chromeyellow
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Wonder how much the loss of Beadle has meant in points
Why do we have a 10% chance of winning a four team play off?So let's be generous to ourselves and say we have a 50% chance of making the playoffs followed perhaps by a 10% chance of getting to the final and winning that. Those probabilities actually mean we have a 5% chance of going up.
In other words, if we were in the same position as today for the next 20 years, we should expect to be promoted just once.
I'm not checking out the directions to Championship grounds just yet.
So let's be generous to ourselves and say we have a 50% chance of making the playoffs followed perhaps by a 10% chance of getting to the final and winning that. Those probabilities actually mean we have a 5% chance of going up.
In other words, if we were in the same position as today for the next 20 years, we should expect to be promoted just once.
I'm not checking out the directions to Championship grounds just yet.
We dropped off, we were getting lucky in games, our XG was midtable. We weren’t blowing teams away. Lost to port vale, shouldn’t have beat Bristol rovers. Blame manning for us having an inconsistent rest of the season, he ripped the club to pieces and loads of those pieces haven’t been repaired or replacedDropping off with us 2nd in the league
74 points will make 6th place in league this season .
We’ve got a mediocre squad, not a mediocre first 11. But our depth isn’t strong enough. Thats why we are where we are and it’s where we should be.Spot on. This is undoubtedly the year to go up. If we'd had just been half decent I think we'd have claimed an automatic place. That's the frustration, there isn't really a quality side up there - they'd all struggle in the Championship, I think.
I don’t disagree that the squad was starting to creak a bit which impacted form but he signed off with a creditable win at Lincoln and we also won at Orient which would’ve been largely his work (albeit added heat from his departure to fire up the players).We dropped off, we were getting lucky in games, our XG was midtable. We weren’t blowing teams away. Lost to port vale, shouldn’t have beat Bristol rovers. Blame manning for us having an inconsistent rest of the season, he ripped the club to pieces and loads of those pieces haven’t been repaired or replaced
We dropped off, we were getting lucky in games, our XG was midtable. We weren’t blowing teams away. Lost to port vale, shouldn’t have beat Bristol rovers. Blame manning for us having an inconsistent rest of the season, he ripped the club to pieces and loads of those pieces haven’t been repaired or replaced
It’s a fairly common approach on here implying, as you’ve done, that we all fall into two camps - broadly for or against. It seems to be an attempt to prove how ‘right’ you are.Funny how that’s interpreted in comparison to what Manning was doing here. Plenty of comparisons to be drawn but for some reason his pragmatism was perceived as boring/not that good/unsustainable.
With some players being unhappy with manning (1 being Rodrigues) and some players having a problem with Des (1 being Rodrigues) it seems that it says more about the attitude of some of the squad we have here rather than the managers we have had this season.
As for Manning getting us up, maybe we would have been comfortably in the play offs by now but, what Manning has showed us this season is that if we went up then he certainly would have struggled to keep us there.
Before anyone says it, it is quite obvious Des hasn’t shown us that either but Manning has taken a promotion pushing team and turn them in to a bottom half team.
It’s not rewriting history that performances were sometimes quite boring, players didn’t take to him (Rodrigues instagram post), we out performed our performances.The mind boggles.
The rewriting of Liam Manning by Oxford fans is mental.
He was an outstanding manager here and the way he left (snakey bastard) means people can’t give an honest view of him.
I loved watching us play under Manning this season. Round pegs, round holes, clear plan, players who knew what they were doing, worked hard and won. Think that would be entirely consistent with how I posted on here.It’s not rewriting history that performances were sometimes quite boring, players didn’t take to him (Rodrigues instagram post), we out performed our performances.
He did a good job while here but let’s not pretend performances were exciting to watch.
I was never ‘excited’ when watching Manning’s style of football. I actually found it quite boring but saw that it was affective and got results.I loved watching us play under Manning this season. Round pegs, round holes, clear plan, players who knew what they were doing, worked hard and won. Think that would be entirely consistent with how I posted on here.
Rodrigues didn’t like the way he left, I don’t see that says anything about what he thought when Manning was here.
If you hate someone, you’re probably not that sad if they leave unexpectedly.
How do you out perform your own performance?
I agree with that.Round pegs, round holes, clear plan, players who knew what they were doing, worked hard and won.
Boring, boring Oxford, second in the league when he left.It’s not rewriting history that performances were sometimes quite boring, players didn’t take to him (Rodrigues instagram post), we out performed our performances.
He did a good job while here but let’s not pretend performances were exciting to watch.
Complete nonsense of a post .We dropped off, we were getting lucky in games, our XG was midtable. We weren’t blowing teams away. Lost to port vale, shouldn’t have beat Bristol rovers. Blame manning for us having an inconsistent rest of the season, he ripped the club to pieces and loads of those pieces haven’t been repaired or replaced
But you come from the same class as Egg where anything less than positivity when things are good is totally unfathomable, ridiculous, laughable. If any one of the more critical posters had said what you’ve said while second in the league you’d have ridiculed them. But it’s ok now he’s a pantomime villain?I was never ‘excited’ when watching Manning’s style of football. I actually found it quite boring but saw that it was affective and got results.
As has been said many times, we out performed our XG and stats showed that we were doing better than we should have.