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Or more to the point their opinion of him and whether they are indeed sulking as has been suggested. Highly unprofessional of them if so.Considering what I’ve seen of MM & RR this season under a good coach then we know there’s outstanding L1 players in there.
It all comes back to the current manager.
Didn't the last Pope resign when he realised he wasn't up to the job?He is a football manager not the pope, it’s not a job for life.
Considering what I’ve seen of MM & RR this season under a good coach then we know there’s outstanding L1 players in there.
It all comes back to the current manager.
Can't speak for anyone else but the reasons I have been particularly focused on McGuane...Not sure why people are just calling out MM and RR. Murphy was pathetic the other night, a shockingly lacklustre and effortless performance. Cumming played with all the heart of a bloody pussycat - is he really doing his best ? Harris ? Was that really a performance full of effort, vigour and desire to do his best ? Harris has been really poor for about half a dozen games now, he seems to have given up. Personally, I don’t buy into what Leysboy is saying about just three players. It took him a lot of promoting to name the third player, why was that ?
Can anyone point to specific examples of where MM or RR have given up and not trying ? Maybe highlight the minute so we can all watch it and decide for ourselves. They - amongst a fair few others - both look out of form but they look confused as to what the game plan is. They are playing aimlessly but is that just reflective of a team who seem empty of ideas, have no identifiable style or patterns of play ? These two are at the heart of the team, in that engine room, but that’s the area where we look lost whoever plays there.
You, me & about five thousand others can see this - why can't our 'manager'? However I fear that WG is going to prove to be "fragile" & a real desperate waste of the money at a time when we were under pressure to get another striker - & we ended up with him!We’ve got to start with both Harris and Goodwin.
I don’t get how we spent £400k on a player to sit on the bench. I thought the whole point was to strengthen the front line to support and ease the burden on Harris whilst providing an extra outlet for goals. We may as well just kept O’Donkor if this is what it’s going to be like.Isn’t it about time we played that rather expensive lad from Cheltenham? If he can’t get into the side when we’re in this sort of form, then he never will.
Unless we bought yet another unfit, fragile, 25- minute player of course?……
Ummm Oxford United on a free fall, against Port Vale fighting for survival Away. We can only hope.....We the fans ,the club,the players and Des will all be asking questions I think anything but a win saturday will not be excepted.COYY let's win 3-0
Sorry ‘Dick,’ Knobinson it is for the foreseeable.Yes, pathetic isn’t it. There’s humour and there’s just stuff that is so childish and cringeworthy. Embarrassing, he’ll grow up in time - hopefully.
Er no. Many of here have totally different opinions. This nonsense about all of the crowd think this so it must be right, and so the manager must be am idiot for not seeing something so obvious!You, me & about five thousand others can see this - why can't our 'manager'? However I fear that WG is going to prove to be "fragile" & a real desperate waste of the money at a time when we were under pressure to get another striker - & we ended up with him!
Why? It does seem a bit child like?Sorry ‘Dick,’ Knobinson it is for the foreseeable.
Don’t like it? Don’t read it!
What if he picks RR and MM and they both perform superbly?
(Not trying to be a dickhead, just wondering whether this would then be seen as a good act of management)
If true then can we sue them for our money back? Tell them to grow up and grow some b*lls.It's what @Leysboy has assured us is the case, Dick. He has now named McGuane, Rodrigues and Bodin as the three players who had "downed tools" as he put it because they didn't want Buckingham as manager. I was surmising that if he is indeed the case (and who are we to say it isn't), then it might explain why both MM and RR have been so shockingly poor of late.
In addition, I'm not sure which game you were watching exactly, but MM barely touched the ball or did anything of note....even less than he's done in the last dozen or so games. It stuck out like a sore thumb. Likewise with RR, he did very little of note at all, apart from being lucky not to be sent off for a combination of rash challenges and backchat to the ref. He has also been poor for months, with the exception of the odd glimmer to remind us there's a decent footballer in there somewhere.
Whether both are trying or not, both are poor right now and have been for months. That alone warrants them being dropped.
You've kind of made my point for me there. We've been led to believe by some that player power (and from some regular starters too) is purposefully sabotaging efforts to sustain our push for the play offs this season and that it is not down to the manager being completely crap. They have been named on here by Leysboy, so unless he's going to retract and say he made a mistake/has no actual evidence that this is the case, then we can only assume that Buckingham is trying to operate with effectively one hand tied behind his back.If true then can we sue them for our money back? Tell them to grow up and grow some b*lls.
If player's are throwing their toys out the pram because they didn't get their own way, then they have no place at Oxford united (or any other club). So we sack Buckingham, what then, six months time players throw their toys out the pram again because they don't like the manager?
With millions of pounds worth of losses a year, how would you manage the purse strings?Blimey, aren't we an entitled lot, polls on sacking the manager now. The football isn't good, that much is a given, but sacking Des is not the answer, I suspect it wont be long before people are asking for the next manager to be sacked after a few months. The problem lies with the CEO and chairman, Manning had what he wanted with backroom staff, when he left, they all went with him, Des has had nothing like what Manning had, I suspect because our CEO accountant has tightened the purse strings for any of that. At least give the man a decent backroom set up, if it's still no good, then by all means re-assess the situation.
Not sure, but then I am neither an accountant or a CEO.With millions of pounds worth of losses a year, how would you manage the purse strings?
I’m not sure that’s completely true. And I am no fan of the Chuckles believe me.The fact remains that the blame for this all lies squarely with the senior managers that appointed Buckingham and then effectively dry.
It's what @Leysboy has assured us is the case, Dick. He has now named McGuane, Rodrigues and Bodin as the three players who had "downed tools" as he put it because they didn't want Buckingham as manager. I was surmising that if he is indeed the case (and who are we to say it isn't), then it might explain why both MM and RR have been so shockingly poor of late.
In addition, I'm not sure which game you were watching exactly, but MM barely touched the ball or did anything of note....even less than he's done in the last dozen or so games. It stuck out like a sore thumb. Likewise with RR, he did very little of note at all, apart from being lucky not to be sent off for a combination of rash challenges and backchat to the ref. He has also been poor for months, with the exception of the odd glimmer to remind us there's a decent footballer in there somewhere.
Whether both are trying or not, both are poor right now and have been for months. That alone warrants them being dropped.