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Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
The good thing is...the interim team seem to be keeping us competitive so the management group can make sure they pick the right person for the job. (Not Stevie G or Rooney if at all possible...)
Anyone who loses a game gets it in the neck. It's very rare even in our unbeaten run that we looked completely on top, but that's League One football. Northampton was a classic top v bottom game in my opinion...and we did not lose it. Both Mansfield and Barnsley were typical Wycombe never say die performances for me which is very encouraging.
We can worry about who is coming in next to screw it all up for us...but at present the Sams and co are doing all right.
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
I am sure the players weren't drawn out of a 'Random Danish Player' tombola, but it would definitely be an incompetent look!
Alternatively, maybe they told Sam Grace they were going to stand at '0', and every time he wins they move forward a pace, every time he draws they stand still, and every time he loses they move back a pace. If he gets to spot 5, they hire him permanently, or if he ends up back at 0 they hire a new head coach. 😁
Shev
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
I’m not convinced that ‘culture’ is going to be as important an attribute going forward. We have, for the past decade, signed ‘Wycombe types’ but I’m not sure that will be a thing anymore.
Gary
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
It was reported at the Trust meeting last night that the owners are taking their time to ensure they get the right person.
cheryl
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
As I said, it’s history now that he’s been appointed as manager of Bolton so no longer of interest to our club.
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
True, but he's referred to as both in different places on the club site!
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
Nice to hear that Sam Vokes absolutely sh*ts himself during those painful 8-10 minutes of added time, just like us fans...!
He's always been an interesting listen, but that for me was the most open and candid interview that Sam V has ever given at WW. His steely blue eyes are completely focussed on getting us promotion, and not just from the side. It was also obvious from the interview that the play-off defeat hurt him badly, and he doesn't want to repeat that..!
Re: New Manager Rumour Mill
Do you know what SG & SV would be great, keep this until the end of the season and then review. Sometimes the answers are right in front of you, you just need to know where to look.
petef1
Re: Random sightings of our players outside of football
Crikey. Nick Freeman must be a very fast talker or you were in a very slow lift!
Anthony Stewart was a regular in ASDA after training, usually with his mate Charles Dunne. On one occasion, perhaps after Charles had suffered “a slight knock”, Anthony was pushing him round in a trolley. I didn’t dare ask. They were both very young at the time. Anthony must have remembered those days years later when he came and sat with me at a meeting in the Vere Suite. Lovely guy.
Back in my playing days (!) Luke O’Nien appeared, together with a young goalkeeper, at the entrance to the main sports hall at Handy Cross Sports Centre. We were playing table tennis and short tennis and Luke, who had his own table tennis table at home, asked if they could join in. I had to tell him that we were a 50+ group - I was 50 plus about 50% at the time, a “joke” which always fell flat when I paid at reception - and he was very disappointed not to be able to join us.
A couple of years later, I was chatting to Luke in the Woodland Lounge and he mentioned the Sports Centre “incident”. That was when he mentioned that he had a table tennis table at home and that was when I politely declined his challenge to take him on!
Finally, the most memorable occasion involving a Wycombe player was when we were driving along Mill End Road towards the West Wycombe Road about a dozen years ago and mrs micra said “isn’t that Sergio Torres at the bus stop?” It was and we picked him up. Mrs micra is renowned for her ability to glean personal information about people very quickly. In the family we call it the Spanish Inquisition.
I’m not kidding when I say that, before we reached the West Wycombe Road, she’d asked him if he had a girlfriend. Sergio shook his head with its ample mop of curly hair and in answer to the question “why” suggested that his hair might have been the reason. A magical quality of mrs micra’s approach is that, remarkably, she never seems to give offence. Very much an Irish characteristic, I think. When we reached Sergio’s digs - with a lovely Wycombe supporting family - he invited us in for a coffee. Nice thought, obviously, but not exactly appropriate. He was very young at the time.
micra
Re: Gasroom Meetup
I’d rather be local to Wycombe personally, Flint would be my preference there
