Home Match Thread 25/04/2026 - Oxford United v Sheffield Wednesday

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uptheus said:
But will Erik/owners still support the circa £17.5m losses or will our accounts basically balance, so, in theory the overall spend will be £16m and similar to the last couple of seasons or will it be circa £29m e.g. £16m + £13m (amount you’re allowed to lose/annum over 3 years?)
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Some will undoubtedly have to cover costs attached to the new stadium but so far the owners have shown willingness to cover the losses so far. I doubt it would be £16m worth but I wouldn't be surprised if they did increase the spend.

The PSR would increase by that so would give them that leeway though.

Think the L1 rules are different though and have changed for this coming season.
 
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Apparently she just registered her details and brought tickets I thought you had to have history or local postcode to do this.
 
Common Villager said:
Go on then, enlighten me - what is this relegation? While you're at it, let me know where we're going to finish in League One next season, given league standings are evidently a forgone conclusion before a ball is kicked.

I am fully aware that this season was always going to be a challenge and I appreciate we are one of the smaller clubs with one of the smallest budgets.

What I am not willing to partake in is the 'oh didn't the players tried hard' and 'we should be happy we got TWO seasons at this level' crap. If I was one of the players I'd find that unbelievable patronising. I also don't buy the 'we'll be back' and 'we're going to win the League' assertions (not least cause I remember the same being said in 2006). League One is a bloody hard league to get out of, it will not be straightforward.

I really hope the powers that be at the club are not as happy as some fans are with our participation medal. There has been several failures over the course of the last couple of seasons and if heads don't roll then at the very least improvements need to be made.

We got relegated. It's s**t. We're allowed to say and acknowledge that. Doing so is not suggesting it's a 'life ending experience' (?), it's just a normal reaction from football fans who want their team to succeed. The mutual backslapping on RadOx about how great the fanbase has been was actually quite cringeworthy. As was the song asking for Lankshear to stay another year - kind of goes to show the lack of understanding at how much of a drop in levels it is.
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Yes.. it’s a huge drop in levels ~ therefore it was an equally huge step up in levels when we got promoted (without dominating L1 that year). Therefore there is some kind of built in perspective about ‘failing’ and going back down a couple of years later.
 
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Mumyellow said:
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Apparently she just registered her details and brought tickets I thought you had to have history or local postcode to do this.
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Also I know it’s not the (very good) point you were making but it is simply untrue to say that Oxford fans were quiet. Lots of noise from both sets of fans.
 
uptheus said:
I understand it can potentially help with the PSR, but additionally we still need to be cuter/smarter, but how much more financially is it going to help?
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If I understood Kieran McGuire properly, actually getting into building helps because once building starts, all of the stadium-related costs don’t count as expenditure, whereas up til now all of those planning, surveying, consultation costs have and so have reduced what we can spend on football. Mind you maybe that means it will just be easier to increase our deficit faster.
 
Eric Blair said:
Also I know it’s not the (very good) point you were making but it is simply untrue to say that Oxford fans were quiet. Lots of noise from both sets of fans.
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We learnt we were relegated, minutes before kick off, playing a team that have been down since who knows when.
It was the deadest of dead rubbers.
What did she expect, the San Siro on derby day? Ffs.
 
Eric Blair said:
Also I know it’s not the (very good) point you were making but it is simply untrue to say that Oxford fans were quiet. Lots of noise from both sets of fans.
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But sat in the South Stand, the East Stand does often sound quiet, even when its not.
Especially when the away fans are noisy.
Its due to the crap stadium we have.

I used to have a season ticket in the south stand and was always amazed by the lack of noise from the east stand. but now sitting in the east stand i know this not to be true,
The noise just drifts down and out over the fence. you only hear it when you're opposite it. same with most away fans - you dont hear them so well in the east stand
 
chuckbert said:
If I understood Kieran McGuire properly, actually getting into building helps because once building starts, all of the stadium-related costs don’t count as expenditure, whereas up til now all of those planning, surveying, consultation costs have and so have reduced what we can spend on football. Mind you maybe that means it will just be easier to increase our deficit faster.
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Yeah, I vaguely remember hearing that now on The Dub I think! So, basically adding to the £17.5m losses last season (24/25) and this season (25/26), whatever that’s going to be.
 
Foley said:
A lot more than a 'little more money'
According to the clubbat the fans forum, turnover will go from £19m to circa £35m in the Championship due to the new ground ( extra seats but presumably the catering would be a huge difference as well as the hotel).
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Matchday the big difference will be being able to run proper hospitality. Being able to have a bunch of different level lounges with varying offers from just a nice place to be with the opportunity to buy a good drink, through to chef-cooked multi-course fine dining, with all you can drink bundles, the income from hospitality can massive for clubs. I think I saw an article last year that said that income from the approx 5000 hospitality seats was the same as for the other 27000 regular seats at Coventry.
 
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Total 32000 seats!
Which stadium are you talking about?
 
Are there any highlights with the 2nd half chance with a pretty much open goal for Peart-Harris when he took an age and then tried to pass?
 
Common Villager said:
The only thing I've been critical of is the 'oh well, we were lucky to be here anyway' attitude on WATG yesterday. We weren't lucky to be in the Championship, we earned the right to be there. Relegation, despite always being a possibility, was not a foregone conclusion, especially considering three teams have had points deductions throughout the season. We take the p**s out of opposition fans for their 'teams like Oxford' posts, and yet the shoulder shrugging in response to our relegation suggests they were right to have that attitude.
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Personally, I've never had an "oh well" attitude towards our relegation, but I'm also not devastated either, as I have fully expected it since the start of the season, so it doesn't sting as much as it would have last season, when we were much more competitive in games.

Even after the very first game of the season against Pompey, it was so clear we were not prepared for the season ahead, we just didn't have the quality in the squad that we needed, and the results that followed confirmed that.

I was crying out for a change of manager very early on, because it was so clear that he was simply not up to it, and wasn't playing to the player's strengths, and with the lack of championship quality in the side, it was making an already uphill battle even more difficult, and it was clear very early on how this season was gonna end.

Bloomfield then came in, alongside a couple of decent January signings, Konak and Donely, who definitely improved the team, and after an awful start, they did well to give us hope of a miraculous escape, but in reality, I think the writing was on the wall from the very first game of the season, we haven't been good enough from start to finish, and in the end we got what we deserved, relegation.

But whilst I've certainly not got an "oh well" attitude about going down, I'm gutted, I don't feel the same despair I have felt with previous relegations, as we're in a much better place than we were back then, and we now know what it takes to be competitive at this level, and we know where we've fallen short and made mistakes, on and off the pitch, but we have the resources now to hopefully put the correct foundations in place to rebuild, and come back up stronger and better prepared.

Do the right things in the summer, and in January, and we'll be back sooner rather than later 🤞
 
Mad Dog said:
Personally, I've never had an "oh well" attitude towards our relegation, but I'm also not devastated either, as I have fully expected it since the start of the season, so it doesn't sting as much as it would have last season, when we were much more competitive in games.

Even after the very first game of the season against Pompey, it was so clear we were not prepared for the season ahead, we just didn't have the quality in the squad that we needed, and the results that followed confirmed that.

I was crying out for a change of manager very early on, because it was so clear that he was simply not up to it, and wasn't playing to the player's strengths, and with the lack of championship quality in the side, it was making an already uphill battle even more difficult, and it was clear very early on how this season was gonna end.

Bloomfield then came in, alongside a couple of decent January signings, Konak and Donely, who definitely improved the team, and after an awful start, they did well to give us hope of a miraculous escape, but in reality, I think the writing was on the wall from the very first game of the season, we haven't been good enough from start to finish, and in the end we got what we deserved, relegation.

But whilst I've certainly not got an "oh well" attitude about going down, I'm gutted, I don't feel the same despair I have felt with previous relegations, as we're in a much better place than we were back then, and we now know what it takes to be competitive at this level, and we know where we've fallen short and made mistakes, on and off the pitch, but we have the resources now to hopefully put the correct foundations in place to rebuild, and come back up stronger and better prepared.

Do the right things in the summer, and in January, and we'll be back sooner rather than later 🤞
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You seem very level headed lately.
 
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