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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 30, 2016 8:04:48 GMT
But I can also see why some people will now go. Doesn't make them wrong or lesser fans, they are supporting our team, but just have a different opinion on the overall long term implications I won't be going - but agree with this entirely. It certainly does NOT mean that either choice means you are more of a 'proper fan' as one rather silly poster put one here!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 29, 2016 13:11:32 GMT
But the whole game solution will have to be voted on by all member clubs again, it will affect the league, having your say to the club through oxvox or FLO's so that each club actually represents their fan base will have far more effect than boycotting a p*ss pot trophy that has already been shown that no one really cares about until the final. Well, as far as I know, our club didn't bother to ask their supporters about their attitude to B Teams in this cup competition before they voted for it. (Apparently the club didn't ask the chairman either, since he was against it as well!) How confident are you that the club will consult this time? How confident are you that the EFL won't move the goalposts again? They did for this competition. Several times. After the vote. Avoiding this tainted competition is a chance for normal supporters to show their contempt for the high-handed way the EFL are quite prepared to try to fiddle about with their own leagues and competitions to the general detriment of their own member clubs because they are shit scared of the Prem running off and taking their ball (and their money) with them.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 29, 2016 12:22:46 GMT
Did you go to MK Dons? YES or NO? If you went and are still boycotting the Checkatrade trophy then you are a hypocrite. Absolute rubbish. The Milton Keynes situation (bad as it was) is now quite a few years ago. Wimbledon are now back at the same level, and may even be moving back to Plough Lane. So the situation has just about worked it's way back to equilibrium and is one that is extremely unlikely to happen again. The 'whole game solution' is still very much alive and kicking - none of it as far as I can see of any benefit at all to lower league clubs. The fact that supporters have shown a (pretty united) front on the B Teams issue and have forced a rethink is good - but that one issue is only a part of the whole plan.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2016 14:05:12 GMT
With the Brexit vote going the way it did, it's more likely than ever that the Scots will have a second 'leave the Union' vote and this time they will go.So why would we invite what is likely to be a foreign team to play in our leagues? We might as well ask PSG and Inter if they'd like to give it a try! (Which is exactly what will happen eventually of course, when TV money finally overcomes what little bit of common sense they have left and they all get together to form a European League where they can keep all the dosh for themselves and abolish relegation) i think you're wrong on both counts. I don't think there'll be another independence referendum any time soon. Yes Scotland voted Remain but that doesn't necessarily equate that previous No voters would switch to Yes at another referendum. I get the feeling up here that more & more people are getting a bit tired of old Jimmy Krankie Sturgeon & her cronies..... Well personally I'd hope the Scots don't split off. But whether I am right or wrong (and that's not entirely unknown!) it adds more uncertainty to the situation and if some Scottish clubs want to play in the English leagues - and I'm not entirely convinced they really do - that uncertainty makes it more unlikely, surely?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2016 12:45:02 GMT
If we aren't going for 2 up front (and I can see the argument against it) then surely we have to play Maguire as a proper central number 10 and bring in some pace out wide (one side Johnson, the other Macca/Tyler Roberts). Even more important if we are going to be playing on the counter-attack, I'd have thought.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2016 7:46:24 GMT
With the Brexit vote going the way it did, it's more likely than ever that the Scots will have a second 'leave the Union' vote and this time they will go.
So why would we invite what is likely to be a foreign team to play in our leagues? We might as well ask PSG and Inter if they'd like to give it a try! (Which is exactly what will happen eventually of course, when TV money finally overcomes what little bit of common sense they have left and they all get together to form a European League where they can keep all the dosh for themselves and abolish relegation)
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 26, 2016 14:17:43 GMT
Bingo.
The other great working class sport. Everyone who buys a programme gets a bingo ticket. The numbers are generated at random and popped up onto the new scoreboard at half time. The winner gets some sort of prize.
It would increase the amount of programmes sold, and the crowd would be swelled by a huge influx of old dears with purple rinses.
Win, win.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 25, 2016 11:30:17 GMT
The Sky highlights are a bit odd - showing the second yellow their player got but no sign of Eastwood's excellent save. The penalty is a stupid one to give away, and any push seems pretty minimal. Pity Eastwood where didn't just stand where he was mind, that was a terrible penalty!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 24, 2016 21:28:32 GMT
I thought it was a generally entertaining game, although I though quite a lot of our passing was a bit aimless. There was a lot of giving the ball to a bloke who was already marked who then passed it straight back whence it came. Two passes - no gain.
Although I usually have a lot of time for Taylor (in that I think he is good at holding the ball up and laying it off - not that I think he is any sort of goal scoring striker) - we looked much better when Hemmings came on and Maguire played more centrally. I still think we lack pace in many areas and that movement off the ball is lacking. Some of our corners and free kicks were woeful again. It's a bit frustrating because I feel we aren't far short of being a very decent team, but it just isn't clicking at the moment.
A draw was probably a fair result - a win at Sarfend would make it a good point.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2016 16:22:22 GMT
Cheers - I must say I am having trouble seeing the benefit of this. There would (for the lower leagues) be six less games per season, so there is three home games less revenue for each team. And the benefits are?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2016 15:50:10 GMT
Winter break not for those leagues only PL. Re you sure about that first point? Their statement says "In addition, the feedback has confirmed that clubs in League One, Two and the proposed League Three would want to play through a winter break if introduced." Which implies that Championship clubs do NOT want to play through any winter break.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2016 15:43:47 GMT
I kinda like some of the restructure changes. So what are the up to date proposals? Is this right? Four leagues of 20 teams. Bottom two leagues are equivalent and regionalised (or is this proposal not current) like the current conference North and South. No prem B teams or foreign teams, extra teams would be from the conference (sorry, 'National League'). Winter break for Championship teams. No winter break for the rest. Is there anything else?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 20, 2016 17:48:10 GMT
It's going to be tricky for him to get back in to the first team now. The defence has (to be brutally frank) looked much better without him and kept three clean sheets in a row. Of course, his off-field issues - whatever they were - might have had an effect on his on-field performances.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 19, 2016 21:07:58 GMT
Who is Jack Rothwell though? :-) He's a bloke who apparently plays in the same team as McGuire, McDonald, Ruffles, Lundstrum and Crawley. I think he is a replacement for Keeeemar Roofe or something.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 19, 2016 9:51:29 GMT
Probably about to make myself the most unpopular poster on the forum, but here goes... Although of course Swindon are our bitter rivals (etc etc etc) deep down I have far more respect for the majority of their supporters (actually turning out and supporting their home town team though thick - very thick! - and thin) than I do for any amount of sofa-sitting replica-shirt-in-the-pub-wearing tv-televised-watching Prem team glory-hunting 'supporters' who back a team they have no connection with because they are successful, trendy or 'its what their mates do' and who probably never actually go to a game. So yes, I'd take your £52,000 (although I'd have to read the small print) - I'd be listening in to the Oxford game on RadOx while I was there. Can I have a half and half scarf please Ask me to give up going to live football, to wear a Man U shirt and sit in the pub pontificating about over-paid, over-rated players I've never seen play live and I'll pass and just keep going to see the club I love, thanks all the same.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 19, 2016 9:20:59 GMT
If the season finished now, we ended 12th on 63 points, would everyone be happy? I'd probably take that. I think we have seen that L1 actually IS a step up from L2 and a midtable finish would be OK for our first season back, having made some pretty major team changes over the summer. Of course, I would be happier if we were to finish higher though!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 19, 2016 9:17:06 GMT
To Clarify a few issues: The Club has a Licence to use the Stadium and associated areas (i.e. Parking and access roads) for a period of 20 years from March 2006. This can automatically be renewed at the end of the current term at the request of the club but only once. The initial Licence fee was £278,650 increased by RPI on each anniversary. The Club pays a separate fee for provision of services which include: To keep the stadium clean and tidy and provide adequate lighting internally and externally which for the avoidance of doubt includes all concourses, supplying hot and cold water to toilet and kitchen facilities. To keep and maintain the stadium in good and substantial repair and condition and in good suitable decorative order. Maintenance of pitch and floodlighting. So whilst the Stadco has to carry out the above the club has to pay for it. The licence fee will increase (by mutual agreement of the required sum) if the club is promoted to the Championship and/or if any additional development is provided for the benefit of the club. Its pretty clear really but what it means is that if the club wants the Stadco to carry out its obligations then it has to pay extra for it unless it is already paying for it and the Stadco is not providing the service paid for (e.g. hot water in the toilets (taps). Hi Scoob, Thanks for the info. That in itself raises a few more questions! If we can renew the licence in 2026 - how long for? Another 20 or 25 years? Why would we agree to an increase of the license fee if we get to the Championship? What would that gain us? Is that why the temp stand hasn't been built: Stadco says it is 'additional development of benefit to the club' and thus want to increase the license fee? The fee for the provision of services. Is that fixed? Or does it too rise by the RPI? What recourse does the club have if Stadco is NOT carrying out its duties under that agreement (no hot water, floodlights out, letting the pitch go to rack and ruin in past seasons etc)?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 18, 2016 14:23:30 GMT
Is he being Baldy's caddy for the day?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 18, 2016 11:41:37 GMT
One problem I saw yesterday (I was on the last row but one of the top tier right behind the goal). People went and sat in their seats with plenty of time to go. Five minutes before kickoff a load of 'lads' turned up, pushed their way into a mixed area (all ages, kids, old people) about five rows in front of me where everyone else was sat and tried to stand - about three to a seat space. Then got mouthy when people asked them to spread out and/or sit down. They were moved on by the stewards.
How about this as a friendly suggestion? If you want to stand with your mates, get into the ground a bit earlier and stake a claim to an area right at the back. That way you can all stand together, and won't block everyone else's view.
Of course another option would be for our club to ask 'Are you a singer?' (Euphemism for 'stander'!) - they sell seats from the back forwards to 'singers', and seats from the front backwards to 'sitters'.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 18, 2016 10:50:08 GMT
Personally I think that Taylor desperately needs a strike partner or (if that is for some reason impossible) a couple of attacking central midfield players who are willing and able to bust a gut to get up to him in reasonable time. Sercs did that a couple of times yesterday and it nearly paid off. To say he was absolute rubbish yesterday is in itself total rubbish - but the job he does well is not one that fits the way we are setting up at the moment.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 17, 2016 20:28:00 GMT
Indeed. So far, from folk who were at the same game I've read: Dunkley was poor/great Taylor was OK/good/awful Maguire was off his game/pretty good Sercombe good/bad Eastwood was brilliant/brilliant Dunkley was generally excellent, but made a couple of very bad decisions. He is obviously not as comfortable on the left as he in on the right. Aerially he stopped a lot of stuff. Taylor did what Taylor does. Wins headers, shields the ball well, lays it off well. Two problems though. Firstly if he is up front on his own there is very often nobody to head it or lay it off to. Secondly, he is about as likely to score as Jake Wright was. Maguire wasn't as imperious as he was against Swindon, so I guess you could say he was off his game - but he was still pretty good! Sercombe was simply OK. Some stuff he did was great, other times he didn't pass the ball when he should have and got caught in possession. Eastwood WAS brilliant again. As for the game - two teams who have trouble scoring. One up front does NOT work for us. Never has, never will. If we persist we need Maguire to play as a proper number 10 (as was sagely remarked to me at the end of the game and I agree), but I think we really need two strikers up front really. I thought the stadium was horrible. Modern, yes. Initially impressive, yes. But the roof was too high to get any real noise going, is far too big for them (if their 8,000 didn't look like it, that might be because they were spread over the best part of 25,000 seats!) and it is all grey - the seats, the metalwork. And I didn't enjoy that upper tier very much - a decent view, but far too far from the pitch. Probably a decent point in what I though was a cagey match with few real chances. Baldock showed his class at the end of the game (as well as in it) - applauding both sets of supporters, giving a shirt to a kid and excellent radio interview all showed that. I hope he has a long and fruitful career, wherever he goes.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 16, 2016 15:48:05 GMT
Where does the MK Dons firm like to fight? Is it behind Nandos or perhaps at the rock climbing centre? Maybe it is in one of the large retail parks at a B&Q or maybe a Carpetright. Please tell me that this not for real. It's not for real. Glad to be of service
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 16, 2016 14:40:29 GMT
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 15, 2016 17:10:30 GMT
Well he should of said nothing to be honest!! We're going to spank them Saturday you watch.... Imagine we'd loaned a player out and he did well so we got him back and made him first choice in his chosen position. You would then want him to say that he was desperate to come back and do well, hopefully to help his team avoid relegation/get promotion etc. Whether you 'respect' Baldock or not is in no way related to how well we will do against them on Saturday, but I too think we will win.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 15, 2016 16:14:02 GMT
Well georgey boy I always liked you as a player at OUFC but I'm afraid any respect I had for you has gone!! Why? It's pretty clear from his comments that he still holds us in high regard - and since, at the time, his parent club were two leagues higher than us he would have been daft not to go back and try to make his mark. Not that he had a choice anyway - he was recalled! He'll get a decent reception on Saturday and rightly so.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 15, 2016 11:48:31 GMT
Maguire! Not McGuire!
Why is is people have difficulty with our own players names?!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 13, 2016 18:47:43 GMT
I've just nipped in with a quick bid and bought it for 20 quid.
Sorry though, I've had to raise the rent, charge for car parking and double the price of the beer because I had to borrow the money from Wonga and the interest is a bitch!
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Roofe
Sept 13, 2016 17:39:19 GMT
Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 13, 2016 17:39:19 GMT
McGuire? Maguire
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 12, 2016 13:40:08 GMT
Let's hope the security around the new scoreboard is a bit better, or someone in the Leys will have a f'ing huge telly in their living room by next week! I know there's often a lot of repeats on telly but I'm not sure how often I'd want to watch the team line-ups on a loop all day. Mind you, having the 2-0 up permanently on screen wouldn't be bad! Come on, you must know a bloke who can knock up a cable to connect it to your hacked Sky box!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 12, 2016 12:01:02 GMT
Let's hope the security around the new scoreboard is a bit better, or someone in the Leys will have a f'ing huge telly in their living room by next week!
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