perhaps our club's greatest servant out of town and may destroy our club culture? I am not okay with this!"

Those are both somewhat exaggerated examples for the sake of effect (well, the first one anyway), and in reality people's perspectives will lie somewhere on a spectrum, but surely....surely this whole situation is worthy of debate?

I think we should have just had Aaron change his last name to Morlegaard. We'd have paid up then. (disclaimer - this is a joke).

We also played 50% more games. 2.5gpg to 1.8gpg. Skewed by 7 in 2 games.

Though we won 100% of league games in November and only 33% of games in December. I think the peak was November.

So Bloomfield was told apparently that his contract was not going to be renewed. I don't know if this is true or not, but if it is the case he still had a season and a half to change their minds. The above comments are rumours. The facts are Luton and Bloomfield were in cahoots long before he left. And then they tried to turn Kone's head, but thankfully it didn't work.

You don’t have to compare Phil to Goebbells to also understand that the in house media team is going to focus on more positive news stories.

That’s a pretty low blow even for you.

Haha! Absolutely!

The mood in the camp during the week he left was clearly a positive one (unless Phil Catchpole is a decendent of Goebbels and pre match drills was a propoganda excersize that week ) I have no boubt Bloomfields serial interviews had a negative effect though . The performance away at Mansfield also suggested it was not a group fighting with the injustice of their Gaffer being outed .

Oh, and bringing it up, isn’t actually doing anything about how MB was treated. That’s what you’re most annoyed at right? Surely?

Surely you are most annoyed at the way MB was treated rather than a few people who, for whatever reason, want to think he wasn’t treated badly?

because you’re not actually doing anything about that. That happened. Might happen again. But instead, you’re focusing on the few that said it didn’t happen.

But I guess the fight against that few is the easier fight to have.

So the original part I deleted to my response as I decided it was either purposely or accidentally provocative was: “ yeah and?”

But that does apply to this in a” Yeah, and…what are you going to do about it?” kind of way

He was treated shitty. 100%. What are you going to do about it, other than bring it up ad nauseam on a forum that can do, quite frankly and excuse the language, fuck all about it.

If you have strong feelings about it - actually DO something to address it.

The 1887 fan group was fed up with the poor atmosphere so they are doing something about it rather than just moan about it over and over and brow beat people into changing their minds.

Sure, a football forum is a great place to discuss things. It’s also a fantastic place to navel gaze and complain about things without doing anything about it because it’s too hard (like try and get a billionaire and his hires to change the way they treated an dedicated player and ex manager).

But ultimately, if you’re not willing or able to find away to do something about something your unhappy with (set up an organised group against the leadership for example) then what’s the point in just attacking people you think are slighting MB?