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Football 0 Weather 1 today. I’m still thawing out..

Great shift put in by everyone today. When you’ve got wingers like Gav Whyte rolling their sleeves up and digging in for the cause you know there’s not much wrong with the squad.

A couple of little niggles though if I may.. Marcus Browne clearly has talent but again today he took the selfish option a couple of times when a final ball to a teammate would have been the better option. I know a lot of it is naivety, he’s far from the finished article, but I think he’s a young man in a hurry to get to the top. His comments this week about not knowing where he’ll be come January appear to back this up. I think he should just get his head down and concentrate on producing good solid performances for the Oxford cause until the summer. He doesn’t have to worry the rewards his talent deserves will come his way.

And I’ve got a lot of time for Mackie, he always puts in a good honest shift, and today was never going to be a day for him to shine, it was about doing the hard graft which he certainly did. But if we want to push on to the next level we need a bit more from the centre forward. Having said that, Gnanduillet looked a big waste of space in the second half for them - I heard a rumour that he was benched to start with because somebody is in for him in January (Us maybe..?!)

I got the feeling, from his comments, that he thinks he should be at a higher club, rather than proving himself for a full season with us. Quite Callum o Dowd'ish.
Very non committal. You'd think if he was really enjoying himself with us, he would want t stay.
 
just in after the pub and a Chinese, awesome performance in the conditions, feet now thawed out, pleased as punch, I thought Mackie yet again hassled the defenders and annoyed them, just what’s required.

Onwards and upwards.
 
Very good win today in difficult conditions.
Having a settled side is paying dividends.
Well done all !!!

COYY
 
Great result/performance, especially in those conditions. Liked their 15 & 27, very good players.
 
We got a few complimentary comments on that highlights prog on quest last night. They mentioned our improvement after moving Mous in front of back 4.

Watching it now on its repeat. Colin Murray went to Brookes in the 80s so always gives us a little bit of preference I feel whenever I've watched it, which is nice.

Having seen Brown's goal back, I know some were saying it was a foul but it didn't look it to me. Pressure yes, but nothing illegal in the laws of the game, there was no climbing or real shoving from the camera angle, but my view from the East Stand wasn't exactly clear.
 
Having read through this thread, I don't agree that Blackpool were anything like a decent side.

Yes, they made some headway down the flanks at times, but had exactly zero shots on target in the whole game. The first half hour was 90% one way traffic - I don't think they got into our half for the first 20 minutes! The second half was much more scrappy, but even with the wind in their favour, they really didn't trouble us much. Quite how they are on the fringes of the play-offs I can't imagine, based on that performance. They must have just had a 'bad day at the office' yesterday.

For both sides though, trying to play football in those conditions was a bit of a thankless task. It wasn't a picnic sat in the stands watching!
 
So I’ll preface my thoughts by stating that was the first time I’ve seen us since the Plymouth home game in mid-October. The wife gave birth to our second child at the end of October meaning I’ve not seen us since. In a piece of outrageously poor parenting I took the older kid to her first game of the season yesterday (driving rain, freezing cold, icy wind - kids love that right? Apologies to anyone around us in the far right of the East Stand who got fed up of the endless episodes of Mickey Mouse she was watching on her tablet, and the tantrum each time said episodes ended!)

Bearing in mind when I last saw us our recovery had barely started, I thought we were outstanding in horrific conditions. The second half was I imagine, to the neutral (and frozen toddlers) in attendance, horrendous. But I thought the way we shut the game out was a thing of beauty. We nabbed the goals in the first half, then made it a cold, wet, ugly slog keeping them at arms length. Exactly the kind of professional, calm, point-winning showing we’ve missed since the Appleton days.

Loved the Mous/Cam/Henry trilogy in midfield, I thought Ruffels was excellent at LB. Whyte and Browne can both be irritatingly naive, but they’re both so threatening to defenders at this level. If Whyte had some composure, or Browne passed a bit more rather than had his head down the whole time, we could’ve had a couple more.

Having missed much of our resurgence, I thought it was a calm and commanding performance. Still think any talk of the play-offs after our start is far too optimistic. But if (Tiger/Singha/Thohir/Thai Airlines maybe we have the cash, maybe we don’t funding dependent) we can get a couple of decent additions in January (and tellingly, permanent additions so we can build for better things next season) we have the foundations laid for a decent top half finish.
 
So I’ll preface my thoughts by stating that was the first time I’ve seen us since the Plymouth home game in mid-October. The wife gave birth to our second child at the end of October meaning I’ve not seen us since. In a piece of outrageously poor parenting I took the older kid to her first game of the season yesterday (driving rain, freezing cold, icy wind - kids love that right? Apologies to anyone around us in the far right of the East Stand who got fed up of the endless episodes of Mickey Mouse she was watching on her tablet, and the tantrum each time said episodes ended!)

Bearing in mind when I last saw us our recovery had barely started, I thought we were outstanding in horrific conditions. The second half was I imagine, to the neutral (and frozen toddlers) in attendance, horrendous. But I thought the way we shut the game out was a thing of beauty. We nabbed the goals in the first half, then made it a cold, wet, ugly slog keeping them at arms length. Exactly the kind of professional, calm, point-winning showing we’ve missed since the Appleton days.

Loved the Mous/Cam/Henry trilogy in midfield, I thought Ruffels was excellent at LB. Whyte and Browne can both be irritatingly naive, but they’re both so threatening to defenders at this level. If Whyte had some composure, or Browne passed a bit more rather than had his head down the whole time, we could’ve had a couple more.

Having missed much of our resurgence, I thought it was a calm and commanding performance. Still think any talk of the play-offs after our start is far too optimistic. But if (Tiger/Singha/Thohir/Thai Airlines maybe we have the cash, maybe we don’t funding dependent) we can get a couple of decent additions in January (and tellingly, permanent additions so we can build for better things next season) we have the foundations laid for a decent top half finish.
Good post.
 
So I’ll preface my thoughts by stating that was the first time I’ve seen us since the Plymouth home game in mid-October. The wife gave birth to our second child at the end of October meaning I’ve not seen us since. In a piece of outrageously poor parenting I took the older kid to her first game of the season yesterday (driving rain, freezing cold, icy wind - kids love that right? Apologies to anyone around us in the far right of the East Stand who got fed up of the endless episodes of Mickey Mouse she was watching on her tablet, and the tantrum each time said episodes ended!)

Bearing in mind when I last saw us our recovery had barely started, I thought we were outstanding in horrific conditions. The second half was I imagine, to the neutral (and frozen toddlers) in attendance, horrendous. But I thought the way we shut the game out was a thing of beauty. We nabbed the goals in the first half, then made it a cold, wet, ugly slog keeping them at arms length. Exactly the kind of professional, calm, point-winning showing we’ve missed since the Appleton days.

Loved the Mous/Cam/Henry trilogy in midfield, I thought Ruffels was excellent at LB. Whyte and Browne can both be irritatingly naive, but they’re both so threatening to defenders at this level. If Whyte had some composure, or Browne passed a bit more rather than had his head down the whole time, we could’ve had a couple more.

Having missed much of our resurgence, I thought it was a calm and commanding performance. Still think any talk of the play-offs after our start is far too optimistic. But if (Tiger/Singha/Thohir/Thai Airlines maybe we have the cash, maybe we don’t funding dependent) we can get a couple of decent additions in January (and tellingly, permanent additions so we can build for better things next season) we have the foundations laid for a decent top half finish.
I think it is very useful to have a report from someone who hasn't seen us for a while. I think that if you go regularly, improvements can be so incremental that you don't always fully appreciate them.
 
So I’ll preface my thoughts by stating that was the first time I’ve seen us since the Plymouth home game in mid-October. The wife gave birth to our second child at the end of October meaning I’ve not seen us since. In a piece of outrageously poor parenting I took the older kid to her first game of the season yesterday (driving rain, freezing cold, icy wind - kids love that right? Apologies to anyone around us in the far right of the East Stand who got fed up of the endless episodes of Mickey Mouse she was watching on her tablet, and the tantrum each time said episodes ended!)

Bearing in mind when I last saw us our recovery had barely started, I thought we were outstanding in horrific conditions. The second half was I imagine, to the neutral (and frozen toddlers) in attendance, horrendous. But I thought the way we shut the game out was a thing of beauty. We nabbed the goals in the first half, then made it a cold, wet, ugly slog keeping them at arms length. Exactly the kind of professional, calm, point-winning showing we’ve missed since the Appleton days.

Loved the Mous/Cam/Henry trilogy in midfield, I thought Ruffels was excellent at LB. Whyte and Browne can both be irritatingly naive, but they’re both so threatening to defenders at this level. If Whyte had some composure, or Browne passed a bit more rather than had his head down the whole time, we could’ve had a couple more.

Having missed much of our resurgence, I thought it was a calm and commanding performance. Still think any talk of the play-offs after our start is far too optimistic. But if (Tiger/Singha/Thohir/Thai Airlines maybe we have the cash, maybe we don’t funding dependent) we can get a couple of decent additions in January (and tellingly, permanent additions so we can build for better things next season) we have the foundations laid for a decent top half finish.
Yes good post and interesting to hear from a supporter who hasn't been for a while.
If the Stockley rumour was to be right added to Graham and a left back we would have a very decent squad.
 
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