Where would you like us to be in the future?
Big things are on the horizon and in a few years 'Little Wycombe' might become XXXL Wycombe. So just how succesful would you like the club to be? I've done a poll.
The future
- Where is best?56 votes
- Gods of League One5.36%
- Championship/League One yoyo team7.14%
- Solid in the Championship64.29%
- Premier League16.07%
- World Club Champions3.57%
- Back on the Rye. Where we started. Keeoing it real.3.57%
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I forgot 'Kazhakstan Champions' after a VERY controversial ground move.
Premier League. Bournemouth mark 2.
I suspect for ML to run a successful Cat 1 academy we will need to be at least mid to high table Championship on a regular basis.
As we speak MB is chucking his Pep posters in the bin and is putting up Slot posters with his 4-2-3-1. That should get us up.
I had Charley's Angels posters on my wall when I was young which explains my poor managerial career.
Lommy is about as visible as Charley, when you think about it.
A well run football club which may providevariable standards of entertainment but is able to pay its bills.
This, really.
I think the best we could hope for would be for the academy to consistently produce players to sell on up the chain - it’s easier said than done though, especially with such a heavily scouted catchment area (not referring to Kazakhstan).
I’m genuinely not that arsed about getting to the EPL - I’ve seen the approach that some of the less glamorous clubs at that level (Fulham and Charlton are the ones I can definitely remember, though I’m sure there’s more) have taken to pull in the floating punters, which is all about, “Come and watch great teams like Arsenal and Chelsea” (and barely mentioning the home team).
Just scraping by each season is not that appealing, especially not at the EPL level where you’re chucking buckets of cash at it just to keep your head above water. Reading FC’s current turmoil should act as a warning to anyone.
More successful than Oxford. It would be nice to win the FA Cup.
I would be happy with @Wendoverman's perfect summary above, though selfishly I would also like at least one more season in the Champo. Give me that one season, and any additional seasons there are gravy.
Hopefully ML will leave us with a dynasty of success through youth.
To see the ground full watching entertaining football which gets talked about on Match of the Day by Shearer and Richards to a backdrop of Autumn beach woods as they ride high above Hillbottom on the now iconic Wycombe chairlift.
Genuinely surprised you say this.
Always thought you were one of the traditionalists who really miss the non league days and hate everything about the modern game.
To see players from our Acadamy regularly playing for England (and Kazakhstan).
Sustainable football at the highest level we can has been my answer for about twenty five years. But I’d really like to have a good crack at the Championship.
I've always just generally hoped Wycombe win more games than they lose and are financially sound, but then when I first started coming to games we were in the Isthmian league and the idea of challenging for the second tier would have seemed ludicrous, so who knows how far we can go.
For myself, I can’t sensibly look beyond next season (and it’s fingers crossed for that one !) but I would love it if Wycombe became established as a Championship club, attracting upwards of 10,000 fans (including away fans) on a regular basis - ideally at a more accessible new stadium (which realistically will not be before the 2026/27 season).
Meanwhile, I’ll happily settle for at least part of next season watching Wycombe playing in the Championship on WanderersTV or a sports channel on TV.
Any idea where this new more accessible stadium could be built @micra? Everything else you say is grounded in reality but that's pure fantasy (as things stand).
It probably doesn't make sense building the current ground up much more, or keep pretending that the "new road" is anything but a pipedream, or even if built makes any real difference.
So the question of where you could build a new ground? The only Wycombe area options are probably buying up somewhere like the Bucks Uni, Wycombe hospital or even Loudwater Tesco sites.
All no doubt have massive reasons why it couldn't happen, shouldn't happen or would be massively expensive.
Alternatively moving further out of the area which is another can of worms itself.
Don't get me wrong, success would be grand. I would be quite happy to be a L1/Champo yoyo club, but the way most clubs treat their fans once they get to the promised land can be truly appalling. Money seems to be plentiful and yet the top clubs often rinse their supporters, safe in the knowledge someone else will buy any exorbitantly priced STs abandoned by the faithful.
Not to mention VAR.
Can’t add to or argue with anything @Malone has just said.
Going up to the championship last time was well deserved etc, but it had the whole points per game thing and behind closed doors elements. Those both took away from the thrill of it all a bit.
So just going up in a "normal" season and being able to properly enjoy a tour of big grounds and clubs would alone be superb.
If we could stay there even better of course
There's a club in Serbia whose ground is literally on top of a shopping centre. That might be an option.
It's even called the Stadion Shopping Center
Whenever the crowd is over about 7,000 the whole area feels a bit fraught and too busy for the location. I can only imagine the carnage a season of 9,000 championship attendances would cause!
Hope we get there to find out though, but the club would need to have a lot more ideas for parking/park n ride, more buses than the current 1 bus and 1 bit of parking 1mile away of this season.
I see they went back to not shutting Hillbottom Road on Friday. If we go up and regularly draw big crowds, they'll have no option but to cone it off as standard surely? It's already an accident waiting to happen.
Somehow sneaking the ground in amongst the whole of the existing Eden stuff would be ideal wouldn't it!
Also: chairlift.
1,000s of people leaving at the same time of tonnes of cars joining the road is absolutely mad at the best of times.
But you only have to look at that incident in Germany to fear it even more.
Very difficult though as no-one seems to have any power to stop cars leaving the numerous factories etc down that road.
And if you did stop them, you'd probably just cause more people to not want to come because you can't get away,
Better public transport options seem the easy solution on paper, but would people actually use them? For the majority of fans, there's no *need* to park at the ground itself.
I feel any decision regarding a new ground would take into account the catchment area. I just think that the demographic of the Wycombe area is such that we will not increase our crowds greatly.
I think the new management will take the above into account and will do their homework before we settle on a new location.
There may be a stadium near junction 11 of the M4 coming up for sale in the near future.
That's the big difficulty, as park n rides don't seem to get much interest.
Having a few more bus options is probably still worth the risk, as long as the busses go from well down Hilbottom road, so they don't get caught up in all the traffic. But then you have the problem for those who aren't able to walk as far.
The West Wycombe park n ride didn't seem to work because it's the "wrong" side of Wycombe. Something up near the Cinema was probably a better option, but a lot of that has been built on now. Not sure if you can dump your car up there anywhere for free without using a business now either.
Similar to the sports centre.