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Matt Butcher set up the first goal for Brizzle Rovers today in their 3-1 win over Peterborough.

Shamal was injured early in the Portsmouth FA Cup game which has complicated an already strange situation.

For whatever reason Bishop isn't the answer the club thought he'd be, Shala needs to be playing week in week out somewhere, and Rav needs some competition.

This is a brilliant post. I’m old enough to remember dinosaurs roaming the earth but sensible enough to realise that football evolves and change is inevitable. Gone are the days when clubs were owned by the local butcher, baker or candlestick maker, players trained by doing a few laps around the pitch and the chairman was told what to do by the manager. I can’t pretend that I like every aspect of the modern game but you either embrace it or you don’t and I for one am excited to see what the future holds. As James correctly points out, who would have thought not many years ago that clubs like Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton would even reach the PL, let alone more than hold their own at that level? There’s nothing wrong with dreaming.

 With his history I would suggest it is doing him a diservice suggesting he just runs some software and it spits out a player for him to persue .

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Recruitment has been very good. So regardless of who is in charge of that element I think the incoming coach has a good platform.

My areas of focus would be set pieces. Not sure we are at our best and Leahy is not firing on all cylinders in that department. Secondly trying to figure out formations or strategies for breaking down teams. We are still losing confidence and resorting to long balls. As per yesterday. Simply by passing the midfield. It wasn’t working yesterday but plan B wasn’t there. This is no slight on Sam Grace, we were the same with Bloomfield and to a lesser extent Ainsworth (but Ainsworth didn’t have the technical talent arguably).

I’m excited. We have a wonderful squad. With a bit of guidance we are good to go.

If we do sign Norris we’ll have 5 professional goalkeepers on our books, and a further one on loan. A far cry from Barry Richardson going in goal at Home Park.

So its "Sam and Mike's Barmy Army" for Preston and "Mike and Sam's Barmy Army" for Crawley. Excellent and hopefully two wins on the road.

I hope Sam finds and keeps a useful place in the organisation.

...in 2008 (17 years ago) Matt Bloomfield came on as a 78th minute substitute (replacing Sergio Torres) for Wycombe Wanderers in a 2-0 League Two win over Accrington Stanley at the Crown Ground.

In 2019 (six years ago) Matt Bloomfield played 85 minutes for Wycombe Wanderers in a goal-less League One draw with Bradford City at Adams Park (replaced by Marcus Bean).

In 2021 (four years ago) Matt Bloomfield played 89 minutes for Wycombe Wanderers in a goal-less Championship draw with Birmingham City at Adams Park (replaced by David Wheeler).

In 2022 (three years ago) Matt Bloomfield officially announced his retirement as a professional footballer.

Official announcement: https://www.wwfc.com/news/2022/february/02/matt-bloomfield-retires-from-football/

Gareth Ainsworth: “We could not have achieved everything that we have done without him, and above that, I wouldn’t have wanted to have gone on this journey without him. He has been such an inspiration to everyone at Wycombe Wanderers, on and off the pitch…Wycombe Wanderers have been truly blessed with an extraordinary individual that has gone far, far beyond what he signed up to do. Matt Bloomfield is a guy you can rely on with anything; a guy who will be there for you through everything and someone who has the respect of every other footballer in the game.”

The official WWFC website also published this tribute - The Matt Bloomfield story: https://www.wwfc.com/news/2022/february/02/the-matt-bloomfield-story/

Tributes from supporters on the Gasroom V2.0: https://gasroom.org/discussion/7225/matt-bloomfield-announces-retirement-from-playing/p1

Interviews:

EFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1GG5PiYMYg

Sky Sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1VZr5TcCw&t=10s

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/football/football-league-blog/2022/feb/02/wycombe-matt-bloomfield-retires-i-forget-simple-words-it-scares-me

Yes plenty of you were shouting for Josh to go back deeper

But not for long

Welcome to the club Mike.

You are very lucky to have landed such great job with a great club who have in recent times treated players, management and staff with the utmost respect by our two previous managers and owners. What I read of your recent years you are from the same mold and well respected.

You take us on when we are having our greatest ever season and in second place in League One, if we finish second or third it will be our second highest League finish since 1887.

I hope the new owners give you time to implement your coaching ideas next season and you hit the ground running, we have the squad and first 11 to finish this season in 1st or 2nd place if things do not change to drastically.

Your first job will be to get Morley to sign or another significant player at his level who can play games immediately and in the same role as Morley.

Best of luck and I hope you get given time and support from fans and Dan Rice alike.