You’re not living in a parallel universe; you’ve just not lost the plot.
How’s your “Rice is a nice bloke and doing a great job” thread going?
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You’re clearly very passionate about this. What are you doing about it apart from ranting away and calling people bellends on here?
It wouldn’t be as good as this one. You started it and have posted 35 times so UptheWyc would have no chance
Thirty six
As I thought. Nothing.
Name one thing that Dan Rice (you?) has done to improve Wycombe Wanderers.
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Well, Rice must have given him some assurances for next season as he ‘was not sure (he) could be arsed with this club’ a week ago.
Unless of course he just likes to barney with the same poster whatever the subject.
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I’m not gonna tip you off am I Dan.
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I probably did say that after the mess that was the Charlton game, just a very melodramatic reaction on my part. But I’m over it.
Idk which individuals are ultimately making which decisions do I, but we’re implementing a youth system - that’s one. As a fan, I’m very excited to see that bear fruit.
One of the reasons it might feel like you inhabit an entirely parallel universe might be that you don’t believe that Matt Bloomfield was persecuted (using your word). At least that’s my inference. Given your own position, I am surprised you haven’t sought out people in and around the club to speak to and give you a better perspective on these “rumours.”
Matt Bloomfield might not be motivated by a desire to move to a bigger club, for a higher salary and long contract. After all, it wasn’t something he sought whilst remaining at the club as a player for 18 years (making 558 appearances). He might reasonably have wanted to remain somewhere where he had a connection and continue the extraordinary job he had started, having come through an incredibly difficult period, and was achieving outstanding results.
Sticking with the word persecution, it is difficult to know just how he was affected by it, the possible toll on his physical and mental health and his family life whilst recognising and reconciling the necessity to leave the club. Having done so, he has suffered his first relegation as a (young) manager, for which no salary or length of contract is likely to provide any comfort.
It is a common occurrence in professional football for clubs to be laden with debt by their owner(s). We probably need to see the published accounts before judging whether the millions poured in are something to be praised or a cause for concern.
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Admittedly I set the bar nice and low for you by only asking for one, and I’ll let you have that one. How about something that has improved the first team this season?
I may be wrong, but I doubt @CornDog has the funds to buy Lommy out and instigate wholesale change across the club.
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‘But the idea that fans should be hurling the C-word at the owner…’
I missed that meeting.
I think you are misreading the original post in which someone else is quoted as advising the Hollywood owners that sooner or later they would be called the c-word.
Which is sadly inevitable.
(and Judas as we well know)
How is Lommy’s colloquial English?
Matt Bloomfield was a fantastic servant to the club and someone who I have a huge amount of respect for.
However, I think the idea he never would have sought out a move to a bigger club for a higher salary in his playing career, if the opportunity had arisen is not true.
Everything I’ve seen from him in his career to date has been about bettering himself at every available opportunity eg off the pitch the Journalism course and writing for the bbc he did in his early career and all his more recent efforts with his coaching badges.
Circumstance played a huge part in why he stayed with us so long - with serious injury and spells out of the team significantly impacting his early career and presumably the kind of offers that he would have been getting from elsewhere.
He is always making clear just how motivated he is to provide for his family, and even if he had got promotion with us this season and everything was ok behind the scenes, I still think he would have been trying to look to progress his managerial career at a bigger club this summer.
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To be fair, while that was the intent of my words at the beginning of its use, I did go on to ask who’s calling ML it currently.
And while I don’t have as much of an adverse reaction to the word - I tend to prefer the Aussie approach to using it where it’s much more relaxed - I can recognise it’s kryptonite to some people. (Whatever happen to sticks and stones but words can never hurt me I don’t know).
But the main point should have been to ask why people aren’t throwing shade anywhere near ML and Eduards direction, and someone at some point - maybe even the great Matt Bloomfield has thought it - (and I wouldn’t blame him or my estimation in him go down one jot) will call them a C word.
Or a T word.
Or P’ies.
You know. Any of the female genitalia words.
They might want to grow a thicker skin as they have shown they can be quite thin skinned.
Matt Bloomfield is on record as having said he had the opportunity to leave the club during his playing career and chose not to do so.
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Did he say it was to a bigger club?