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Quite surprised to wake up and see no movement on this at all.

Something else for us all to be upset/pleased/not bothered/wait until I've seen them in action...

It's confirmed by BBC that Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan will be the new Match of the Day presenters from next season.

It's not just a game, it's a professional football club with a professional comms strategy. Of course they're going to announce the successor to Bloomfield in a professional manner. Why would you resent that? I get the sadness that Matt has left but it seems some people would almost prefer us to revert back to the days of Alan Hutchinson sporadically updating the Call The Blues line as a way of finding out news about the club?

I'm still reading some comments on here with a certain sense of disbelief. When we were sold by Rob to anonymous billionaires what did we think the future was going to look like? Continued losses with someone funding them? No. We all cheered when the academy came along and marvelled at the recruitment of off field (and on field staff). Did people not think that this meant a seismic change behind the scenes?

And now Matt leaves. He clearly felt he wasn't part of the future at the club and the new way things were being run. The owners have their plan and with all due respect to Mr Wycombe he has a choice of getting on board or not. He chose not to. If he chose to then the club would have not said they regretted him going. I am sure the ideal outcome would have been he bought in 100% from top to bottom and embraced change - but clearly his vision was different. This is not Matt being bad or the ownership being bad. It is change and there are always victims of change. Do we think we can carry on losing over £1million a year and still be in existence in 1, 2, 3 years time? No chance. Do we want growth and stability, I guess. There is a price for this change though.

Would I have liked Matt or even Gareth to stay and lead us to a sustainable future in the Championship? Of course. But we didn't have a sustainable future. This is a new era. Do I prefer it? I will tell you in five years time maybe. Did I love the old era, it was brilliant.

I am sure when Loakes Park was being sold people were faxing each other in similar ways expressing their anger about the identity of the club being ripped up. We evolved, we thrived, we will again.

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Bloomfield is the ultimate professional, and for him to be this close to being openly critical things must have been very bad indeed.

Interesting article here with some choice Blooms quotes: https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/football/luton-town/bloomfield-reveals-it-took-him-a-couple-of-seconds-to-say-yes-to-luton-town-job-offer-4944106

No mention of the "ownership team" there.

Thank you for posting this #ChairboysBlue. You've expressed my sentiments perfectly, although in our case it was Man U he wanted to support.

Trying to move on from this, but struggling tbh. Losing Matt to at some point was almost inevitable; the manner in which it seems to have happened though is what has left a very sour taste.

Reading this on the BBC News Luton page hasn't helped.

Mick Harford said Luton "didn't really want to disrupt Wycombe" at this stage of the season and thanked them for helping ease the process, which also saw coaches Richard Thomas and Lee Harrison move to Kenilworth Road, along with senior analyst Ben Cirne.

"It happened over the weekend in such a short space of time, normally it's a long process,"

I wonder if Matt still has the imprint of Rice's boot on his backside.

Neil has moved to a similar role at Newcastle Race Course I believe. His girlfriend lives up there. Reasons beyond the current restructure will have played a part in the move no doubt. Although AP is clearly not the same environment in which he has done so much for the club behind the scenes over the past few seasons

Oh they'll all be about the optics here! Create a little bit of distance between Bloomfield leaving and announcing "Claus Norgaard' by teasing out that 'he's in the stands' on Saturday at Mansfield followed by the obligatory club in conversation teaser tweets/social posts late Saturday / Sunday morning and then announce press conference on Monday.

To keep the optics sweet they'll probably announce the signing of the other Danish lad on Tuesday after Norgaard has been paraded and they've gone hard on the 'Head coach role - not 'Manager'.

It's all just a game at the end of the day.

Not the best review of Norgaard here, if he is the man...

Is this rumour just people putting 2 (we've signed some Danes) + 2 (we like data) together or is there actually some strength to it?