Away Match Day Thread 27/01/2024 L1: Bristol Rovers v OUFC

[Northstandboy]

COYY!

Lets get 3 points from Brizzle!

 

[BrockBuster]

Has Brannagan ever played a progressive forward pass that isn't one of his diagonal glory ball homages to Steven Gerrard?

Needs to step up.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

I hate that the minority on here were right about Des Buckingham. Shocking appointment for someone who hasn’t got a clue at this level and couldn’t recruit a no.2 cos he barely knew anyone in the UK who would go with him. Made worse with paying compensation. Not his fault at all. Poor board decision

Chuckle brothers WIliams and Ferguson.

 

[pidge]

radio oxford suggesting bringing Henry on, really shows how desperate we are for depth.

 

[BigCrompy]

Watch that second goal back. Thats what happens with no defensive midfielder.

Even with Gorrin, that doesn't happen.

Although, if that's his second such tackle of the match, he's off and we're still fooked.

 

[MC Yellow]

@Scotchegg Offer me some odds, proceeds to charity.

18 games to play… so season not over.

I win

 

[WuTang]

Absolutely. Since Gorrin's first injury, it's been the single most important thing to address in our team. But no, let's just play a non-specialist in there and hope, eh?

I'm starting to get quite angry about it. It's an absolute necessity for almost every club yet we don't address it and constantly suffer the consequences.

 

[Victor1986]

I hate that the minority on here were right about Des Buckingham. Shocking appointment for someone who hasn’t got a clue at this level and couldn’t recruit a no.2 cos he barely knew anyone in the UK who would go with him. Made worse with paying compensation. Not his fault at all. Poor board decision

Exactly

 

[bazzer9461]

Someone get the Valium out, bazzer is going to implode

Just being honest old son

 

[Dilla]

If we were playing in yellow we would be winning

 

[MC Yellow]

We do just seem to bumble along making the same old mistakes..

Frustrating

 

[isibuko]

Absolutely. Since Gorrin's first injury, it's been the single most important thing to address in our team. But no, let's just play a non-specialist in there and hope, eh?

and it's also meant that we're wasting the best of Brannagan and McGuane's talents.

 

[bazzer9461]

But it’s all ok, these Jan games don’t count in the league and we’ve got lots of players coming back from injury in the next 6 months!!

Only 6 months

 

[notThisWayButThat]

Rovers up to their usual antics of taking the P**s when we try to take free kicks.

 

[Jster]

But hey we're still 6th in the live table, so must be fine, right?

 

[bazzer9461]

I understand about 3/4 of that.

You were only supposed to

 

[Sarge]

I'm starting to get quite angry about it. It's an absolute necessity for almost every club yet we don't address it and constantly suffer the consequences.

Smyth has played DCM as an international

 

[Swaby39]

Manning got so much more from this same group that’s playing today bar the goalkeeper. Just can’t make sense of it. Dropped off a cliff.

 

[BrockBuster]

I hate that the minority on here were right about Des Buckingham. Shocking appointment for someone who hasn’t got a clue at this level and couldn’t recruit a no.2 cos he barely knew anyone in the UK who would go with him. Made worse with paying compensation. Not his fault at all. Poor board decision

Absolute f*****g nonsense.

Has a squad he's had almost no impact in building and completely limited in terms of tactics by only having one wide player and one striker fit for this level available.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

We constantly get the ball with our backs to goal and then pass it back where it came from!

Just HOW are we trying to get forward? Wide on the wings? No. Passing it through the middle? No. A hopeful occasional punt up to an isolated striker against two big defenders? Yep. It is Sunday League stuff (and that's being rude to Sunday League footballers) - we haven't been anywhere near their keeper yet!

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

I hate that the minority on here were right about Des Buckingham. Shocking appointment for someone who hasn’t got a clue at this level and couldn’t recruit a no.2 cos he barely knew anyone in the UK who would go with him. Made worse with paying compensation. Not his fault at all. Poor board decision

It seems crazy that a manager was available, for free, who had just got a Championship side 6th and was ridiculously sacked for a Hollywood appointment who immediately lost almost every game with that side and then had them 20th!

Oh, and he reached the playoffs twice with Kidderminster, win a win percentage of 53%. He should have been a quick, no-brainer appointment.