FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.49 – CHELTENHAM AT HOME Pre-match ramblings Not one fellow fan I know is filled with any genuine optimism having seen our team play this season yet they have far from given up hope that we can stay up. That though is based purely on the low standard of L1 this  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.48 – BARNSLEY AWAY BARNSLEY 2 OXFORD UNITED 0 I really do want to make this a short one. I know I’ve said this many a time only to drone on but this time I’m determined to stick to it. To repeat: this season is doing my ****ing head in. We  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.47 – PORTSMOUTH AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 1 PORTSMOUTH 1 How’s this possible? We’ve now not won in 16 games. We’ve scored one goal from open play during the six games Liam Manning has been in charge and yet I left the Kassam at full-time feeling absolutely elated. It doesn’t make  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.46 – BOLTON AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 0 BOLTON WANDERERS 1 Unless there is a seismic shift in the way we play, especially in our approach and technique when “going for goal” we are going to get RELEGATED. End of. I have to say I absolutely hate it when anyone uses  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.45 – PORT VALE AWAY PORT VALE 0 OXFORD UNITED 0 I could keep this very short and summarise thus: We now know how not to lose. We still don’t know how to win. We now know how to keep clean sheets. We still don’t know how to score goals. Brevity  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.44 – SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY AT HOME OXFORD UNITED 1 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 1 Before many of our matches I have a feel for how it is going to go based on the form and style of play of each team. For this though I didn’t have a clue and even after the  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.43 – PETERBOROUGH AWAY PETERBOROUGH UNITED 0 OXFORD UNITED 0 This was the best I’ve felt during and after an Oxford game for ages. I felt a real togetherness amongst our travelling fans – all 847 of them which I think was a decent turnout considering where we are league position  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.42 – MORECAMBE AWAY MORECAMBE 1 OXFORD UNITED 1 This is a season almost totally devoid of joy on the pitch. Off the pitch news has been miserable too with Stratfield Brake being declared an almost certain non-starter and despite being told we would be constantly kept informed of progress regarding  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.41 – DERBY AT HOME Where are those straws? Prior to this game logic told me we are going down so I set myself the task of finding a straw to clutch on to but that was like, well, looking for one particular piece of straw in a very large haystack.  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.40 – LINCOLN AWAY The Build Up I honestly don’t know what to make of it all at present. Of course Robbo had to go, no question whatsoever. However until we get a permanent replacement what’s going to change? What will Craig Short and co. do differently? They’ve only got the  [ more ]