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Re: Match Day Thread: Northampton
Can we please stop descending to insulting and digging at each other about the Bloomfield thing on every single thread? It's making my oasis from work and the news as toxic as the other shitty echo chambers a lot of us try to avoid.
Re: Match Day Thread: Northampton
He definitely contributes with moments but I couldn’t say that he has a big impact on general play. Always seems a yard slow to everything for me and the game generally seems to pass him by in the middle.
Re: Match Day Thread: Northampton
He might not word it as gracefully as the holy ones at the gasroom deem acceptable, but @Konetheming is right on Leahy. He gets a free pass because he’s a smooth talker and seems a good leader and pops up with a decent chunk of goals, but he’s done nothing whatsoever to justify his starting position over Butcher or Bakinson (or Magnus etc) for the last few months. He seems to be dining out on cross shots, deflected free kicks and other such flukes. The sort of luck that is unsustainable.
Re: Man of the Match - Northampton (H)
What, from the first day of the season when Dr Dave and the sports psychologist departed?
Re: Man of the Match - Northampton (H)
It’s exactly that kind of moment that lifts the crowd and encourages the team to try things themselves and what we were sorely lacking until Kone came on.
From that initial lineup it didn’t seem like we’d shown Northampton enough respect and in the end the result showed that too.
Kone stretching them for 90 minutes would have thrown up a lot more chances and created spaces for our other attacking players. The formation and personnel we deployed allowed the Cobblers to keep their shape and reset every time we got the ball.
Re: Man of the Match - Northampton (H)
We’ve been on the slide since Rice started sacking Blooms’ hires, it’s possible that had some kind of effect on the players I guess.
Re: Match Day Thread: Northampton
He's Mr Wycombe as a player, not as a manager.
Just as Ainsworth became Mr Wycombe as a manager, not as a player.
MB is Mr Luton now and Ainsworth is Mr Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
Re: Match Day Thread: Northampton
No, I just think he deserves respect for everything he gave for our club. Most of my posts are counters to people not respecting him. It will all die down eventually, but in the meantime I am perfectly getting downvoted by being "that poster who won't stop saying we should have respected Blooms more."
Ironically, for everyone who wants to take away the "Mr. Wycombe" title, there is a way in which you are right. He is "Mr. What-used-to-be-Wycombe" not "Mr. What-Wycombe-are-going-to-be-from-now-on" and I don't think everyone realizes how massive of a sea change that is.