Summer News Roundup #37
New Players
The club has been trumpeting the arrival of a seemingly endless list of journeymen to the club. Some of them may be up to scratch but the Wycombe way is to herald all of these players as saviours for three minutes, then to start destroying them before they've even kicked a ball. One man to escape this fate so far is rangy striker John Sutton. Brother of Chris, which is in fact his middle name, he comes to the club as a genuine transfer coup, or so they say. But does anyone else have the feeling that scoring 11 times for St Mirren in a league as bad as the SPL is not really that impressive? This was a division in which Henrik Larsson used to rack up 39 goals before the August Bank Holiday.
Still, he's on youtube, he's white and he hasn't played yet so the Drone Army are yet to savage him like a dog eating a chump chop.
Old Staff
The news that Steve Brown, Keith Ryan and John Granville were all being booted out of the club was a sad moment. No-one begrudges Paul Lambert the opportunity to shape the staff as he wants but the way that the news about the trio was handled was appalling. The club maintain it is for financial reasons but this blatant spin has generally been coughed back in their puffed-up faces by the fans. Ryan in particular, made many financial sacrifices for the club in his playing career, and now is officially being let go so that we can waste money on facepainting tents and Keith Blagbrough's long-held dream of a seven-course lunch.
These men were all heroes and they should depart knowing that they will always be remembered by Wycombe fans, long after the club sign their 4000th loan player of the 21st Century.
The club has been trumpeting the arrival of a seemingly endless list of journeymen to the club. Some of them may be up to scratch but the Wycombe way is to herald all of these players as saviours for three minutes, then to start destroying them before they've even kicked a ball. One man to escape this fate so far is rangy striker John Sutton. Brother of Chris, which is in fact his middle name, he comes to the club as a genuine transfer coup, or so they say. But does anyone else have the feeling that scoring 11 times for St Mirren in a league as bad as the SPL is not really that impressive? This was a division in which Henrik Larsson used to rack up 39 goals before the August Bank Holiday.
Still, he's on youtube, he's white and he hasn't played yet so the Drone Army are yet to savage him like a dog eating a chump chop.
Old Staff
The news that Steve Brown, Keith Ryan and John Granville were all being booted out of the club was a sad moment. No-one begrudges Paul Lambert the opportunity to shape the staff as he wants but the way that the news about the trio was handled was appalling. The club maintain it is for financial reasons but this blatant spin has generally been coughed back in their puffed-up faces by the fans. Ryan in particular, made many financial sacrifices for the club in his playing career, and now is officially being let go so that we can waste money on facepainting tents and Keith Blagbrough's long-held dream of a seven-course lunch.
These men were all heroes and they should depart knowing that they will always be remembered by Wycombe fans, long after the club sign their 4000th loan player of the 21st Century.
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