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if you look closely up to the top of Hillbottom that’s the Premier League you can see poking through the mist

leahy ? lol

I do not claim to be in the know about any of the characters involved or the clubs business plans so can only make my own assessment of evens.

I do not subscribe to either the 'he is not our man', or the 'didn't have the bottle to sack him' theories. If the intention was to remove MB at the beginning it would have happened. The financial cost was a drop in the ocean compared to the money spent on the club to date. It didn't happen. Nor did it happen at the end of last season when a fair number of fans displayed their loyalty to a 20 year servant of the club by calling for his head.

As I see it Dan Rice et al have been employed to oversee the business side of WWFC and are answerable for how the money is spent. MB was employed to oversee first team squad footballing matters. In between is a grey area where the borders came under dispute, and it is likely that both sides could have handled the matter of where the lines are drawn, a lot better. MB had the choice of settling for the boundaries that were set, or moving on. He chose the latter.

Matt has used the event to take a step up, and goes with my gratitude and best wishes for the future. TBH I do not expect him to be at Luton in three and a half years time. Either he will fail to meet expectations and be moved on, or he will be a highly successful and even a bigger fish will come calling.

Is WWFC the club I started supporting, absolutely not! I started watching WW in the 1950's and I have lost count of the changes, but I go with the flow. There have been ups and downs, and I'm sure there will be more. Who knows where the current chapter will lead.

We only ever saw him and Dobbo operating with no money and they found a certain style to find success in that situation. With money it would be a completely different story.

You are already judging them - more negatively that most imo, but we all are judging them. Everyday.

But don’t assume that because I can see and understand logical business decisions being made that I think the “Sun shines out of their behind”.

I’m very much in the proof will be in the pudding stage. Dan et al currently have a mixing bowl full of ingredients making something we are all familiar with. He’s using a different recipe though and some things might be a bit weird, and some are seemingly danish. Some things have been taken out completely. But just because it’s different, it doesn’t mean it’s bad.

Until it’s in the oven baking, or I get to taste some of the mixture before i goes in, I’m not judging it either way.

A stew is different to a steak but both have beef in and can be delicious in their own way. You can also over cook the most expensive steak and make a piss weak stew. But you can’t really judge anything of substance until the process is a bit further along.

And that’s enough “let him cook” metaphors. I’ve gone from baking a cake to frying steak in one analogy.

They have given us our academy back and a new training facility in such a short space of time. I think they have handed those situations extremely well.

I'm just saying there is a lot in football beyond one man's control, especially when he has just rocked up to a squad. He can do it, it is still a huge hill to climb to seal it.

One could argue it's just as disrespectful to imply it's easy to keep Shrewsbury up. It is going to take every ounce of nous, effort and genius he has to make it happen. I would genuinely see him as achieving something few have ever done if he takes what is possibly the poorest squad in the league from bottom to outside the relegation spots.

I e not seen it mentioned anywhere

That’ll be the same camel that had his back broken by a straw yesterday.

Cooking is too good for him.

I’m led to believe that Grimmer is fit.