Recent content by TheDukeOfBanburyshire

That's Rodriguez for me. He's a luxury and he loses the ball in important positions too often by over playing.

We have a real chance of losing this. I don't really understand.

Shite so far. We should be up and at these.

Joke of a game so far. How we're winning is anyone's guess. Pompey poor though.

Thank you. I've been a passive member of this forum for YEARS. I've finally decided to start contributing. It's easy for established, senior forum members such as yourself to insinuate stupidity toward others with careful use of words like 'derisory ' and 'ludricous'. It's lazy, overprotective...

I know nothing about the workings of either the fan panel or OxVox. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me as to what's actually happening, and whether any progress is being made? With regard to the whiteness of the panel, I refer to a comment I made on here when seeing photographs of its members...

Yep, can't argue with that. I'm sure I'm not the only Oxford fan, given our history, that defaults immediately to worst case scenario, but prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt during January. After that, it's back to the baying mob mentality. 😉

Exactly that. It's got a bit of a 'here we go again' feeling to it, hasn't it? The situation you describe is an extremely frightening prospect.

How likely do we think it is that the board take heed of our concerns and criticisms, and swiftly bring about a sea change in the way they view the importance of transparency and communication? I won't be holding my breath. I'm increasingly concerned that, as you suggest, they don't see a...

Obviously their involvement in OUFC hinges heavily on the deal to relocate. I'm suggesting that perhaps there's a dawning realisation that the owners are having doubts about their level of investment in the club. Just playing devil's advocate.

It's autocratic in approach. A carefully vetted and selected fan panel will tow the party line, possibly even being advised on the work it undertakes and information it gathers (it's too white as well, but that's an aside). This has given the club and excuse to disregard OxVox as it 'already...

Exactly. Perhaps it's dawning on all of us as to the real priorities and intentions of our owners. Imagine how bad things would get if they lost their appetite for the property side of the operation.

Can't really argue against being in the group of poorly run clubs at the moment, can you? It's the hope that kills you, isn't it.

I wish the members of our senior management and ownership had this clarity of thought. A vision. A clear vision with which to operate by. We've all been bouyed by the suggestion of this kind of operational model being implemented, but it all looks like it's gone to s**t a little bit of late...

If one sentence were used to perfectly summarise the situation we find ourselves in, then this could well be it.