Home Match Day Thread 26/03/2021 L1 OUFC v Lincoln City

[Golden Dr Otto]

All the US sports are over-commercialised shite, that's the biggest problem over there!

It’s a relief the English premier league never had that problem. Im glad we can trust the billionaire foreign owners to protect the integrity of the working mans game.

 

[sonofivan]

Phew very true guvnor!

 

[Wandering Yellow]

It’s a relief the English premier league never had that problem. Im glad we can trust the billionaire foreign owners to protect the integrity of the working mans game.

Its over commercialised shite but not quite as soulless and over-commercialised as american elite sport.

Yet.

 

[werthersoriginal]

Its over commercialised shite but not quite as soulless and over-commercialised as american elite sport.

Yet.

It’s o overcommercialised shite but it’s basically a good sport. Not sure you can say that about the US sports

 

[Wandering Yellow]

It’s o overcommercialised shite but it’s basically a good sport. Not sure you can say that about the US sports

Baseball is a dumb persons cricket and american football is a cowards version of rugby. I'll never understand basketball, where seemingly one of the most important things is just "be freakishly tall"

Have a city, whack a random animal at the end of it and sell lots of merch.

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

It’s o overcommercialised shite but it’s basically a good sport. Not sure you can say that about the US sports

I think it’s more about what you grow up with to be honest. I won’t be snobbish about their sports. It took me a while to get into them but they have their athletic / skill / tactical merits like any other sport. But if you don’t know the rules, haven’t played, or don’t know the personalities it’s just a melange of nothingness. It’s the same for them watching our sports

 

[dickwalton1964]

Apart from a tough Sunderland game we have the easiest run in with most opponents playing for nothing - we probably need about 24 points last 11 games - doable

I’d say Portsmouth have the easiest run in, they don’t even have a ‘Sunderland’ type fixture to play. Ours though is definitely the next most straightforward - on paper. If Charlton make it, with their run of fixtures, then fair play they’ll deserve promotion. Blackpool still have to play Sunderland twice as well as other testing games and both Lincoln and Doncaster have about four games each against others in the mix. Doncaster have Peterborough twice. I wouldn’t worry too much about Hull, Sunderland and Peterborough, they’re nailed on, so we need them to take points of the others battling with us. I think Portsmouth will make it with that run in and the fact they’ve started well under new management who are used to winning promotions.

So it’s any two from the rest. Lincoln and Doncaster are the two on the slide and the ones that the rest will see as catchable, particularly Doncaster. Those Sunderland games for Blackpool will be massive so if we can just get on one of our winning runs it could be on. Just over two points a game, 19 from 9, I think could be enough. 6 wins, two defeats and a draw from the nine we have looks very realistic. You’d be unlucky not to do it with 75 points.

 

[mooro]

All this talk of season over etc is far too premature..

There are another 9 or 10 game weeks to go and at least a dozen teams within a few points of a playoff spot, if not the autos.
WithIn each of those sets of matches, some will not go as expected, teams will lose to ones below them.
Teams will come into form, teams will drop out of form, and within every team players will be injured, players will return from injury

To pronounce that any individual team will or will not finish in the top 6 is little more than guesswork even at this stage, so even after two poor performances to write the season off remains premature

A glance at the league table right now, would arguable suggest that the current top six will be the final top six (points already scored, games in hand etc), but I would put money on the fact that they won't be. No idea who will and who won't or whether it will be us or any of the other half dozen chasing sides that will replace them, but suffice to say that there is a long way to go yet...

I rest my case

 

[Foley]

I rest my case

Spot on Mooro.
The voice of reason!!

 

[werthersoriginal]

I think it’s more about what you grow up with to be honest. I won’t be snobbish about their sports. It took me a while to get into them but they have their athletic / skill / tactical merits like any other sport. But if you don’t know the rules, haven’t played, or don’t know the personalities it’s just a melange of nothingness. It’s the same for them watching our sports

Im sure that’s true of cricket and rugby! I dont understand rugby and indeed it is a melange of nothingness to me. But football is a simple game played the world over.

 

[DavidB]

He didn't go missing. He went for the high press which would have been part of our game plan. Once this was missed he was never getting back. After this he was pretty solid, and even did a job at left back when asked. He has also done pretty well in midfield when asked since coming back from injury.

Take your blinkers off and watch the game and you might just see something very different!

No, I think he’s just generally poor

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

Im sure that’s true of cricket and rugby! I dont understand rugby and indeed it is a melange of nothingness to me. But football is a simple game played the world over.

I coach girls youth football (part time) over here and it’s been interesting seeing how dads who only know the traditional American sports have warmed up to it slowly. It’s also interesting how many subtleties aren’t obvious to someone who hadn’t played a lot or at least watched a lot (the latter counts for less based on my reading of this forum sometimes).

On the face of it football is a very simple game but tactically it isn’t and actually it’s not as exciting to a new entrant as ice hockey or basketball because there’s far less scoring or goal mouth action to engage you up front.

However over time, like American football, they realise the strategic and skill factor to getting a goal, is the joy of the game. The barrier to entry on a goal is what makes its coming such a masterful and rewarding event

 

[Fourthstand]

I think it’s more about what you grow up with to be honest. I won’t be snobbish about their sports. It took me a while to get into them but they have their athletic / skill / tactical merits like any other sport. But if you don’t know the rules, haven’t played, or don’t know the personalities it’s just a melange of nothingness. It’s the same for them watching our sports

I spent six months living in California in the mid 1990’s. I went to many a game of American Football with American friends who struggled with understanding never mind explaining the rules. Baseball seemed to be all about the dogs and snacks . Basketball was about where you sat and with whom. ‘American’ Sport was a total bewilderment.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Baseball seemed to be all about the dogs and snacks

The way the Yanks have rebranded and monetised Rounders from a commercial standpoint is really something.

 

[werthersoriginal]

The way the Yanks have rebranded and monetised Rounders from a commercial standpoint is really something.

ALso netball!

 

[Bigfella72]

I coach girls youth football (part time) over here and it’s been interesting seeing how dads who only know the traditional American sports have warmed up to it slowly. It’s also interesting how many subtleties aren’t obvious to someone who hadn’t played a lot or at least watched a lot (the latter counts for less based on my reading of this forum sometimes).

On the face of it football is a very simple game but tactically it isn’t and actually it’s not as exciting to a new entrant as ice hockey or basketball because there’s far less scoring or goal mouth action to engage you up front.

However over time, like American football, they realise the strategic and skill factor to getting a goal, is the joy of the game. The barrier to entry on a goal is what makes its coming such a masterful and rewarding event

Ive enjoyed watching The NFL for about 40 years but still struggle to watch a game between two teams I don’t follow as I don’t often have 3 hours to spare. But then again I’ve gone off watching football matches that don’t involve Oxford and I would easily watch 3 or 4 matches over a weekend plus a lot of the midweek games a few years back.
I tried to get into baseball when I was in the US (97) but again it’s the length and how slow the game moves and the stupid time it was on live for us over here. I think if I had a spare 3 hours in an evening and it was on I could watch a game with a few beers but not sure that will ever happen.
Never really enjoyed the likes of basketball & ice hockey again partly down to not having an affiliation with any teams.
People that don’t have real passion for a particular team really don’t understand that it’s not “just a game”.

 

[werthersoriginal]

Ive enjoyed watching The NFL for about 40 years but still struggle to watch a game between two teams I don’t follow as I don’t often have 3 hours to spare. But then again I’ve gone off watching football matches that don’t involve Oxford and I would easily watch 3 or 4 matches over a weekend plus a lot of the midweek games a few years back.
I tried to get into baseball when I was in the US (97) but again it’s the length and how slow the game moves and the stupid time it was on live for us over here. I think if I had a spare 3 hours in an evening and it was on I could watch a game with a few beers but not sure that will ever happen.
Never really enjoyed the likes of basketball & ice hockey again partly down to not having an affiliation with any teams.
People that don’t have real passion for a particular team really don’t understand that it’s not “just a game”.

The thing is, it’s possible to watch a bit of football between two random teams and find yourself drawn in - im not sure how true that is for other sports

 

[SteMerritt]

The thing is, it’s possible to watch a bit of football between two random teams and find yourself drawn in - im not sure how true that is for other sports

I can do that with cricket, in fact I'm way more likely to watch a random cricket match than I am a football one.

Football is massively tribal, I am Oxford through and through, a match between 2 random club teams just doesn't interest me, unless it's something like the FA Cup Final. Can't remember the last time I watched a whole Premier League match on TV. But give me Gloucestershire v Leicestershire I'll happily sit for hours.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

American Football is OK - if very stop start and drawn out - and I used to watch it quite a bit when it was first on Channel 4.

Baseball is a bit of a closed book to me, it has never appealed enough to give it much of a chance. I might be missing something really good.

But basketball is not a sport I enjoy at all. It seems mostly to do with how tall you are, and any game where you are really expected to score every time you have the ball seems to reward you for your opponent's failures rather than your own successes!

I can watch and enjoy Prem football, but it is just an exercise in admiring bits of skill or laughing when a £20m defender makes a cock up worthy of Matt Day - it doesn't affect me in any way. It is, of course, very different to watching my own team. When I say 'watching' of course in relation to the Prem, I mean on the telly!

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Football is massively tribal, I am Oxford through and through

Huh...

Would you describe yourself as a.... TRUE fan? I’m going to need to see some credentials.