Jack Deasley

Means a lot mate, I always ask myself what you’d think before I speak!

📻 Amazing to be back behind the mic for the best football club on the planet.

Player Ratings: Reading 3-2 Wycombe Wycombe's playoff push hit a wall as a Jack Marriott hat-trick proved decisive in Berkshire

An ultimately unsuccessful trip to Berkshire on Saturday, but with plenty of positives to take into the back-end of this season. Some pre-Exeter reading...

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You’re right, defensively we look fantastic, though I think it almost stops me from forming an opinion on Norris. He’s not done anything silly since Luton, really - and he could have easily lost his way - but at the same time, do I trust him if not for an amazing backline? I don’t know yet

Agree, think he’s been liable to a couple of defensive mistakes lately (most of which he’s managed to get away with), but I think he’s excellent going forwards

Player Ratings: Wycombe 4-0 Doncaster Homecoming hero Aaron Morley scores on his second debut as Wycombe cruise past a hapless Doncaster at Adams Park

My favourite afternoon watching Wycombe in some time, and a real statement of intent as we go into the last few months of a turbulent season. Some thoughts...

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Thanks mate, very kind!

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Utter privilege and honour to be on the mic at Wycombe on Saturday. I spent a good ten years often having to listen on the radio from Lincolnshire, so it’s an amazing feeling to be on the other end of it. Thanks so much to Matt Cecil and Luke Ashmead for making it happen.

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This should be good! A niche angle on private schools moving into the state sector. Always an interesting discussion with PEPF and the report has been written by some great people, so I’m excited to read it

Agree. I think Duff rates Mullins highly but we need to get into a rhythm of him being able to dominate the ball. Think Doncaster is a good opportunity to experiment with the system again. Also wonder what role Vidigal will play

Eight years? Eight?!

AZZA'S BACK! Mansfield 0-0 Wycombe A big week for Wycombe didn't end with its fairytale potential, but it was a solid point on the road against the in-form Stags

It may have been a 0-0 on Saturday, but waxing lyrical about Aaron Morley’s return was incredibly fun. Also shoutout to my younger brother, who is stitching together a little unbeaten run in the games he’s joined me for.

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Yeah, I agree with you and think that’s why we’ve not seen him start as much as we might otherwise. Think last night probably obscured those shortcomings by nature of the game and that Wigan just aren’t that good

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Player Ratings: Wycombe 2-0 Wigan Athletic Wycombe return to winning ways after cruising past lowly Wigan; their first midweek win at Adams Park since March last year.

A much happier read today after Wycombe's win over Wigan last night. Hopefully this offers a measured yet positive reaction going into the end of January...

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Thanks!

Thanks Richard! Yeah, just agonising, right?! Let’s hope for a different outcome tonight…

Player Ratings: Wycombe 0-2 Peterborough The Chairboys tasted defeat for the first time since Boxing Day at the hands of a clinical Peterborough.

If anyone fancies some pre-Wigan reading, here are my thoughts on Saturday afternoon's game at AP. Will try to keep it up as a way of adding more Wycombe content to BlueSky...

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Comprehensive Future on BlueSky!

Player Ratings: Northampton 1-2 Wycombe Wycombe make it two wins from two in League One with just their second win on the road this season; a first since October.

With view to the minimal Wycombe content on BlueSky, and my boundless love for Fred Onyedinma, here are some thoughts on a first away win since October for the Chairboys:

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Macclesfield Town's demise was signposted but that doesn't make it less painful | John Brewin After 146 years a winding-up order means oblivion beckons for club that defied odds but was often a misstep from the brink

What about the EFL Owners and Directors Test and its historic failings? The chokehold the Premier League has the EFL in? The disproportionate power dynamics that favour external investors who have little stake in the long-term security of football clubs?

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This from Gab Sutton! Can't help but feel that there was an elephant in the room when mainstream media outlets reported on Macc's win over Palace. They all ignored the failures of the EFL, Premier League, and structure of football finances that mean they're in non-league in the first place.

Yeah, let's hope so. A good idea to ping Matt an email I think, especially in a moment when there's another influx of movement across from Twitter. Hopefully engagement & even that starter pack will help convince them - feel free to add my name to it!

Thanks for making the account! Hoping that the club might pick the official account back up again sometime. Shame there's been such little demand, though I guess the same could probably be said for most BlueSky audiences.

Well worth a read. And when we're talking about reforms, answers are so tough in part because, as John says, 'spending cuts usually end up making things much more expensive'

Farage’s Heartland: the County Turning Against Westminster | Novara Media Novara Media’s Harriet Williamson travelled across Lincolnshire to find out why her home county has become a Reform heartland – and whether its people are being overlooked by media and Westminster eli...

Great report about Lincs. The message from this has to be that people are hurt from a lack of investment in infrastructure & opportunity and an absence of understanding or care from Westminster. There's no poverty of identity or ambition - we've just been forgotten.

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Obvs the main point is celebrating multiculturalism and progressivism, undeniably a huge success. But eg warning the govt to not adopt tax policies that 'drive away the wealthy' actively reinforces its socio-econ superiority - at the expense of the rest of the country, much of which is on its knees

He's right: London is unfairly scapegoated by exploitative far-right politicians. But I can't help but feel like talking about its state as a business/financial centre etc. in this way obscures the extent of and reasons for regional inequality that gives populism so much of its traction

Interestingly, even The Times can't provide an explanation in this piece of why trail hunting 'addresses the countryside's needs' and nor does it deny what trail hunting's opponents claim: that the practice is often a cover for illegal fox hunting.