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Post by Gary Baldi on Sept 16, 2017 16:15:38 GMT
Some prams don't have any toys, bedding or blankets left in them. Calm down people...
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Post by williammuir (banned) on Sept 16, 2017 16:18:29 GMT
f*ck sake damb it/
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Post by greatunclekip on Sept 16, 2017 16:20:34 GMT
1 win in our last 6 league games, just not good enough. And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that.
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Post by oxfordboy on Sept 16, 2017 16:24:51 GMT
2 very big games coming up for us, I won't go as far as to say we need to win both, but anything less than 6 points in our next 3 and we're going to have lost some serious ground and be in some really bad form.
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Post by MJB on Sept 16, 2017 16:25:23 GMT
1 win in our last 6 league games, just not good enough. And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that. Last three games show a win, loss and a draw. Pretty much as many would have expected in terms of consistency given the amount of turmoil.
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Post by bigfella72 on Sept 16, 2017 16:25:59 GMT
has anyone else noticed that our dip in form co-incided with Ruffels being benched? two right-footed CMs doesn't work. Think ruffels & ledson for away games and rothwell & ledson at home could be the way to go
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Post by ioualways on Sept 16, 2017 16:26:06 GMT
No...everyone says you're being negative because that's all you ever come out with--that we're "not very good" "going to lose by 5", basically "a pig", and when we play extremely well and really should have beaten Bradford (yes, a little more time-wasting would have worked wonders for us) you have nothing to say. That's why you're viewed as being negative. I think we'd all like it much better if you'd take your username seriously and take a kip during the games, and spare us your unending negativity.
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Post by oufcyellows on Sept 16, 2017 16:27:31 GMT
1 win in our last 6 league games, just not good enough. And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that. And what we're you seriously f*cking expecting when we've changed the manager, lost several key players and replace half a squad. This season was always going to be an adjustment, why not accept it for that rather than moan at every bloody loss. First 30 mins on Tuesday was some of the best football I have seen oufc play in 30 years. So long as we keep playing like that, and not some boring hoof ball I'll be happy and we will have more than enough to stay up and hopefully build for a serious challenge next season spending in the areas we're lacking
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Post by greatunclekip on Sept 16, 2017 16:29:47 GMT
No...everyone says you're being negative because that's all you ever come out with--that we're "not very good" "going to lose by 5", basically "a pig", and when we play extremely well and really should have beaten Bradford (yes, a little more time-wasting would have worked wonders for us) you have nothing to say. That's why you're viewed as being negative. I think we'd all like it much better if you'd take your username seriously and take a kip during the games, and spare us your unending negativity. I say what i see. If we were winning every week and top of the league id be the happiest man in the world. Were not. Weve been pasted by Blackpool in an appalling performance. Hence im somewhat less happy..
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Post by greatunclekip on Sept 16, 2017 16:33:04 GMT
And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that. And what we're you seriously f*cking expecting when we've changed the manager, lost several key players and replace half a squad. This season was always going to be an adjustment, why not accept it for that rather than moan at every bloody loss. First 30 mins on Tuesday was some of the best football I have seen oufc play in 30 years. So long as we keep playing like that, and not some boring good ball I'll be happy and we will have more than enough to stay up and hopefully build for a serious challenge next season spending in the areas we're lacking Its exactly what i was expecting. I thought we would be a poor to average team and we are just that. Whoopie do for 30 mins of lovely football. We got 1 point. Today we played 90 minutws of shite and got nothing. Just to put it out there, we made Kyle Vassell look like Pele. Good teams dont do that.
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Post by oufcyellows on Sept 16, 2017 16:34:05 GMT
No...everyone says you're being negative because that's all you ever come out with--that we're "not very good" "going to lose by 5", basically "a pig", and when we play extremely well and really should have beaten Bradford (yes, a little more time-wasting would have worked wonders for us) you have nothing to say. That's why you're viewed as being negative. I think we'd all like it much better if you'd take your username seriously and take a kip during the games, and spare us your unending negativity. I say what i see. If we were winning every week and top of the league id be the happiest man in the world. Were not. Weve been pasted by Blackpool in an appalling performance. Hence im somewhat less happy.. We're u there ? I wasn't and I don't feel I can comment on the performance without seeing it? Did u even go Tuesday or do u just like a good f*cking moan? I guarantee u phone into radio oxford
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Post by tank on Sept 16, 2017 16:34:34 GMT
All that way to watch a totally spineles shot shy performance. There was hardly any threat to the Blackpool goal the whole game.
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Post by ioualways on Sept 16, 2017 16:34:44 GMT
No...everyone says you're being negative because that's all you ever come out with--that we're "not very good" "going to lose by 5", basically "a pig", and when we play extremely well and really should have beaten Bradford (yes, a little more time-wasting would have worked wonders for us) you have nothing to say. That's why you're viewed as being negative. I think we'd all like it much better if you'd take your username seriously and take a kip during the games, and spare us your unending negativity. I say what i see. If we were winning every week and top of the league id be the happiest man in the world. Were not. Weve been pasted by Blackpool in an appalling performance. Hence im somewhat less happy.. No you don't. If you did, you'd have written something positive after our victory, and done so as well during much of the Bradford game. Or, if you really do say what you see, you need new glasses.
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Post by TheNewManor on Sept 16, 2017 16:35:38 GMT
Good to hear out experienced heads talk on Radio Ox after the game. We'll grow as a group, it's just a question of not loosing to much ground before we get there. Lets hope a week on the training ground will give us time to go again with improvement against Walsall.
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Post by dubaiyellow on Sept 16, 2017 16:37:09 GMT
At least Pep agrees it was a bad day at the office. Thomas substitution was tactical. We were 2 down at that point but in fairness to him (Thomas) he was no worse than any of the other players at that point. Army camp bonding in the week apparently for the players.
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Post by Pete Burrett on Sept 16, 2017 16:37:18 GMT
Oh dear Great Uncle Kip! Claiming you 'say what you see' and that makes your actions acceptable is childish b*llshit. There is no balance in your posts. You get some sort of kick out of sniping at Oxford when we have an off day, but are absent and offer no praise when we do well. That is the definition of 'trolling': you do it to get a reaction, and we oblige. Hope you're proud of yourself.
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Post by greatunclekip on Sept 16, 2017 16:39:48 GMT
I say what i see. If we were winning every week and top of the league id be the happiest man in the world. Were not. Weve been pasted by Blackpool in an appalling performance. Hence im somewhat less happy.. We're u there ? I wasn't and I don't feel I can comment on the performance without seeing it? Did u even go Tuesday or do u just like a good f*cking moan? I guarantee u phone into radio oxford Absolute die hard oxford mailer who travels the length and breadth of our nation watching our beloved boys in yellow playing their special brand of tippy tappy that makes some peoples pants moist but gets few points. And ive never phoned Radox in my life. I dont even listen to it. Im a "Mix96" chap.
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Post by oufcyellows on Sept 16, 2017 16:44:22 GMT
We're u there ? I wasn't and I don't feel I can comment on the performance without seeing it? Did u even go Tuesday or do u just like a good f*cking moan? I guarantee u phone into radio oxford Absolute die hard oxford mailer who travels the length and breadth of our nation watching our beloved boys in yellow playing their special brand of tippy tappy that makes some peoples pants moist but gets few points. And ive never phoned Radox in my life. I dont even listen to it. Im a "Mix96" chap. Why bother when we're as bad as u say we are ? U must either love being miserable, or get pleasure in trying to make others miserable. Again did u go today? I'd be happy to give u a little more leeway if you have spent money and time traveling and feel a little short changed. But to be honest you seem a negative miserable bastard what ever the score 😉
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Post by middlebartonyellow on Sept 16, 2017 16:59:31 GMT
Still a work in progress I think. Not surprised either with the turnover of players that we seem to do every season. Seem to remember that last season it took us half a season to get going.
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Post by littlemore on Sept 16, 2017 17:01:36 GMT
Positives are Obika is due back next weekend and Mehmeti should also be ready. Been a bit short of options up top so that will help.
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Post by osleroad on Sept 16, 2017 17:10:28 GMT
Positives are Obika is due back next weekend and the Algerian striker should also be ready. Been a bit short of options up top so that will help. Algerian just as interesting but Albanian
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Post by williammuir (banned) on Sept 16, 2017 17:13:25 GMT
just poor can't quite understand why we are so inconsistent at the moment we need a win next game
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Post by blox21 on Sept 16, 2017 17:14:03 GMT
We're u there ? I wasn't and I don't feel I can comment on the performance without seeing it? Did u even go Tuesday or do u just like a good f*cking moan? I guarantee u phone into radio oxford Absolute die hard oxford mailer who travels the length and breadth of our nation watching our beloved boys in yellow playing their special brand of tippy tappy that makes some peoples pants moist but gets few points. And ive never phoned Radox in my life. I dont even listen to it. Im a "Mix96" chap. " mix96" says it all .
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Post by gingerox on Sept 16, 2017 17:17:25 GMT
0-0 Oxford miss a hatful of chances. Forum goes into meltdown over a lack of a 20 goal a season striker. Pretty close
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Post by littlemore on Sept 16, 2017 17:17:38 GMT
Positives are Obika is due back next weekend and the Algerian striker should also be ready. Been a bit short of options up top so that will help. Algerian just as interesting but Albanian Haha whoops
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Post by toucan on Sept 16, 2017 17:29:39 GMT
1 win in our last 6 league games, just not good enough. And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that. People , like me , tell you that you are a sad individual when you write things like five to Blackpool when its two nil at the time. People question whether you really are an Oxford fan because you don't have a positive outlook towards the team at all. When the chips are down , as they were at two down , you could have posted something positive , or nothing at all but no chance it had to be 'five' to Blackpool. Get a grip mate.
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Post by charliesghost on Sept 16, 2017 17:29:58 GMT
And yet everyone says im being negative when i say were not very good. We pass it around lovely at times but its lipstick on a pig. Were bang average at best and our final posution will show that. And what we're you seriously f*cking expecting when we've changed the manager, lost several key players and replace half a squad. This season was always going to be an adjustment, why not accept it for that rather than moan at every bloody loss. First 30 mins on Tuesday was some of the best football I have seen oufc play in 30 years. So long as we keep playing like that, and not some boring hoof ball I'll be happy and we will have more than enough to stay up and hopefully build for a serious challenge next season spending in the areas we're lacking Sorry to rain on the "we're building for the future" parade, but really we are not. We had that option, but signed two totally different kinds of players: players nearing their mid-30s and loanees from a higher level. Today's team? Eastwood: 28 Ricardinho 33 Nelson 24 Williamson 33 Mousinho 31 Ledson 20 Rothwell 22 Payne LOANEE Thomas 30 Hall 24 Henry 28 Van Kessel LOANEE So the average age of OUR players today was 27 and a half. By next summer, that's 28 and a half. And our model dictates that we sell a young player or two every summer. Take out the players in their mid-30s, the loanees and a couple of youngsters and we will be looking at another huge turnover of players next summer as well. The reason we signed a truckload of ageing players and loanees was to succeed THIS season. And that is what the whole club should be focussed on, not the stale get-out of "it's all a project". Yes it is when you are signing Lundstram, Roofe, Nelson, Ledson and co. No it's not when you are signing Williamson, Ricardinho, Henry and Mousinho. I think that we do have the players to challenge this season, but it's going to require a pretty substantial ditching of the Koolade and a determination to front up to other well-funded well-organised sides. In four games against top half teams (Scunny, Shrews, Bradford, Blackpool), we've garnered two points and been second best in three of those games. I've been very impressed by what Pep managed to pull together in such a short time, but after today's game he sounded less coherent. I think he claimed that the reason we lost had nothing to do with how we played, but because we conceded the first goal. Really? James Henry was much more realistic - one advantage of a "mature" dressing room is that hopefully they'll be able to work out for themselves that they can't afford to play at half pace. As for your claim that Tuesday was the best you've seen in 30 years, what are you on?? 30 years ago, we were in the top flight. Since then, I could name 100 games that were far more impressive than a draw against Bradford. I hesitate to nominate any one performance, but smashing Kevin Keegan's Newcastle? Deservedly beating Chelsea at the Bridge? Beating Man City away 2-0? Mashing Barnsley's "Brazil side" 5-0. It's axiomatic that to achieve in any walk of life, first you have to be sane and realistic about the challenge. We have some decent players, and under the right circumstances they can play nicely. They now need to work out how to win when circumstances are not in their favour, and how to impose a positive style on teams who don't just lie down. None of this is criticism (other than criticism of your judgement!), but a real hope that we don't waste a season that could be successful drifting along in an LSD dreamland of future projects.
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Post by diagocostapacket on Sept 16, 2017 17:34:16 GMT
Well that was a big disappointment I thought we might have put up a better show than we did. Luckily our Hotel is only a 2 minute walk across Bloomfield road but it seemed like miles.
First of all a big thank you to the gentleman and his wife who found my friends wallet and handed it in to the Hotel reception you didn’t leave a name but if you should by the slightest of chances read this post, please do so with the reception. Jerry would like to send you something to show his gratitude.
Secondly, what an amazing turn out of travelling fans..the four of us really came up here for a game of golf and to watch the boys was a bonus so we don’t have to grind our way back until Monday….top, top effort. We will soon have a better turn out of travelling fans than Bristol Rovers at this rate.
The long journey must have made the players jaded though I assume they travelled up last night. Blackpool were out of the traps like race starved greyhounds, were direct and quick and bi-passed our midfield so easily. If they had have gone in at half time four or five up it really wouldn’t have been an injustice. It wasn’t that we were playing that badly we just couldn’t get the ball. I shouldn’t read too much into the fact that Eastwood was beaten twice from distance, both strikes were superb and would have beaten most Keepers, Eastwood actually pulled off two superb saves one in each half to keep us in the game well into the second period.
The two full backs looked anything like full backs at times, Im afraid the Jury is still out with me on Ric, he tends to forget at times that hes a defender and seems to make basic mistakes tempered with moments of sheer entertainment, but vey often the end product is zero. When we went 3 across the back and pulled back Henry we looked much more assured and dangerous even though Blackpool’s midfield trio looked well in charge most of the afternoon. Ledson brought a good save from the home keeper on about 50 minutes and I can’t recall him having to make any sort of save before that. VK should have done better with a chance on the hour mark and 15 minutes later the impressive Vassell could easily have had a hattrick missing two if not three relatively simple chances.
I wouldn’t say we were a shambles defensively, but nobody across the back played well, Mous looks much more comfortable in the centre and hes patently not a fullback and Ric needs to try and curtail some of his runs forward and time them better, he leaves us awfully exposed at times and was really fortunate not to get sent off, had he been the last man he would have been and could have no complaints.
Overall the game never really left us, it should have done but we were fortunate that we clung on long enough to claw a goal back which we did deserve, we were well beaten but Blackpools home advantage was tangiable because for the first 20 our lot were still in the changing room. I thought in the second period the two teams looked well matched but we must start the first 15 minutes away from home much much better in the future.
Finally a word for Henry and a big one, hes come in for a lot of unjustified criticism of late imo.. We (all four of us) thought he was excellent today and put in a great shift. Glad he scored and also encouraging from Pep, in that he did try and ring the changes.
Not our day today but we will play worse than this away and win. Well beaten but not completely outclassed.
I would be surprised if any club got much at Blackpool this season. Their midfield work extremely hard and their defence was as tight as a camels arse in a sandstorm.
Off to clean my balls now and for a few sherbets.
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Post by oufcyellows on Sept 16, 2017 17:38:46 GMT
And what we're you seriously f*cking expecting when we've changed the manager, lost several key players and replace half a squad. This season was always going to be an adjustment, why not accept it for that rather than moan at every bloody loss. First 30 mins on Tuesday was some of the best football I have seen oufc play in 30 years. So long as we keep playing like that, and not some boring hoof ball I'll be happy and we will have more than enough to stay up and hopefully build for a serious challenge next season spending in the areas we're lacking Sorry to rain on the "we're building for the future" parade, but really we are not. We had that option, but signed two totally different kinds of players: players nearing their mid-30s and loanees from a higher level. Today's team? Eastwood: 28 Ricardinho 33 Nelson 24 Williamson 33 Mousinho 31 Ledson 20 Rothwell 22 Payne LOANEE Thomas 30 Hall 24 Henry 28 Van Kessel LOANEE So the average age of OUR players today was 27 and a half. By next summer, that's 28 and a half. And our model dictates that we sell a young player or two every summer. Take out the players in their mid-30s, the loanees and a couple of youngsters and we will be looking at another huge turnover of players next summer as well. The reason we signed a truckload of ageing players and loanees was to succeed THIS season. And that is what the whole club should be focussed on, not the stale get-out of "it's all a project". Yes it is when you are signing Lundstram, Roofe, Nelson, Ledson and co. No it's not when you are signing Williamson, Ricardinho, Henry and Mousinho. I think that we do have the players to challenge this season, but it's going to require a pretty substantial ditching of the Koolade and a determination to front up to other well-funded well-organised sides. In four games against top half teams (Scunny, Shrews, Bradford, Blackpool), we've garnered two points and been second best in three of those games. I've been very impressed by what Pep managed to pull together in such a short time, but after today's game he sounded less coherent. I think he claimed that the reason we lost had nothing to do with how we played, but because we conceded the first goal. Really? James Henry was much more realistic - one advantage of a "mature" dressing room is that hopefully they'll be able to work out for themselves that they can't afford to play at half pace. As for your claim that Tuesday was the best you've seen in 30 years, what are you on?? 30 years ago, we were in the top flight. Since then, I could name 100 games that were far more impressive than a draw against Bradford. I hesitate to nominate any one performance, but smashing Kevin Keegan's Newcastle? Deservedly beating Chelsea at the Bridge? Beating Man City away 2-0? Mashing Barnsley's "Brazil side" 5-0. It's axiomatic that to achieve in any walk of life, first you have to be sane and realistic about the challenge. We have some decent players, and under the right circumstances they can play nicely. They now need to work out how to win when circumstances are not in their favour, and how to impose a positive style on teams who don't just lie down. None of this is criticism (other than criticism of your judgement!), but a real hope that we don't waste a season that could be successful drifting along in an LSD dreamland of future projects. Yey mr I don't read a f*cking word of what anyone says but then go off on a rant against them is back. I didn't say Tuesday was the best game I've seen in 30 years, I said the first 30 mins was some of the best football I've seen. I didn't say we're building for the future, I said we've had mass adjustment of a manager and half the squad. Oh the we must front up to teams comment is back, you know the one u said appletons sides didn't do, that we would never get promoted playing that passing attractive football, and that we should replace him with mickey Adams immediately if we didn't want to get into a relegation battle . Hahaha excuse me if I don't criticise your judgement 😉 The manager has never managed before. Half the players have never played in this country before, others haven't played in years through injury, yet u think that instantly they should be able to work out how to change things around when things ain't going in our favour? I'd say we're doing bloody well with all the upheaval Also sorry to p*ss on ur parade but barnsley was 5-1 not 5-0 😉 We do need need to work out a few things. But f*ck me were 8 games in? What do u want sack pep and bring in woy
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Post by fishpaste on Sept 16, 2017 17:54:35 GMT
After 17 games last season we were 20th with 19 points. It's too early to panic.
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