Obviously all Wycombe fans are desperate to retain Mr Wycombe as manager. If the current momentum on the pitch is to be maintained, it is clearly imperative that appropriate measures should be in place to reduce as much as possible the risk of him being enticed away by lucrative offers elsewhere.
Probably by far the greatest likelihood of that happening would be a situation in which we narrowly miss out on promotion and Ipswich are relegated. Heaven forfend!
With Matt being so emotionally attached to this special club and with funds available (I hope it’s reasonable to assume) to make him counter offers that he would find impossible to refuse, I’d like to think that we can all relax in the expectation that he’ll be going nowhere for the “immediate” future.
Meanwhile, let us luxuriate in the current sensation of happiness that everything in the garden is truly rosy.
They sacked a good mate of his and it's fairly obvious he's not at all happy about (I've taken his brother's tweet as a proxy for his own thoughts on the matter)
We can only hope that somewhere in there is a professional relationship that is strong enough to overcome it but I'm far far more worried about him leaving since that happened than I was before, and it would be a real real shame.
Agreed, I think if the right job came along he would take it. Which would be sensible given the owners have already replaced the majority of the back room staff with their own appointments.
Hopefully we can keep hold of him for the season, although I sense we're better set up to absorb his departure than we were Gaz's (the structure behind the scenes seems sound). That was never going to be smooth given how long he'd been in charge, although we weren't really struggling for long.
I hope that people do not do that as this is a personal matter between Scott and the club. Blooms has already given the response in an interview that I have pasted below just so that people know he has given his position. As they say in a court of law ‘I refer you to my previous answer’
‘The club is going in a different direction. We are going data led and he did an incredible job for our football club in the 18 months. He left a very secure position at Ipswich Town to follow me and believe in what I wanted to do last summer and I can’t thank him enough for what he’s contributed. He was not a close friend before we worked together even though I’d known him for a long time. But from working together we speak every day on the phone discussing players and transfer window and disappointing to lose an incredible guy who did a great job for us but club is heading in a different direction and that is the decision that has been made’
I appreciate your point (and personally, don't think there really is that much to read into RE Mitchell leaving) but seeing as it is a forum to discuss "football matters", the sacking of our Head of Recruitment would fall under that category. I'd be surprised if that - or plans for his successor - aren't brought up either organically by the panel, or through the Q+A.
Continue as we are and Blooms will be linked with a few more jobs this season. If he’s offered a new deal here we know he’s their man. If not I really hope he stays with us until the end of the season atleast as he’s building something special.
Was Mitchell really a good mate of his. I thought I heard Matt say he was someone he was aware of from his time and Ipswich but didn't really know him, as such, until time came for him to make an appointment in that role at Wycombe.
Yes don’t see him on their radar to be honest. I don’t think he was a serious contender for the Coventry job either. Wasn’t he linked with Hull the other day too? The more he is linked with these jobs the better we are doing anyway.
His interview on Radio 5 last night was really insightful. He talked a lot about his desire to go elsewhere and risk failure. He talked about how some at Wycombe advised him it would be really tough at Colchester on his own, without his own team. He talked about how Colchester was really convenient location-wise - he got to spend time with his daughters every night, for example. He did say that the lure of Wycombe was too good to turn down.
My concern about Blooms is not really even him wanting to go - it's whether he will get sacked the first time even a modicum of loyalty is required to keep him, or even before. I think we may have one of the hottest young managers in the EFL on our hands, irrespective of his prior connection to us as Mr. Wycombe, but there is certainly smoke around him not being valued in the same way by the new regime.
That's fair enough! I guess worded differently, I would be much happier with him jumping because an amazing opportunity came up, rather than being pushed because the smartest people in the room have a Swedish 2nd division manager lined up.
Oh yeah, I think that would be a real shock to the system for a club like Wycombe. Again, we're a unique case because the Gaz regime lasted so long, but I feel we do things the 'right' way on that front. But then again, this is a whole new era.
I don't see it myself. Even if you accept that MB is pissed off about Mitchell being let go, standing back from that, he'd surely realise how well backed he has been in terms of his recruitment last summer, what a chance he has to definitively enhance his CV with promotion of a minnow and what detriment he'd do to his reputation with a short stint at a sacking club.
Struggling for results at end of season when joined...even the most loyal calling for his head mid-last season, Hottest young manager for half a season (so far) in League One.
I love Blooms and am loving this season, but I know and he definitely knows, he has achieved nothing yet...and a move to a Championship side at this stage in his career could possibly prove to be madness on both sides...even if they do not have a haunted training ground.
He has been backed, has made some great signings and loan signings, and no-one has been demanding Championship football (in public anyhoo) so he's got a great chance of quietly matching GA's greatest achievement - at which point, I admit, all bets might be off.
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It could be Nonny , as in hey Nonny, Nonny
Do they still wear Doublet and Hose in Coventry.
twas the last time they were a big club methinks
What a dapper chap.
Ruud van Nistelrooij has applied for the Coventry job. Could kill off any interest they had in Bloomfield.
Nonny? He plays for Chelsea doesn't he?
Well, they do say that it’s only a matter of time before something comes back in to fashion perhaps in a few years we’ll all be wearing this.
Sky are reporting Lampard in advanced discussions to take the job.
Obviously all Wycombe fans are desperate to retain Mr Wycombe as manager. If the current momentum on the pitch is to be maintained, it is clearly imperative that appropriate measures should be in place to reduce as much as possible the risk of him being enticed away by lucrative offers elsewhere.
Probably by far the greatest likelihood of that happening would be a situation in which we narrowly miss out on promotion and Ipswich are relegated. Heaven forfend!
With Matt being so emotionally attached to this special club and with funds available (I hope it’s reasonable to assume) to make him counter offers that he would find impossible to refuse, I’d like to think that we can all relax in the expectation that he’ll be going nowhere for the “immediate” future.
Meanwhile, let us luxuriate in the current sensation of happiness that everything in the garden is truly rosy.
They sacked a good mate of his and it's fairly obvious he's not at all happy about (I've taken his brother's tweet as a proxy for his own thoughts on the matter)
We can only hope that somewhere in there is a professional relationship that is strong enough to overcome it but I'm far far more worried about him leaving since that happened than I was before, and it would be a real real shame.
Agreed, I think if the right job came along he would take it. Which would be sensible given the owners have already replaced the majority of the back room staff with their own appointments.
I agree @eric_plant and I suspect following the Mitchell incident he’ll be less confident in his own position.
He may have a great bond with the club, but that doesn’t necessarily extend to its current owners.
Hopefully we can keep hold of him for the season, although I sense we're better set up to absorb his departure than we were Gaz's (the structure behind the scenes seems sound). That was never going to be smooth given how long he'd been in charge, although we weren't really struggling for long.
It'll be interesting to see Blooms' response to any questions about Scott Mitchell at the Fans Forum.
I hope that people do not do that as this is a personal matter between Scott and the club. Blooms has already given the response in an interview that I have pasted below just so that people know he has given his position. As they say in a court of law ‘I refer you to my previous answer’
‘The club is going in a different direction. We are going data led and he did an incredible job for our football club in the 18 months. He left a very secure position at Ipswich Town to follow me and believe in what I wanted to do last summer and I can’t thank him enough for what he’s contributed. He was not a close friend before we worked together even though I’d known him for a long time. But from working together we speak every day on the phone discussing players and transfer window and disappointing to lose an incredible guy who did a great job for us but club is heading in a different direction and that is the decision that has been made’
I appreciate your point (and personally, don't think there really is that much to read into RE Mitchell leaving) but seeing as it is a forum to discuss "football matters", the sacking of our Head of Recruitment would fall under that category. I'd be surprised if that - or plans for his successor - aren't brought up either organically by the panel, or through the Q+A.
My guess is Blooms will want to ride the Wycombe wave for as long he can… until Ipswich come calling.
Leaving and failing somewhere else would be disastrous
I guess it depends on his ambition. Does he want to manage at the highest level? If he does, can he wait a couple of years for Wycombe to get there?
Continue as we are and Blooms will be linked with a few more jobs this season. If he’s offered a new deal here we know he’s their man. If not I really hope he stays with us until the end of the season atleast as he’s building something special.
I think Matt is doing a brilliant job for us but I suspect it is still too early in his management career for the bigger teams to take a risk.
I believe Matt will be with us for a few more seasons at least.
Was Mitchell really a good mate of his. I thought I heard Matt say he was someone he was aware of from his time and Ipswich but didn't really know him, as such, until time came for him to make an appointment in that role at Wycombe.
I think Norwich might be attractive for Blooms should the job come up.
MB surely has a long way to go before he becomes a serious contender for either Ipswich or Norwich.
Yes don’t see him on their radar to be honest. I don’t think he was a serious contender for the Coventry job either. Wasn’t he linked with Hull the other day too? The more he is linked with these jobs the better we are doing anyway.
Norwich and Ipswich are famously ambivalent about each other.
His interview on Radio 5 last night was really insightful. He talked a lot about his desire to go elsewhere and risk failure. He talked about how some at Wycombe advised him it would be really tough at Colchester on his own, without his own team. He talked about how Colchester was really convenient location-wise - he got to spend time with his daughters every night, for example. He did say that the lure of Wycombe was too good to turn down.
Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00255qn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Blooms is on from 1h 20m.
My concern about Blooms is not really even him wanting to go - it's whether he will get sacked the first time even a modicum of loyalty is required to keep him, or even before. I think we may have one of the hottest young managers in the EFL on our hands, irrespective of his prior connection to us as Mr. Wycombe, but there is certainly smoke around him not being valued in the same way by the new regime.
"I think we may have one of the hottest young managers in the EFL on our hands"
That's the thing - that doesn't go unnoticed for long.
That's fair enough! I guess worded differently, I would be much happier with him jumping because an amazing opportunity came up, rather than being pushed because the smartest people in the room have a Swedish 2nd division manager lined up.
Oh yeah, I think that would be a real shock to the system for a club like Wycombe. Again, we're a unique case because the Gaz regime lasted so long, but I feel we do things the 'right' way on that front. But then again, this is a whole new era.
I don't see it myself. Even if you accept that MB is pissed off about Mitchell being let go, standing back from that, he'd surely realise how well backed he has been in terms of his recruitment last summer, what a chance he has to definitively enhance his CV with promotion of a minnow and what detriment he'd do to his reputation with a short stint at a sacking club.
Struggling for results at end of season when joined...even the most loyal calling for his head mid-last season, Hottest young manager for half a season (so far) in League One.
I love Blooms and am loving this season, but I know and he definitely knows, he has achieved nothing yet...and a move to a Championship side at this stage in his career could possibly prove to be madness on both sides...even if they do not have a haunted training ground.
He has been backed, has made some great signings and loan signings, and no-one has been demanding Championship football (in public anyhoo) so he's got a great chance of quietly matching GA's greatest achievement - at which point, I admit, all bets might be off.