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Revived Red · 19-12-2012, 11:21

Oddly, I have to find myself in agreement with both football19 and Exile on Spencer St. The lack of movement, and indeed the failure to do comparatively simple things, is a worry. It was noticeable last night that when Oxford had a throw-in, they invariably had one or more players unmarked. Yet when we had a throw-in, all our players were marked and the throw was almost always an optimistic effort down the line in the (usually forlorn) hope of a flick on. Exile says "slow and ponderous" - there is no excuse for us being thus at throw-ins.

And another simple thing - corners. Yes we had more than Oxford, but too many were wasted. Oxford always looked threatening from corners - and indeed scored from one.

Despite these misgivings, I thought we did reasonably well last night. Losing our two centre backs was always going to be a real problem. The disallowed goal didn't help; the officials were very poor indeed. There is no doubt that the better team won but, as football19 says, there were positives. Let's home Leam and his staff are able to work on the simple things that are lacking at the moment.

19-12-2012, 11:21	#23
Revived Red Senior Member+ Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Portishead, near Bristol Posts: 3,087 Liked: 954 times Rep Power: 28175	Re: The Wishing and Hoping Oxford Thread !. Oddly, I have to find myself in agreement with both football19 and Exile on Spencer St. The lack of movement, and indeed the failure to do comparatively simple things, is a worry. It was noticeable last night that when Oxford had a throw-in, they invariably had one or more players unmarked. Yet when we had a throw-in, all our players were marked and the throw was almost always an optimistic effort down the line in the (usually forlorn) hope of a flick on. Exile says "slow and ponderous" - there is no excuse for us being thus at throw-ins. And another simple thing - corners. Yes we had more than Oxford, but too many were wasted. Oxford always looked threatening from corners - and indeed scored from one. Despite these misgivings, I thought we did reasonably well last night. Losing our two centre backs was always going to be a real problem. The disallowed goal didn't help; the officials were very poor indeed. There is no doubt that the better team won but, as football19 says, there were positives. Let's home Leam and his staff are able to work on the simple things that are lacking at the moment.