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Re: Match Day Thread: Portsmouth (FA CUP)
For those three years, prospective fans wandered around aimlessly, saying they wished they had something they would not want to watch every week.
Re: Rumour Mill
GA also just said Shrewsbury may have to wait until the end of the window to sign anyone. I really feel for him if so - they have a horrible January fixture list, and I can't imagine he was signed on the basis of "we may be able to pick up a few scraps at the end of the window." I am wondering if the takeover was expected to be completed quickly at the time he signed?
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
They probably think Sydney Sweeney is an Oz version of the Met Police Flying Squad.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
If Dan Rice came out and said 'I think Matt is a great manager, we work closely and very well together and I know he is the man to take the club forward...' would someone shout 'Rubbish! Do the research!!!'
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
A comparison of the Twitter response to our Boxing Day 2024 victory at Stevenage with our Boxing Day 2023 defeat at Exeter City.
Re: Matt Bloomfield to Luton?
Feels like a huge PR gamble for Dan Rice, the fans are only going to take one side in any sort of dispute between the two.
That might not bother him in the slightest of course. The establishment of an academy, which is clearly his main priority, is more or less immune to what Wycombe fans think of what's going on with the first team.
I just feel very sad that we find ourselves in an almost unique situation and are about to throw it away. A much loved legend from his playing days - to the extent that he's literally known as "Mr Wycombe" - becomes the manager of that club and turns out to be very very good at that as well. And new owners have their own ideas of how they want to run the club (which they have every right to do of course) and those plans don't include the current manager (if they did he'd have been given a contract extension months ago)
Of course it needn't be disastrous for them. Football fans are very fickle, and if they bring in their own man and they elevate the team yet further then fans will soon fall into line. If it goes the other way it could get quite bad quite quickly.
Re: Match Day Thread: Portsmouth (FA CUP)
Norman Wendoverman turned up to play in 1884 only to find the club would not exist for another three years.