w/e Saturday 12th November 2022

[BarrieOwl]

It's all good hearted banter to me but I guess everybody takes and reacts to banter differently.

If I felt it was remotely offensive I'd pack up on forums.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

If I felt it was remotely offensive I'd pack up on forums.

Trouble with the internet isn't it, if it was work or a pub you could see how it was going down and adjust according, but online you don't know unless they say. Certainly didn't come over as personal to me.
Best to young Andy too, don't envy anyone struggling with their mental health.

 

[Si Robin]

Yes certainly all the best to Andy, that is the most important point.

However, I don't think Barrie's post was remotely offensive - and it certainly wasn't personal. It was clearly made in jest. Had he called him a twat or something (which he has a few members) then I'd get it, but that certainly wasn't the case here.

 

[eric read]

We always lose at Oxford so not expecting much. Oxford fans are moaning about being without 3 players. Well we are missing our 3 topscorers from last season James Wilson 15 goals, Jamie proctor 13 goals, Ben garrity 12 goals. Also we can't play Stevens in goal so stone has got play and the last 2 games he has played he let 3 in against Exeter and 3 against Ipswich, he was also in goal when we let 4 in away at Exeter in the season so he is a keeper that is letting goals in. Also will Forrester who has been our best defender is out injured and 2 holding midfielders funso ojo and Brad walker are out so if anybody should be moaning about players been out injured then it should be us

It's not that we're without 3 players, it's 3 MORE players. I've lost count, but I think this means we're without about 8 or 9 players.

Enjoy your three points.

 

[kieran_vale]

Shame I can’t go to this one due to work as Oxford is always a good away trip or at least the city is. The ground is a little too far from the train station for my liking but anyone could say the same for VP on that.

As for today I might be basing this more off how they’ve looked the last few years but I refuse to believe they are not going to move up the table at some point. Both teams missing players but as we get to this point of the season that’s hardly exclusive to anyone. We’ve managed alright with our squad up to now at least so need to keep it going.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

We are short up front at the moment, however Carlos Gomes Mendez, on loan from Luton is on a blue spell at the moment and Paddy Lane is coming back to form nicely. We have a good midfield around Dan Batty, Josh Vela Brendan Wiredu. All our losses so far have been by the odd goal, good incentive for you lads to go one better eh ?

Ah yes I remember seeing Wiredu play against us for Colchester last season and he looked their best player alongside Chilvers.
I have always said our weak point is down either flank so that might be where you expose us. Joey will certainly have them fired up for today especially.
Looking like a perfect day for football down here too!

 

[kieran_vale]

Only the five changes for DC today. Just gotten used to it by now, usually more interested waiting to see what combo he puts together for a game than the actual game itself now.

 

[valefan16]

Three back from injury including Forrester and Harrison who start, Garrity back and on the bench. Happy enough with the line up. See how it pans out though.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Jay starts ahead of Nombe. Interesting, though Nombe looked knackered at Vale.
No Randall in the squad for Posh

 

[Chris FGR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1591430624556056577

Wycombe have got no chance.

 

[stevowanderer]

We’ve just put in what I would expect will be the first long throw under Ian Evatt. Maybe he’s finally learning that you can’t just pass your way out of this league, you have to be good at everything.

 

[valefan16]

Another gift of a goal given away.

 

[CTFCfan99]

Going to be a long, long, long afternoon for us

 

[Chris FGR]

Scrappy defending from a set piece, and we’re behind again as usual.

 

[valefan16]

Game over. If you’re in a shit run at home and need a hand you can guarantee we will give it you. Really poor.

 

[Chris FGR]

2-0 to Wycombe, it’s wave after wave of attack at the moment. Could be 3 or 4. And we’re the fucking home side.

 

[CTFCfan99]

Bloody hell we've scored!

 

[stevowanderer]

We look drained of confidence atm. No one is being brave at all in possession. Same story as the last few weeks and we are miles off it again so far.

 

[valefan16]

We seem to put in a real stinker every couple of months (Exeter/Posh) and this seems another one. That said their keepers made a great save and we’ve had chances.

Bad keeping for the first which emphasises the fact we need to sort it in January and diabolical defending for the second. Pretty much handing them three points on a plate, which I anticipate a couple being smashed in the dressing room at the moment.

Not sure Mal is league one level.

 

[bigfatron]

A surprising amount of off the ball niggling from Wanderers - including their forward picking a scrap with Lloyd Jones which is kind of unwise - is this usual?

 

[valefan16]

This is X rated stuff now. It’s a worrying result as these are pretty poor and yet are bumping us.

 

[kieran_vale]

Two of DC’s former players at Rovers scoring against us today. Bit ungrateful of them to do that to him. Don’t want to labour a point but we need to deal with the keeper position properly in January. Stone is not up to this level (not saying it’s all his fault but he has too many skittish moments). We are certainly not good enough to overcome a weakness at that position.

 

[stevowanderer]

A surprising amount of off the ball niggling from Wanderers - including their forward picking a scrap with Lloyd Jones which is kind of unwise - is this usual?

Not really. I think we are bang out of form and really frustrated. You guys have been just as bad mind, but yeah this is an awful game. So hard to watch

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Another absolute belter of a ref officiates at The Mem., Where do they get these guys from?

Bobby Madden today

 

[Trapdoor]

Get the fuck in. That is a huge 3 points for us. Good tough game of football between 2 good sides. It was a very evenly balanced match with plenty of skill on show but that is a massive boost mentally for us to come back from 1-2 down.

 

[TractorBoys]

I could throw up. Any other day that's 5-1 minimum. 97 minutes of attack v defence. Couple of penalty shouts in the second half, one of which (pull on Ladapo) was absolutely stonewall.

Ridiculous stats again. I really think we will win the league in the end and hand out some 5+ goal hammerings but come on, 15 corners to 0, 29 shots, 4 on target - unforgiveable.

 

[Chris FGR]

Well we’re now bottom, which is a fair reflection given how we are the worst team I’ve seen in the league this season and have the worst defensive record in the entire football league.

We did better second half but Wycombe were still pretty comfortable. Ref was shite.

 

[valefan16]

Probably best to comment when I’m not so apoplectic but that was a complete and utter embarrassment. They’ve been rightly praised for their good form and performance levels lately and rightly deserve to be slaughtered for that.

It’s pointless beating Derby and putting in performance levels against your Ipswich/Wednesday’s if you put in a cowardly effort like that in your bread and butter games.

Reminds me of the horror show at Wimbledon in our last league one season and that turned into a nose dive to relegation.

The huge worry is they were bang average on the day. Completely unacceptable and would have them in first thing tomorrow after that.

Huge game next weekend now with no Harrison or Wilson. Can’t wait.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Get in! Posh were a good side, but we never give up! Bring on the Ipswich!

 

[kieran_vale]

Well it feels like as a matter of course we concede at least two goals a game. It’s asking a lot to win doing that for anyone never mind us. Not saying I want us to start parking the bus in every game as we don’t have the players to do it anyway but the players need to start doing the basics defensively a lot better than they are doing.