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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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⚓️ Portsmouth + Fleetwood action & reaction 🐟 

💒 Till Death Us Do Part with #Chairboys fan @perfidious_albion  

🇲🇽 Liga Juan rrrrresults with Uri

🕵️‍♂️ Secret identity of the Regional Accents Dept. revealed 

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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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Napoleon's Reasonable Hair

• Charlton Athletic action + reaction
• Luke Leahy live in the studio
• New laws
• Till Death Us Do Part with @oilysailor

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• Blackpool action + reaction
• Harry Boyes Knowing Me, Knowing Blues
• Prostate Cancer UK March For Men with Jeff Stelling, Mark Bright, Gaz + loads of #Chairboys fans

Live on Wycombe Sound 106.6FM (in High Wycombe)/online at 6pm or on your podcast platform of choice

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Beans On Toast With Kevin De Bruyne

• Cobblers action + reaction
• Chairman Rob Couhig on the transfer window
• Jasper Pattenden Wish You Were Here
• #Chairboys fan Matt Bass talks about his #FACup adventures

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On this week's show we have all the action and reaction from the game against Bristol Rovers at the Memorial 'Stadium', we speak with Chairboys fan Tom Ball about how he travelled to Bristol, plus Freddie Potts drops by for a chat...

The pod goes live tonight on all the usual podcast platforms from 7pm this evening. It's also broadcast pre-match on Wycombe Sound from 7pm... COYB!

Hi all I hope it’s alright to post this little update. I thought I would let you know we have had deliveries of 100 small flags for the family stand and a fantastic Mr Blooms flag, also waiting for 3 new banners to be delivered to complete the terrace.

Also just wondering does anyone know the tune to “The Old Bucks Boys” goes. We would like to make it a staple of the chants.

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- Rob Couhig chat inc. the latest on investment

- Dale Taylor

- @Jonny_King

- Oppo View x 2

Almost as entertaining as a red card after the final whistle

We'll upload the show as podcast straight after!