Away Match Day Thread 8/1/2022 L1: Lincoln City v OUFC

[Sandy]

Clutching at straws here I know but at least we won't get relegated. - hopefully

 

[BeechRoadBokelberg]

So what is the latest on Brannagan injury?

 

[m]

Midfield will be

McGuane
Henry Sykes

Surely?

Knife through butter springs to mind.

 

[ttg17]

anyone else notice Maguire give a little ‘sorry!’ Gesture to the oxford end after hitting the bar first half? Call me a sucker but I quite liked that. Bit of a s**t day all round but amusing little moments like that make travelling to these kinds of games sort of worth it, that connection with the players.

 

[Sarge]

a few other sides had bad days at the office today too
(albeit in the FA cup 3rd round)

Blackpool
Burnley
Blackburn
Newcastle
Reading
(AFC) Wimbledon

 

[werthersoriginal]

Knife through butter springs to mind.

Yes that would be hopeless. McGuane and Sykes are too flakey to anchor the midfield and Henry too slow and attack-minded. You'd expect Forde or Hanson to come into play, or some left field masterstroke such as repurposing Winnall.

 

[unification]

You could be right never know with Robbo

KR isn’t really worth talking to on a math day. Before and after the game, he goes off on a ramble often throwing in needless asides and sidetracks and covering twenty topics in 30 seconds. Win or lose, you don’t really get a lot of out of it.

He’s better when he’s calmed down (so typical of scousers) and considers his answers to questions in the five minute forum and midweek interviews rather than the stream of consciousness we tend to get post-match.

 

[Sarge]

KR isn’t really worth talking to on a math day. Before and after the game, he goes off on a ramble often throwing in needless asides and sidetracks and covering twenty topics in 30 seconds. Win or lose, you don’t really get a lot of out of it.

He’s better when he’s calmed down (so typical of scousers) and considers his answers to questions in the five minute forum and midweek interviews rather than the stream of consciousness we tend to get post-match.

I agree ... things he says dont add up on math days

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

Knife through butter springs to mind.

Can’t think that Forde or Hanson will be any better

 

[bazzer9461]

fair enough .... though Wycombe's thugs will very likely be targeting him for special treatment

Let’s hope we get a decent ref then @Sarge

 

[Followtheox1]

Yes that would be hopeless. McGuane and Sykes are too flakey to anchor the midfield and Henry too slow and attack-minded. You'd expect Forde or Hanson to come into play, or some left field masterstroke such as repurposing Winnall.

 

[Oxymoron]

Or a couple of dozen cases of "48 hour Covid"....

 

[m]

Can’t think that Forde or Hanson will be any better

We're a mess in the middle without Kane, Brannagan and Gorrin for sure.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

We're a mess in the middle without Kane, Brannagan and Gorrin for sure.

Tbf most league one sides would be if you took their main three midfielders out

 

[greatunclekip]

Today showed why an alternative striker is an absolute must this window. When our passing goes to s**t, and when Matty is having an off day, we need to be able to launch balls into the box and hope. We simply can't do that at present.

 

[Followtheox1]

Today showed why an alternative striker is an absolute must this window. When our passing goes to s**t, and when Matty is having an off day, we need to be able to launch balls into the box and hope. We simply can't do that at present.

We always have hope!!!

 

[mooro]

Could add Long as an option for DM

 

[Oxford1996]

Player ratings.

Eastwood 7
Long 4
McNally 7
Moore 6
Seddon 4
Kane 5
Brannagan 4
Sykes 4
Whyte 3
Taylor 4
Williams 5

 

[AbsoluteZero]

Time to get our best goalkeeper back in the team. Eastwood hasn't let anyone down and performed well but the shots do for some reason seem to fly past him into the net. Not necessarily his fault. But he is not our number 1 and putting our best goalkeeper back in might just give a bit of a spark to the whole team.

 

[westyorkshireexile]

Tbf most league one sides would be if you took their main three midfielders out

But today, only one of them was missing from the starting lineup and we were still shite.