Home Match Day Thread 30/01/2024 L1: OUFC v Portsmouth

[Carpy]

COYY

Really hope we pull it out the bag, just can't see it, I'll be there all the same.


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Interview - Des Buckingham

Interview - James Henry

Match Highlights

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[IsleofWightYellow]

We surely have to go to 4 at the back for this one. Smyth should be starting as well.

Des has got the last couple of team selections very wrong I feel. Let’s see tonight if he’s learnt his lesson.

 

[Jster]

Gonna be tough watching Mous manage Portsmouth. The sense of regret that we didn't ship KR out earlier is so large

 

[PQ]

This game reminds me of when Di Canios Swindon came here
Everyone was expecting a defeat and they were top and we were struggling.
Then Beano got sent off early and we all thought the worse, however the magnificent Andy Whing came to our rescue and although they had so much of the ball we held on and won.
Fingers crossed

..and Scott Rendell ran himself into the floor chasing everything as the lone man up front..a great day.

Billy Bodin on for them as a sub!

 

[Mad Dog]

I‘d take 2-0 Pompey. I think Des - if he’s being honest - would too

Whaaaat?!?

If I ever see Des or any manager of ours seemingly happy with a 2-0 defeat to ANYONE, let alone Pompey, then I will be sat at the gates of the training ground the next morning, with a freshly sharpened pitchfork in my hand!

It’s Portsmouth for god sake, not f*****g Real Madrid!

I wanna see us go for the throat, play em off the park and f*****g smash em!

I expect nothing less, and if we DO come away with a 2-0 defeat, I for one will be so pissed off, I might start a fight with a little bloke

COME ON YOU YELLOWS!!

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Gonna be tough watching Mous manage Portsmouth. The sense of regret that we didn't ship KR out earlier is so large

Inexperienced but an EFL stalwart with contacts in the game...

 

[Steve Gilbert]

Inexperienced but an EFL stalwart with contacts in the game...

Are you suggesting that after being a manager and coach in professional football for 7 and a half years Des doesn’t have any contacts?!

 

[NorthernExile]

Gonna be tough watching Mous manage Portsmouth. The sense of regret that we didn't ship KR out earlier is so large

At least if we lose we can be happy our lovely Mous got another win.

In fact, this feels like one of those games we can't really lose. I'll be made up either way.

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

Of course he’d never say that but inside he will know we are miles off and I genuinely think he’d be content to avoid an embarrassment.

If you’re not content to avoid embarrassing yourself why are you projecting such illusions of grandeur to others ?

 

[tonyw]

This game reminds me of when Di Canios Swindon came here
Everyone was expecting a defeat and they were top and we were struggling.
Then Beano got sent off early and we all thought the worse, however the magnificent Andy Whing came to our rescue and although they had so much of the ball we held on and won.
Fingers crossed

What I wouldn't give for an Andy Whing-type to play at the base of midfield right about now (or a team of them)

 

[Mojofilter]

I cannot think of oxford v Portsmouth without thinking of that 4-0 opening day tonking we gave them that year. Really thought we would struggle and it felt like.nobody had seen it coming.

Praying for some of that spirit tonight

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

I'm optimistic for this one - think we will get at least a point and hopeful for all 3. In the same way that we always fare badly against Bristol Rovers, we always seem to outperform against Pompey.

No great surge in ticket sales today - 270 sold since this time yesterday. We are currently at just over 7,100 home seat sales, so add in boxes and Pompey and we are at about 8,800 overall.

 

[Sharp Edges]

Big 5 days coming up, win tonight and Saturday plus a couple of decent signings before transfer deadline and the mood will be a lot better. If we get turned over twice and what we have is what there is.......

 

[battman]

Inexperienced but an EFL stalwart with contacts in the game...

I like how this idea of Des not having contacts is paraded around like fact now, conveniently ignoring his former boss at Oxford is now at a Premier League side, and that he was part of the world’s biggest football group.

Also I think Faz has plenty to make up for any perceived shortfall.

 

[battman]

Big game after the last two results (and performances). We need to be starting with a back four and two wingers, even if it means not having much attacking firepower on the bench.

 

[Made-in-Jericho]

Dilemma... Do I watch/listen online or ignore the whole goddam thing until 10pm and login here to see quickly see how many YYYYEEESSSSs or FFSs ?

 

[Oxymoron]

Best we can go I think.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1752402548487835766

 

[Jster]

Not much firepower on the bench, that's for sure.

 

[werthersoriginal]

Best we can go I think.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1752402548487835766

Just worries me that we have nothing on the bench when Pompey are so strong late in games

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

Definitely a better formation than the 3 at the back which hadn’t been working recently. I think Smyth has been very hard done by given his recent form not to start. I’m not convinced by Stevens as a right back

 

[McXal]

To have that bench, against the league leaders, this late in January is devastating.

A mixture of us really not ‘going for it’ quite as much as club officials might say when there are tickets to flog and images to maintain - and evidence of how much wage budget we’re dropping on players who just don’t contribute enough.

I just can’t see how we get anything out of this game tonight. I’d love to be wrong and we pull off a performance for the ages.