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Fair enough, but between the end of the winning run and Blooms leaving we still averaged 1.55 goals per game, whereas Dodds averages 1.11. The "bad" Blooms run including a 3-0 away to a miserly Stevenage defence where we could easily have had 6 for 7 and were playing for the "Ole's" by the end.

In other words, the "bad period" of Blooms was still more potent than what we watch now.

If Dodds wins every game 1-0 and we go up, fantastic - it's how Wrexham have been finding success. Or if something clicks and we start scoring 2 per game again, also great. I haven't written Dodds off. But I am not going to drink the Kool-aid that his football is currently pleasing on the eye.

There is definitely an irony to the football being so negative, but being chided for being negative if you identify it as such!

Either way, no excuse not to score 3 or more at home to Shrewsbury. Absolute litmus test for being fearless.

And I think therein lies what I do find depressing.

We have a young, modern coach who is working to the currently fashionable trend of ‘control’ (which involves a lot of - in my view - faffing around in our own half).

I get that is the way most managers post-Pep want to play but personally I don’t find it that entertaining.

One of the unexpected delights in the first half of the season was that we had developed a way of playing that was both exciting to watch and successful.

Expressing regret for the loss of that in words on here does not remotely equate to wanting us to lose or Dodds not to succeed. Of course I want him to be successful with us.

i can also understand the safety-first, fear of losing, approach at this time of the season and I will not judge Dodds long term capabilities or strategies based on what he sees as the right thing to do to keep us in the automatic promotion hunt.

As a supporter however I do feel that I can legitimately bemoan the way of the football world in general and contrast the football we played a few months ago with the football we are playing now in particular.

The away game at Lincoln was one of the best games of football I have seen Wycombe play in for a long time. I walked the relatively short distance back to the car that day amongst Lincoln fans talking about how good we were as a team that afternoon. I can’t imagine there were many Lincoln supporters singing our praises walking back to their cars yesterday.

Leeds are a prime example in the Championship. Earlier in the season they were scoring goals for fun. Now they seem to have got the jitters and could even miss out on the automatics.

Whilst I agree that Neil Harman is clearly a racist nutter, I do have some concerns about this. In particular, we've just hosted an event that is by-design gender segregated. You can even see the gender segregation in the aerial photo.

Does that correspond to the inclusive values and ethos that our club holds? I know it's what their religion dictates, but I feel that we run the risk of sacrificing certain principles as part of a perhaps misguided attempt at tolerance

I agree on the PL. As for us, I think Dodds is suffering by being compared to the style he said he was not going to change (before completely changing it).

That Notts County game was like a WW1 battle. The most brutal physical match I've ever watched. Scott Brown was warned for time wasting within the first 90 seconds. He should have been booked it was so blatant

Agreed but I don’t think the system used in the last two games will consistently produce positive results.

I’m sure Dodds would agree that you can’t control the result but you can control your own performance. I don’t think we’ve been good enough recently despite winning.

We are in a different place to when Ainsworth was manager. We just broke our transfer record twice on players who can’t even get in the squad. Expectations have rightly increased.

I will be honest. I reckon MOST Premier League games are fairly dull too. It's not that often that you witness a crazy end to end game full of excitement.

For me, at the level we are it - I can accept playing to our strengths and getting results over watching nice football and I'm not sure how good that can actually be at League 1 level. We are in this league for a reason and it's because we are not as good as 50+ teams in the country.

Dodds seemingly has an obsession with having “control of the ball”. But Wycombe’s strength this season under Bloomfield was not having control of the ball, it was about being effective with the ball, pressing high and being bold with an attacking focus. The success of the style was that others didn’t do it. Now Dodds seems to be hell bent on copying other fashionable styles when he should be looking back on what served Wycombe so well this season.

It's pretty encouraging, after other talks of boycotting the club following some not appreciating JJ's response to the conflict in the middle east.