I’m sure it would have been more entertaining. I doubt the points total would have been markedly better.
On 2.0 I think I’d said at the turn of the year we looked like we’d go from a 50 point first half to a 30 point second.
That’s not a dig at Matt. I just don’t think it follows that if he’d stayed we’d have gone up. He’d have suffered from many of the same issues that blighted Dodds.
Obviously some of those issues were a result of the weird January window. But that’s a separate issue.
I find it mind boggling that some people don’t think we’d have done better if MB had still been around.
For one thing, we wouldn’t have had the inevitable disruption that occurs when a successful manager leaves added to the change to an inexperienced manager (sorry head coach).
Even with everything that had happened we were in second place three games from the end of the season. Do some people really think that in an undisrupted season we wouldn’t have had several more points by then?
And that doesn’t even take into account any of MDs apparent cautiousness in tactics that seemed (in my view) to have stifled any attacking verve that we had in abundance.
I agree Matt would have no doubt faced a blip and the same issues with injuries and form…but I suspect he would have retained the confidence of the players and the fans and had we been in the same position we were with five important league games left, he would have been able to galvanise both us and ‘the group’ and we would have won more of them.
And Lommy would still have a couple of million quid in petty cash.
Just an opinion.
I doubt it. But we’ll never know.
To be clear, I’m annoyed we never got to find out.
I just don’t think the Bloomfield vs. Dodds comparison is as simple as some are making out.
Nothing in life is as simple as some people make out.
Oh dear you are too quick to go on the offensive and calling me a denialist who slags off the team has offended me. I enjoyed the first part of the season as much as any other of us. But I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again during that period we scored a lot of goals and we conceded a lot of goals. Yes we won a lot of games but most by a single goal and had our fair share of good fortune. I refer to those 2 games as a purple patch because those were the first games in many a year probably decades that I have felt the points were in the bag at a Wycombe match! That’s not rewriting any narrative, no denial and certainly not a coping mechanism just my view.
Bit odd to single out and describe as a purple patch just those two wins against top six sides. You said you did so because they were the only games which you felt confident we would win. I may be the exception that proves the rule but I felt confident about winning the majority of matches during the autumn months and @glasshalfempty’s list of results for the 23 matches following the narrow defeats to Wrexham and Birmingham demonstrate why.
I might be being stupid but 13 points in 9 games from The start of December onwards does represent a drop off in form doesn’t it?
That’s certainly my recollection of what happened. Felt like energy levels dropped slightly and perhaps players were having to carry slight knocks.
As I said before I think Bloomfield would have had to find a different way of playing during the second half of the season. It’s sad that he wasn’t around to do that.
Dodds cost us promotion. End of.
100% we would have been top two if Bloomfield had stayed, granted we had started to be less effective before Bloomfield left due to being sussed out a little by other teams. However there is no way we would have had 84 points more like mid nighties and been up . Anyway let’s seen what happens in 6 months and if Dodds can turn this team ( or a new one ) around , not so sure he can but i’m guessing he won’t be sacked but who knows one is going on in the owners head all very strange.
We don’t know if Bloomfield would have got us promoted. Our form had dipped and the end of season fixtures were against a lot of top sides. That’s the frustration. And let’s be perfectly honest , he hasn’t exactly ‘ shot the lights out ‘ at Luton. I would have preferred him to stay but he was still a young manager learning his trade.
I understand what you are saying but we wouldn’t have had the change in managers and an unsettled period a few more points here and there would have taken us up . No guarantees but I do believe we would have gone up as do most neutrals who can’t believe we have thrown it away.
Whatever the likelihood, it certainly was not 100% certain.
The exact word that was used amongst the first team squad in the aftermath of binning club doctor and psychologist just before our first away game was S A B O T A G E.
Our season’s prospects were sabotaged because the new ownership group were jealous of the praise heaped on Blooms and their egos couldn’t handle it.
They were insecure about success accredited to Blooms rather than themselves and took measures to oust Blooms.
They got what they deserved ie feck all.
Sincerely hope Blooms raises his constructive dismissal with the F.A.
Wow 
“if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas”
@PJS purple patch were the only games won by more than a single goal in that period so I see his point.
As I see it our results against the top teams in our division were not great both before and after MB. True that our form against mid and lower table sides dropped off with the managerial change (coinciding with Kone’s injury) but I stand by my reckoning that next season in the Championship may well have been a slaughter.
Unfortunately, the new ownership team could not wait until the closed season to begin implementing their new system and we paid the price in the end. I’m as disappointed as anyone not to go up and to see the season fizzle out as it did.
However I can see toe logic of their strategy and am looking forward to see how we do in the summer transfer market and on to next season. We go again!
COYB!
Have to say that’s the funniest post I’ve seen for a very long time. Are you seriously claiming you know the first team squad? You clearly must have a job at Harlington.
Quite a lot of fans know members of the first team squad you bellend.
To clarify, never worked at Harlington.
Surprised you find it funny, I found it very sad indeed.