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  • Northampton came to do a job and they did one. If we had sat in the away end and watched that we would have applauded the work rate and bodies on the line attitude of the Cobblers’ players.

    At the end they reminded me of Gaz era wycombe.

  • No, I just think he deserves respect for everything he gave for our club. Most of my posts are counters to people not respecting him. It will all die down eventually, but in the meantime I am perfectly getting downvoted by being "that poster who won't stop saying we should have respected Blooms more."

    Ironically, for everyone who wants to take away the "Mr. Wycombe" title, there is a way in which you are right. He is "Mr. What-used-to-be-Wycombe" not "Mr. What-Wycombe-are-going-to-be-from-now-on" and I don't think everyone realizes how massive of a sea change that is.

  • He's Mr Wycombe as a player, not as a manager.

    Just as Ainsworth became Mr Wycombe as a manager, not as a player.

    MB is Mr Luton now and Ainsworth is Mr Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

  • I wonder who picked the team? Sam Grace? or Championship Manager Dan?

  • Dan Ricin

    AMIRITE?

  • Championship Danager

  • @Shev for information @Konetheming has had a few guises, usually spends a season or two ranting about someone to extremes (used to be Ainsworth playing his mates being no good, wake up smell the coffee etc etc) whatever is actually going on on the pitch. This season's focus was Luke Leahy, but he must be thanking the gods for the present level of Bloomfield baiting. He tends to accuse anyone who disagrees with him 'are you his dad...best friend...' etc etc and at some point will post something so extreme the doc has to ban him.

    Again

  • He might not word it as gracefully as the holy ones at the gasroom deem acceptable, but @Konetheming is right on Leahy. He gets a free pass because he’s a smooth talker and seems a good leader and pops up with a decent chunk of goals, but he’s done nothing whatsoever to justify his starting position over Butcher or Bakinson (or Magnus etc) for the last few months. He seems to be dining out on cross shots, deflected free kicks and other such flukes. The sort of luck that is unsustainable.

  • He definitely contributes with moments but I couldn’t say that he has a big impact on general play. Always seems a yard slow to everything for me and the game generally seems to pass him by in the middle.

  • edited January 25

    Can we please stop descending to insulting and digging at each other about the Bloomfield thing on every single thread? It's making my oasis from work and the news as toxic as the other shitty echo chambers a lot of us try to avoid.

  • Hanlan is no Kone. The gulf today was huge. Balll control, quickness to react, strength. A mistake not to start with the King. As for Gideon over Jack, a more forgivable decision perhaps.

    Losing Harvie has me crossing all fingers and toes it isn’t a bad one.

    We need to get back to stability, and looking like a team who can score at will, and for that we need the right manager. The Ricicles can’t make the wrong call on this.

  • Don't have any religious objection to how he words it just the relentlessness negativity of it. He was slagging off Sam Grace (caretaker unbeaten in two) for 'playing his mates' not long after kickoff.

    But you're right...each to his own.

  • Agree to an extent. Whether it’s the big changes on and off the pitch, or the general promotion push anxiety, discussions have become a little toxic and knee-jerk (well, it is a fan forum after all).

    However, I wouldn’t say some of the comments on Leahy are knee-jerk, more an accumulation of things. On paper his goals and assists stats are impressive. And he carries himself with the demeanour and swagger of your typical CM. That said, he can be frustrating and ineffectual. But Bakinson hasn’t done enough to nail down a regular spot, and whilst we await to see the newbies, he’s probably the best we’ve got in that position until someone else shows enough to oust him from the starting line-up.

    Whether it’s Grace and/or TBC, I really hope someone can recalibrate the squad and get us firing on all cylinders again because promotion really is there for the taking.

  • On the bright side we are three points clear of third place Wrexham and we go again at home on Tuesday night. Come on you blues!!!!!!

  • Leahy is a very good left back, and I think the issues have come from him not being as effective in midfield. I would actually prefer Butcher in the role he has been playing.

  • It’s amazing how expectations change a few seasons ago I’d have been totally happy with a win and a draw in our last two games now there’s near civil war on here because we didn’t go top.

    On reflection although I think we should have started Kone and Grimmer and tried to blow Northampton away early we’re still in a good position and the one person that needs our support is Sam Grace.

  • It's a year this weekend since we only just scrambled a draw at home to Fleetwood thanks to them getting a player sent off, with much of the Gasroom howling for Bloomfield to be replaced as he was out of his depth, and were contemplating relegation.

    Proportionality has never been strong round here.

  • Leahy isn't as good as Morley and doesn't allow us to play the same way, you can tell that by the way Morely and Cam Humphreys pretty quickly rocket fueled our season minutes after their introduction, that's neither his fault or a big problem unless you don't have anyone else and are chasing automatic promotion which we are now... but he's a decent honest player covering multiple positions and none of this is his fault, certain posters get very defensive if they are called out or disagreed with but have no problems slagging him off repeatedly seconds into a game. People still have different opinions on Hayes, Gregory and probably players from the conference era there's just no need to call them fkng useless every 30 seconds.

    We have players to come in, hopefully they can contribute soon otherwise we've signed the wrong ones.

  • edited January 26

    I think @Manboobs might just have discovered the collective noun we’ve been struggling to find for Capt Dan and his cohort

  • Can we just have a little context here? Every point is vital, we didn’t play well but we didn’t lose and kept a clean sheet against a team who have improved under a new manager with a recent record of W1 D3 L1. Stockport were the only team in the top 6 to win and we are still second in the table despite a dip in form. No need to panic.

  • We're in a bit of a lull at least home league performances wise.

    But there's no need to try and pin it all one player like some do.


  • Plus ça change…

    Remember the pre-social media days of MO’N, when a letter to the BFP was the natural ‘venting’ route…? Until Martin pounced on one, when we were top of the league but his team selection came under fire… He forensically took the letter apart, in the following week’s match programme, as only Martin could!

  • Luke Leahy was far more effective than Cam Humphreys yesterday, who had a very ‘off’ afternoon by his usual standards.

    Disappointing performance but you’ve got to take your hat off to the Northampton graft. And they really should’ve taken all three points with that chance at the end.

  • I do remember and he kept some of the most critical letters and rang the senders up at the end of the season after we’d won promotion!

  • Combination of factors seems to be hampering us a bit.

    Pattenden at right back is a bigger miss than I expected. He was useful in helping us take the ball from defence into midfield.

    Morley is obviously a huge loss. Again, his passing game from deep was crucial to helping us get the ball into attacking positions in clean possession.

    We seem to be struggling to get the ball forward on the floor as a result.

    Alongside that the pitches are now a bit scruffier, plus teams are sitting in a very disciplined shape and tending to favour giving us a more physical game. All of that is adding up to less entertaining games (especially at home) with far fewer chances.

    Thankfully, we're good enough that we rarely look like losing so the points total is still ticking over.

    February is a huge opportunity to pick up 10-12 points from 4 games. Cambridge, Crawley and Rovers are not good. Hopefully the new players can have an impact and lift the side by then.

  • A good point about pitches here - was I only one who thought ours looked unusually poor yesterday? Cutting up very easily. I assume it must be the increased frequency of fixtures this month.

  • Looked like the warm up drills in the corner had left it more cut up than normal

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