Home Match Day Thread 23/11/2024 - Championship: Oxford United vs Middlesbrough

[Northstandboy]

Rate The Players

 

[greatunclekip]

I made no allegations of abuse

 

[greatunclekip]

Anyway we are both Oxford fans and we both want success for our amazing team. We may just express it in different ways. Let’s move on.

 

[chromeyellow]

Fair enough - didn’t mean to offend and happy that my original post has been edited. You may want the quoted post edited or not. I’m happy to leave it Entirely up to you.

 

[greatunclekip]

Fair enough - didn’t mean to offend and happy that my original post has been edited. You may want the quoted post edited or not. I’m happy to leave it Entirely up to you.

It’s been edited, all good we move on. No hard feelings. Up the Ox!

 

[Oxford84]

We’re all brimming with gratitude for him getting us here and perhaps he’s now a victim of his own success. Not his fault necessarily, but regardless of budget there is a job to do here which is to keep us in the league and we’re getting to a pivotal point in the season where the club has to decide whether the team is in the right hands not just to stay up but stabilise at the level. I don’t think for a minute the owners had 4th from bottom in mind as a good result.

When the chips are down you look for the signs of hope and lean on track record, of which there is very little.

I’m not saying he can’t, because of course he could, I’m saying it’s a monumental gamble for our owners to stake their future plans in someone who’s never proven they can.

Until we start spending millions of pounds on multiple players then 4th from bottom is exactly where we can expect to be.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Haikus are the best way to have an argument.

Not convinced that's so.
I can get a point across
Concise and clear.

 

[Carpy]

Just catching up on this thread, and I'll point out that if people don't actually report things to us, it might take a while for any action to take place, assuming one of us spots it in the first place.

We try to keep an eye on things during our free time, we aren't employed to do this. And suggestions that we have favourites are very wide of the mark, and not on.

Absolutely, when it was reported, it was dealt with within 40 minutes.

As @SteMerritt says, we do try to catch things, but you lot post a hell of a lot, so it's easy to miss things

 

[Paul Cannell]

...didn’t mean to offend

Another escape
Your lying and bullying -
Such a sad habit.

 

[chromeyellow]

Another escape
Your lying and bullying -
Such a sad habit.

peace in the duckpond
old bull-frog arrives late who
Wants to cause trouble

 

[Carpy]

Another escape
Your lying and bullying -
Such a sad habit.

Let's move on please, @greatunclekip accepted the apologies of @chromeyellow

 

[derek]

It could be argued that 1 win in 11 isn’t a knee jerk reaction.

I do think some people need to get away from this feeling of just being happy to be in the league, mentality. We are here on merit and we done bloody well to earn that right, under Des’s leadership.

We must grasp the opportunity to stay at the level and shipping 6 goals at home, will do nothing to aid our cause.

On a side note, talk of O’Donkor or Negru coming back in during the window, to add squad depth is laughable. Neither were at the level consistently to start games in League 1 and those that were are now finding it increasingly difficult to be good enough to get points on the board.

Regardless of whether you think it's a knee jerk reaction or not, the executives will not be thinking of replacing the manager, for the reasons I outlined.

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

Just watched the goals back.

1st goal: Elliott Moore, brain dead decision.

2nd goal: Sam Long commits and leaves a huge gap and really Cumming should save the shot as it’s not right in the corner.

3rd goal: Poor by Brannagan. Completely misses a tackle and positioning of back 3 all over the place.

4th goal: Poor by Sam Long again missing a 50/50 tackle.

5th goal: Poor by Greg Leigh.

 

[Followtheox1]

Just watched the goals back.

1st goal: Elliott Moore, brain dead decision.

2nd goal: Sam Long commits and leaves a huge gap and really Cumming should save the shot as it’s not right in the corner.

3rd goal: Poor by Brannagan. Completely misses a tackle and positioning of back 3 all over the place.

4th goal: Poor by Sam Long again missing a 50/50 tackle.

5th goal: Poor by Greg Leigh.

Clinton Baptiste would say: 'I'm getting the word...poor'.

 

[OnlyOneUnited]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned it in this thread yet, I've only just had the stomach to watch the highlights and catch up here, but the commentator for the third goal says "....but the replay shows that it was the right decision" about the offside, but when they pause the image to show his run, the Middlesbrough player hasn't actually played the pass! The split second later when he actually does play the ball, he is offside (though it is much closer than I thought it was yesterday).

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

slight change of pace, anyone know who the American bloke at half time was? Seemed like a character.

Some fan who came all the way from Texas to see the game.

It wasn’t me

I’ll be there for Cardiff and Plymouth though

 

[TailsWeWin]

Yes we would but we might spend in January on a fit and ready to striker who might score enough goals to keep us in the championship

Are you REALLY still clinging on to that hope, Bazzer?!!

 

[Bigdwoolly]

I've said elsewhere we've been one of the most successful clubs over the last 15 years and part of that might be because we don't sack managers all the time. I think only Clotet and Robinson have been sacked . A lot of the other managers could have been sacked early (Appleton I definitely wanted rid of) but weren't. Most on this forum wanted Buckingham gone after Bolton, which was a reasonable point of view.

Buckingham has shown over his career the ability to develop and improve, unless the club think that the league one play-off win was his absolute ceiling then they should stick with him. On a strategic level, getting a new manager in a month before the January window and then throwing a lot of money at new players might work, but I think that's a bigger risk than going with the Waldron/Buckingham strategy.

Everyone accepted there'd be tough times this season, so as fans we need to keep our big boy pants on and not panic at the first bad run of form.

As others have said, that back 3 is too slow. Our defensive pace as such is in the full backs but as wing backs they were often too far forward to help out. I hope we return (think we'll have to without Moore for Sheff Utd at least) to a back 4 from here on in. There's some pace with Leigh/Kioso/Ter Aveest which provides cover.

 

[bazzer9461]

Are you REALLY still clinging on to that hope, Bazzer?!!

Yes I am and so are a lot of others

 

[Bigdwoolly]

Yes I am and so are a lot of others

Our strikers have between them (we only play 1 striker) have got 8 goals in 16 games. If we're going to spend big, I'd go for some wide forwards/wingers as they've not made the contributions we'd hope (mainly because they're all injured).

 

[Niconamur]

Just watched the goals back.

1st goal: Elliott Moore, brain dead decision.

2nd goal: Sam Long commits and leaves a huge gap and really Cumming should save the shot as it’s not right in the corner.

3rd goal: Poor by Brannagan. Completely misses a tackle and positioning of back 3 all over the place.

4th goal: Poor by Sam Long again missing a 50/50 tackle.

5th goal: Poor by Greg Leigh.

And don't forget that Long cancelled the offside...So the striker was well onside....

He has not the level for the Championship ( a lot of bad passes, losts the majority of his duels,..).