Yep, with all due respect to the lad I can't imagine many right thinking Wycombe fans think he's any sort of centre forward option for a team top end league 1.
Maybe a wide left squad player, but definitely not central.
It's by far the latter. No harm done in one way but we've ticked off a relatively easy game while Wrexham have ticked off one of their hardest, and Huddersfield also a tricky game against a revitalised Bolton.
If that team selection was with any idea that today was the "easier" of the 2 back to back games, its backfired.
Blooms wants to buy Kone and take him to Luton, and that's dreadful. Gasroomers want to buy Morley from Bolton and that's fine. Football's a funny old game.
I would not want to watch that every week. Scowen was the pick of the bunch but no-one came out with much credit for me. Captain Jack, Fred and King Kone at least got us attacking...but we could not break down a team who came for a point. It proves I know nothing as I thought Joe Low was quite poor today even before he got his nose smashed. At least we did not lose and have a chance at redemption on Tuesday.
I genuinely think our club has changed in a very negative way, so it is going to be very difficult. Getting a likable manager in would help, I suppose, but I not going to ever be Team Rice.
I am also going to defend Blooms, so if people are going to keep disrespecting him, it's a case of "you first".
All I will say, as emotions are running high here, is we need to fill that gap number 28 had where we can ping passes to the flanks utilising our pace there or open up defences. If Westergaard is that person, great, but if not, we need one. Cam has to come far too deep to get the ball, and our opposition gets to reset.
Sam Grace just took over his second game in charge of a senior team chasing Championship promotion. He made choices with Wycombe front and centre in his mind, and as we’ve found out, his blood runs blue. Yes with hindsight I’m sure he would have tinkered with that line up, but that would be the same with any manager after a ‘disappointing’ game
We just weren’t good enough today. As others have said, other games have gone our way with regards to our rivals, so no major harm done.
But my god, we resist any bid for Kone. The man gets better with every game.
I also partly blame the result of me travelling to AP, we never win when I turn up.
I don’t think many are giving Northampton much credit here either, we can talk about rotation but they pretty much have an entire team of injured players, and managed that spell in the first half where we looked very uncomfortable.
Taylor (on loan from Charlton) looked more than decent for them, and overall they put in a very “Gazball” style away performance of breaking up play and physicality, only now we’re the ones bemoaning this.
A Kone injury at any point would be horrendous, On the other hand with so many players now to come in we probably should have asked a bit more of the existing players, hindsight is brilliant though and as annoying as today was it wasn't a disaster.
Frustrating game. Really not sure why we made the changes we did after playing 1 game in the previous 14 days. That said, I agree with not starting the new signings. It would send a bad message to a team that's achieved so much if they were shunted out straight away by the new boys. They need to earn their place.
Wasn't all bad, defensively solid again. McCleary had his best game for ages, Kone superb when he came on and Buthcher also did well. Just felt it would've been more winnable if we'd started with Grimmer, Kone and Fred.
Felt odd that Hagelskjaer having made the bench the last 2 games, and come on late on last game was left out.
There might be match fitness issues with all of them. Even Berry, as he's barely played many full games this season. Seems to average about 40-45mins a game in the main.
I would have liked to see either Lowry or Berry on bench today. Both would have been great options at 80 minutes today for tiring players like Humphreys and McCleary. There was no need for an extra defender and midfielder on bench. Think Grace got that wrong.
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Properly disappointing result that one on a game week both rivals for 2nd slipped up.
Home form is really worrying now. Just 2 wins from 7 in the league, both last min winners. And haven't scored for 2 either.
On the plus side, keep matching Wrexham and Huddo's results and we go up!
And we have an almighty gap to 7th.
We need a new manager sorted by next weekend though.
I think a few were a little giddy after last week's win suggesting we stay as we are.
Yep, with all due respect to the lad I can't imagine many right thinking Wycombe fans think he's any sort of centre forward option for a team top end league 1.
Maybe a wide left squad player, but definitely not central.
We should have started the side we finished with
It's by far the latter. No harm done in one way but we've ticked off a relatively easy game while Wrexham have ticked off one of their hardest, and Huddersfield also a tricky game against a revitalised Bolton.
If that team selection was with any idea that today was the "easier" of the 2 back to back games, its backfired.
Completely agree. I'd be very surprised if anyone genuinely believes that's anything other than 2 points dropped.
Blooms wants to buy Kone and take him to Luton, and that's dreadful. Gasroomers want to buy Morley from Bolton and that's fine. Football's a funny old game.
Need to hit back immediately on Tuesday.
Our away form is sensational. Our home form is deep in mid table material.
I would not want to watch that every week. Scowen was the pick of the bunch but no-one came out with much credit for me. Captain Jack, Fred and King Kone at least got us attacking...but we could not break down a team who came for a point. It proves I know nothing as I thought Joe Low was quite poor today even before he got his nose smashed. At least we did not lose and have a chance at redemption on Tuesday.
Funny how people can see the same game so differently! I thought Scowen was uncharacteristically poor today.
I thought a lot of what he tried didn't come off but the opposition deserve some credit for that.
Yep, thought he and a few others struggled with some short passing today.
Kodua and McCleary weren't on each other's wave length a few times, although Kodua did make some decent breaks and was let down by the cross.
But it felt like a 1-0 sort of game from early on, which we'd all have taken - win it and forget!
At least we only have to stew until Tuesday!
I genuinely think our club has changed in a very negative way, so it is going to be very difficult. Getting a likable manager in would help, I suppose, but I not going to ever be Team Rice.
I am also going to defend Blooms, so if people are going to keep disrespecting him, it's a case of "you first".
It would boring if people all agreed though.
Win on Tuesday (and Huddersfield lose to Birmingham) and all is forgiven.
This is the frustrating thing - we could properly of put a margin over Huddersfield over this 2 game spell.
But that would be too easy
If we'd played our best 11, maybe we would have done.
I’d rather see Huddersfield draw with Birmingham, I think.
Birmingham are gone, we aren't catching them. I'd rather they beat any of the teams chasing us down.
All I will say, as emotions are running high here, is we need to fill that gap number 28 had where we can ping passes to the flanks utilising our pace there or open up defences. If Westergaard is that person, great, but if not, we need one. Cam has to come far too deep to get the ball, and our opposition gets to reset.
Sam Grace just took over his second game in charge of a senior team chasing Championship promotion. He made choices with Wycombe front and centre in his mind, and as we’ve found out, his blood runs blue. Yes with hindsight I’m sure he would have tinkered with that line up, but that would be the same with any manager after a ‘disappointing’ game
We just weren’t good enough today. As others have said, other games have gone our way with regards to our rivals, so no major harm done.
But my god, we resist any bid for Kone. The man gets better with every game.
I also partly blame the result of me travelling to AP, we never win when I turn up.
We can be Avis to their Hertz
To some extent, but we may already have lost Harvie so imagine if we had won 1-0 but they'd done for Kone!
Those players should have been able to win that game.
100% this.
We need Wrexham and Huddersfield to slip up as much as possible.
I don’t think many are giving Northampton much credit here either, we can talk about rotation but they pretty much have an entire team of injured players, and managed that spell in the first half where we looked very uncomfortable.
Taylor (on loan from Charlton) looked more than decent for them, and overall they put in a very “Gazball” style away performance of breaking up play and physicality, only now we’re the ones bemoaning this.
A Kone injury at any point would be horrendous, On the other hand with so many players now to come in we probably should have asked a bit more of the existing players, hindsight is brilliant though and as annoying as today was it wasn't a disaster.
Frustrating game. Really not sure why we made the changes we did after playing 1 game in the previous 14 days. That said, I agree with not starting the new signings. It would send a bad message to a team that's achieved so much if they were shunted out straight away by the new boys. They need to earn their place.
Wasn't all bad, defensively solid again. McCleary had his best game for ages, Kone superb when he came on and Buthcher also did well. Just felt it would've been more winnable if we'd started with Grimmer, Kone and Fred.
It's a good point but why did we sign them then?
Make sure you stay away from now on then.
Only joking 👍👍
Felt odd that Hagelskjaer having made the bench the last 2 games, and come on late on last game was left out.
There might be match fitness issues with all of them. Even Berry, as he's barely played many full games this season. Seems to average about 40-45mins a game in the main.
I would have liked to see either Lowry or Berry on bench today. Both would have been great options at 80 minutes today for tiring players like Humphreys and McCleary. There was no need for an extra defender and midfielder on bench. Think Grace got that wrong.