Away Match Build Up 26/12/2021 L1: Pompey P-P OUFC

[Northstandboy]

If the match goes ahead, will be interesting as to what both team's team selection will be.

I think it will be a tight OUFC win.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Until we know how many and which players on each side are available for selection, I think it's impossible to say. Personally I think the score will be P-P.

 

[Oxford1996]

Stevens
Long Moore Thorniley Seddon
Sykes Forde McGuane
Whyte Taylor Williams

Bodin, Agyei, Mousinho & Eastwood as subs.

 

[Jon-ioualways]

No, zero, we're going to P**s all over them.

 

[Essexyellows]

Got "not happening" written all over it.
They will bottle it by declaring positive tests.

If it happens we spank them.... again...

 

[Jason N]

For my own sanity, please, please go ahead!!!!

 

[TailsWeWin]

No way they’ll choose to play us with the unavailability they have. Postponed, surely, and a midweek trip to Portsmouth in prospect.

 

[ttg17]

Was just looking at the statement put out by the EFL re Pompey's last suspended match and the phrasing for when matches are to be called off:

In the wake of recent EFL fixture postponements due to Covid-19 cases at clubs, the EFL has also provided guidance on non-fulfilment of fixtures, confirming that clubs will be expected to play where it has 14 players including a goalkeeper available from the club’s registered squad list, under-21 players not on the squad list but have played one league match, or any other contracted player not on the squad list but otherwise would have been eligible to play. ​

Does this not create a perverse incentive not to play youth players? On the basis that it would be stupid to give e.g. Goodrham a run-out for the last 15 mins of a game we're winning comfortably because then, if we had a situation where we had only 12 players + a keeper fit/available, we would be required to play (as Goodrham would count towards the 14, having played one league match)? Seems like an unhelpfully broad-brush approach, and probably explains why we're seeing so many benches not at a full complement this season.

 

[Northstandboy]

Game off

Matches - Boxing Day v Pompey in doubt - POSTPONED

Looks like he’s more concerned with people‘s health than his own job. Or overreacting by cancelling outdoor events? It would be understandable for indoor events but I think he`s gone too far. Sorry............. he`s lost the plot. You can now get fined for going to work...

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