Home Match Day Thread +++ 30/03/2019 OUFC v Wycombe Wanderers Match Day Thread +++

[Manorlounger]

Annual get together with an old mate coincides with the game so we have got him a ticket and booked hotel for the night. Means no driving after the game and a chance to enjoy a few sherries pre-match and maybe another after. Last home game he saw was the same fixture of the promotion season so, omens are good. 3-0 the Yellows and Ainsworth sent to the stands.

Well, wasn't 3-0 but I'll take that!
My old mate has just pointed out that he has not seen us lose in all the games he's been to! Season ticket for him coming up!

 

[Foley]

I hope that we can keep Kashi. Quality player.
Let's hope that KR gets a few more of his mates in next season ?

 

[brassmonkey]

Great match to watch. What a finish by sir ruffels!

 

[Foley]

A good point by Ruffels about how good the players fitness is.
Two last minute goals suggests that

 

[Scotchegg]

Is Tiger now fucked with paying the win bonus??!!

 

[derek]

Listening to Barry, from Barry Island!

 

[bashamwonderland]

Top top stuff! Maybe Robinson in until Xmas? Would hopefully give us a more certain start to next season...

Those Wycombe fans must have loved that.

 

[Maurice Earp]

Another awful biased referee. High Wycombe are a nasty, niggly, time wasting bunch of gits and got what they deserved -NOTHING

 

[Dubai Yellow]

Didn’t think we were great today (Apart from Kashi) but who cares, another brilliant 3pts. You would think now we are pretty much safe. I’ve had my doubts often this season about KR, but it’s hard now, barring a complete disaster, to argue against him being here for next season. Looking forward to coming home for the Charlton and Wimbledon games.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Seeing how much this game seems to mean to Wycombe, that was effing brilliant. Although I missed the winner due to having to leave a few minutes before the end. The joys of being driven rather than driving.

Walsall away could be an absolute treat now. A point could do it, three definitely would.

 

[Gary Baldi]

Lovely way to win that. Thought the players kept going against some highly questionable officiating and Wycombe looking for a point. Some fans will need to accept that this team has got themselves out of the hole they got in and maybe some of the players and management are sticking around.

This team is clearly together and is well drilled and trained - we made Wycombe tire with our work rate and relentlessness - something we missed earlier in the year. We have to be better from day one, but there is talent here. A dose optimism for some will make their game day a lot more exciting!

 

[Gary Baldi]

And yep

https://twitter.com/x/status/1112049455006666752

 

[Sarge]

Wernt pretty , frustrating to watch....but that winner was more worth the ticket price

 

[Big Ronaldo]

Leave early at your peril people.
Sensational last minute winning goals are becoming our trademark. Getthefukkin???

 

[Berliner]

Viz the photo on the Twitter feed, do all the players wear brassieres under the shirt or is there something we need to know about Josh?

 

[werthersoriginal]

Viz the photo on the Twitter feed, do all the players wear brassieres under the shirt or is there something we need to know about Josh?

They all seem to wear them, helps prevent ‘jiggle’ apparently

 

[YellowShark]

What a game, that had everything. I really thought we were likely to fork it up in the last 10 minutes. Awful reffing, conceded due to terible defending, we spent most of the match all over them but still looked like we would let them in to the game, missed pen HAHA HAHA and an unbelievable last minute goal , happy shark tonight.

 

[Scotchegg]

Although I missed the winner due to having to leave a few minutes before the end.

Plastic!! ?

 

[ttg17]

Brilliant game that. A full-blooded clash of styles, great fun. Great atmosphere on and off the pitch.

Wycombe were far better than the last three teams I've seen us play (Gills, Scunny, Bradford), I thought in a way they were quite good. They came with a clear game plan and it had us on the ropes initially. Their midfield were quietly effective in the first half, and that 25 was nippy, a great foil to the wrecking ball that is Akinfenwa. I don't think they deserved to leave with nothing, I think both sides matched each other, but we were able to show two moments of quality football that they couldn't, and those moments won us the game.

As others have said, this season will forever go down as one of real missed opportunity I think. We didn't get going until far too late and are clearly a level above, footballing-wise, the other teams scrapping it out around us. The way we moved the ball around today, with CB and Kashi in particular excellent, was really very good. It wasn't aimless 'tippy tappy', it was quick, side-to-side movement, searching for gaps (which, to be fair, generally didn't appear - until the very end).

Defence looked really shaky today. There were a lot of moments where we looked really vulnerable, and, as I say, Wycombe can feel very aggrieved to have lost a match where they hit the bar and missed a penalty. Eastwood was uncharacteristically uncertain - is that just the Akinfenwa effect? Second half was generally a different story, but there were still a few panicky moments.

Pretty sure no-one is going to agree with me, but I thought the ref was good. That game could have kicked off, there were some solid challenges flying in, but he generally kept a lid on things. I thought Browne could have been off for his yellow in the first half, but then I also thought I saw Bean kick out at Kashi from the floor in the second period and get away unpunished, so I suppose it all evens out.

Finally, RUFFELS AND LONG DESERVE CHANTS. They have both been IMMENSE for us in the last two months, and have played so so well. Their positioning might have been a bit off on a couple of occasions, but each gave us such an added dimension today, and their play going forward is actually really solid. Both have good feet and good distribution. I think we're just sort of 'used' to them because they've been here so long. Does Ruffels count as 'one of our own'? he's been here nearly 6 years now, and joined at 19 having played twice for Cov, but is obviously from Oxford.

A last minute winner on their big day out, results elsewhere couldn't have gone much better and we are SEVEN points outside the relegation zone. Lovely evening ahead!

 

[Navegante]

*swoon*