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After the Mansfield Away Game: Match 26

Changes at the top this week - Many congratulations to @wwfcblue who reaches top of the Leaderboard for the first time this season with a new personal best prediction for the season. Congratulations also on the first sub 50 score of the season. The scores and maximum discards are such that @wwfcblue will keep top spot for at least the next match.

Congratulations to @Commoner who takes 3rd place, also with a personal best prediction of the season so far, missing by just four, one which does equal @DevC's existing all round best prediction of the season so that accolade is now held jointly. Congratulations to @Commoner for that too.

In fourth place @93Chairboy's score of 191 in the Mansfield game was just enough to hold onto 4th place as a new tenth best prediction.

There is clear water between 5th and 6th, it looks around a '5 point' gap to me.

In eigth place @perfidious_albion's score of 208 was also a new tenth best score so far and enough to move him up from equal 8th place to 8th place alone, which is why the table show @ryan_w_kirkby2 moving down a place with no-one appearing to move up.

Congratulations to @bookertease, @mooneyman, and @BSE who all moved upwards in the section of the Leaderboard.

Congratulations to @LDF who moved up the most places this week and congratulations also to @our_frank who moved upwards who was the only other forecaster, apart from @wwfcblue to reach a highest point in the table so far this season.

Chat gpt had another good week and was the third entity to record a closest prediction of the season so far.

No point doing Cressex petrol station jokes as this lot are so modern they'll do all the interviews on computers

Yep, we're still in a period of official mourning. All jokes are off the table.

Too early for some for sarcasm I see

Interesting article about Paul Lambert (did anyone realise he had won the Champions League?)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/19/paul-lambert-interview-dortmund-motherwell-celtic-zidane

...in 2008 (17 years ago) Matt Bloomfield played 90 minutes for Wycombe Wanderers in a 1-1 League Two draw with Rotherham United at Millmoor.

In 2016 (nine years ago) Matt Bloomfield played 54 minutes for Wycombe Wanderers in a 2-0 F.A. Cup third round replay defeat to Aston Villa at Villa Park (replaced by Stephen McGinn).

In 2019 (six years ago) Matt Bloomfield came on as a 55th minute substitute for Wycombe Wanderers (replacing Scott Kashket) in a 1-0 League One win over Bristol Rovers at the Memorial Stadium.

So the timing of Blooms' leaving could have an impact on our transfer business? That's not very Mr Wycombe

Shev is spot on. One potential replacement I know of was sounded out WELL before Blooms left for Luton but the timing of Blooms’ departure didn’t work for that individual. Whether or not he was ‘first choice’ I don’t know.

I understand that a number of potential candidates have been invited to interview for the post, which could explain the story that Des Buckingham was at Adams Park.

Ian Evatt?

I panicked then when I started reading your post and it pretty much started "we need a drum beater" !