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Delighted with this!

https://www.shrewsburytown.com/news/2025/february/20/shrewsbury-town-snap-up-david-wheeler/

Where are your millions going, @Lloyd2084 ?

You don’t have to answer that if you’re not in the mood. 🫢🙄

I reckon so, or at the very least completely revamp Adams Park - let's be honest, it's not in the best shape. Somewhere a similar distance out of town but with better access would be an upgrade, assuming we can't build *in* town (I mean, where would we put it?).

I probably would have said Premiership at the time

I do agree that we have people in South Bucks that have historically supported other clubs Watford , QPR locally and of course the big london clubs . I doubt there are more than a hand full who support the likes of Reading , Oxford Utd , Brentford , Fulham though and as for any lower league clubs within 40 miles like Wimbledon you can probably count then on one hand . Clubs like Leyton Oreant , Wimbledon and the like all have much bigger gates than us with no more people living in ther immediate vicinity and they hanve an even closer pull from the big London clubs . There is no way generations in Shrewsbury have not supported the big Birmingham Clubs , even Stoke is 40 miles one way and Liverpool 70 miles to the north . Maybe we have mathmatically more on out doorstep but they are not without them in a measurable amount . They are also lower league club who like us have fans that support premership clubs from thier armchairs . Shrewsbury has a population of 70k. If you include Hazlemere and Loudwater (which we all know are pretty much part of Wycombe )ours is double that . Our support is crap and we are not unique in having bigger clubs in the area . We have been in the league for over 30 years now . I therefore repeat my view that it is highly dissapointing that we get such low gates . Shrewsbury I will remind you are near the bottom of the table and get higher gates than us .

Genuine question: is there a worse-located ground in the 92? There are grounds further from the town centre (although probably not many), but they're not generally plonked down the end of an industrial state with one road in and out and difficult parking!

Aye, for me that game, along with a couple of games at Layer Road in the O'Neill days back in the early 90's are probably the most intimidating atmospheres I've ever seen at a Wycombe game. Weird thing was, we were just interested onlookers at Bristol, whilst at Colchester we were very much part of the atmosphere.

There's supporters of some clubs where you have to sit and nod while they patronise you, because they have an illustrious history, huge stadium and fantastic attendances.

Bristol Rovers is not one of those clubs.

I have just exchanged messages with a Rovers fan on facebook who said we were a ‘pathetic little club with the prospects of a toilet duck*’. I politely pointed out that we have beaten them in the last 7 meetings and have never dropped out of the EFL in the 32 years since we entered, unlike some clubs I could mention.

* No, I don’t understand it either.