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Home Match Day Thread 01/03/25: Championship - OUFC v Coventry City
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Oxymoron
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
I wonder how many stay when we stay up!
Romeny was impressive, but mom by a country mile was Ciaron Briown. He is every week.
Play with that tenacity and fluency every week and we’ll get enough points to stay up. I really think we should play two up top in all matches not involving top 6. We’re a better team on the front foot.
Cov have a tremendous asset in Sakamoto. Bit Bidwell looked like a pub player, we didn’t run at him enough today. Didn’t think they were that awe inspiring. We can, and should, stay up.
Play with that tenacity and fluency every week and we’ll get enough points to stay up. I really think we should play two up top in all matches not involving top 6. We’re a better team on the front foot.
Cov have a tremendous asset in Sakamoto. Bit Bidwell looked like a pub player, we didn’t run at him enough today. Didn’t think they were that awe inspiring. We can, and should, stay up.
christenedinjericho
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Disappointing to hear Rowett say we didn't start well, and we were slow out of the blocks? Isn't that his job if he and 9000 others are seeing the same!
Get your slim backside out of the dug out and inject some f*cking energy into the team if this is the case.
Once again, Mowbray last week and Lampoon this week spent all the match on the sidelines urging their respective sides on whilst GR is bolted in the dug out.
Get yourself out in the daylight man and own your technical area plus your players and we might just take the game to the opposition and not have to keep chasing the game like we are doing atm.
In moments today our attacking play was good but we are not at all streetwise to see a game out or atm manage and this could put our status in jeopardy.
Hope to see you all in Norwich.
COYY'S
Get your slim backside out of the dug out and inject some f*cking energy into the team if this is the case.
Once again, Mowbray last week and Lampoon this week spent all the match on the sidelines urging their respective sides on whilst GR is bolted in the dug out.
Get yourself out in the daylight man and own your technical area plus your players and we might just take the game to the opposition and not have to keep chasing the game like we are doing atm.
In moments today our attacking play was good but we are not at all streetwise to see a game out or atm manage and this could put our status in jeopardy.
Hope to see you all in Norwich.
COYY'S
Some of my observations:
1. Anyone who called Romeny a board signing, said Rowett didn’t fancy him, said we’d never see him play, etc. Where are you now? Clearly a good player, and yet another example of why we need to give a player a chance before writing them off.
2. Shemmy from the sublime to the ridiculous inside the course of a game. PB for him
3. It’s difficult enough in this league without having to play against 12 every other week. Some of these guys seem to referee us and whoever we’re playing in very different ways. Identical incidents judged differently depending on who’s got the yellow shirt on.
4. The penalty - give everything like that, or don’t give anything like that. But you can’t just give one. He’d been dying for a chance to give them a pen - couldn’t give it quick enough, and didn’t see a single Coventry player actually appeal.
5. Thought we deserved a point, but they just seemed to be able to up it when they needed to.
6. Whatever the result, we saw enough today to give us the confidence that we’re capable of picking up the points we need to stay up.
1. Anyone who called Romeny a board signing, said Rowett didn’t fancy him, said we’d never see him play, etc. Where are you now? Clearly a good player, and yet another example of why we need to give a player a chance before writing them off.
2. Shemmy from the sublime to the ridiculous inside the course of a game. PB for him
3. It’s difficult enough in this league without having to play against 12 every other week. Some of these guys seem to referee us and whoever we’re playing in very different ways. Identical incidents judged differently depending on who’s got the yellow shirt on.
4. The penalty - give everything like that, or don’t give anything like that. But you can’t just give one. He’d been dying for a chance to give them a pen - couldn’t give it quick enough, and didn’t see a single Coventry player actually appeal.
5. Thought we deserved a point, but they just seemed to be able to up it when they needed to.
6. Whatever the result, we saw enough today to give us the confidence that we’re capable of picking up the points we need to stay up.
West Oxon U’s
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
- Year of First Game
- 1975
I'm in such a foul mood (as Mrs QR has just confirmed).
Kioso giving the ref a sniff to award a penalty and also giving away a completely unnecessary foul (their players had his back to goal 25 yards out) that directly led to their third.
I thought Kioso’s performance today was catastrophically bad. Pulling the Cov player’s shirt at that corner so blatantly should
see him get a bollocking from Rowett.
He was beaten all too easily for me for Coventry’s first although Sakamoto turned Brown inside out before delivering a great ball.
Kioso also allowed Bidwell far too much space to cross for Sakamoto’s winner although somehow the Japanese was left unmarked.
Defensively we look so weak and vulnerable. Expected Cov to be better than that but we threw away what could prove to be a vital point.
On the plus side Romeny looks a class act - excellent feet and ball control.
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You thought Brown played well second half? He looked like a centre back playing left back to me.
He is our best best centre back and needs to play there.
- Year of First Game
- 1998
I'm giving him a break on the first goal, he was trying to mark two players, with Moore marking one and Helik stood on his own in front of them both.
Poor defending, and probably his job to organise Helik or Moore to pick one of them up, but he was on a hiding to nothing before the ball even got crossed in.
Joey
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
This is mental. Turned inside out for the first goal, got caught out more than once losing the ball in dangerous positions that could have cost us, had loads of room in an attacking sense but the few times he got forwards wasted the delivery and played the ball into touch several times.
He's a very good centre back and should be playing there when everyone is fit but if anyone thinks he was man of the match today I question what he has to do for them to say he's had a bad game. If we keep playing a back four while Leigh and Bennett are out then that's a problem area.
East Stand Fan
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
The subs once again killed us today. Dismantling our threat as the game wore on left us completely starved of opportunities in the final 20 minutes. It was a big ask to come back a third time but when you're putting on the likes of Phillips, Mattos and Dembele and taking off the key players in Placheta and Romeny, it significantly weakened us especially off the ball and in the final third. I'm not even sure Mills had the ball at his feet and Placheta could've easily seen out the game.
West Oxon U’s
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
- Year of First Game
- 1975
Thought Moore was on Ellis Simms and Helik on Ephraim Mason-Clark. Kioso was supposed to be marking Rudoni?
Maybe I’m being harsh on Peter Kioso because it was a super cross that Cumming could not come for.
I will have nightmares tonight about Kioso’s performance though - it was so bad in all aspects.
- Year of First Game
- 1998
Maybe you're right, I'll need to watch the highlights again, but if that was the case, he was still overloaded as he clearly is inbetween two Cov players.
QR
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Get a room!
Just watched the Sky highlights. Right at the end of the video why the heck did Phillips duck down and miss the header completely when he had an open goal?!?
He switched off. He gave away a slightly cheap free kick, and then took a ten second breather. You can't do that in this league - you need to be up and either stopping the free kick being taken or getting back tight to your man. He did neither, and gave Bidwell an ocean of space from which to pick out a cross.
Everything else he did today was forgivable. The cross for the first should have been cut out at source and he didn't get any help from the CBs (was it me, or was it almost identical to the first they scored against us at their place when Long was left on an island against Wright?). The penalty is an incident that happens five times every game and never gets given.
But the winner was a big mental lapse from him (course the second was an even bigger mental lapse from everyone involved, so unfair to single out Kioso!)
OX14
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
Only he can answer that but his performances have no consequences as he will still be thrown on the pitch on Friday.
bazzer9461
Level: Joey Beauchamp
(428 Apps, 79 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
f*****g hell I thought your back room team must have employed Tom Daly
In general, I think I would summarize today as:
1) Diabolical referee. Barely made a correct decision all game, and 80% of the time his random decisions favored Coventry. Not sure if the penalty or the Brannigan booking was the most absurd decision.....but they're arguably the two worst we've seen against us all year.
2) Much better from us going forwards - particularly from Shemmy and Romeny who combined well, and generally looked dangerous. Gives hope for the run-in that we might actually see the occasional goal after all.
3) Horrific defending for all three goals - can't afford to do that against a team with as much attacking talent as Coventry
4) Despite all the above, still hard to argue with the result. They're a really good attacking team - and they should be. They've spent more money on putting that squad together than we will ever be able to spend - even if we do make it to the Triangle - barring a miracle promotion to the PL.
1) Diabolical referee. Barely made a correct decision all game, and 80% of the time his random decisions favored Coventry. Not sure if the penalty or the Brannigan booking was the most absurd decision.....but they're arguably the two worst we've seen against us all year.
2) Much better from us going forwards - particularly from Shemmy and Romeny who combined well, and generally looked dangerous. Gives hope for the run-in that we might actually see the occasional goal after all.
3) Horrific defending for all three goals - can't afford to do that against a team with as much attacking talent as Coventry
4) Despite all the above, still hard to argue with the result. They're a really good attacking team - and they should be. They've spent more money on putting that squad together than we will ever be able to spend - even if we do make it to the Triangle - barring a miracle promotion to the PL.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
You mean the second goal? That was a terrible back pass, didn’t realise it was Cam. Cumming couldn’t handle it, he seemed to be waiting to head it but hesitated.
TheDukeOfBanburyshire
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
I was saying this to my boy on the final whistle. There are so many that just aren't up to this level, unfortunately.
The summer will certainly be interesting if we stay up.
Yet it was your player booked for a clear dive....
Agree with some of that but think they are ropey at the back. Even the mighty yellow attacking machine has scored 4times against this season.
m
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
ZeroTheHero
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
Except if you looked at the replay on the screen, it wasn't a dive...
OX14
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
You mean our player who got booked for a dive by that incompetent ref when video footage replayed in the ground clearly shown it was a foul.
Orkney Islands Yellow
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
Signs of life and fight today but still a very difficult couple of weeks which will test the faith.
Have to say it was my view that it was a stone wall penalty. PK pulled his shirt and then went straight through the back of him. It was right in the vision of the ref too. I thought it was the only thing he got right today.
m
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
That moment of absurdity summed up the surreal nature of the afternoon brilliantly.
Simpson was (presumably) explaining to Cam why he had been booked, with his back to a big screen which was graphically showing how poor the decision was.
- Year of First Game
- 1970
uptheus
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Thought Romeny was MOTM, not so sure about Brown today. Played okay, and wasn’t sure if he was in a poor position e.g. not picking up their player for the winner, plus had a good chance to put an easy ball into the box in the last few minutes and only found their first man when we had others in behind!!
Better performance as a team though in the second half, but we've got to start games at home on the front foot.
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werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
The first two goals were very poor (couldn’t really see the third very well), we were all over the place at the start with the new defence but recovered quite well. We’ll definitely get some points if we carry on attacking like that, I thought Romeny, Placheta, and Tyler were terrific (Harris was just there).
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