Home Match Day Thread 03/04/2026 - MDT: Oxford United v Hull City

[Northstandboy]

 

[Jster]

Yeah,. some people on here just have an agenda against Harris, seeming to forget the role he played in our being at this level in the first place. Best ignored really (though I can't help myself sometimes).

 

[Swaby39]

The same Prelec who has "buried" one goal in 23 appearances - people need to get real - why this love in with Prelec

Well the case would be made assuming Prelec makes the same run at the same speed (or better) so a fair few maybes in there so it’s all b*****s really. It would at least be coming on to his stronger foot. But the reality is in our predicament they have to go in. That’s as good a chance as we’ve created all season.

To Harris’ credit, he’s done everything right up until contact with the ball. It’s not like he had a split second to react, the ball isn’t played in with much pace, so he has to read the pace of it better and throw every inch of himself at it sooner if he feels he’s a yard short. But that’s the striker Harris is and has typically been for us at this level, it’s a complete coin-flip with him in front of goal.

Generally speaking though, I felt we were good today. Better than Hull for much of the game but ran out of legs for the last 10 mins. The goal we concede is a shambles as it so often has been this season. Not sure what we’ve seen in Roosken. Looks feather weight and only interested in one side of the game, but we haven’t seen much of him and after Konak’s resurgence I think everyone should take a step back before going overboard.

Monday is boom or bust imo. I can see us beating Watford if we go in to it with our tails up and Shef Wed to come further down the track. There’s definitely another 10 points within this run-in for us, but we can’t miss many more opportunities like today to take 3.

 

[Victor1986]

Not having invested in a goal scorer for the last two seasons will be our undoing.
We have been so close and I may not see Championship football at the new stadium in my lifetime - shame.

 

[Eaststanding]

I was going to stay away until all the lashing out and piling on had finished…
The cross at the end that Harris got on the end of was out of this world, I can’t blame him for not anticipating that a few seconds earlier and burying the chance, we’re just not used to that level of quality cross.
It was just one chance amongst 16 other shots at goal.
Look elsewhere if blame is what makes you happy.

 

[Northernyellow]

Yeah,. some people on here just have an agenda against Harris, seeming to forget the role he played in our being at this level in the first place. Best ignored really (though I can't help myself sometimes).

I quite like Harris. Good athlete and always puts in a shift. But he's just a dreadful finisher, which isn't ideal when he's supposed to be a CF.

 

[jaybeachjump]

Let's zoom out a bit: in January we could barely string 2 passes together. Now we have a proper team.
This is going to the wire and we may run out of games. But I still believe we can do this, and this afternoon it felt like 11 and a half thousand people agreed with me. Very proud to be a yellow today.
Win or lose, up the freaking U's.

 

[holdsteady]

Not having invested in a goal scorer for the last two seasons will be our undoing.
We have been so close and I may not see Championship football at the new stadium in my lifetime - shame.

The new stadium you have also moaned about? Who would have thought Kip would have a rival for most depressing poster?

 

[Basham Wonderland]

"He was stretching for it" (barely)
"He was an OK striker 3 years ago"
"He's not used to getting good crosses"

Absolutely hilarious

 

[milkmaid]

Just got home because i went straight from out game to watch my local team who had an evening ko...I thought we were superb...Brannagan absolutely immense, Konak, Long, Mills and Lankshear too...thought Spencer was incredible in the second half and would have been MOTM had he been on all game...decision to start Rooskens wrong with hindsight but can understand it before the game...We had SO many chances to win that...When did we last have over 3 xg in a game?...Lankshear header miss was properly bad although he did well just to get there...Harris miss reminded me of Gazza v Germany in 1990...Just couldn't quite get there in time...the move to get the chance tho was incredible and the ball from Mills just superb...So many good things and if today had been September I'd be so positive for the season...There's just the bit in the back of my stupid brain that keeps saying "we shoulda won that...and we needed to win that"...and added to the way the Charlton game finished we could be 4 pts better off and looking a whole lot more rosy...still, we're not down and we have every chance...completely dreading monday cos that's gonna be horrible...also one last thing...the atmosphere today was incredible...my dad (76) and I (50) sit in ssl and it's not normally the most vocal but both of us today sang louder and harder than we have in a long time...just the whole day from the second we got in the ground felt exciting and we got caught up and now i have a sore throat...props to everyone who does that every week cos i'm just a daytripper (4-5 games a season) so ignore what i think but y'all were sick as f**k today...COYY!!

 

[QR]

I was going to stay away until all the lashing out and piling on had finished…
The cross at the end that Harris got on the end of was out of this world, I can’t blame him for not anticipating that a few seconds earlier and burying the chance, we’re just not used to that level of quality cross.
It was just one chance amongst 16 other shots at goal.
Look elsewhere if blame is what makes you happy.

If you're reduced to comparing Harris missing the target from 6 yards out to Brannagan needing a great save to stop him from scoring from 20 yards out you've lost the argument. This is the Championship ffs!

 

[SamLongSlidingTackle]

Brilliant

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Lad needs a goal, always looks frustrated at himself.

 

[SamLongSlidingTackle]

I thought we played very well today and felt we held our energy a lot better than a previous 2 week break where we came back looking tired.
Cam bran was excellent.
The players still look hungry to win and I think pompy won’t be looking forward to Monday.
Mills again was great along the wing. I think if he had some support for couple of give and go’s now and again.
I feel the subs were good timing but maybe 10 minutes sooner to get a feel into the game.

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Well the case would be made assuming Prelec makes the same run at the same speed (or better) so a fair few maybes in there so it’s all b*****s really. It would at least be coming on to his stronger foot. But the reality is in our predicament they have to go in. That’s as good a chance as we’ve created all season.

To Harris’ credit, he’s done everything right up until contact with the ball. It’s not like he had a split second to react, the ball isn’t played in with much pace, so he has to read the pace of it better and throw every inch of himself at it sooner if he feels he’s a yard short. But that’s the striker Harris is and has typically been for us at this level, it’s a complete coin-flip with him in front of goal.

Generally speaking though, I felt we were good today. Better than Hull for much of the game but ran out of legs for the last 10 mins. The goal we concede is a shambles as it so often has been this season. Not sure what we’ve seen in Roosken. Looks feather weight and only interested in one side of the game, but we haven’t seen much of him and after Konak’s resurgence I think everyone should take a step back before going overboard.

Monday is boom or bust imo. I can see us beating Watford if we go in to it with our tails up and Shef Wed to come further down the track. There’s definitely another 10 points within this run-in for us, but we can’t miss many more opportunities like today to take 3.

Agree entirely re Monday - win we have a real head of steam - lose and I am afraid we are L1

 

[Mateo Corbo's Tackle]

Well the case would be made assuming Prelec makes the same run at the same speed (or better) so a fair few maybes in there so it’s all b*****s really. It would at least be coming on to his stronger foot. But the reality is in our predicament they have to go in. That’s as good a chance as we’ve created all season.

To Harris’ credit, he’s done everything right up until contact with the ball. It’s not like he had a split second to react, the ball isn’t played in with much pace, so he has to read the pace of it better and throw every inch of himself at it sooner if he feels he’s a yard short. But that’s the striker Harris is and has typically been for us at this level, it’s a complete coin-flip with him in front of goal.

Generally speaking though, I felt we were good today. Better than Hull for much of the game but ran out of legs for the last 10 mins. The goal we concede is a shambles as it so often has been this season. Not sure what we’ve seen in Roosken. Looks feather weight and only interested in one side of the game, but we haven’t seen much of him and after Konak’s resurgence I think everyone should take a step back before going overboard.

Monday is boom or bust imo. I can see us beating Watford if we go in to it with our tails up and Shef Wed to come further down the track. There’s definitely another 10 points within this run-in for us, but we can’t miss many more opportunities like today to take 3.

Respectfully disagree. Peart-Harris chance in the first half was just as good, if not better. Not many talking about that, seemingly.

And if Harris had had the Lankshear chance in the first half, and did exactly the same, I suspect he would have been pilloried for going with his head instead of his feet, or some other pretty tenuous criticism.

We should have won that game 3 or 4-1. Mark Harris played pretty well. On to the next.

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Well the case would be made assuming Prelec makes the same run at the same speed (or better) so a fair few maybes in there so it’s all b*****s really. It would at least be coming on to his stronger foot. But the reality is in our predicament they have to go in. That’s as good a chance as we’ve created all season.

To Harris’ credit, he’s done everything right up until contact with the ball. It’s not like he had a split second to react, the ball isn’t played in with much pace, so he has to read the pace of it better and throw every inch of himself at it sooner if he feels he’s a yard short. But that’s the striker Harris is and has typically been for us at this level, it’s a complete coin-flip with him in front of goal.

Generally speaking though, I felt we were good today. Better than Hull for much of the game but ran out of legs for the last 10 mins. The goal we concede is a shambles as it so often has been this season. Not sure what we’ve seen in Roosken. Looks feather weight and only interested in one side of the game, but we haven’t seen much of him and after Konak’s resurgence I think everyone should take a step back before going overboard.

Monday is boom or bust imo. I can see us beating Watford if we go in to it with our tails up and Shef Wed to come further down the track. There’s definitely another 10 points within this run-in for us, but we can’t miss many more opportunities like today to take 3.

Yeah,. some people on here just have an agenda against Harris, seeming to forget the role he played in our being at this level in the first place. Best ignored really (though I can't help myself sometimes).

Certainly done more than Prelec who has loads of admirers on here

 

[East Stand Fan]

Very entertaining game but we should’ve won. Results also not going our way was disappointing especially as once again, we were out of the zone for a period. The midfield were brilliant today especially Brannagan and Konak. I think he left the subs a bit late but after seeing Jin Woo sliding around and a falling over the very 2 minutes, maybe it was for the best.

Harris really should’ve scored and we did have a few good chances but their keeper was fantastic. Fair result and at least we didn’t lose. Monday is beyond massive.

 

[unification]

He was at top speed and toe-tipping at the ball. Not a f**k-up.

Agreed. It’s horribly on brand for Harris to miss that though. He did well to get there and get a foot on it, however you don’t have to know a lot about OUFC to know which side of the post it was going to roll.

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

We're now relying on Leicester to continue to be terrible to have a chance of staying up. I'm not sure I can see that happening.

People have been saying this sh*t for weeks though, haven't they?

Three weeks ago you might have had a point, but Leicester have since taken a grand total of one point from two home games against QPR and Preston - the epitome of 'on the beach', cherry-picked opponents.

They have one win since January 5th. One. If it were Charlton in their position you'd (rightly) put them on a par with Portsmouth.

Get Leicester off that f*cking pedestal.

 

[m]

People have been saying this sh*t for weeks though, haven't they?

Three weeks ago you might have had a point, but Leicester have since taken a grand total of one point from two home games against QPR and Preston - the epitome of 'on the beach', cherry-picked opponents.

They have one win since January 5th. One. If it were Charlton in their position you'd (rightly) put them on a par with Portsmouth.

Get Leicester off that f*cking pedestal.

To be fair, they do have to spin the wheel of sanction which could give or take away.

On other matters: is it just me or are Hull supporters the biggest bunch of c***s in the league?

 

[chuckbert]

I was going to stay away until all the lashing out and piling on had finished…
The cross at the end that Harris got on the end of was out of this world, I can’t blame him for not anticipating that a few seconds earlier and burying the chance, we’re just not used to that level of quality cross.
It was just one chance amongst 16 other shots at goal.
Look elsewhere if blame is what makes you happy.

Agreed. That instantly prompted Stanley to MoM for me.

 

[Eaststanding]

If you're reduced to comparing Harris missing the target from 6 yards out to Brannagan needing a great save to stop him from scoring from 20 yards out you've lost the argument. This is the Championship ffs!

Poor choice of examples to compare; I’d say Peart Harris’s one on one scuffed miss in the first half was a better chance than Harris’s.

 

[bicesterox]

Some on the Hull forum wanted their keeper subbed off at half time

Then he makes that save from Cam

Idiots

 

[Village-Yellow]

So proud of the team we have become since January.

If this was us for the full season, we would have been home and hosed by now.

A great feeling of togetherness from the stands too. We are most definitely still all in this fight together, showing great support.

Still on a knife edge and it could slip away very quickly, but we can’t question the fight we are putting up. We are certainly not going down with a whimper.

Maybe we haven’t quite had the rub of the green at times or that extra touch of quality to bag those vital extra points, but I am proud of where our club is trying to get to and looking forward to what is going to be a fantastic era in our new ground.

If it’s too little too late, well, c’est la vie. We learn, we grow and we kick on from here.

Proud

 

[Mad Dog]

If we were not in a relegation scrap and desperate for points, today’s performance quite rightly would be lauded as one that shows that we are more than able to hold our own in this league.
We played really well.
We created plenty of chances and should have won it.
Some cracking performances today, notably By Brannagan, Lankshear and Konac but honestly everyone put in a proper fight.
I was right behind that thumping hit from Brannagan and it was destined for the top corner. That bloody keeper somehow got a hand to it and pawed it away.
Of course the Harris miss at the death was a gut punch. That was the 3 points right there. Aaaaarrrrgggghhh!
Onward to Portsmouth but honestly, we are playing some decent stuff.

I agree with all this.

We do look a lot better than when we were being subjected to that awful Rowettball shite, and we clearly now look like we can compete at this level.

However, the board took too long to get rid of Rowett, and that, combined with a slow, sticky start under Bloomfield, meant we’d left ourselves a mountain to climb, and although we’re clearly much better now, and have done fantastically well to claw ourselves back into the mix, and are finally holding our own at this level, I fear it’s gonna be a case of too little too late.

I hope to god I’m wrong!

Beat Pompey, and the dream is still very much alive, but lose, and I don’t see us staying up I’m afraid.

MASSIVE, MASSIVE game coming up…

 

[Bretch Hill]

Yesterday was just great and summed up for me the mantra from Bloomfield and the players that we are all in this together. The East Stand atmosphere was spot on. Compare yesterday’s game to Rowetts last game as our manager.
we are still in the mix and rightly so does Bloomfield get things wrong yes do our players make mistakes and miss chances yes but that’s football. Go on any other championship clubs forum fb page and the complaints are nearly word for word all the same.looking foward to Monday so much.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Was depressing to get back to the car and see it being all for nowt cos everyone else got results too.

Keep the faith

We probably had the toughest fixture around us yesterday, and whilst we didn’t gain ground, we didn’t lose it.

Some gutting late goals, but it’s onto Portsmouth, a game where a win will make all the difference .

 

[West Oxon U’s]

The miss from Harris seems to get worse every time I look at it.

It was on a plate for him.

 

[dickwalton1964]

Not having invested in a goal scorer for the last two seasons will be our undoing.
We have been so close and I may not see Championship football at the new stadium in my lifetime - shame.

It’s hard to disagree with that view. We seem to have targeted strikers with obvious assets (strength, work rate, hold up play etc) rather than clinical finishers. Take the last two games and two game changing chances spurned. I recall in Bloomfield's first two home games, two gilt edged chances late on to turn two points into six. I’ve consistently said not throwing a massive part of the budget at a proper clinical finisher will eventually cost us - we winged it last year and got away with it but I think that’s about 20 goals from an array of strikers (and one will have got half of them) across two Championship seasons and thats what will send us down because in most other areas we are a decent match up for 70% of teams in this league.

 

[battman]

Not having invested in a goal scorer for the last two seasons will be our undoing.
We have been so close and I may not see Championship football at the new stadium in my lifetime - shame.

'We should have signed a striker who scores goals, I am very smart.'

And guess who's also trying to sign a striker who can score 10+ goals in the Championship? 23 other teams. But they're either going to be A) very expensive, or B) gambles that may or may not come off. Let's not forget that Lankshear's scored 8 in 34 for us and he's being bandied about for figures of £10m or above this summer. We're not in League One anymore where we can pick up a 15+ goal striker on a free, nor are we a larger fish in a smaller pond.

 

[dickwalton1964]

'We should have signed a striker who scores goals, I am very smart.'

And guess who's also trying to sign a striker who can score 10+ goals in the Championship? 23 other teams. But they're either going to A) very expensive, or B) gambles that may or may not come off. Let's not forget that Lankshear's scored 8 in 34 for us and he's being bandied about for figures of £10m or above this summer. We're not in League One anymore where we can pick up a 15+ goal striker on a free, nor are we a larger fish in a smaller pond.

It’s not necessarily Lankshear it’s the back up strikers. Let’s assume every club needs three, if not four strikers, then we are p**s weak in that area for two consecutive seasons. Lankshear could go six games without a goal and he’s walking into that starting line up still - that can’t be right. He has no serious competition. Prelec has one and Harris has two (or is it one ?) this season- that’s why we are going down.