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Oxford Utd Reflection 22:21 - Oct 1 with 9241 viewsbluenwhite10

One of those games where you expect 3 points, but didn’t create enough to deserve 3 points and fair play to Oxford as they did what they had to do very well.

I can’t honestly remember either keeper making a save in the game:

The starting line up lacked a bit of creativity with Hayden and Field in the middle a kind of pairing you would go with in an away game against one of the top teams not in a game you are expected to dominate and win.

I will say we did get into some strong crossing positions but the balls never got past the 1st defender.

A bit disappointed tonight in the fact we lacked that cutting edge …MOM …nobody stood out but will go with Norrington-Davies
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 18:55 - Oct 2 with 616 viewskensalriser

I'm lucky enough to have never suffered mental health episodes but I'm making a note now that if I ever do, to stay off the internet.

Poll: QPR to finish 7th or Brentford to drop out of the top 6?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:02 - Oct 2 with 582 viewsNorthernr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 18:55 - Oct 2 by kensalriser

I'm lucky enough to have never suffered mental health episodes but I'm making a note now that if I ever do, to stay off the internet.


I reckon I could apply to the government for a care in the community grant for running this place.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:29 - Oct 2 with 461 viewsSpaghetti_Hoops

Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:02 - Oct 2 by Northernr

I reckon I could apply to the government for a care in the community grant for running this place.


Your writings seem to have attracted the right sorts.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:32 - Oct 2 with 451 viewsNorthernr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:29 - Oct 2 by Spaghetti_Hoops

Your writings seem to have attracted the right sorts.


Game knows game.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:33 - Oct 2 with 447 viewsbullshootr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 16:30 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

In an unfortunate counter-example for my interlocutors, Stan the Man famously used to turn up for games out of the bookies just in time to get stripped (though he reportedly always trained hard) - and the only thing wrong with him at the end was his poor brain.
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Would that be the same Stan the Man who achieved the worst ever score on BBC Superstars?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/20/seven-deadly-sins-football-glut

"I have the worst record on Superstars: seven points. It still stands to this day. We filmed it down in Northampton at an army base. They were disgusted with me right the way through. I wouldn't do any weights. I told them I had a bad back. I was like f*cking Arthur Daley: "No, no, that's not for me." The only points I got were in swimming. I dead-heated with JPR Williams, the rugby player. He was about 16 stone and I was about 11.

I did the canoeing; the canoe overturned. In the shooting I shot the table. You had to fire at a target with real ammunition. I had never fired a gun in my life. F*ck it: I missed the target I don't know how many times. You were supposed to lift the gun up, put it back down on the table, lift it up again and then fire. But when I put it down again it nearly blew the table in half.

I'd been out with James Hunt the night before and I had a right hangover and it just went off. A hair trigger, you see? I know what that is now. I didn't know that at that time and I won't forget it either.

The presenter David Vine was interviewed on Parkinson and he was asked who was the best athlete to ever compete on Superstars. He said, "Well, that's debatable. But I can tell you who was the worst, Stan Bowles." I did it as a joke. It was just a f*cking day out. You had to do a bit of training there, three days. It was a joke to me. But the army were really disgusted."
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:43 - Oct 2 with 400 viewsRsole

Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:29 - Oct 2 by Spaghetti_Hoops

Your writings seem to have attracted the right sorts.


‘Sections’

Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:15 - Oct 2 with 328 viewsBurnleyhoop

Oxford Utd Reflection on 04:15 - Oct 2 by macclesfieldman

In their last 5 matches Oxford have drawn with Coventry, Leicester & QPR, beat Bristol City and lost 1-0 to Sheff Utd. Why did anyone expect this to be a formality?


Because they are a poor side with very little quality, and so it proved.

We will not meet a weaker team than Oxford all season. We should have gone all out for the points from the off, with the strongest most effective team. It was obvious the changes would make us unbalanced and disjointed and again, so it proved.

Absolutely threw two points down the tubes unnecessarily.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:21 - Oct 2 with 304 viewsstainrods_elbow

Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:33 - Oct 2 by bullshootr

Would that be the same Stan the Man who achieved the worst ever score on BBC Superstars?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/20/seven-deadly-sins-football-glut

"I have the worst record on Superstars: seven points. It still stands to this day. We filmed it down in Northampton at an army base. They were disgusted with me right the way through. I wouldn't do any weights. I told them I had a bad back. I was like f*cking Arthur Daley: "No, no, that's not for me." The only points I got were in swimming. I dead-heated with JPR Williams, the rugby player. He was about 16 stone and I was about 11.

I did the canoeing; the canoe overturned. In the shooting I shot the table. You had to fire at a target with real ammunition. I had never fired a gun in my life. F*ck it: I missed the target I don't know how many times. You were supposed to lift the gun up, put it back down on the table, lift it up again and then fire. But when I put it down again it nearly blew the table in half.

I'd been out with James Hunt the night before and I had a right hangover and it just went off. A hair trigger, you see? I know what that is now. I didn't know that at that time and I won't forget it either.

The presenter David Vine was interviewed on Parkinson and he was asked who was the best athlete to ever compete on Superstars. He said, "Well, that's debatable. But I can tell you who was the worst, Stan Bowles." I did it as a joke. It was just a f*cking day out. You had to do a bit of training there, three days. It was a joke to me. But the army were really disgusted."


So Stan didn't measure up to the farce of Superstars and army discipline, eh? Well, I never. What a stain on that maverick man! If only we'd had a team of bristling squaddies in that legendary side, we'd have won the League.

I love this Board!
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Poll: What do you expect from the Charlton game?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:22 - Oct 2 with 307 viewsPaddyhoops

Oxford Utd Reflection on 19:33 - Oct 2 by bullshootr

Would that be the same Stan the Man who achieved the worst ever score on BBC Superstars?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/20/seven-deadly-sins-football-glut

"I have the worst record on Superstars: seven points. It still stands to this day. We filmed it down in Northampton at an army base. They were disgusted with me right the way through. I wouldn't do any weights. I told them I had a bad back. I was like f*cking Arthur Daley: "No, no, that's not for me." The only points I got were in swimming. I dead-heated with JPR Williams, the rugby player. He was about 16 stone and I was about 11.

I did the canoeing; the canoe overturned. In the shooting I shot the table. You had to fire at a target with real ammunition. I had never fired a gun in my life. F*ck it: I missed the target I don't know how many times. You were supposed to lift the gun up, put it back down on the table, lift it up again and then fire. But when I put it down again it nearly blew the table in half.

I'd been out with James Hunt the night before and I had a right hangover and it just went off. A hair trigger, you see? I know what that is now. I didn't know that at that time and I won't forget it either.

The presenter David Vine was interviewed on Parkinson and he was asked who was the best athlete to ever compete on Superstars. He said, "Well, that's debatable. But I can tell you who was the worst, Stan Bowles." I did it as a joke. It was just a f*cking day out. You had to do a bit of training there, three days. It was a joke to me. But the army were really disgusted."


And that’s why he’s adored here.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:40 - Oct 2 with 264 viewsbullshootr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:21 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

So Stan didn't measure up to the farce of Superstars and army discipline, eh? Well, I never. What a stain on that maverick man! If only we'd had a team of bristling squaddies in that legendary side, we'd have won the League.

I love this Board!
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As it happens most of our top footballers in the seventies came nowhere when they tried their luck at Superstars:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/ukfs_sport/hi/av/newsid_4070000/newsid_4078300/nb_rm_4

Which probably tells you all you need to know about their competitive instincts, physical condition, and professionalism.

I'm no doctor but you seem to have a terminal dose of rose-tinted sentimental twaddle.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:47 - Oct 2 with 233 viewsstainrods_elbow

Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:40 - Oct 2 by bullshootr

As it happens most of our top footballers in the seventies came nowhere when they tried their luck at Superstars:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/ukfs_sport/hi/av/newsid_4070000/newsid_4078300/nb_rm_4

Which probably tells you all you need to know about their competitive instincts, physical condition, and professionalism.

I'm no doctor but you seem to have a terminal dose of rose-tinted sentimental twaddle.


Good god - I really feel sorry for you. You must have hated that era. Ever thought of, I dunno, joining the SAS (or SS)?

Poll: What do you expect from the Charlton game?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:59 - Oct 2 with 197 viewsbullshootr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:47 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

Good god - I really feel sorry for you. You must have hated that era. Ever thought of, I dunno, joining the SAS (or SS)?


Well if I do apply to either of those organisations I will be sure to ask you for a character reference.

As a QPR fan the mid-seventies were great. We had our best team ever and we were playing the best and most entertaining football in the land.

There's plenty of old-timers still knocking around other clubs who will tell you that QPR side was probably their second favourite team after their own club.

But as an English football fan the seventies were dire.

We failed to qualify for the 74 and 78 World Cups and had to settle for watching it on TV as the Jocks humiliated themselves both times.

Wee Willie Johnson getting sent home in disgrace from Argentina for doping. Now that was funny


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Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:37 - Oct 2 with 83 viewsstainrods_elbow

Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:59 - Oct 2 by bullshootr

Well if I do apply to either of those organisations I will be sure to ask you for a character reference.

As a QPR fan the mid-seventies were great. We had our best team ever and we were playing the best and most entertaining football in the land.

There's plenty of old-timers still knocking around other clubs who will tell you that QPR side was probably their second favourite team after their own club.

But as an English football fan the seventies were dire.

We failed to qualify for the 74 and 78 World Cups and had to settle for watching it on TV as the Jocks humiliated themselves both times.

Wee Willie Johnson getting sent home in disgrace from Argentina for doping. Now that was funny


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Your attitudes sound like they belong in the 70s!

As for Johnston, you're also both snide and inaccurate. He took an over-the-counter medication for a cold that happened to have a stimulant in it, and was promptly hung out to dry by the Scottish FA, bringing the curtain down on the international career of a gifted winger. Poor guy probably never got over it. It sounds like schadenfreude'ss your thing, though.

Poll: What do you expect from the Charlton game?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:43 - Oct 2 with 50 viewscolinallcars

Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:37 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

Your attitudes sound like they belong in the 70s!

As for Johnston, you're also both snide and inaccurate. He took an over-the-counter medication for a cold that happened to have a stimulant in it, and was promptly hung out to dry by the Scottish FA, bringing the curtain down on the international career of a gifted winger. Poor guy probably never got over it. It sounds like schadenfreude'ss your thing, though.


No, he doesn't like German lager..
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:47 - Oct 2 with 40 viewsbullshootr

Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:37 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

Your attitudes sound like they belong in the 70s!

As for Johnston, you're also both snide and inaccurate. He took an over-the-counter medication for a cold that happened to have a stimulant in it, and was promptly hung out to dry by the Scottish FA, bringing the curtain down on the international career of a gifted winger. Poor guy probably never got over it. It sounds like schadenfreude'ss your thing, though.


And how many sportsmen since have used the "I had a cold and didn't realise" defence when failing a dope test?

He failed a dope test and got sent home in disgrace. There's nothing inaccurate in that statement.

BTW

Interesting typo in the way you spelt schadenfreude's:

"schadenfreude'ss"

Still got the SS on your mind :-)

Wonder what Freud would make of that!?

And that's a rhetorical question :-)
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:53 - Oct 2 with 21 viewsRsole

Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:37 - Oct 2 by stainrods_elbow

Your attitudes sound like they belong in the 70s!

As for Johnston, you're also both snide and inaccurate. He took an over-the-counter medication for a cold that happened to have a stimulant in it, and was promptly hung out to dry by the Scottish FA, bringing the curtain down on the international career of a gifted winger. Poor guy probably never got over it. It sounds like schadenfreude'ss your thing, though.


Now we know why they don’t write any new TV comedy shows…..Stainers, you da man and we on da-line.

Those possessed by devils, try and keep them under control a bit, can't you ?

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Oxford Utd Reflection on 21:59 - Oct 2 with 5 viewsSpaghetti_Hoops

Oxford Utd Reflection on 20:15 - Oct 2 by Burnleyhoop

Because they are a poor side with very little quality, and so it proved.

We will not meet a weaker team than Oxford all season. We should have gone all out for the points from the off, with the strongest most effective team. It was obvious the changes would make us unbalanced and disjointed and again, so it proved.

Absolutely threw two points down the tubes unnecessarily.


Matter of opinion. They were two places below us last season and my guess is that they won’t be a long way behind us again.
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