what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with 16:48 - Jan 21 with 3407 views | textbackup | any illnesses? any injuries? a loss at a good oxford team is a good result? never win at oxford so thats ok? edit. 19 more games to go, anything can happen [Post edited 21 Jan 2023 17:05]
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:49 - Jan 21 with 2820 views | NeedhamChris | It's just another one off |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:50 - Jan 21 with 2785 views | Funge | Haha... It's pretty bad, isn't it? McKenna doing a poor job at present, it has to be said. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:50 - Jan 21 with 2760 views | DanTheMan | Can't even really say we've played well today. At least we usually have that going for us. Again we've missed simple chances and they've scored when given the opportunity. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:51 - Jan 21 with 2674 views | homer_123 | More than enough chances to win this. Unless you put it in the onion bag you are going to struggle. Poor in front of goal....again. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:51 - Jan 21 with 2647 views | GlasgowBlue | Poor defending and wasteful in front of goal. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:52 - Jan 21 with 2587 views | Illinoisblue | Woeful finishing, mostly. Harness, Burns, Hirst and Chaplin all failed in the six yard box. That and a generally casual spineless effort against a poor team |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:52 - Jan 21 with 2592 views | RegencyBlue | We’ve been well and truly sussed out. There is no plan B and everyone knows it. Don’t trust this lot in the playoffs either. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:53 - Jan 21 with 2548 views | chicoazul |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:50 - Jan 21 by Funge | Haha... It's pretty bad, isn't it? McKenna doing a poor job at present, it has to be said. |
Deteriorating into the worst failure in our history. Although weirdly, and I have no explanation for this and no clue why, but I fancy us in the play offs! |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:53 - Jan 21 with 2523 views | carlisleaway |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:50 - Jan 21 by DanTheMan | Can't even really say we've played well today. At least we usually have that going for us. Again we've missed simple chances and they've scored when given the opportunity. |
Simples, we give soft goals away and fail to score goals in the past 3 months Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth deserve to go up while we will be struggling to make play offs |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:54 - Jan 21 with 2518 views | SuperKieranMcKenna | We didn’t turn up. Confidence looks shot to me. Edit- struggling to find any positives today. Perhaps Broadhead looking lively, that’s about it! [Post edited 21 Jan 2023 16:55]
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:57 - Jan 21 with 2390 views | Funge |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:53 - Jan 21 by chicoazul | Deteriorating into the worst failure in our history. Although weirdly, and I have no explanation for this and no clue why, but I fancy us in the play offs! |
Yep - we've thrown mad money at this team..... Charlton has absolutely screwed us; we've looked ropey as fck ever since that. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 17:04 - Jan 21 with 2291 views | TractorWood |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:49 - Jan 21 by NeedhamChris | It's just another one off |
Ha, I like this one. 7th in a row is it not? [Post edited 21 Jan 2023 17:04]
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 17:05 - Jan 21 with 2248 views | pointofblue | One thing's for certain - it'll be anyone's fault but McKenna's. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 17:10 - Jan 21 with 2165 views | Stewart27 | We’re absolutely spineless in both boxes. This one hurts because I think that’s it for automatics. I’ve been so positive all season. It’s not just our little blip. It’s the fact that Plymouth and Wednesday are relentless. Plus Derby are basically a point behind now. We were 15 points ahead of them at one point. I’d love to see Edmundson come back in. We’ve gone backwards since his omission. Burgess has been ok but he’s so basic. Broadhead must start. It’s going to take some run now which I don’t think we are capable of. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 17:12 - Jan 21 with 2105 views | J2BLUE | Fog definitely didn't help but it's like the Leicester game in the snow, you have to adapt better than the opposition. We didn't. We should have been shooting on sight from around the box. That game was made for a more direct style of play. Something McKenna seems reluctant to do. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 17:30 - Jan 21 with 2020 views | RIPbobby | I have a sore hip so I think that counts for us losing. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:06 - Jan 21 with 1901 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 16:52 - Jan 21 by RegencyBlue | We’ve been well and truly sussed out. There is no plan B and everyone knows it. Don’t trust this lot in the playoffs either. |
Teams exactly know what to expect from us. We offer no element of surprise whatsoever. Wycombe away was a perfect example. Ainsworth knew very well how we were gonna approach it. Millions of passes and that's it. Oxford away last season and their late equaliser, today 10 months later Oxford away again and our defending is still awful. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:15 - Jan 21 with 1827 views | pointofblue |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:06 - Jan 21 by Mach_foreignBlue | Teams exactly know what to expect from us. We offer no element of surprise whatsoever. Wycombe away was a perfect example. Ainsworth knew very well how we were gonna approach it. Millions of passes and that's it. Oxford away last season and their late equaliser, today 10 months later Oxford away again and our defending is still awful. |
Oddly our defence wasn't dreadful at the end of last season. From this corresponding weekend to the end of the season, we conceded ten goals in 20 games. For a portion of those matches, three of the four which played today started then. For the other portion, it was Edmundson ahead of Burgess. Is it lack of form? Is it something about our tactical shape which is leading to them being exposed? Something isn't right, certainly. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:18 - Jan 21 with 1787 views | TheBoyBlue | Something about us being a season behind Plymouth and Sheffield Wednesday. Next season we'll be a season behind Derby and Bolton. And the season after we'll be a season behind whatever basket cases of clubs have managed to turn themselves round faster than we have. |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:19 - Jan 21 with 1775 views | itfcjoe | We didn’t play particularly well but created 6 ‘big chances’ and missed them all. They created none, but yet again the keeper doesn’t do anything to help us in those tight games and we lose on every fine margins game we have (whether that means losing or drawing when we should win) |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:21 - Jan 21 with 1738 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:15 - Jan 21 by pointofblue | Oddly our defence wasn't dreadful at the end of last season. From this corresponding weekend to the end of the season, we conceded ten goals in 20 games. For a portion of those matches, three of the four which played today started then. For the other portion, it was Edmundson ahead of Burgess. Is it lack of form? Is it something about our tactical shape which is leading to them being exposed? Something isn't right, certainly. |
Not dreadful but not good either. It had got considerably worse following Edmundson's injury last March. Something isn't right? That would be this manager's lack of ability to rectify things. All three Donacien, Woolfenden and Burgess have been poor/complacent for a while. Would drop 2 of these 3 for the Morecambe game. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:25 - Jan 21 with 1704 views | Churchman |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:06 - Jan 21 by Mach_foreignBlue | Teams exactly know what to expect from us. We offer no element of surprise whatsoever. Wycombe away was a perfect example. Ainsworth knew very well how we were gonna approach it. Millions of passes and that's it. Oxford away last season and their late equaliser, today 10 months later Oxford away again and our defending is still awful. |
Morecambe team talk: Don’t worry about possession. They can’t hurt us with that. Just hang in there and you’ll get your chance for a point, maybe more. They’ve not won a game for a month and really aren’t up to much. |  | |  |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:29 - Jan 21 with 1674 views | itfcjoe |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:21 - Jan 21 by Mach_foreignBlue | Not dreadful but not good either. It had got considerably worse following Edmundson's injury last March. Something isn't right? That would be this manager's lack of ability to rectify things. All three Donacien, Woolfenden and Burgess have been poor/complacent for a while. Would drop 2 of these 3 for the Morecambe game. |
Clarke is here to replace Donacien and we need to get Edmundson back in for Burgess Burgess is fine, and he may just be unlucky, but does seem when he’s involved the ball ends up in the back of net more often than anyone else - Fleetwood, Wycombe, Plymouth, today |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:30 - Jan 21 with 1659 views | Trequartista | "Oxford played completely different to any Oxford team I've seen before in the league" |  |
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what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:32 - Jan 21 with 1637 views | Ryorry |
what excuses today then, obviously fog to start with on 18:29 - Jan 21 by itfcjoe | Clarke is here to replace Donacien and we need to get Edmundson back in for Burgess Burgess is fine, and he may just be unlucky, but does seem when he’s involved the ball ends up in the back of net more often than anyone else - Fleetwood, Wycombe, Plymouth, today |
Any idea why Edmundson's not appearing - is it purely injury, or is he out of favour for some reason - or a combination of both? |  |
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