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ferrarilover wrote: Yes, let's
Good start
Oh dear, it's all started to go wrong
This is a cliché, not a fact, the two are entirely different.
True, so credit for it being a fact, but meaningless, so no joy here.
Another genuine fact, huzzah. Doesn't bring much to the party, but I guess factual and meaningful is probably too much to ask.
As opposed to last year, when we didn't lose our first League game until September 15th and didn't lost at home in the League until November 17th, look how well that worked out for us...
Oh good, I think this is an excellent idea
Oh deary, deary me. Here, Hector, allow me to help you out:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fact?s=t

I've lost the will to go through the rest of the post, desperately searching with hope in my heart for a genuine, bona fide fact to leap out, only for my hopes to be cruelly dashed at the last.

There are only opinions which matter, opinions which cannot be proven, cannot b claimed to be factual, cannot ever be disputed. It is an opinion to suggest that we were the better side overall yesterday. We dominated for periods, which Oxford never did. We created, and spurned chances, which Oxford never did. We suffered from some of the most bizarre refereeing I've ever seen, which Oxford never did. We hit the woodwork, had two off the line, scored one, had one ruled out for God knows what, wasted a couple of decent openings, forced their hopelessly inept keeper into one extremely fine save and generally looked much more likely to score than Oxford ever did. Rice touched the ball 4 times. One parry (which lead to a goal, but that he could do nothing else with) and three times he retrieved the ball out of his net.

Had things been the other way round yesterday, we'd have the usual suspects on here telling us that we cannot rely on luck (a set piece, a "worldy" and a late counter) to win matches, we were completely outplayed for long spells, we were lucky not to concede 5 or 6 goals, they were all over us etc etc. Yet, when we do it to other teams, they get a bit jammy and go home with three points having been in our half three times, suddenly we're relegation fodder and look miles off the pace.

If Oxford have 9 points after three games, they're world beaters and look like they ought to be in the Championship. If we have 2 points after three games, we're relegated, look like candidates to be in the Evo-Stik league before long. If Oxford have 9 points after 46 games, then tell me they're all that good. If they continue to struggle to create anything of note in games, they might well find themselves heading down and down the league. Similarly, if we keep pumping away and creating chances, getting Hawley involved, utilising Ball's strength (anything but his head), playing to our collective strengths, then we could well end up fighting at the right end of the table. Of course, the usual suspects will be nowhere to be seen, only popping on to scream "I TOLD YOU SO" every time we fail to win a match, before disappearing like a fart in the wind when we go 10 or 12 unbeaten.

I don't much care if you accept or reject the idea of luck, we were unlucky yesterday. It was nothing to do with anything but luck that the FA allocated Graham Salisbury to our match instead of, say, Cheltenham v Plymouth. But for him, such was the nature of the match, that we would likely have gone on to win and we'd be all smiles now.

If you want to see a proper hopeless team, have a look at Carlisle, then tell me we're as bad as some seem to think we are...

Matt.

gullintwoplaces wrote:

Good post Matt, a voice of sanity in a sea of madness, the sea of Brucie and Hector.

brucie wrote:According to gullinwotplaces Fl is the voice of sanity - what are you actually on mate. Having seen the highlights our defence was absolutely abyssmal. Great strike by Constable but really our defending was a disgrace.
Rice should have done better with their third goal but hes done well and we were gone by then anyway. Great strike by Ball.
I can scarcely believe that there was no film of our goal - this followed no interview by Knill yesterday. I mean is that actually for real?
As we were so unlucky no doubt we should expect three points next week at Northampton. They don't look any great shakes at all and having had Hackett sent off yesterday thats a major bonus for us.
I actually think the key game might be Hartlepool at home. They appear to be worse than us but lose that one and its difficult to see where we might go after that.
There are still some rank bad teams in this division - Hartlepool,Accrington and Morecambe for example. We need to get some pojnts now - not in November.

friendlygas wrote:Hi Gulls,
Well reading you comments seems like you are very similar to us. I said when I was last on here that I expected the two of us to be pretty close together this season but I was hoping we would both have more points. We have got 10 out injured but in all honesty Im not convinced as they return we will be that much better. John Ward plays very boring tactics so we don't look like conceding many or scoring many. Newport were awful and we still lost and Exeter were poor too. If we don't pick up a win soon I will be worrying . Just hoping that by the time we play you we have a few more points than last year at Xmas and that we are well away from the bottom 4. Good luck.

wivelgull wrote:I stand with brucie AND hector. Also, it's blindingly obvious that we need a decent midfielder, one with a least minimal vision. Hoofing the ball hopefully to Ball and Hawley isn't enough.