Oxford thread

You having a moan Redraine ?,never !!! :).The main difference between the first and second halves were that they went longer,picked up more of the second balls,which allowed them to get on the ball more in advanced positions.
I am optimistic because we didn't conceed against a good attacking team,indeed probably the best in the league.
 
football19 said:
I am optimistic because we didn't conceed against a good attacking team,indeed probably the best in the league.
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To me....down to a rightly lauded and rewarded M.O.M. display by Bettenelli....Aldred was also immense.

All the back five....keeper and the four lads in defence played rock solid, but at times are exposed by the lack of a competative and combative midfield.:(
 
Could not get in today due to being 15 mins late, it would be good to leave turnstiles open a bit longer for people who have tickets in certain stands.
 
Dragged a Roverite to the game today. His assessment? "You could have played another ninety and still wouldn't have scored".

Hard to disagree. A lucky point garnered via a couple of shocking Oxford misses and Bettenelli wonder saves. Beattie will no doubt trot out the "unlucky" schtick but there is nothing unlucky about not shooting when we have the chance.

We created nothing...yet JB drags off the one proven finisher we have and replaces him with arguably our worst midfielder. Time wasting and hanging on for a point at home is not good enough.

I don't care how much of "a muppet" it makes me. The naysayers who slagged Rob because he was busy sorting out wages rather than their petty gripe and those who hate Coley because he'd been there longer than them can jog on.

Too many people who lived and breathed our little club have been replaced by users and well wishers who haven't the foggiest.

Bring back JC and battling to make the Crown a fortress. Bring back players who genuinely care!!!
 
football19 said:
Didn't they put 8 goals past us home and away last year ?
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Er, no :o

We beat them home and away last season (1-0 each time) :p

They did beat us at their place 4-0 in 2010/11 and 5-1 in 2011/12 which may be what you had in mind ........

Flukey! :D
 
football19 said:
You having a moan Redraine ?,never !!! :)
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Ha ha, very humorous! Your loyalty to the players is admirable, but perhaps you should declare your special interest when commenting on our games, for the benefit of those who do not know. They might then understand your curiously one-eyed reports, regular bigging up of the oppositions' forwards and your obsession with formations and clean sheets. For me, I don't care a toss about clean sheets so long as we score more goals than the opposition, which I always naively thought was the object of the game. Surely it hasn't escaped your notice that we haven't yet achieved this in any game this season in League2?
 
Redraine said:
Ha ha, very humorous! Your loyalty to the players is admirable, but perhaps you should declare your special interest when commenting on our games, for the benefit of those who do not know. They might then understand your curiously one-eyed reports, regular bigging up of the oppositions' forwards and your obsession with formations and clean sheets. For me, I don't care a toss about clean sheets so long as we score more goals than the opposition, which I always naively thought was the object of the game. Surely it hasn't escaped your notice that we haven't yet achieved this in any game this season in League2?
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Please tell us, im all ears.
 
They beat us 5=0 away and 3-0 at home last season. In fact we've never beaten them. Looking on the bright side I like to split the season up into thirds and see where we are after 15 and 30 matches with an aim of 20 points in each third. Our best two starts to the season have seen us with 23 points after 15 matches including last season and both times we've ended up struggling against relegation. Our worst to date saw us getting 13 points from the first 15 games the season we reached the play offs. Win the next three and we've got 13 points from the first 15. Play offs here we come!
 
Chewbacca said:
Could not get in today due to being 15 mins late, it would be good to leave turnstiles open a bit longer for people who have tickets in certain stands.
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When you're late, you need to go through the turnstile next to the changing rooms. It has Late entrance written above the gate, the gate will usually be closed but there is always somebody behind it.
If you need to be on the clayton end, just show your ticket to the steward on the gate and he/she will let you through.

I was 20 minutes late yesterday, but still got in.
 
smobile said:
I know it's obvious, but it's all about sticking the ball in the net. We are not shipping goals like there's no tomorrow. We are just not scoring enough.

Last 9 games = 6 Defeats by 1 goal & 3 Draws = 3 points.

Score just one more goal per game and it's a different story.

Last 9 games = 6 Draws & 3 Wins = 15 points.

If we were getting thumped 3 & 4 week in, week out, I'd be worried.

It will come, starting on Tuesday.

Keep The Faith
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I don't think there were many relegated teams that were thrashed each week. Barnet had a goal difference of -12 (the same as ours now) and Aldershot had -18. Dagenham who finished 3rd from bottom were also on -12.
I know that we've drawn a couple recently, but we will be relegated if things don't changed quickly. To be honest, I don't see much improvement between the games I've seen and the manager seems unable to change things. The team is crying out for midfield players to 'drive play forwards' and everyone can see that, yet the problem remains. OK, so it's a limited budget, but we have signed ineffectual loan players within that budget. I'm sure there are players out there who would do the job, after all, previous managers have always managed to do it.
At the moment the best we can hope for is 0-0, because if we go a goal down the game is virtually lost. Teams know this and are happy to go 1 up, knowing that the game is in the bag. They don't have to beat us 6-0, one goal gives them the 3 points most of the time.
 
Divison3 north - read lost in Cornwallis post !!!.
Redraine,no one on this forum wants to know that I am really Jimmy Bell :) !!
Seriously though,I have always followed Wigan for the last 39 years,but Acci are my second team.
Everything I post is my own views ( not thro rose tinted glasses).
There are always two teams on the park,and I give my views on both,basically for those who can't attend.
I thought that was what forums are all about,and it's a bit harsh saying
otherwise.
90% of posters on here have known who I am for years anyway !!
You have no given right to win a football game,and I will always give credit to teams who come to Acci with a game plan and do a number on us.
 
football19 said:
Ps - my views on clean sheets is simplistic - you don't build an house before you put foundations in :)
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True, but when builders run out of money and ideas, sometimes foundations are all you get. Anyway, let's call a truce on this one. I would never question your right to post whatever you want anyway. I was up at 3.30 this morning unable to sleep, kicking every ball again from yesterdays game, so had to get the post out of my system. Sorry if I came across a bit of a pillock.
 
Alvin, you'll not have to drag Roverites much longer the way they are playing. He might want to get familiar with our level....

My biggest worry is these small players who for one reason or another make little effect on the game. I don't want a team of meat-heads but at this level strength counts massively.

For Tuesday I'd stick with the same team except replace Mingoia with a more orthodox midfielder cos often yesterday we seemed to be playing with two wingers and god knows we can't afford that with the lack of pace of Joyce and Murphy. If we just have an energetic midfielder to drive us forward and pick up the 2nd ball, J & M can just do their usual stuff and allow Naismith to concentrate on attacking the full back cos its clear he's not a fan of retrieving the ball. Keep Webber as the target (though yesterday he was worryingly never near the ball) and Gray, who was a huge ray of hope, feeding off him.

I genuinely think we have good players but they don't seem to have a system or know their roles within it. Which Beatts needs to get across to them.

KTF
 
Chewbacca said:
Could not get in today due to being 15 mins late, it would be good to leave turnstiles open a bit longer for people who have tickets in certain stands.
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I, for once, turned up at twenty- past-two and was turned away from the main turnstiles by one of four Stewards who looked soewhat bemused, if not competely phased by the sticky problem of allowing me, waving my Season-ticket as near to their faces as near I was able, into the ground !.
Then one of them obviously decided that I was not getting in by the entrance which they were guarding so diligently, and directed me towards another possible means of gaining access to t'Storefirst...'If you go down there'( He pointed me in the general direction of 'The Coppice' )...'You'll find a gate with red bars on it !....feeling that I couldn't let an opportunity like this pass me by, I said....'And then what ?'..This seemed to confuse him even more as he fell silent, upon which one of his colleagues made my afternoon complete by adding not 'knock three times and ask for Joe'....but 'they'll know what to do !'
...priceless !!.
So I found the gate which bore a legend suggesting that here was the place where late arrivals would be made welcome. This too was securely locked and well guarded by a gaggle ( If that is an acceptable Collective Noun for such entities) of Stewards.
Again I waved my Season Ticket in their general direction and after a while one of these who appeared to be a little annoyed, possibly by me interfering with his following of the game, closely scrutinised my Ticket, and after confirming his decision with a colleague, somewhat grudgingly, and with a look of suspicion, opened the gate and finally allowed me in...( Although I was a little disappointed that they left out the full-body search !).
The welcome which I received from those sitting in the Main Stand, and who I thought held some little affection for me, did little to lift my mood..FA 19 said something like ' Where have you been 'til now'...others suggested that I had overslept...and a quiet ironic cheer went up from soewhere near the back row.
One or two Oxford United Directors stared at me like a flock of Vultures surruonding a dying Zebra....AND The Reds hadn't even scored a goal !!.
Just another day at 'The Crown'
 
No complaints from me, I thought it was a great game from my prospectus; both teams having had chances of taking the 3 points, plenty of effort shown by the Reds and a point taken off a team holding 2nd position in league prior to kick-off,
 
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