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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 2, 2016 19:18:48 GMT
Been a few of these threads recently, is anyone actually going to turn up?
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 1, 2016 20:27:50 GMT
I do find the image of that badge on our shirt more than a touch disturbing.
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Post by SteMerritt on Apr 1, 2016 13:10:12 GMT
I'll be there at some point...
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 31, 2016 19:48:39 GMT
Anybody who uses the word "brexit" should be deported immediately irrespective of being for or against leaving the EU. Awful, awful word and an insult to our language.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 30, 2016 19:00:28 GMT
That was as comfortable as any England sporting teams semi finals will ever be, very enjoyable. Shame about the timing of the final, be an empty ground as every Indian will be watching the JPT final. Course when England previously won the World t20, Alfie was steering in the third against York at about the same time. If that's not a glorious omen for a double victory on Sunday, I don't know what is! After years of watching us choke in finals, we finally win one when I can't watch as Oxford were winning promotion. Now we have a chance of winning our second international tournament, and I am going to miss it again as Oxford are at Wembley again... Here's to double celebration Sunday night
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 29, 2016 16:12:14 GMT
I hear Nick Merry has offered himself as Treasurer, any takers? Or looking at it another way, if each of the 32,500 Oxford supporters at Wembley on Sunday could stump up a little over £61.50 each we would have £2m. PS - really good to actually read a few posts where People versus Charlie isn't a sub-plot. Not sure my daughter could afford £61.50 out of her pocket money, would take her 4 months or so to save that... I'll ask her to chip in though
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 26, 2016 17:38:59 GMT
Bloody hell that was tense. A game we had won at quarter to 5, to one we had lost half an hour later, but managed to get over the line thanks to Jordan and Stokes pulling out 2 great overs. New Zealand in the semi-finals now (unless Afghanistan smash the West Indies)
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 23, 2016 20:56:13 GMT
I'm going. First visit to Brunton Park since 1970. I should think you damn well are as well, Carlisle is closer to Barbados than it is to Oxford.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 22, 2016 16:51:41 GMT
To repeat and to be pedantic, right now the worst case scenario means we need seven wins and a draw to ensure automatic promotion. That leaves the whole matter in our hands. Any slip up by the opposition would alter the numbers accordingly. Northampton went on a huge winning run so its not beyond the capabilities of Bristol to do the same. Looks like you have volunteered to start another weekly-updated stat thread with that nugget of information...
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 22, 2016 12:16:15 GMT
They are getting to the point of acting like the old '99p' balls They were the days. Power shot flying dead straight for about 20 yards, then vearing off in a random 45% angle just as the keeper gets close to it... These balls were probably the reason that England produced world class goalkeepers all the way up until the 90s, you needed the reflexes of a praying mantis to keep goal back then...
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 16, 2016 19:48:30 GMT
I don't follow cricket as much as I used to, but where has Luke Wright got to? He was always a class limited overs player. Also, KP would be playing for any other country in the world and it's a joke England won't select him. If Chris Gayle was English he 100% wouldn't be playing international cricket. Stop with the KP stuff. He stuffed his own career up by being an arrogant prat.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 14, 2016 15:13:13 GMT
and the rich most people voting out are the poorest in society . Eh? If ever there was a sentence that proved the importance of punctuation, this was it.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 12, 2016 15:01:56 GMT
I have a framed Peter Fear match shirt signed by the worst Oxford United team in living memory on my wall. Top that
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 11, 2016 12:21:38 GMT
In other words, OUFC may now be part-owned by Her Maj..... If she passes the fit and proper persons test of course...
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 9, 2016 19:45:57 GMT
It'd be great to see an OUFC game with 60k watching live. Anyone tell me if that's happened before, extra the Milk Cup final? Closest I would say was 52K at Old Trafford in 1985.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 9, 2016 8:36:29 GMT
All his ideas? Have Apple ever actually invented anything?
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Arsenal
Mar 9, 2016 8:22:43 GMT
via mobile
Post by SteMerritt on Mar 9, 2016 8:22:43 GMT
I know it's politically incorrect to talk about but I stumbled across this, anybody remember Jim fixing it for the Arsenal fan against us? youtu.be/INH-wQpJkKs?t=148I was there for the filming of that. It was painfully boring to watch.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 21:35:25 GMT
ah right, thanks. Think it was over pretty quickly though. Three or four rounds I think? Like you, I remember it being on the radio, on the coach home. Just looked it up, Bruno won in 90 seconds. Probably took him longer to walk to the ring!!!
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 21:15:59 GMT
I was at both of those semi finals, great nights.I believe that Frank Bruno fought Joe Bugner on the evening of the first leg, sure I can remember listening to it on the coach back to Oxford... No, it wasn't Bugner, pretty sure that came later. It was the White South African, Coatzee. ah right, thanks. Think it was over pretty quickly though.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 18:40:06 GMT
Best of the rest is why I included Arsenal (when the rest are the 2 Manchester sides plus Liverpool and Chelsea). I think it would be pushing it a bit to hope that Stoke could put a run together and get in there. So why are Arsenal best of the rest ? I have no love for any of them,but at least Man City are newcomers to the top table,unlike same old,same old, Arsenal. Man City and Chelsea massively bankrolled, Man Utd I don't like the club at all, Liverpool think they are better than they are. Just leaves Arsenal. They would be my fourth team by default. Lesser evil.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 12:52:51 GMT
I was at both of those semi finals, great nights.I believe that Frank Bruno fought Joe Bugner on the evening of the first leg, sure I can remember listening to it on the coach back to Oxford...
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 10:59:08 GMT
I find it very difficult to believe his dying words were anything near this well put together (although the content is cack). His dying words were probably something like ahhhhhhhhhh or stop. Apparently they were "Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow".
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 10:58:27 GMT
Not true either. It's a hoax.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 8, 2016 10:33:17 GMT
I hope they do. A top 4 of 1) Leicester, 2) Spurs, 3) Arsenal, 4) West Ham would be fabulous. A season of Champions League football without either Manchester side, Chelsea, Liverpool. That would be great for football. So if Arsenal,Champions league qualifiers for the last 2 hundred years,(but never win it)get in yet again, why would that be great for football ? As a gambling man,if West ham do get a champions league place,i would have to put my money on Arsenal being the team to miss out. Although it would be good seeing Pep Guardiola managing a team in the "ropey cup" ! www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/top-4-finishYou can get 9/1 on West ham getting a top 4 finish,not a bad bet. Best of the rest is why I included Arsenal (when the rest are the 2 Manchester sides plus Liverpool and Chelsea). I think it would be pushing it a bit to hope that Stoke could put a run together and get in there.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 7, 2016 12:55:50 GMT
I hope they do. A top 4 of 1) Leicester, 2) Spurs, 3) Arsenal, 4) West Ham would be fabulous. A season of Champions League football without either Manchester side, Chelsea, Liverpool. That would be great for football.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 4, 2016 12:57:14 GMT
I have one of those prints on my wall, can't remember what the number is off-hand.
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 4, 2016 9:52:30 GMT
We had nothing special planned for last night, we've spent the last few weeks trying to focus on the vocal side of the group, increasing the length and consistency of the singing, as it's been the groups weakness for a while. Last nights "sea of yellow" drive was by an individual, so fair play to the for trying, anyone trying these sorts of things gets a big thumbs up from me. In the future though it would be best not to go telling the press things like there is being a big flag produced, when there isn't. I thought the atmosphere last night was actually very good. Whilst not ever being as loud as games such as Swansea and Millwall, it was the most consistent I remember it being all season, and it's great to see some of the newer perhaps less popular songs taking off slightly further across the stand than just our section. Up the Ox. Any game I come back from and I can't talk is a good game imo I've come back from quite a few shocking performances not being able to talk very well to be fair. Shouting 'FFS McGukin' 50 times a game tends to take it out of the vocal chords!!!
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Post by SteMerritt on Mar 2, 2016 21:22:17 GMT
Did Grobbelaar ever play for us? Yes, once iirc. No, never appeared.
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Post by SteMerritt on Feb 28, 2016 20:48:33 GMT
It's only been open for about 4 months, goes into London to Marylebone. Think it's around 45mins to Wembley.
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Post by SteMerritt on Feb 28, 2016 20:32:34 GMT
Get a taxi to Oxford Parkway railway station (not the station in the city centre, but the new one on the outskirts), direct train to Wembley from there if you don't mind sitting with the Yellow Army.
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