Home Match Day Thread 01/11/2025 - MDT: Oxford United V Millwall

[Carpy]

 

[tonto]

Phew good point. Just tuned in to radox and assumed we had lost!

 

[Toe knee]

Do you go out of your way to be this miserable or does it come naturally?
Oh and that ‘s**t team’ are 4th in the league and had won 4 in a row before today.

f**k off at least I was there

 

[Osleroad]

Our goal difference isn't too bad either on par with West Brom which hopefully we won't need come the end of the season. Interesting to hear that Erik and Tiger were watching the game - hope they enjoyed it in the end. My Millwall mate was gutted but we agreed it was honours shared!

 

[unification]

If you seriously think that Milwall are a s**t team, I am not sure which season you are in?
Maybe listen to NTT20babd see hie good they see Milwall as?

It doesn’t fit the ‘Rowett out’ narrative.

Win or get a draw and it’s because the opposition are rubbish. Lose and it’s all his fault.

 

[TheDukeOfBanburyshire]

Millwall was another s**t team ,lucky to get a result 2 points dropped at home. To negative again.especialy at home

What game were you even watching today?!

 

[Toe knee]

What game were you even watching today?!

Same as usual,boring dull

 

[Grumpy Git]

I thought Millwall were ok. Not bad but certainly nothing great. I suspect they’ll end up mid table. They took their goals well but they were from our mistakes.

 

[londonyellow]

Millwall was another s**t team ,lucky to get a result 2 points dropped at home. To negative again.especialy at home

 

[McXal]

Went bonkers watching it on a choppy stream in a restaurant in Egypt! Get in Shemmy! That’s a huge point! 2-2’s against Leicester, Coventry & Millwall at home so far, and there’s a reasonable argument we could’ve won some of those too!

 

[Grumpy Git]

Big shout out for the referee and his assistants, excellent today

One of the best we’ve had for ages.

 

[TheDukeOfBanburyshire]

Same as usual,boring dull

Have a day off Tony. How the f**k else do you expect a club of Oxford's profile to survive at this level?

If we try and go toe to toe with established championship clubs, we're destined for relegation. Surely you can see that this is just one incremental step toward continual improvement, with the eventual aim of becoming an established club at this level?

You can identify that, right?

 

[Osleroad]

Glad to see GR agrees with some of our take on where to strengthen in Jan

 

[Grumpy Git]

Millwall thought the ref was crap.
“They scored in the 6th minute of injury time. There was only 5 minutes of injury time given. Rowetts teams are no mugs. We move on still on a good run”. Did he not see their player Leonard go down in injury time for two minutes?

 

[Swaby39]

Have a day off Tony. How the f**k else do you expect a club of Oxford's profile to survive at this level?

If we try and go toe to toe with established championship clubs, we're destined for relegation. Surely you can see that this is just one incremental step toward continual improvement, with the eventual aim of becoming an established club at this level?

You can identify that, right?

The thing is (and I’m agreeing with you), I don’t think we sat back at all today. In fact, there was very little between how the two teams approached the game. I didn’t think they were any more attacking than us or played any better football than us. They had better players in some areas which might’ve made it look more polished but I think it was two pretty similar teams, evenly matched in most departments.

To me, “going toe to toe” with teams does not mean playing attacking pass and move football. It means being aggressive and competitive with intent to win - all of that was on display today and has been on a number of occasions, but not always.

I do wonder if we signed 2 or 3 more that are capable of the levels of BDK, but played no different in style, whether suddenly we’d be seen as going toe to toe. We are limited quite considerably by some of our players and it’s just straight lazy to level things at Rowett every time (though, it has been deserved occasionally for sure). He’s got a couple of star players and the rest is just about making the grade. He’s getting a lot out of a little right now.

 

[tonto]

Shemmy sounds sweet!

 

[Belgium Yellow]

Don’t agree with the assessments on here, Millwall looked a very good team and dominated for spells, but this was a great battling performance. Also don’t understand the high rating for Mills, wasted loads of good positions. Dembele and Placheta did a lot better when they came on.

 

[EastStandKieran]

I learnt a lesson the hard way today. I checked the time in the score board 93 mins no chance we equalise I said to my son so we left our seats and started to leave to go home

Well he wasn't happy when we heard the roar from the crowd

 

[MJB]

Two beautiful strikes to get us a draw which felt like a win. We looked a bit toothless in the second half but overall a point was deserved.

Also:

 

[Eric Blair]

Shemmy equaliser in the 95th minute and a Millwall fan stopped me on the way home to call me a c**t. All boxes ticked.

 

[Beech Road Bokelberg]

Kips nephew (scrappy doo) has entered the chat I see....

 

[londonyellow]

Shemmy equaliser in the 95th minute and a Millwall fan stopped me on the way home to call me a c**t. All boxes ticked.

Perfect afternoon I'd say

 

[TobyDavis34]

I learnt a lesson the hard way today. I checked the time in the score board 93 mins no chance we equalise I said to my son so we left our seats and started to leave to go home

Well he wasn't happy when we heard the roar from the crowd

Never ever leave before the final whistle!

Who cares about saving 20 minutes on the way home when you’ve been at the ground for hours and paid money to watch your side.

For me, I travel 2.5 hours (5 hours round trip, plus the queuing out of the car park) so saving a few minutes is trivial when you could miss a goal.

I never leave before the final whistle*

*except when we conceded the 7th at home to Wigan around 10 minutes from time. I left after that. I had Christmas presents to buy

 

[SteMerritt]

Shemmy equaliser in the 95th minute and a Millwall fan stopped me on the way home to call me a c**t. All boxes ticked.

Did he know you then?

 

[Steve Gilbert]

f**k off at least I was there

I see it comes naturally, thank you for answering in such an elegant way.
That £17 I got from the ticket exchange will help nicely for my season ticket next season

 

[tonyw]

I thought that Millwall were a very slightly better version of us. Solid, strong, well organized, dangerous from set pieces, no superstars but some good players. A year or two more of survival, making gradual incremental improvements to the squad and I think we could be doing what they're doing now.

They definitely edged it (particularly the second half) but the equalizer wasn't robbery.

Generally no complaints with how we approached the game, other than I think GR was too slow to change things around second half. Thought Millwall started to boss things from ~55th minute, and we could have done something to try and change the flow before they scored. In particular, I think Dembele for Krastev could have happened then.....wasn't really happening for the Bulgarian (it hasn't really yet since he's got here.....still not convinced about him) and whilst Dembele can make you tear your hair out with his decision-making, he does carry the ball and get defenders on their heels better than anyone else we have, which is what we really needed at that time. Hopefully he'll be starting on Tuesday......

 

[Eric Blair]

Did he know you then?

Ha! No but I was walking with my daughter and wasn’t even laughing or pissing about. He stopped me and said “you’re s**t you c**t”. Weird but it makes Shemmy’s goal sweeter.

My take:
- We out played them in the first half. BdK a monster at times. They still had plenty of joy in the wings and looked good at set pieces. It was an annoying goal to concede.
- Brannagan goal was lovely. I thought Stan played well.
- Was pleased to see their number 7 come off.
- Second half we went off the boil and got dominated in midfield. I don’t know why. Tiredness?
- There number 5 is massive. Another frustrating goal to concede from a mistake.
- Shemmy goal was amazing.
- Bloke called me a c**t.

All in all it was an entertaining match. We were definitely worth a draw. Seven points in four games isn’t a bad return.

 

[Chippy]

Really enjoyable game, feels like a win when you get an equaliser that late in the match. All credit to us for keeping going right to the end. I think a draw was a fair result, and you wouldn’t know there was such a difference in league positions between us.

Take nothing away from Millwall they were a very good well drilled side, but I thought we played very well for the most part and deserved the late equaliser to get the point.

 

[Beech Road Bokelberg]

Ha! No but I was walking with my daughter and wasn’t even laughing or pissing about. He stopped me and said “you’re s**t you c**t”. Weird but it makes Shemmy’s goal sweeter.

My take:
- We out played them in the first half. BdK a monster at times. They still had plenty of joy in the wings and looked good at set pieces. It was an annoying goal to concede.
- Brannagan goal was lovely. I thought Stan played well.
- Was pleased to see their number 7 come off.
- Second half we went off the boil and got dominated in midfield. I don’t know why. Tiredness?
- There number 5 is massive. Another frustrating goal to concede from a mistake.
- Shemmy goal was amazing.
- Bloke called me a c**t.

All in all it was an entertaining match. We were definitely worth a draw. Seven points in four games isn’t a bad return.

Obviously I don't condone kids bad behaviour but on this occasion it would have been great if you're daughter piped up:

'No one likes you, you stupid prick!

 

[Symp59]

GR is doing an amazing job for us ,we are trying to establish our selves in this league ,we were good and bad in the same moves ,the passing didn't quite come off ,but we have got great fight as a team. Lets turn Stoke over Tuesday come on. GR knows what he wants in January let's just be 6/7 points above that drop zone keep battling COYYS

 

[werthersoriginal]

A bit of old school hooliganism eh.... Some of the woke brigade on here won't like that at all

Lol are you 13 ‘boy’?