If the right opportunity comes up - and only he knows what that is - he'll go. That's football. But I'm just enjoying the ride at the moment (we're gonna win the league).
Hang on @Wendoverman - are you saying a Pizza Cup runner-up medal is not an achievement? 😁
I think the best comp may be Liam Manning - he left Oxford while flying high to go to a middling Champo role, but appears to be gradually putting his stamp on Bristol City after a year in the role. Ryan Lowe was also given a decent stretch at Preston after leaving high flying L1 Plymouth.
I agree it's about the right club coming who will give time, so definitely no Watford!
It's all about the academy and I'd guess Blooms is fine for now. I'm guessing they'll want the football club to mirror the academy's rise towards Cat 1 status so in the next few years the football side will become more important. Lommy will eventually get his app out and we'll have Zidane as our manager at the Kaspi Stadium (which, like the training ground, will be Chelsea's old one when they buy The Royal Hospital and chuck all the pensioners out to build a new ground)
Everyone loved Dean Smith at Brentford. Their new owners decided ‘to go another way’ ie data driven, and look at them now. Yes Blooms is into the numbers, yet the owners will at some point want their man across the whole of the business (for that is what it is).
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances” as The Bard would have it.
Either way, it could have been said for Martin, Manning and Lowe that it was too soon, but they all made a fist of it, so there is definitely precedent. The average tenure of a manager is so short that having a brilliant calendar year like Blooms has had will make people take notice - his hot run is basically as long as the average managerial stint now!
@flymofrank has your opinion on Matt Bloomfield changed this year? I know you weren't convinced when he was appointed as Gareth Ainsworth's successor (and you were far from alone).
I think this is well put, but I would bet there are examples (cough cough John Eustace, cough cough Wayne Rooney) of owners doing dumb things because they think they are the smartest people in the room.
The reality is the Blooms has shown he can hoover up points and get us to the top spot (albeit possibly temporarily) with a budget still far off the top spenders. It would be a huge risk to sack him just because we, say, come 5th in the end and don't win the playoffs.
It's worth checking out one of Ryan Tafazolli's YouTube videos from shortly after Matt Bloomfield's appointment. He was unequivocal about the success he was going to bring to the club. It was a really memorable and remarkable show of faith.
Some people make a judgement and are then stubborn and refuse to change their mind, regardless of the evidence. I've been guilty of this myself in the past.
@Shev it was a memorable end to a strange old season to be sure.
Manning was interesting as he was poached for doing well at the club that should never be mentioned and then poached for doing well at Oxford. I suppose Blooms was the continuity signing who sort of lost the continuity which might have seen us into the play-offs, worked hard to change our style and personnel over a full season and is now (so far) reaping the benefits of the patience he has been given.
I suspect the ownership is, for now, concerned with establishing the Academy and letting him get on with the professional sport, getting points, making fans happy which is of less interest to them at the moment - and is working above and beyond and long may it continue.
Unless someone within a half hour drive from his home has a mental, unrefusable amount of money to dangle before him, I reckon he's here for a while.
I can see that there will not be room for any other discussions if he continues to be "linked" to other vacancies as they arise. Is it worth the effort until something is known about it?
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If the right opportunity comes up - and only he knows what that is - he'll go. That's football. But I'm just enjoying the ride at the moment (we're gonna win the league).
Hang on @Wendoverman - are you saying a Pizza Cup runner-up medal is not an achievement? 😁
I think the best comp may be Liam Manning - he left Oxford while flying high to go to a middling Champo role, but appears to be gradually putting his stamp on Bristol City after a year in the role. Ryan Lowe was also given a decent stretch at Preston after leaving high flying L1 Plymouth.
I agree it's about the right club coming who will give time, so definitely no Watford!
Did Russell Martin leave MK for Southampton? I was thinking his trajectory has been pretty solid, even if I fear he's for the chop soon.
"definitely no Watford" would make a good tattoo
He was at Swansea in between, though they are the sort of club I never really notice, so I have no idea how he did!
It's all about the academy and I'd guess Blooms is fine for now. I'm guessing they'll want the football club to mirror the academy's rise towards Cat 1 status so in the next few years the football side will become more important. Lommy will eventually get his app out and we'll have Zidane as our manager at the Kaspi Stadium (which, like the training ground, will be Chelsea's old one when they buy The Royal Hospital and chuck all the pensioners out to build a new ground)
Everyone loved Dean Smith at Brentford. Their new owners decided ‘to go another way’ ie data driven, and look at them now. Yes Blooms is into the numbers, yet the owners will at some point want their man across the whole of the business (for that is what it is).
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances” as The Bard would have it.
And we fans are mere onlookers.
Either way, it could have been said for Martin, Manning and Lowe that it was too soon, but they all made a fist of it, so there is definitely precedent. The average tenure of a manager is so short that having a brilliant calendar year like Blooms has had will make people take notice - his hot run is basically as long as the average managerial stint now!
@flymofrank has your opinion on Matt Bloomfield changed this year? I know you weren't convinced when he was appointed as Gareth Ainsworth's successor (and you were far from alone).
I think this is well put, but I would bet there are examples (cough cough John Eustace, cough cough Wayne Rooney) of owners doing dumb things because they think they are the smartest people in the room.
The reality is the Blooms has shown he can hoover up points and get us to the top spot (albeit possibly temporarily) with a budget still far off the top spenders. It would be a huge risk to sack him just because we, say, come 5th in the end and don't win the playoffs.
I think everyone's opinion of Matt Bloomfield has changed this year, even people that wanted to keep him! No-one foresaw this.
I think I'd have to mad for it not to have changed!
Genuinely don't remember that. Are Swansea even a real club?
It's worth checking out one of Ryan Tafazolli's YouTube videos from shortly after Matt Bloomfield's appointment. He was unequivocal about the success he was going to bring to the club. It was a really memorable and remarkable show of faith.
With hindsight, I guess I judged him too hastily on his record with a team that still wasn't really *his*.
They might be waiting a while for a new ground if they're getting the pensioners to build it.
And will we be London Wanderers or Wycombe Londoners?
Some people make a judgement and are then stubborn and refuse to change their mind, regardless of the evidence. I've been guilty of this myself in the past.
I think we've all been there. A pride thing, I guess.
@Shev it was a memorable end to a strange old season to be sure.
Manning was interesting as he was poached for doing well at the club that should never be mentioned and then poached for doing well at Oxford. I suppose Blooms was the continuity signing who sort of lost the continuity which might have seen us into the play-offs, worked hard to change our style and personnel over a full season and is now (so far) reaping the benefits of the patience he has been given.
I suspect the ownership is, for now, concerned with establishing the Academy and letting him get on with the professional sport, getting points, making fans happy which is of less interest to them at the moment - and is working above and beyond and long may it continue.
Unless someone within a half hour drive from his home has a mental, unrefusable amount of money to dangle before him, I reckon he's here for a while.
But of course, football is mad!
Exactly.
Only on the gasroom could we sweep so effortlessly from thinking the sack is inevitable to him suddenly becoming the second coming of Pep.
We're going great, let's enjoy it without worrying too much eh!
Remember that huge long run we couldn't win on a Saturday with Bloomfield. Seems like a distant dream now thankfully!
Pep is the harbinger of Bloomfield.
if luton becomes available i would worry about that job
Luton will surely go back to Nathan Jones if they were to go for a manager in work.
If I was Luton I'd be ringing Mark Robins up and offering a blank cheque
as would i, think bloomfield and robins will be linked with alot of the jobs that becomes available, robins with every job!
I can see that there will not be room for any other discussions if he continues to be "linked" to other vacancies as they arise. Is it worth the effort until something is known about it?
I can see Luton giving Edwards until first week in January. Potentially longer, as they haven’t pulled the trigger yet…
No, this doesn't sound like you at all!