Home Match Day Thread 29/7/2023 PS Friendly: OUFC v Queens Park Rangers

[West Oxon U’s]

QPR team that defeated Reading 2-0 ( Kelman & sub Taylor Richards) in a Friendly at Reading’s training ground on Tuesday.

Asmir Begovic
Osman Kakay
Trent Rendall
Jimmy Dunne
Ziyad Larkeche
Albert Adomah
Stephen Duke-McKenna
Dominic Gape (trialist)
Lyndon Dykes
Ilias Chair
Charlie Kelman

(No Chris Willock, Sam Field, Paul Smyth, Jake Clarke-Salter or Andre Dozzell)

 

[Mythbuster3000]

Hopefully we get some highlights for today. How good was the magic Ruben though

 

[bicesterox]

That second half was as near as a league 1 team gets to total football, could easily have been 6 or 7

 

[Leysboy]

What

And last season once teams worked his tactics out?

Hopefully there's a plan B too.

Let’s not forget Manning had his best three players leave. Parrott, Twine and Darling.

Who did they bring in Holland, Grigg, and can’t remember the centre half, but they were 3 massive holes to fill, and you need the quality to be able to play to his style.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

 

[Jster]

Love to see that even after a 5-0 win there will be some on here who find the negatives...

 

[Oxford84]

What

And last season once teams worked his tactics out?

Hopefully there's a plan B too.

Maybe that was down to not having good players,we’ve got some good players so I would think we are more likely to see a successful side this season.

 

[Scotchegg]

Yeah, he won't last the season. He doesn't have the support of the fans nor the dressing room.

Good performance but I worry about the absolute insistence on playing out from the back. Against a coherent team playing for their manager traps can easily be set and we'll get picked off easily. I hope it wrong but I'm not sure league 1 players are good enough to pull this tactic off. Its the trend in football currently and its a bit disappointing Manning is blindly following a trend. I think it'll cost us more goals than we'll score from doing it.

As I say, I hope I'm wrong.

Indiana Jones and the desperate search for Negativity!

 

[Swaby39]

Yeah, he won't last the season. He doesn't have the support of the fans nor the dressing room.

Good performance but I worry about the absolute insistence on playing out from the back. Against a coherent team playing for their manager traps can easily be set and we'll get picked off easily. I hope it wrong but I'm not sure league 1 players are good enough to pull this tactic off. Its the trend in football currently and its a bit disappointing Manning is blindly following a trend. I think it'll cost us more goals than we'll score from doing it.

As I say, I hope I'm wrong.

You only have to look at our opponent today to see what the alternative might look like. I’d be cautious with your claims that L1 players can’t do this when they’ve beaten 2 championship sides with our strongest XI - each of them approaching the game very differently but good pressing sides. Were we really in any great danger in either match?

It will go wrong at times. It does for Man City as well. But I’m surprised anybody could be disappointed with us playing this way having watched us lump it forward helplessly & firing blanks for all of last season. I’d much rather us have a ‘red face’ moment occasionally than watch us fight for second and third balls all season playing as the underdog. Goes to show you can’t please everyone.

 

[Dubai Yellow]

Cam Bran sounds well up for it for this season. He seems the type of player who thrives under managers like App and Manning - where there's a clear direction and mentalilty. Not every game goes your way but he'l be up for it.

Played very well today also

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Indiana Jones and the desperate search for Negativity!

Just a concern I have, maybe the players will become better at it as it was a bit seat of the pants at times.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

You only have to look at our opponent today to see what the alternative might look like. I’d be cautious with your claims that L1 players can’t do this when they’ve beaten 2 championship sides with our strongest XI - each of them approaching the game very differently but good pressing sides. Were we really in any great danger in either match?

It will go wrong at times. It does for Man City as well. But I’m surprised anybody could be disappointed with us playing this way having watched us lump it forward helplessly & firing blanks for all of last season. I’d much rather us have a ‘red face’ moment occasionally than watch us fight for second and third balls all season playing as the underdog. Goes to show you can’t please everyone.

It'll be interesting to see how many goals that tactic creates versus how many it costs us.

Personally it's not for me but perhaps my views on football tactics need to evolve like the game has.

 

[Dubai Yellow]

The players looked sharp and hungry from the off today and right up until the final whistle. Next stop Cambridge!.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Ainsworth showing his limitations.
The QPR forums are comparing us to Premier league teams, saying Ainsworth will be gone by October, loads saying they’re going down, no fight, talent, plenty saying they are going to be thrashed next week. Loads of praise for our team and for Liam.
Yes it’s only a PSF, but it looks like we’re in an excellent place.
happy days.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Meanwhile in Berkshire...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1685316807488348165

They’re fucked.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Cam Bran sounds well up for it for this season. He seems the type of player who thrives under managers like App and Manning - where there's a clear direction and mentalilty. Not every game goes your way but he'l be up for it.

And with players who can feed him and he too can feed.

 

[Swaby39]

It'll be interesting to see how many goals that tactic creates versus how many it costs us.

Personally it's not for me but perhaps my views on football tactics need to evolve like the game has.

There will be heart in mouth moments. But if you look at MK’s record under Manning before they sold their souls, they were bloody difficult to score against. I don’t think we will concede very many goals at all but the nature of the goals we do concede might be a little hard to watch and probably self inflicted through the odd bad decision.

But what stood out for me today was the variety in our goals. Nice, intricate play at times but then a couple of longer balls in behind and a set play. The first half we were a little bit too backwards and sideways and then in the second half we started adding a bit of risk and adventure, aided by some good personnel changes. 2nd half performance is what we’ll be aiming for.

 

[MiddleBartonYellow]

Ainsworth showing his limitations.
The QPR forums are comparing us to Premier league teams, saying Ainsworth will be gone by October, loads saying they’re going down, no fight, talent, plenty saying they are going to be thrashed next week. Loads of praise for our team and for Liam.
Yes it’s only a PSF, but it looks like we’re in an excellent place.
happy days.

They’ve got no money either by the sounds of it.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Talk about glass half empty….
I trust Manning, he’s got us playing with confidence, style and on the front foot. Sure we’ll get turned over once or twice a game like we did today, by a Championship side, and we know when to go long, as we did at the end of the first half a few times, but to say he’s ‘blindly following a trend’ is a bit disrespectful.

His glass has been thrown at him by his missus a QPR fan, who has just torched his car, containing his season ticket.

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

Any highlights about anywhere?

 

[RyanioBirdio]

There will be heart in mouth moments. But if you look at MK’s record under Manning before they sold their souls, they were bloody difficult to score against. I don’t think we will concede very many goals at all but the nature of the goals we do concede might be a little hard to watch and probably self inflicted through the odd bad decision.

But what stood out for me today was the variety in our goals. Nice, intricate play at times but then a couple of longer balls in behind and a set play. The first half we were a little bit too backwards and sideways and then in the second half we started adding a bit of risk and adventure, aided by some good personnel changes. 2nd half performance is what we’ll be aiming for.

A fair smattering of people around me moaning and groaning every time the ball wasn’t passed forward today, and the same v Swansea. I also heard someone moaning repeatedly about Beadle, who is apparently “a dodgy b****r”, while claiming that Manning should “get Easty back in for the proper games.”

Bliss.