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Post by norwayyellow on Apr 16, 2016 16:15:58 GMT
SO FRUSTRATING. We need to win the last four. No doubt about that. I feel three of them anyway
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Post by oufcyellows on Apr 16, 2016 16:20:00 GMT
Oh the joys of following Oufc. It will never be easy. Got a horrible feeling this is going to the last day. Definitely missed cod and macca. So poor at the back. 7 wins from 21 at home not great for the best footballing team in the division. 4 massive actual must win games now
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Post by yellowfever1 on Apr 16, 2016 16:27:17 GMT
We'll get at least FOUR points from our two home games, and we clearly HAVEN'T lost our advantage over the chasers...we have a point and a significant goal difference advantage. It's just not the advantage it was. I don't think so. If you take out the cannon-fodder of Dag and York at home, we've taken 7 from our last 30 available home points and only 3 of those 30 points came from a win. Just going by the law of averages and season long form, 4 points from those home games would be very uncharacteristic. 1 or maybe 2 points would be more fitting with the trend. Also I hope the point comes in handy against Accrington and Plymouth because Bristol are nailed on for 2nd place. Agree that Bristol will get 2nd. Having looked at the fixtures, we would be very unlucky not to get auto promotion with 7 points. A win on Tuesday, will see us nearly halfway there. Also want to add that listening to Appleton's interview, I love his calmness and levelheadedness. He is spot on in everything he has said.
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Post by bashamwonderland on Apr 16, 2016 16:30:34 GMT
I don't think so. If you take out the cannon-fodder of Dag and York at home, we've taken 7 from our last 30 available home points and only 3 of those 30 points came from a win. Just going by the law of averages and season long form, 4 points from those home games would be very uncharacteristic. 1 or maybe 2 points would be more fitting with the trend. Also I hope the point comes in handy against Accrington and Plymouth because Bristol are nailed on for 2nd place. Agree that Bristol will get 2nd. Having looked at the fixtures, we would be very unlucky not to get auto promotion with 7 points. A win on Tuesday, will see us nearly halfway there. Also want to add that listening to Appleton's interview, I love his calmness and levelheadedness. He is spot on in everything he has said. Yeah not all doom and gloom, just really annoying. I think we will get 7 points anyway. Looking at Accrington and Plymouth's run-ins, it looks like they will stumble (fingers crossed) at some point. I can just imagine it; sat watching us lose at Wycombe and just hoping other results will turn/stay as they are. Still, reckon we will go up. The Newport game holds the answers.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 16, 2016 16:38:26 GMT
What an awful performance. Too much panic, not enough control and focus from the players (and fans). We gifted them goals in a way we've not done all seaason and in general were sloppy and off the pace all game. So different from last week.
We desperately need Wright back in the team. We're too loose and naive at the back and it's costing us goals. However MAPP works it, it needs a change and has needed it since Wembley. I'm not sure what Kenny and Buchel were doing on the first goal. It summed up our lack of performance in the game.
Promotion is still on, but by heck we need to get our heads out of our back sides and get back on the front foot. We can't assume teams will roll over for us.
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Post by ttg17 on Apr 16, 2016 16:41:13 GMT
Absolutely f*cking livid. Not one player looked up for it today I don't think we won a single 50/50. Luton were pretty rubbish. Apart from some nice passing passages they really looked bottom half, but they were all getting stuck in. The closing down on our back line we couldn't deal with. Why did we look so deflated??? We were coming off the back of a five goal win!! We threw it away and I'm at a loss to figure out why.
On players, Waring gets a lot of stick on here but I'm a big fan of his, he wins so much in the air, he offers something different. I thought sercombe was terrible, as was Roofe. Two of our most important players, just missing. So disappointing. Also, we finished the match with four strikers playing. WHY??? Why not just put wingers on the wings?! Give Giles a chance, if not why is he here?? We had absolutely no width - it's no good having a Lundstram on the team to spray passes about if you could throw a blanket over our entire team at any given point.
Feel a bit for benji. Any other player slips anywhere else on the pitch, it's normally overlooked, he slips once and it costs us the game (essentially). Ball shouldn't have gone to him in the first place but hope it doesn't affect his confidence, he's been good recently. As for their keeper, that save from Roberts at the end in all fairness was a worldie. What a stop. Such a shame.
Results like Barnet at home I could accept because it was one bad period that lost us the game, followed by relenetless Oxford pressure. Today that just didn't happen, we looked exhausted and disinterested for the vast majority, and that, especially at this stage, I just cannot accept.
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Post by johnox37en on Apr 16, 2016 16:45:27 GMT
What is it about playing at home? There has to be an answer to this, and soon. 4 minutes to salvage something. It wasn't playing at home that lost us this game, it was probably the worst piece of goal keeping I've seen live, that mistake alone lost us that game. Fair enough, but its so frustrating to give away a lead at home. Bring on Newport.
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Post by malcolmnl on Apr 16, 2016 16:52:49 GMT
A little something to cheer us up. Scum lost at home with less than 6800 attending. Doesn't make our shambles today any better but lifted me just a bit.
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Post by oufc28 on Apr 16, 2016 16:53:16 GMT
What is it about playing at home? There has to be an answer to this, and soon. 4 minutes to salvage something. It wasn't playing at home that lost us this game, it was probably the worst piece of goal keeping I've seen live, that mistake alone lost us that game. It wasn't this one mistake that cost us the game!! That allowed then a way back in agreed but some awful defending from front to back allowed them to score two simple goals, the goalie slipped over, yeah mistake on his behalf, why was the ball played back to him when it could have been put into row z? How did their winger (who has one of the best right foots in the league) be allowed to take three touches before crossing the ball? How did three touches of the football open up our entire team for the third goal? But yeah I see your point buchel is totally to blame for today's loss...
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Post by davidmanny (BANNED) on Apr 16, 2016 16:56:01 GMT
Seen better defending in a u10s sunday match.......Evans was absolute pants as was Waring.....Luton were a shite team and we gifted the game to them,and WHO keeps watering that f*cking pitch? it's been raining all bleedin morning......goalie slip cost us dear.....what an absolute balls up......AND it cost me £35 on the betting today................shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhit
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Post by thehorse on Apr 16, 2016 17:00:51 GMT
Had Buchel not made that mistake we go in at half time in front having never been tested, we would have won the game.
I get that you probably don't like slocombe but to try and direct the blame for the defeat anywhere but to Buchel is crazy.
Could whoever passed it back to him have put it in the stand? Maybe!
Could Buchel have done this first time? 100% yes.
Could his first touch have been better? 100% yes.
its the second mistake in 2 weeks from him that has cost us a goal, neither were "unlucky", they were both errors that had you seen happen on a Sunday morning you'd be assuming he was filling as the normal keeper was away that week.
He got lucky last week that the second half performance was so strong that the mistake didn't matter, but today that was awful and cost us the game.
Whether we could have defended better for the other goals is irrelevant as these wouldn't have happened without the first goal being conceded.
Don't get me wrong, I want him to do well, really I do but that today was one of the worst things I've seen live from a goalkeeper and I include any games I've played in too....and I've played with some terrible keepers.
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Post by oufcyellows on Apr 16, 2016 17:01:16 GMT
Annoying that we chose Bowery over piggot in Jan.
Annoying that we felt the need to water the pitch after two days of heavy rain, and then wonder why the gk slipped over
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Post by norwayyellow on Apr 16, 2016 17:02:12 GMT
Little down at the mo. I feel we are playoff bound. I would have been happy with that 9 months ago so I need to get a grip of my feelings.
Win or lose up the U's
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Post by behindthegoal on Apr 16, 2016 17:03:50 GMT
Roofe another game where he thinks "all I have to do is turn up and all will fall into place"....why does he fart and fiddle and dilly dallies around, when all you have to do is ...just cross the bloody thing!!!!!!!
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Post by norwayyellow on Apr 16, 2016 17:03:57 GMT
Annoying that we chose Bowery over piggot in Jan. Annoying that we felt the need to water the pitch after two days of heavy rain, and then wonder why the gk slipped over Think of his goals and points won
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Post by whingit on Apr 16, 2016 17:06:03 GMT
Wherever we end up, Bowery's goals will have been important. He's been good for us.
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Post by holdsteady on Apr 16, 2016 17:07:35 GMT
Had Buchel not made that mistake we go in at half time in front having never been tested, we would have won the game. I get that you probably don't like slocombe but to try and direct the blame for the defeat anywhere but to Buchel is crazy. Could whoever passed it back to him have put it in the stand? Maybe! Could Buchel have done this first time? 100% yes. Could his first touch have been better? 100% yes. its the second mistake in 2 weeks from him that has cost us a goal, neither were "unlucky", they were both errors that had you seen happen on a Sunday morning you'd be assuming he was filling as the normal keeper was away that week. He got lucky last week that the second half performance was so strong that the mistake didn't matter, but today that was awful and cost us the game. Whether we could have defended better for the other goals is irrelevant as these wouldn't have happened without the first goal being conceded. Don't get me wrong, I want him to do well, really I do but that today was one of the worst things I've seen live from a goalkeeper and I include any games I've played in too....and I've played with some terrible keepers. I played Sunday league with a goalie like that, it makes the whole defence jittery. I do wonder if our sloppy defending is caused by our poor goalkeepers inspiring no confidence from those in front of them. In a bad position now of having two not very good goalkeepers who are unlikely to play next season but we need 4 good performances from them, just need to hope that they can produce.
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Post by oufcyellows on Apr 16, 2016 17:08:33 GMT
Annoying that we chose Bowery over piggot in Jan. Annoying that we felt the need to water the pitch after two days of heavy rain, and then wonder why the gk slipped over Think of his goals and points won Yeah, not slating him. Not bein used to his strengths, even mapp said on the radio after he's better away from one on the counter attack, because of his pace. But as a replacement for Taylor who were missing, he's as much use as Waring. Collins or piggot could have done well. I've got a horrible feeling this is going down to Wycombe. If it does then just please god let it rest on our result and not ours plus something happening else where
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Post by whingit on Apr 16, 2016 17:09:30 GMT
I'm not being silly here but I genuinely think Hoban's hold-up play could have been useful today, as it could have been against Stevenage and Cambridge.
EDIT: Ruffels could turned the midfield battle in our favour, too.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 16, 2016 17:09:50 GMT
I'm not down per se, just frustrated that we wasted a good performance last week with a load of dross this week. It just makes our life harder than it needs to be.
Evans is struggling in the team and having Dunkley next to him means there are wide open spaces for teams to get in behind. Evans desperately needs help from his CB or the midfield. And he's not got it. The lad looks over matched at times and I do feel sorry for him as his team mates aren't helping him as much as they could.
It's a shame COD and Macca were out today. Both would have made a difference.
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Post by The Fence End on Apr 16, 2016 17:17:09 GMT
We never do things the easy way do we? HUGE game on Tuesday.
It's such a shame that we have to play at home in the run in!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2016 17:19:53 GMT
Buchel has been better than Slocombe this season. I'd rather have Bowery over Pigot purely because of goals contributed. O'Dowda was definitely missed and has been a revelation recently. I'm just getting fed up with the fact that every time we have a chance to capitalise with a good win we blow it. Had Accrington won today we would have been looking towards the play offs with a slight slip
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Post by Yellow River on Apr 16, 2016 17:31:17 GMT
Our two young fullbacks both struggled today, everyone knew we would miss Baldock especially his attacking play, but Skarz is also being missed for his calmness and defensive qualities.
MacDonald also gives good support to the fullback and he was a big miss today. Roofe and Maguire playing in front of two fairly inexperienced fullbacks gives us problems defensively.
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Post by ox18 on Apr 16, 2016 17:48:33 GMT
The main points I have taken from today's game. 1) why are we watering the pitch after heavy rainfall for two days? 2) we do not have a striker capable of heading the ball or holding the ball up. 3) teams don't fear us at home, even after we went 1-0 we never took charge of the game and Luton always looked a threat. 4) I'll willingly take the backlash for saying this but roofe is lazy and arrogant, pointless playing him as a winger when he has not interest in chasing down full backs. Maguire covered more distance than roofe today..that is saying something 5) the club can no longer blame fans for low attendances anymore, the 8000 that were supporting Oxford gave everything today even when the team was behind. What were we rewarded with? Rant over, see you at Newport. Spot on, although watering the pitch is not the total reason for Benji's slip, he panics too much for me, that was half the reason he made a cock up. Someone earlier on this thread said they rate Waring....really, he is no improvement on Hoban. I remember last week at Crawley when he scored, I said to the bloke next to me...Waring scored, but only because it hit him in the right place. It was criminal in January not to strengthen the defence with experienced players, I know we have been so unlucky and not predictable in losing Scartz but we should have been prepared with an experienced full back, especially as we knew we were losing Baldock. Evans puts in a lot of effort, but goes forward too much for my liking , leaving gaps at the back. I am bloody livid at the moment, as usual when the going gets tough, for our home games we rely on the likes of Accrington slipping up at home. The Chairman can hype the attendance up all he likes, but today is a prime example of why we will never get consistent crowds at home. We are still not quite out of it, and autos are not thrown away yet. Accrington proved that today by not trashing Morecambe. But just why do we not have the bottle to make things easy.
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Post by bazzer9461 on Apr 16, 2016 17:51:07 GMT
I hope Macca and COD are better and raring to go for Tuesday night we certainly missed them today. Felt George Wearing wasn't very good today and was calling for Bowery which happened but no different, The young full backs struggled today and i fear they will struggle in at least 3 of our remaining games. I do hope the coaches can sort this problem out. Midfield wasn't as good as Lootons Jonjo and Benji at fault for the first and Mulls at fault for the 2nd and the defence at fault for the 3rd.
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Post by dubaiyellow on Apr 16, 2016 17:59:36 GMT
obviously today was a disaster but it could have been a lot worse if other results had been different, our home form is crap but if we win on Tues then we are back on track, no games are easy, but its in our hands, hopefully we will have COD and Macca back, there is also a case for Wright after todays mistakes at the back.
Todays game is history, just need to draw breath, look at the table, we are 2nd, we are in a better place than any of the teams that we are worried about, forget everything that has happened so far and concentrate on the remaining games starting with Newport on Tuesday.
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Post by bicesterox on Apr 16, 2016 17:59:50 GMT
A little something to cheer us up. Scum lost at home with less than 6800 attending. Doesn't make our shambles today any better but lifted me just a bit. Not me, I'm gutted and even the Scum getting beat can't cheer me up at the moment, sorry, I'm just feeling so sick worrying that we've fucked it up yet again I hope we haven't but that's how I feel tonight
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Post by oufcjack11 on Apr 16, 2016 18:01:21 GMT
Anyone else feeling really deflated over a game which we could have made so easy?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Apr 16, 2016 18:03:01 GMT
Terrible performance IMO.
On the plus side: we did make a few chances, Hylton and Bowery played well.
On the minus side: Where was our midfield? What about tackling? Movement off the ball? Waring was terrible, Lundstram completely anonymous. Roofe had the most selfish match so far (yes I know he passed to Hylton for the first goal), we need a new keeper for next season whichever league we are in. If I see Bowery failing to even jump for a header one more time, I will personally run onto the pitch and kick him up the arse as hard as I can. There was no intensity, we didn't play the ball on the floor enough, we never got hold of the ball - and when we did there were too many looped passes played 'somewhere up the field' without even bloody looking first!
Having been at Crawley last week, I cannot understand how the team that played so excellently in the second half there can be so dreadful today. We desperately missed the pace, movement and width provided by O'Dowda and MacDonald - I am keeping everything crossed that they are fit for Tuesday which is (and I'll say it for the first time this season) a MUST WIN game.
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Post by bazzer9461 on Apr 16, 2016 18:09:11 GMT
Trevor Kettle was no better either.
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