Home Match Day Thread +++ 22/09/18 OUFC v Walsall Match Day Thread +++

[ttg17]

These MDTs seem to be starting late this year and I’m not sure I approve. I like having a good 24 hours build up.

I’m generally very optimistic but think we’ll lose this, 2-1. Our fresh injury crisis will presumably have knocked us off our stride a bit, and coupled with them doing pretty well this year and looking to bounce back after a bad loss last week, I think we’lol be overwhelmed. Smith to score late on.

 

[Peterdev]

You’re very positive. Smith scoring? I’m not sure he even knows where the net is.
Injury crisis apart, we should still be able to win this game. Often when teams are down to the bare bones they pull a rabbit out of the hat...we will win 2-0...I was right last week with 0-0

 

[Banbury2018]

Hoping for an injury free relatively comfortable win with someone who is a striker scoring.

 

[Deleted member 291]

2-0. Jumping on the Smith bandwagon. He starts and scores 2 and we don't need to worry about getting a striker.

 

[Mojofilter]

Scrappy win (1-0) for us, no one knows how, outrageously good game from Mitchell, our goal comes in the final fifteen minutes and is scored by a defender from a corner.

KR sent off

 

[gingerox]

Mitchell
Norman Nelson Mous Garbutt
Hanson Ruffels
Whyte Henry Baptiste
Smith

1-0, Whyte. COYY

 

[TailsWeWin]

Mitchell
Norman Nelson Mous Garbutt
Hanson Ruffels
Whyte Henry Baptiste
Smith

1-0, Whyte. COYY

No Holmes?!

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Think we'll lose again, we're a poor side this season unfortunately. Plus the players will distracted by the Man City game.

Going to be a long season I fear.

 

[Discoland]

Not a clue what the score will be but Robinson, Derry or Faz will be carded.

 

[Teddydee1980]

Would very much like to see Smith start tomorrow and to bang a brace too. Similar approach to Wycombe with added final product.

 

[Berliner]

God knows, as I seemingly always say.
1-0 in whatever direction...

 

[Corporate_Clive]

home defeat

 

[RCYellowRC]

2-1 Oxford
Whyte Henry

Mitchell
Norman Nelson Mousinho Garbutt
Hanson Ruffels
Whyte Holmes Baptiste
Smith

Bench: Shearer Raglan Dickie Long Henry Obika Spasov

Main reason i would start Baptiste outwide and Henry on bench is because we need some fire power of the bench with all our injuries and Henry had a poor game by his standards last week. Henry seems to also always make an impact off the bench. I do think that we will have a good game Players are going to have to play for there place or risk being dropped they will all want to play on Tuesday. Mainly for competition to start LB[Garbutt v Ruffels] CB[Dickie v Nelson] CM[Hanson v Baptiste v Ruffels] ST[Obika V Smith]

 

[RCYellowRC]

home defeat

You're starting to become boring now, you always sound like you want the worst to happen.

 

[Mellowyellow]

Cannot see a win, but desperate for one. 0-2 to Walsall, and the evening we go bottom.
The apathy really can’t carry on. A win and possibly a corner turned, another home defeat, and surely Tiger must act.

 

[gingerox]

No Holmes?!

Thought he was one of the (many) injuries

 

[Sarge]

Closer than it should be bad tempered , scrappy encounter. 2-1 home win with a late late winner

 

[makv]

home defeat

Great analysis

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Match Preview.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Walsall boss Dean Keates expects a tough test at Oxford.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Hanson to start against the Saddlers.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

All the betting odds.

 

[ljs]

2-1 Oxford
Whyte Henry

Mitchell
Norman Nelson Mousinho Garbutt
Hanson Ruffels
Whyte Holmes Baptiste
Smith

Bench: Shearer Raglan Dickie Long Henry Obika Spasov

Main reason i would start Baptiste outwide and Henry on bench is because we need some fire power of the bench with all our injuries and Henry had a poor game by his standards last week. Henry seems to also always make an impact off the bench. I do think that we will have a good game Players are going to have to play for there place or risk being dropped they will all want to play on Tuesday. Mainly for competition to start LB[Garbutt v Ruffels] CB[Dickie v Nelson] CM[Hanson v Baptiste v Ruffels] ST[Obika V Smith]

I don't think you need to worry about firepower off the bench, as KR usually doesn't make any meaningful substitutions until 10 minutes from full time.

Mitchell
Norman - Nelson - Mousinho - Garbutt
Hanson - Baptiste
Whyte - Henry - Holmes
Smith

 

[Peterdev]

I hope he gets a tough test. We’ve got enough good players who can score. Whyte, Henry and Holmes.
I’d like to see Smith do something for once

 

[Pompeyyellows]

Here we go match day again. Hoping for a easy 2:0 to the mighty yellows but reality says it’s going to be tough and in the grand scheme of things a draw might be a good result. Would be there but it’s my 28th wedding anniversary today and I will be holed up in a spa hotel with no access to internet. Hoping for a better result than that day as we lost 4:2 at the skip. COYY

 

[Paul Cannell]

I think we'll pose a challenge to Walsall. They can't have played many sides assembled in haste and randomly slotted into a system designed to expose each player's weaknesses, nor one managed by a whining fantasist whose man-management is laughable and may well have turned team spirit to something you'd seek at the bottom of a well.

Nil desperandum! 2-1 to the yellows.

 

[dabigfella]

Hope for a 0-0 draw. Expect a loss.

A win would be fantastic.

 

[Johnf]

3-1 to the u’s and we might be able to look at the table tonight

 

[greatunclekip]

Lots of lovely passing, lots of technical area ranting, zero goals scored.

1-0 saddlers. Robbo bursts into tears when his beloved Nicky Maynard is mentioned post match.
"We'll give someone a right pasting soon" he'll say.

 

[Yellow Hoods]

Lots of lovely passing, lots of technical area ranting, zero goals scored.

1-0 saddlers. Robbo bursts into tears when his beloved Nicky Maynard is mentioned post match.
"We'll give someone a right pasting soon" he'll say.

I'm not normally one of your critics Kip. If we play badly I don't mind you saying so. But it's posts like this that p**s people off. You're not reacting to something, but predicting another defeat. It's quite tedious.