This hits the nail on the head. Unfortunately, we are a gaziilionaires play thing with more interest in an ‘Academy’ than the first team.
Poor choices all round in my eyes but that’s where football is now, even in the third tier in England.
It maybe that Trump wants Greenland as part of the good old USA?
It’s not so easy for everyone when feeling so disillusioned with everything at the club right now.
It really doesn’t feel the same anymore for some.
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Certainly doesn’t for me!
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Quite possibly, always been my problem tbh, speaking before thinking
I would just like to stress to people, in no way at all am i anti Blooms ! I dont think he shouldve left, id love him to be here still, and i genuinely think we might have had 2nd place sown up by now if he was.
All i was trying to say was, from what ive heard there was 2 sides to the story.
Ive always been a club man, first and foremost, to me thats all the matters, so sorry i just get a bit riled sometimes when i see people saying they dont care as much, or the club desrve everything they get comments, i should just rise above.
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For me, the real difficult thing to swallow in all of this whether you liked Bloomfield or not is that he had been through so much with us as a player and captain - relegations, promotions, playoff finals, a pizza cup final even and on the potential brink of a return to the Championship as a manger.
Whoever came in was going to have to compete with that type of character from the get-go and unfortunately Rice couldn’t read the room and Dodds (who I don’t rate as a HC) had to over achieve immensely just to stand still.
It’s a turbulent time.
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I still can’t get my head around making all those signings in January without a manager / coach installed.
It completely unsettled the side and really didn’t help Dodds. He spent a fair chunk of his first few interviews talking about how he needed to have difficult and honest conversations with lots of squad players who wouldn’t be in the team.
Bloomfield had a perfect balance which included virtually every player. The idea of starters and finishers and keeping people at their peek gave players comfort when they weren’t included that they’d be back in amongst it soon.
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2 good performance against Shrewsbury and Reading. Created enough chances to win 4 games but we need to convert them. Reading literally had no chances apart from pen, which from the replay looked dubious, although the ref was in a better position than the camera to see. Losing/drawing a game doesn’t necessarily = a poor performance.
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There was a strong belief in Christianity underpinning Ainsworth’s teams which meant, at a practical level, the players were decent people grounded in something.
Now, I realise we can’t give every new signing a second baptism in the Rye but I felt things were starting to wobble this January when we signed Lowry and Berry, two players that the fans said had ‘issues’. Data can do many things but I doubt it can look into a man’s soul and part of the Little Wycombe experience was always signing nice people who would easily fit in. Another thing Dan has fucked up.
I’m an agnostic, just to be clear. Both in terms of religion and Dodds.
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I know what you mean but unfortunately there is a strong belief in Christianity underpinning the views of Gareth’s coffee shop pal Neil Harman. So it doesn’t necessarily signify ‘decency’.
There’s no doubt though that our squad prior to the Danuard Frenzy of 2025 was packed with decent characters, which is quite something in a group of 30 blokes.
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nothing to suggest that it’s not still packed with decent characters. In fact the players who joined in January all seem like thoroughly good blokes
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I was one of the first on Dodds’ back but I actually think the critique gone too far now. I was thoroughly hacked off when we drew to Wigan, Northampton, Blackpool, Crawley and Cambridge. I said we needed to be 6-9 points ahead of Wrexham before we played them because of the fixture swing (I know Dodds wasn’t in charge for all of the above, but this was the run of results that dented our promotion hopes). Turns out I was bang on the money despite the down votes.
Putting my arrogance aside, I think our performances (not results) are trending slightly better. More specifically, I think we have been better in our last eight games than the prior eight games.
We were very unfortunate to lose to Reading. We were very unfortunate to not beat Shrews. We beat Rotherham (albeit fortunately). We edged it against Lincoln. We put in a fantastic second half effort with 10 men against Birmingham who will possibly break the L1 points record. We were unfortunate against Wrexham. We beat Burton comfortably.
I’m more comfortable with Dodds as manager now than I was 2-3 weeks ago. Yet it seems the vast majority of you are much more negative about Dodds than 2-3 weeks ago. Is that outcome bias? Funny how football can work sometimes.
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I think you’ve missed the point.
There was a belief and an encouragement to be exactly who you are, and be accepted and accepting of everyone else. Yes, there were were a number of Christians in that squad, they were allowed to express those views openly and be shown respect. In return they showed that same respect and acceptance for those of other faiths and of none.
It was the environment that was driven by Gareth Ainsworth, which makes Harman’s shite all the more batshit crazy. He holds Gaz up as some sort of champion for his beliefs; he was in fact the polar opposite of the hate-filled bile he spews
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Onto Dan Rice and the recruitment. Harsh to judge so early, but even though it’s been three months it’s been the busiest fixture schedule period of the season, so it’s still quite a decent sample size. Hit or miss.
- Sonny Bradley (loan) - hit, but let’s not forget he is only here because Hartridge was utterly hopeless and got sent off. Also this was a Bloomfield signing.
- Anders Hagelskjær - miss
- Magnus Westergaard - miss
- Alex Lowry - miss
- James Berry - miss
- Caleb Taylor (loan) - big hit
- Adam Reach - hit
- Will Norris - miss
- Fin Back - miss
- Xavier Simons (loan) - harsh, but I’m on the fence because he’s already been sent off for one daft tackle and nearly got sent off again at the weekend. Jury sort of out?
A few hits, although they are mostly only loan signings. A lot of misses and most worryingly - all of the largest fees paid are misses. Really disappointing.
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Not sure what you’ve seen of Lowry and Berry to call them a miss. Never mind Fin Back who’s played even less.
The Danes were a swing and a miss. They’ll go back to Scandinavia as soon as the loan window opens.
Are you aware that your second comment is in complete hypocrisy of your first comment?
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I don’t really understand what you mean. Berry, Back and Lowry have hardly played, so I’m not sure how you can judge them yet.
The Danes were signed as part of a campaign to get a Danish manager here. They swung, they missed.
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I think you are watering down the Christianity to a more general ‘Everybody was nice’. I read somewhere that Akinfenwa was in charge of weekly Bible readings and the like. I’m guessing that that was the kind of thing that installed an incredible team spirit that we hadn’t seen before or since.
Rice is probably a Satanist, am I right Shev?
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Yeah I think he’s actually set us up very well the last 2 games and the key moments are down to the players in my opinion. Dodds can’t score for them and while we don’t know the extent to which they train scoring chances you can at least assume it’s enough to finish the basics comfortably. Kone forgetting how to put the round thing in the back of the net and Cam being overambitious with a slide tackle in the box are individual errors that you simply cannot solely blame on the manager unless you have some sort of clear bias against him. We need to quit whining and back the club until the end of this season, give Dodds/Rice time over the summer to figure out the squad and setup for next season and then we can be extremely judgemental after 10 games. I’d have eaten my hat for 3rd/4th place after last season and let’s not forget that Wrexham and Brum have more money, a stronger organisation and a higher profile for attracting talent than we do - in fact most teams in and around the playoffs will have spent money on nearly every starting player and we haven’t been able to even try this until now. For all we know most of our new signings will be replacing deadwood for next season and will contribute enormously to another promotion/championship survival push.
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