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Reply | Lather, rinse, repeat – Report
at 10:20 22 Jan 2026
Multiple truths I suppose.
e.g. I hadn't picked up from the stream how bad the pitch was, but if it was as bad as mentioned in the report then maybe my idea of trying to get it down and play through Madsen wasn't really workable?
I still think it was, but what do I know really? I often imagine, in situations where I feel strongly about style of play, selection etc, that if I were putting my point across to the manager in a pub he'd rip my argument to bits by bringing in things like player form, unknown lingering injuries, tactical considerations, things they'd worked on all week not working out, etc etc, all of that.
It doesn't make me, you, Clive or anyone else wrong about thinking that we are currently a hard watch, but there is always another side. The fact that we're not privy to it just gives us the luxury and freedom of being able to say it from our perspective. Which, as long as it's kept within normal boundaries of taste and sanity, is what supporters do. |
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Reply | Just back
at 09:19 21 Jan 2026
The weather did look stinking - very well done to those who went.
Didn't we need to try to do adapt our play a bit more to the conditions though? The pitch looked better than ours these days and certainly well watered.
What has happened to trying to find a player in midfield, play through the thirds, all of that? Far far too many times you saw one of our CBs knocking it long into the channel for Bennie to scamper onto, or Kone to try to get it to stick. That now seems to be the plan - turn the opposition, build higher up.
I hate the fcuking about at the back fulcrum stuff too, but couldn't we use that game to remember the happy medium? I don't buy injuries as an excuse not to do that last night because our starting 11 looked perfectly competitive in terms of the opposition. And again I think we're in danger of forgetting how to play in the more balanced way we had shown at times earlier in the season. |
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Reply | Dembélé new boo boy?
at 09:08 21 Jan 2026
I thought he wasn't bad in the first half - looked a bit sharper and a couple of things just didn't come off. And that crossfield ball to Smyth was superb.
Second half he managed to be both anonymous and a liability, which was quite a trick.
He should be benched at best for a while after that. [Post edited 21 Jan 9:33]
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 16:59 20 Jan 2026
Can we try Morgan as a hybrid 10 behind Kone? Can we Juilen can we pleeeease?
Go on - just give it 85 mins and if its not working we can change it. |
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Reply | ENOUGH!!
at 16:53 20 Jan 2026
Pigeon-hearted, fence-sitting malingerers no more capable of withstanding the white heat of a spirited back and forth than a humble slug.
(Sorry I'm just bored) |
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Reply | Justin Obikwu
at 20:02 19 Jan 2026
Just what we need I think so fair play |
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Reply | Dembélé new boo boy?
at 16:04 19 Jan 2026
I haven't had time to read the whole thread but I'd imagine Stephan keeps picking him because, for all these legitimate gripes, he does come up with the odd bit of skill in most games that can make something happen.
And I know it's the level below but Blackpool had him just below god status after that season long loan. So yes, he drives me nuts too a lot of the time but it's got to be worth sticking with him, though NOT in every game - not for example at the expense of Smyth when he's just played well and scored the winner the week before. That's pushing it. |
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Reply | And we never spoke of it again – Report
at 08:05 19 Jan 2026
Good read as always. It's not hard to imagine many people appreciating the defensive display and getting a point, but we played that at times like a team that's just come up and is grateful to hang on.
I know the record, but underneath that record it is still only Stoke - let's expect to be able to put the odd move or two together, or get something going in the final third, and if we can't keep it, move it, dribble it or kick it at the goal maybe consider making a couple of changes before injury time?
And this might be pushing it with the Leicester thrashing not very far in the past, but I fear aspects of these approaches start to become contagious, and they forget how to play with proper, organised, attacking purpose. Even the 3-0 against Sheff Wed which ended that bad Xmas run, was one of the weirdest, most disjointed 3-0's I can remember. |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 15:40 17 Jan 2026
This is poor.
If it stays the same I'd take one of the forwards off for Morgan on 60 mins, try to get a glimmer of something going in midfield.
As it is Stoke will eventually win this 1-0. |
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