Chairboys! Your club need you!!
Wycombe might currently sit at the foot of the League One table, but I'm convinced that they can still survive in the division.
I'm back at Adams Park tomorrow and have seen a few of their highs and lows this season and - as with any club in their position - a few of the fans are starting to get nervous, but I would suggest that the majority out-shout the negative few in support of the team.
Last season I was unfortunate enough to see both Swindon and Bristol Rovers drop into League Two and I still maintain that the way the fans turned on the teams had a big part to play in their respective relegations.
I spoke to players from both clubs who questioned the point of busting a gut for people who scream abuse at you rather than encouragement. In situations like that - or the one faced by Wycombe now - it's important that everyone pulls together to turn around the club's fortunes.
Let's not forget that at the start of the season most reasonable Chairboys fans would have taken a fifth from bottom finish and survival to fight again with marginally improved finances. Nothing has changed.
Don't forget either that the man who won the club promotion (and they weren't the League Two favourites by any means) is still in charge and hasn't lost the plot overnight. The players are a decent hard working bunch and - aside from the clueless show against Huddersfield and the impressive Jordan Rhodes - can't be attacked for lack of effort.
I saw Walsall on Tuesday and aside from three youngsters, they looked disinterested. That's not been the case when I've seen Wycombe play this season.
I've always found the set up at Wycombe to be one of the more appealing ones in football. There is a good hospitable atmosphere about the place, but the one thing it does often lack is the vocal, noisy passion you get at some other grounds and that's precisely what the players need to hear right now - but with them rather than against them.
It's still fairly tight at the bottom of the table and a win tomorrow against an in form Tranmere side will drag them back into the mix and make for an interesting run in.
Well said Jeff!
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