Oxford v Carlisle - Sat 12th

[daviejones]

The half time prize draw has earned the flood fund £1,652, very good amount that.

 

[daviejones]

Either you've just called Oufc bias for reporting an own goal, or I've not understood you there.

Our reporter thinks it was a goal for our Kennedy to be fair.

 

[Sergei from IT]

Looks like we are subbing our GK

 

[Sergei from IT]

Looks like we are subbing our GK

No we are not

 

[Sergei from IT]

Our defence is not as solid as usual.

 

[shoddycollins]

Our defence is not as solid as usual.

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with your defence they're just having a hard time against players like Gilliead, and apparently Sweeney. Keep doing this, keep the score to 1-1, then bring Asamoah on.

 

[daviejones]

How on earth have we not scored here...

 

[shoddycollins]

Listening to this on the radio is torture

 

[shoddycollins]

Enter Derek Asamoah, Gilliead off though who seemed to be having a good game.

 

[shoddycollins]

Thank fuck for that

Could easily have won that game, but I'll certainly take the point.

 

[Sergei from IT]

Fair result

 

[cufc17]

Fantastic point. Sounded like a good performance too.

 

[daviejones]

Not a bad result given what we've had to deal with but should've taken the win really. Got to be looking at promotion if we can do that against the best this league has to offer.

 

[hellogregory]

Good point which I felt we deserved. If anything we had more chances to win the game, but I'm thankful that we didn't lose after our keeper pulled off a save to stop what I thought was going to be a certain winner for Oxford in stoppage time.

I think any team other than Oxford and we win that. Some of the blocks and last gasp tackles to deny us were top drawer. I can see why they don't concede many goals.

 

[Carver]

WOW what a good away point! Two good teams and both with chances to win it as well, top save from Gillespie at the end there! I think a draw was a fair result. I am really starting to believe in Curle and the squad he has put together and of course with a couple more new additions in January we will surely catch the league's front runners.

Oh and I must ask what 'ThisTinpotLeague' thought of the match? He will no doubt have sour grapes right now!

Aww did our supposed workman like performance get the better of your flair and skilful play? We got an own goal too, so that must mean we were just lucky, am I right?

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

Aww did our supposed workman like performance get the better of your flair and skilful play? We got an own goal too, so that must mean we were just lucky, am I right?

Get the better? You drew! When is the commemorative DVD?

 

[Sergei from IT]

The positives.
Jabo didn't score - Chey Dunkley had him completely wrapped up.
Neither did Asaboah.
In fact the top scores in L2 couldn't breach our defence. We had to do it for them.
Drawing at home to anybody in the top 7 is no shame - I am happy with the point.
Probably the best team to have come to the Kassam this season - even though Barnet beat us.

The negatives.
Our lack-lustre midfield. Completely overrun. 10 games in 5 weeks has taken its toll. Thank god for a week off.
Hitting the woodwork so often. One day they will go in.
Our hesitancy against the long throws of Ellliot /Elllis???
My missus insisting I watch Strictly with her. .

 

[shoddycollins]

The positives.
Jabo didn't score - Chey Dunkley had him completely wrapped up.
Neither did Asaboah.

Sounded like Wyke and Sweeney were giving you a bit of a hard time though, and perhaps had a bit of an off day with the finishing.

 

[hellogregory]

Wyke's effort just after half time after Gilliead's run and cut back, was very frustrating. If i could have chosen that chance to fall to anyone it would have been Wyke.

 

[daviejones]

The positives.
Jabo didn't score - Chey Dunkley had him completely wrapped up.
Neither did Asaboah.
In fact the top scores in L2 couldn't breach our defence. We had to do it for them.
Drawing at home to anybody in the top 7 is no shame - I am happy with the point.
Probably the best team to have come to the Kassam this season - even though Barnet beat us.

The negatives.
Our lack-lustre midfield. Completely overrun. 10 games in 5 weeks has taken its toll. Thank god for a week off.
Hitting the woodwork so often. One day they will go in.
Our hesitancy against the long throws of Ellliot /Elllis???
My missus insisting I watch Strictly with her. .

Sounded like Ibehre terrified your other centre half and he asked Dunkley to swap within about 10 minutes, if this is the case then that's a perfect example of what Ibehre brings into the game even when he's being marked out of it. I'm guessing there was quite a bit more space in your defence than usual, given how many good chances we had (more than most teams visiting you get I assume) and this will be because one of the centre halfs usually has to focus on Ibehre, bringing the likes of Gilliead and Sweeney the chance to cut in and find more room.

 

[Sergei from IT]

Having read the heavily biased reports in the Oxford press, and the even more biased reports in the Carlisle press I decided to get a neutral point of view. I have just watched the football league show. Not a single shot by Carlisle .

Nuff said.

 

[eric read]

As somebody who was actually there, which most of you on this thread apparently weren't, here's my view.

Firstly Oxford had a bit of an off day. The conditions were awful and Carlisle's tactics of throwing balls into the box at every opportunity (including from numerous long throws) caused us some problems and Carlisle's physicality (eight players of 6'2" or above) was more suited to the conditions. Keith Curle got his tactics right. I can see why Carlisle are top scorers as a lot of sides in this division would have crumbled under the arial bombardment. That's not a criticism as I thought Carlisle looked decent.

That said, we really should have won it. We hit the bar and the post and Carlisle's keeper pulled off a couple of great saves. If we played ten times I think we would win eight or nine of them. We were under par and only got our passing football going on a few occasions. I think we are guilty of trying to score the perfect goal sometimes. Carlisle's goal was a comedy own goal, with one of our defenders kicking the ball against another, and it came about one minute after the ref should have blown for half time.

Shit happens, we continue our unbeaten run and Carlisle will take points off of other challengers. One of those days.

 

[shoddycollins]

As somebody who was actually there, which most of you on this thread apparently weren't, here's my view.

Firstly Oxford had a bit of an off day. The conditions were awful and Carlisle's tactics of throwing balls into the box at every opportunity (including from numerous long throws) caused us some problems and Carlisle's physicality (eight players of 6'2" or above) was more suited to the conditions. Keith Curle got his tactics right. I can see why Carlisle are top scorers as a lot of sides in this division would have crumbled under the arial bombardment. That's not a criticism as I thought Carlisle looked decent.

That said, we really should have won it. We hit the bar and the post and Carlisle's keeper pulled off a couple of great saves. If we played ten times I think we would win eight or nine of them. We were under par and only got our passing football going on a few occasions. I think we are guilty of trying to score the perfect goal sometimes. Carlisle's goal was a comedy own goal, with one of our defenders kicking the ball against another, and it came about one minute after the ref should have blown for half time.

Shit happens, we continue our unbeaten run and Carlisle will take points off of other challengers. One of those days.

You can't have had that much of an off day if you reduced us to throwing balls into the box and trying to use our physicality, a tactic we've not used before this season. I don't think Ellis had even taken any throwins for us before yesterday. Normally we'd try and match you for passing so you must have been too good for that. It's good that we have backup strategies that can work when we're not going to pass it around teams but it sounds like a hard won point to us.

 

[hellogregory]

As somebody who was actually there, which most of you on this thread apparently weren't, here's my view.

Firstly Oxford had a bit of an off day. The conditions were awful and Carlisle's tactics of throwing balls into the box at every opportunity (including from numerous long throws) caused us some problems and Carlisle's physicality (eight players of 6'2" or above) was more suited to the conditions. Keith Curle got his tactics right. I can see why Carlisle are top scorers as a lot of sides in this division would have crumbled under the arial bombardment. That's not a criticism as I thought Carlisle looked decent.

That said, we really should have won it. We hit the bar and the post and Carlisle's keeper pulled off a couple of great saves. If we played ten times I think we would win eight or nine of them. We were under par and only got our passing football going on a few occasions. I think we are guilty of trying to score the perfect goal sometimes. Carlisle's goal was a comedy own goal, with one of our defenders kicking the ball against another, and it came about one minute after the ref should have blown for half time.

Shit happens, we continue our unbeaten run and Carlisle will take points off of other challengers. One of those days.

You should have won the game? Bull shit. I was there and a draw was fair. Hitting the post from a free kick does not mean you should have won the game. If you don't hit the target you can't expect to score, just like us when our player blazed an easy chance over the bar from 8 yards just after half time.

The only real notable saves I can remember from Gillespie was the one in the first half that he tipped over and the one right at the end after Roofe missed with his header.

 

[ThisTinpotLeague]

You can't have had that much of an off day if you reduced us to throwing balls into the box and trying to use our physicality, a tactic we've not used before this season. I don't think Ellis had even taken any throwins for us before yesterday. Normally we'd try and match you for passing so you must have been too good for that. It's good that we have backup strategies that can work when we're not going to pass it around teams but it sounds like a hard won point to us.

To be fair to your manager, it sounds like he has basically tried to do exactly what Barnet did - the only side to take all the points against us at home. Reasonable approach.

I genuinely don't understand why we are being treated so lucky to have drawn a game where we hit the woodwork twice, were denied by a great save and had far more shots on target.

 

[cufc17]

Judging from the highlights, it looked an even game and both teams had good chances. A draw probably a fair result.

It's a much better point for us though, we've gone to the league leaders and put in a solid team performance and earned a point.

 

[Carver]

I don't really care who had more shots or possession or whether it was a fair result or not, I'm just happy at us getting a good away point at one of the league's best teams. Both Carlisle and Oxford should be in the top 7 come the end of the season!

 

[hellogregory]

To be fair to your manager, it sounds like he has basically tried to do exactly what Barnet did - the only side to take all the points against us at home. Reasonable approach.

I genuinely don't understand why we are being treated so lucky to have drawn a game where we hit the woodwork twice, were denied by a great save and had far more shots on target.

No one who was there would say you were lucky to draw the game, but at the same time I don't think any honest person would say we were lucky to draw the game. Therefore a draw is probably as much as either team deserved and a fair result.

Hitting the post/bar isn't unlucky, it's just a miss.

The match stats say we had 3 shots on target. Quite clearly wrong. I can think of a passage of play in the box first half where we probably had 4 shots on target within about 20 seconds and a corner in the second half which resulted in another 3 shots on target.

 

[shoddycollins]

To be fair to your manager, it sounds like he has basically tried to do exactly what Barnet did - the only side to take all the points against us at home. Reasonable approach.

I genuinely don't understand why we are being treated so lucky to have drawn a game where we hit the woodwork twice, were denied by a great save and had far more shots on target.

Neither of us had that many shots on target, and given the number of shots total I'd say both teams could have been more clinical and made it a high-scoring encounter... but perhaps the weather (which I hear was very windy) had something to say on that. Nobody said Oxford were lucky.

 

[Habbinalan]

As somebody who was actually there, which most of you on this thread apparently weren't, here's my view.

........... I think we are guilty of trying to score the perfect goal sometimes. ............ One of those days.

I seem to have heard this after a few of your matches - it was certainly true against us. I also remember you failing to crumble (just) under our, final 10 minute, aerial bombardment that had undone a few lesser teams (York and Wimbledon in particular). Like Plymouth, it seems you need a goal scoring striker (or a change of approach) to be the complete article - easier said than done.