Best Of
Re: Match Day Thread: Barnsley
GMagic is a 24-carat legend. So pleased he is about to get to 200 appearances for us, and when you add the 30 goals and 29 assists at an advanced age, he has been incredible!
Re: Other Football
We owe a big debt to Arthur Okonkwo tonight. Mistakes for the first two Stevenage goals!
Re: Match Day Thread: Barnsley
When was the last time we had the lead goal scorer in league one at the start of February?
Re: Match Day Thread: Barnsley
Re-watched the winner and that’s an incredible effort from GMac. Blocked the ball, chased it down, kept it in, carried it for quite a while, and put it straight onto Kone’s head.
In the moments that matter, you want him there.
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
No way was Bloomers on anything near that. The bloke was too tight to sleep in a hotel preferring the training ground !!
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
Caught up with a QPR supporting colleague for the first time in a couple of months who is good friends with Gareth.
Apparently we were paying GA about 250k towards the end, QPR then offered him 650k, which continued to be paid for the full 2.5 years after he was sacked (hence why he didn’t rush for something else).
It’s probably reasonable to assume that Rob paid Bloomfield something similar to GA.
Bearing in mind QPR were desperately trying to hit their 3 year FFP cycle after 2 years of massive losses (and Luton are in the 1st year of a 3 year parachute payment period), it’s probably safe to assume Luton offered Matt even more than QPR offered GA (plus a 3.5 year deal).
So arguably we could have pushed more to try and keep him, but unlikely we were going to match Luton.