Away Match Day Thread 12/03/24 - L1: Bolton Wanderers v OUFC

[Northstandboy]

Post Match Pack

Post Match Discussion

Interview - Des Buckingham

Interview - Owen Dale

Match Lowlights

Match Report

Ref Watch

Fans View

 

[Deanroger]

Well now that’s over we can relax that we won’t have much to play for and just enjoy watching the football with no pressure….

I don't enjoy watching rubbish.

 

[Older Shotts]

The only positive is Rosie isn't on Radio Oxford to spin his nonsense positivity

 

[Ewes]

Cumming 3/10
Browne 3
Moore 5
Stevens 3
Leigh 4
McGuane 2
Brannagan 2
Dale 5
Rodriguez 3
Murphy 4
Harris 4

Long 5
Bennett 3
Bodin 3
Goodwin 4
Henry 3

Bolton 10
Referee 9

 

[Sarge]

The only positive is Rosie isn't on Radio Oxford to spin his nonsense positivity

... and berate the support

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Was Brannagan ?

He got a yellow, so yes he most definitely was.

McGuane on the other hand....might as well have been on a beach in the Carribbean.

 

[bazzer9461]

We need to get rid of the underperforming high earners that make up a large part of the squad.

And the manager

 

[Swaby39]

How about giving the players pelters instead? Rather than the manager.

Some players ought to be ashamed of themselves tonight. They weren’t trying.

It’s a sum of all parts. Manager has to galvanise the players and give them a plan to believe in which he hasn’t achieved in a very good number of games in charge - he didn’t take over last week.

However yes, a professional should always give 100% in a game which wasn’t there tonight.

 

[Andy1505]

Yep I'm afraid I agree. Des isn't the man for us. No experience, seemingly no tactical nous, and he really cant seem to inspire the players. We've gone backwards under his leadership. I wanted him to work out so much but it's clearly an experiment gone wrong.

Having said that, many of our players have been absolute dross for a large amount of the time!

Buckingham out. No doubt.

 

[WRox]

I’ll say it for a 3rd time now. This is going to cost the owners a lot of money in compensation.
If willing to give a manager a chance is a bad thing in your eyes then fair enough. He was too slow on putting his stamp on the side which part of me understood but still felt it was the wrong thing.
This though is a performance and scoreline that gets a manager the sack and no one can complain.

It cost them a lot of money to get him out of the City Group, but that contract should be riddled with exit clauses. Opportunity of a lifetime for Des - take over your boyhood club at a level way higher than you’ve managed at previously? He should be far more sackable than Karl was last year.

 

[battman]

Felt like schoolkids led by PE teachers tonight. Both players and management have to buck their ideas up.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Was McGuane actually on the pitch?

That he, McGuane , played the full 96 minutes says it all. No idea why he wasn’t hooked.

His ‘performance’ was distressingly bad. He literally couldn’t give a f**k.

 

[mickbrownsconscience]

On that showing, Djavan Anderson would be a better option at RB than either Stevens or Long (or Smyth or Negru).

 

[Jster]

If we were run by many of the fans on this board, we'd get through more managers than Watford. It was really s**t tonight, but it doesn't change the logic that saw the majority say a manager (any manager) should be given a decent amount of time before judging them. Appleton for example would have been sacked about 6 times over in his first season.

 

[uptheus]

How about giving the players pelters instead? Rather than the manager.

Some players ought to be ashamed of themselves tonight. They weren’t trying.

Still making the play-offs?

 

[OX14]

We aren’t going up and we aren’t going down and it gives the club a bit of breathing space so they don’t rush any appointment.

Needs a new manager, backroom staff and a big turnover of players in the summer for me.

Fans pay good money to attend to be entertained and currently they are being heavily under changed.

 

[LeftSideLarry]

McGuane and Rodrigues should be drummed out of the club for their performances. Cowards.

 

[ljs]

How about giving the players pelters instead? Rather than the manager.

Some players ought to be ashamed of themselves tonight. They weren’t trying.

I think it's possible and appropriate to give pelters to the players AND manager.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

It cost them a lot of money to get him out of the City Group, but that contract should be riddled with exit clauses. Opportunity of a lifetime for Des - take over your boyhood club at a level way higher than you’ve managed at previously? He should be far more sackable than Karl was last year.

I agree, there should be break clauses in it with X amount due if he is sacked before a certain time.
If there isn’t then I really will question Williams and Ferguson even more than I already do.

 

[Northstandboy]

Can someone summarise Des’s RadOx interview

 

[Oxford84]

How about giving the players pelters instead? Rather than the manager.

Some players ought to be ashamed of themselves tonight. They weren’t trying.

Maybe it was their chance to show they dont like the manager on sky tv?