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Browns alright not at the races tonight but has been pretty solid this seasonBrown has always been s**t, said it ages ago he’s not very good. People just didn’t want to hear it.
He was tonight, marginally. At least he tried playing a pass which is more than most of them did.Compete joke bringing him on. He’s not better than Stevens.
But that's the problem. He's solid and rather limited, but so is Moore and the result is a mediocre at best L1 pairing.Browns alright not at the races tonight but has been pretty solid this season
He's far better than Brown.I’ve never been convinced by Moore and IMO for us to go up a level I would say we need better than him at CB. He doesn’t and never really has fitted in to the way managers want to play by bringing the ball out the back.
He got away with being the sitter when he had McNally next to him but Brown is too similar and neither of them can really bring the ball out.
DonkeyI'm listening. Why do you think that?
I said it before mate. I knew of three players that had downed tools.
Everyone ripped me for it, but it’s true. RR and MM are two of them.
Bodin
But why? He’s played them, not slated them. Why don’t they play for themselves e.g. they could perform, get us promoted with them getting the accolades for this rather than just downing tools!I said it before mate. I knew of three players that had downed tools.
Everyone ripped me for it, but it’s true. RR and MM are two of them.
Sacking Des will solve very little, especially if a certain clique within the squad don't approve of his replacement and sulk all over again.Honestly not surprised by the performance and result. No point banging on about it but des has to be sacked. Gonna stop posting now as it just pisses me off.
I’m so torn on the subject of players throwing the towel in.
The simplistic old fashioned part of me still feels it’s on a manager to put the camp together, build the cohesion and use that as a platform to build a belief in what they’re doing. This doesn’t just apply to football or sports but management anywhere. A team that’s pulling together will win games regardless of tactical inefficiencies. He arrived to a dressing room where that has been built and they probably bonded more when let down by Manning. So what exactly has he done that’s brought it down on its head? It smacks of fragmentation and I can’t quite understand how it’s come about, but they obviously don’t respect him.
I fully accept that players have a duty to play to their maximum effort regardless of the manager but these are players who only months ago were giving their all. They haven’t suddenly decided Oxford is a s**t place to be. They’ve disengaged and I’m afraid responsibility for that is on Des - it’s a hard, high pressure job, no other way to skin it. I think it’s the wrong time for him and pray he can rebuild and go again. But this needs ending.
Murphy, god no. He’s weak and the majority of the time lacks a final product.My list would be for tonight’s players
Cumming unsure
- Stevens leave
- Moore keep
- Brown leave
- Leigh keep
- Brannagan keep
- McGuane leave
- Rodrigues needs to buck up or go
- Dale Keep
- Murphy keep
- Harris keep
- SUB: Long leave
- SUB: Bodin leave
- SUB: Goodwin keep
- SUB: Henry leave
- SUB: Bennett keep
Also scary the players didn’t seem to think it was coming either e.g. Dale’s comments after the match.The really sad part was many saw this result coming. Whilst Des was giving the we played well nonsense, everybody saw we were scraping lucky results and looking clueless. Des may well think there is a plan but he really ought to tell his players what it is because they don't understand it or believe in it. The comparisons with Clotet are scary.
All of which, including him are not good enough if we ever want to progress. I’d honestly keep about 4 players from the squad we have, brown is not one of them. That is just my opinion & I respect yours Steve.Your constant dislike of Brown tonight seems odd when you could list 8 players worst than him tonight.
Pekalski on one leg would of been better than mcguane has been since des came inMcGuane tonight. At least Xemi ran around a bit.