West Oxon U’s
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Yes, Paul Cook showed great respect for the game. The ref was awful, the Wigan player out jumped the Oxford player and fell in a heap, the ball fell to Wigan player who then kicked it out of play. The ref then decided it was a foul!!! Since when has falling been a foul? For Paul Cook to instruct his players to put the bal out of play was so refreshing. Thank you Paul, a great gesture.Yes - only good moment of the match - fair play to Cook, raced out of his technical area to tell his players to kick the ball out of play.
I say we must get rid of Clotet. How he can turn that around I really don't know.
Wigan were easily the better side, but 7-0 at home.....he has to go
I see no point in ripping the players in public. It doesn't work nowadays where it may have in the past and can lose the dressing room. Better dealt with in private when a little calmer and more on point. I can't see any player thinking, cor, I played well today. It will have hurt deeply to lose that badly and be so humiliated. Let the players manage the players on this one.
It may make some fans feel better now with Pep slagging them all off, but longer term, tricky. You've over a week with this squad and 3 games to play. Time to bring them in tomorrow, do a quick debrief and get the place going again.
After all, no one has died nor is anyone badly injured. Just wounded pride.
Nor do I think the manager should be sacked. But he has to deliver in this transfer window.
His programme notes hinted at making signings, and I can't think after today that DE will go all Comical Ali on us and not deliver on it. Even a blind man could see our squad is short numbers and quality.But will he be allowed to deliver in the transfer window or will DE keep the purse strings tightly closed? We’ll all know a hell of a lot more about where this club is heading in the next few weeks.
Clotet has lost the plot. Will he last to Boxing Day? Garry Monk has just been sacked at Borough after jumping ship from Leeds. He has good experience but whether we could get him is another matter.
The worry for me is we are allowed to decline and whether we can get new players in January. This squad is woeful and woefully inadequate.
Any chance of promotion in my view is gone this season. I'm more worried that we will be playing Bury and Macclesfield next season
Why ,because the manager decided this was the best way to beat them...sarcasmJust seen Paul Cook’s comments.
He said Oxford set up ‘just the way we like it’, and were one of the few teams this season to try and take them on.
Why did we do this?
Wigan are physically very strong and had pace in every position.
It’s pretty b obvious that you try and keep it tight, and deny them space.
Which we did not do. Ever.
From the first goal, we collapsed.
There was no evidence of any game plan, and we were chaotic.
Tiandelli has recovered after a few dreadful opening games. But he’s still a weak link, and Wigan targeted him from the first minute. But he was no more embarrassing than anyone else.
And why play Xemi against such a physically big team? Carroll or Ledson would have given us more
I only stayed until the end out of curiosity. I genuinely thought they would get 10.
Worst performance since the days of Patto and Kemp.....
Er yeah, you had a point but they ran away with it the northern bastardsThink we’ll lose this one and don’t really mind. Our season won’t be defined by how we do against the runaway leaders. They’re a class above and there’s no shame in that.