Home Match Day Thread 28/11/2020 L1 OUFC v Swindon Town

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I haven't posted for a while, as I couldn't think of anything positive to say, and didn't want to fuel the negativity, but I've had enough of Karl Robinson.

Throughout the first season and a half, I thought he was arrogant, stubborn and pig headed, completely naive tactically, and a self obsessed ego maniac, with verbal diarrhoea, quick to blame ANYONE and ANYTHING but himself for our bad performances and defeats.

However, over the course of last season, I'd warmed to Robbo, he seemed to be learning from his mistakes, rectifying them, and putting the team before his ego, and it was reflected in the performance of the team last season, and I was happy when he signed his new contract, but now I'm wandering how much of that was actually down to Fazackerly?

Maybe that's what someone like Robbo needs, a calm, experienced head alongside him, to stop his ego getting out of control?!?

But now Faz has gone, and Robbo has returned to his old, arrogant self, refusing to accept his mistakes, refusing to bring in players we all know we desperately need, insisting on bringing in players we don't need, who are not good enough, totally unfit, and inexperienced, and refusing to drop players who are under performing, or play players in their best positions.

I'm convinced he reads this forum, as there's no way he can't see what we all can, he just doesn't want to admit he's wrong, so will blindly carry on doing what he wants, and on the rare occasion a result goes our way, he starts blowing smoke up his own a**e, with an "I told you so, I was right" attitude.

We've all been saying how Clare is awful at right back, but could be useful further forward, but Robbo repeatedly ignores this fact for weeks, then eventually plays him further forward, and Clare then has a great game, so the next match, Robbo drops him from the squad all together?!?

The guy has virtually no tactical awareness or nous. Forde and Mous were clearly needed in the 2nd half today, but Robbo decided to be a smart-a**e, and put players on with zero defensive abilities, and then threw them under the bus after the game, once again deflecting any responsibility away from himself.

People may disagree, but I think it was Robbo who cost us promotion in the playoffs, when he left Mous on the bench throughout the whole playoffs. Mous was one of our outstanding performers all last season, and was fit, but Robbo played Moore, leaving us without Mous's leadership skills and experience, and it cost us.

He still clearly hasn't learned from those kinds of mistakes.

The fact he won't comment on Eastwood, proves he is too arrogant, stubborn and pig headed a person to admit his mistakes, and will never have any kind of success until he does.

He needs to show some maturity and humility, and accept he's made a pigs ear of recruitment, tactics and team selections, otherwise his ego is going to be HIS and OUR undoing this season.
 
Let's all just calm down a bit here. Yes the subs were the wrong decision, yes our 2nd half performance was poor, yes Easty made a calamitous mistake.

Does Karl have the right minerals to drive our club forward? Wholeheartedly yes. Do we have a board that's head and shoulders above most others in the EFL? Definitely yes. Are we as fans going to stand behind our club and not slag them off because we lost one massive game? Surely we are. Swindon will almost certainly get relegated this season, we will finish mid table or better. Yes this season is looking like a missed opportunity right now but it's not over yet and we need to show some perspective.
 
Yeah I would and you dont get to tell me what opinion to have.

You may not agree with my opinion but your not the one facing up to scummers at work on Monday
Fair enough, I feel for you on Monday morning. But you you there at the leyton match? Can you honestly say that today was as bad as that? Sure today has been a bitch of a match in a bitch of season, but I'd take any amount of stick from the scum than see us back in the blue square prem or whatever it's called these days.
 
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Let's all just calm down a bit here. Yes the subs were the wrong decision, yes our 2nd half performance was poor, yes Easty made a calamitous mistake.

Does Karl have the right minerals to drive our club forward? Wholeheartedly yes. Do we have a board that's head and shoulders above most others in the EFL? Definitely yes. Are we as fans going to stand behind our club and not slag them off because we lost one massive game? Surely we are. Swindon will almost certainly get relegated this season, we will finish mid table or better. Yes this season is looking like a missed opportunity right now but it's not over yet and we need to show some perspective.
You miss the point here. Yes we can rise above simple abuse post defeat, yes we can rally round and support our club, yes, and you might be right, we have a board that are, well, they are the board. BUT, to lose to the scum in the manner we did today is simply unacceptable. Full stop.
 
Still fuming at the end result, but probably more so because who it was against. But I have a bit (although ever decreasing) of sympathy for KR as his team set up meant we largely dominated the game and he can't expect his subs to play so dire like they did, even moderately average would have been adequate to have won that game against a desperately poor side but it was almost like playing with 8 men for the last 10 minutes the way everything went wrong which wasn't really under any pressure from the opposition. For the first 60 minutes we absolutely bossed the game. Even when our players starting messing things up, until the 85th minute our defence was never really in any trouble and managing everything coming their way. The only time we had problems was when Eastwood did that terrible kick and was extremely lucky Atkinson was close by to retrieve it, and when Eastwood did a terrible punch from a free kick and was very lucky it didn't land on a forward players toe to put in the net. We seemed to become incredibly nervous knowing that Eastwood was probably not far away from a calamitous costly mistake, and the team stopped playing as a result and tried to see it out instead to protect the goalkeeper.

Drawing the game was bad enough from a position of dominance, and the response on here to just drawing that game would have been pretty bad. Losing it with Eastwood doing another mistake just made the vultures circle. But I have got to say that without Clare in the back 4 the defence has looked much improved. Big decision now is the goalkeeper, and if KR allows this to keep occurring when it happens game after game for the last 5 months then we slide towards league 2 very quickly. Ruffels seems to be on borrowed time as well and maybe Obita coming in at LB would shake things up even more. Time for KR to really earn his keep and step up. The simple thing we have to do is stop conceding goals, there was no way we should have conceded a goal today, whilst it was a bit nervy it was fairly comfortable but you just can't legislate for the terrible mistakes our players are making and unfortunately when a goalkeeper makes a mistake it often results in a goal. Clean sheets = don't lose. Take a couple of 0-0s and try and build from there. A huge 7 days ahead.
 
Let's all just calm down a bit here. Yes the subs were the wrong decision, yes our 2nd half performance was poor, yes Easty made a calamitous mistake.

Does Karl have the right minerals to drive our club forward? Wholeheartedly yes. Do we have a board that's head and shoulders above most others in the EFL? Definitely yes. Are we as fans going to stand behind our club and not slag them off because we lost one massive game? Surely we are. Swindon will almost certainly get relegated this season, we will finish mid table or better. Yes this season is looking like a missed opportunity right now but it's not over yet and we need to show some perspective.

It's not just one game though is it, its our local rival who were bang average at best, the way we gifted them the win hurts big time ,it wouldn't of been so bad if Swinedump come here and played us off the park on the way to promotion. But they are in as much as a relegation scrap as we are.

Overall we are on a downward trend from reaching the play off final to scrapping at the bottom. Alot of fans are annoyed with Robbo keep spouting rubbish, blaming everyone else from the refs, subs, certain players and not taking any of the blame, these are his players and he is the one who decides the formation and tactics.

He needs to take a long hard look at himself and start changing his way otherwise the whole fan base will be against him.

Only positive to come out from today is no fans were there to witness that joke of a second half.
 
Let's all just calm down a bit here. Yes the subs were the wrong decision, yes our 2nd half performance was poor, yes Easty made a calamitous mistake.

Does Karl have the right minerals to drive our club forward? Wholeheartedly yes. Do we have a board that's head and shoulders above most others in the EFL? Definitely yes. Are we as fans going to stand behind our club and not slag them off because we lost one massive game? Surely we are. Swindon will almost certainly get relegated this season, we will finish mid table or better. Yes this season is looking like a missed opportunity right now but it's not over yet and we need to show some perspective.

I have seen nothing this season to suggest that we have a mid-table team.
 
Eastwood doesn’t just want bombing out of the team he wants bombing out of the county.
 
History shows he doesn't trust stevens, hence Eastwood has played for longer than would have happened at other clubs. Also, other seasons when Eastwood has been injured, a loan is brought.
Having seem stevens play quite a lot, I don't believe he is the answer, a replacement first choice is needed. God, if stevens does come in, I do
hope I am proved wrong.

What games have u actually seen Stevens play ?
 
The problem here, looking at the season so far, is not Fazakerley or Robinson.

The recruitment in the summer isn't looking
up to recent seasons standards.

I know popular opinion is to blame all recruitment on robinson but he isn't the one identifying talent, doing the analysis and most importantly signing the cheques. Yes he has a big part to play but every football manager wants to sign messi,Ronaldo, de bruyne and bale but the real world doesn't work like that.

I suspect what has happened is the club took a risk with a prudent budget because of covid, which is understandable.

Then the bigger deals haven't come off as expected (mcguane, Cooper, kelly) and the club didn't get some of the key deals over the line (browne). Combined with established players struggling (Eastwood, henry) and we are in a tough place.

Hard to say at this point whether its bad luck or underperformance, but its not all on robinsons head.
 
The unwarranted yellow card for Clare on Tuesday has had far reaching repercussions.....
 
Fair enough, I feel for you on Monday morning. But you you there at the leyton match? Can you honestly say that today was as bad as that? Sure today has been a bitch of a match in a bitch of season, but I'd take any amount of stick from the scum than see us back in the blue square prem or whatever it's called these days.
L1 to L2 wouldnt be as awful as orient but point taken
 
The problem here, looking at the season so far, is not Fazakerley or Robinson.

The recruitment in the summer isn't looking
up to recent seasons standards.

I know popular opinion is to blame all recruitment on robinson but he isn't the one identifying talent, doing the analysis and most importantly signing the cheques. Yes he has a big part to play but every football manager wants to sign messi,Ronaldo, de bruyne and bale but the real world doesn't work like that.

I suspect what has happened is the club took a risk with a prudent budget because of covid, which is understandable.

Then the bigger deals haven't come off as expected (mcguane, Cooper, kelly) and the club didn't get some of the key deals over the line (browne). Combined with established players struggling (Eastwood, henry) and we are in a tough place.

Hard to say at this point whether its bad luck or underperformance, but its not all on robinsons head.


You can also add to that, that 3 of his 21 man squad are just passengers. Moush, Hall and Hanson, hence his options become even more limited especially when he won't play Moush when he was clearly needed after 70m mins!
 
I have seen nothing this season to suggest that we have a mid-table team.
We played some excellent football at Portsmouth and during the first half today we were largely impressive and positive
with the ball. But for how good we were in the first half what followed after the break was probably the worst 45 minutes
under KR , in my view. The team just disintegrated today.

If you are unable to keep a clean sheet and find scoring goals so difficult you will normally get relegated.
 
I thought we were great for 55 minutes, really bright and energetic. Taking off McGuane was an odd one as he was playing really well, Henry too was linking well. Obita wasn’t at his most effective but, similar to how Garbutt often was, he gave us a balanced look.

Eastwood messed up massively but I still think he has the edge over Stevens - for now.
Henry was very poor today. Thought Forde should have come on.
 
You can also add to that, that 3 of his 21 man squad are just passengers. Moush, Hall and Hanson, hence his options become even more limited especially when he won't play Moush when he was clearly needed after 70m mins!
he wasn't needed though was he ! they never looked like scoring, the problem was we opted to hoof it anywhere and were not passing to each other resulting in numerous + needless free kicks..
 
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