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Hi - happy for me not to be anonymous. My name's Mark Shanahan and I've been following the club since the early 90s - indeed I wrote for the programme for a few years back then. The guy I was speaking to has long management/assistant management experience and is now scouting in his retirement. He related a conversation he'd had with his current club's manager who had been talking to Bloomfield around the turn of the year. It was also notable that he also said one of the reasons Dodds was attracted to Wycombe is that he's based near Birmingham and the commute down the M40 was a lot more attractive than to Sunderland. I guess managers occasionally have lives beyond football too.

I think it's pretty clear that Dan Rice is a football guy, not an infrastructure guy. Rob Couhig was an infrastructure guy, not a football guy. Take your pick as to which you prefer, but it's hard not to be excited by their vision for both the first team and the academy.

Very interesting/reassuring at the end to hear the extent Lomtadze is involved. Daily conversations, weekend meetings, watches every game - he may not communicate like Rob Couhig, but he's certainly no less involved.

Just noticed that for the Birmingham and Wrexham games i won't be able to do anything other than check the result some time later.

If we get six points i promise i'll disappear and check back in May.

It's four months to the day since we beat Leyton Orient at home 3-0 to go second and have not been out of the top 2 since.

Hopefully with Kone back we can secure enough points to finish 2nd by the time we play Orient again on April 26th.

Our home game vs Wrexham on 15 March is likely to be the most important game of the season. A promotion 6-pointer.

I am not there and try and stay relatively outside the argument but I do think a fair and reasonable question would be along the lines of:

”when we became aware that a number of clubs were interested in taking our manager, did we do anything in terms of inducements to encourage him to stay?”

What's the email address for sending questions in?

People can at least send their questions in by email can't they? So there's no excuse for not being able to get there , living miles away etc.

Obviously any email questions can just be ignored in a way that is more awkward to do with an in person question.

Very interesting

They mentioned that it was being recorded