The only good thing Tony Adams did was discover Steven Taylor, after that, it was all down hill. I pray that Dodds hasn’t been reading Tony’s autobiography during the close-season!
Sorry again…I realise that was a little harsh.
Tony Adams = Cockney rhyming slang for Alan Smith
…I’ll go wash my mouth out with soapy water…
Annoying Currie, telling him he’s worth nothing so he leaves on a free to go to Brighton and then sold in Jan for £250k!
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Yes, Tony Adams. Got a free pass for the horror show of 03/04 and then made some decent acquisitions (on paper) to start 04/05 with a relatively clean slate. That initial optimism soon dissipated. Hmm, parallels eh. I went to the friendly against Beaconsfield that season to witness the arrival of Clint Easton.
Bonus points if you were one of the hardy few that attended the cup tie v Coalville in the immediate post-Adams aftermath.
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I hold my head in shame too. I’ll stop mentioning that manager again and will log off for the night 
Signed Matt Bloomfield too of course
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Would say Sutton had much of the previous seasons players , manager and tactics so that argument doesn’t stand. We have faced teams going through major change in pre season and beaten them as well mainly as we had an established side.
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James Rice… i was speaking to a ex player last week over a beer… we spoke of Rice, he said Rice trusts no one, is a very insecure character… thats normally a sign of someone who’s a slithery reptile themselves in my experience… but hey he’s a great guy right
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Also set up a charity that has helped countless addicts into recovery and almost certainly saved many lives, so yeah, doesn’t really deserve to be called a “cnut”
That’s said, binning Simpson and Currie halfway through the season then letting them leave for free was absolutely ridiculous
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Yes! As I’d not long moved to the East Midlands.
Matt Bloomfield came on at half time. Vague memories of a young @James popping up on Gasroom 1.0 to link this to our faltering second half performance.
Still, not as bad as the Peter Taylor era visit to Eastwood Town a few miles up the M1. One of our darkest cup days - comprehensively outplayed and beaten.
Still, not as bad as the Peter Taylor era visit to Eastwood Town a few miles up the M1. One of our darkest cup days - comprehensively outplayed and beaten.
I was there. It was… memorable.
I always get the Coalville and Eastwood games mixed up for some reason. But yes, narrow victory over Coalville, woeful defeat to Eastwood.
On the pre-season theme, that 04/05 summer was truly dreadful, losing to Beaconsfield, Chesham, Portsmouth, Charlton, Millwall, Aylesbury and Berkhamsted. Then again, we were relatively brassic and newly relegated to the fourth tier, rather than newly minted and spending a fair wedge on players. But don’t panic, don’t panic.
Pete Cawley manager
Difficult times
There you go; the opposite scale to our pre-season thus far… Are they winning the league, f*ck no.
Might one ask why these games are being televised at all?
Would you want to practise new skills in front of an audience and have their views expressed while experimenting?Personally, if the first team selected look clueless on the first day of the season there are questions to be legitimately answered. Before that, might many Gasroomers do well to leave all to prepare themselves for a new tough season and recharge their own batteries elsewhere to provide informed support when the going gets tough, not before?
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Yes agree, I think the Gasroom in the last 24 hours is probably doing a good job of convincing the managerial team that more behind-closed-doors friendlies is the way forward.
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At least the new kit, that we can’t yet buy, got a decent run out. Just need an update from the kitman on whether it made it safely through the washing machine. I think that was the sole purpose of this friendly.
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He looked utterly pissed off at the end of the game and just about managed a “thanks” to a well played comment. Felt like telling him it’s the system and not him, but I’m pretty sure he knows that.
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I don’t know why they bothered with this new kit. From any kind of distance, it looks virtually identical to the previous one.
That’s the whole idea. It’s a Wycombe kit , people wouldn’t like it if it changed radically but it’s also got to be different enough close up to make it obviously different to previous years or nobody would buy it.
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