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Post by fredugly on Apr 11, 2014 20:31:28 GMT
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Post by sideshowrob on Apr 11, 2014 22:30:35 GMT
No need to apologise about the 'rubbish spelling'. However, the sentiments stink! Grow a backbone. Get some f*cking perspective, we are one point off a play off place!
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Post by aaronoxf on Apr 12, 2014 4:47:36 GMT
If you are falling out of love with the club now god knows what you would of geen like if you attended Droylsden away, you may have actually topped yourself
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 4:59:13 GMT
No need to apologise about the 'rubbish spelling'. However, the sentiments stink! Grow a backbone. Get some f*cking perspective, we are one point off a play off place! Harsh. I'm sure FU hasn't really fallen permanently out of love with OUFC, more likely a difficult patch. I certainly don't believe his statement that OUFC are no longer his club. He's not alone, clearly. We've been top 7 all year, yet the apathy in the support has been palpable and it's been like that for 2-3 years now. People are not as engaged as once they were. Christ, we didn't even sell out for Wycombe. There is significant dis-enfranchisement with the fan base. Had we had the the pre-Xmas start in the first year back in the FL, then I suspect we'd have been averaging eight thousand and we'd be flying. The failures and mistakes since that time have more than decimated the goodwill and positivity that promotion brought. That's why I believe that FU's account, while dramatic, is representative of many.
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Post by ox4eva on Apr 12, 2014 5:51:41 GMT
I sometimes feel hurt, sad, and down right depressed by the club
But i will ALWAYS love OUFC...
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Post by browny on Apr 12, 2014 6:04:01 GMT
Well we are all entitles to our opinion and mine is one of amazement. Yolu have falklen outr of love with your club because they are going through a bad patch
Sounds like someone of 10 talking about Man Utd. A football club is for life, its nmot comparable with a woman at any level
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Post by chinny on Apr 12, 2014 8:15:50 GMT
I sometimes feel hurt, sad, and down right depressed by the club But i will ALWAYS love OUFC... Nail on head Ox4eva. The whole management team on & off the pitch need to have a good look at themselves as they have failed us all. GW I feel sorry for I just want the season to end.
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Post by Colin B on Apr 12, 2014 8:29:26 GMT
I know exactly how he feels.
It's not about how good or bad we are, it's about the camaraderie, the sense of belonging, the fact that we always punched above our weight, the fact that even though we might have been shit I was proud to be an Oxford fan. They were my club and on my travels across the country, and beyond, I couldn't wait to tell people who I support, and defend them to the hilt if anybody tried to take the p*ss.
And it appeared this was reciprocated by the club. They respected us too.
It doesn't feel like that anymore though. We are divided, owned by someone who just doesn't seem to get it. We had a manager for five years who couldn't wait to have a pop at the fans. We play in a soulless dump, that we don't even own, and probably never will. The club keeps coming up with new ways to p*ss me, and others like me, off. I have found that this season I've attended less games than any season for as long as I remember. And I haven't missed it! That's the most damning thing of all. It feels almost like a relief not to have to suffer it week after week. I just don't think the club wants me, and my type.
They will always be my club, but at the moment our relationship is a platonic one, and we are not seeing each other, but cannot bring ourselves to see anyone else either.
PS: Although a good deal older than you, Mr Fred Ugly, I feel we must know each other, as the names you mention, and some of the events are familiar to me?
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Post by bazzer9461 on Apr 12, 2014 9:19:13 GMT
I remember Pompey away singing "is this a fire drill" and it was being sung last week against Fleetwood but that was towards our own supporters. Its a sad day when that happens, But those fans were pi**ed off cant blame them either.
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Post by cass63 on Apr 12, 2014 9:24:00 GMT
I think you're right when you say they don't want your type at the kassam any more Eric, I've felt like that for the last few seasons, I think they want a cut and polished PC type of fan up there and that sure ain't me .
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Post by sarge on Apr 12, 2014 9:29:24 GMT
email a copy of your blog to OUFC admininistration PR/communictions dept Fred' ..... they'll probably do nothing about it, BUT, as Oxford United supporters, we always live in hope
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Post by Colin B on Apr 12, 2014 9:31:12 GMT
I think you're right when you say they don't want your type at the kassam any more Eric, I've felt like that for the last few seasons, I think they want a cut and polished PC type of fan up there and that sure ain't me . That's exactly it. They want happy, clappy, yes men who don't ask any difficult questions and think top half of division four is acceptable!
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Post by fredugly on Apr 12, 2014 10:14:32 GMT
It's not I have found that this season I've attended less games than any season for as long as I remember. And I haven't missed it! That's the most damning thing of all. It feels almost like a relief not to have to suffer it week after week. That is spot on Eric! ( we might recognise each other, I was only ever on the fringe of things in late 90's early 00's but we defo have friends in common ) Of cause Oxford will always really be my club. I said as much in the last line of the blog but I'm fed up of having my heartbroken, of having Saturdays ruined by another poor result. I have to disengage from my own sanity. I know to some I'm not a "true fan" as I don't go to every game, don't have 1000's of posts on this forum and have never slept on a train station bench because I miss the last train home from a midweek away game. But how many "true fans" are there and what does being a "true fan" give you apart from an empty pock and hurt? why would you miss your kids birthday or your brothers wedding just to watch 11 men in yellow shirts hoof the ball for 90 in a shit hole like Newport? Something has gone wrong at the club. I want to trust I.L, but taking 8 weeks to find a manager and the shambles that was the shirt sponsorship was a joke! I want to trust in the youth but seeing the attitude and behavior of the youth and development squad at Kidlington the other night shattered any positive thoughts I had. I want to trust in the supporters groups but this stupid civil war and the fact they had the radical idea of asking the fans to make some noise at a football match has made them a laughing stock. I want to trust the players but some seem more interested in selling vitamin supplement that striving to become a good player. The only thing I really like at Oxford at the moment is James Constable, I know he cant score for sh*t at the moment but at least he loves the club and care about the fans. You know that losing hurts him the same way it hurts us. lets just hope he don't decide enough is enough. Basically I want to love oxford again but they are making it so very hard.
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Post by dabigfella on Apr 12, 2014 10:27:48 GMT
After well over 60 years supporting this club all the way up to the top and back down again to the bottom, and now partially on the way back up - It's now not only a habit but a way of life. I find it difficult to see things your way. Sad really.
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Post by stevegilbert on Apr 12, 2014 10:38:47 GMT
I too find it hard to relate to you FU. Not everything is rosie at the moment but things have been a whole lot worse in recent years. Maybe it's too dull for people as we are just bobbing along making small steps on and off the pitch to build a successful future for the club. Under FK it was at times a circus yet they weren't enjoyable days. Next season is a new chapter with a the club under a new manager who will bring in his own players. If anything this could be the most exciting pre season since getting out of the conference. No one has a clue which players will go and who will come in. There is still something to play for, i would rather that than being in 14th with nothing to play for.
On a final note, it took IL 4 weeks to find a new manager. He let ML have 4 weeks in the job to see if he could do it until end of the season.
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Post by bazzer9461 on Apr 12, 2014 10:44:54 GMT
It's not I have found that this season I've attended less games than any season for as long as I remember. And I haven't missed it! That's the most damning thing of all. It feels almost like a relief not to have to suffer it week after week. That is spot on Eric! ( we might recognise each other, I was only ever on the fringe of things in late 90's early 00's but we defo have friends in common ) Of cause Oxford will always really be my club. I said as much in the last line of the blog but I'm fed up of having my heartbroken, of having Saturdays ruined by another poor result. I have to disengage from my own sanity. I know to some I'm not a "true fan" as I don't go to every game, don't have 1000's of posts on this forum and have never slept on a train station bench because I miss the last train home from a midweek away game. But how many "true fans" are there and what does being a "true fan" give you apart from an empty pock and hurt? why would you miss your kids birthday or your brothers wedding just to watch 11 men in yellow shirts hoof the ball for 90 in a shit hole like Newport? Something has gone wrong at the club. I want to trust I.L, but taking 8 weeks to find a manager and the shambles that was the shirt sponsorship was a joke!
I want to trust in the youth but seeing the attitude and behavior of the youth and development squad at Kidlington the other night shattered any positive thoughts I had. I want to trust in the supporters groups but this stupid civil war and the fact they had the radical idea of asking the fans to make some noise at a football match has made them a laughing stock. I want to trust the players but some seem more interested in selling vitamin supplement that striving to become a good player. The only thing I really like at Oxford at the moment is James Constable, I know he cant score for sh*t at the moment but at least he loves the club and care about the fans. You know that losing hurts him the same way it hurts us. lets just hope he don't decide enough is enough. Basically I want to love oxford again but they are making it so very hard. That has summed up the feelings of a lot of fans.
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Post by gottagetbetta on Apr 12, 2014 10:47:59 GMT
I love the present Mrs G dearly. However, there are times whenI don't LIKE her very much! Its the same with me and OUFC at the moment. Always love them, but my God they are trying my patience and loyalty to the utmost!
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Post by unification on Apr 12, 2014 11:05:48 GMT
I wouldn't call it falling out of love exactly, but a general malaise and boredom with Oxford has struck me the last few weeks. I attended the Chesterfield and Southend games where we deserved to be beaten by more than the six combined goals that were put past us and I decided that I wasn't going to attend any more matches this season. We looked tired, slow, uninterested and like we just didn't want to be there and I was feeling the same. I wasn't getting any enjoyment from it, so I thought what's the point?
That's not to say that I don't love Oxford though! I'm happy to have a rest from the emotional attachment for a bit and watch MOTD where I have no loyalties and can cheer, laugh and applaud the game without caring of the outcome. When it comes to Oxford, turning off the hop and expectation is a lot harder although I fully expected a defeat last weekend and I really think the best we can hope for this afternoon is 0-0.
Sad really but our position is and has been a false one. The season has lacked interest despite our often good position and when we entered 2014, we all knew what was going to happen. Rallying at the end of the season after a slow start is so much more fun than flying out the blocks and lamely trying to hold onto a play-off place like we have in recent years.
I'm hoping for better next season. With fewer fans through the gate, more inevitable cost-cutting, a further season of an unwanted bedfellow in London Welsh sharing and ruining the pitch at a stadium we don't own and with even fewer facilities around the ground, it's going to be hard though.
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Post by sarge on Apr 12, 2014 11:19:20 GMT
I love the present Mrs G dearly. However, there are times whenI don't LIKE her very much! Its the same with me and OUFC at the moment. Always love them, but my God they are trying my patience and loyalty to the utmost! ...well put gottagetbetta
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 12, 2014 13:25:20 GMT
I skimmed the blog post, but agree with a lot of the sentiments in it. I have never been 'a lad' but the togetherness of everyone back in The Manor days is unlike anything you get today. The club has changed and not for the better. There are factions in the fanbase squabbling amongst themselves over petty personal differences, the club has become distant, the pre-match has eroded away to nothing, The Priory was the last hurrah before being culled. There is no sense of identity at the ground. The Yellow Army have a good go at getting some of the fun back but I fear it is a losing battle.
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Post by egox on Apr 12, 2014 13:26:51 GMT
I understand your sentiment and can relate to a lot of what you have written, however, supporting/watching is more of a habit than anything else. Saturday...oxford are at home....I go to the game. It's just part of my routine. By coincidence I was talking to a fellow U this morning about this subject and he said exactly the same. We talked about how poor we are at the moment but that we would both be there to watch next season. Like me...it's part of his routine as well. I have other mates that I sit with at games that feel the same. The only time I don't/can't attend is because I am looking after my two young boys on a Saturday because my wife is working....other than that I make the 23 mile trip from Berkshire to the Kassam for every home game as part of my normal weekly routine. Of course you can break a habit....but I hope I never do. I fully expect us to lose the rest of our games this season but will still live the club just the same. It's in my blood. Of course everybody is entitled to their own opinion and does not need to justify them to anyone.
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Post by hobooxy2 (RIP) on Apr 12, 2014 16:59:36 GMT
I think you're right when you say they don't want your type at the kassam any more Eric, I've felt like that for the last few seasons, I think they want a cut and polished PC type of fan up there and that sure ain't me . That's exactly it. They want happy, clappy, yes men who don't ask any difficult questions and think top half of division four is acceptable! That sounds like the last job interview i went for
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Post by foley on Apr 12, 2014 17:15:06 GMT
A shame really.
There are some positives about the club. For the first time for what 10 years plus we have young players coming through - some from the Oxford area. Bevans and Ruffels have played a lot of games this season and it sounds like COD did well today. Add in Long, Ashby and Roberts and the future looks pretty bright.
I didn't go today but from RO it sounds like GW will want a more adventurous and entertaining team.
The Youth team look like they won't do it this season but were close to winning the league two years in a row. And they beat Cardiff(?) in the Youth Cup.
Oh and as an aside we are in the play off positions with 4 games to go. Win our two home games and we could even be there.
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Post by aaronoxf on Apr 12, 2014 18:02:46 GMT
I dont love my team because they're good...bad or indifferent I love them because they are mine.
Ive shared laughter, joy, tears, hurt, jubilation, anguish and resentment but I will certainly never fall out of love with them.
Ill be there today, tomorrow and way into the next millennium, ill be there in the premiership, the conference, skrill south/north, ryman whatever
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Post by fredugly on Apr 18, 2014 21:48:17 GMT
Oxford...just like the ex girlfriend. Last week promising they would treat you better and not let you down again then a week later you find out it was all lies and they have got off with your best mate!
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Post by Eaststandboy on Apr 18, 2014 22:18:02 GMT
Oxford...just like the ex girlfriend. Last week promising they would treat you better and not let you down again then a week later you find out it was all lies and they have got off with your best mate! Sounds like we need to get a therapist on here! Sent from my GT-I9505 using proboards
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Post by East Challow Yellow on Apr 18, 2014 22:32:08 GMT
f*ck me someone get the Sinead O'Connor LP on and pass the bloke a sharp knife.
Get.a.grip!
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Post by m on Apr 18, 2014 22:38:21 GMT
Apathy.
That's what kills yer.
Yes, we've been in far worse positions than we are now, but the fact is that I walked away from the game today not really giving a toss that we'd lost.
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Post by horseman on Apr 18, 2014 23:16:57 GMT
I said a long time ago that the days of people just turning up for football had long gone, many are going through hard times and the leisure pound when once a given is now a rare treat to be spent wisely...This has been my first full season back for various reasons (out the country etc) for a few years now and it has been a very painful experience, the product on the pitch has been dull, boring and in the main very negative. I had persuaded my wife and daughter to come along this season but when recently the club adopted a take it or leave it attitude to a simple enquiry made my wife decided she would rather spend the money elsewhere. So whilst i have been seeing out the last few remaining home games she and my daughter have stayed in the bowplex or soft play area. Off the pitch we are told it's your Oxford United but when there was a great opportunity to give a little back to the long suffering fans via the Charlton game and show some goodwill + encourage old and new fans to attend they scored a massive own goal by trying to rinse every pound possible from our pockets...They and only they believed Charlton to be a big attraction yet if they truly believed this why did they close the North Stand. Now the time has come again to think of the fans as it's season ticket buying time, we are hearing parents relate how they are being asked to pay £160 odd quid for a child when this was little more than £50 previously, despite the very poor fare served up all season most fans are expected to pay more next season and you have to wonder who makes these kind of decisions.Your Oxford United ? no it has not felt like it i'm afraid. I travel over 100 miles round trip, i have been a fan since my dad first took me when i was 5 (nigh on 50 years) yet i feel less and less motivated as each game passed and another approached, whatever happened to our football club.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 8:10:17 GMT
As you get older you get less motivated. Weather feels cold at times. I do a 100 mile round trip too, would have gone yesterday and paid for ticket too, but somewhere down the line had a dodgy meal. But I still believe we can do it
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