Home Match Build Up 23/11/2021 L1: OUFC v Fleetwood Town

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Resilience and character doesn't win you games. Lose the next games and we will be in the bottom half of table and well adrift of the top 6.
We won't lose them. Even if we did there's more than enough football to be played to recover.
 
If we don't play the matches, we could end up playing as many as eight games in December - and a ninth on new year's day....
 
Have you ever watched him play?

Nope, but the comments about him I've seen from KR and the other coaches suggest he is very highly rated.

For me it would be the ideal time as the pressure should be reduced for this game but would probably depend on if we have an experienced keeper or one of our Academy keepers.
 
If we play and if, as seems likely, Hanson is in the starting lineup, it would probably be useful to support the lad rather than proclaim that he's "fucking shit" at the first misplaced pass.....
 
If we play and if, as seems likely, Hanson is in the starting lineup, it would probably be useful to support the lad rather than proclaim that he's "f*****g s**t" at the first misplaced pass.....
What happens when he makes the second misplaced pass
 
If we play and if, as seems likely, Hanson is in the starting lineup, it would probably be useful to support the lad rather than proclaim that he's "fucking shit" at the first misplaced pass.....
Don’t worry, most of the haters won’t be there
 
My opinion is that if we CAN play the game on Tuesday (ie Plumley is out of isolation - don’t quite understand the rules around whether that could happen - or we sign an emergency keeper) then we should play it.

If the shoe were on the other foot we’d be expecting Fleetwood to put a team out and play the game, rather than cancel and contribute to a fixture pile-up for us. Clearly our chances of winning would be impacted - but principles and doing the ‘right’ thing are important. The ‘right’ thing is to play - assuming we can get a team together.

I do think it hinges on how many more (if any) are flagged as positive cases in the next round of testing. As debate in this thread has demonstrated, we’ve barely got a defence as it is. Right now I’d suggest a defence of Hanson/Long/McNally/Seddon is passable. Clearly not great - but passable. Our midfield is still pretty strong, and we have enough options to do SOMETHING up front. If it gets to the stage where we’re having to field youth teamers across most of the back four (e.g if we lose one or two more from Long, Seddon and McNally) - then I suspect the game has to go. Going back to the ‘right’ thing, I’m not sure it’s in the best interest of sporting integrity to expect us to field our kids across the majority of the defence…
 
My opinion is that if we CAN play the game on Tuesday (ie Plumley is out of isolation - don’t quite understand the rules around whether that could happen - or we sign an emergency keeper) then we should play it.

If the shoe were on the other foot we’d be expecting Fleetwood to put a team out and play the game, rather than cancel and contribute to a fixture pile-up for us. Clearly our chances of winning would be impacted - but principles and doing the ‘right’ thing are important. The ‘right’ thing is to play - assuming we can get a team together.

I do think it hinges on how many more (if any) are flagged as positive cases in the next round of testing. As debate in this thread has demonstrated, we’ve barely got a defence as it is. Right now I’d suggest a defence of Hanson/Long/McNally/Seddon is passable. Clearly not great - but passable. Our midfield is still pretty strong, and we have enough options to do SOMETHING up front. If it gets to the stage where we’re having to field youth teamers across most of the back four (e.g if we lose one or two more from Long, Seddon and McNally) - then I suspect the game has to go. Going back to the ‘right’ thing, I’m not sure it’s in the best interest of sporting integrity to expect us to field our kids across the majority of the defence…
What fixture pile-up? If we don't play any other Tuesday night games in December than the planned Donny one and if we also don't play midweek around Easter given we already have a Monday/Friday game, then from January 1st to season end, there are 11 (yes 11) available Tuesday nights.

So far we have Sunderland and Wigan (a) and probably Fleetwood to fit into those 11 slots.

We are out of all the cups so no more to arrange there.
 
What fixture pile-up? If we don't play any other Tuesday night games in December than the planned Donny one and if we also don't play midweek around Easter given we already have a Monday/Friday game, then from January 1st to season end, there are 11 (yes 11) available Tuesday nights.

So far we have Sunderland and Wigan (a) and probably Fleetwood to fit into those 11 slots.

We are out of all the cups so no more to arrange there.
Sunderland has already been rearranged for Saturday 4th December.
 
What fixture pile-up? If we don't play any other Tuesday night games in December than the planned Donny one and if we also don't play midweek around Easter given we already have a Monday/Friday game, then from January 1st to season end, there are 11 (yes 11) available Tuesday nights.

So far we have Sunderland and Wigan (a) and probably Fleetwood to fit into those 11 slots.

We are out of all the cups so no more to arrange there.

I was simply stating that, if Fleetwood were in this position - we’d be expecting them to field a team and get the game on. Therefore I think we should be doing the same - assuming it’s feasible to do so.

Clearly we are significantly weaker, which isn’t great. But if no further players test positive and we can source a goalkeeper, then I’d suggest we have enough first team pros available to cobble together a team. Therefore the expectation should be that we play. Shitty as it might be for our chances of winning the game…
 
For what it's worth, I thought how a large number of fans reacted to Crewe and Swindon in saying they should suck it up and play was out of order (apart from Crewe bringing a positive tested player to the ground and the manager acting like a bell end, of course). I feel that empathy is needed and has gone right out of the window of late, treat others like you would like to be treated yourself, as they say.
 
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