Oh fucking hell is this still chuntering on? People keep saying move on until there's another piece of 'evidence' they think proves their point and fire it up again.
Can someone start a Bloomfield v Rice thread and the tedious hysteria can live there forever?
I’ve just caught up on 60 posts, the majority of which are the Rice fanatics relentlessly telling people who’ve pretty much given up posting to ‘move on’.
Maybe if you moved on from telling people to move on we could all move on?
Yep, can only imagine Ed wasn't around at the time to make that sort of post. There were relentless threads, discussions and fears about the whole situation.
Please, if that is the case, do so already. I’m sick of all the whinging.
Fair enough. I'm done. Anyone who'd like to take over the hosting and running this place DM me please.
Honestly thought the gasroom was way above the knuckle draggers on Facebook but I was obviously wrong, most of this place is gleefully licking Dan Rice's arse clean and cheering on the ridiculous over-spending just like all those Derby fans were doing under Mel Morris. And funnily enough it's the exact same people hypocrites who slagged them off for it.
"It's a business, these things happen" - no it's fucking not, it's a football club. You don't all go stand outside Tesco's on a Saturday singing songs about Sainsbury's being shit do you. So if it's a business, what the hell are you doing? Supporting a football club, to some people, is a bit more than fucking brand loyalty.
Players change, staff members change, stadia change, everything changes - so what is it that you're actually cheering for on a Saturday afternoon if not the unquantifiable, feeling of that club? For me, the feeling that has always made me proud to be a Wycombe fan is that we weren't like other clubs. We weren't spending outside our means, we didn't hire tax fraudsters like Steve Evans or wife beaters like Darren Fergusson, we treated everyone within and outside the club with respect. That's pretty much what I'm supporting on a Saturday afternoon. The fact that our new ownership couldn't do that for the one person who deserves that respect more than any other, should tell you all you need to know about the future. The fact that the gasroom similarly can't do that for the one person who deserves that respect more than any other tells me all I need to know about this place.
In a week's time, this site will have been running for ten years. You are not the people I thought you were, and I simply don't have the energy to deal with so many tantrums.
The Trust were brilliant. Promotion from L2, somehow staying up in L1 with no money, and then leaving us in the L1 playoff spots (though Couhig had been helping at that point) and selling us to a decent owner. Of course, all of the above needs a huge salute to GA, Dobbo and the players too, but the Trust - as volunteers, no less - did incredible things.
But as has been said, we really did not have any options financially by the time we sold, and I believe we were very close to the threat of administration if nothing changed. Couhig came along at just the right time.
A year ago, when you were asked about whether Bloomfield should be sacked, you said "I still won’t be calling for Matt Bloomfield to be sacked. Whether he should be is a different question".
Given what has happened in the last 12 months, I am very sad that Bloomfield has left, but not so long ago many of us thought that it might be necessary, however much we didn't want it. Now it has happened, we have to live with it.
Many of us still remember O'Neill feeling like he was forced out 30 years ago. Martin got over it, and I am sure Matt is very happy at Luton and will do wonderful things. It's not like he's unemployed. The only way we will progress is getting over it ourselves. Not doing so isn't going to bring him back.
Agreed about the part played by the Couhigs. But I think they would not have been able to finance the academy and team as it appears the new owners are.
ML etc bought the club because, as they said, it was run and had an ethos they were looking for, by buying us they did not have to start from scratch.
Do we accept this as their guiding motive? I agree that with MB they appeared to be playing hard ball, but no doubt he may well have responded a bit more accommodating and so still be here?
We don't know and will no doubt only find out as time goes on, but it seems obvious to me that we would not be able to make a successful attempt at being an established Championship club without the funds they are able to put into the club; as indeed our 1 year in that league demonstrates.
As a supporter since 1956 I quite like the idea of being an established Championship club!
The Trust got lucky (as we did) having Gareth Ainsworth at the helm. I am absolutely convinced that we would not have a League club now without him and consequently not had the years of Blooms. There is no way we could survive nowadays in Trust ownership.
Nah, crack on. Go ahead and shut down a really good platform that a lot of people get a lot out of because we don't all share the same stance on a manager leaving. It's a divisive issue; it's created a divided discourse. You've gotta let it burn out. I don't see anyone saying anything so outrageous that it warrants pulling the plug entirely.
People failing to accept other people’s views and the decent into abuse and name calling has been quite surprising recently.
The Gasroom was my homepage for a long time. I’ve disagreed with many, agreed with more. Always enjoyed the respect. But since the resignation of MB the wheels well and truly came off the place.
I'm not seeing anything that warrants the time, effort, sanity and money it costs me to keep it running. I've made multiple requests for people to stop being nasty, bullying other users and deliberately baiting people who think that the club should treat people with respect. It hasn't stopped, which kinda shows how much respect these same people have for this place. It's a shame for the people who do get a lot out of it.
@drcongo I think I speak for lots of us when I say I hope you’ll reconsider. The last ten days have been pretty awful, among the worst I’ve seen in the 25 years I’ve been using the Gasroom. But this community is still so valuable, and for many of us, our primary way of staying connected to Wycombe Wanderers.
It’s certainly gone south in here recently but predominantly because of the crushing bores and know-it-alls who repeat the same bollocks at random points throughout the day.
Of course, if you want to shut the forum down @drcongo then that is your right. I am sure that if you no longer saw the benefit of the financial cost, that Gasroomers would happily crowd-fund to take that burden off your shoulders.
A message board is for opinions, for discussion, for debate. Some posters have gone too far with some of the name-calling (personally, I would argue that has happened on both sides of the debate), but as @flymofrank says, this is probably one of the most emotive, heated scenarios the club has found itself in for over a decade. It's no surprise to me with that in mind, and being largely devoid of actual rumours about the managerial vacancy, that the topic has become so heated at times.
I sincerely hope you reconsider. This forum is 100x more inviting, insightful and cordial than any other club's forum I've visited, even with the issues of the past week or so. We haven't crossed the borders onto Facebook territory yet, in my opinion.
I know some folk for whom this is the only website or "social media" they engage with at all. To take that away would be an almighty shame.
Firstly, I appreciate what Bloomfield did for us as a player and where he got us to as a manager, I am saddened that he left for pastures new but am able to also recognise that shit happens and the world moves on.
I equally appreciate what Lomtadze's money is enabling the club to do, especially starting an Academy something we have sorely missed for well over a decade. However, I am less appreciative of the apparent hard-nosed approach to staff relations and whilst the players being brought in are exciting and point to a potentially great future I am concerned at where the liability for the funding is sitting.
Finally @drcongo, I fully appreciate what you sacrifice to keep this forum operating and repeat the offer I and others have previously made to put our cash on the table to help defray your costs; sadly can't domuch about the time/effort etc. (TBF I question your sanity occassionaly & mine for reading through some of the stuff on here, but console myself with the facts that is generally much better written than the dross on Facebook and a lot less vitriolic that the stuff on X).
So many of us have found this place to be a godsend and safe haven in an uncaring world it would be sad to lose it & funnily enough I would like to think Matt Bloomfield would dislike that too (along with us falling out with each other over his situation.)
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We gave a huge shit, the trust and its members fought like hell to keep the club alive but the choices were limited by the time of the vote.
Oh fucking hell is this still chuntering on? People keep saying move on until there's another piece of 'evidence' they think proves their point and fire it up again.
Can someone start a Bloomfield v Rice thread and the tedious hysteria can live there forever?
Or keep it in one mega thread just for those who want to rehash the arguments at length. That'd make more sense
Keep this thread for actual new manager talk
We could form a breakaway Gasroom
I’ve just caught up on 60 posts, the majority of which are the Rice fanatics relentlessly telling people who’ve pretty much given up posting to ‘move on’.
Maybe if you moved on from telling people to move on we could all move on?
'Rice fanatics'
Yep, can only imagine Ed wasn't around at the time to make that sort of post. There were relentless threads, discussions and fears about the whole situation.
Data friends?
Ange maybe available soon…he’d certainly keep @glasshalfempty busy on the injury list thread!!!
60 new comments since my last visit to this post. “We must have been linked with somebody else for the head coach vacancy…” - nope, evidently not!
Please, if that is the case, do so already. I’m sick of all the whinging.
Fair enough. I'm done. Anyone who'd like to take over the hosting and running this place DM me please.
Honestly thought the gasroom was way above the knuckle draggers on Facebook but I was obviously wrong, most of this place is gleefully licking Dan Rice's arse clean and cheering on the ridiculous over-spending just like all those Derby fans were doing under Mel Morris. And funnily enough it's the exact same
peoplehypocrites who slagged them off for it."It's a business, these things happen" - no it's fucking not, it's a football club. You don't all go stand outside Tesco's on a Saturday singing songs about Sainsbury's being shit do you. So if it's a business, what the hell are you doing? Supporting a football club, to some people, is a bit more than fucking brand loyalty.
Players change, staff members change, stadia change, everything changes - so what is it that you're actually cheering for on a Saturday afternoon if not the unquantifiable, feeling of that club? For me, the feeling that has always made me proud to be a Wycombe fan is that we weren't like other clubs. We weren't spending outside our means, we didn't hire tax fraudsters like Steve Evans or wife beaters like Darren Fergusson, we treated everyone within and outside the club with respect. That's pretty much what I'm supporting on a Saturday afternoon. The fact that our new ownership couldn't do that for the one person who deserves that respect more than any other, should tell you all you need to know about the future. The fact that the gasroom similarly can't do that for the one person who deserves that respect more than any other tells me all I need to know about this place.
In a week's time, this site will have been running for ten years. You are not the people I thought you were, and I simply don't have the energy to deal with so many tantrums.
The Trust were brilliant. Promotion from L2, somehow staying up in L1 with no money, and then leaving us in the L1 playoff spots (though Couhig had been helping at that point) and selling us to a decent owner. Of course, all of the above needs a huge salute to GA, Dobbo and the players too, but the Trust - as volunteers, no less - did incredible things.
But as has been said, we really did not have any options financially by the time we sold, and I believe we were very close to the threat of administration if nothing changed. Couhig came along at just the right time.
Anyone fancy joining me outside Tesco this weekend? You're right, Sainsburys are shit and they need to hear it.
That's a lovely sentiment.
A year ago, when you were asked about whether Bloomfield should be sacked, you said "I still won’t be calling for Matt Bloomfield to be sacked. Whether he should be is a different question".
Given what has happened in the last 12 months, I am very sad that Bloomfield has left, but not so long ago many of us thought that it might be necessary, however much we didn't want it. Now it has happened, we have to live with it.
Many of us still remember O'Neill feeling like he was forced out 30 years ago. Martin got over it, and I am sure Matt is very happy at Luton and will do wonderful things. It's not like he's unemployed. The only way we will progress is getting over it ourselves. Not doing so isn't going to bring him back.
Too Risky, Last time I did that Aaron Pierre nutted me.
*It wasn't me, it was. joke, as you were
Agreed about the part played by the Couhigs. But I think they would not have been able to finance the academy and team as it appears the new owners are.
ML etc bought the club because, as they said, it was run and had an ethos they were looking for, by buying us they did not have to start from scratch.
Do we accept this as their guiding motive? I agree that with MB they appeared to be playing hard ball, but no doubt he may well have responded a bit more accommodating and so still be here?
We don't know and will no doubt only find out as time goes on, but it seems obvious to me that we would not be able to make a successful attempt at being an established Championship club without the funds they are able to put into the club; as indeed our 1 year in that league demonstrates.
As a supporter since 1956 I quite like the idea of being an established Championship club!
The Trust got lucky (as we did) having Gareth Ainsworth at the helm. I am absolutely convinced that we would not have a League club now without him and consequently not had the years of Blooms. There is no way we could survive nowadays in Trust ownership.
This place has turned into a dictatorship. Good riddance if that's the way it's going to be.
Kevin Nolan thanks you for your understanding.
You're welcome to take it over Tom. Also, you're welcome.
Nah, crack on. Go ahead and shut down a really good platform that a lot of people get a lot out of because we don't all share the same stance on a manager leaving. It's a divisive issue; it's created a divided discourse. You've gotta let it burn out. I don't see anyone saying anything so outrageous that it warrants pulling the plug entirely.
Wish you well @drcongo
People failing to accept other people’s views and the decent into abuse and name calling has been quite surprising recently.
The Gasroom was my homepage for a long time. I’ve disagreed with many, agreed with more. Always enjoyed the respect. But since the resignation of MB the wheels well and truly came off the place.
Best wishes to all for the future.
The Gasroom Will Eat Itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhwXhpiMMU
”There’s no love between us anymore…”
I'm not seeing anything that warrants the time, effort, sanity and money it costs me to keep it running. I've made multiple requests for people to stop being nasty, bullying other users and deliberately baiting people who think that the club should treat people with respect. It hasn't stopped, which kinda shows how much respect these same people have for this place. It's a shame for the people who do get a lot out of it.
@drcongo I think I speak for lots of us when I say I hope you’ll reconsider. The last ten days have been pretty awful, among the worst I’ve seen in the 25 years I’ve been using the Gasroom. But this community is still so valuable, and for many of us, our primary way of staying connected to Wycombe Wanderers.
It’s certainly gone south in here recently but predominantly because of the crushing bores and know-it-alls who repeat the same bollocks at random points throughout the day.
Recently meaning 1998 then
Or maybe just monetise it and make it a subscription model - a couple quid a month and go all in to be the ‘Wycombe Fan TV’ / Forum / platform?
we get precious little coverage anywhere else and is always fascinating to see how other teams see us as a bit of a nothing club.
compared to other fan forums this is good!
Of course, if you want to shut the forum down @drcongo then that is your right. I am sure that if you no longer saw the benefit of the financial cost, that Gasroomers would happily crowd-fund to take that burden off your shoulders.
A message board is for opinions, for discussion, for debate. Some posters have gone too far with some of the name-calling (personally, I would argue that has happened on both sides of the debate), but as @flymofrank says, this is probably one of the most emotive, heated scenarios the club has found itself in for over a decade. It's no surprise to me with that in mind, and being largely devoid of actual rumours about the managerial vacancy, that the topic has become so heated at times.
I sincerely hope you reconsider. This forum is 100x more inviting, insightful and cordial than any other club's forum I've visited, even with the issues of the past week or so. We haven't crossed the borders onto Facebook territory yet, in my opinion.
I know some folk for whom this is the only website or "social media" they engage with at all. To take that away would be an almighty shame.
Firstly, I appreciate what Bloomfield did for us as a player and where he got us to as a manager, I am saddened that he left for pastures new but am able to also recognise that shit happens and the world moves on.
I equally appreciate what Lomtadze's money is enabling the club to do, especially starting an Academy something we have sorely missed for well over a decade. However, I am less appreciative of the apparent hard-nosed approach to staff relations and whilst the players being brought in are exciting and point to a potentially great future I am concerned at where the liability for the funding is sitting.
Finally @drcongo, I fully appreciate what you sacrifice to keep this forum operating and repeat the offer I and others have previously made to put our cash on the table to help defray your costs; sadly can't domuch about the time/effort etc. (TBF I question your sanity occassionaly & mine for reading through some of the stuff on here, but console myself with the facts that is generally much better written than the dross on Facebook and a lot less vitriolic that the stuff on X).
So many of us have found this place to be a godsend and safe haven in an uncaring world it would be sad to lose it & funnily enough I would like to think Matt Bloomfield would dislike that too (along with us falling out with each other over his situation.)