Richie Wellens - Wycombe Wanderers post match interview

Not a fact but the league currently says so!

No go find the thread where we made those predictions. Last season I said 8th and if Richie had been backed I think the team would have finished higher, we just ran out of steam, the Jan additions were diabolical and cost us badly. Just think if we had gone up, Idris probably stays and we watch championship football.

This season I said 18th and that was based on the recruitment we had made by the time I posted that. I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. Den I get what the club wants to do, build each season and I'm guessing 2 years and or the third year of Richie’s contract have a right go at promotion. I can buy into that no problem. We are not Chelsea who can spend in excess of one billion on players, how they get a return on that is anybodies guess. 

If Idris stayed, if we got a forward of real calibre and Vigs had returned as was mooted on here I’d have said higher, much higher. None of that materialised and my judgement was we were weaker than last season and again lack true depth, not numbers but quality replacements.

We are where we are and like I keep saying, we won’t go down. You’ve been coming down Brisbane Rd far longer than I, my time as a young lad was Bloomfield and I think he’s the best we’ve had in my time. Richie I think is superb, I love his enthusiasm, his drive, his will to win, the directness of his words and his genuine love for what he does for a living. He’s gonna get it right and in time I do believe take us to the championship.

In Richie we trust. I’m on board and we go again. Stay positive.

Ok, I am sorry that I got it wrong, sorry about that. I think I was perhaps confusing it with comments you made last season. Agree with you about Jimmy Bloomfield, also my favourite manager and I loved the team in season 1969-79 that won the then third division. They played with great to watch attacking football with two out and out wingers and twin strikers Bullock and Fairbrother up front. There were no weaknesses in that side with some wonderful players in all positions including two wonderful young defenders in Tommy Taylor and Dennis Rofe.         

So many great games that season,our players were a joy to watch.Mark Lazarus and Micky Bullock,would love their like today.Hard to pick a favourite from that truly great team.

Interesting fact was that Jimmy inherited the defence (numbers 1-6) plus Barrie. But it was four forwards he bought in that made the difference, Bullock, Dyson, Lazarus and Brabrook. He may have played with or known of Bullock at Birmingham and played with Mickey's brother Peter, Lazarus at Brentford and Brabrook at the Hammers.