Away Match Day Thread +++ 29/08/2020 Friendly Brentford v OUFC+++

[Sarge]

Let's see what he's like when he doesn't have Fosu to deal with and also has a League 1 left back to face.

you mean that Fosu, a Championship benchwarmer/ sub?.... Clare, on today's showing was rubbish defensively IMO

 

[Tomox]

Hard to judge full backs in their attacking play when we're defending for 80 minutes!

 

[Junior_1]

I’ll go for,

Eastwood
Clare
Ruffles
Atkinson
Moore
Gorrin
Brannagan
McGuane
Henry
Sykes
Taylor

 

[Oxford Aesthete]

We don't like losing and battle til the final whistle, great attitude

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

I’ll go for,

Eastwood
Clare
Ruffles
Atkinson
Moore
Gorrin
Brannagan
McGuane
Henry
Sykes
Taylor

Cooper has to play if fit surely?

 

[Bigfella72]

Would have liked to see KR’s potential starting 11 have at least 45 together but we haven’t seen that and with our next game our first competitive game we may not start as well as we know we could with the players we have.

Tbh bazzer it’s only the carabao Saturday so they can play then? Think it will be pretty much the team v QPR

 

[Junior_1]

Think Sykes has done enough to start add in a new squad number and I think he’ll, at the very least, start in the 11 on Saturday.

 

[Robie]

Poor quality down to the stream!

Edit, how do you post videos ! Although they are up on my Twitter

Copy the link to your tweet surrounded by

[media]link[/media]

 

[pidge]

Cooper has to play if fit surely?

International duty this weekend

 

[Bigfella72]

Right now to me one thing is painfully obvious. Karl Robinson doesn't have the faintest idea what his best team is.


Neither do I, But I aint the manager.

Think he probably does along with most of us ?

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

International duty this weekend

Ooh

 

[Manorlounger]

I'm not convinced by Clare, seems to lack confidence in his own ability. Eastwood has to give way, sorry, he's a good stopper but distribution is just lacking. Stevens needs to play more.
McGuane is the real deal. Del boy has enthusiasm galore and that will, hopefully, translate into performances.
Atkinson is a revelation. No two ways about it he is the next big find. Hopefully we can make the Championship this season because the offers will be coming in by January and we will need to keep hold of him.
Dear old Mous, what can you say? A wise head on a body that is beginning to let him down? Or has he still got enough to hold a place? Quite a few lazy passes today (along with one or two good)

Overall though, we have 90% of a top team. Couple of late additions and this is going to be a good season. Please let us hope that we can get to see the games in person.

 

[behindthegoal]

Showed a lot of character coming back from two down, hope we can carry that believe int the league season, Generally happy with that

Unlike some on here

 

[ljs]

Going forward he looked ok-ish ... defending, I thought he was crap ....enhanced by him passing it back to Eastwood to( badly )kick it - some one tell him Eastwood's kicking is rubbish

All our defenders pass back to Eastwood.

 

[ljs]

I’ll go for,

Eastwood
Clare
Ruffles
Atkinson
Moore
Gorrin
Brannagan
McGuane
Henry
Sykes
Taylor

Swap Cooper for Sykes.

EDIT. Not as he is playing for NI.

 

[QR]

I'm getting slight emperor's new clothes vibes with Clare. He's fine but nothing particularly special from what I've seen. Certainly doesn't seem to be the revolutionary attacking presence that Cadden was, which was the role I was under the impression he had been brought in to play.

When does the MLS season end?

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

One thing to watch is that when Kelly is on the pitch the players take the easy way out and give him the ball, even if it’s not necessary or the best option. Their first thought is always to give it to him and then all happens is there’s lots of shuffling about, with very little forward movement or intent. This then causes a second central midfielder to drop deep in search of the ball, thus removing an attacking option. That’s categorically not Kelly’s fault, that’s the players going overboard on giving him possession every ten seconds. When he went off that easy option disappeared, and we started playing balls forward and into channels. Gorrin is pretty much just there to press, intercept and cover any defensive player who moves up the pitch, meaning other players have to use the ball rather than hand it over constantly.

Very much looking forward to some competitive football again now, starting in the cup on Saturday.

Actually I think this goes deeper in that unlike a Baptiste or a Rothwell it’s patently obvious to the opposition that Kelly won’t run at them so they don’t need to worry about the space behind them when he has it but just close down any channels. It makes us a little more predictable and easy to contain even if the pass quality is high

 

[Bath Yellow]

Thought Baptiste or Fosu would have told their penalty taker where to put it as Eastwood always dives to his right, bunch of school kids could score against him. Good save all the same

 

[Oxfordpete]

Swap Cooper for Sykes.

EDIT. Not as he is playing for NI.

I would be more inclined to swap Cooper for Henry, to see how that works
Sykes has been one of our best players recently

 

[NottsYellow]

International duty this weekend

International weekend - Totally bonkers, it is only that new United Nations Cup thingy, it should have been scrapped for this season. Due to Covid it is crazy players are travelling round Europe with other players from different clubs. With every European league starting late this season, surely there can't be any room for this cup.
Whoever thought it was sensible to play this international tournament this season must be mad.