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The fourth stand will magically appear!!
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The fourth stand will magically appear!!
I am not sure you should ever send out on loan a player reading himself back from a serious injury?Isn’t this PRECISELY the reason it’s Hall and not Sykes that should’ve been sent out on loan..?
You called?
Yeah though without Simon’s wonder save at 2-0 they would probably have equalised, despite looking rubbish. Did they actually play a striker?
I am not sure you should ever send out on loan a player reading himself back from a serious injury?
MK mongs perhapsWhy ever not?
He is in reality a long LONG time post cruciate reconstruction, and is regarded by management as fit enough to start first team games for Oxford.
He’s just not looking fit, or in reality, good enough for Oxford at the moment.
The question is, would anyone take him and play him?
We need to look after Hall, and monitor his progress and recovery very closely, and be very careful and sensible with how we use him, and there’s no guarantee another club would treat him the same way, so it’s best he stays here, the club are basically trying to save the lads career this season.
As for Sykes, thankfully he didn’t go out on loan, we need him here.
Bloody hell, you'd need a chinook instead of a coach for away games if all of our squad were that size!!!Barry Fry-sized squad
It seems to me that the club are easing him back in slowly and gently. Maybe for phychological reasons as well as physical reasons (having had some serious injuries)Why ever not?
He is in reality a long LONG time post cruciate reconstruction, and is regarded by management as fit enough to start first team games for Oxford.
He’s just not looking fit, or in reality, good enough for Oxford at the moment.
The question is, would anyone take him and play him?
Definitely agree with you thereDon’t get me wrong, with a 7-man bench I’d love to have a Barry Fry-sized squad with all the forward options I could see fit.
But, Hall has been keeping Sykes off the bench in the league in recent weeks.
I’ll rephrase my point; wouldn’t you agree that Sykes now needs to be above Hall in the pecking order?
Its taken me a couple of days to comment to this game, apart from the goals obviously my standout moments came from the 2 keepers.
Eastwoods was f*****g brilliant, and the one Roberto clawed out was pretty damn good too.
Thought he was much better centrally tbhEveryone saying Hall was bad - I've seen most if not all of his previous starts/major appearances for us this season, and his performance against West Ham was his best, and a clear improvement. Now I'm not saying that's good enough, but at least he's improving, getting better over time, and if he keeps doing that then maybe he will reach a level where he can be a useful player for us again - lets not write him off just yet shall we?