I don't think we endeared ourselves to the neutrals!Interesting replies as I was getting angry at the commentary during the game. I'll admit I was wound up but still thought a lot of it was one sided.
I'm sure he must feel a bit of a closeness to Oxford, especially now the season has ended, and it sounds like he's heaping the pressure on Bolton. We can't call it a free hit but there's no doubt about it that Bolton go in to this game carrying all the expectation. I'd also suggest that Evatt's job will come under scrutiny if they lose to us. He's done well there but they did fade away towards the end and let Derby in.
Yeah but we should embrace our role as unfashionable, unfancied underdogs. It has worked pretty well for us so far, and it would not be the first time in our history it has worked extremely well for us either. In fact I would go as far as to say some of the very best moments in the entire clubs history have come about from us being exactly that.Interesting replies as I was getting angry at the commentary during the game. I'll admit I was wound up but still thought a lot of it was one sided.
Fair play, you deserved it over the two legs.
Proud of our kids, they've been fantastic to watch this season, but they've been knackered for weeks now, just didn't have anything left in the tank tonight. Tried hard but couldn't create much against a well organised defence.
I'm not that gutted, I'd have taken mid table at the start of the season, and I can live without another season of seeing us get destroyed in the Championship every week.
Enjoy Wembley
I was quite surprised how we played but it worked.I don't think we endeared ourselves to the neutrals!
I don't think we endeared ourselves to the neutrals!
100% thisYeah but we should embrace our role as unfashionable, unfancied underdogs. It has worked pretty well for us so far, and it would not be the first time in our history it has worked extremely well for us either. In fact I would go as far as to say some of the very best moments in the entire clubs history have come about from us being exactly that.
So let the pundits and football hobbyists croon and coo over the prowess of our opponents. Let them wax lyrical about the quality on display for our adversaries.
We are Oxford United, we know different and we relish their disdain.
Fuckit . . . I'm setting off for Wembley now!!!!
I don't think we endeared ourselves to the neutrals!
Yeah, I didn't think they were biased at all. They were complimentary about our defensive resilience throughout.
After seeing us get shithoused so many times it was nice to see us shithouse another team.It was a complete onslaught … the stats look horrific, but we did what we needed to do and dare I say, what we set out to do.
Over 3 games it’s a 7-1 aggregate so I certainly don’t see this as a lucky result, albeit, it was a very tough evening to watch.
If we get there (big IF) I expect it will be a similar story for us (who knows)… but it’s been so long, it would be great to face bigger and better opposition each week, even if it is just for a season.
Manning didn't have a plan B either, it's great to have a manager who does now.After seeing us get shithoused so many times it was nice to see us shithouse another team.
Under KR there was no plan B. Plan B isn't pretty for us but it got us over the line.
I'd be fuming if I was a Posh fan but we have been there so many times ourselves.
Maybe when we were getting angry at always throwing away leads, that was him trying to make a plan B but it not working?Manning didn't have a plan B either, it's great to have a manager who does now.
If we played like that every week then I would hate it but we don't. As we showed during the 5-0 spanking of them a couple of weeks ago, we also play expansive progressive football. Same with Lincoln who played like we did last night when at ours, some of our fans were fuming but on their run they have also spanked teams 5-0. We are just showing we also have some steel and grit and like you said a plan B. We have been missing that.After seeing us get shithoused so many times it was nice to see us shithouse another team.
Under KR there was no plan B. Plan B isn't pretty for us but it got us over the line.
I'd be fuming if I was a Posh fan but we have been there so many times ourselves.
I can barely remember the last time we had a plan B. It would certainly be before KR.If we played like that every week then I would hate it but we don't. As we showed during the 5-0 spanking of them a couple of weeks ago, we also play expansive progressive football. Same with Lincoln who played like we did last night when at ours, some of our fans were fuming but on their run they have also spanked teams 5-0. We are just showing we also have some steel and grit and like you said a plan B. We have been missing that.
There is just a weird feeling that, despite not being as good as some of the KR OUFC sides, I think, and despite putting in some honking performances for what felt like months, things are just falling for us. Momentum and fate seems to be with us. Those scenes at full time were special. Bolton are, probably, a better side than us, but there is a growing feeling that this team has that intangible X factor of a team that is going up.
19/20 season was covidMaybe the team in the first half of 2018/19 was better, when Henry and Taylor were still near their primes, and we had Baptiste and Fosu up to January......but the season got ballsed up by Covid so it's tough to compare.
That’s not at all true, firstly Browne didn’t even go off after going down, and in fact played on immediately, and secondly in ‘Wasn’t at the Game’ Jerome namechecks Marcus Browne as celebrating with the fans afterwards?I hadn't realised until I listened to the Dub that we played out the closing seconds with 10 players, as Browne didn't come back on after going down (and we'd used our sub windows). Apparently neither he nor Goodrham were out to celebrate at the end either.