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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 1955 views
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?
"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 1737 views
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 1625 views
"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 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 1603 views
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:
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 1404 views
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.
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 1379 views
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 1358 views
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 1344 views
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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Oxford Utd Reflection on 22:20 - Oct 2 with 1250 views
You're the one talking bollix. How many players from that glorious QPR era are 'cripples', as you ludicrously claim? You need to read my namesake Simon Stainrod's interviews, where he speaks about how the less-cosseted players of the 80s having stronger characters, forged by their physical resilience. Pat Nevin's biog - an incredibly fit player who played an extraordinarily dense number of matches - is another case in point, who as far as I know is still walking around reasonably comfortably.
A piece of advice re critical thinking: Try and think about how your mind might have been impacted by incrementally downwardly managed expectations over the years (or perhaps you've just not been a fan for long enough to take a long view of these things).
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Phil Parkes words, not mine, and I'm pretty sure he knows a lot more about football and his former teammates than you.
Pat Nevin and Simon Stainrod were both players in the 80s, not the 70s, which is the era being discussed.
Phil Parkes words, not mine, and I'm pretty sure he knows a lot more about football and his former teammates than you.
Pat Nevin and Simon Stainrod were both players in the 80s, not the 70s, which is the era being discussed.
Get your game head on sunshine.
Danny Maddix when we did him for the Patreon met me in a pub in Old Street.
Looks, to me, exactly like he did when he played. Aged terrifically. Lovely fella, chatted Rangers happily, loved the club. Now a taxi driver. Really good with me. Great way to spend an afternoon.
I joked when he came in "you look like you should still be playing". And given we had Joel Lynch or Leon Balogun or some other helmet at centre back, I wished he was. It knocked the stuffing out of him a bit. Later on he told me he's really struggling with all his old injuries. Years and years and years of playing on the needle, getting jabbed up with whatever it was they thought was appropriate in 1992, whatever it needed to get you through. Had operations on his knees, hips, all sorts of shit. Shoulders up, still looks 25, chest down, basically a fcking 80-year old.
I did my usual tactless bit about whether the Palace 6-0 was fixed. He got a bit aggy with me. He was injured, out for the season, and Gerry said I need you to play. They stuck needles in him all week and wheeled him out there with Andy Linighan. Alan McDonald style, "you tell me that was a fix". And now he drives a cab round London, in pain.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 00:06 - Oct 3 with 1042 views
I completely disagree. The 75/76 team would have wiped the floor with most modern teams. It had guts and physicality aplenty, as well as outstanding skills.
Yes it had all that.......in it's day. If you put them, in their then condition etc, into the modern game, the only time they would get the ball is when they kicked off and they would probably do that quite a few times.
If they tried to do a season with that number of players today, they would struggle to get a team out most weeks as they would pick up numerous injuries, through fatigue.
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Oxford Utd Reflection on 00:25 - Oct 3 with 1020 views
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