Home Match Day Thread 17-04-2021 L1 OUFC v Gillingham

[SteMerritt]

That is disappointing, he was doing a great job.

I thought so too, had him in the running for manager of the year. Shocking decision.

 

[Malc]

So have we.

 

[Gregortheox]

A very very odd match indeed. I am bloody ecstatic that we managed 3 points, but something isn't sitting right with me.

How do you go from being so very poor, to then scoring 10 goals in 2 matches, and then being so very poor again for 3 quarters of the game today...only to turn a two goal deficit into a win - with a full back grabbing two late goals!? Ive never see anything like it to be honest and I just can't work us out. Its not as if we battered them for 70 mins and their keeper kept them in the game before being hit with a sucker punch. The Gills were so much better than us for a large part of it and the comeback was so bizarre.

I suppose Im not really moaning because its fun I guess, but what oufc team will we see next time? We are so weird.

 

[bazzer9461]

He went to monkey world with @bazzer9461

No he didn’t he went Marvell zoo he got lost

you remember that?

 

[Jon-ioualways]

In some ways I don't care that we were 2nd best for 70 minutes...there are few things in this world that can beat the excitement of a come-from-behind win in injury time, particularly one that puts us in the play-off positions and gives that cheating bastard Evans apoplexy!

 

[LeftSideBoy]

A very very odd match indeed. I am bloody ecstatic that we managed 3 points, but something isn't sitting right with me.

How do you go from being so very poor, to then scoring 10 goals in 2 matches, and then being so very poor again for 3 quarters of the game today...only to turn a two goal deficit into a win - with a full back grabbing two late goals!? Ive never see anything like it to be honest and I just can't work us out. Its not as if we battered them for 70 mins and their keeper kept them in the game before being hit with a sucker punch. The Gills were so much better than us for a large part of it and the comeback was so bizarre.

I suppose Im not really moaning because its fun I guess, but what oufc team will we see next time? We are so weird.

Barker and Sykes. Those 2 players are huge for us and we definitely missed them today. If they were playing, I think the game might have ended differently. I’m not going to take anything away from the team, but you can’t help but think of the key players we were missing today.

 

[werthersoriginal]

A very very odd match indeed. I am bloody ecstatic that we managed 3 points, but something isn't sitting right with me.

How do you go from being so very poor, to then scoring 10 goals in 2 matches, and then being so very poor again for 3 quarters of the game today...only to turn a two goal deficit into a win - with a full back grabbing two late goals!? Ive never see anything like it to be honest and I just can't work us out. Its not as if we battered them for 70 mins and their keeper kept them in the game before being hit with a sucker punch. The Gills were so much better than us for a large part of it and the comeback was so bizarre.

I suppose Im not really moaning because its fun I guess, but what oufc team will we see next time? We are so weird.

We are weird yes of course. But today I think Gills wore themselves out and we got some self belief from the first goal. Footballers aren’t machines and form is an elusive, mysterious quality. The very best managers can influence and control it but I think everyone is scratching their head about it at some point.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

 

[werthersoriginal]

What a wonderful, ennobling quality the light lends to that image.

 

[uptheus]

A very very odd match indeed. I am bloody ecstatic that we managed 3 points, but something isn't sitting right with me.

How do you go from being so very poor, to then scoring 10 goals in 2 matches, and then being so very poor again for 3 quarters of the game today...only to turn a two goal deficit into a win - with a full back grabbing two late goals!? Ive never see anything like it to be honest and I just can't work us out. Its not as if we battered them for 70 mins and their keeper kept them in the game before being hit with a sucker punch. The Gills were so much better than us for a large part of it and the comeback was so bizarre.

I suppose Im not really moaning because its fun I guess, but what oufc team will we see next time? We are so weird.

Just think they sat back after going 2-0 up and allowed us to play our game e.g. not shutting down high up the pitch. Big mistake.

Once we’d got one so quickly after they’d gone 2-0 up helped too. Mentally they thought they’d won it at 2-0, then to quickly find it’s 2-1 and then they thought they could hang on, but we all know 2-1 is a dangerous score line with 15mins to go.

Cannot explain the 2 goals by a fullback though, but Sam must be on cloud 9

Edit; only that Sam heard he was MOTM! during the match, may be that was the reason.

 

[makv]

the wombles will be a tough game. they’ve been scoring a fair few recently

Particularly today [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Upthecowboys]

Apart from a lack of catering what was Steve Evans actually complaining about?

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

In a way it’s good that we showed we can come back from being down, means that if the lads find themselves down again they won’t give up.

We also massively missed both Barker and Sykes, in that their replacements didn’t play as well as they have been recently, so our team was weakened.

I hope we don’t rush them back, maybe give them Tuesday off (or just a few mins as subs) rest and recover all week then unleash both, fully fit, against Plymouth on Saturday?

 

[The mighty Aldo]

Thought Agyei did more in 20 minutes than Shodipo has in two games
Love the way his strength and pace gets him past players and today he did it on the wing

 

[Concretebob]

Imagine the scenes if fans were there when that third went in?

 

[m]

Great result but a terrible performance for 80 minutes. Didn't think I'd ever come away from such a dramatic victory feeling down, but there you go.

Taking it one game at a time.

Come on, enjoy the moment!

 

[Bath Yellow]

One big change was when Gills made subs at.2-0. changed system with McDonald playing further back allowing Long to get forward, until then Alex had the better of him.

 

[brassmonkey]

Long was poor for 70 minutes. That back pass for the one on one nearly list us the match. He then became superman

On to wombles. I dont think we will win purely because we seem to beat them every time.

 

[Jon-ioualways]

Barker and Sykes. Those 2 players are huge for us and we definitely missed them today. If they were playing, I think the game might have ended differently. I’m not going to take anything away from the team today, but you can’t help but think of the key players we were missing today.

You mean we might have lost or drawn? Damn good job we missed them, in that case.

 

[tonyw]

I hope we don’t rush them back, maybe give them Tuesday off (or just a few mins as subs) rest and recover all week then unleash both, fully fit, against Plymouth on Saturday?

Nah - Tuesday is our toughest remaining game. Need our best possible XI for that one.

Wombles are our only remaining opponent with anything to play for (they still need a few more points for safety) and they're in great form.

Plymouth, Burton and the Shrews may all be mentally on the golf course already......