Transfer News 2022/23 Season Incoming Transfers and a few other things

[RgYellows]

Not at all. I wouldn’t. You play players in their correct positions.

Maybe you wouldn't. And bless you for being so enlightened. I am sure some would. Be realistic. Show me one example of a loss where no Oxford fan criticised the substitutions.

What exactly was the point of throwing brown on in the 90th minute. Not like he’s a brick S***house of a CB is it? Especially with our penchant for floating free kicks and corners into the box with zero pace on them as well.

i think Brown is pretty good in the air and was brought on for that reason.

How can you develop if you aren’t given the chance? How do you know if they won’t thrive in that environment.

Because you're their manager and you watch them train every day, instead of relying on speculation on the Internet from people who don't?

That was a no lose situation for us where we should of used them with very little pressure on them once we went 1-0 down.

I just dont agree that theres no pressure. We are going for promotion. We need to win games. When we are losing 1-0 to promotion rivals with ten minutes left, there is a big pressure on our attackers to create. The opposition have a lead to defend, and they are laser focused on seeing it out. It is never harder to be an attacker than it is at that point. When someone is learning to drive, you don't start by handing them the keys on the ramp to join the M25.

Literally pointless having them there to not bring them on when with have nothing to lose at all

Just because we don't bring someone on, doesn't mean it is stupid to have them on the bench. We don't know how a game is going to play out, so we don't know what we will need or what opportunity we will get. If we were two or three goals up, I'd expect the young lads to get the last few minutes. Great chance to get some exposure to a big crowd in a lower stakes scenario, and probably a lot more space if Derby are trying to attack or let their heads drop.

 

[Swaby39]

There is clearly money. We clearly have a fundamental problem using it effectively.

Me included. I am genuinely going to pipe down on that score. That would have been the easiest 1.5 million ever to bag with the clause. The fact we haven't, the ambition is there. I'm on the positivity bus. Over to you Robbo!

C’mon… thought we’d turned a corner?!

Derby was a sobering reminder we have work to do in the days ahead (sooner the better) but the ink isn’t even dry on Brannagan’s contract and we’re back to square one. If every signing ahead is at the level of Murphy/Wildschut/Findlay/Jones and Brannagan feels strongly enough to commit the next 3 years of his future here then we have to feel positive about our chances.

It’s late, but not too late… yet.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

Maybe you wouldn't. And bless you for being so enlightened. I am sure some would. Be realistic. Show me one example of a loss where no Oxford fan criticised the substitutions.

i think Brown is pretty good in the air and was brought on for that reason.

Because you're their manager and you watch them train every day, instead of relying on speculation on the Internet from people who don't?

I just dont agree that theres no pressure. We are going for promotion. We need to win games. When we are losing 1-0 to promotion rivals with ten minutes left, there is a big pressure on our attackers to create. The opposition have a lead to defend, and they are laser focused on seeing it out. It is never harder to be an attacker than it is at that point. When someone is learning to drive, you don't start by handing them the keys on the ramp to join the M25.

Just because we don't bring someone on, doesn't mean it is stupid to have them on the bench. We don't know how a game is going to play out, so we don't know what we will need or what opportunity we will get. If we were two or three goals up, I'd expect the young lads to get the last few minutes. Great chance to get some exposure to a big crowd in a lower stakes scenario, and probably a lot more space if Derby are trying to attack or let their heads drop.

I guess we have vastly different opinions of what is correct or what should of happened. All respect to you for that. I respect anyones opinion as it’s what football is all about but I won’t change my views. We’ve had all summer to get our A*** into gear in the transfer window & haven’t. The fact is that G’OD & TG were both on the bench yesterday. We needed a goal and didn’t look like scoring from 65 minutes onwards. We had nothing to lose bringing them on. They are young lads. No better time to bring them on and try and make themselves a hero. I’ll never criticise any manager for taking a chance & going for it. What I will criticise is being so inept to not bring on players in positions that they can change the game. We had Winnall last season who did absolutely nothing except that goal at home to Wednesday yet he got brought on numerous times away from home when we was chasing games. You bring on players who can make a difference not a CB just because we had a free kick that we don’t even whip in with any pace anyway. Whoever designs our Setpiece plays needs to seriously sort it out because it’s absolutely awful.

 

[ChamonixOx]

Matt Taylor has scored 56 goals in 3 seasons playing as a lone striker in virtually every game. Yet now we've got posts on here saying that he can't play up alone!!

That’s the narrative you’ve decided to cultivate. Rather than making cheap comments, think a little more carefully before firing about what people are actually saying. He needs support, and yesterday he had none. He plays better when others create space, and throughout his career, his best spells have been when he has a foil. Yesterday he had pretty much two or three marking him at any given time - isolated would be an understatement.

 

[Bicester Yellow]

That’s the narrative you’ve decided to cultivate. Rather than making cheap comments, think a little more carefully before firing about what people are actually saying. He needs support, and yesterday he had none. He plays better when others create space, and throughout his career, his best spells have been when he has a foil. Yesterday he had pretty much two or three marking him at any given time - isolated would be an understatement.

I think he was bullied by their defenders yesterday. The perfect way of putting it. Yet we persisted with 1 up top. Got what we deserved in the end which was nothing because we tried to disrupt play & take a point from 60 minutes onwards. There’s being professional and then there’s just asking for trouble by sitting back and offering nothing as an attacking threat, even at 1-0 down we played Taylor up top on his own. It does not work & it showed last season. Especially away from home against the top sides. Look at all the top 6 from last season. They played 2 up top bar Wycombe & MK & most of them played 3-4-1-2 or 3-5-2. We played better last season with that formation and matching teams. 4-2-3-1 does not work against the better sides. We don’t have the striker for that formation currently. Play that & don’t bring in someone to suit it and we will finish no better than midtable.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Hi Ryan..do you fancy finishing midtable for twice the money you are on now?!

Hi Kip. Will you be paying me in cash or chicken?

Either way, yes.

 

[Scotchegg]

That’s the narrative you’ve decided to cultivate. Rather than making cheap comments, think a little more carefully before firing about what people are actually saying. He needs support, and yesterday he had none. He plays better when others create space, and throughout his career, his best spells have been when he has a foil. Yesterday he had pretty much two or three marking him at any given time - isolated would be an understatement.

It's not the narrative I've cultivated, it's the truth. Matty has played with another striker in less than 10% of his games for Oxford and hit 20 goals last season, 19 the one before and 17 in the shortened season with covid. When did he last play with a foil for any length of time?

 

[Bicester Yellow]

It's not the narrative I've cultivated, it's the truth. Matty has played with another striker in less than 10% of his games for Oxford and hit 20 goals last season, 19 the one before and 17 in the shortened season with covid. When did he last play with a foil for any length of time?

Would guarentee you he’s gone 5-6 games without a goal in all of those seasons though and I would wager they have come against the better sides in the divisions where he’s drawn blanks because he’s isolated on his own against better defenders & I reckon more than 50% of his goals would be scored at home as well. Just a guess

 

[Scotchegg]

Would guarentee you he’s gone 5-6 games without a goal in all of those seasons though and I would wager they have come against the better sides in the divisions where he’s drawn blanks because he’s isolated on his own against better defenders & I reckon more than 50% of his goals would be scored at home as well. Just a guess

If you can guarantee that his blank spells have come against the better sides then it will be pretty easy to show those stats. Otherwise it's lots of guesswork without substance.

 

[tonyw]

Would guarentee you he’s gone 5-6 games without a goal in all of those seasons though and I would wager they have come against the better sides in the divisions where he’s drawn blanks because he’s isolated on his own against better defenders & I reckon more than 50% of his goals would be scored at home as well. Just a guess

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Of his 22 goals last season in all competitions, Matty T scored 11 at home and 11 on the road (10 & 10 in the league).

Scored home and away against Wigan, at MKD, at Sunderland and 2 at home to Wednesday (all of them playing on his own up front, I think? Certainly they were before we signed Baldock) so you can't accuse him of being a flat-track bully either.

We definitely need another option up front, and Matty T undoubtedly has games where he doesn't contribute much (like yesterday), but the last three years has shown that you can never write him off, anywhere, against anyone in any formation.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Would guarentee you he’s gone 5-6 games without a goal in all of those seasons though and I would wager they have come against the better sides in the divisions where he’s drawn blanks because he’s isolated on his own against better defenders & I reckon more than 50% of his goals would be scored at home as well. Just a guess

Just checked Taylor’s scoring record out of sheer boredom, for no other reason than you made me curious.

I’ve included League One data for the purposes of both goals and blank spells only, with cup competitions excluded entirely. Play-off data is included as these are technically league fixtures.

21/22: 10 home goals, 10 away goals. Longest blanking run was 5 games, which were actually the final 5 games and was his only 5+ game blanking run of the season. Of his 20 goals, 7 were against the other 7 teams making up the Top 8 across 13 matches (he missed Rotherham at home), meaning his scoring record was better than 1 in 2 against the top teams in the league.

20/21: 14 home goals, 5 away goals. Longest blanking run was 12 games between Bristol Rovers at home on January 23 and Doncaster at home on March 16, which was his only 5+ game blanking run of the season. Of his 19 goals, 2 were against the other 7 teams making up the Top 8 across 16 matches (Blackpool accounting for 4 of those including 2 ‘extra’ fixtures due to play-offs), meaning his scoring record was 1 in 8 against the top teams in the league.

19/20: 6 home goals, 7 away goals. Longest blanking run was 9 games between Southend away on November 23 and Burton away on February 11, which was his only 5+ game blanking run of the season. Of his 13 goals, 2 were against the other 7 teams making up the Top 8 across 9 matches (3 of which were play-off fixtures), meaning his scoring record was 1 in 4.5 against the top teams in the league. NOTE: this was the curtailed season due to Covid.

Therefore, his overall data is as follows:

Total league goals: 52 (30 home, 22 away)
Total 5+ game blanking runs: 3 (1 per season)
Total games v Top 8 teams: 38
Total goals v Top 8 teams: 11
Total goals per game v Top 8 teams: 1 in 3.45

I’m 99% sure that all of the above is accurate, but to be honest I’ve virtually gone blind from it all. Do with it what you will.

 

[zstep123]

I'm sure it has."Hi Ryan..do you fancy finishing midtable for twice the money you are on now?! "

Kip sneezing on the Oxford faithful

 

[Coffin dodger]

How would putting on two attackers see us being torn to shreds ?
Remember 17 year old centre back is our right back cover ...that could harm his confidence if played out of position and didn't do well

John Terry played as a 17 right back in the premiership didn't do his career much harm.

 

[Symp59]

We certainly need 2 more in this week . We have got a lot to do in the market and I don't feel as confident this year .Alot of teams have improved this year with there squads. Bolton,Shef wed ,Ipswich, Peterborough, Barnsley , Plymouth, Portsmouth, Derby I can see 2 of those going up first and second . I know it's early days but we look so far behind with signings this year and preseason as been poor. On paper we've got a good list of fixtures . But already we are struggling with 2 good players out. I said at the end of the season Karl had a tough job on is hands this summer and I think it's got even tougher I hope we see at least 2 really good signings this week.

 

[tatabanya]

There is clearly money. We clearly have a fundamental problem using it effectively.

Yeah, but you’ve just spent all summer saying that we didn’t have any money. So you’ll probably be wrong yet again on your latest line to beat the club with.

 

[JOHN BOY]

Heard Todd kane coming in this week.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

John Terry played as a 17 right back in the premiership didn't do his career much harm.

I was pointing out that he said that risk was fine yet playing a forward or two for 10 minutes would somehow blow us the game .
Darren Purse played right back a couple of times as well I think.
I'd prefer our younger players to be given a chance rather than not .

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

How can you develop if you aren’t given the chance? How do you know if they won’t thrive in that environment. We were 1-0 down. Not 1-0 up and needing experienced heads to hold on. We needed anyone who could make any kind of difference yesterday. We brought on a CB in the 90th minute and sent our keeper forward. If we had conceded a goal pushing forward for an equaliser I wouldn’t of blamed goodrham or O’Donkor that’s for sure. That was a no lose situation for us where we should of used them with very little pressure on them once we went 1-0 down. It could be the making of them. Not gonna find out with them warming the bench that’s a sure fact.

Exactly what I was trying to say.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

The player Oxford miss most is a Herbie Kane type, a playmaker. We have not replaced him yet.

Isn't that Brannagan's role?

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Heard Todd kane coming in this week.

He's injured so makes sense.