Home Match Day Thread 30/01/2024 L1: OUFC v Portsmouth

[Carpy]

COYY

Really hope we pull it out the bag, just can't see it, I'll be there all the same.


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[Upthecowboys]

I hope we go with a back 4 tonight.

I can see why people are down at the mo but over the last few years our games with Pompey have always been big matches and tonight is no different, so hopefully those talking about not coming will have a last minute change of heart. It's games like tonight where the team needs support.

Midweek games are difficult for many. I haven't lived in Ox for 30 years and live 50 miles away (closest I've lived since I was 18), I love games under the lights but Tuesday night games are a right a**e to get to for me! However this a game I wouldn't want to miss.

I could see tonight being a draw, with us picking up 3 points on Sat (It looks like Reading may be losing more players before the window closes).

Up the Ox!

 

[MC Yellow]

Switching to the North Stand for this one tonight to accommodate a friend who fancied this one too.

Feels like Pompey are coming out of their wobble but we are Oxford and could just as easily turn in a winning performance off the back of recent defeats.

But I’m going 2-2, which I’d be okay with on recent showings as long as we can follow it up with 3 points from Reading.

 

[Foley]

Of course he’d never say that but inside he will know we are miles off and I genuinely think he’d be content to avoid an embarrassment.

Beyond ridiculous.
Some pretty embarrassing comments on here. This takes the biscuit for one of the most ridiculous

 

[MC Yellow]

Beyond ridiculous.
Some pretty embarrassing comments on here. This takes the biscuit for one of the most ridiculous

It’s all in the name, I guess.

 

[christenedinjericho]

I go into every home game irrelevant who we are playing and expect a win full stop. However, if we are losing in the last dying embers by the odd goal and then score, then I'll take that as a win win. That's my mentality.

COYY'S

 

[dickwalton1964]

Beyond ridiculous.
Some pretty embarrassing comments on here. This takes the biscuit for one of the most ridiculous

It’s an opinion. Get over it.

 

[MJB]

We need to summon the spirit of the GOAT this evening if we're going to take all three points.

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[MC Yellow]

It’s an opinion. Get over it.

And people are entitled to consider it a ridiculous one.

This forum would be no fun if we all agreed.

 

[SteMerritt]

We need to summon the spirit of the GOAT this evening if we're going to take all three points.

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Certainly played like a goat. That first touch, or complete lack of it, still cracks me up. The moment we thought we'd found a hidden superstar...

 

[unification]

Not looking forward to this but offer me a draw and a win against Reading, I don’t think there would be many who would turn that down.

I can’t explain away the Bristol Rovers defeat. Just a rotten first half. The Barnsley defeat was more of a lottery with the weather where the luck wasn’t with us so I don’t make out it’s as bad as the doomsayers want it to be.

 

[MJB]

Certainly played like a goat. That first touch, or complete lack of it, still cracks me up. The moment we thought we'd found a hidden superstar...

It's all about Obika assist really. How he managed to resist a couple of step-overs before passing the ball to the GOAT, I'll never know.

 

[MustardYellow]

I'm not even sure when we were crap under KR that I've seen so many people say they aren't looking forward to a game...

 

[Foley]

It’s an opinion. Get over it.

And my opinion is that it is one of the daftest comments I have seen on here for a long time.

 

[Berliner]

I'm hoping to be wowed, expecting to be underwhelmed as usual over the past month or so.
No more injuries, pretty please.

 

[notThisWayButThat]

2-0 Oxford, you heard it here first.

Are you ITK? Who are your sources?!

 

[Yellowecky]

I'm not expecting any points tonight, given the current state of the squad, but still hoping for reinforcements by the end of the month. Des is currently operating with one arm tied behind his back so believe he shouldn't be judged yet:

Oxford United 0 - Portsmouth 2.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

Think we will lose 2-0. Football unpredictable though, sometimes you can nab a lucky win. Got to hope.

 

[MC Yellow]

Are you ITK? Who are your sources?!

Leysboy of course .

He knows everything.

 

[CCYellow]

I simply don't get this mentality.

We can be frustrated with our recent performances and results, and we can have little hope for this to change. But that should never mean that we accept defeat before a ball is kicked, especially at home against a team who has only picked up one more point than us in the last 6 games.

We had a thread about the mentality of the players, but some of our fans are so much worse.

He's not hoping for a 2-0 defeat ahead of kick off out of "respectability".

He's hoping for a defeat so he can say "told you so".

 

[Older Shotts]

It would be typical Oxford to win tonight, then lose on Saturday.