Another plastic manager gone

[Gary Baldi]

Reading have sacked Paul Clement for not improving their position . It's becoming an annual game they play down there and I wholeheartedly endorse the policy.

They've appointed an old Chief Exec to sort the mess out. Thames Valley derby next year anyone?

 

[Ox4Eva]

The real derby game ?

 

[Belgium Yellow]

Good to hear!

 

[Oldham]

The real derby game ?

If you’re a Reading fan ?

 

[Sarge]

If you’re a Reading fan ?

Aldershot are/ were/used to be the plastics main local derby rivals

 

[Ox4Eva]

Always been OUFC!

Been discussed on here many times the games against the swine are tame affairs compared to when we used play the plastics on a regular basis

 

[Lincoln.yellow1]

Reading away in a league game would be bloody fantastic....
I was there when we won 2-1 in the Central TV Sunday live game with that wining goal from Matt Murphy in 1999....
We haven’t played a game in Reading for 18 years and like our record used to be against our neighbours down the A420 we have lost our last 5 games against The Royals, it’s a record we need to put right, a big ground who would only attract 10 - 12,000 if they get relegated to league 1, an outside chance they would let us have the whole end behind the goal which is 4300 seats and every ticket would be sold if they sent them all to Oxford....

 

[Sarge]

Always been OUFC!

Been discussed on here many times the games against the swine are tame affairs compared to when we used play the plastics on a regular basis

I remember most if not all of them well ...from first-hand experience

Back in the day plastics were a close second to scum, but matches v scum always had more about em (for me)

Elm Park with its strange set up, their 'lads' (hahahaha... who ran as fast as as Scum always have), were along the side of the pitch with both terraces behind each goal uncovered. Last time I went to old Elms park ground, it was an evening match, may've been a cup game?, their old stand with wooden seats was on the verge of being condemned!)... they were usually 'fun' awaydays with extra spice to them for sure @Ox4Eva

Not missed a scum away , ever. Scum away the first time we played em in the league was my first away game ever (0-0 draw- Aug '65)
first time we played the plastics was an away game Oct '65 , 0-1 win.... which means OUFCs first encounter with either was v Scum, by 2 months. so I guess historically Scum have been OUFC most hated rivals, AND for the longest too

I do 'get' that people (over a certain age) from specific areas of Oxfordshire do have a burning hatred of the plastics, ... a similar dislike for MK dons or even 'Wycombe from people in certain areas of Oxfordshire could be held , ....but lets be honest here Wycombe aint n never will be seen a 'rivals' , as for the franchise, they shouldnt even exist!

 

[Oldham]

Always a given to go in the side with the Reading “lads”. Bunch of mungrels I. The late 70s earlie 80s, until a certain chap emerged as a duel team hooligan who got them a bit more organised. Still always scumdon as main rivals for me though.

 

[Big Ronaldo]

Elm Park game where we emptied their end. The coppers marched our fans out and round behind the goal to rapturous applause from our packed end.
Great days.

 

[Briggsy]

Reading away in a league game would be bloody fantastic....
I was there when we won 2-1 in the Central TV Sunday live game with that wining goal from Matt Murphy in 1999....
We haven’t played a game in Reading for 18 years and like our record used to be against our neighbours down the A420 we have lost our last 5 games against The Royals, it’s a record we need to put right, a big ground who would only attract 10 - 12,000 if they get relegated to league 1, an outside chance they would let us have the whole end behind the goal which is 4300 seats and every ticket would be sold if they sent them all to Oxford....

Great day. I broke a bone in my foot celebrating that goal.

 

[horseman]

Always a given to go in the side with the Reading “lads”. Bunch of mungrels I. The late 70s earlie 80s, until a certain chap emerged as a duel team hooligan who got them a bit more organised. Still always scumdon as main rivals for me though.

Didn't that certain chap arrive one evening with a group and challenge those inside a pub to a different version of pool?

 

[Oldham]

Didn't that certain chap arrive one evening with a group and challenge those inside a pub to a different version of pool?

He did indeed, bloody “nightmare” it was ?

 

[Ox4Eva]

I would never deny the Swine are our main rivals but the plastics are a close second and I really cannot understand those who don't see that to be honest.

 

[Sarge]

I would never deny the Swine are our main rivals but the plastics are a close second and I really cannot understand those who don't see that to be honest.

Plastics are a VERY close second Id say

 

[Peterdev]

Reading away in a league game would be bloody fantastic....
I was there when we won 2-1 in the Central TV Sunday live game with that wining goal from Matt Murphy in 1999....
We haven’t played a game in Reading for 18 years and like our record used to be against our neighbours down the A420 we have lost our last 5 games against The Royals, it’s a record we need to put right, a big ground who would only attract 10 - 12,000 if they get relegated to league 1, an outside chance they would let us have the whole end behind the goal which is 4300 seats and every ticket would be sold if they sent them all to Oxford....

That was a great game. Phil Parkinson got me a ticket

 

[Tomox]

Into the relegation places after a 0-2 loss to Sheffield United.

 

[Belgium Yellow]

It’s pretty clear to me:
Scum
plastics
luton
I can’t think of anyone else who you would assume that something would kick off with except for Pompey and Milwall and neither of them would regard us as rivals in the way the above three would.

 

[yellowbow]

Reading away in a league game would be bloody fantastic....
I was there when we won 2-1 in the Central TV Sunday live game with that wining goal from Matt Murphy in 1999....
We haven’t played a game in Reading for 18 years and like our record used to be against our neighbours down the A420 we have lost our last 5 games against The Royals, it’s a record we need to put right, a big ground who would only attract 10 - 12,000 if they get relegated to league 1, an outside chance they would let us have the whole end behind the goal which is 4300 seats and every ticket would be sold if they sent them all to Oxford....

Whinged and moaned all the way in it did.. ?

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Games against Reading were always nastier than games at Swindon. Much more violent, aggressive and intimidating. I’d argue it was the main derby, personally.

If we end up in the same league again it’s goong to be bizarre, watching two sets of fans who seemingly have no idea of how vicious the history is. What I find strange is that even the younger fans who can’t remember us ever playing each other often seem so eager to stress how they don’t care and don’t even think they’re proper rivals, but I’ll bet that before they’d ever even seen a Swindon game they hated them. Not sure why it’s okay to believe there’s a rivalry with one but not with another.

Hope they go down and we stay up. I’ve been waiting nearly 20 years for us to once again cross paths twice a season.

 

[m]

It’s pretty clear to me:
Scum
plastics
luton
I can’t think of anyone else who you would assume that something would kick off with except for Pompey and Milwall and neither of them would regard us as rivals in the way the above three would.

Maybe Brizzle Rroverrzz alongside Pompey & Millwall?

 

[yellowbow]

Maybe Brizzle Rroverrzz alongside Pompey & Millwall?

I know they’re not local rivals as such, and I’m going a bit off topic, but I’ve always had a strong dislike for Watford. I’m not even entirely sure why. Maybe the fact that they wear yellow and their name ends in ‘ford’ but they were the lucky ones in being in the right place at the right time during the premier league age due to a benevolent rock star, and now think they’re a big club when in reality they’ll always be minnows ( he types while punching the keypad a little bit harder than is healthy..)

 

[Deleted member 222]

For me in a top 5 list of rivals it would be:

Swindon
Reading
Bristol Rovers
Luton
Lincoln

Then you have Chelsea but we are highly unlikely to play them anytime soon.

 

[Sarge]

Games against Reading were always nastier than games at Swindon. Much more violent, aggressive and intimidating. I’d argue it was the main derby, personally.

If we end up in the same league again it’s goong to be bizarre, watching two sets of fans who seemingly have no idea of how vicious the history is. What I find strange is that even the younger fans who can’t remember us ever playing each other often seem so eager to stress how they don’t care and don’t even think they’re proper rivals, but I’ll bet that before they’d ever even seen a Swindon game they hated them. Not sure why it’s okay to believe there’s a rivalry with one but not with another.

Hope they go down and we stay up. I’ve been waiting nearly 20 years for us to once again cross paths twice a season.

games against Reading certainly had a serious 'bit of spice' about them

While, at the Skip, taking the Town end (before segregation was introduced) was a given, every time we went there ....

first visit to the skip after segregation came in, May 82 I think? - if memory serves it was Jim Smiths first experience of an away derby v scum, Smoke bomb chucked on the pitch from the town end ( unusually populated by scummers in a home fixture againts Oxford!) at the start of the second half, Roy Burton was engulfed in smoke and unsighted, scum score, referee Eric Read allows it to stand. Stratton bank was a terrace back then, full of Oxfords finest,, 'we' also had some of the lower terrace at the side. Read was felled in a hail of coins the first time he ventured anywhere near where Oxford were. Meanwhile, in the Stratton bank several crash barriers were uprooted and chucked over the wall towards the pitch, advertising hoardings kicked to pieces. We ended up losing 3-2 ( due to Eric Read's shocking descision Id say!)... Wiltshire police decided to lock Oxford fans in the ground to allow scum to scuttle off into the shadows, except, that was the first of several times that despite being locked in the ground the Stratton bank exit gates were removed rathe quickly, with an angry mob of Oxfords finest storming out. Mayhem ensued.

 

[Ox4Eva]

My personal hate list is:

Reading
Swindon
Luton
QPR
Brighton

As said by others games against Reading have more of an edge than against the swine. Hopefully we play them soon and the arm waving pavement dancers will find out!

 

[Sarge]

My list would be

Sw*nd*n
Reading
Orient
Liverpool
Everyone else

 

[MJB]

Swindon
Reading
Everyone else

 

[Gary Baldi]

Northampton
Wycombe
Everyone else

In terms of definitely not derby games

 

[WuTang]

Reading are nowhere near the same club since moving from Elm Park, or ever since the Madjeski era. Unlike Oxford, Swindon, Rovers, Luton etc etc, Reading have become infiltrated with plastic 2 team fans who have probably never even heard of Elm Park, it's a major family club with very very few die hard fans, which is reflected in their miniscule away attendances. Mocked universally by other Championship clubs for being just tedious, characterless and passionless.
As someone who lives between Oxford and Reading, there's always banter but it's hard to find a real "hatred" there anymore, they're just a bit "meh" these days. I'd put the other clubs mentioned previously above them in the present day. Although an away game there would be superb, as I'm sure we'd sell out 4k+

 

[Oldham]

games against Reading certainly had a serious 'bit of spice' about them

While, at the Skip, taking the Town end (before segregation was introduced) was a given, every time we went there ....

first visit to the skip after segregation came in, May 82 I think? - if memory serves it was Jim Smiths first experience of an away derby v scum, Smoke bomb chucked on the pitch from the town end ( unusually populated by scummers in a home fixture againts Oxford!) at the start of the second half, Roy Burton was engulfed in smoke and unsighted, scum score, referee Eric Read allows it to stand. Stratton bank was a terrace back then, full of Oxfords finest,, 'we' also had some of the lower terrace at the side. Read was felled in a hail of coins the first time he ventured anywhere near where Oxford were. Meanwhile, in the Stratton bank several crash barriers were uprooted and chucked over the wall towards the pitch, advertising hoardings kicked to pieces. We ended up losing 3-2 ( due to Eric Read's shocking descision Id say!)... Wiltshire police decided to lock Oxford fans in the ground to allow scum to scuttle off into the shadows, except, that was the first of several times that despite being locked in the ground the Stratton bank exit gates were removed rathe quickly, with an angry mob of Oxfords finest storming out. Mayhem ensued.

I remember that night well @Sarge. The smoke bomb, the crush barriers going and also a scummer copper getting bitten by his own dog as he tried to stop us storming the gates to get out. Swindon town centre got fookin flattened that night, everything and anything was a target. There were photos on the back page of the Sun the next day of the crush barriers on the side of the pitch.