chippygull wrote:This is my nearest fixture and I'm really looking forward to it; the 2-0 win and that fantastic comeback from 0-3 to 3-3 with Sillsy proving to his old club that he could score goals!! If good things go in threes, let's hope for a belter tomorrow!!!
Mine too! See you there Chippygull (from Chipping Norton I presume) I reckon its a point apiece with a 1 - 1 but I will gladly eat my underpants if we get a win (well, not my underpants exactly). JackFM are trying to play OUFC up at the moment on the radio. Going early to get a decent parking slot.
I shall look out for a pants-eating fan at the exit! Getting in and out and parking can be a bloody nightmare. I can never decide whether to leave the car on the Industrial Estate road or try and get into the car-washer riddled car park. Do we have to buy tickets from one hole and then enter through another?
Fate: A police dog called Bryn bit Torquay player Jim McNichol and the time while he was receiving treatment was added onto the end of the second half.
Centre halves Mark Creighton and Jake Wright were both sent off as the U s crashed 5-0 on Saturday, their heaviest defeat under Chris Wilder.
And it means both players are suspended for tomorrow night s npower League Two game against Torquay United at the Kassam Stadium.
Creighton is banned for one match, because his dismissal was for two yellow cards, but Wright faces a three-match suspension, as does Bradford s James Hanson, after the pair traded blows in a melee at the time of Creighton s dismissal.
Harry Worley and Leigh Franks will now be forced to line-up in central defence against Torquay.
Fate: A police dog called Bryn bit Torquay player Jim McNichol and the time while he was receiving treatment was added onto the end of the second half.
Senda out, Robbo Travels, Mansell back, news from the official site. Id go for
Bevan
Nicholson
Branston (C)
Ellis
Oastler
Zebroski
Wroe
Mansell
Rose
Benyon
Kee
Line up with that and we should win comfortably considering their suspensions. If Kee has another game without scoring, I would start to CONSIDER gritton. Go for Oastler at right back, if Robbo is still not ready, gutted that senda is out, my man of the match for morecambe before he got subbed, often carried macklin in the first half.
I'm feeling we should perhaps start with Gritton for this one.
Oxford are having to bring in Leigh Franks at Centre Half, who has only played 4 or 5 senior games. I think we'd stand a much better chance against him with an old fashioned centre forward to bash him about, as its unlikely he'd have experienced much like that in his Reserve team background. Plus, when I last saw Gritton in a 5 min cameo at Gillingham he looked more mobile and effective.
I really want it to work out for Billy Kee, and every game I hope to myself today will be the day, but time is running out. To be fair the games I've been to he's only had a few minutes so I'm yet to see him play for any great length of time so can only pass judgement on what those on here say.
Agree with the central midfield of Wroe and Manse, and also would be interested to see Oastler at Full Back - I liked what I saw of him in Centre Mid at Gillingham, and I'm never totally convinced of Robbo as a full back.
I do like Jeff's idea above of playing Gritton in this one against two young centre halves. If we were to do that E O'K can go back into central midfield and Wroe can drop out. I don't particularly like the idea of playing Wroe anyway, not because he's leaving but because he hasn't had a good game in about 6 months. Benyon up front on his own is also not ideal.
Centre halves Mark Creighton and Jake Wright were both sent off as the U s crashed 5-0 on Saturday, their heaviest defeat under Chris Wilder.
And it means both players are suspended for tomorrow night s npower League Two game against Torquay United at the Kassam Stadium.
Creighton is banned for one match, because his dismissal was for two yellow cards, but Wright faces a three-match suspension, as does Bradford s James Hanson, after the pair traded blows in a melee at the time of Creighton s dismissal.
Harry Worley and Leigh Franks will now be forced to line-up in central defence against Torquay.
Please don't take this as me doubting you, but in the past if you were sent off on a Saturday your suspension didn't start until the following Saturday, I am pressuming looking at the above that this rule has changed?
I thought the same, but all the press here say the kids will both be brought in at CB...
Harry Worley and Leigh Franks will take over from the suspended Mark Creighton and Jake Wright, who were both sent off in a disastrous second half at Valley Parade.
Josh Payne, who didn t come out for the second 45 minutes because of an ankle injury, is fit to play.
“It s now all about how we react,†Wilder said. “We showed a good reaction after the Macclesfield defeat, against Northampton, and I m confident that, with our supporters getting behind us, we ll be able to show another good reaction.â€ÂÂ
Wilder admitted it had been a long weekend, but after analysing Saturday s game on the DVD, he felt most of the City goals came on the counter-attack and once the sendings-off happened “it was game, set and matchâ€ÂÂ.
He said: “The players were hurting and it was a heavy defeat, we understand that, but it s still just three points lost.
“We ve got to excite the fans and we owe the supporters a performance full of desire and commitment.
“The players have got to show me that they re good enough in terms of mentality and performance to take this club forward.â€ÂÂ
Wilder is probably thinking about other changes, and can call on the likes of Damian Batt, Steve Kinniburgh, Jack Midson, Matt Green, and Simon Clist, if the latter has recovered from his ankle injury.
Torquay have gone nine games without a clean sheet. Paul Buckle s team did chalk up their first win in ten league games, though, on Saturday, beating Morecambe 3-1 at Plainmoor. Like Oxford, Morecambe had two players sent off, including one after only ten minutes.
Former Oxford player-of-the-year Lee Mansell, the new captain at Torquay, returns after a one-match ban, while another ex-U s man, forward Chris Zebroski, has hit six goals this season.
Ex-Wycombe right back Danny Senda is a doubt with a hamstring injury.
Fate: A police dog called Bryn bit Torquay player Jim McNichol and the time while he was receiving treatment was added onto the end of the second half.
Awayday wrote:
Please don't take this as me doubting you, but in the past if you were sent off on a Saturday your suspension didn't start until the following Saturday, I am pressuming looking at the above that this rule has changed?
It now takes place for the next competetive match (also applies to the 5 yellow totting up now, according to the FA website {section a, para 8, a, viii}).
Awayday wrote:Please don't take this as me doubting you, but in the past if you were sent off on a Saturday your suspension didn't start until the following Saturday, I am pressuming looking at the above that this rule has changed?
Awayday wrote:
Please don't take this as me doubting you, but in the past if you were sent off on a Saturday your suspension didn't start until the following Saturday, I am pressuming looking at the above that this rule has changed?
Page one of this very thread has a post from me showing the exact rule.....
Very annoyed, going to have to miss the game tonight due to a catastrophic gearbox failure. En route. Stat on miserable train home, will even miss the first half text commentary and updates on here!
Still, I hope that I am even more annoyed later on because I missed a majestic gulls victory, rather than thankful I missed out. That will be adequate compensation!
