General End of Season Awards

[carefreeoufc]

Tell me more about this Indonesian nan.

Can she play in the 10 role?

She's certainly more athletic than her grandson

 

[SteMerritt]

I take it you're in the camp of siding with players throwing a strop if the club forget to send them a Birthday card !!!

Game is seriously going, if not already gone, when you've now got fans wanting the players to still have their Christmas party when they're bang smack in the middle of a shocking run and playing crap !!!

I'm from a different generation, I get that, but my god we've gone soft nowadays - football, society, crime, it's an endless list of tail wagging the dog !!

Well your take about me is wrong.

You can rant about 'generations', 'game's gone', and 'we've gone soft' all you want, your choice.

 

[Boris]

I take it you're in the camp of siding with players throwing a strop if the club forget to send them a Birthday card !!!

Game is seriously going, if not already gone, when you've now got fans wanting the players to still have their Christmas party when they're bang smack in the middle of a shocking run and playing crap !!!

I'm from a different generation, I get that, but my god we've gone soft nowadays - football, society, crime, it's an endless list of tail wagging the dog !!

Bit childish there Dick. Someone disagrees with you so you throw a mega "bring back the birch, never did me any harm" strop. You're entitled to your opinion, however misguided, and others are entitled to theirs. Instead of crying about it, why not engage in debate to see if you can possibly understand why people might feel differently, especially when it's you that appears to be in a tiny minority on this one

 

[werthersoriginal]

No. But if you've been relegated it does seem a pointless occasion. I mean wasn't ours held on the evening of the day we got relegated ? Talk about a damp squib ! Great, you've been the best player in a team of dross, not the most prestigious of awards and you imagine the players didn't want to be there either. Avoidable, others have done it and we should have followed suit.

Being relegated from the championship as the smallest club there doesn't mean you're 'dross'.

Also I suspect I'm older than you, despite you sounding like you're from the 50s.

 

[Eric Blair]

I take it you're in the camp of siding with players throwing a strop if the club forget to send them a Birthday card !!!

That is exactly what he is saying

 

[SteMerritt]

That is exactly what he is saying

I have shares in Clinton Cards, don't you know.

 

[dickwalton1964]

Bit childish there Dick. Someone disagrees with you so you throw a mega "bring back the birch, never did me any harm" strop. You're entitled to your opinion, however misguided, and others are entitled to theirs. Instead of crying about it, why not engage in debate to see if you can possibly understand why people might feel differently, especially when it's you that appears to be in a tiny minority on this one

I'm hardly advocating that !

 

[Wallop]

No. But if you've been relegated it does seem a pointless occasion. I mean wasn't ours held on the evening of the day we got relegated ? Talk about a damp squib ! Great, you've been the best player in a team of dross, not the most prestigious of awards and you imagine the players didn't want to be there either. Avoidable, others have done it and we should have followed suit.

I haven’t attended one of these evenings but isn’t it wider than the men’s first team? If so, then them being relegated would have much less impact on whether it should go ahead or not.

Also - these types of events are months in the planning with tickets sold and sunk costs for contracted services such as catering so would be expensive to cancel.

 

[Wallop]

Cancelling your end of season awards night after a poor season is as pathetic as clubs that cancel their Christmas party because of a poor run of form.

That’s a bit different because it only affects the players rather than paying punters. The effect on our players of not cancelling their Christmas drinking bender to Dublin this year could clearly be seen in the Swansea away game………

 

[Kernow Yellow]

I haven’t attended one of these evenings but isn’t it wider than the men’s first team?

Oh god, don't get Dick started on that again. You may want to read further up the thread...

 

[stu_tay]

I guess it would bring profile to the club in a roundabout way but it's not improving or enhancing the men's team


Again, you are missing my point. Re-read this. I responded to someone saying the women’s team meant as much as the mens in terms of Oxford United. Sorry, but it doesn’t on any level. Good luck to the women’s team but I don’t follow them, nor do I have any interest in their team. I’m not being disrespectful, I’m stating a fact - nothing to do with giving my head a wobble. What do you want me to say if I have no interest or feel no allegiance ? Why can someone not state their like, dislike or ambivalence towards something without being bracketed ? It sure is a bizarre world we live in.

No one’s saying you have to be interested in them, that’s your choice. But you’re mixing up two different things.

Your personal interest is one thing. Whether they’re part of Oxford United is another.

You can feel no connection to the women’s team at all, that’s completely fine. But that doesn’t change the fact they represent the same club, wear the same badge, and are part of the same organisation—so in that sense, yes, they do matter to the club, even if they don’t matter to you personally.

That’s really the point people are making. It’s not about forcing you to like anything, it’s just separating “I’m not interested” from “they’re not important at all,” because those aren’t the same thing.

And no one’s bracketing you—you’re entitled to your view. Others are just equally entitled to challenge it.

 

[Mumyellow]

Why wasn’t the supporters player award done on the pitch for the last game. Always used to be

 

[MJB]

Why wasn’t the supporters player award done on the pitch for the last game. Always used to be

Just guessing but possible that they felt doing so on the day we were relegated didn’t hit the right tone.

 

[AssHead]

I was struggling to think of our best player across both championship seasons. Everyone has been so patchy. Cumming and Brown brilliant last year but didn’t bring it this year. Helik brilliant for 6 months. Mills brilliant for 6 months. Cam brilliant when he’s not injured (but too slow for this level). Placheta, Currie, BDK, Ben Nelson, Lankshear, MPH have all had purple patches. Even Matt Phillips was quite good for about 3 games.

 

[Rach]

I was struggling to think of our best player across both championship seasons. Everyone has been so patchy. Cumming and Brown brilliant last year but didn’t bring it this year. Helik brilliant for 6 months. Mills brilliant for 6 months. Cam brilliant when he’s not injured (but too slow for this level). Placheta, Currie, BDK, Ben Nelson, Lankshear, MPH have all had purple patches. Even Matt Phillips was quite good for about 3 games.

Long

 

[AssHead]

Long

Long has had 1 MOTM award in 2 years from memory. He’s not in the “player of the championship” category for me.

Give him and Will Vaulks a pair of awards for “decent club men who banged in a 6/10 most weeks, with the odd mistake here and there”.

 

[Nadi-]

Has to be Mills, he keeps improving
The rest are going backwards, and that’s harsh on Helik and Brown who’ve kept us in it

 

[Cass63]

That’s why I said it was off on a tangent, I don’t really care about awards nights at all if I am honest, haven’t since Nigel Jemson told me to f**k off at a Quarry Rovers one at pressed steel club in the 90s. They really could have picked a more cheerful player to give out the awards.

That’s why I said it was off on a tangent, I don’t really care about awards nights at all if I am honest, haven’t since Nigel Jemson told me to f**k off at a Quarry Rovers one at pressed steel club in the 90s. They really could have picked a more cheerful player to give out the awards.

Matt le tissier, couldn’t have been more uninterested at a kids award ceremony if he tried, the following year Chris kamara did the job to perfection.

 

[Mumyellow]

Long has had 1 MOTM award in 2 years from memory. He’s not in the “player of the championship” category for me.

Give him and Will Vaulks a pair of awards for “decent club men who banged in a 6/10 most weeks, with the odd mistake here and there”MOTM

 

[Mumyellow]

MOTM Awards are picked by the sponsors and offen who they want to meet and have photo with

 

[Steve Gilbert]

MOTM Awards are picked by the sponsors and offen who they want to meet and have photo with

And also usually spent most of the game enjoying the bar facilities rather than watching the game.

 

[Marked Ox]

MOTM Awards are picked by the sponsors and offen who they want to meet and have photo with

Forward scores after 5 good chances gets the award whilst a defender is key in keeping a clean sheet through very good interceptions, blocking shots and well timed challenges is ignored.

Sponsors motm awards generally aren't worth taking any notice of.

 

[dickwalton1964]

I see Gillingham cancelled their scheduled awards night and they weren’t even relegated. Fair play to Ainsworth for not opting to reward failure. They aren’t the first club to do this and won’t be the last. Anybody, like me, who went to Millwall and witnessed that absolute shower of shite, which encapsulated our entire season in that one performance, should be embarrassed to be supporting an awards night - in my opinion. If it’s good enough for Gillingham to do the right thing then it should have been good enough for us, a team who bowed out of the championship with a whimper.

 

[Common Villager]

If we want to look at things in a bit more black and white. Anything/anyone that creates a potential revenue stream to support OUFC should be supported and encouraged. In terms of the women's team, the higher profile they become and the more successful they become, the greater opportunity there is to generate revenue. Whether that's from ticket sales (in a new stadium), shirt sales, advertising etc.

I'd much rather the club took a serious interest in generating revenue this way, than relying on some bobbins Indonesian footballer and bobbins Dutch footballer with an Indonesian nan on TikTok.

Agree with the general sentiment here, but most (if not all) professional women's football teams in the country run at quite a significant loss, including the likes of Arsenal. I am not sure it will ever be profitable unless women and girls start turning out at women's football matches in much larger numbers.

There is, however, a wider argument around increasing the popularity of football among women and girls thereby widening the club's overall potential audience.

 

[Boris]

am not sure it will ever be profitable unless women and girls start turning out at women's football matches in much larger numbers.

Or men. There's no need for it to be pigeonholed like that

 

[Common Villager]

Or men. There's no need for it to be pigeonholed like that

Yes, fair point. I'm just not sure that will ever happen.

 

[Boris]

Yes, fair point. I'm just not sure that will ever happen.

Never say never, but if it does happen it's probably going to be a slow process