Home Match Day Thread 17/08/21 L1: OUFC v Crewe Alexandra

[Osleroad]

Sriracha hot green on one and HP on the other. With a little twist of pepper on both.

Happy with the win, concerned about the injuries. We’re away to Bolton and QPR in the next week before Lincoln in the league and Cambridge in the tinpot. 4 games in two weeks is gonna test us, options or not.

14 games in 2 weeks..one a day...woah is the apocalypse upon us[emoji3]

 

[Canterburyexile]

14 games in 2 weeks..one a day...woah is the apocalypse upon us[emoji3]

Haha, edited now. I was clearly in some kind of cheese induced reverie when I wrote that.

 

[Symp59]

Considering the nightmare in defence and the injuries tonight it sounds like there's definitely alot going on behind the scenes. I can see 4 players coming in it sounds like KR has been told get players who want to win get the whingers out. Great win these are the games that get you in the play offs well done the yellows.

 

[Big Ronaldo]

There are always games where you don’t play superb. The trick is to grind these games out.
Enforced injuries disrupted an already less stellar performance from us tonight.
To win these games out despite the setbacks could mean the difference between challenging and mid-table mediocrity.
3 points and Our first clean sheet this season?
I’ll take that! Thank you very much.

 

[Leysboy]

Considering the nightmare in defence and the injuries tonight it sounds like there's definitely alot going on behind the scenes. I can see 4 players coming in it sounds like KR has been told get players who want to win get the whingers out. Great win these are the games that get you in the play offs well done the yellows.

We don’t want the playoffs. We want the Auto’s

 

[Kiewhite]

Worst referee I’ve ever seen. By a distance

Worse than Trevor kettle?

 

[Daviddidcotexile]

I couldn't see the game tonight but winning ugly when necessary is a great habit to get into

 

[dabigfella]

Is the Crewe player Lundstram related to "our" Lundstram by any chance?

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Seasons gone by then we would draw or lose that game. I thought McNally was brilliant as was Seddon.
Agyie I think just proved why he doesn’t start games. Didn’t look interested and I think might of just played his way out of the club. When it needs Robinson running down the touch line shouting at him to get him to pick his game up then there is a problem.
If players don’t want to be here then that’s fine but while you are playing at least try! If you don’t put the effort in at league 1 then you will end up in league 2/conference very quickly!

 

[werthersoriginal]

Seasons gone by then we would draw or lose that game. I thought McNally was brilliant as was Seddon.
Agyie I think just proved why he doesn’t start games. Didn’t look interested and I think might of just played his way out of the club. When it needs Robinson running down the touch line shouting at him to get him to pick his game up then there is a problem.
If players don’t want to be here then that’s fine but while you are playing at least try! If you don’t put the effort in at league 1 then you will end up in league 2/conference very quickly!

I really don’t believe he’s not interested or not trying. He lacks focus and gets discouraged but even today he did a couple of really exciting fast things. You can see why people get frustrated with him though.

 

[LeftSideBoy]

Worse than Trevor kettle?

Oh mate. Not even close. This prick was dangerously bad..

 

[Yellowarmy]

Positives tonight, a good 3 points and defensively I thought we were very good until the Williams injury disjointed the back line. Negatives we were blunt up top. Taylor and Agyei were poor tonight. We miss a spark upfront.

 

[werthersoriginal]

3 points are 3 points but that was very unispiring against a poor Crewe team. Must get extra defensive cover now surely.

Yes it was dreadful, we were bad even before the injuries. But we hung in there. Just shows the importance of the full back position.

 

[LeftSideBoy]

Positives tonight, a good 3 points and defensively I thought we were very good until the Williams injury disjointed the back line. Negatives we were blunt up top. Taylor and Agyei were poor tonight. We miss a spark upfront.

Probably didn’t help that Holland and Bodin went off injured? Williams is also an attacking threat, and we lost 3 to injury, in the same game!

 

[OUFCwaffle]

Seasons gone by then we would draw or lose that game. I thought McNally was brilliant as was Seddon.
Agyie I think just proved why he doesn’t start games. Didn’t look interested and I think might of just played his way out of the club. When it needs Robinson running down the touch line shouting at him to get him to pick his game up then there is a problem.
If players don’t want to be here then that’s fine but while you are playing at least try! If you don’t put the effort in at league 1 then you will end up in league 2/conference very quickly!

I disagree to an extent, I thought he ran his socks off for most parts of the game and caused their back line some trouble. He just can't go for a full game and his decision making dropped off as he fatigued unfortunately. On another day that chip goes in and he is an Oxford legend.

 

[QR]

Given the ref's liking for the tackle from behind even more than Crewe's, it wasn't going too badly until the enforced change to three at the back. That clearly didn't work. Last ten was a nightmare. Happy with the points.... possibly the three we should had come back from Cambridge with.

 

[QR]

Seasons gone by then we would draw or lose that game. I thought McNally was brilliant as was Seddon.
Agyie I think just proved why he doesn’t start games. Didn’t look interested and I think might of just played his way out of the club. When it needs Robinson running down the touch line shouting at him to get him to pick his game up then there is a problem.
If players don’t want to be here then that’s fine but while you are playing at least try! If you don’t put the effort in at league 1 then you will end up in league 2/conference very quickly!

Agyie looked more like scoring than Taylor did.

 

[Robie]

I don't get it. Agyei has all the makings of a fantastic player but always seems to be a second or two behind, doesn't seem to understand the bounce of the ball at times or where he should run. For instance to draw players away from Brannagan later on in the game.

 

[brassmonkey]

A disinterested agyei did more than an interested Taylor, holland, bodin, whyte.

 

[Followtheox1]

What did Robinson have to say to the media, missed it?