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This context and insight on Parsons from the BFP is invaluable. Not a word wasted :)

Real competition on the right now. Grimmer is a bit marmite really - some love him, some not so much. Personally, I would say he has great enthusiasm that was core to the Ainsworth/ Bloomfield ethos (amazing effort outweighing natural talent) Finding a rough diamond and polishing up.

Where I would look objectively is that if Grimmer was paramount to the new direction we keep him / Pattenden as the right back + cover BUT they’ve gone out and sourced a player that will have (in theory) the attributes they want.

Grimmer has always punched above his weight for me but nothing like a bit of competition.

When you directly compare Harvie to Grimmer it’s a different level of player.

A blatant red according to some learned posters on this thread.

Quite shocked it’s been overturned but good stuff anyway.

I would have said the same, but i'd have Kev Noles telling me most of my posts are picking out dodgy posts😗

Two academy signings

https://www.wwfc.com/news/2025/february/05/wycombe-wanderers-make-first-academy-signings/

thanks for the explanation

I don't disagree with that, the matches are a small part of any trial, if they didn't like what they saw in training he's lucky to have got game time in any position, and if he'd come away thanking them for the opportunity, asking for development feedback and saying he'd come back at any time and play in any position that would have done him more good than bitching about it.

Speculation on limited information again though, people get upset and react, it doesn't have to be the end of his dreams.

That is an absolute classic!

I have to say one thing in his defence around his character though, he was perfectly happy with me asking some probing questions On twitter about how he reacted to being put in a wrong position and asked if he let it be known he was unhappy doing it etc, and he answered every question with respect and honesty. He would have been completely in his right to ignore me, or get his back up and be a dick about it. But he didn’t, we answer the Q’s from a random and we had a decent conversation.

Sometimes there’s going to be fine margins between taking a player or not and I rather suspect it can just fall on gut feeling. And maybe they had a limited number of spots the club could afford to take a player, even a non league one, on at.

Did the club get it right in picking Kone over Tabor when they were on trial together?

Well, the proof on the pitch certainly says they didn’t get it wrong. But it could also be Tabor slipped through our fingers on the basis we had to choose him or Kone.

Ok, Wanderers isn't a nickname per se, but it's still a handy second mention