Hard to look foward to this! Wycombe have a lost a bit of form since the start of the season when they was top of league, clinging onto a playoff spot. 

They have been beaten in their last four away games. Hopefully Crawford's is nearing a comeback which will be a positive.

The once gleaming white steelwork is literally now green with algae. Shame still a belting stadium from a far and one we should be proud of. 

We was talking about the grey metal sheeting in each top corner yesterday, so tired and near enough black 

Surprised Sargent chino doesn’t have the u23 jet washing it down for being so poor 

Lowe gets a lot of stick but gets on with it and, if he was allowed to do a proper job of shielding the centre backs with more creative sorts (Crawford) to shove it forward to, he'd be solid and reliable at it. 

Probably doesn't put his hand up to keep being sent to right back in games but it said a lot that yesterday he was a lot better than Emmanuel

Bigger problem yesterday was how badly the likes of L Murphy,  Hamilton and Politic disappeared from the game and the subs made no impact whatsoever. Dodoo is not a central striker, can be good when out wide and running at people, clueless with back to goal of if ball in the air. Beckford like in his faintheart efforts at aerial combat

Had nothing going forward yesterday. I feel sorry for Matthews hes getting loads of grief and the defence didnt win a header from a cross all day, the organisation in defence is terrible, what are they doing in training?? They offer nothing in attack, this should be treated as the longest preseason ever building for next year but I can't see any progress.. Hill comes across as a typical boltonian United fan arrogant and clueless with a complete lack of self awareness.

11 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Brockbank will be most likely be another who’ll follow Hill around, definitely not a full back but might make it non league centre half. 

Getting ready for 21/22 then

2 hours ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

We was talking about the grey metal sheeting in each top corner yesterday, so tired and near enough black 

Surprised Sargent chino doesn’t have the u23 jet washing it down for being so poor 

Don't mention washing shit from the upper tier down to the lower.

27 minutes ago, Ghana White said:

Had nothing going forward yesterday. I feel sorry for Matthews hes getting loads of grief and the defence didnt win a header from a cross all day, the organisation in defence is terrible, what are they doing in training?? They offer nothing in attack, this should be treated as the longest preseason ever building for next year but I can't see any progress.. Hill comes across as a typical boltonian United fan arrogant and clueless with a complete lack of self awareness.

Matthews made a few decent stops yesterday - the usual groans about his poor distribution aside.

Of the players out of contract in summer, there’s only Matthews, Lowe and Darcy I really want to see sign up for at least 12 more months. A few others I’d accept but personally want shut of quite a chunk of this lot

11 minutes ago, Kane57 said:

Matthews made a few decent stops yesterday - the usual groans about his poor distribution aside.

2 points, we had fans who reckoned jussi was shit, so ive long since stopped caring what mouth breathers on the internet say about our keepers

But

We have outfield players who cant pass it 5 yards, why folk expect our keeper to be hitting it 60 yards, fuck knows

Unless they are utter simpletons

13 hours ago, Casino said:

Emmanuel was on a yellow

Couldn't be trusted to survive 90

Subbing him was the right thing to do but moving Lowe to full back was a disaster and shows KH what he is; someone with no idea 

13 minutes ago, Casino said:

2 points, we had fans who reckoned jussi was shit, so ive long since stopped caring what mouth breathers on the internet say about our keepers

But

We have outfield players who cant pass it 5 yards, why folk expect our keeper to be hitting it 60 yards, fuck knows

Unless they are utter simpletons

Given how attack-minded our full-backs seem to be it surprised me that he didn't utilise them for a quick break.

21 minutes ago, Biggish Dave said:

Of the players out of contract in summer, there’s only Matthews, Lowe and Darcy I really want to see sign up for at least 12 more months. A few others I’d accept but personally want shut of quite a chunk of this lot

Some conspiratorial nut under the ESL yesterday was braying about how he's mates with Darcy and he won't be signing for us, "not for £500 a week anyway". 

Same nut also reckoned we did try for Clough but wouldn't stump up the £5k a week that Forest wanted.

10 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said:

So Cannavaro couldn't have marked that lardy fat lump? Aye awreet.

Seriously though, if Brockys good enough for central def then he's tall enough - doubt he'll make it in that position myself like. 

Akinfenwa is a fucking imobile lump of a unit but barely an ounce of fat in the man. There's like a 6ft radius around him when he tries to win a header that it's near impossible to get in. Like RRF said play him like canavaro would do and play for the 2nd ball. We seemed obsessed with the futile attempt to win the header but were no where near the 2nd ball.

11 hours ago, Traf said:

Jason Lowe?

Limited ability, but no shirker. He's absolutely nowhere near the top of our on-field problems. No nonsense, nice and steady. He's very aware of what he can and can't do. If we could afford him, I'd have no issues with him being the leader of an otherwise fairly young team next season.

Brockbank
Edwards
Zouma
Bunney
Senior
Graham
Faal all need to given some game time in the comng months to prepare them for next season, but just 1 or 2 at a time, let's not throw them all in at once.

That group of players would get relegated from the National League 

10 hours ago, RONNIE PHILLIPS said:

That just reminded me of Kevin Francis at Burnden when we just backed off & let him win all the headers & swept up the knock ons... After the previous problems he'd caused us we finally made him look like the stump he actually was. 

Was that the game John McGinlay went face to face chest with him, laughed and walked away bouncing an imaginary basketball?

16 hours ago, hughmungus said:

Yes 100% agree, plenty of ex pro’s will be looking for jobs soon and a Phil Neal type appointment is exactly what we need. 

Neal spent some money but had us relegated to Div 4 eighteen months into his management, there weren't many praising him then.

Who would be the equivalent player manager from Liverpool now, maybe James Milner?

15 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Usually it’s backwards. Which I’ve no issue with now and again, except  it’s 90% of the time. 

This. Too easy, and experienced players ought to be able to get their head up, and direct things.

Much rather him than Murphy though.

 

20 minutes ago, Roger_Dubuis said:

Neal spent some money but had us relegated to Div 4 eighteen months into his management, there weren't many praising him then.

Who would be the equivalent player manager from Liverpool now, maybe James Milner?

Not correct their Rog.

His arrival came too late to halt the slide into div 4, but it had the benefit of allowing his time to assess what he had and what he needed. Rebuilding the next season, with a far more professional outfit.

Exactly what we need now; if we're relying on Rochdale old boys, beyond their sell buy date who perhaps share a similar antiquated approach then I worry for next season.

I had no problem with neal and he definitely left us in a better place than when he arrived. 

However, im pretty sure he had been managing us 18 months when we were relegated

Hills prob had little more than 18 games

1985 Twitter and wandersways would have been a.a baying madhouse of neal out

9 minutes ago, Casino said:

I had no problem with neal and he definitely left us in a better place than when he arrived. 

However, im pretty sure he had been managing us 18 months when we were relegated

Hills prob had little more than 18 games

1985 Twitter and wandersways would have been a.a baying madhouse of neal out

Correct, Neal took us to Wembley in 86 if I remember correctly? I’ve got Dec 1985 in my head as to when he replaced Charlie Wright

3 hours ago, MickyD said:

Was that the game John McGinlay went face to face chest with him, laughed and walked away bouncing an imaginary basketball?

I think it was but my memory ain't all that these days. 

3 hours ago, Biggish Dave said:

Correct, Neal took us to Wembley in 86 if I remember correctly? I’ve got Dec 1985 in my head as to when he replaced Charlie Wright

And wasn’t it Neal who signed McAteer and gave Stubbs his debut, which for many was the start of some of the best years as a fan.

3 hours ago, Biggish Dave said:

Correct, Neal took us to Wembley in 86 if I remember correctly? I’ve got Dec 1985 in my head as to when he replaced Charlie Wright

About 6 months then, which is what I was thinking.

4 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

About 6 months then, which is what I was thinking.

No

18 months

Dec 85 til summer 87

25 minutes ago, hughmungus said:

And wasn’t it Neal who signed McAteer and gave Stubbs his debut, which for many was the start of some of the best years as a fan.

Yes, I think so. Neal had an eye for a player, would be a decent scout