Home Match Day Thread 01/04/2024: L1 OUFC v Fleetwood Town

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[UTM]

Simply need a win , in whatever manner.
2-0 win and the crowd 8,000 .

 

[Barbadosyellow]

Just win and hope that Carlisle can keep up their recent form against Lincoln.

 

[Symp59]

Absolutely, we are running out of excuses and time .A decent performance and a 3-1 win. Here's hoping

 

[Osleroad]

A win and clean sheet please

 

[Manorlounger]

Could this afternoon be a big factor in Buckingham's future? Surely we can't drop points against a team so low in the league?

 

[WRox]

Could this afternoon be a big factor in Buckingham's future? Surely we can't drop points against a team so low in the league?

It’s possibly a bigger game for him than the club. It’s probably 70/30, maybe 60/40, amongst the fans for him to be sacked. Our leadership won’t pull the trigger until that’s 90+ from past experience.

Make a fight of the last 6 and demonstrate that he some buy-in from the players, and he’ll almost certainly get the summer to rebuild. Defeat today and the seasons over.

I think we will win. The performance level over the last couple of games has been decent enough and that defeat on Friday must have been pretty crushing for Fleetwood.

 

[Sarge]

nervy scrappy game, home win 2-1

 

[dickwalton1964]

It’s possibly a bigger game for him than the club. It’s probably 70/30, maybe 60/40, amongst the fans for him to be sacked. Our leadership won’t pull the trigger until that’s 90+ from past experience.

Make a fight of the last 6 and demonstrate that he some buy-in from the players, and he’ll almost certainly get the summer to rebuild. Defeat today and the seasons over.

I think we will win. The performance level over the last couple of games has been decent enough and that defeat on Friday must have been pretty crushing for Fleetwood.

Obviously individual games are a factor that will ultimately decide his fate but, at this stage now, he’s not getting sacked. In my opinion he will only go when we are mathematically done or when we have completed the fixtures. The time to hire a Nigel Pearson type to get us over the line was about three or four weeks ago, no one now is realistically going to achieve any more than Des - better the devil you know.

This isn’t one I have us down to drop points - a relatively comfortable 3-1 win without too much drama.

 

[ECYellow]

3-2 win. Nervy and edgy but we will get it done.

Keep the faith yellas.

 

[Robin Shater]

Happy to watch the game in the Lanzarote sunshine today. COYY

 

[Essexyellows]

Happy to watch the game in the Lanzarote sunshine today. COYY

Leave it tidy please, we are going in a few weeks.

 

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[West Oxon U’s]

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[Gregortheox]

I’m going 1-1. We look like scared little children and I don’t think a home fixture will help that.

We don’t currently have the mental strength and leadership to take off the handbrake and we will have to equalise.

Watching Oxford at the moment is like playing a friendly every week. Lacks urgency, initiative and gusto, but one way or another this has to change.

 

[Gregortheox]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1774712030647234608

If I was the fleetwood manager the last thing I would do is park the bus!!! We can’t cope under any sort of pressure at the moment.

 

[WRox]

Obviously individual games are a factor that will ultimately decide his fate but, at this stage now, he’s not getting sacked. In my opinion he will only go when we are mathematically done or when we have completed the fixtures. The time to hire a Nigel Pearson type to get us over the line was about three or four weeks ago, no one now is realistically going to achieve any more than Des - better the devil you know.

This isn’t one I have us down to drop points - a relatively comfortable 3-1 win without too much drama.

Whether we might have snuck into the playoffs, this season was a write-off as soon as Manning went. He was getting more out of the squad than it was really capable of, and the extra upheaval of losing Beadle, Edwards and Mills compounded that.

What we should have seen since then though is some evolution and progression under Des, guiding us into a summer transfer window with very little work to do. Instead it feels like we’ve wasted a transfer window and players who looked excellent at L1 level in the first half of the season - Rodrigues, Leigh, McGuane - have looked shadows of those players unclear of their roles in strange team selections. All of a sudden we’re four or five signings off the starting point we should have had.

What Des must demonstrate today and for the rest of the season is that he is control of what’s happening. If we go 1-0 up, then make sure that the direction and subs show that we are doing all we can to stay on the front foot, not James Henry bumbling on in a like for like change while we slowly get deeper and deeper then concede a soft goal.

We will not get a better opportunity this season than today’s game to make a statement to build from. I’m confident we’ll win, but what I really want to see is a 90 minute performance. Not one that only gets going when we concede because we can’t create that urgency and momentum ourselves and need that trigger to start playing.

 

[Sarge]

eldest and youngest granddaughters arriving soon, its their first home game of the season ( middle granddaughter whos been to 6or 7 home games this season cant make this one) - best we get the home win then

 

[Victor1986]

What could be more stupid than losing to a bottom team at home ....er, you know it's April Fools Day?