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Post by warehamgas on Oct 21, 2023 18:46:26 GMT
Before my time but what a player. I think that just leaves Geoff Hurst from the WC winning team 🙁 Indeed, was thinking exactly the same. Sir Geoff the last one. Sir Bobby, a gentleman, a great player and respected all over the world. RIP. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 21, 2023 18:33:45 GMT
Achievable names..... I'd like Darren Ferguson. I think he could be prised away from Peterborough. Plays good football and knows how to get out of this league. Other notable mentions would be Paul cook who's doing a fantastic job at chesterfield John Eustace who was extremely unlucky to lose his job at Birmingham. My worry would be we'd get in Karl Robinson Other than that I don't really see many upgrades on Barton out there that are attainable at present so happy for him to remain in charge and prove he has what it takes. I love the football we play under him and think he needs to be given more time. ..Big Dunc sounds like an amazing proposition imo Are we muddling up our Fergusons? Big Dunc would be as disastrous as he was at FGR. And Darren Ferguson ….no thanks. Whatever anyone thinks about JB in the end it will be the results that determine what happens to him. Today was a bad result but it sounds as if we played ok up until they equalised, win our two winnable home games coming up and the mood will change. Lose them and pressure will build. What would help is to avoid getting red cards they make everything else that much harder. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 20, 2023 19:18:01 GMT
Hull v Southampton. 1-2 M,boro v Birmingham. 2-1 Burton v Gas. 0-2 Exeter v Wigan. 2-1 Bradford v Wrexham. 2-2 Gillingham v Notts Co. 1-2 Aldershot v Hartlepool. 1-1 F Celtic v Brackley. 1-1 Posh Sports v Southport. 2-0 Scarborough v Buxton. 2-2 Braintree v W S M. 1-1 Weymouth v Eastbourne. 2-1
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 20, 2023 19:08:29 GMT
3233 with 911 travelling.
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 19, 2023 21:37:49 GMT
Bad luck for Luke. He was starting to find some form and would have been getting more games considering the players we have carrying injuries.
But it’s not just us, from just listening and reading what else is going on, Oxford have been in double figures for injuries and Lincoln have lost both centre forwards for the past month. At least JB has more patient owners, the Lincoln manager has lost his job because of their run with the results he’s had without forwards. I’m sure there are other clubs suffering.
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 17, 2023 12:08:55 GMT
Totally different scenarios, we had a choice in our promotion season and went for youth over experience, during our relegation season we lost players after the window closed. Although wasn't the main reason swapping Eliot Richards for Alan Gow, who was injured just after he joined us? Plus we had a useless strike force. I agree Topper, quite different situations. The Holloway season Burnley went and signed Ian Wright that window, can you imagine his personality and what it did for their camp, 15 appearances and 4 goals and they went up where as we signed youth/work experience kids! The season we went down the damage was done, DC given the reigns too late, he should have been brought in well before and given a window. This seasons budget has been used badly, I don’t get this hysteria that it’s so good, it’s like making a wedding cake and having no icing, we literally have no strikers?!?! All the crap about JCH not having an official agent, you’d have known about this prior to the deal, Lambert was 5th choice, where was our 2nd, 3rd 4th etc? This isn’t scouting going after an old girlfriend like JCH who BTW the other week looked anything but the player we sold. Lazy scouting, it’s agents scouting and who do you have lads, Friend back to Barnstaple, Wilson back home Newport, it’s all pension pot stuff, same as Pitman and Leon Clarke. I don’t see Cogs and Liam Scales scouting, DC and his non league knowledge, we sign on agent’s recommendations and Collins was found by a previous scout not employed by Barton. Oxford summed it up this summer with Harris and Rodrigues, young, hungry and pace, both frees. Even the right back was unemployed this summer, it’s really poor scouting. And if Barton goes, so does Jennings, the tail wags the dog with us and these two, we don’t have it like Exeter where the manager leaves, the infrastructure is in place. I do hope the Kuwait’s see this, Barton and Jennings have a £4.5 million budget are are last minute shopping all the time, it’s incredible. The only praise I give them that his contacts seem to let us exploit the loan market but then again, the ex PE Teacher Liam Manning who Barton ridicules these sorts has also done brilliant on the loan market for Oxford, their GK on loan won them the game, England U21 international Yes, the season we went down it had been a bad season all round, starting at the previous Summer recruitment. there was damage but the damage was retrievable and despite bad decisions and Topper’s point about the Richards /Gow situation being a good one, the lack of Smith and Brown during the last few matches of 13/14 did have a huge impact. We should have stayed up even at that late stage. Our attack was awful but given we had beaten Wycombe the previous week and we went into the last game favourites to stay up then the impact of losing our two defenders did affect what happened. I suppose the two scenarios are different as are any two seasons when you compare them but losing key players, as those two were, can be compared to the earlier situation. What you’ve said about the current situation I don’t disagree with. 👍 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 17, 2023 11:51:06 GMT
Not very different to the 13/14 season when we went out of the league. Michael Brown injured at Pompey at Easter and missed the run in and then Lee Brown injured at the end. Playing without those two made such a difference and almost sealed our fate. ☹️ UTG! Totally different scenarios, we had a choice in our promotion season and went for youth over experience, during our relegation season we lost players after the window closed. Although wasn't the main reason swapping Eliot Richards for Alan Gow, who was injured just after he joined us? Plus we had a useless strike force. No. Not very different at all. The bottom line was that we were missing two very good players, they were not in the team when we needed them and it had a great impact on the team. We were relegated, against the earlier times when we missed what looked like certain promotion. On both occasions the missing players impacted on the immediate future of BRFC. Of course there were other reasons for both events but don’t tell me that having no Ronnie Mauge earlier and not having Brown and Smith can’t be compared. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 17, 2023 8:38:27 GMT
The talk of Rodman brings me to the DC and Paul Thorpe relationship which I think for football dealings wasn’t good at all, they are mates aren’t they………Ellis for £800k to Ipswich was a disaster for the Tractor Boys, and Hurst’s recommendations on Stefan Payne and Rodman were the same. I liked Alex but he was sicknote well before his serious illness. Someone made a fair comment above re Holloway and pro rata which is a good one. My only defence of Ollie even back in 2000/2001, he sold Hayles, Roberts, Zamora, Ellington, Cureton for in excess of £6 million and if we are doing pro rata, that’s probably about £15 million plus today! I look back to those days, fans paying for the Blackthorn End on 50/50 draw, what did the board really put back in them and it all started with them as well. Mauge injury, that window we brought in Junior Lewis and Wollaston, we had one foot in the Championship and I won’t forgive that board for one final push to take us up. Well remember the Mauge injury. Wasn’t Pritchard also injured at the same time? Bringing in youngsters on loan was a disaster. Remember Wolleaston but can’t recall Junior Lewis. Where did he come from? Not very different to the 13/14 season when we went out of the league. Michael Brown injured at Pompey at Easter and missed the run in and then Lee Brown injured at the end. Playing without those two made such a difference and almost sealed our fate. ☹️ UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 15, 2023 18:50:59 GMT
Just the mention of cone boy sends shivers down my spine. He must of done the job for nothing or paid clubs to destroy them He didn’t destroy Swindle eh. In fact he took the job when they never even had a full team and got them to the play off final, if i remember correctly. Also, do not forget the brief he was given when he was employed with us. Yes, it was a terrible decision i agree but those who run the club wished to buy young players, develop and sell. He was on a hiding to nothing. It’s ironic how the same people bemoaned his tippy tippy football, that now praise our latest incumbent Yes, he did well at Swindon with support around him to get into the play-offs (semi-finals not final). But if he fails at Colchester I’m not sure there’s a way back for him in the EFL and he’ll end up on the London/Home Counties non league circuit. 3 fails out of 4 managing posts isn’t the best look. Hindsight is always easy but when he had done well at Swindon he was badly advised or perhaps delusional to take the Charlton job in the circumstances at the time. (Charlton were being taken over and everyone knew that it needed an experienced manager like the new man Michael Appleton. Dean Holden, just sacked, was the same as BG had no chance there) I know Swindon were still in a financial hole and were probably pleased to get the compo money for him but he should have stayed there. After a good season he would have had some goodwill to give him time to build something. But yesterday losing to FGR 0-5 was an awful sign. I don’t think he’ll recover from that. But come on KP, to compare the football of BG which was tippy-tippy with no purpose to that we play now is way off. We do play possession football but we have a squad which is suited to that with experience and pace in the team. It is about how we use the possession-based football and that is just years above what BG was trying to do. Irrespective of what I think about JB, the football I’ve seen is far better although it must be said he’s been allowed to collect the best squad for some time for which he is now under pressure to achieve. I still wonder on occasions but when it works it has been excellent, Wigan, Port Vale, occasions at Pompey, Charlton and last week for large chunks of the Oxford match. JB has to find some consistency which I’m sure he’s aware of. But compare JB to BG, no, no, no. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 15, 2023 16:09:21 GMT
Is it my understanding that there will be no replays in the early rounds? Or something I imagined? I thought that was a thing now as well, not a fan of it at all. You may be right but they’ve had replays in the qualifying rounds leading up to it. Strange if they now change to a single match followed by penalties. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 14, 2023 7:35:10 GMT
A non league team at home. What could go wrong? 🤔 Weymouth away for me now that Taunton have already been knocked out. UTG! You will be lonely at Weymouth mate,bath city knocked them out last round 🙂 Thanks, missed that. Would never have happened anyway, we’ll be somewhere hard to get to. As I said, non league at home. 😉 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 13, 2023 21:55:53 GMT
A non league team at home. What could go wrong? 🤔 Weymouth away for me now that Taunton have already been knocked out. UTG! £15 return with a senior railcard by train Long old walk from Weymouth station to the ground. Thankfully only a half hour drive for me. But is all a tad premature. Probably be Colchester away. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 13, 2023 21:02:32 GMT
A non league team at home. What could go wrong? 🤔
Weymouth away for me now that Taunton have already been knocked out.
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 13, 2023 20:56:51 GMT
Blackpool v Stevenage. 2-0 Carlise v Orient. 2-0 F G R v Colchester. 1-1 Grimsby v Accy. 1-0 Darlo v Kings Lynn. 1-1 Posh sports v Banbury. 2-0 Farnborough v St Albans. 1-1 Hampton v Dartford. 0-1 Weymouth v Tonbridge. 1-0 Altrincham v Oldham. 0-2 Aveley v Barnet. 0-2 Torquay v Maidstone. 3-1
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 11, 2023 12:15:23 GMT
Glad it was a good game. Fair dos to those Yeovil fans travelling, good to see the enthusiasm being kept going. I do think they’ve got to their lowest point. Now they should start to enjoy some relative success in the next few years to re-build the club.
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 10, 2023 8:14:04 GMT
The point is Oxford CC are also supplying the land unlike BCC. The only way we can fund the FM is to sell the Mem. I thought we had millionaire owners, who would have some contacts. I think we need to stop looking at others and making it their fault..why should we be given any land? What is the right deal for BRFC? It seems we want a new ground, or like the idea of it, but don't want to have to pay for it and all the terms need to be in our favour. The whole stadium saga, gives a real indication of the owners appetite for success. If the South stand is a sign of how things will look in 10 years, temporary looking, pillars everywhere...slight improvement on what was there. It doesn't really get me excited. Exactly. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 9, 2023 22:04:03 GMT
Tomorrow night I'm going to watch Yeovil vs Keynsham at Keynsham, makes me laugh that its a pitch I've played competitive fixtures on! Love to see how badly they've fallen after that tit with the sign Yes, it is funny but I guess it’s a Somerset Senior Cup match which Yeovil might have been playing when they were in the Championship. The big difference of course is that then they’d have sent their reserves or youth team, now it will have several first teamers in it, probably. But yes, I expect that bloke gets reminded several times about that notice and I bet he wishes he’d shown some humbleness! 😀 UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 9, 2023 21:55:53 GMT
From the report they are leasing the land form Oxfordshire CC. UTG! It seems pretty easy to get council support in a one club city not so easy when they are two pro football clubs. Although pp might not be that easy to obtain: "A poll held by Kidlington Parish Council in May saw 29.99% of residents cast a vote. The majority of those opposed it" Perhaps you’re right it may be harder but what about South Gloucestershire, that could be a one club authority I guess. And I guess that’s why it’s so frustrating, everyone, including what you’ve written is all about people looking for excuses and reasons why something doesn’t happen rather than planning to ensure it does happen. Another excuse after so many years. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 9, 2023 20:04:12 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-67052207Meanwhile, while we’re arguing about a stand Oxford have unveiled plans for a new ground. if Oxford’s new ground is built the bottom line is that our inability to build a new ground is pretty pathetic whatever the excuses or reasons might be. They will have had two new grounds and we might have just about built a temporary stand by that time. UTG! Any idea how they are funding that ? Looks very nice. Everyone seems to be adding hotels to new stadium builds / plans. Obviously generates decent revenue for the club From the report they are leasing the land form Oxfordshire CC. UTG!
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Post by warehamgas on Oct 9, 2023 18:56:31 GMT
Meanwhile, while we’re arguing about a stand Oxford have unveiled plans for a new ground. if Oxford’s new ground is built the bottom line is that our inability to build a new ground is pretty pathetic whatever the excuses or reasons might be. They will have had two new grounds and we might have just about built a temporary stand by that time. UTG! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-67052207Edit: just posted this on the New Stand thread but might be better here. Mods please amend if needed.
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