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He is but surely it doesn't matter what level of football you're at when taking a pen?

If his contract does run until the end of next season I'm not sure it is sensible to extend it now. What I would hope is that they have increased his current salary together with a very large bonus for achieving promotion.

How many managers last for more than two year (Gazza was a one off)? If Blooms doesn't like a data driven recruitment of players he isn't going to stay long term anyway.

The owners have made a clear decision on how our club is to be run and we have to accept it, particularly whilst it seems to be successful. All staff have to be on the same page to achieve the best outcome.

I can see Wycombe potentially becoming a success like Brentford once we settle into our new stadium.

This.

When Matt leaves it will be for job security elsewhere because he doesn't have it here. Not because his relationship with the new hierarchy has broken down but because they want to go in a different direction. Yes, that sounds ridiculous when we're riding high in League One but if we weren't he wouldn't still be here. At least if he takes another, more lucrative, job he will have left on his own terms.

Would there really be infinite replays? I've no doubt Tamworth would have been turned over at the new Spurs ground but they would have made a few thousand quid and the fans would have great memories. Go to extra time and pens in the second game by all means...

PL clubs could send your second string to play Steven Gerrard's Saudi Selection in the summer instead.

To be fair, we don’t hear a great deal from Rice. He’s certainly not a Rob Couhig, who clearly liked the sound of his own voice. Couhig gave Bloomfield any extension to his contract. I don’t know when that was to. Perhaps it was to the end of season 2026 which is nearly 18 months to go, so the hierarchy don’t feel it’s necessary to do anything yet. However , despite backing Bloomfield in recruiting new players, it would be reassuring to hear some positive noises about him from Rice.

FWIW Schumacher was as short as 1/10 the day before Plymouth went and appointed someone else.

This post hits the nail hard on the head.

We can analyse what Matt has said about control over transfer policy however we like, infer everything or nothing from now deleted tweets from family and choose to discard insight from sources at Beechdean Ice Cream. What is obvious however is that neither Matt nor his staff who were here under the Couhigs have been offered new longer more lucrative contracts, despite plenty of potential suitors being interested. Kone on the other hand has had an extension offered and signed. If they thought highly of Matt and wanted to keep him they’d have given him golden handcuffs.

Unfortunately it is clear that this is a marriage of convenience with neither party being in love. Despite the new owners having everything that they should ever want with a long serving club legend in charge who is over performing, an amazing man manager and tactician, they would prefer to have their own manager in place.

It’s a sad place to be despite being in the most healthy position we’ve ever been on the pitch, but that’s where our club is.

Well said. For that matter I wouldn’t want a manager where the data said he was a master tactician and those who’d worked with him in the past said he was a sexual predator.

The problem with data as the only arbiter of competence is that can easily lead to moral relativism and eventually moral turpitude. The data undoubtedly shows Meta will be more profitable if it sucks up to Trump and bins off fact checking and content moderation.

No it didn't. It started at home to a non-league team (as did this one, Wealdstone was round 2)