KR and the management team must be pulling their hair out. Ok it was a slow start but by the 60th minute the game plan was back on track, the game was there to be won and there was only one winner, just needed to be careful not to concede any silly set pieces and WW only got into our penalty area once in the 2nd half and scored. Losing the game and losing the huge opportunity is going to take a lot of getting over.
Sadly we can't get going quick enough, we started the season at snail pace and gave away too many silly points in the first 6 or 7 games. And we couldn't get going after lockdown again, the strong pressing to win the ball back high up the pitch and the team ethic just wasn't there like it was at the end of February. After the painful watch against Portsmouth it was clear the legs weren't there yet, it was just too much to expect a lower league footballing side to have enough footballing creativity and ability to overcome a side that just hoofed the ball as far as they could, playing the percentage game to keep the ball away from their goal and hoping for defensive mistakes. But those tactics were absolutely perfect for the post lockdown play offs. If play offs were played in May after the end of the regular season there is no way Wycombe would have won against fresh match fit teams with continuity and momentum. It is what it is though, Wycombe played to their strengths at a time when the circumstances didn't allow us to be at our most potent. But we still should have had it won. Henry is going to have nightmares for weeks to come, it's going to go down as one of those horrible moments in the history of OUFC (Duffy v Exeter clean through but decides to give the keeper a pass back is another recent one that springs to mind if over 11 years ago is counted as recent).
Sykes and Agyie could be huge players for us next season. Whether we have anyone else around them remains to be seen. Hopefully at least one of the youngsters will step up and come through. But it is going to take a while to get over this one. With finances limited the TV promotion money is a massive loss now.