Wary... of Oxford United!? Relax!
It's Christmas and a little bit cold out. Let's just agree you win this time. It'll be easier that way.
Besides, we wouldn't dream or even dare to attempt to win this fixture. Mostly because we aren't very good and won't threaten it.
Anyway, enjoy your win...
With a win this weekend we could find ourselves in touching distance of the play-offs. Which would be a joke given how awful we are.
That being said, it's a pointless hypothetical as in typical KR/Oxford form we'll fail to win and perform atrociously.
Anyway, on to Accrington!
We currently sit 12th in the table which is bonkers really. Despite this, the next two games we'd be expected to win despite our obvious failings which would put us back in play-off contention. Contention, we absolutely do not deserve. We have performed horribly in the transfer market, on the...
I have no idea why we’d ever recall him considering he is no better than Ed McGinty and Simon Eastwood. I thought it was a strange comment actually.
Worth mentioning before he left it was announced that he’d signed a new deal. He hadn’t. He fell out with Karl Robinson so we triggered a one year...
I’m not sure if it was intended as so, however on paper we really ought to comfortably be the better side so ‘bread and butter’ might be a little disingenuous (even if we are utterly pants right now!).
Our issue is a Manager that is so up his own bottom he’s solely accountable for our decline...
A game of two halves. We made Fleetwood look brilliant first half. Second half we looked somewhat capable (not brilliant) and Fleetwood offered about as little as we did first half. What a dour game of football.
We are useless. I'm staggered Robinson is still in a job.
Tuesday night we had the...
A battling performance from us at Bolton. It was actually an enjoyable watch. Not because we won, but because we actually looked someone threatening. We are showing early signs that all is not lost though we’ve recruited horribly so battling performances are all we can offer right now. Mid-table...
These red cards are keeping Robinson in a job. Our board are evidently very forgiving.
We actually weren't that bad last night in fairness to him. We were on top for the first half but the sending off shifted the momentum entirely and we likely should have lost in the end (despite the goal...
We are not a good side. That makes Exeter off the charts level of terribleness.
I don’t think they had a shot in the first 60 minutes. The effort they showed was embarrassing up until this point - What was that performance about/there didn’t appear to be much fuss by your supporters either when...
To be fair, if anyone else would be open to signing a petition for all League One fixtures to adopt play 8-a-side until the January transfer window opens (given we don’t have any full-backs or enough wingers) we’ll be out of a relegation scrap in weeks!
We aren’t very good.
We’ve gone from being one of the highest scorers in the country to the most bland, uninspiring and boring side I’ve seen in years.
It won’t be long until KR is sacked.
Our recruitment has been dire. Incidentally we have the biggest budget in our history and I suspect we'll be spending big bucks in January/next season... But on the face of it as things stand we've blown it on wasteful signings which have yet to justify the expense.
The issue on the playing...
Club rivalries are historically based on proximity and similarities in performance. Dare I say, I don't feel much towards Swindon. I'm 32, so in my lifetime of supporting OUFC (first game 95/96) we were both competitive near side-by-side before I turned 10 years old. Subsequent to the nineties...
Frankly I don't think we look at any side as beatable right now! We are poor.
To be fair, we started to show brief glimpses of some reasonably decent football at times on Tuesday. We are still very fragile and easy to dispatch so it's far from a forgone conclusion.
Apparently Karl Robinson is being/has been considered.
If he is, he'd be completely out of his depth. League One mid-table/upper mid-table is about his level. Presently he's even falling short of that.
Everything pre January 2022 we had largely done well (beyond recruiting physicality in midfield and full backs but this had been an issue for years) was basically spot on for a club our size.
Now we are throwing money around (our supposedly better players are now on £6k - £10k). We just haven’t...
I doubt it (unless a new Manager comes in and sees fit to recall him).
Stevens was being courted by Villa and Arsenal in January. Despite being (25?), due to quotas I suspect if he has a good season and is playing games he’ll be sold and utilised as a second or third choice goalkeeper...
We haven’t recruited at all well. Fundamentally our once resourceful recruitment in 18 months has been trumped by other clubs who adopted a similar model and generally do it better than we did so very well over the last few years.
On the pitch we don’t have any full backs (not even bad ones)...