EFL Championship: 11th - 12th March

[Carpy]

 

[Village-Yellow]

Tell that to Southampton!

Or Nottingham Forest.....

 

[Tomox]

Or Nottingham Forest.....

You mean Forest who spent god knows how much in the last year. They also don’t play on the front foot. They sit deep and counter attack. Southampton have one of smallest budgets in the league and were promoted last season through the play offs, so are far more comparable to us!

 

[SSO]

I did go on to say that last night's results don't change the fact that our survival hopes remain in our hands - as they were prior to last night's games - and that we do need to start turning our performances in to points. That much quite clearly hasn't changed.

What we need to do hasn't changed.

All that's changed is a couple of sides below us have picked up some points, while having played a game more than us. The context of those results will become a little clearer after tonight, but we won't know for sure how important they are until the end of the season.

If you're going to start panicking the minute sides below us pick up some points, then I'm afraid the next two months might not be for you because there's a chance it's going to be a real a**e-nipper.

Yep totally agree. It is all still in our hands. The weekend was pretty good but this midweek turned out as badly as it possibly could. But that 4 point gap could easily go back to 7 on Saturday and then we are looking a lot healthier with games for opponents running out. I still think in 6 weeks or so we will wonder what all the fuss was about. I also think we are due a bit of luck.

 

[Tomox]

I did go on to say that last night's results don't change the fact that our survival hopes remain in our hands - as they were prior to last night's games - and that we do need to start turning our performances in to points. That much quite clearly hasn't changed.

What we need to do hasn't changed.

All that's changed is a couple of sides below us have picked up some points, while having played a game more than us. The context of those results will become a little clearer after tonight, but we won't know for sure how important they are until the end of the season.

If you're going to start panicking the minute sides below us pick up some points, then I'm afraid the next two months might not be for you because there's a chance it's going to be a real a**e-nipper.

It’s true and hoping every team around us would lose every game was never realistic. But we need to really go for it Saturday. I don’t mean leaving ourselves totally exposed. But everyone has to be up for it and fighting for everything with the fans fully behind the side.

Derby will stay up I would imagine. They have the easiest run in by far. Ours is probably the hardest but one win and it changes the whole feel. Can see this going to the final day with goal difference coming into play.

 

[Tinman]

My autistic 8yr old was inconsolable last night, thanks to Gary & co. Even refused to wear his Oxford hat and coat to school this morning as he was still upset and worried about being bullied (all the other kids support prem teams and make fun of him).

However, after a bit of reflection, he's decided to remain an Oxford fan
I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

 

[Scotchegg]

My autistic 8yr old was inconsolable last night, thanks to Gary & co. Even refused to wear his Oxford hat and coat to school this morning as he was still upset and worried about being bullied (all the other kids support prem teams and make fun of him).

However, after a bit of reflection, he's decided to remain an Oxford fan
I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

My boy once said to me "it's ok to like different things. It doesn't mean that we can't still like each other."

It's also pretty cool to say that whilst they like their PL teams he LOVES Oxford. And when we love things, the lows really hurt, but the highs are the things you never forget.

 

[holdsteady]

My autistic 8yr old was inconsolable last night, thanks to Gary & co. Even refused to wear his Oxford hat and coat to school this morning as he was still upset and worried about being bullied (all the other kids support prem teams and make fun of him).

However, after a bit of reflection, he's decided to remain an Oxford fan
I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

At the moment supporting a prem team is the easy thing to do, when he gets older he will realise it’s like watching a porno rather than actually getting to have sex with the porn star. Although that allegory is probably a bit to old for an 8 year old.

 

[yellowbow]

At the moment supporting a prem team is the easy thing to do, when he gets older he will realise it’s like watching a porno rather than actually getting to have sex with the porn star. Although that allegory is probably a bit to old for an 8 year old.

Are you saying you’ve had sex with a porn star or that you are a porn star..?

 

[holdsteady]

Are you saying you’ve had sex with a porn star or that you are a porn star..?

If you were a porn star then you would also have had sex with a porn star, so in that case the answer would be both. But sadly it’s neither, never going to happen in a country this cold.

 

[RgYellows]

My autistic 8yr old was inconsolable last night, thanks to Gary & co. Even refused to wear his Oxford hat and coat to school this morning as he was still upset and worried about being bullied (all the other kids support prem teams and make fun of him).

However, after a bit of reflection, he's decided to remain an Oxford fan
I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

If it helps then there are thousands of us grown ups that didn’t feel like wearing our Oxford hats and coats on Thursday! It is all part of the ride.

Some football fans enjoy the back and forth with other teams. No club is immune from this, even the big Premier League clubs:

Liverpool bang on about European nights at Anfield but they just bottled a 1-0 home advantage to the biggest flakes in the tournament. Their biggest achievement since 2005 was beating Spurs, which a Yellows Forum Second XI could do. All of their best players want to leave.

Man City are being accused of cheating 115 times and they’re still below Forest in the table. They spent all that money on their academy and sold the best player they produced for less than Kalvin Phillips cost. Their best players all have terrible hair.

I assume no glory hunting kid chooses to support Man Utd or Arsenal these days because there is literally no glory associated with that.

I don’t know if you and your boy are able to go to games often (or at all) but the biggest thing Oxford offer that those clubs don’t is accessibility. This is a long term benefit rather than a quick fix but there is a tonne of stuff that makes supporting your local team better - actually going to games, arriving early to try and say hello to some of the players, mascot days, pre season open days, half time shout outs etc - the club website has a section that lets you do this for birthdays, but I bet the club would do it for a young fan getting told not to support Ox too!

By the by, supporting Oxford is one of my favourite decisions I’ve ever made. It has reinforced some of the things I like most about myself - I am loyal, patient, I have perspective, I appreciate our success, I am not entitled or petulant, and I am fantastically modest. Wearing the OUFC badge has led to conversations up and down the country (and abroad on holiday), because supporting your local team is far more interesting than choosing to be another generic NPC that supports Man Utd from Sussex. It also means you are better at football, you smell nicer, and girls like you more. These are facts.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

My autistic 8yr old was inconsolable last night, thanks to Gary & co. Even refused to wear his Oxford hat and coat to school this morning as he was still upset and worried about being bullied (all the other kids support prem teams and make fun of him).

However, after a bit of reflection, he's decided to remain an Oxford fan
I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

I grew up ginger, smallest kid in class, had braces and went to Wallingford school which was full of Reading fans. Your lad will be just fine

His friends might get the advantage of their team winning each week but they don’t experience what it’s like to go to a proper football match. He can tell them how many of his favourite players he gets to meet before a game, all the songs he knows.

If everyone supported the same team then life would be very boring and the atmosphere at games would be terrible!!

 

[Lost Marbles]

I grew up ginger, smallest kid in class, had braces and went to Wallingford school which was full of Reading fans. Your lad will be just fine

I also went to Wallingford school and it was about 60/40 in favour of Oxford at that point. A few years later I remember being shocked at seeing shirts with Waitrose on the front everywhere. A load of spineless glory hunters had suddenly appeared when they briefly reached the Prem. Wonder who they support now?

 

[Lost Marbles]

I'm just trying to think of things he can say to the other kids to help him out a bit. Any suggestions welcome!

When my 6 year old tells me some kid at school who supports Man City / Arsenal / Liverpool has said oxford are rubbish I tell him to ask them if they've been to any games. Then when they say no, he can say "I have. I'm going at the weekend. And I've been to Wembley".

 

[Steve Gilbert]

I also went to Wallingford school and it was about 60/40 in favour of Oxford at that point. A few years later I remember being shocked at seeing shirts with Waitrose on the front everywhere. A load of spineless glory hunters had suddenly appeared when they briefly reached the Prem. Wonder who they support now?

Probably Chelsea if it’s anything like when I was there. I left in 2003.

 

[chuckbert]

actually getting to have sex with the porn star

Ewww.