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Reply | The 3 sides of a match thread at Oxford
at 12:56 21 Jan 2026
I completely agree Nix.
Some great posts on here .
I didn’t look at this thread at full time, no point in looking back now as I don’t have the time or the willpower so I haven’t seen a lot of the anger that’s being talked about .
I’ve deliberately started leaving it a while after a match before I post on here .
I think I learned my lesson after Coventry where I, and many others came on here fuming .
Understandable I think , but maybe not the best idea .
But as well as leaving it a while to post after a match , I do feel a little disillusioned with how we are playing rather than the results and I’m a bit lost for what to say as I said on this thread previously . The matches are dire to watch and if folk are happy to see a scrap for a point week after week then of course that’s all good. Better than getting beat for sure and I part agree with that .
I just wouldn’t mind seeing us put 2 or 3 progressive passes together once in a while .
I’m not asking for Xavi/Iniesta stuff , just something that resembles the sport I love .
Maybe why I perhaps overly quick to defend Madsen at times because at least he’s trying to ‘play’.
The rest look like passing a football is completely alien to them . Maybe that’s harsh but that’s why I feel a little frustrated.
I don’t want to see us lose , of course. But I want to be entertained once in a while.
I don’t know , maybe just an old git.
But I can’t put my finger on it , but it’s all a bit ‘shrug the shoulders’ at the moment .
Just as a side point to what Nix mentioned earlier , I don’t think Marti has anything to do with anything at the moment . Only talking for myself but apart from the obvious Leicester home game , I have barely given Marti a second thought since Julien came in and I am a ) a huge MC fan for what he achieved here and b) know a little about how he was treated by the club rather than what the spin doctors at the club have us all believe. Not all one way traffic but pretty bad .
But football moves on and as I say only personally , he’s long gone and isn’t even in my thought process .
Nadera made the very valid point about how patient the fan base has been not just for 5 years , but 10 years and perhaps many more .
So there is some fatigue involved .
I couldn’t wait for the last 2 seasons to end . It was exhausting.
I don’t want to feel like that and I don’t want to feel like that this season and I don’t think
I will . But if we don’t start improving as a ‘football’ team , which is what we are after all then I fear I’ll feel the same again and that’s not right . And of course injuries have killed us a bit but was the excuse at Derby, Norwich x2 , Portsmouth, West Brom? They were before the Sheff Wednesday injury crisis .
I’ll be there Saturday of course .
I just hope we can get the ball down and play a bit …win lose or draw.
Don’t expect a huge improvement on the pitch by the way .
By all accounts it’s no better than it was 3 weeks ago . |
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Reply | The 3 sides of a match thread at Oxford
at 00:16 21 Jan 2026
Hmm.
Strange feeling.
Not conceding goals . Look well organised etc.
But since boxing Day, I’ve been a bit lost on what to say after each league game since .
In truth, the performances and the actual quality of both teams in most games right now, are sucking the life and enthusiasm out of me.
Read someone say that West Brom are 3 points from the relegation zone . The 3 points that we tossed to them you mean? That Christmas period was a real strange one looking back and we haven’t regained any sort of pattern of play or form .
I don’t know . There is no crisis and we have certainly been in much worse form . And even if we were losing games etc, then there is more to life than football blah blah blah.
But something just doesn’t feel quite right at the moment and can’t really put my finger on it .
More important than any of that waffle is wishing Young Esquerdinha a quick recovery and my best wishes. Looked awful and he looked in distress obviously and understandably devastated.
Let’s hope it’s not as bad as it looked. |
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Reply | The 3 sides of a match thread at Oxford
at 19:38 20 Jan 2026
With both RND and Cook unable it seems to play 3 games in a week , I think maybe sensible to bring in Esquerdinha tonight and Edwards then comes into the back 4 between Dunne and RnD on Saturday?
Saturday seen as a tougher game perhaps ? Or more likely our home games feel like they are treated with more importance.
So no doubt we’ll get rolled over tonight .
God forbid if Jimmy picks up an injury . |
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Reply | Justin Obikwu
at 17:48 19 Jan 2026
Welcome, Justin
Bigger step up than even Kone or Burrell so we’ll need to be patient .
More pace and power is really important though |
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Reply | And we never spoke of it again – Report
at 22:33 18 Jan 2026
Very well balanced report that .
Defended well but didn’t ‘do’ any ‘football’ whatsoever .
Good point about the kit clash too.
Not the first time that the pink and black kit makes watching the game very difficult as it doesn’t look different enough to the home side .
Why we didn’t wear what we wore at West Hsm , I don’t know ? |
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Reply | Afcon final
at 22:28 18 Jan 2026
I could envisage Gary Linekar mouthing “Have a word with him” regarding the poor lad who missed that penalty. He’ll be utterly inconsolable right now |
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Reply | Afcon final
at 22:05 18 Jan 2026
Yes. Absolutely.
He does have a tendency to rub his team mates up the wrong way so I’m told, including Ilias. |
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Reply | Afcon final
at 21:29 18 Jan 2026
What a goal .
But let me tell you , Mbengue will be insufferable in the morning .
🤣🤣 |
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Reply | Afcon final
at 21:20 18 Jan 2026
Scenes .
Disgraceful scenes . But scenes nonetheless.
The disallowed goal is about the worst decision I’ve seen in a while |
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Reply | Robins on us
at 18:59 18 Jan 2026
If you’re the Oxford manager then we are all rubbing our hands together 😆 |
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Reply | Saipan (the movie)
at 12:39 18 Jan 2026
Is it me, but is this really necessary of a feature film?
Looking forward to Bryan Cranston as Kevin Keegan in “I’d luv it if we beat them, luv it” |
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Reply | Stoke fans on QPR (whose side are you on?)
at 12:15 18 Jan 2026
Yeah…I agree for the most part that we were pretty horrific on the eye yesterday.
When Walsh sat down I said to the family around me that this crap has to stop be it a QPR keeper or otherwise . It’s a loophole the authorities have to close in the summer before we all tear our hair out .
We stank the place out and have done away from home for a while now in the league .
That worries me , more than the antics yesterday .
But….i have to say, any sh*thousing against any corporation Ben Pearson is involved in I can overlook , in an admittedly short sighted blinkered kind of way.
He and his Preston mob were responsible for me turning my back on going to football for 18 months or so . I wasn’t wasting my time and money watching a sport that has turned into ‘that’.
So he alone deserves a bit of his own medicine.
And secondly , Stoke moaning about that stuff is laughable in itself and I’m not sure I will take too much notice of a bunch of 12 year old Stoke fans anyway …and surprised you have too.
We wrung the neck out the game to the point that they didn’t want 10 mins of injury time either and they threw the towel in. Small, ugly victory I suppose.
But I agree, I don’t want to see that too often . Unfortunately, we are starting too . [Post edited 18 Jan 12:22]
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Reply | MBengue ban?
at 02:13 18 Jan 2026
Also thought he let Cisse off a second yellow with that foul from behind in Madsen |
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Reply | MBengue ban?
at 00:57 18 Jan 2026
His booking today was ridiculous from the referee |
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Reply | Team for Oxford?
at 00:06 18 Jan 2026
Agree 100%.
Been saying it for weeks even before all the injuries against Sheffield Wednesday . |
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Reply | St Oke Methodist Church Away Match Fred
at 23:46 17 Jan 2026
A point is a point and I’d have taken it at 3pm for sure. But our away form / set up is a little concerning right now. We dug in and defended well as a unit …but you are going to need to when you play as bad as that .
Our ball retention was as bad today as it was under Ainsworth. If you can’t string 3 passes together then all you are doing is heaping pressure on the defence .
Jimmy and Cook were tremendous today . And they needed to be.
Felt a little for Kolli and Kone. They weren’t great by any stretch but feeding on scraps is an understatement. Sinton in commentary around the 49 minute mark kind’ve sighed and uttered “the boys have to keep the ball better”.
It sounded like he had his head in his hands . 😀
Our wide players are a real issue . They didn’t create anything , they can’t pass to a team mate and they just can’t protect the ball under any circumstance. Infuriating.
Time for ‘recruitment’ to think about signing wide men that don’t have the physical presence of a 12 year old. Look at a lot of the other wide players in this league . Big, strong, quick, physical, can dribble , pass..move .
It’s basics . We have 3 or 4 who simply get bullied or marked out of the game .
Once again Ilias is simply worth his weight in gold and not included in that previous sentence.
On a positive side , as I said we defended very well, Walsh looked confident and comfortable.
And I’ve been critical of how unfit we look, but Stoke , whether they just gave up by the end or run out of ideas or steam ..they looked done in injury time and we actually started to create and find space. We finished the stronger for sure and that’s a positive .
A little word for Madsen. By no means anything special but simply has the ability to make a 10 yard pass regularly.
Like rocking horse sh*t with this lot .
A good point and clean sheet and agree we would have lost this one previously.
But before we get too excited , we have done at Derby, Norwich, West Brom this season where we have been abject recently . Rode our luck at Portsmouth too.
Just read that someone would rather watch that today than a 4-0 home win!?
Each to their own .
Not for me. [Post edited 17 Jan 23:55]
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