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Context is we're 3 points behind 2nd with a game in hand and a superior goal difference with a handful of games to go

I was thinking exactly the same this morning. The best way to increase our crowds is for us to sell it to our family, friends, neighbours etc. Having read some of what I have just read looks we can’t do that even when we are 3 points off second place with a game in hand as we enter April

I can only speak for myself, but this season under Blooms, I went into each game not being able to see how ANY opposition could stop us scoring at least two (and usually that was right).

Under Dodds, I go into each game wondering where our single goal is going to come from (Rotherham late barrage aside) and am also usually correct in anticipating difficulty in manufacturing goals. I have missed a lot of chunks of matches by being so tediously bored that I did something else for a while.

It's not rocket science to see why the contrast hurts the current style. I can see why it is more fair to compare Dodds to early Bloomfield rather than peak Bloomsball, but it is hard to feel as entertained. For me it feels like going from watching 70s Brazil to 1860 Paint Dryer's Association F.C. in the space of half a season.

If you find the current football thrilling? Great! That is a perfectly valid way to see it and I am happy for you. I also am perfectly open to the football getting better and better as Dodds gets his feet under the table more and more, just like Blooms. But I do find the subtext to be people trying to establish that they are better fans because they are always positive, which is both condescending and tiresome.

Faffing around at the back, as you call it, is very much the fashionable way of playing from Premier League to National League and Mike is a young and modern coach so it’s understandable that he favours playing that way. I’m old school and loved watching two wingers and two ‘little and large’ strikers but hardly any professional teams use that system any more. There was constant criticism of the more direct approach employed by Gareth Ainsworth and now of the more controlled play under Dodds but you can’t have it both ways. I may be in the minority here but I have always believed that winning is the most important thing in football and I am happy to embrace any style if it produces results.

Mr Kim is quite right. I think it's become a thing that Defenders are constantly claiming King Kone has elbowed them (sometimes with possible good reason) and I thought we were lucky with a couple of the decisions that might have gone against us yesterday.

Officials can be influenced by crowds, other players and reputations to be sure...but I fear there is no need for shady parties to pay off some of the tubbies who cannot 'keep up' in L1! 😉

I'm sure we're all devastated he won't be back.

Good on the club for reaching out to a sizeable part of the local community. Can only be a good thing for everyone concerned.

Not sure where this belongs, but I see that Neil Harman is once again embarrassing himself on social media after crying online last week that he wasn't offered tickets to the Wrexham game. I hope the club never, ever associates themselves with him again.

If you assume that the majority of the Gasroom are "regular supporters" - then I'm not surprised that people don't go to games. We moan about the team we love even when we win. It's not exactly an advert for people that don't go as regularly/at all.

And the context? Unimportant when you want to feel superior I guess.

I dare say every match day thread for every club is full of in the moment moans and frustrations.

Not much different to being at a game, except that the comment is permanently etched onto the screen and doesn't look great when looking back rather than saying it and it fading into nothingness.