Agree with most of the things above, living on the Bedfordshire/Bucks/Herts border, my cricket team is filled with either a fair few Watford or Luton fans. However, a counter argument is that the stadium won't be ready for (at least) another 2yrs and we all know that a manager's life span can all change after a disappointing month.
That being said, an attraction would be that Luton will still have 2 yrs worth of Parachute payments after their visit to the Premier League & their budgets will be much bigger than our's, a higher supporter base and clear view for the future does make Luton an interesting offering.
Anyone else get the vibe that Bloomfield looks deflated in some of his recent interviews especially the most recent one where it's apparent he hasn't got a clue who Anders is...
I'm still optimistic that the owners/Dan Rice can see/will come to see the value of MB, the Wycombe way and the risks of upending it with the fan base. This season has been fantastic and I hope we see Matt in charge whatever the outcome. Perhaps we can afford it now, but the thought if us becoming a revolving door club for the usual managerial suspects is not attractive to me, whatever league we are in.
Agree. New brooms sweep clean. They'll want their own man in. That coupled with a recent twitter post from Bloomfields brother where you can't do anything except read between the lines
As much as I'd understand the logic (I.e. new management group want their own man) I can't help but feel this would be a mad thing to do.
Dan Rice and co have surely stumbled on a near perfect scenario. Club legend plays his entire career at one club, to then become a highly successful, highly regarded up and coming manager / head coach at the same club. Almost every club in the EFL would be crying out for that kind of situation. I can understand if their visions don't quite match up, but to choose not to back him with that in mind would be a huge own goal imo.
I think the one thing we can predict relatively confidently is that if Dan Rice gets to appoint a successor to Matt Bloomfield, it won't be the usual suspects who are considered. He'll want someone who is fully aligned to his data-driven model, someone whose training sessions, tactical decisions, team selection and in-game substitutions will be guided by AI and whatever dataset it's being fed, and will probably be someone we've never heard of and with limited (if any) playing pedigree him or herself. It'll be an interesting experiment to watch - but probably a little uncomfortable for many of the players and indeed supporters.
I'm sad Graham Potter has finally joined a PL club, as I miss the unintentional comedy of supporters of a scuffling Champo club say they are out of Blooms' league and then unironically say Potter is their first choice.
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Dyche to Wycombe?
The onus is on Dan Rice and the ownership team here tbh, not Blooms. If he's their man, they need to offer a new contract.
Agree with most of the things above, living on the Bedfordshire/Bucks/Herts border, my cricket team is filled with either a fair few Watford or Luton fans. However, a counter argument is that the stadium won't be ready for (at least) another 2yrs and we all know that a manager's life span can all change after a disappointing month.
That being said, an attraction would be that Luton will still have 2 yrs worth of Parachute payments after their visit to the Premier League & their budgets will be much bigger than our's, a higher supporter base and clear view for the future does make Luton an interesting offering.
Anyone else get the vibe that Bloomfield looks deflated in some of his recent interviews especially the most recent one where it's apparent he hasn't got a clue who Anders is...
It's one thing seeing promotion being derailed by losing key players, that's just life.
But if there really are little issues behind the scenes and they derail us that will be really annoying.
I'm still optimistic that the owners/Dan Rice can see/will come to see the value of MB, the Wycombe way and the risks of upending it with the fan base. This season has been fantastic and I hope we see Matt in charge whatever the outcome. Perhaps we can afford it now, but the thought if us becoming a revolving door club for the usual managerial suspects is not attractive to me, whatever league we are in.
I sense we'll have a new head coach come the start of next season, although it's probably not ideal to make that change in the middle of this one...
I think he’s a bit under the weather.
Agree. New brooms sweep clean. They'll want their own man in. That coupled with a recent twitter post from Bloomfields brother where you can't do anything except read between the lines
As much as I'd understand the logic (I.e. new management group want their own man) I can't help but feel this would be a mad thing to do.
Dan Rice and co have surely stumbled on a near perfect scenario. Club legend plays his entire career at one club, to then become a highly successful, highly regarded up and coming manager / head coach at the same club. Almost every club in the EFL would be crying out for that kind of situation. I can understand if their visions don't quite match up, but to choose not to back him with that in mind would be a huge own goal imo.
Is this a post since the one where he slammed Mitchell's departure?
Grigory Babayan?
That's a throwback to the brainstorming of possible replacements for Gary Waddock. Just as unlikely now as it was then.
MB now 11/8 with the bookies
FWIW I had it on pretty good authority that it was more likely than you'd think (but obviously not now)
Sadly I think if offered Blooms will be taking the Luton job.
The owners appear to be backing Matt on the playing side this window, time to back him and his team with new contracts!
I think the one thing we can predict relatively confidently is that if Dan Rice gets to appoint a successor to Matt Bloomfield, it won't be the usual suspects who are considered. He'll want someone who is fully aligned to his data-driven model, someone whose training sessions, tactical decisions, team selection and in-game substitutions will be guided by AI and whatever dataset it's being fed, and will probably be someone we've never heard of and with limited (if any) playing pedigree him or herself. It'll be an interesting experiment to watch - but probably a little uncomfortable for many of the players and indeed supporters.
I bet on MB leaving at 5 to 1. He was gone by half past six.
I thought the same thing, and it would make sense given a few of our players have been ill recently.
It's all very exciting, unfortunately I think a lot of people hear the term AI and immediately think chatgpt...
I mean, it's not awful...
They might have to AI a crowd at some point...
Yep we've seen what can happen!
Classic gasroom wild conspiracy talk.
He really takes us high (Ba-ba-yan)
You know that's no lie (Ba-ba-yan)
He's so rock steady (Ba-ba-yan)
And he's always ready (Ba-ba-yan)
Well that's the song sort of worked out
If Dan Rice is half the disaster Rob Couhig was... 😉
I'm sad Graham Potter has finally joined a PL club, as I miss the unintentional comedy of supporters of a scuffling Champo club say they are out of Blooms' league and then unironically say Potter is their first choice.
I'm already annoyed, as this clearly seems to be the case.
Get ourselves into such a good position then shoot ourselves in the foot.
It would appear Dan Rice has a lot to answer for.
Potter has had some success in the premier league though. That shouldn't be forgotten.
Failing at a ruthless circus club like Chelsea definitely doesn't make him Rooney just yet.
How does this "clearly seem to be the case"?