Steve Obika

Malc said:
Obika was not good. But the rest of the team was also not present. Why? Because Barnsley had hell of a team who basically are a Championship team. We would never have given a decent showing against that team even if the match was still going.

It's easy to find scapegoats but let's not forget the high level of the opposition.
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Sorry Malc but I don’t buy that. Yes the quality of the opposition was high. Championship relegation quality. If we have any ambition of going up this year, which KR and Tiger have stated then the team they’ve put together is simply not good enough. I would of at least thought we’d have given them a game but it was men against boys.
 
McXal said:
Whilst I don’t agree with scapegoating Obika for yesterday’s performance (as I said in my player ratings, until Hall came on he was the only player who looked remotely threatening) the stark facts are that he missed decent chances at 0-0, 1-0 and 2-0.

All of which could’ve changed the game, two of which were pretty simple chances. In a game like that it is critical that if you get a chance you take it. As KR said in his interview - goalscorers help mask bad performances.

The reality is his chance conversion rate is poor. To miss THREE chances at critical times in a game like that makes him an easy target. He wasn’t the reason we lost. But he could’ve changed things and he didn’t - multiple times over.
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He was shite, but I don’t remember him having 3 clear cut chances? I remember the back pass he did with his tame right footed shot and the time he fell over the ball when he got goal side of his man, but not sure about the 3rd?

We were never going to beat Barnsley yesterday no matter what we did. The whole team needed to grow another 2 or 3 inches, have more pace and strength to have given us any chance. Like nyself and many others have said it was men verses boys and that wasn’t going to change as we’re stuck with what we’ve got. You could clearly see our players didn’t know what hit them and reality really set in!
 
uptheus said:
He was shite, but I don’t remember him having 3 clear cut chances? I remember the back pass he did with his tame right footed shot and the time he fell over the ball when he got goal side of his man, but not sure about the 3rd?
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At 0-0 he had acres of space in the area as a looping ball dropped perfectly. He could've and probably should've headed it, but he went for a side foot volley and completely missed it. Can't believe it isn't even on the extended 10-minute highlights to be honest, it was comfortably the best chance we had.
 
RyanioBirdio said:
At 0-0 he had acres of space in the area as a looping ball dropped perfectly. He could've and probably should've headed it, but he went for a side foot volley and completely missed it. Can't believe it isn't even on the extended 10-minute highlights to be honest, it was comfortably the best chance we had.
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Oh yeah!
 
Shaun Rice said:
Sorry Malc but I don’t buy that. Yes the quality of the opposition was high. Championship relegation quality. If we have any ambition of going up this year, which KR and Tiger have stated then the team they’ve put together is simply not good enough. I would of at least thought we’d have given them a game but it was men against boys.
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Their team was almost unchanged from last season. They were going to outplay any L1 team on the first day of the season by some margin, by virtue of knowing the system and their teammates.
 
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beyondthefourth said:
Their team was almost unchanged from last season. They were going to outplay any L1 team on the first day of the season by some margin, by virtue of knowing the system and their teammates.
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We played them at Wembley when they were a league above us and lost by one goal. They are now in the same league and we lose by 4! They wererelegated last year for a reason. We were just s**t
 
Followtheox said:
We played them at Wembley when they were a league above us and lost by one goal. They are now in the same league and we lose by 4! They wererelegated last year for a reason. We were just s**t
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Wigan and Blackburn were relegated for a reason too, both stormed this league last season it is no coincidence that Barnsley trounced us yesterday, Wigan and Blackburn did it last season, Bolton hammered us at home the season before (I am aware we managed a win at their place). Take a look at the teams we've played in this division who have come down, lost to barnsley yesterday, 0 wins last season against teams who were relegated, 1 draw and 5 losses. Season before 3 wins, 2 draws 1 loss (much better I know). There is no denying that teams coming down are better quality than pretty much all the teams already in the league
Burton may not be as strong and have been punching above for a while now and credit to them for getting there. After all that my point is expect barnsley and sunderland to be promoted, don't judge the team/players/season on that performance. Fleetwood will be a better task to judge on.
 
You can bang on about backing players and supporting the team but it will never change the fact that this lad isn’t good enough.
 
Watched a replay of the famous 5 - 5 cup second leg Scum against Sheff U last night on EFL Highlights & Obika scores a wonder goal - just where has he gone wrong? I think he needs a bit of physcotherapy!!
 
I actually reckon he will come good and have a half decent season. Lets get behind every player now and push forward together
 
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Absolute waste of space on Tuesday. How he stays on the pitch I don’t know. Every time he gets the ball he gives it away. His touch and hold up play is non existent. Never even looked like scoring or even winning a header! As one of the callers said on Radio Oxford we’re playing with 10 men with him on the pitch.
It worries me that Robinson prefers him to any of our senior strikers (well Smith and Mackie).
I would rather see an u23 battle his guts out to no avail than this poor excuse for a player.
 
I would guess it's an unfunny dig relating him to Steve Anthrobus, who was a far, far worse player than Obika. Anthrobus was a pathetic example of a footballer
 
Gary Baldi said:
I would guess it's an unfunny dig relating him to Steve Anthrobus, who was a far, far worse player than Obika. Anthrobus was a pathetic example of a footballer
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Steve Anthrobus was nominated as Shrewsbury's 'Cult Hero' in 2003. He was a winger by trade back then but he arrived at us as a number 9. I don't think I've seen a player as slow as the 'Bus. He really was dreadful.

As for Obika, I said to a mate at the Wycombe game ‘Obika looks like he should be good at everything, but he’s good at nothing’. He’s not quick, can’t jump or win headers, doesn’t have a powerful shot on him, struggles to hold the ball up and needs three touches to bring a ball under control.

He tries, bless him, and for that he’ll be largely forgotten for us in the coming years rather than entering any ‘World ever OUFC player’ debates, but that’s not good enough in our predicament. We need quality and effort and Obika only musters one of those attributes.

What’s strange about him is that MApp identified him as a player for our club. I thought MApp omitted losers with only relegations on their CV? Then again, MApp’s record with strikers was significantly worse than his record with goalkeepers, midfielders, defenders and wingers.
 
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