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Poor result, poor performance.
So roughly half way through the season, and a couple of places outside of the relegation zone still.
This is where tiger has to show his support for kr and allow him to bring in the two strikers we need. Then with Graham, Baptiste and Carruthers to add to that, that should see us to safety for this season.
The concern is though where is the progress in terms of position and squad building from last season.
 
Leysboy said:
Very poor today, in fact both teams were as bad as each other. I don’t know why but whenever we go on a good run, and a big crowd turn up we always let ourselves down. Today was an opportunity missed, if the boys put in a performance some of those numbers may of returned on Saturday.

It’s clear we’re desperate for a couple of strikers, and hopefully Tiger will invest in that department. Hopefully he’s here for a couple of weeks to fix the issue, and it’s not just a quick flying visit.
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He’s flying back after the Brizzle game apparently so here for a few days.
 
Diapointing obviously. Goal disallowed in the first half and a few good chances in the second, could easily have gone the other way.

Carp Reffing and poor decisions from lineos made for a frustrating afternoon, but I don't think it affected the outcome. For me I think we lost it in mid field. Lost possession far to easily far too many times.

At least their physio gave us something to smile about (although I suppose you shouldn't these days...)
 
ubermeistervonmeat said:
The price of having a bench with nothing on it - you cannot expect the starting 11 to always shine and there is literally no competition for starting places in the attacking part of the team
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Precious little in defence if Nelson is off. We will see what the management are made of in January.
 
The less said the better. They weren't much cop, we weren't either. A silly ball from Little opened us up but very little created by either team. I wonder if Yearwood has fallen over in the dressing room and got a foul? Considering the penalty last week, we had 2 stonewallers not given to us today. Thought the ref was fine in the first half and then got overly fussy and pissy as the game went on. Quite how Mackie got booked but he was prepared to be abused by their back 4....

The squad looked threadbare today. Brown was barely ok and we missed the balance he has with Whyte. At least the moaning day tripper behind me won't come back. In fact, I wonder why he came as all he did was moan.
 
Very poor performance it was only in the 2nd half when Whyte made some good runs but unfortunately no strikers to finish the job. Roll on January and I hope the check book is out
 
Rumours of players not paid for December circulating....unconfirmed but circulating nonetheless.... looked like the one defeat in 16 games squad had over indulged on food n drink yesterday judging by practically everyone having 'an off day '..... Southend masters of the dark arts, conned the inconsistent idiot supposed to be refereeing.....didn't see a lot wrong with the disallowed goal myself.... of course, bigger than usual crowd end up witnessing Oxford United providing the football equivalent of a wet fart, ....few occasional s came along were quite right to keep saying' I thought you said Oxford were playing decent football, this is uninspiring , dire & a total lack of ideas. Wont be hurrying back to watch that rubbish again any time soon ' ..... can't say I blame them either. Not much of a game of football as a spectacle, inconsistency from start to finish by all the officials, .....IF he actually HAS got money Tiger needs to spend a bit in the coming Jan window.....settled team looked jaded and uninterested most of the match, (that said if rumours are true, n players havent been paid that may explain todays poor showing) ,and are in need of freshening up, new players and new ideas & approaches I think
 
So many players off their game. Giving them yesterday off didn't do much good. Henry was awful, looked like he had too much pud yesterday. Hope Littles mistake doesn't affect him for long, he did fade out of the game after a promising start. 0-0 would have been a fair result.
 
Oufcrealist said:
So many players off their game. Giving them yesterday off didn't do much good. Henry was awful, looked like he had too much pud yesterday. Hope Littles mistake doesn't affect him for long, he did fade out of the game after a promising start. 0-0 would have been a fair result.
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That was Little first league start for Pxford he nearly set up an equaliser, I would feel comfortable if he was tomstart or come on as a sub.
 
Sarge said:
Rumours of players not paid for December circulating....unconfirmed but circulating nonetheless.... looked like the one defeat in 16 games squad had over indulged on food n drink yesterday judging by practically everyone having 'an off day '..... Southend masters of the dark arts, conned the inconsistent idiot supposed to be refereeing.....didn't see a lot wrong with the disallowed goal myself.... of course, bigger than usual crowd end up witnessing Oxford United providing the football equivalent of a wet fart, ....few occasional s came along were quite right to keep saying' I thought you said Oxford were playing decent football, this is uninspiring , dire & a total lack of ideas. Wont be hurrying back to watch that rubbish again any time soon ' ..... can't say I blame them either. Not much of a game of football as a spectacle, inconsistency from start to finish by all the officials, .....IF he actually HAS got money Tiger needs to spend a bit in the coming Jan window.....settled team looked jaded and uninterested most of the match, (that said if rumours are true, n players havent been paid that may explain todays poor showing) ,and are in need of freshening up, new players and new ideas & approaches I think
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Not sure what date they get paid each month but as December isn’t over yet it’s probably a silly rumour.

Not everyone gets paid early for Christmas.
 
Gary Baldi said:
The less said the better. They weren't much cop, we weren't either. A silly ball from Little opened us up but very little created by either team. I wonder if Yearwood has fallen over in the dressing room and got a foul? Considering the penalty last week, we had 2 stonewallers not given to us today. Thought the ref was fine in the first half and then got overly fussy and pissy as the game went on. Quite how Mackie got booked but he was prepared to be abused by their back 4....

The squad looked threadbare today. Brown was barely ok and we missed the balance he has with Whyte. At least the moaning day tripper behind me won't come back. In fact, I wonder why he came as all he did was moan.
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Plenty to moan about to be fair.
 
Very lackluster.
It’s been a while and have recently got used to it being not like that.
With no fire power on the bench,will
probably be the same starting eleven on Saturday-unless Hanson drops out .
 
Could not score in a brothel, but Saturday will be better, confident we will stuff Irene.
 
Very disappointing today but hopefully come Saturday we can get back to winning ways.

COYY
 
MC Yellow said:
Not sure what date they get paid each month but as December isn’t over yet it’s probably a silly rumour.

Not everyone gets paid early for Christmas.
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As I mentioned it's a rumour thats circulating .... which is unsubstantiated.... though with certain questions still unanswered by the owner of OUFC, speculation on all financial things will be rife
 
Southend did a very professional job on us. Sat deep, frustrated us with gamesmanship from very early on and sneaked a winner. Credit it to them, they had a plan and stuck to it.

Didn’t think anyone for us had a bad game, but our little triangles didn’t come off today. Disappointed with the result but not disheartened by the performance.

What I would say is that the occasional attendees sat near me in the north stand were a bunch of moaners, should perhaps stop watching premiership games on match of the day and set their expectations at an appropriate level.

On to Saturday.
 
Sarge said:
Rumours of players not paid for December circulating....unconfirmed but circulating nonetheless.... looked like the one defeat in 16 games squad had over indulged on food n drink yesterday judging by practically everyone having 'an off day '..... Southend masters of the dark arts, conned the inconsistent idiot supposed to be refereeing.....didn't see a lot wrong with the disallowed goal myself.... of course, bigger than usual crowd end up witnessing Oxford United providing the football equivalent of a wet fart, ....few occasional s came along were quite right to keep saying' I thought you said Oxford were playing decent football, this is uninspiring , dire & a total lack of ideas. Wont be hurrying back to watch that rubbish again any time soon ' ..... can't say I blame them either. Not much of a game of football as a spectacle, inconsistency from start to finish by all the officials, .....IF he actually HAS got money Tiger needs to spend a bit in the coming Jan window.....settled team looked jaded and uninterested most of the match, (that said if rumours are true, n players havent been paid that may explain todays poor showing) ,and are in need of freshening up, new players and new ideas & approaches I think
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Unfortunately, due to a lack of any real depth to the squad, the first 11-14 players are either getting complacent or knackered I reckon.
 
I thought today's performance was very (worryingly enough) reminiscent of some of the early season ones. Against a relatively poor team, we spent ages passing the ball about sideways and backwards - putting ourselves under pressure - and refusing to make any forward moves. The passing was truly abysmal - I couldn't believe what I was seeing at times. Balls whacked at a team mate from a few yards away, longer passes tens of yards wide or over hit by a similar amount. A reluctance to get the ball into the middle, even when we were in injury time and one behind. A strange re-emergence of the 'hoof it long to Mackie' tactic that has never worked. Where was our midfield? Did they have today off as well? I took my grown-up son as has become our Boxing Day tradition. After today's 'entertainment', it;s going to be a struggle to get him there next year - tradition or not!

Let's hope it was a bad day at the office rather than a reversion to type.

Oh and trumpeting the LOAN signing of Jordan Graham (who somehow seems to have acquired a status I am not entirely sure is deserved for a chap who played five games for us some years ago and was quite decent but no more) as a 'Christmas present for the supporters' was more than a bit toe-curling. As is playing 'Eye of the effing Tiger'.
 
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