Away Match Day Thread +++ 3/11/2018 Scunthorpe United v OUFC +++

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Not sure how we’ve got to 1pm without one of these, but here goes…

OUFC to continue our unbeaten run with a … 2-0 win.

700 hardy supporters freeze their nuts off, and see goals from Whyte and Mackie, with a 5 minute sub appearance from young Aaron Heap.

KR can’t but help saying “I told you so”.
 
My third live game of the season! Combination of our improved form and Scunthorpe's desperately bad form: Scunthorpe 0 Oxford2.
 
I think we’ll lose this despite all the wonderful optimism on here. I’m afraid I still think we have a poor team and Scunthorpe will out fight us as Northern teams always seem to! Hope I eat my words. Scunthorpe 2 Oxford 1
 
I think we’ll lose this despite all the wonderful optimism on here. I’m afraid I still think we have a poor team and Scunthorpe will out fight us as Northern teams always seem to! Hope I eat my words. Scunthorpe 2 Oxford 1
We have a poor team?
So have we been lucky drawing at Southend and Charlton and easily beating Plymouth and Shrewsbury?
 
Interesting game this one.

Scunthorpe have a similarly talented squad to us on paper I believe, but are also badly underperforming.

Start well and I think we can nick it.
 
Interesting game this one.

Scunthorpe have a similarly talented squad to us on paper I believe, but are also badly underperforming.

Start well and I think we can nick it.
I agree that starting well is key.
They will be down on confidence and their manager seems to be suggesting that they may try and keep things tight.
We need to defend as well as we have been doing and then we do have players who can open up poor defences.
 
Could very easily lose this, if the players and/or management relax and think we've got it cracked.
I'd take a draw at this stage
 
Eastwood
McMahon Dickie Nelson Ruffels
Brannagan Mous Henry
Whyte Mackie Holmes

0-1, Brannagan.
 
They’ve conceded a lot of goals, and we’ve been defending well recently. If we make no silly mistakes at the back then I reckon we’ll win this.

Feeling strangely confident about this one.
 
Think we will win this 2-0. Fluky goal and then a thunderbolt from Gavin Whyte
 
Scunthorpe on a 5 game losing streak. That said, three of those have been away from home, and one of the home losses was Peterborough. The other was Plymouth but 4-1 Plymouth screams freak result. Their last win was 5-3 at home to Charlton, who are no pushovers.

I’d be happy with another away draw. We have some winnable league games coming up so as long as we keep our points tally ticking over I think it’s a good result. 0-0 for me.
 
They haven't won since Noah's Ark and we can't win away from home. Only one outcome here...........Trump will win the mid-term thing in America. Scunthorpe United 1 Oxford United 1 (Whyte again) Att: 5788 and 565 yellows fans. Oxford will take the lead, then put it on a dog. It will escape and run onto the pitch. Yes, s**t joke, but these are s**t times and we need cheering up. The local match-making factory will go on strike.......and the building will burn down. Yes, another s**t joke, but things are still not looking rosy, so who cares. One of our lot is bound sure to have a nasty injury, but I cannot tell you which one. The referee (a certain Mr. Arthur Hitler) will start the game with a strange salute. He will then blow his whistle and decide to retire. After shouting abuse all afternoon, KR will scream: "Ooh Arr!" and end up in the JR, later. Beano will be seen in the United changing room before the game. Not as our new possible signing, but because the lads have been ordered to read the 'Beano' comic, by our new sports scientist. His theory is 'if you can read a kid's comic before an important football game and then play a 'blinder', then you must be a bloody genius'. Everybody keeps on saying that our team is full of clever footballers, so maybe that's the key to unlocking their skill. Who bloody knows? The result won't be a bad one for us, I think. My only question is this; if Typhoo put the 'T' in Britain, who the hell put the 'Cu*t' in Scunthorpe? That just about does it for me. COYY.
 
Sitting a very nice hotel room, after plenty of wine, following o grotty journey from the land of the South Saxons.
I still say this is a very winnable game. Hopefully, as this is the last league game for two weeks, there will be a good following. COYY
 
They haven't won since Noah's Ark and we can't win away from home. Only one outcome here...........Trump will win the mid-term thing in America. Scunthorpe United 1 Oxford United 1 (Whyte again) Att: 5788 and 565 yellows fans. Oxford will take the lead, then put it on a dog. It will escape and run onto the pitch. Yes, s**t joke, but these are s**t times and we need cheering up. The local match-making factory will go on strike.......and the building will burn down. Yes, another s**t joke, but things are still not looking rosy, so who cares. One of our lot is bound sure to have a nasty injury, but I cannot tell you which one. The referee (a certain Mr. Arthur Hitler) will start the game with a strange salute. He will then blow his whistle and decide to retire. After shouting abuse all afternoon, KR will scream: "Ooh Arr!" and end up in the JR, later. Beano will be seen in the United changing room before the game. Not as our new possible signing, but because the lads have been ordered to read the 'Beano' comic, by our new sports scientist. His theory is 'if you can read a kid's comic before an important football game and then play a 'blinder', then you must be a bloody genius'. Everybody keeps on saying that our team is full of clever footballers, so maybe that's the key to unlocking their skill. Who bloody knows? The result won't be a bad one for us, I think. My only question is this; if Typhoo put the 'T' in Britain, who the hell put the 'Cu*t' in Scunthorpe? That just about does it for me. COYY.
I am enjoying your contributions
 
We have a poor team?
So have we been lucky drawing at Southend and Charlton and easily beating Plymouth and Shrewsbury?
Im not saying that I think we have poor players. I just don’t think we play well as a team. When we start beating teams in the top half, I’ll start to adjust my thinking. The league table doesn’t lie and unfortunately overall shows we are currently poor as a team despite the unbeaten run, where incidentally we could have easily lost at Rovers and Southend.
 
You cant concede 4 at home to Plymouth and not park the bus. Lost their last 5, confidence low and similar needed to us, 5 games ago. Despite their best, we nick it with a single goal. Browne of course with Granger watching from the stands, promising to be a good boy, and licking his lips.
 
Im not saying that I think we have poor players. I just don’t think we play well as a team. When we start beating teams in the top half, I’ll start to adjust my thinking. The league table doesn’t lie and unfortunately overall shows we are currently poor as a team despite the unbeaten run, where incidentally we could have easily lost at Rovers and Southend.
This is what I like to hear. Going into todays game with a really positive attitude. Spare a thought for the fans slogging their way up to North Lincolnshire.
 
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