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Saturday August 2 15.00k-o Ticket Prices: Adults; £10 Concessions; Students and Senior Citizens - £5, Under-16's - £1. (All prices include a free matchday magazine.)
Mildenhall should be fit to start in goal but Ian, "There's a great bunch of boys here who play nothing but great football. That's a club I want to be a part of," Joyce, must have talked himself into a half!
The interesting thing about the back four will be who starts at left back, maybe a mystery trailist, there are rumours of sightings of a new face at the training ground? Please, not Francis again or does the ex-Carlton boy Sankofa use his left foot just to stand on?
Bailey and The Mooose will have another chance to get to know each other better. Anthony Grant was not included in the named squad for the final friendly.
Latest news from the officials site is that Barnard and Scannell took part in light training today and will take part in the match at some stage.
The thing to look for will be how the lads line up, I'm still hoping the whole diamond thing is a wind-up but probably not. The game will certainly tell us how T&B want us too play against Peterborough if not the actual personal that end up doing it.
Sadly Lewis Hunt is injured so will not start against his former club and ex-Farmer and Northampton top scorer Scott McGleish is also out. However, up to six new Spud signings should spend at least an hour on the pitch giving a reason for the home support to turn up.
Could be a reasonable crowd, TLG will be there with a full report up as soon as we can.
The Ground
The club has a relaxed friendly feel about it. The ground is situated in a nice setting with a wooded hill over looking the ground (this normally has a small contingent of supporters watching the game for nothing) and with green fields surrounding the other sides. As the local council have stipulated that the capacity of Adams Park cannot rise above 10,000, again, not really anything we have to worry about here, the additional seats have meant that certain areas of terracing, such as the paddock area of the Seymour Taylor Stand, have been made 'out of bounds' to fans'. The ground is currently shared with Wasps Rugby Club.
The Car
There is a fair sized car park located at the ground which costs £3 per car, or some of the industrial units provide match day parking (also at around £3). As there is only one road that leads from the stadium, it can be a nightmare leaving the official car park at full time. Therefore it may be best to park in one of the industrial units that line Hillbottom Road towards the ground.
The Train
Catch a train on the Southend Victoria line to Liverpool Street, I recommend the 10.26 or 10.46 from Southend, then the Metropolitan Line to Edgware Road, a five minute walk back to Marylebone station and catch the 12.20 or 12.53 for the half hour journey to High Wycombe.
Fairly regular service back to London but if you want to get back relatively early than go for the 17.34 that will get you back to Southend at 20.11 all for a cheap day return costing £25.30, £14.30 if you travel directly from London.
The Pub
The Hourglass Pub, recommended, and a 15 minute walk to the ground.
144, Chapel Lane, Sands.
The History
In 1985 they were promoted to the Football Conference (then the Gola League), and though they only lasted one season they were promoted again at the first attempt. Two important changes occurred in 1990: the Chairboys left Loakes Park for a new home at Adams Park, and Martin O'Neill was appointed manager. Under O'Neill they won the FA Trophy twice and were eventually promoted to The Football League in 1993 following a bad-tempered campaign alongside Roy McDonough's Colchester side in 1991-92. They were an immediate success in the League, winning promotion in their first season, beating Preston in the play-off final at Wembley and then narrowly missing out on the Division Two playoffs in their second due to number changes caused by the introduction of the FA Premier League.
Martin O'Neill left the club for what would turn out to be a short tenure at Norwich in 1995, and the side became, at best, mid-table performers in Division Two. The club tasted more success under the guidance of Lawrie Sanchez as they enjoyed an epic FA Cup run in 2000-01 which saw them reach the semi-final where they were beaten by Liverpool 2-1 at Villa Park, Keith Ryan scoring the Chairboys' goal. At the begining of this season the club purchased a lucky charm, a red Indian 'Comanche' that was spotted on the way back from the last game of the previous season at Lincoln. The 5ft wooden statue was painted in Wycombe colours and remained at the club for a number of years. It was put on the centre circle before home matches at Adams Park. It is now believed to reside in Scotland. However, Sanchez was sacked just a few months into the 2003-04 season after a terrible start that saw the club near the bottom of the table. His successor was former Arsenal and England defender Tony Adams but he was unable to save Wycombe's season and they were relegated in 2004, joining Football League Two for its first season under that name.
Their first season in League Two saw a change of manager as John Gorman took charge of the club after a brief spell as caretaker manager the previous season. Wycombe finished the season in 10th place. However, a 21-match unbeaten start to the 2005-06 campaign saw them lead the division for a considerable amount of time.
During the second half of the season, the club was rocked by two setbacks. On the 14 January 2006, whilst a match against Notts County was in progress, 21 year old midfielder Mark Philo, who had made 19 appearances for the club, died in hospital after a car crash the previous night. His manager, John Gorman, paid tribute to him by saying, "He was a fantastic kid. He lived for football and always had a smile on his face." Just a few weeks later, Gorman's wife Myra died after a long illness, leading to him taking a period of compassionate leave away from the club.
Around this time Wycombe went on a six-match losing run, seeing them drop out of the automatic promotion challenge, finishing in 6th. They were eventually defeated 2-1 on aggregate by Cheltenham Town in the play-off semi-finals. It was later announced that Gorman had been relieved of his duties as the club's manager as the Wycombe board did not believe that he was in the right condition to manage the club (he then took up the vacant position at Northampton Town a few days later). After a five-week search, the club announced that the former Celtic captain Paul Lambert was to be the new manager having ended a managerial spell at Livingston that season.
The 2006-07 season began well with Wanderers winning 11 of their first 22 games and progressing into the Semi-Finals of the Carling Cup beating teams including Fulham and Charlton Athletic of the FA Premiership -- the first time the club has lasted past the Second Round of the League Cup competition and the first time a team from the bottom tier has reached that stage since Chester City F.C. in the 1974-75 season. This gives Wycombe the distinction of being the only club to make it to at least the semi final of the major Professional and Amateur cups. The team also defeated local rivals Oxford United in the FA Cup, but lost to Stockport County in the second round.
On December 19, 2006, they reached the semi-finals of the Carling Cup after winning away to Charlton Athletic 1-0, with 4,500 Blues fans making the journey. They were drawn against Chelsea, and heroically held the champions to a 1-1 draw at Adams Park in the first leg. Unfortunately for the Wanderers, in the return leg on January 23, 2007, Chelsea won 4-0 at Stamford Bridge to win 5-1 on aggregate.
Whilst undoubtedly a heroic achievement, the cup run, along with injuries to key players, contributed to a falling away of league form. For the second successive season, the club's promotion challenge faltered, and a run of eleven League games without a win (and four straight defeats) at the end of the season meant that Wanderers could only finish in 12th place.
The summer saw a considerable rebuilding of the playing squad, and Wycombe started the 2007-08 season with eleven new signings. Early form was inconsistent as the new players took time to settle - progress in the League was steady rather than spectacular, and the club went out of all the Cup competitions at the first hurdle. In addition, the leading goalscorer from the previous season, Jermaine Easter, became unsettled at the club, and was eventually sold to Plymouth Argyle for an initial fee of £210,000.
The turning point was a 6-0 reverse at Stockport County in December. Following this, the club put together a run of four successive League wins, and climbed into the play-off positions on Boxing Day. A more consistent second half of the season saw the play-off position maintained, and Wanderers came up against Stockport County again in the semi-finals at the end of the season. A 1-1 draw in a tense and physical first leg at Adams Park was followed by a narrow and unfortunate 1-0 defeat at Edgeley Park, to end the club's hopes of promotion for another season.
Three days after the play-off defeat, it was announced that Paul Lambert had resigned from his position as manager, stating that "the time has come for me to move on". At a press conference on May 29, 2008 our former winger, manager and living legend, Spud Taylor was announced as Wycombe's new manager.
They hate the Farmers!
Wycombe's main rivals are considered to be The Farmers! Whilst not a local rivalry, there is a history between the two clubs going back to the 1985/86 season, when Wycombe, then a non-league club, defeated Colchester 2-0 in an FA Cup tie marred by crowd trouble at Loakes Park.
Colchester and Wycombe were also involved in a two-horse race for the Conference title throughout the 1991/92 season, during which Colchester defeated Wycombe 2-1 at Adams Park with an injury-time wind-assisted winner from their goalkeeper, Scott Barrett.
Another controversial meeting was during the 1998/99 season. Relegation-threatened Wycombe were leading Colchester 2-1 at Adams Park until the ninth minute of stoppage time, when Colchester were awarded, and converted, an equalising penalty.
Cue "we all hate Col Ewe" mass singing around the ground.
We'll all mates here
I'm sure I've seen that bloke next to me before.
Tilly and Spud are good mates since Taylor picked Tilly many times between 1993 and 1995 as well as asking him to join his England Under 21 squad to help with training.
Spud evenually being sacked by the club, or he was asked to take a break for health reasons, which means it's a very long illness, in 1995, just before a 3-3 draw with Reading I believe.