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Your last paragraph nails this season under MB with increased funding from our owner ML, you could increase that to 2024.

Why would a man who has spent 22 years of his whole adult life here want to leave when he’s taken us to great heights and had the opportunity to take us up and take us much further in the FA Cup.

Matt was the man to lead us and was doing a great job with some of the finest football we’d ever seen at AP and getting result after result after result.

All the signs are there that he was not wanted by Rice and ultimately ML. The club made no effort to keep him or thank him openly which I find abhorrent considering his commitment over 22 years.

I am sure we will be successful without Matt but we were being hugely successful with him at the helm.

I’m gutted he’s gone and I bet Matt is too.

Do you think our owner will ever visit AP?

Of course.

I don’t know much about Sam Grace but looking at his X account (which he doesn’t seem to be particularly active on anymore) one of his last posts was when Blooms left for Col U.

‘Must be a word somewhere in the world, to describe the joint feeling of shared excitement when a friend leaves to pursue a goal, combined with a sadness they’ve left. Outstanding man, team-mate, & mentor, that I’m sure will continue to set standards & help those around him.’

This can’t be an easy situation for him

It's still crazy to think Blooms scored an open play goal in the Championship, which Bayo and JJ were not able to do (though JJ had two perfectly good corner goals disallowed).

No it was kinda what I set out to do but I’m pretty sure pocket size police officers were available at that time.

Joe Jacobson meets Ollie Kay to discuss Matt Bloomfield joining Luton Town

JJ's take, interesting from 3:20 about why Blooms left. Cagey about it for sure. His reaction to the statement as being "a strange one" is interesting. He does say "people get sentimental" but then is also clear that "maybe things will come out down the line about why it happened."

Agreed! The accompanying laugh spoke volumes too.

It also bears saying that if this was a straightforward "leaving for a better job", it is very odd for JJ to reference reasons that may come out down the line.

On your last line - probably or maybe is all anyone can say without more evidence. We just don't know how things have been handled , what has been said and done, the respective messages do suggest all was not well though.

Millions of people probably do jobs they aren't 100% enjoying or have poor relationships with their employers or management but have no real ability to leave or do something else and need the cash so they front up each day and smile through it. Others will have minor quibbles about small things they might not even raise.

If Blooms was pissed off already and sought or received what he thought was a great opportunity he clears off immediately. Either way he's been here a long time and there is a downside so he'd consider it carefully, and might have gone regardless. We really have no idea. Ok, some of you do, apparently...

There’s lots of people mention those “ITK” and lots of “I have heard from sources” etc posts. It might be my cynicism kicking in, but the very fact there are anonymous sources from within the club willing to and apparently actively talking about what’s going on behind what should be - at least at a corporate level - closed doors is more concerning than anything to me.

For everyone that is in the know, remember your mates are probably telling you stuff they shouldn’t. Either they want there jobs and you telling the secrets here puts their job at risk, or worse, they don’t give a shit about their jobs because they have checked out mentally because things have got that bad.

sure, forums thrive off tidbits of ITK scuttlebutt but there’s a small and finite number of people your info can come from.

I don’t know anyone within the club but I know people who work in football. People who work in football talk to each other, and are rarely discreet. I don’t consider myself ITK but I do hear things from very credible sources.

I was told when the new owners first arrived that Blooms wasn’t their man. I was also told more recently that Blooms “wasn’t having them”. It wasn’t exactly a shock when he left for pastures new.