General 2ND ATTEMPT ...fan power - ultras upset tiger

3rd time lucky ????

It seems the Ultras upside down banners and additional banners displayed as the teams came out on tuesday (lies & bow thais + lie of the tiger - photo on FV match report btw) upset tiger ... as reported in om kr interview earlier (link to follow) ..... ultras protest it seems had more of an impact on our bowtie bedecked owner than Questions from fans, supporters trust as well as both radio oxford and oxford mail have done thus far..... fan power at its best , keep it going Ultras :)
 
3rd time lucky ????

It seems the Ultras upside down banners and additional banners displayed as the teams came out on tuesday (lies & bow thais + lie of the tiger - photo on FV match report btw) upset tiger ... as reported in om kr interview earlier (link to follow) ..... ultras protest it seems had more of an impact on our bowtie bedecked owner than Questions from fans, supporters trust as well as both radio oxford and oxford mail have done thus far..... fan power at its best , keep it going Ultras :)
https://www.Oxfordm**l.co.uk/sport/...anks-oxford-united-board-for-january-backing/
 
3rd time lucky ????

It seems the Ultras upside down banners and additional banners displayed as the teams came out on tuesday (lies & bow thais + lie of the tiger - photo on FV match report btw) upset tiger ... as reported in om kr interview earlier (link to follow) ..... ultras protest it seems had more of an impact on our bowtie bedecked owner than Questions from fans, supporters trust as well as both radio oxford and oxford mail have done thus far..... fan power at its best , keep it going Ultras :)

https://www.Oxfordm**l.co.uk/sport/...anks-oxford-united-board-for-january-backing/

on the earlier (deleted thread) @WuTang ...(involved with Ultras?) posted an interesting few comments from an Ultras perspective, as well as other responses from YF posters too ...can you all repost please chaps ?
 
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The interesting bits, for me anyway, this admission by KR:

"And despite the backing, Robinson admitted there were big lessons to learn from January.

He said: “We’ve seen in this window what it might take to get a player of a certain level of quality.

“I think it’s been a reality check and I think we will take note of that as a football club."


As I said before - Really? Are we supposed to believe that you have only just learnt this?
 
When the banners were unfurled and raised on display there was a definite reaction from the SSU with many applauding the fans. Some puzzled looks from the Barnsley guests in the directors box but unfortunately from our angle, no way of seeing if there was any reaction from OUFC directors/guests. If anyone missed them, have a look at Paul Beasley's Fans view. There is a photo of the banners.
 
Kr has indeed lost it: “I want to say a big thank you to the board, because they gave us the funds to do whatever we needed to do.”

So, Kr went and got us the striker we needed? Really?

Don't get me wrong, I'm actually quite excited by the new Smith, but this quote from Kr sums him up - dysfunctional at best.
 
When the banners were unfurled and raised on display there was a definite reaction from the SSU with many applauding the fans. Some puzzled looks from the Barnsley guests in the directors box but unfortunately from our angle, no way of seeing if there was any reaction from OUFC directors/guests. If anyone missed them, have a look at Paul Beasley's Fans view. There is a photo of the banners.
hopefully @Paul B will be 'ok' with my cutting n pasting (below) the pics off his Barnsley FV? ... its said a picture speaks 1000 words , reckon these two along with the om interview speak volumes !
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Ultimately my post has said that the ULTRAS protest had caused a reaction and yet I don't know why Tiger would either be hurt or upset with the banners being placed upside down, as suggested by Karl Robinson.

He has treated the fans in my opinion badly. He has failed to listen to well minded supporters who have offered advice and support, supporters who have done nothing but support him in public and others who have done so behind closed doors. He has absolutely brought this situation upon himself. He has dragged our credibility through the dirt.

He has allowed this management team to steer our club towards League 2 & allowed Karl to behave in a manner not befitting of our manager. He has allowed them to recruit their chums & in the process make a mockery of our recruitment. He has allowed decisions like travelling to Bury on a Monday afternoon, stay in overnight accommodation when the club struggle to pay bills. Then today, our idiot manager, suggests he has decided to change up our away routine and we'll try travelling on the day to Burton, like most football clubs do at this level (someone's had a word with Karl no doubt).

That said, I will absolutely defend Tiger on player/squad investment. He has put his hand in someones pocket, for Whyte, Branagan, Dickie, Hanson, Holmes, Carruthers, Sykes, Graham and now, Sinclair. There is a pot of cash he's quite happy to spend on the first team. He needs to make sure the club has money to do the day to day stuff.

I ended my original post with a thank you. Thank you to the LADS AND LASSES who make up the Ultras for actually getting him to wake up and perhaps, just maybe, start taking on board what good fans are telling him.

My prediction remains, that Karl Robinson will not be our manager come the Summer (regardless of 18 months of awful league position and criminally under-performing his budget) and the sooner Tiger listens to those around him, the better.
 
2 thoughts on this:

1. describing Robinson as 'delirious' is surely tautology at it's worst?

2. If the Ultras display has got our Acting Owner upset then bloody good show. It's about time something brought home him that virtually no OUFC fan has confidence that his ownership is 'in the best interests of the club'*. Thank you, Ultras!



* copyright Darryl "Slippery" Eales.
 
I think it will have embarrassed Tiger as anyone he invites as guests to the Directors' box will ask "why were the flags upside down"? Similarly I doubt the other Directors will enjoy being associated with this.

Although I'm sure after many years in business they will all have thick skins and not particularly give a damn what people say until it hits them financially or repujtationally.
 
I think it will have embarrassed Tiger as anyone he invites as guests to the Directors' box will ask "why were the flags upside down"? Similarly I doubt the other Directors will enjoy being associated with this.

Although I'm sure after many years in business they will all have thick skins and not particularly give a damn what people say until it hits them financially or repujtationally.

thick skinned and then some ...a tiger with the hide of a rhino, as we already know via his 'avoidance' of most direct questions asked

Being embarrassed visually, that has seemed to have hit home, and hit hard ... good call by the ultras and more power to them I say

same again for the Sunderland home game?;)
 
I say fair play to the ultras for expressing themselves with this banner, however I would be careful in thinking this kind of thing is representitive and supported by the whole fan base. There has certainly been teething problems with tiger's regime both on and off the pitch but I feel the supporters should get fully behind him. Why??? Well, I feel people have short memories. We've certainly been in worse positions. Rember the early 90's, people preparing food parcels for the players and those yellow collection buckets on the pitch at half time. In reality, we're quite lucky to have a backer like tiger.
 
The interesting bits, for me anyway, this admission by KR:

"And despite the backing, Robinson admitted there were big lessons to learn from January.

He said: “We’ve seen in this window what it might take to get a player of a certain level of quality.

“I think it’s been a reality check and I think we will take note of that as a football club."

As I said before - Really? Are we supposed to believe that you have only just learnt this?
That depends on how you interpret what was said, KR might be eluding to how OUFC is viewed by other clubs and players, there is a certain section of our fans who think we should be challenging in the championship, the reality is we are a medium sized 3rd teir club, maybe that's why we didn't get our 2 main striking targets, 1 decided to go south the other decided to stay put, we are not the draw some of our fans think.
 
That depends on how you interpret what was said, KR might be eluding to how OUFC is viewed by other clubs and players, there is a certain section of our fans who think we should be challenging in the championship, the reality is we are a medium sized 3rd teir club, maybe that's why we didn't get our 2 main striking targets, 1 decided to go south the other decided to stay put, we are not the draw some of our fans think.

Exactly this. Fans need to have a reality check when it comes to expectations of the club. Yes it would be nice to go up to the championship but we would end up coming straight back down.

You have clubs such as Fleetwood that whether we like it or not have a bigger budget than us.
You then have clubs like Sunderland and Pompey who are massive clubs in this league who can afford to buy the best and offer the best contracts.

Fans continually go on about having no assests, no ground of our own and the stupidly high rent we pay kassam yet the same fans moan when we can’t afford to get our top targets.

Fans who keep wanting tiger to spend and spend will be the same ones moaning when we really are a financial mess or when Tiger wants all his money back.
 
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