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Post by tonyw on Apr 22, 2016 17:21:45 GMT
So you're saying we're fucked? Teh new expert behind me will p*ss and moan throughout a goal-less first half, blaming everybody except Dave Cudd for being useless, thus proving he knows more about football than anyone who goes regularly. We might just win. Imagine! In the silence of Kassam's mausoleum. It's time for big hearts and some of our players to step up. We can do this. COYY! We can do atmosphere - we've done it before! Even at the breeze block. I'm thinking Rushden in the playoff semi-final. We were all scared that day that we were going to screw it up against that tinpot outfit who were on the fasttrack to oblivion - but we still filled the ground and made a racket. That's the attitude we need to find.....not the nail-biting, moaning, misery that we can be prone to. (not that I'm going to be much help from 4000 miles away......)
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Post by Paul Cannell on Apr 22, 2016 17:22:59 GMT
I agree. Drum your fingers hopefully it may help
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Post by Junior on Apr 22, 2016 17:27:48 GMT
Shame the Oxfordshire public are not backing the team when they need it the most..
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Post by oufcyellows on Apr 22, 2016 17:31:47 GMT
Shame the Oxfordshire public are not backing the team when they need it the most.. I'm pretty sure home crowds have proved this season that the more that come and the louder it is has no relation to the score what so ever. Yet the better the team plays the better the crowds get. Unfortunately since Xmas we've been pretty awful at home
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 19:20:33 GMT
I am desperately hoping that Cuddy will come along soon and lighten the mood with his weekly usual.
TBH, it is one of the few things that I have been looking forward to this week.
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Post by oufc28 on Apr 22, 2016 19:22:13 GMT
I hope those fans who have already condemned us to the play offs don't bother with this game of the next two. I mean what's the point? These three games are meaningless in the eyes of some. Stay at home with your negativity and leave the positivity to the fans at the game. The players will be nervous enough as it is let alone having some fans moaning when a player takes a bad touch or miss places a pass. This is in our hands and the boys neee every bit of support we can give. Make it a long wait for those going to the play off games.
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Post by dubaiyellow on Apr 22, 2016 19:26:52 GMT
Swansea was a high attendance and we won! What's wrong with half of you! Turn up, SUPPORT the team!
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Post by Pete Burrett on Apr 22, 2016 19:30:58 GMT
We're gonna beat Hartlepool with ease. Luton and Newport will be forgotten come 17.00 tomorrow.
Accrington will lose at home to pressure-off York, who despatched Portsmouth with ease on Tuesday. Nervous Plymouth will fumble and stumble to a draw with Dagenham, with Rovers doing the same agin Exeter. End result:
Oxford 80 points Accrington 78 Plymouth 78 Rovers 77
Onwards to a win at Carlisle, at least a draw against Wycombe and we'll be up.
COYY
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Post by harrycarry on Apr 22, 2016 19:32:11 GMT
Message to anyone out there who is thinking about NOT going tomorrow. You really MUST support OUFC tomorrow, it's going to be the day when the tide turns back firmly in our favour. We will win tomorrow and other results will go out way, and it will be a great day for us!
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Post by KristapsGrebis on Apr 22, 2016 19:48:10 GMT
Feck it, 3-1 Oxford. Early scare but we put it right with a Hylts hat-trick.
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Post by verbal kint on Apr 22, 2016 20:05:01 GMT
8-0 piece of p*ss. No disrespect to the hangers of monkeys but if we want to go up then we should be relishing a game against a team thinking of summer hols.
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Post by concretebob on Apr 22, 2016 20:20:14 GMT
Key to this game is not conceding like we did against Luton - by letting the opposition score just before half time
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Post by oxford84 on Apr 22, 2016 20:23:37 GMT
We're gonna beat Hartlepool with ease. Luton and Newport will be forgotten come 17.00 tomorrow. Accrington will lose at home to pressure-off York, who despatched Portsmouth with ease on Tuesday. Nervous Plymouth will fumble and stumble to a draw with Dagenham, with Rovers doing the same agin Exeter. End result: Oxford 80 points Accrington 78 Plymouth 78 Rovers 77 Onwards to a win at Carlisle, at least a draw against Wycombe and we'll be up. COYY That's it,weve lost.i think you got everyone of your predictions wrong the other night,why couldn't you predict wed lose?
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Post by Pete Burrett on Apr 22, 2016 20:25:15 GMT
We're gonna beat Hartlepool with ease. Luton and Newport will be forgotten come 17.00 tomorrow. Accrington will lose at home to pressure-off York, who despatched Portsmouth with ease on Tuesday. Nervous Plymouth will fumble and stumble to a draw with Dagenham, with Rovers doing the same agin Exeter. End result: Oxford 80 points Accrington 78 Plymouth 78 Rovers 77 Onwards to a win at Carlisle, at least a draw against Wycombe and we'll be up. COYY That's it,weve lost.i think you got everyone of your predictions wrong the other night,why couldn't you predict wed lose? I'm not superstitious. I only got 4/4 wrong on Tuesday. I'm due a success.
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Post by amershamdave on Apr 22, 2016 21:39:36 GMT
It's not looking good, as far as injuries and illnesses go, for our turnout against Hartlepool. By the start of the game, I predict our injury list will be: Slocombe and Buchel (injured prides), Evans (injured rib), Skarz (penis replacement and scrotum rearrangement), Dunkley (sore head after continual heading of the crossbar, instead of the ball), Wright (injured everything), MacDonald and O'Dowda (knackered tonsils), Roofe (hunchback after being accidently nutted in the coccyx by Dunkley, on Tuesday), Sercombe (injured clavicle), Hylton, Roberts and Lundstrum all injured after falling off a 'buckin' bronco' fairground thingy. The rest of the squad going down with the 'two bob bits' after having a dodgy curry. Oxford United will be forced to put out their under 9's team. So, my score prediction is; Oxford United 0 Hartlepool 132-4 declared. Att: 7000 and NO away fans. Interestingly, its not just the on-field shenanegans that are catching my attention. The scoreboard, once our pride and joy, will have 'condemmed' and 'for sale' stickers on it. Overnight, someone will steal the floodlights and, just for a joke, replace the goal posts with hockey goal posts. The officials will be: The ref, (Mr. T. Mallett) and the linos - Mr.J. Rosenthal & Mr. T. Henman. After accusations of potential bias from Hartlepool FC, they will be convinced that it is just a coincidence. Jeff Smelling will make a guest appearance at half time and make silly comments, as his team are leading 68-nil, against our little 'uns. Skarz, although suffering with massive groin-related problems, will deck him, for being a smug and smarmy bastard. Dunkley will also go to nut him - but miss and accidently lay one on Peter Rhodes Brown, who will go on to recite a poem called 'Ruthless Roderick, the Rotherham rabble rouser, regrets rogering raucous Rachel repeatedly, reiterating his retirement programme' - in a perfect manner. At the start of the second half, Skarz will feel slightly better and replace our 8 year old left back, who has to go off for a wee-wee break. Sadly, after 5 minutes, their centre-forward will accidently kick Skarz in the bollocks and his recently attached, replacement penis will fall off. An eagle-eyed crow will swoop down and fly off with the replacement penis. Skarz will go on to become a famous soprano singer. At this point, things will start to go a bit strange. A dog will run onto the pitch, have a pee, then give birth to 6 puppies on the halfway line. A man flying a microlight will sail over the stadium and crash into the car park behind the East Stand. A massive black cloud will appear fromm nowhere and an enormous lightening strike will hit the ball after 56 minutes, causing it to explode. Two Oxford fans will unfurl a flag with Brexit written on it - not the 'leave the EU' brigade, but 'let's boycott the Eurovision song contest because its crap anyway' group. Two police officers will fight each other after 85 minutes. One of the corner posts will snap in two after 89 minutes. The director's box will explode and someone will let off a firework. That just about does it for me.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 22, 2016 22:06:06 GMT
Part of me hopes the crowd is smaller tomorrow and the game goes back to another lower league game rather than a promotion do or die game. The last couple of home games have been too edgy for my liking.
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Post by oldham on Apr 22, 2016 23:04:24 GMT
It's not looking good, as far as injuries and illnesses go, for our turnout against Hartlepool. By the start of the game, I predict our injury list will be: Slocombe and Buchel (injured prides), Evans (injured rib), Skarz (penis replacement and scrotum rearrangement), Dunkley (sore head after continual heading of the crossbar, instead of the ball), Wright (injured everything), MacDonald and O'Dowda (knackered tonsils), Roofe (hunchback after being accidently nutted in the coccyx by Dunkley, on Tuesday), Sercombe (injured clavicle), Hylton, Roberts and Lundstrum all injured after falling off a 'buckin' bronco' fairground thingy. The rest of the squad going down with the 'two bob bits' after having a dodgy curry. Oxford United will be forced to put out their under 9's team. So, my score prediction is; Oxford United 0 Hartlepool 132-4 declared. Att: 7000 and NO away fans. Interestingly, its not just the on-field shenanegans that are catching my attention. The scoreboard, once our pride and joy, will have 'condemmed' and 'for sale' stickers on it. Overnight, someone will steal the floodlights and, just for a joke, replace the goal posts with hockey goal posts. The officials will be: The ref, (Mr. T. Mallett) and the linos - Mr.J. Rosenthal & Mr. T. Henman. After accusations of potential bias from Hartlepool FC, they will be convinced that it is just a coincidence. Jeff Smelling will make a guest appearance at half time and make silly comments, as his team are leading 68-nil, against our little 'uns. Skarz, although suffering with massive groin-related problems, will deck him, for being a smug and smarmy bastard. Dunkley will also go to nut him - but miss and accidently lay one on Peter Rhodes Brown, who will go on to recite a poem called 'Ruthless Roderick, the Rotherham rabble rouser, regrets rogering raucous Rachel repeatedly, reiterating his retirement programme' - in a perfect manner. At the start of the second half, Skarz will feel slightly better and replace our 8 year old left back, who has to go off for a wee-wee break. Sadly, after 5 minutes, their centre-forward will accidently kick Skarz in the bollocks and his recently attached, replacement penis will fall off. An eagle-eyed crow will swoop down and fly off with the replacement penis. Skarz will go on to become a famous soprano singer. At this point, things will start to go a bit strange. A dog will run onto the pitch, have a pee, then give birth to 6 puppies on the halfway line. A man flying a microlight will sail over the stadium and crash into the car park behind the East Stand. A massive black cloud will appear fromm nowhere and an enormous lightening strike will hit the ball after 56 minutes, causing it to explode. Two Oxford fans will unfurl a flag with Brexit written on it - not the 'leave the EU' brigade, but 'let's boycott the Eurovision song contest because its crap anyway' group. Two police officers will fight each other after 85 minutes. One of the corner posts will snap in two after 89 minutes. The director's box will explode and someone will let off a firework. That just about does it for me. [ Cuddy you kill me mate, you really do lol
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Post by yellowfever1 on Apr 23, 2016 3:52:41 GMT
Swansea was a high attendance and we won! What's wrong with half of you! Turn up, SUPPORT the team! Swansea was a lot more exciting for some than Hartlepool and also we weren't expected to beat them. Therefore, I assume there was an inverse relationship between the positive support from fans and the pressure of winning. Also many 'fairweather' fans who go to games like Swansea don't turn up to berate the players for misplaced passes and I guess they go someway to actually drowning out the negativity. Whatever fans come; however badly we play tomorrow, we have to support and encourage. If a player makes 20 misplaced passes, clap and encourage him before his 21st pass. By all means come on here afterwards and complain about him, but criticizing players at the game is akin to punching a male cat after trying to milk it by spending 30 minutes rubbing and twiddling the teets.
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Post by sonofivan on Apr 23, 2016 5:10:03 GMT
Swansea was a high attendance and we won! What's wrong with half of you! Turn up, SUPPORT the team! Swansea was a lot more exciting for some than Hartlepool and also we weren't expected to beat them. Therefore, I assume there was an inverse relationship between the positive support from fans and the pressure of winning. Also many 'fairweather' fans who go to games like Swansea don't turn up to berate the players for misplaced passes and I guess they go someway to actually drowning out the negativity. Whatever fans come; however badly we play tomorrow, we have to support and encourage. If a player makes 20 misplaced passes, clap and encourage him before his 21st pass. By all means come on here afterwards and complain about him, but criticizing players at the game is akin to punching a male cat after trying to milk it by spending 30 minutes rubbing and twiddling the teets. Wow that's a hell of a simile you've got going on! You did post at 4:52am so I guess it's to be expected. So I think you're trying to say that we are flogging a dead donkey in the bush?
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Post by manorlounger on Apr 23, 2016 7:14:03 GMT
It's not looking good, as far as injuries and illnesses go, for our turnout against Hartlepool. By the start of the game, I predict our injury list will be: Slocombe and Buchel (injured prides), Evans (injured rib), Skarz (penis replacement and scrotum rearrangement), Dunkley (sore head after continual heading of the crossbar, instead of the ball), Wright (injured everything), MacDonald and O'Dowda (knackered tonsils), Roofe (hunchback after being accidently nutted in the coccyx by Dunkley, on Tuesday), Sercombe (injured clavicle), Hylton, Roberts and Lundstrum all injured after falling off a 'buckin' bronco' fairground thingy. The rest of the squad going down with the 'two bob bits' after having a dodgy curry. Oxford United will be forced to put out their under 9's team. So, my score prediction is; Oxford United 0 Hartlepool 132-4 declared. Att: 7000 and NO away fans. Interestingly, its not just the on-field shenanegans that are catching my attention. The scoreboard, once our pride and joy, will have 'condemmed' and 'for sale' stickers on it. Overnight, someone will steal the floodlights and, just for a joke, replace the goal posts with hockey goal posts. The officials will be: The ref, (Mr. T. Mallett) and the linos - Mr.J. Rosenthal & Mr. T. Henman. After accusations of potential bias from Hartlepool FC, they will be convinced that it is just a coincidence. Jeff Smelling will make a guest appearance at half time and make silly comments, as his team are leading 68-nil, against our little 'uns. Skarz, although suffering with massive groin-related problems, will deck him, for being a smug and smarmy bastard. Dunkley will also go to nut him - but miss and accidently lay one on Peter Rhodes Brown, who will go on to recite a poem called 'Ruthless Roderick, the Rotherham rabble rouser, regrets rogering raucous Rachel repeatedly, reiterating his retirement programme' - in a perfect manner. At the start of the second half, Skarz will feel slightly better and replace our 8 year old left back, who has to go off for a wee-wee break. Sadly, after 5 minutes, their centre-forward will accidently kick Skarz in the bollocks and his recently attached, replacement penis will fall off. An eagle-eyed crow will swoop down and fly off with the replacement penis. Skarz will go on to become a famous soprano singer. At this point, things will start to go a bit strange. A dog will run onto the pitch, have a pee, then give birth to 6 puppies on the halfway line. A man flying a microlight will sail over the stadium and crash into the car park behind the East Stand. A massive black cloud will appear fromm nowhere and an enormous lightening strike will hit the ball after 56 minutes, causing it to explode. Two Oxford fans will unfurl a flag with Brexit written on it - not the 'leave the EU' brigade, but 'let's boycott the Eurovision song contest because its crap anyway' group. Two police officers will fight each other after 85 minutes. One of the corner posts will snap in two after 89 minutes. The director's box will explode and someone will let off a firework. That just about does it for me. You have excelled yourself old boy!
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Post by mcf86 on Apr 23, 2016 7:19:57 GMT
Too much talk and not enough 'Do' - nay mind what others do, get there and support the frigging team, then at least you can be proud of yourself!! If our team puts in 'a shift' then we'll have a very good chance of victory.
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Post by yellowfever1 on Apr 23, 2016 7:57:32 GMT
Swansea was a lot more exciting for some than Hartlepool and also we weren't expected to beat them. Therefore, I assume there was an inverse relationship between the positive support from fans and the pressure of winning. Also many 'fairweather' fans who go to games like Swansea don't turn up to berate the players for misplaced passes and I guess they go someway to actually drowning out the negativity. Whatever fans come; however badly we play tomorrow, we have to support and encourage. If a player makes 20 misplaced passes, clap and encourage him before his 21st pass. By all means come on here afterwards and complain about him, but criticizing players at the game is akin to punching a male cat after trying to milk it by spending 30 minutes rubbing and twiddling the teets. Wow that's a hell of a simile you've got going on! You did post at 4:52am so I guess it's to be expected. So I think you're trying to say that we are flogging a dead donkey in the bush? Yes that is what I'm saying. I am 5 hours ahead of England so was of sound(ish) mind when posting.
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Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
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Post by mermaid on Apr 23, 2016 8:39:33 GMT
A good day for a quote from the Bard, and quite apt too :-
Measure for Measure
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt". - (Act I, Scene IV).
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Post by oufcyellows on Apr 23, 2016 8:43:38 GMT
I prefer .
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Post by carefreeoufc on Apr 23, 2016 9:23:33 GMT
1-1 COD to score for OUFC, 8235 in attendance.
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Post by gottagetbetta on Apr 23, 2016 9:57:25 GMT
Oh well, if we are doing the bard this week then you can't do better than this
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he today that sheds his blood with me shaal be my brother, be he ne'er so vile. This day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in Oxford now a-bed shall think themselves accursed they were not here..."
With apologies to William for the slight tweak. Lets do this thing!
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Post by huggett on Apr 23, 2016 9:57:28 GMT
Wow that's a hell of a simile you've got going on! You did post at 4:52am so I guess it's to be expected. So I think you're trying to say that we are flogging a dead donkey in the bush? Yes that is what I'm saying. I am 5 hours ahead of England so was of sound(ish) mind when posting. Where's you, Middle East or India?
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Post by oldman159 on Apr 23, 2016 10:20:41 GMT
SIMPLES......COYYs ?
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Post by Gary Baldi on Apr 23, 2016 11:16:42 GMT
Any nerves should be gone today. It needs a positive atmosphere and more patience. Whoever plays left back will need help not snide remarks if they mess up.
3 points today, good performance and all the worries will go.
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Post by sonofivan on Apr 23, 2016 11:41:13 GMT
Forgive my ignorance but I just googled the the reason Pools have their nickname and it found it very funny.
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