Quick question, as I didn't see the game yesterday. Why was Knight subbed having come in as a sub? Injured, or did he have a bad game? Rather an un GA like comment that it was a great defensive effort by 'some' of our players. Of course, I may be reading far too much into that!
@Wycombe85 said:
Quick question, as I didn't see the game yesterday. Why was Knight subbed having come in as a sub? Injured, or did he have a bad game? Rather an un GA like comment that it was a great defensive effort by 'some' of our players. Of course, I may be reading far too much into that!
@woodlands said:
Woodgate said on a 'difficult pitch ' what do you think he meant.
These sort of comments always make me smile.
I'm sure a lot of us used to play local park football, and aside from the month at the start of the season and perhaps end, you'd have either brittle pitches, or any sort of water would turn them into utter bogs.
So Wycombe's superbly smooth pitch is a luxury.
@Wycombe85 said:
Quick question, as I didn't see the game yesterday. Why was Knight subbed having come in as a sub? Injured, or did he have a bad game? Rather an un GA like comment that it was a great defensive effort by 'some' of our players. Of course, I may be reading far too much into that!
Injured
Looked like concussion. He hit the floor like a rag doll and looked badly dazed when then physios were on. If so, he'll have to miss the Boro game, which is a huge shame for him, leaving in such innocuous circumstances after such a great season.
@Wycombe85 said:
Quick question, as I didn't see the game yesterday. Why was Knight subbed having come in as a sub? Injured, or did he have a bad game? Rather an un GA like comment that it was a great defensive effort by 'some' of our players. Of course, I may be reading far too much into that!
Injured
Looked like concussion. He hit the floor like a rag doll and looked badly dazed when then physios were on. If so, he'll have to miss the Boro game, which is a huge shame for him, leaving in such innocuous circumstances after such a great season.
His last 6 games or so have been a bit like some of Gape's unlucky spells.
He knows he has a place here if he wants it though, but there's every chance another team have clocked his performances.
I'm trying to think of the last player we had who could fill in so brilliantly in either centre defence or midfield.
Ryan maybe? But he probably had 2 distinct phases, early and later career specialising in one.
@Doob said:
I think he's saying he'd expect a decent wad to be persuaded to leave.
Once again you have got it completely wrong. Anyone who knows Gareth will confirm that the last thing that motivates him is money. If he was only interested in financial gain why didn’t he accept the Sunderland job when it was offered?
Josh Knight took a mighty head to head blow. They showed it a couple of times and I was surprised he wasn’t out cold for some time.
Poor Dennis Adeniran looked to be in terrible pain and he was clearly having difficulty walking when he was helped off the pitch. I feel really sorry for him, especially as it looked as if it might be a recurrence of the injury (?back problem) which kept him out for some time earlier this year.
Grimmer injury possibly not too serious. Certainly hope not as he’s been superb all season. Talking of which, haven’t Fred and Jason McCarthy been revelations as wing backs.
I think*@Doob is actually a poorly constructed nom de plume of Dobbo who is trying to undermine GA as part of his cunning plan to take over the top job here...
@Doob said:
I think he's saying he'd expect a decent wad to be persuaded to leave.
Once again you have got it completely wrong. Anyone who knows Gareth will confirm that the last thing that motivates him is money. If he was only interested in financial gain why didn’t he accept the Sunderland job when it was offered?
Was it actually offered?
Do you know that as part of your insider dealings?
There's never been any confirmation in the press about the reality of what actual jobs he's actually been offered, just that there were some.
I am not about to give away any confidential information but I stand by my original post, and the more important point that Gareth is not a man who will be swayed by a bigger pay cheque.
@glasshalffull said:
I am not about to give away any confidential information but I stand by my original post, and the more important point that Gareth is not a man who will be swayed by a bigger pay cheque.
Either you do have “confidential” information, in which case you already betrayed that confidence with your first post, or you don’t, in which case it would be as well to say so.
I was basing it on what Neil Harman wrote in Close Quarters. He mentioned that the club in question was from "some distance north and east of Wycombe" and that the job was offered to him in the autumn of 2019.
I'd always assumed he'd meant Sunderland. Although elsewhere in the same book he says Sunderland decided to look elsewhere so who knows?
@glasshalffull said:
I am not about to give away any confidential information but I stand by my original post, and the more important point that Gareth is not a man who will be swayed by a bigger pay cheque.
Either you do have “confidential” information, in which case you already betrayed that confidence with your first post, or you don’t, in which case it would be as well to say so.
I suspect @glasshalffull has over stepped the line and therefore finds himself in a difficult position.
Either you do have “confidential” information, in which case you already betrayed that confidence with your first post, or you don’t, in which case it would be as well to say so.
Thanks for the lecture, but that is not the issue. The point is whether or not you believe, as one poster clearly does, that Gareth would only leave Wycombe if the money was right.
I suspect @glasshalffull has over stepped the line and therefore finds himself in a difficult position.
I refer you to drcongo’s post above. As I said in response to Malone, I do not wish to elaborate on what is already in the public domain. This is all a distraction from the original post about Gareth’s priorities, a much more important issue.
Either you do have “confidential” information, in which case you already betrayed that confidence with your first post, or you don’t, in which case it would be as well to say so.
Thanks for the lecture, but that is not the issue. The point is whether or not you believe, as one poster clearly does, that Gareth would only leave Wycombe if the money was right.
My son met Gareth in a coffee shop in his local town last week and Gareth told him he had been offered a job elsewhere but he did not want to leave the area because his children were settled in the area and he really lovely Wycombe Wanderers.
You can believe that or not but it actually happened.
So it looks like Gareth will stay unless he is offered the Reading or QPR job.
@Blue_since_1990 said:
My son met Gareth in a coffee shop in his local town last week and Gareth told him he had been offered a job elsewhere but he did not want to leave the area because his children were settled in the area and he really lovely Wycombe Wanderers.
You can believe that or not but it actually happened.
So it looks like Gareth will stay unless he is offered the Reading or QPR job.
Pretty much the situation as I understand it and have outlined in previous posts. His loyalty to our club is beyond any doubt, and he is a family fan who I believe would only uproot to another part of the country if he got the proverbial offer that was ‘too good to refuse.’
It's a tough one for Gareth as I believe him that money is not the single thing that drives him. I am sure he wants to test himself at the highest level possible but that comes at a cost. Wycombe at this level is unique (not necessarily by choice) in having the manager as the absolute focus of the club. As he has said before he has been in charge (with Dobbo) of everything from player recruitment to putting up curtains in the player meeting room. Move up the ladder and he will find himself less involved in player recruitment, player development and overall control of the club. Something that I think Martin O'Neil struggled with when he left us.
I just hope that people remember how good we have it with a manager who is still so in love with our club. And come February 2022 if we are mid-table people are not calling for change. Be careful what you wish for.
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From the 4-4-2 interview with Woodgate I don’t recall our centre half clearing the ball of the line with his hands.
Quick question, as I didn't see the game yesterday. Why was Knight subbed having come in as a sub? Injured, or did he have a bad game? Rather an un GA like comment that it was a great defensive effort by 'some' of our players. Of course, I may be reading far too much into that!
Injured
These sort of comments always make me smile.
I'm sure a lot of us used to play local park football, and aside from the month at the start of the season and perhaps end, you'd have either brittle pitches, or any sort of water would turn them into utter bogs.
So Wycombe's superbly smooth pitch is a luxury.
Looked like concussion. He hit the floor like a rag doll and looked badly dazed when then physios were on. If so, he'll have to miss the Boro game, which is a huge shame for him, leaving in such innocuous circumstances after such a great season.
His last 6 games or so have been a bit like some of Gape's unlucky spells.
He knows he has a place here if he wants it though, but there's every chance another team have clocked his performances.
I'm trying to think of the last player we had who could fill in so brilliantly in either centre defence or midfield.
Ryan maybe? But he probably had 2 distinct phases, early and later career specialising in one.
Once again you have got it completely wrong. Anyone who knows Gareth will confirm that the last thing that motivates him is money. If he was only interested in financial gain why didn’t he accept the Sunderland job when it was offered?
Josh Knight took a mighty head to head blow. They showed it a couple of times and I was surprised he wasn’t out cold for some time.
Poor Dennis Adeniran looked to be in terrible pain and he was clearly having difficulty walking when he was helped off the pitch. I feel really sorry for him, especially as it looked as if it might be a recurrence of the injury (?back problem) which kept him out for some time earlier this year.
Grimmer injury possibly not too serious. Certainly hope not as he’s been superb all season. Talking of which, haven’t Fred and Jason McCarthy been revelations as wing backs.
I think*@Doob is actually a poorly constructed nom de plume of Dobbo who is trying to undermine GA as part of his cunning plan to take over the top job here...
*just to be clear - I don’t
Was it actually offered?
Do you know that as part of your insider dealings?
There's never been any confirmation in the press about the reality of what actual jobs he's actually been offered, just that there were some.
I am not about to give away any confidential information but I stand by my original post, and the more important point that Gareth is not a man who will be swayed by a bigger pay cheque.
Well, you've stated "when" it was offered.
So you've either worded that a bit clumsily, or you know for a fact he's been offered it
Gape's unlucky spells featured in the first series of 'Rentaghost.'
Either you do have “confidential” information, in which case you already betrayed that confidence with your first post, or you don’t, in which case it would be as well to say so.
There is something delicious about a Wycombe manager being offered the Sunderland job and turning it down.
It is funny but I think the same abourlt Gareth and the paycheck scenario but I stress I have no inside information at all.
It was always my understanding that Gareth was quite keen on the Sunderland job and they turned him down.
Didn't Sunderland offer it but Dobbo didn't want to leave his home in the New Forest so Gaz turned it down because he didn't want to go without him?
I haven't made that up have I?
Is there a chance none of us were ever told anything about it but we all had theories.?
I was basing it on what Neil Harman wrote in Close Quarters. He mentioned that the club in question was from "some distance north and east of Wycombe" and that the job was offered to him in the autumn of 2019.
I'd always assumed he'd meant Sunderland. Although elsewhere in the same book he says Sunderland decided to look elsewhere so who knows?
I suspect @glasshalffull has over stepped the line and therefore finds himself in a difficult position.
@HCblue said:
Thanks for the lecture, but that is not the issue. The point is whether or not you believe, as one poster clearly does, that Gareth would only leave Wycombe if the money was right.
I’m absolutely sure it’s long been in the public domain that he turned Sunderland down.
I refer you to drcongo’s post above. As I said in response to Malone, I do not wish to elaborate on what is already in the public domain. This is all a distraction from the original post about Gareth’s priorities, a much more important issue.
First-rate obfuscation if not anything else.
that's really odd about Woodgate and the pitch. It was hardly a mid-season Baseball Ground in 1975.
(Those were the days.)
My son met Gareth in a coffee shop in his local town last week and Gareth told him he had been offered a job elsewhere but he did not want to leave the area because his children were settled in the area and he really lovely Wycombe Wanderers.
You can believe that or not but it actually happened.
So it looks like Gareth will stay unless he is offered the Reading or QPR job.
Pretty much the situation as I understand it and have outlined in previous posts. His loyalty to our club is beyond any doubt, and he is a family fan who I believe would only uproot to another part of the country if he got the proverbial offer that was ‘too good to refuse.’
It's a tough one for Gareth as I believe him that money is not the single thing that drives him. I am sure he wants to test himself at the highest level possible but that comes at a cost. Wycombe at this level is unique (not necessarily by choice) in having the manager as the absolute focus of the club. As he has said before he has been in charge (with Dobbo) of everything from player recruitment to putting up curtains in the player meeting room. Move up the ladder and he will find himself less involved in player recruitment, player development and overall control of the club. Something that I think Martin O'Neil struggled with when he left us.
I just hope that people remember how good we have it with a manager who is still so in love with our club. And come February 2022 if we are mid-table people are not calling for change. Be careful what you wish for.