TailsWeWin
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Bit of a novel idea for KR , that one!We are all getting ahead of ourselves. He might just mean not playing anyone out of position.
Bit of a novel idea for KR , that one!We are all getting ahead of ourselves. He might just mean not playing anyone out of position.
Is anyone actually officially connected with the club feeling/thinking/suggesting any such thing?to go into it thinking 'I don't care if we lose this' is a P**s poor mentality for any professional football club.
Completely agree, but unfortunately the "modern supporter" has just been conditioned into thinking Cup games don't matter. Think it goes back to when Manchester United (isn't it always...) decided the League Cup wasn't important enough for them to bother with and decided to play a weakened team, leading to this hilarious result...I find the whole cup vs league thing weird. As a fan, I want my team to play and win as many games as possible.
In our 2015-2016 promotion season we got the the 4th round of the FA Cup and the final of the paint pot trophy (before it got sullied). We must have played 60 games that season and the cup success helped us build and maintain momentum.
The following season we got to the 5th round of the FA Cup (the almost brilliant comeback at Middlesbrough) and the final of the now bastardised paint pot thing. We also finished 8th in the league on our return.
I just don't see why we can't aim for both a good cup run and league success. If you get knocked out the cup fair and square then so be it, but to go into it thinking 'I don't care if we lose this' is a P**s poor mentality for any professional football club.
I agree that we probably have to use the cup game to try something else out as I don't think anyone has been that impressed so far (a bit more solid at the back seems to be the best we can say?).People saying we shouldn't experiment in the cup, have you seen how we've started our league campaign using the current tactics?
Something else needs to be tried at some stage regardless of the competition we're playing in.
Hey I dunno. I mean, hopefully not. I just saw an opportunity to stick the boot in over the 'cups aren't important' argument and so I took it. Like a lazy hyena shithousing his way to a fresh gazelle. Now I'm here, up to my waist in my argument and you asked me a reasonable question about if the club said anything about giving up? Obviously they didn't say it, that would be a PR nightmare. But the forum has already concluded “I want to try something on Tuesday which might surprise a few people” can only mean one thing, and that's that. Final. We've given up on the cups, ok?Is anyone actually officially connected with the club feeling/thinking/suggesting any such thing?
It's changing again reallyCompletely agree, but unfortunately the "modern supporter" has just been conditioned into thinking Cup games don't matter. Think it goes back to when Manchester United (isn't it always...) decided the League Cup wasn't important enough for them to bother with and decided to play a weakened team, leading to this hilarious result...
First Oxford shirt I ever owned as a six-year-old that Admiral classic.BLAST FROM THE PAST
Manor Ground, August 1978
David Fogg and Peter Foley in Third Division action against Swansea City.
Think taylor and the rest should start. Get some sharpness back.I think Taylor should have the night off tomorrow simply because we need a striker for Saturday and if our main one got injured tomorrow not good
I wouldn't mind seeing a mixture of young players and established players as long as they give there all I will be satisfied obviously I want us to win but I don't think our squad is strong enough to risk certain players in the cup unfortunately
Bloody youngsterFirst Oxford shirt I ever owned as a six-year-old that Admiral classic.