Best Of

Here are the category leaders after another five game chunk:

Overall votes:

1. Low - 136
2. Leahy - 125
3. Scowen - 115
4. Potts - 110
5. Stryjek - 61
6. Phillips - 58
7. Vokes - 52

Votes per start:

1. Low - 13.6
2. Scowen - 9.58
3. Potts - 8.46
4. Leahy - 8.33
5. Phillips - 7.25
6. McCleary - 7.00
7. Vokes - 5.20

Man of the Match awards:

1. Scowen - 3
2. Low - 2
3. Leahy - 2
4. Potts - 2
5. Stryjek - 2
6. Phillips - 2
7. Vokes & McCleary - 1

Despite Low's lead in the first two categories, 113 of his votes were over just two games, and it will be hard for him to win overall, though a top five should be doable. Scowen is the usual favourite, but between his injury and some others coming on, this may be the year he has to accept a silver or bronze overall.

Currently, all of the recent momentum at the top is with Leahy and Potts, who have both been on a bit of a tear. With Scowen out and Low adding votes slowly, I expect them to be first and second overall soon, and I personally think they have overtaken Scowen as favourites.

Special dark horse mention to Kian Phillips, who has gained 54 of his 58 votes over the past four games, and could well end up solidly in the top five at this point.

The excel is below if anyone wants to see the full picture.

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Here's my tuppence worth:

Under Gareth Ainsworth there was a clear message from the very top that ours was a club where people of all beliefs, faiths, skin colour, nationality, sexual orientation and opinions were permitted and indeed encouraged to be themselves without fear of judgement or criticism from others.

It's pretty much the thing that makes me most proud to be a Wycombe supporter.

If anyone thinks it is acceptable to abuse one of our young players for some perceived lack of respect (it clearly was no such thing) then they should go and support someone else. Such behaviour would be so far removed from what we are as a club.

I'm hoping that Phillips plays tonight because a) he's a bloody good footballer and b) he deserves to hear the support that I'm sure he will get from the Wycombe fans.

It's really dismal to have to address such matters, but it's even more dismal to read some of the comments that have been posted on Twitter and elsewhere.

Let's show Killian and the wider football community what we're all about tonight

The untimely passing of Dave is a huge loss to his wife Lynden, his children Sarah and David, and his grandchildren, and my condolences go to them.

I first got to know Dave in the late 80s/early 90s when, along with Adrian Wood and Rob Cairney, we produced the matchday programme. When we were promoted to the Football League, we realised that we did not have a fully documented history of the club with line-ups, so we decided it was time to publish one. For the next two years we would spend a lot of time on the microfiche machines at Wycombe library, Dave more so then me, poring over the Bucks Free Press reports and news. Dave was responsible for all of the stats.

Dave, as the club's official statistician, was a stickler for accuracy. I remember when we had beaten Bournemouth 3-2 away in 95-96, and two goals were credited to John Williams. Dave knew that Williams had not touched the ball for the first, it was an own goal, confirmed on video. Dave was quite certain it should go down as an own goal in the programme but manager Alan Smith was having none of it. Williams was having a lean spell in front of goal and Smith wanted to boost his confidence, so Dave reluctantly had to give way. Once Smith had departed, Dave made sure the goal was recorded as an own goal.

I always looked forward to conversations with Dave, he told it as it was, strong opinions, no mincing of words, and with a great sense of humour. He liked his football team to be on the front foot, attackers taking on defenders, not passing sideways and backwards. That led to a spell when his attention wandered to football away from Adams Park, but he was always a Chairboy through and through, ever since his first game in 1964. He was a a well travelled football groundhopper, in all four home nations, and also for cricket and speedway. For many years Dave was a member of Surrey CCC and Bucks CCC, and I will always have the memory of our trip to see Bucks play Suffolk at Copdock a few weeks ago. Lovely weather, beautiful ground, excellent company, Bucks lost but still made it to the final. Dave wanted to go to West Bromwich for the final but circumstances didn't allow. He was so pleased that Bucks won the championship.

Dave was someone I looked up to and admired, as a great historian of the club and as a person. I will sorely miss him.

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I thought I would post this here for reference, as Blooms will land on this list somewhere in his first full season if he avoids relegation (as this is the complete list of all league seasons out of L2 that did not end in L1 relegation), so it can be brought back up later to see where. Points gained are the first tiebreaker, and overall finishing position of the 92 is indicated in parentheses too, as it could be a second tiebreaker if we ever happen to come 6th with 78 points again (as that was before realignment).

1. Championship 20/21: 22nd (42nd) 43 points - Ainsworth
2. League One 19/20: 3rd (47th) *59 points - Ainsworth
3. League One 22/23: 6th (50th) 83 points - Ainsworth
4. League One 94/95: 6th (52nd) 78 points - O'Neill
5. League One 22/23: 9th (53rd) 69 points - Ainsworth/Bloomfield
6. League One 01/02: 11th (55th) 64 points - Sanchez
7. League One 99/00: 12th (56th) 61 points - Sanchez
8. League One 95/96: 12th (56th) 60 points - Smith
9. League One 00/01: 13th (57th) 59 points - Sanchez
10. League One 97/98: 14th (58th) 60 points - Gregory
11. League One 18/19: 17th (61st) 53 points - Ainsworth
12. League One 96/97: 18th (62nd) 55 points - Gregory
13. League one 02/03: 18th (62nd) 52 points - Sanchez
14. League One 98/99: 19th (63rd): 51 points - Smillie

*Oh, and if we ever come 3rd in L1 again, we will have to go to PPG! Or take the result of the playoffs into account!

I do find it interesting to see who did what. And at a time where Ainsworth is embattled in his current role, it's nice to see statistics around his legendary run here.

I personally loved the 18/19 season, where we stayed up as a fan owned club with no money (a very underrated achievement owing to the more glamourous things we have done), and this was actually the 11th best ever finish too, which really could have been solidly higher without that terrible run late in the season.

Here's to Blooms hopefully writing his name in our lore over the next several seasons!

Here are the latest rankings for the three statistical categories ten games in:

Overall votes:

1. Low - 132
2. Scowen - 112
3. Leahy - 67
4. Stryjek - 58
5. McCleary - 49

Votes per start (minimum 4 starts)

1. Low - 22.00
2. Scowen - 12.44
3. McCleary - 9.80
4. Leahy - 6.70
5. Stryjek - 5.80

MOTM awards:

1. Scowen - 3
2. Low - 2
3. Stryjek - 2
4. Leahy - 1
5. McCleary - 1
6. Vokes - 1

Bearing in mind Low gained 113 of his 132 votes in just two starts while Scowen has scored votes in every game, Sir Josh is probably still the early favourite to come out on top for the third year in a row. Leahy has lost some opportunity by being back in defence, I feel. Stryjek, McCleary and Vokes are all lurking, with the pedigree to make some serious noise.

Just for giggles, since the start of 21/22:

1. Scowen - 954
2. Forino - 453
3. Vokes - 398
4. Mehmeti - 377
5. McCleary - 371
6. Wing - 317
7. Wheeler - 313
8. Stryjek - 307
9. Hanlan - 295
10. Jacobson - 269

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