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I haven't read any comments but after today I'm resigned to League One football next season.

Not in the least bit impressed by Dodds, but who appointed him,and engineered Bloomfield's exit, is the bigger issue at play for me here.

It was all in our hands, and we've blown it. Don't see us winning on Tuesday either.

We were having a pretty spectacular season. Why do you choose to cut it off at 9 games?

Regarding the bit about the actual owner and his team vs the couhigs I’m in (almost - i’ll come to it) complete agreement with you.

I’m minded to mention the Jim Ratcliffe interview with GNev this week regarding Man United and how at the very least he is “front up” and speaking to the press and people while harsh decisions are being made. Whereas many football owners like to sit in silence and do things with little recourse for any negative decisions. I would prefer the Ratcliffe/couhig approach than the Silent billionaires like ML etc that are completely unapproachable, uncontaactable and unaccountable to fans.

This is why, I personally, give Dan Rice a lot more credit than most do. He is at least the face, and the voice, and the fall guy that will and has met with fans and will get a direct taste of any discourse that may come the Leaderships way with both barrels.

Up until the medical emergency it was a fairly even game, and certainly not a great spectacle. After the break only one team wanted to win that in my view. We looked totally lost and void of any leadership.

Our January transfer business seems bizarre, the players we’ve signed haven’t improved us at all, arguably we are worse. It makes no difference if you’ve smashed the transfer record 2 or 3 times if the players you’ve signed aren’t very good. Wrexham went out and signed players to directly improve their starting 11.

Dodds needs to be given time to put his own stamp on things and get the players he wants in the summer assuming he’s allowed to but right now we don’t look like promotion material.

It’s probably too late to switch keepers now but Rav being dropped is an absolute disgrace too.

We could quite easily miss the play-offs altogether looking at the games left.

However, we could also win on Tuesday and be 2nd again.

But we don't look a threat at all right now. Maybe too much obsession with "control" and not enough on taking the risks to play attacking football.

I still can't get why we bought the Danish players.

Is it a language barrier why they aren't in the starting lineup or fitness or what?

That’s great news.

Ever since teams began to suss us out and started parking the bus (well before MB’s departure), we started to struggle. Earlier in the season, I was suggesting (naively as it turned out) that it was vitally important for the new owners to offer Matt Bloomfield a contract extension that he wouldn’t be able to refuse. We now know that that was never going to happen and, equally of course, we cannot be sure that we would now be better off, points wise, if Matt had stayed.

But, to me, one thing seems certain. If the player identification and recruitment system operated by Matt and Scott Mitchell, his own appointee, had continued beyond the very important loan signing of Sonny Bradley (in which I’m fairly sure Matt would have had a say), we wouldn’t have wound up with the hotchpotch collection of signings that are now giving Matt’s successor such a headache.

Easy with Hindsight though isn’t it?

If someone had said in December that the number 1 priority in the window should be a striker, they would think you were a bit mad. Or greedy given the attacking options we had free scoring.

And despite our apparently struggles infront of goal, we have a GD of +7 and a game in hand compared to the team in 2nd.

The struggle started a couple of months before Blooms left. I don't think that's deniable. I'd pinpoint it to Mansfield at home, which we won with Leahy's fluke cross. Since then, every single team has come to AP and tried to shut the game down. Under Blooms we struggled at home against all of:

- Mansfield

- Reading

- Bolton

- Exeter

- Blackpool

- Huddersfield

Every single one of them was the same type of game. No fluidity, scrappy, the away side barely attacking. We scraped a couple of fortunate wins, but mostly struggled to create anything. Since Dodds arrived, it's just been a continuation of a trend that started in November. And Wrexham are th absolute masters at that type of game. It's no surprise today went as it did