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Lloyd reminds me a lot of Alex Samuel. Never stops running. Perfect for Gaz

Lolz.

Always.

I'd have to check how many goals Bloomy actually scored for us, but it was never his main strength was it!

(Apologies to anyone nipping in for new manager thoughts - just some brief nostalgia in between)

Genuine LOL.

Joking aside there's not a chance in hell i'd be able to get any insider talk. He's a Wycombe man through and through, and loyal to the cause.

I can honestly say the only time I've ever been ITK ahead of the gasroom collective was the Bayo signing. I knew about that a few days earlier. Was hilarious watching some of the comments on here.

I probably should have added a TLDR version of

Me - ran a lot

Gracey (who'd have guessed that was his nickname!) quality footballer who a mutal mate once said "I'm surprised he's not playing for Liverpool".

Those are some great memories yourself!

If I haven't already bored on for too long, that brought back a couple more memories...

We had a work footy tournament once, 6 a side and in the final we met a team that had a few semi pros. One of them I believe was Rowan Vine's brother. And apparently Rowan himself had been at the event and keen to play until he realised playing against some absolute nobodies when he's a pro footballer might not be a clever move.

The 2-3 semi pros were funnily enough too good for us, so I'd really have hated to see what Rowan Vine would have done to us.

And one more... I'd normally played Saturday league only. I had a couple of seasons only on Sundays.

My first ever Sunday league game was I think division 3 (which was the 4th tier with there being a premier league) and we played a team called Bird in Hand.

They had a 34 year old Neil Catlin, who'd been in the Conference not long before, his brother, Marlow's current keeper, Graham Bressington (a vet ex Wycombe player!), Kevin Stone and a couple of other local non league faces.

I came away thinking if that's the level of the 4th tier of the local Wycombe combination I'm absolutely screwed here.

Funnily enough it wasn't. They won every single game in the league that year and I think they got to the final of the combination cup and narrowly lost to a top of the premier league team.

Their tightest league game was a 2-1 win against us in the rematch. I remember not getting up for a header early enough and copping an elbow in the face from Mr Stone (not dirty, just he knew how to head the ball and I didn't!) and me lucky enough to squirm a 25 yarder past Marlow's keeper.

He really has Wycombe-ized them.

Vintage Ainsworth this. I miss him so much.

Also wouldn't mind a keeper who commands his area like Blackman.

Great story, @Malone. Mate of mine played 6-a-side against a team containing Peter Taylor (when he was manager of Wycombe) and said he was still sh*t hot and ultra competitive!

Bizarrely I played 6-a-side against a team containing Josh Parker (at John Hampden), pre his signing for us. He didn’t have to do much to stand out…as you say, the many, many levels above these guys operate at really quashes any dreams of “I could’ve been a contender.”

Like an old battling Wycombe performance under GA this. Great to watch