Home Match Day Thread +++ 23/12/2017 OUFC v Wigan Athletic match day thread +++

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Pep is tactically clueless. Lucked our points in most games. Any decent manager would not allow a strong top of the league team to play freely. You would close down, go direct and leave 3 up when defending corners to have a counter attack chance. Naive doesn't even start to describe Clotet. Pathetic and it was coming. I hope I'm wrong but if we get 3 points from next 3 games we will do well. If we do get a win or 3 draws I bet they're lucky!

 

[Manorlounger]

Just have a look at the ifollow interview with Clotet. No eye contact and more nonsense. Granted, English is not his first language but that is pretty poor all the same.

 

[eraser]

Just have a look at the ifollow interview with Clotet. No eye contact and more nonsense. Granted, English is not his first language but that is pretty poor all the same.

Well he's got the "worst ever home result in FL history" badge! His CV is a joke.

 

[tonto]

The weird thing is that passages of play this season have been superb. We have enough ability to be doing a lot better ,Pep seems to have lost the plot at the moment if we have two more defeats surely that will be it.

 

[unification]

It's a totally unacceptable performance and has probably been coming for a while. To be honest I can't see us winning for a while. Confidence needs rebuilding and I'm not sure Clotet can rebuild it.
It would be expensive to get rid but we are paying the price for not signing enough players of quality in this league.
Agree Wigan are class

Rome has been sacked fewer times as he has.

As I’ve said in this thread previously, he’s a good coach but a poor manager. A nice guy Peter Taylor where we need a hell-hath-no-fury Brian Clough.

Desperately missing Appleton too .

 

[uptheus]

Why he couldn't have come out and said that performance was extremely poor and not acceptable, and it's something that he won't tolerate and will be addressed is beyond me.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

The truth will be how we react on Boxing Day.

Fake news - we didn’t really get walloped 0-7 to Wigan

 

[Oufcluke34]

Lucky it wasn't 10

 

[West Oxon U’s]

can't wait to see the highlights for this one

I can’t wait to read this week’s Fan’s View assuming Mr Beasley is not too damaged
psychologically after yesterday’s abject humiliation.I really hope he had a good
post match drink!

 

[amershamdave]

My dad took me to my first game with Oxford, when we beat Workington at the Manor in the old Div 4. I've watched well over a thousand home, and about 2 hundred away games, since then. Right now, I don't know which Oxford is going to turn up. 7-0 at home? Are you kidding? That's the result of a team that either has now, or will have......big problems ahead. Sorry, but Mr Clotet isn't for me. Not at the moment, anyway.

Cyril Beavon was a lovely man. I knew him personally from the mid 70's on. He had a lovely wife and a son and grandson who made it into pro footballers and another son who got as far as Oxford City. Cyril lived in the flats at Northway and once showed me all the medals he'd won as a player. I was the goalie for a team he was manager of (Northway) in '77. Cyril was a hero for us for ten years. He will remain a hero in my mind, for a very long time to come. God rest your soul, Cyril.

 

[bicesterox]

Oxfords best moment of the game. Great save by Eastwood.

As for the rest, well I'm still bloody angry about that shocking non performance. How I made myself stay to the end I don't know.

In Appletons first season I was one of those calling for him to be sacked only to be proved totally wrong.
I've been holding off on calling for Peps head because I was so wrong last time, but I honestly can't see him turning things round and if we all go on like it is we could have a major battle to stay up.

 

[TailsWeWin]

I’ve been supporting them since the mid-sixties too. Have never, ever, before now left with twenty minutes to go. Speechless.

 

[dabigfella]

Having supported the U's for the last 60 odd years I have learned to suffer defeat now and again. I don't like it, but I can put up with it. But not that abject humiliation. That was too much! The players tried hard but most were simply not good enough and there was absolutely no organisation in the side whatsoever. It was a collection of geriatric hasbeens and neverwas's with the odd neverwillbe thrown in.

Eight of the starting side were Clotet's signings and nine of the 14 who eventually played were his. This abject shambles of a side was his and only his. He must go and go now!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 291]

On the plus side yesterday, those Wigan boys were bloody brilliant. If they don't win the league there is no justice.

3 Cheers for Wigan....

Hip Hip.......

 

[Notaswindonfan]

Morning all, woke up after having a nightmare, sh#t it actually happened.

 

[MC Yellow]

Utter humiliation yesterday.

Thought we were headed for double figures and I just can’t think of a more shocking display I have witnessed in a long time.

Confidence has to be absolutely shot to bits and I’m afraid I just can’t see Pep having the ability to turn this around, he is just too nice.

Going into the busy Christmas period this could not have come at a worst time. It’s all very well Pep saying it’s just one game and 3 points but I’m far more concerned about the collateral damage.

Pep is becoming a Clot and has to turn this around immediately or otherwise I think he will become the ghost of Christmas past.

For some reason I just couldn’t get the 12 Days of Christmas out of my head last night ?.

Have a great Christmas one and all.. onto Gills ?.

 

[Dubai Yellow]

Cant use the pitch as an excuse this week either.

 

[malcolmsmoustache]

Having thought about what I saw, Pep has to go. I was at Port Vale which was bad enough. But this was another level. Wigan were outstanding, which makes Pep's 'tactics' even more baffling. A Wimbledon mate texted me last week (they lost 4-0 to Wigan at home). He said the only way to play them was deny them space, especially in midfield. And if he saw that, why didn't Pep? Given the ability at the club that has to be the worst performance I have seen in over 40 years of watching Utd. The Pep experiment has failed. Time to go.

 

[uptheus]

I would love us to have a winger like their 11. He was literally walking around us second half

Henry? Mowatt?

 

[Dubai Yellow]

I dont want Pep to go yet, id like to see brave changes to the team and tactics for Gillingham and then wait and see what happens in the transfer window.