| Owen Dale  (On Loan At Wigan)Signed: 1st February 2024   |
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Current Player Owen Dale
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Vancouver Yellow
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
True, but if Placheta had have stayed on the pitch vs Millwall we would have lost that game. Dale single handedly turned the tide, and surely that earns him a start
as for Goodwin who bloody knows what happened there!
Royalstandard74
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
I've always been a fan of Dale, always gives his all, his end product is scrutinised but his desire and heart for a battle is what we need, he has to start Saturday for me.
Joins Wigan on loan:
Good luck to him. We wouldn't have gone up without his determination and passion. Top lad, deserves to be playing regular 1st team football, so hopefully he'll get that there.
Marked Ox
Level: Mickey Lewis
(351 Apps, 7 Gls)
Good luck, Owen. Hope it is a success for you.
Thank you for last season.
Thank you for last season.
Also, that's quite some article they've published there, going well into his history! Don't see that kind of in-depth articles from our lot, even when Chris Williams was still here. Fair play.
Gregortheox
Level: Callum O'Dowda
(106 Apps, 14 Gls)
When this guy came to Oxford united, he injected some life and determination in to what I would call an utter shambles.
Thankyou Owen Dale. Much respect from me.
Thankyou Owen Dale. Much respect from me.
Hope they like him up there more than they do Will Goodwin! Safe to say that he hasn't had the best of starts.......
We know that Dale will be a good player for them at League One level, but man, couldn't have picked a less exciting time to go there. 10 points from the playoffs, 9 points from the drop, score one goal a game, concede one goal a game, as mediocre and midtable as it's possible to be!
Might be even more boring than the situation Edwards is going into other than it's a decent stadium and, y'know, it's not in Stevenage.
We know that Dale will be a good player for them at League One level, but man, couldn't have picked a less exciting time to go there. 10 points from the playoffs, 9 points from the drop, score one goal a game, concede one goal a game, as mediocre and midtable as it's possible to be!
Might be even more boring than the situation Edwards is going into other than it's a decent stadium and, y'know, it's not in Stevenage.
A move not far from ‘home’ for him.
Despite some good appearances under the last days of DB, he never looked quite up to the standard of the Championship. Proven top half of League 1 though.
Hope he does well.
Despite some good appearances under the last days of DB, he never looked quite up to the standard of the Championship. Proven top half of League 1 though.
Hope he does well.
Hope it’s a successful loan for him and Wigan. All the best Owen.
greatunclekip
Level: Steve Basham
(189 Apps, 51 Gls)
Good luck to Owen, a proven talent at that level.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
Good luck Owen Dale
Only a loan but it feels like if we stay up then it's goodbye. He was a huge part of our upturn in form last season through how he connected with fans and fired up his teammates. I wish him nothing but the best.
Steve Gilbert
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Really happy to see him get a move where he can go out and play games and show what he can do.
I still wouldn’t write him off just yet for next season but he is too good to not be playing games at a decent level.
I still wouldn’t write him off just yet for next season but he is too good to not be playing games at a decent level.
90syeIlow
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Good luck Owen.
Your passion, vigor and effort was a large reason why we achieved promotion last season. You arrived at the right time and have been an excellent professional during your time here as well as having your best game for us at Wembley.
Your passion, vigor and effort was a large reason why we achieved promotion last season. You arrived at the right time and have been an excellent professional during your time here as well as having your best game for us at Wembley.
BillyTurleys CurlyWurly
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
hopefully our last home game and Wigans home games fall on different days at the end of the season.
Would be fitting to get a decent send off and appreciation at FT if he could be present.
Would be fitting to get a decent send off and appreciation at FT if he could be present.
Steve Gilbert
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
He still has next season as an Oxford player though.
A great signing at L1 level and one of our best pieces of business last year in my opinion. He was a real shot in the arm for our team when we most needed it.
Infectious energy that regardless of his performance always brought something to the table and could be an exciting watch on his day.
One of those players that was sort of an inevitable casualty of becoming a championship side. I do wish he’d got a bit more of a chance, particularly when nothing else was working, as we’ve seen so many others like Greg Leigh and Ciaron Brown really push on and evolve in to throughly decent championship regulars.
Nonetheless I don’t have a bad word to say and hope he settles well in Wigan and has a great end to the season. Great signing for them.
Infectious energy that regardless of his performance always brought something to the table and could be an exciting watch on his day.
One of those players that was sort of an inevitable casualty of becoming a championship side. I do wish he’d got a bit more of a chance, particularly when nothing else was working, as we’ve seen so many others like Greg Leigh and Ciaron Brown really push on and evolve in to throughly decent championship regulars.
Nonetheless I don’t have a bad word to say and hope he settles well in Wigan and has a great end to the season. Great signing for them.
One of those players who just seemed to get what it meant to be a professional footballer and represent a club. Played a big part in the turnaround at the end of last season - just a bit overshadowed by the bloke on the other side of the pitch.
Wish he'd been given a bit more of a chance when the wheels were falling off under Des this season perhaps - his pumped-up cameo at the end of the Millwall game will be a highlight of the season for me as it showed there was some fight and spirit left in the squad at least.
Would love to think he might have another chance with us, but seems unlikely - so can only wish him well for the rest of the season.
Wish he'd been given a bit more of a chance when the wheels were falling off under Des this season perhaps - his pumped-up cameo at the end of the Millwall game will be a highlight of the season for me as it showed there was some fight and spirit left in the squad at least.
Would love to think he might have another chance with us, but seems unlikely - so can only wish him well for the rest of the season.
ZeroTheHero
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
If we weren't going to fill the available squad places, then we should have kept him. At the very least he would give us another option.
Agree re Placheta. Disagree re Dale.
chuckbert
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Placheta looks to be in training as an NFL Kicker judging by his shooting.
I would argue that scoring that screamer is the worst thing that could have happened to him.
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Vancouver Yellow
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Scored for Wigan!
