This is all so so sad. Things have gone horribly wrong. Strange to be saying that when, not long ago, things were going so well.
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70 points wouldn’t be enough to get in the play offs though!
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Winning three awards will bring Kone’s mojo back and he will carry the team into the championship.
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Only reason I ask is that you mentioned it as an objective and I haven’t seen that as an objective mentioned by either.
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I stand corrected. The previous two managers didn’t have anywhere near as good a squad or league position though.
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Stats aside, have you enjoyed watching Dodds games?
It IS meant to be entertainment after all?
And yes we all get a certain satisfaction in winning, however it happens, but the cracks are still there, aren’t they? Wins just paper over them.
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This makes no sense Eric.
It is fact that this is statistically our best ever season in Lg1 (apart arguably from the Covid shortened season.
We have a chance of going up in the playoffs (under Dodds) although my best guess is we will miss out
We will never know whether we would have secured automatic promotion had Bloomfield stayed. My best guess is that we would have ended up losing in the playoffs then too.
Not sure what you are seeing as contrarian ( or are you just taking yet another manufactured opportunity to play the man?)
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The big question really could be, are we having to play defensive because our players burned out under blooms first half of the season?
More than once we’ve reviewed the rolling average PPG and noted that we started dropping back pre-Christmas.
W7 D4 L5 I’d say was pretty decent (defeats v. top 2 Birmingham and Wrexham plus Charlton, teams who also beat us under Blooms, Single goal defeats v. Reading and Orient). Some people made their minds up that MD was a bad appointment even before he walked through the door so there’s no point in reasoning with them.
It’s more than we totalled in 5 of the last 6 seasons.
Trouble is he’s not made us harder to beat as your own stats show. We’ve lost more games under Dodds than MB, in a shorter time, whilst simultaneously becoming predictable and toothless.
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With respect I think your wrong. Most posters on here were optimistic when he was appointed, but that optimism has steadily diminished as his ultra defensive tactics have made us very easy to play against and boring to watch. As you said earlier, Dodds record played out over a season would give us 70 points, so a mid table position next season?
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Objective to make us harder to beat?? We had lost less than anyone in the league at the time 
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Wins against Stevenage, Huddersfield and Bolton too - all in the bottom 8 of the form table in the last 10 games
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Anyway, the optimism and desire to spend cash from the wallet on the product currently being served up will be in our home fan attendances in the play offs and Wembley should we get there. I strongly suspect lower than previous.
When you are far to close to the club it will always difficult to give an honest opinion. I get Dodds should be judged on a longer period but he has been clueless in his tactics , the Shrewsbury game showed we can attack ok we didn’t score but unlucky on the night . He says he wanted to tighten up the defence but did he need to as long as we were scoring more than the opposition it doesn’t matter . Going back to the Martin O’Neil or John Gorman days we could be 3.0 down and I would be confident of a 4-3 that’s exciting football. We could be 2-0 down now as proven and we don’t stand a chance.
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I had been clinging on to the idea that maybe he’s a cup-tie manager and the stifling style would suit the playoffs, but given that Orient was arguably the biggest single fixture in the club’s history and we still set up to try scraping a 1-0, and performed like the players were on mogadon, I’ve rather disabused myself of that idea.
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I’ve got nothing against MD. I was very surprised when we appointed him as it seemed a huge gamble considering the position we were in.
It hasn’t really worked, boring football, lack of goals, with the players available, you’re always going to pick up results but sometimes it just doesnt feel right and i think this is one of those situations.
I wouldn’t be upset if he left tonight, nor would i boo or demand he’s sacked after the Stockport match. I really hope we have a go in that game, play with no fear, the handbrake off so to speak and who knows it might lift the mood on here, at the ground if we get a positive result.
At Everton this season we had a similar situation with Dyche, i wanted him gone, he took any enjoyment out of watching us play, i’m not usually one for pre/post match interviews but he’d talk shite and have the press believing the narrative he was doing a wonderful job and how lucky we was to have him.
Finally the club done something about it and the cloud over Everton went instantly and not only have results picked up but the mood around the place is so much better.
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Bristol Rovers v Mansfield was probably the biggest fixture in Wycombe’s history
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Good point.