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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 17:42:12 GMT
Why would anyone damage the toilets? Disappointing, we aren't Swindon for gawds sake.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 16:37:18 GMT
Er. I've seen HUNDREDS of performances over the last 20 years more awful than last night though. Yes, so have I. That does not make last night's performance less disappointing though. I'm not stoic enough while watching us cock it up to stand there thinking 'Oh well - at least it isn't as bad as x, y or z game - well done, boys.'! Personal (and foul mouthed) abuse of our own players at games has of course, no place.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 16:30:54 GMT
Not sure about that. I think the minimum many of us are entitled to expect from the players is maximum effort and an ability to do the very basics that any footballer at that level ought to be capable of: passing the ball 5 yards with some accuracy, challenging for the ball, moving into space when we have the ball, knowing and fulfilling their roles etc. I don't think the team in general got anywhere near those standards for large portions of last night. Entitled !!!!! What you would like to see is what you described, but in reality do you get that many weeks? football is about scoring goals to win games and we have all seen teams mug us off in the past and take the points, the beautiful game it ain't. Are you really saying that maximum effort is too much to expect? That professional footballers should not be able to pass the ball 5 yards (I even added 'with some accuracy'!!), move into space, know what they are supposed to be doing etc etc? Because if they don't, then they bloody well should - and at times this season they have been able and willing to do all those things! I would even settle for them getting (as I said) somewhere near those minimum standards - or even appearing to try to reach them. I'm not asking for the beautiful game (not sure where you got that from), I'm not expecting us to win all games or any particular game. But last night was at times embarrassingly bad and the majority of the players let themselves down.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 16:11:09 GMT
Some supporters were going totally apoplectic at half time. I mentioned to one, ' but it's not as bad as Tonbridge Angels away is it'? and the bloke looked at me blankly. That was a different team at a different time with a different manager in a different competition. The fact that we've been poorer in the past does not somehow make yesterday's performance less awful! I wasn't stood near you, but I was going apoplectic - quietly and to myself maybe, but apoplectic none the less! Let's hope we aren't saying 'At least its not as bad as Merstham' anytime soon.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 14:27:47 GMT
Same here - where did you eventually rejoin the motorway. I went down the A5 and rejoined just before Watford Gap services.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 14:25:44 GMT
before the match this forum was expecting to roll up to cov and just walk away with 3 points, this league is a lot harder than the league below and it seems we expect free flowing football and 3 points ever game, there will be a few disappointed fans if that mentality continues. Not sure about that. I think the minimum many of us are entitled to expect from the players is maximum effort and an ability to do the very basics that any footballer at that level ought to be capable of: passing the ball 5 yards with some accuracy, challenging for the ball, moving into space when we have the ball, knowing and fulfilling their roles etc. I don't think the team in general got anywhere near those standards for large portions of last night.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 12:36:53 GMT
I much preferred it to MK.
Very sad to see how much Wasps stuff there was about rather than Coventry City stuff - the Wasps logos on the inside were about four times the size of the Cov ones. I'm sure I can't feel much like home to their supporters any more.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 11:33:34 GMT
To be fair, Maguire has been playing in England since he was 22 and has played for Derby, Portsmouth, Wednesday, Coventry, Rotherham and us - so he has had plenty of time to settle into it.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 10:37:19 GMT
I can understand why people were booing at halftime last night. Never mind the level we are playing at - we have earned the right to be there. Yes, we were dreadful at times in the Conference but that was a completely different team. Last night wasn't a case of being outplayed by a team full of vastly superior players. It was our players not putting in a full shift, not willing to bust a gut for the cause, not jumping for headers, not challenging for the ball. Not do with ability - we've seen that most in the team have that - but to do with attitude and application.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 8:43:30 GMT
Just be thankful you didn't have to go home the way I did. You couldn't get onto the M1 Southbound from the M6 (they'd closed the slip road) so I spent a jolly extra half hour trailing around the diversion between articulated lorries on the streets around Rugby. Oh how I laughed.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 8:08:31 GMT
After Wimbledon and last night, I can't help thinking that this question is very much in the realm of wishful thinking!!!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 19, 2016 8:00:52 GMT
I was far too irritated with that 'performance' last night to post here, woke up and I am still irritated!
Hemmings. What is he for? That was as poor a performance as I have seen for a while. He won't challenge for the ball (although he will get in the general area so it sort of looks as if he is), he can't or won't jump, he has no pace and I suspect he barely raised a sweat last night from the amount of running off the ball and closing down he didn't do.
Lundstram. Is out of his depth or out of form. Or he had one good season last time out. Whatever, how he has managed to retain his place I do not know. Simple passes were misplaced (a disease the whole team seems to have caught), he is slow on the ball and put us in trouble a number of times yesterday. If he is the 'midfield general' and the captain, then we are leaderless on the pitch. Give the captaincy to someone else. Now.
Edwards. Has slowly become a liability. Apart from the goal he was instrumental in gifting to them, his positioning was awful all night and he barely stopped a cross. Until Ribeiro is fit, I'd put Raglan at RB, shift Dunkley back across to his proper place and bring Nelson in.
Appleton. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong formation, wrong first substitute (Hemnmmings should have been hooked), wrong tactics. And the last two substitutions were too late.
All Coventry did was press the player on the ball (requires athleticism and a bit of desire, not skill - perhaps we might try that?) and we'd had it. Passes went astray, people were trying to dribble past four players because there was nobody offering themselves for a pass, we had hoofball to nowhere in particular again, if we won a midfield 50/50 then I didn't see it (in fact if we challenged for a midfield 50/50 I didn't see it), players were happy to play the ball endlessly sideways and backwards (slowly), actually running at the defence seems to have been verboten (the subs had a go at it) etc etc. And why do we have three attacking players farting about with the ball on the touchline doing over-elaborate passing routines to each other (on a massively wide pitch) without a single player anywhere near the goal? How is that ever going to work?
The worst display this season by a country mile and after the Wimbledon shambles that took some doing. Get them back in today to work on simple things. Running might be a good start. Step two - looking to see if there is another Oxford player near. Once we have cracked that, perhaps we can try passing. On the floor. Then passing and running at the same time. Then passing on the run to another player who is also on the move. Baby steps.
Finally - a few words of praise. All the subs gave it a go and we noticeably improved (from a very low base) with some pace and skill on the pitch. Chris Maguire. On an embarrassing evening, he gave it his all. So much so that the other players were just giving him the ball and then standing around watching him, hoping he would get them out of the shit. If we had ten outfield player with his attitude then we would be a lot better off.
Typing all that hasn't helped.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 18, 2016 12:47:49 GMT
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 18, 2016 9:05:59 GMT
Well he is covering for Ribeiro - so that's who will be playing at right back when he is fit.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 17, 2016 18:15:11 GMT
And WHERE are they?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 17, 2016 14:20:35 GMT
And I'll be driving up (and back!) from the Bedford/Northampton/MK area if anyone wants a lift.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 17, 2016 12:47:54 GMT
We voted to leave the EU. So MPs trying to fudge the issue by obsessing over the single market access and Labour asking 170 questions for each day until the Govt kick off the process are just wasting parliamentary time. Why not talk about Syria, Iraq, etc instead and talk about things we can change? Until we officially fire the starting gun, what is there to talk about? Rather than offering a positive message, it's just wasting time that parliament could spend on more important issues. The country voted to leave and the persistent efforts of people to nip at the fringes and subvert that vote is highly disrespectful of what was voted for. Some are just rotten losers. Yes the country voted 'Leave'. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly that seems to have meant different things to the voters, ranging all the way from 'we want nothing at all to do with Europe, we want no immigration, anyone who doesn't look "English" can leave the country, things will soon get back to some mythical state of grace we once enjoyed and I don't like politicians anyway' to 'we would be better financially outside the European project but we will still have to trade with them and deal with them politically, so we might have to accept some compromises in order to do so' with all shades in between. I didn't want to leave, but democracy has spoken and we have to. To suggest that the government now has carte blanche to do whatever they want is surely against the democratic principle that has just been used to get to this point. Two years isn't that long to negotiate such complex issues - to have some sort of idea what the will of the people is (through their elected representatives) and to know how they see the future of the county so that those negotiating have a target to aim for seems like a bloody good thing to me. (Parliamentary silly games notwithstanding)
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 16, 2016 19:41:06 GMT
In 230 senior matches, Wes Thomas has scored 59 goals (18 of them were in that decent season he had for Cheltenham)
His average is one goal every 3.9 games. (Take that one good season out and that's one every 4.6 games ) Over a season you'd expect him to score 11 or 12 goals. He has scored 3 in 9 so far for us, which means he is doing better than his average and is on track for 15 in the season.
I guess the point of this barrage of dodgy stats is to point out that the club (if they can use Google and YouTube!) must have known what we were getting when we signed him - a pretty average striker who has managed to move clubs or be loaned out 13 times in the last 8 years, doesn't really offer much in terms of team play apart from being likely to get into double figures for goals scored during the season. Which may be enough if others are contributing.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 15, 2016 21:07:08 GMT
I didn't know that until today. And it is a sensible rule change.
But why only if the offender was booked or sent off? Surely the same logic (there should not be any disadvantage to the offended-against team) applies to anyone injured when being fouled?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 15, 2016 20:31:28 GMT
Not a penalty. He just threw himself over - should have been a yellow for diving.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 12, 2016 22:23:40 GMT
Silly idea, good intentions. Agreed - best of intentions, but it's a No from me too.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 12, 2016 13:45:56 GMT
You can't drop players who have done very well over a period of time because they've had one dodgy match! I didn't even think Dunks was that poor - Raglan defended OK but gave the ball away time and time again, so you could equally drop him, bring Nelson in and put Dunkley back on the right where he is more comfortable anyway.
Besides, a lot of the reason we gave three away (and it could have been more) was the lack of protection the midfield gave to the defence. Mostly in front of them (where Rothwell should have been). Sort the midfield out and the defence will instantly be more solid.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 12, 2016 13:25:17 GMT
Quite a lot of Trump's vote is people voting against 'the establishment', 'the system', the Washington elite, the political classes, the Clintons, Obama, the dynastic nature of the American presidency etc. Plus of course there are a lot of NRA nutters, racists, people blinded by 'celebrity', woman-haters and even a few Republicans!
So in a similar way as Brexit, people are voting AGAINST something rather than FOR something - which is why whatever this fool does or says he has kept the race a close one since he demonstrably isn't part of the political status quo (!) whereas Clinton very obviously is.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 20:38:03 GMT
After watching that rubbish and Sunday's tripe, I am praying for some decent football from us on Saturday!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 19:58:44 GMT
Hart is looking good, mind. He is England's Eastwood!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 19:57:51 GMT
I think the telling part of FKs statement is "This will not happen overnight. It could be many months, or even years, but the intention is there." That indicates to me that he is in absolutely no hurry at all. If indeed the intention IS truly there.
Personally I doubt that (especially since news has come out of his spat with DE), but I guess all OxVox can do is to act as if they are taking him at his word to see what pans out. Any notion DE has that the stadium will be in community ownership within three months is (to make an understatement) a bit optimistic IMO!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 19:32:21 GMT
Three shots, none on target. Played at walking pace. Rubbish.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 19:15:32 GMT
Is anyone watching the game at the moment? They've caught our 'play it sideways and backwards - slowly' disease from Sunday!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 11, 2016 7:42:02 GMT
I don't believe Wimbledon were the better team though. I completely disagree. They moved the ball better, kept the ball better and won the ball back when they lost it. How many 50/50s did we win (or in some cases even compete for)? They dealt easily with the ridiculous high balls we kept lobbing up front and made several other good chances apart from the ones they took. We made virtually nothing. Sure the ref was rubbish - and yes, his decisions did very much affect the match. But to say that we were the better team is not true from what I saw.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 10, 2016 11:48:15 GMT
Johnson didn't even try to beat his man yesterday - and has done so very few times since he's been with us. I like the *idea* of Johnson - a fast, tricky winger who can put crosses in - but the reality isn't matching that idea at the moment.
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