Which players were singled out ?
Out of interest what do you see as the difference between what Dodds said after Colchester and what Ainsworth says here(as he spends the majority of the interview criticizing the Shrewsbury players) ?
https://www.shrewsburytown.com/news/2025/march/08/post-exeter---gareth-ainsworth/
There are regular posts comparing Dodds’s stats to both Ainsworth and Bloomfield’s poor starts, and to other Wycombe managers.
It’s easy to just assert things that aren’t true.
Dodds’s stats are appalling . I am not defending his performance results wise . I am defending what he said after Colchester by giving some perspective . Nothing more .
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100 % selective memories on the Gasroom re Gaz and Matty. I stopped coming to wycombe matches as I was sick to death of the rubbish football as were many others ( Gaz) and Matty had a terrible period and should have been sacked . Yes we always gave 100% but the football and dark arts were terrible many forget that . Think you have to give Dodds a chance we win a game and still negativity , if we don’t progress in next month he should go but let’s give him a chance .
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You are right, we should give him a chance.
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No,….. I’m Spartacus,……. well until my 65th birthday!
So just to the end of the month, lower than 13th, then… it’ll will be attitude Vs performance ratio for me,……. It’s in the balance, …. well I do come under Libra!
You can’t please all the people all the time.
The football at Wycombe under Gaz was (objectively) much more successful and (subjectively) much more exciting than what we’ve seen so far from Dodds with a hugely more expensive squad.
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There were bleak times under GA (I remember some really awful games at home when Paul Hayes legs had effectively gone and it was really hard to watch) but the low budget and lack of alternatives were a strong mitigating factor.
I also was never keen on our dark arts and ‘time wasting bastards’ persona.
But it was usually balanced by a team that you know gave everything and as a supporter that’s pretty much all you can ask for as a starter.
With MD it has always seemed a style over substance approach and up until last Saturday it was this that I worried about.
Saturday gave me hope that MD has finally realised (or more likely his players have told him) that there is a lot more to a competitive football match than recycling routines practiced in training every week.
I am looking forward to the game at Peterborough more than I have looked forward to a game for a long time. If we approach it as we did Mansfield I can forgive whatever the result is.
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Interesting use of a space either side of the full stops. Feel like I’ve seen that before. 
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That’s two of you outed then Doc 
Dodds post match interviews are often verging on the surreal, but certainly not in the realms of the total word salad Mark Skinner (manager of MUs women) comes out with or Matt Beard’s habit of tossing his players under a bus.
Most managers/head coaches in the men’s game have had at least some media training these days - though it seemed that Postecoglou & Amarin have ignored it & who can forget the spectacular melt down that Marc White of Dorking had following their FA Cup loss to Horsham
As far as I can see nobody is ‘forgetting’ anything about the troughs of the previous management teams.
For me, the football under MD with the resources he has been given has been mostly terrible to watch. And his passionless corporate interviews alarm me.
It’s my opinion…not based on my forgetting everything that happened in the fifteen years previously.
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It’s not terrible to watch, there are always moments of really good fast short passing where we slice through teams. The problem is that it’s not happening enough and we couldn’t finish off moves. Now we have Bell & Woodrow. Good times ahead.
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Yes, this false comparison.
‘That low-waged team, consisting of free transfers and free agents, had moments when they were almost as crap as this squad that cost millions to assemble’.
I enjoyed Saturday but as it’s been 9 months coming, I’d like to see a few more.
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I swear the Doc has about eleventy aliases on here
I’m not convinced as many people have multiple accounts as you think they do
Well I for one post as myself, Micra, Chris and HandsomeBWonderful, so it’s possible.
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Flouncing, sockpuppet accounts, wannabe moderators.
Part of the charm of the Gasroom is that it feels like a forum in 2008
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I’d take the way we played on Saturday over pretty much all the different styles we played under Ainsworth. The thing that most disappointed me about Gaz was that he could play sexy football - the season after Torquay he signed Sido, JJ, PCH and Wood and we played beautiful 442. Then we failed to go up, Gaz narrowed the pitch, went route one, upped the dark arts and it all became so much more cynical and - for me - unenjoyable. The only other period of Gaz play I really enjoyed was second half of the Championship season when we used wingbacks, introduced Stockdale and played more on the ground. If only we’d signed The Player and stayed up. I had high hopes Gaz had turned a corner but it was back to the narrow 433 when we returned to League One.
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