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    Ref Watch 13/02/2024 L1: OUFC v Wigan Athletic - Jeremy Simpson

    I actually thought he was OK in the first half, if a bit fussy. However, in the second half he was woefully inconsistent, in part because, as someone has noted above, I think he realised that he would end up dishing out red cards if he kept going the same way. Agree with Zero, he was far too...
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    League One Tinpot Reading

    I certainly agree that we lost out when he switched to Derby. However, my understanding is that our club benefited from Maxwell's creative accountancy. I could say more, but the information is not my own.
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    League One Tinpot Reading

    I'm not aware that we protested too vigorously when a certain R Maxwell was engaged in dodgy dealing on our behalf.
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    League One Tinpot Reading

    Can't agree with this approach. Football is bigger than any one club, and we have to fight for fans' rights to support their team, whoever they are. Of course it is regrettable that many small-minded Reading fans chose to mock us when we were down. At the end of the day, all fans have seen money...
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    Away Match Day Thread 06/01/2024: FAC R3 Cov City vs OUFC

    I do think some perspective is required. OK, we were well beaten, and - with the players available yesterday - we are a long way off the championship. Some of our better players (esp. Rodrigues in my opinion) underperformed. However, looking at the situation from DB's perspective, he decides to...
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    Blogs/Podcasts BBC Sounds Wasn’t At The Game

    But this wasn't the case on Friday. The show continued after 10.00pm in order to accommodate the interview with DB.
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    Ref Watch Oxford United V Derby county L1 29/12/2023 Will Finnie

    Generally very good, but can't allow that the failure to see the handball (or see it as ball to hand??) didn't matter. If he had spotted that, we might have got a point. It was pretty obvious.
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    Ref Watch Oxford United V Cambridge United L1 26/12/2023 Tom Neild

    Agreed... Inconsistent, too reluctant to book Cambridge for timewasting. I think the ref would have been in trouble if either side had engaged in significant simulation or covert nastiness. I think it must be quite hard for the players to know what will be deemed 'physical contact', and what is...
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    Ref Watch Oxford united v Burton Albion L1 16/12/2023 Martin Woods

    He was fair - 6. I would agree with the above. Burton got away with too much routine shirt-pulling and time-wasting. I also thought there was one penalty, but to be fair to the ref, it's very hard to be confident in the middle of a melee like we saw on Saturday. The current practice seems to be...
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    Current Player #4 Jordan Thorniley

    Really good to see Thorniley trying to direct his defensive headers to a team mate, or to where the ball is least use to the opposition.
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    General POLL - Email OCC Before 19th September

    I had a formal response from Liz Leffman's PA
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    Fan's View Fan's View 23/24 - No.7 - Port Vale at home

    I thought ThatSlope's analysis on the matchday page was excellent (as did many others!). I understand why Manning will take the hard line with Harris (at least in public): change what you can, learn what you can, don't fret about a referee you can't change. However, it is true that there was a...
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    General Squad Numbers 23/24

    Or at least, for someone. Manning has used squad numbers in a traditional way, as far as he could: giving existing players lower numbers as they play more first tam minutes (Goodrham, Brown), and giving Mills #7, which was Bodin's.
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    Transfer News Summer 2023 Transfer Window Thread

    I presume the unbelievably unimaginative EFL will only allow positive integers below a certain value (100?) on shirts...
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