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Post by poorblue on Aug 14, 2024 12:48:12 GMT
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Post by bradfordmeyerbiggs on Aug 15, 2024 9:24:42 GMT
I'm totally floored by this signing. Welcome Lino. UTG
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Post by nickchippenhamgas on Aug 15, 2024 9:35:05 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level.
We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think
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Post by kampucheagas on Aug 15, 2024 9:50:31 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think I saw a few down the food bank earlier. UTG |
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Post by stapletongas on Aug 15, 2024 10:15:05 GMT
My Villa season ticket holder friend has never heard of him!
Good luck to the lad tho
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Post by mrgasman on Aug 15, 2024 10:29:55 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think You’ve watched him play? |
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Post by kruger on Aug 15, 2024 12:23:45 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? |
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Post by Wembley_Gas on Aug 15, 2024 12:48:31 GMT
Suspect we’re managing expectations better than we ever did under Buckle.
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Post by Beer Baron on Aug 15, 2024 13:26:17 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? It's been over 25 years since we last did it so it's definitely overdue, though we've also only finished top half once in the past 10 years so that would represent a very good season as well. Here's hoping UTG |
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Post by eric on Aug 15, 2024 18:40:29 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? We’ve potentially got the defence of a playoff chasing team but must be huge doubts over our ability to create chances and score goals required for a playoff challenge. |
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Post by biggles on Aug 15, 2024 19:34:36 GMT
playoffs nonsense!
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 15, 2024 19:35:51 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? If the owners have given MT a similar budget to last season's plus around £1m in transfer funds then I can't see they are just aiming for mid table. |
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Post by oldmarket65 on Aug 15, 2024 19:53:20 GMT
am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? If the owners have given MT a similar budget to last season's plus around £1m in transfer funds then I can't see they are just aiming for mid table. I'm not disputing the above Topper. But we don't know what the top 6-8 clubs offer in playing budgets and fees . Is £1 million on fees or P.B of £4 million that big at this level ?. And it's interesting that bookies and other pundits suggest we will finish 14-18th. Probably the truth is somewhere in the middle. We are not big hitters like Brum Hudd Bolton Charlton Petero Rother Wrexham nether are we a freebie club. |
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Post by dulwichgas on Aug 15, 2024 20:36:14 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? Be happy to stay up, delighted with mid table |
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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 15, 2024 21:05:18 GMT
am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? Be happy to stay up, delighted with mid table Somebody has clearly lowered your expectations! With at least a mid table budget, then mid table must be the aim. |
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Post by wallywalters on Aug 15, 2024 21:26:50 GMT
Be happy to stay up, delighted with mid table Somebody has clearly lowered your expectations! With at least a mid table budget, then mid table must be the aim. Id take mid table. That's at least progress. The owners do not want us getting promoted yet. They said as much at the q and a. They said we are not ready to go up as we'd come straight back down and that is not what we want to do. I'm pretty sure he said 3 years for promotion was the aim once we had the infrastructure etc to enable us to make a decent attempt at staying up and becoming an established championship club. |
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Post by bathtubpirate on Aug 15, 2024 21:30:34 GMT
Somebody has clearly lowered your expectations! With at least a mid table budget, then mid table must be the aim. Id take mid table. That's at least progress. The owners do not want us getting promoted yet. They said as much at the q and a. They said we are not ready to go up as we'd come straight back down and that is not what we want to do. I'm pretty sure he said 3 years for promotion was the aim once we had the infrastructure etc to enable us to make a decent attempt at staying up and becoming an established championship club. Yes and this is reflected in the type of players we have signed. Barton's last season seemed like a go for broke attempt whereas now we are building a hopefully solid base. |
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Post by nickchippenhamgas on Aug 16, 2024 11:21:01 GMT
Great signing for a club at our level. We just need a hungry striker now to finish in the top half I think am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? Ii for one would love to aim for the play offs but we haven’t got enough goals in us, lots of 1-0’s happy days but can’t see us scoring 60 goals which would equate to 50-60 points in my view |
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Post by Fetch on Aug 16, 2024 12:03:24 GMT
am I the only one who thinks we should be aiming for the playoffs? It's been over 25 years since we last did it so it's definitely overdue, though we've also only finished top half once in the past 10 years so that would represent a very good season as well. Here's hoping UTG Agree with above post, let's just get top half before we even talk about Playoffs, which we haven't done since 1998? |
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Post by warehamgas on Aug 16, 2024 20:14:51 GMT
All the above stuff about us not being ready for promotion is probably right but not sure that this time last year Oxford would have been ready for promotion. Thing with football is that the unexpected happens with a surprise team showing up well over a season. Until they blew up at the end Stevenage were looking good for at least a play off place which was a big surprise. I don’t think we’ll go up this season but I’m never sure that planning for promotion in ‘3 years’ ever works. You can plan to get better and start to build a decent squad but if you ever get the chance to clinch promotion you go for it however far outside the expectations that may be.
We take every game at a time, try to win it and move on. Always been the way to do anything especially in the modern world when managers don’t often get the privilege of having 3 years to do anything.
I’m old enough to remember the 73-74 promotion and Don M was able to build his squad over the two years before we actually went up. He was able to add Mike Green and Trevor Jacobs to the defence he inherited and added Dobson and Stephens to the midfield and Warboys and Eadie the season before we went up. I hope Matt T gets the same amount of time. Without checking I think it was only Green and Jacobs added in pre season ‘73.
We won’t, but if we were challenging seriously in April I hope we would really go for it. The infrastructure would not be there but you can’t wait you just have to go for it and take opportunities when they come.
UTG!
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