IsleofWightYellow
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What about the guy in the north stand who walked in holding a pie during the one minutes applause and dropped his fork joining in ?
Seems like a nice fella. Crazily, if their goal had counted we could have been in trouble. Imagine not winning that with the superiority we had
It's very odd (after years of experience!) to be watching a game like that. At no point did I think it would ever be anything else other than a win, even before we'd scored. And the second half was like an attack v defence training match! Some of our play was just excellent, much too good for a Rochdale side who (if I didn't know better) I'd have guessed were in the relegation zone. I suppose - on the basis that you shouldn't be complacent - I'd say that we didn't score enough goals based on our dominance, but that's just nit picking really, I'd take a 3-0 win every week! Looking forward to Tuesday - it'll be more of a test than that was, but I can see no reason we shouldn't win handsomely.
Not sure about him saying that having the man sent off didn't allow them to develop the game in the way they wanted! As the interviewer rightly points out him a bit later in the interview, they were already 2 downSeems like a nice fella. Crazily, if their goal had counted we could have been in trouble. Imagine not winning that with the superiority we had
It's very odd (after years of experience!) to be watching a game like that. At no point did I think it would ever be anything else other than a win, even before we'd scored. And the second half was like an attack v defence training match! Some of our play was just excellent, much too good for a Rochdale side who (if I didn't know better) I'd have guessed were in the relegation zone. I suppose - on the basis that you shouldn't be complacent - I'd say that we didn't score enough goals based on our dominance, but that's just nit picking really, I'd take a 3-0 win every week! Looking forward to Tuesday - it'll be more of a test than that was, but I can see no reason we shouldn't win handsomely.
On that and previous performances, we have an exceptionally capable replacement for Cadden in Sam Long. They are different players and we would slightly adjust our set up accordingly, but I would be very confident in having Long step up and you could see how popular he was after his goal.
Brannagan is obviously the biggest worry. Even if it is only bruising, I'd imagine that he'd not feature against Sunderland or Portsmouth. Anything worse and we could be looking at anything from 6 weeks to 6 months. If at the lower end of the scale, we are fortunate that we have a fairly quiet November and early December. Baptiste could certainly fill in but it does leave us short of cover on the bench. Hall played ok in the middle against West Ham and is getting stronger and fitter so could also be an option but it's all looking a little tight for numbers.
The Hayes and Yeading and Crawley games will hopefully gives us an opportunity to bring in some of the younger players to see who can step up to the first team. We have a fantastic togetherness throughout the squad so hopefully we will find a way to deal with whatever the outcome we get from the scans.
If Cam is properly injured it begs the question: why didn’t he come off earlier rather than play on and aggravate the injury?Another top performance. Reckon Taylor would have bagged a couple. Four 3-0 home wins on the bounce is very impressive. Hope Cam is not out for too long. He is very influential and was buzzing before the injury. I reckon at 2-0 he could have come off earlier. He was clearly struggling. Shandon needs to step up now and take his chance. He looked to have regained his confidence by the end of the match and can do the job if he wants to!
Really?! Only the 4th round! Ive obviously remembered that with rose tinted glasses! Although I was fairly young! I remember the joy of beating Leeds in extra time with I think a Jim Magilton winner?! Yes, I agree, I don’t think I’ve been this confident in us winning games since Roofe, Lundstram, Hylton et.al under Appleton however that was a lower level. Beating Donny and Rotherham were the wins that showed me we are tough as well as skilful. The good thing in the league is that all the teams above us have flaws and/or big pressure to do well. I think Wycombe’s bubble has to burst, Posh are bottlers, Coventry are defensively suspect and Fleetwood have a w****r in charge. I think Ipswich will also feel the weight of expectancy from their fans. Good prospects for promotion as long as we keep key players injury free.The Chelsea game in 1998 was only the 4th Round of the FA Cup (i.e. Last 32).
The last time we were in the quarters of a major cup competition was the League Cup in 1987-88.
(and we beat Man U 2-0 then as well.....only to lose to Luton in the semis).
So it would be a first for a generation of fans.
We're on one of those runs where everything looks so easy, and we're a class apart from almost everyone we play (n.b. extra credit to Accrington and John Coleman for finding a way to hang with us!).
It has to end some time - it's a long season, at some point we're going to pick up injuries and players are going to run into patches of poor form - but until it does, everything is pretty glorious.......
In fact, I genuinely don't think I've felt this good about an Oxford team since Denis Smith's 95/96 side.
As good as Mapp's League Two promotion side was - it never put a run together that was this impressive.
And whilst Wilder's conference sides did on occasion......that was also the conference, and half of the opponents were tinpot!
To be fair he didn't look too uncomfortable for the 30 odd minutes that he carried on playing and KR said he only took him off as a precaution. Let's hope that's all it turns out to be.If Cam is properly injured it begs the question: why didn’t he come off earlier rather than play on and aggravate the injury?
No Cam no problem. We have Shandon Baptiste who’s just as good. Amazing set of midfielders at the club. Lots of depth, and that could prove vital as the season goes on.
I thought rob hall looked fired up when he came on and did a job ..... mom for me fosu...and mackie has,he had surgery and gotten usain bolts legs?
My memory of the league cup game is that the talk in the press was that Fergie would be fired if they lost. He'd been there a while at that point and not done much. I'm not sure if there were any shouts of "Fergie out" from the Man U fans but that was the background. I don't remember any "Fergie out" from his first game in charge either though (I was at both games).The "Fergie Out" game was Fergie's first game as their manager in November '86, Big Ron had been sacked a couple of days before. That was 2 - 0 and - from memory I think Leworthy and Slatter scored. The 2 - 0 Littlewoods Cup game was in January '88 and as you say we also played them in last home game in top flight on May Day bank holiday '88.
I watched a bit of Swansea v Cardiff. Cardiff were awful. Long ball stuff and poor quality. Barely passed to Whyte whilst Nelson remained on the bench yet again. I wonder if they listened to agents and the money without delving into style of football and likelihood of playing ( Nelson is 4th choice centre back i think)
I think this, in an odd way, is where Nelson's plan of running down his contract has backfired.
If Cardiff were looking for a back up centre half (3rd or 4th choice) then they are not going to pay big money for anyone, to sit on the bench. So they had to find a top quality player on a free, Nelson ticked that box.
So Nelson found himself signing for a club that didn't necessarily need him because he was free, if he was still in contract and a fee of £5m was required then the team signing him would have had the intention of playing him regularly.