Mike Dodds was let go by Wycombe today after he played a team consisting almost entirely of Matt Bloomfield and Scott Mitchell players. Not only that, but after the final whistle he removed his tracksuit to reveal a t-shirt with the slogan 'Data can do one'.
"We had thought that we were in alignment with our corporate ethos and synergistic strategies" said Dan Rice, sadly. "Our data had pointed to wasting money on Danish punts very specific players to take us from a team who could challenge Birmingham at the top to a...er...team who may be able to stay ahead of Wrexham. For Dodds to come in and play mostly personnel from the previous manager is remarkably deflating."
This team line up is almost like it’s been (largely) very successful this season and even with an influx of new players, the head coach and his assistants are trying to make sure they don’t throw all that hard work away by selecting players that probably hadn’t met a month ago let alone played together so is going for a phased approach to introduce them into the team, knowing that there’s 17 games left and when there’s 10 to go and everyone’s up to speed, it could play dividends to have fresh new players ready to get us over the line, or at worse, very fresh heading into a playoff campaign.
Although it seems a bit odd I wonder if we're basically saying the squad has got us to second on merit and that the incoming players therefore need to demonstrably improve specific features of the team during training in order to be selected on match day. Unless there is a measurable upgrade on offer we stick with the players currently in the side.
I think that's a sensible approach. If 4 or 5 new players were in the starting 11 you might begin to worry about it disrupting harmony with the pre-existing squad.
Oh, and last week showed that defensively there wasn’t much wrong with what we had on the pitch and the issue was the in possession at the top end of the park where we are struggling and hopefully we have been working on that with players that have shown they are capable in popping up with goals, even with Kone out, if the pattern of play is correct.
I think it's a great lineup - round pegs in round holes as much as possible, a motivated Udoh who has been short on opportunities, and so forth. The sadness is no Kone, which is unavoidable, and no Sadlier, so that @Malone will join the (currently one person) fan club after his hattrick of assists.
It's a difficult situation for Doddly. Comes in to a team going great guns but where the management have suddenly lumped tonnes of new signings into the mixer, some of them seemingly who haven't played football for months and need to remember how to.
So he'll be very concerned about making big changes immediately.
I actually largely agree with this viewpoint. It wouldn't send a good message to either established or new players if we suddenly started making wholesale changes to the starting XI. It is still a surprise to me that so few are making the bench though. With Simons on the bench, do we also need Bakinson there? I'd have thought having Berry, or Lowry as a potential game changing option would make sense.
It is a strong starting XI though and surely not much different to what we'd have expected.
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WYCOMBE BOSS SACKED AFTER ONE LEAGUE GAME
Mike Dodds was let go by Wycombe today after he played a team consisting almost entirely of Matt Bloomfield and Scott Mitchell players. Not only that, but after the final whistle he removed his tracksuit to reveal a t-shirt with the slogan 'Data can do one'.
"We had thought that we were in alignment with our corporate ethos and synergistic strategies" said Dan Rice, sadly. "Our data had pointed to
wasting money on Danish puntsvery specific players to take us from a team who could challenge Birmingham at the top to a...er...team who may be able to stay ahead of Wrexham. For Dodds to come in and play mostly personnel from the previous manager is remarkably deflating."This team line up is almost like it’s been (largely) very successful this season and even with an influx of new players, the head coach and his assistants are trying to make sure they don’t throw all that hard work away by selecting players that probably hadn’t met a month ago let alone played together so is going for a phased approach to introduce them into the team, knowing that there’s 17 games left and when there’s 10 to go and everyone’s up to speed, it could play dividends to have fresh new players ready to get us over the line, or at worse, very fresh heading into a playoff campaign.
But what do I know.
Although it seems a bit odd I wonder if we're basically saying the squad has got us to second on merit and that the incoming players therefore need to demonstrably improve specific features of the team during training in order to be selected on match day. Unless there is a measurable upgrade on offer we stick with the players currently in the side.
I think that's a sensible approach. If 4 or 5 new players were in the starting 11 you might begin to worry about it disrupting harmony with the pre-existing squad.
Oh, and last week showed that defensively there wasn’t much wrong with what we had on the pitch and the issue was the in possession at the top end of the park where we are struggling and hopefully we have been working on that with players that have shown they are capable in popping up with goals, even with Kone out, if the pattern of play is correct.
I think it's a great lineup - round pegs in round holes as much as possible, a motivated Udoh who has been short on opportunities, and so forth. The sadness is no Kone, which is unavoidable, and no Sadlier, so that @Malone will join the (currently one person) fan club after his hattrick of assists.
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It's a difficult situation for Doddly. Comes in to a team going great guns but where the management have suddenly lumped tonnes of new signings into the mixer, some of them seemingly who haven't played football for months and need to remember how to.
So he'll be very concerned about making big changes immediately.
The closest I could find
I guess we will just have to trust him . I would have thought we may see a couple more on Tuesday .
It's Schrodinger's Sadlier at the moment.
He's both injured and fit at the same time. With the 4 week figure mooted both seemingly here already, but still with 4 weeks to run at any one time.
There has to be a 'Four Weeks Never Comes' song in there somewhere.
Brilliant!
I actually largely agree with this viewpoint. It wouldn't send a good message to either established or new players if we suddenly started making wholesale changes to the starting XI. It is still a surprise to me that so few are making the bench though. With Simons on the bench, do we also need Bakinson there? I'd have thought having Berry, or Lowry as a potential game changing option would make sense.
It is a strong starting XI though and surely not much different to what we'd have expected.
Really wish we'd get injured players back on co-comms
Wanderers TV just had Regis Le Bris as our manager. I kid you not!
A bit cheesy
Excellent Dan
The commentary is about a second ahead of the pictures again @bluntphil
THIS is why you play Udoh through the middle. Such strong hold-up play.
#doddsout
Well f me.
But no, that was an unreal hit
What the absolute flippery is that for a finish!
FFS - cracking goal there = shame its for Crawley
Great finish, less said the better around the defending if there was any.
Plenty of time fortunately.
Well if the goal and that save are omens of how this one's going to pan out, we're stuffed
Really close from Fred.
But set pieces look to be a good angle for us. A really short fella trying to deal with Bradley!
What a save too. Crawley like prime Brazil with individual skull right now.
One each