Friday 18th & Saturday 19th Feb

[Bobbin']

To be fair, even with a competent strike force there looked to be bigger issues at play.

Should have been seven. That was a dire Charlton side.

Yeah, to be fair they even surprised me at how poor they were today.

Worst performance for years.

Not one of them give a flying fuck.

The mad thing is I thought we were slightly the better side before you scored the first

 

[thewwfc]

Looking forward to Quest tonight, that five-five looks incredible. Good shooting, poor defending or a bit or both?

Pub team defending for both sides, and an excellent performance from Alfie May

 

[Robie]

First clean sheet since Ed Sheerans team 0-0 earlier in the season.

It came from changing to a back 3 with 2 up top and going all out attack. We are really exciting to watch this season already and it will be interesting to see if we keep this formation against the better teams we have coming up like Portsmouth and Plymouth.

 

[Bobbin']

First clean sheet since Ed Sheerans team 0-0 earlier in the season.

It came from changing to a back 3 with 2 up top and going all out attack. We are really exciting to watch this season already and it will be interesting to see if we keep this formation against the better teams we have coming up like Portsmouth and Plymouth.

Not taking anything away from Oxford but it seemed to be just literally balls over the top every time - well first half anyway, no issue with that as it worked every time because we’re so bad but would imagine you’d have to do something different against competent footballers.

 

[TractorBoys]

First half we did just enough, second half was total dominance and 3-0 flattered Burton. Should have been 5 or 6.

Jackson is a man possessed under Mckenna and has all Town fans eating their words.

That's 22 points from 30 under Mckenna, 7 clean sheets & 4 wins from 4 at home.

Really fancy us now.

 

[Si Robin]

Listened to the second half of our game whilst travelling back from visiting the in-laws. Sounded up there with our 6-5 win over Burton, which I was at, in 2010.

Alfie May is in the form of his life, and a lot of it is down to Kion Etete. He's been a revelation since coming in (if only he could head a ball).

 

[codaplenty]

Listened to the second half of our game whilst travelling back from visiting the in-laws. Sounded up there with our 6-5 win over Burton, which I was at, in 2010.

Alfie May is in the form of his life, and a lot of it is down to Kion Etete. He's been a revelation since coming in (if only he could head a ball).

Christ, if he could head a ball he'd be worth a small fortune

 

[masi51]

Jesus christ i am shocked....that is the worst performance i have seen from a visiting team in my life

 

[SuffolkBlue]

First half we did just enough, second half was total dominance and 3-0 flattered Burton. Should have been 5 or 6.

Jackson is a man possessed under Mckenna and has all Town fans eating their words.

That's 22 points from 30 under Mckenna, 7 clean sheets & 4 wins from 4 at home.

Really fancy us now.

Quite comfortable in the end against a decent side. We’ve been crying out for a manager like McKenna for a long time. Goes to prove how poor Cook did in his short time here. Who’d have thought Jackson would be the man! Winnable games coming up as well

 

[SVH]

3 points and a clean sheet. See you all next season.

 

[Marked Ox]

Our fantastic win has been utterly overshadowed by the news that Joey Beauchamp has died at the age of 50.

 

[WhiteRussian]

A good win for us but who would have thought a month ago Sunderland would be falling out of the playoffs. Odds on Ipswich and even Bolton will overtake them if they don't get their shit together.

Anyway, other than them it's no real change at the top...... yet.

 

[Ninety Per Cent]

Our fantastic win has been utterly overshadowed by the news that Joey Beauchamp has died at the age of 50.

Sad to hear of Joey’s passing, a class act who made it to the Top Flight.

 

[GeneralLee]

Our fantastic win has been utterly overshadowed by the news that Joey Beauchamp has died at the age of 50.

Really awful. The guy was simply our best ever player. Should have made it to the top but only ever had the ambition to play (rightly or wrongly) for Ox.

Sadly it appears he had his demons. Gone way too soon. Such a shame for all associated with the club, he was a real hero for many watching throughout the 90’s.

Thoughts are with his family.

RIP, Joey.

 

[Super_horns]

Our fantastic win has been utterly overshadowed by the news that Joey Beauchamp has died at the age of 50.

Former Oxford winger Joey Beauchamp dies aged 50

Oxford have paid tribute to their former winger Joey Beauchamp, who has died at the age of 50

www.theguardian.com

Very sad - was a real legend for you guys .

 

[stevowanderer]

Jesus christ i am shocked....that is the worst performance i have seen from a visiting team in my life

Me too. Absolutely dire. Most of them couldn’t be bothered running. We played well but we weren’t challenged at all. Bizarre performance by them

 

[WhiteRussian]

Me too. Absolutely dire. Most of them couldn’t be bothered running. We played well but we weren’t challenged at all. Bizarre performance by them

Well done. I'll even take Masi's overblown 'Best team in the world' comments for four past AFC.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Well done. I'll even take Masi's overblown 'Best team in the world' comments for four past AFC.

Pint of bitter pal?

 

[WhiteRussian]

Pint of bitter pal?

Nope, just a normal dose of love between us.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Nope, just a normal dose of love between us.

Rise above it.

 

[WhiteRussian]

Rise above it.

........... It's very difficult you know.

 

[BarrieOwl]

........... It's very difficult you know.

True, I hate how MK came about but it's done and 18 year or so after so fuck it

 

[Gills4years]

To be fair, even with a competent strike force there looked to be bigger issues at play.

Should have been seven. That was a dire Charlton side.

It was seven at our place. Those Addicks don't even know how to be properly sh*t !!

The powder puff attack we have been left with were never going to score against Plymouth and their keeper ended up with gloves as clean as we had expected. Only needed one goal to settle it but at least Harris has us more organised now, Gifting possession in a bad place for the first goal and a badly mistimed tackle for the second was what ultimately did for us.

Tuesday will be another cup final for us and we have to find a way to score.

 

[GeneralLee]

Not taking anything away from Oxford but it seemed to be just literally balls over the top every time - well first half anyway, no issue with that as it worked every time because we’re so bad but would imagine you’d have to do something different against competent footballers.

I suppose you can only beat what’s in front of you. Scoring four away from home, hitting the bar, having a number of other close shaves is far more than you could hope for visiting Charlton on any day.

The switch to a five man midfield really caught ourselves off guard at we didn’t start well in the first ten minutes (a switch from our traditional 4-3-3). You were a team with high energy and a good press initially. There were some signs (masked by lots of energy) that chances would come and it was a quick counter which ultimately did the damage. I’m just staggered you… Just sort of gave up after about 20 minutes.

It was ultimately a switch to that formation which helped our cause in overloading the attack.

Terrific result.

 

[Davidimp]

Awful news regarding Joey Beauchamp, slightly older than me, scary stuff
RIP

 

[wessy]

Me too. Absolutely dire. Most of them couldn’t be bothered running. We played well but we weren’t challenged at all. Bizarre performance by them

To be fair when two of your players are number 50 and 55 it tells you they were down to bare bones, they were crap but we played some great football happy days.

 

[Marked Ox]

A tribute from another poster (Ricky Otto) on our forum sums up perfectly what Joey Beauchamp meant to us Oxford fans. I'm sure you've all got a player or players that evoke the same emotion:

Apologies for posting again but after a night sleeping on this I posted this on Facebook. If any good can come of this then the mental health message is important folks….

Football is my happy place. I fell in love with the game because my dad, a talented winger, would take me into the garden as a little boy and kick the ball with me for hours upon hours, year after year. It’s always been at the heart of what bonded us. And it’s always been my spiritual escape both on and off the field.

When I moved to Oxford I fell in love with my local club. They’re not the biggest or best club but they were MY local club and MY tribe. My legs used to shake as I approached the ground on matchday, so excited was i. I stood as a young boy shoulder to shoulder, but in the shadows, of thousands of men going through the same rite of passage. I will never ever recapture that experience as the crowd surges lifted your legs and planted you 20 yards somewhere else. The roar of the crowd. The industrial chanting and intensity of the masses. It was my heaven. My happy place. Still today, as I passionately coach my girls team on Saturday mornings, I’m secretly checking the Oxford score throughout, and as my daughter would tell you, the result dictates my mood for the day.

And in all of that there was the player that made me fall in love with the game. The winger Joey Beauchamp. He was perfection. He was born local. Played in the same boys club as me, in the same position , with the same small physique and weakness in the air. But HE was phenomenal. Our greatest. And should have played for England. He defined the club and became a legend. He got sent to play premier league to finance saving the existence of our tribe. But he found his way home because he didn’t want fame , money or glory. He just wanted to be little old Oxford. Whenever he got the ball the whole ground would reverberate with excitement, roaring him forward, goal after goal. He was adored. And he was and forever will be my all time football hero alongside my dad.

And yet with all the adoration, all that legend, everything we young lads dreamed of, he had demons. Plaguing him. Constantly. It was no secret. Gambling, alcohol, depression; and a truly sensitive soul.

And yesterday at the age of just 50, with a wife and two kids left behind, he took his own life.

If you are suffering please be brave and tell someone. If you’re ever worried about someone, please just outright ask them how they’re doing.

Thank you Joey for making me believe in heroes and dreams. You were an imperfect soul like all of us, but you were my perfection.

 

[Bobbin']

I suppose you can only beat what’s in front of you. Scoring four away from home, hitting the bar, having a number of other close shaves is far more than you could hope for visiting Charlton on any day.

Yeah wasn’t a slight on Oxford, found something simple that worked and kept doing it. Down to us to be better.

We were nothing short of a disgrace in every aspect.

 

[Robie]

Yeah wasn’t a slight on Oxford, found something simple that worked and kept doing it. Down to us to be better.

We were nothing short of a disgrace in every aspect.

Which goal was simple?

 

[Bobbin']

Which goal was simple?

First half, you were playing the ball over the top a fair bit and got onto the end of it each time. I’m saying the tactic was simple.

Seeing as you asked though they were all pretty simple, didn’t have to work hard for any of them, the second and third in particular were a complete joke from our point of view. I left after the sending off so the 4th may well have been total football.