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It costs a lot of money to run OUFC in League 2... and that is why sponsorship fees are high and why the club loses a lot of money. Yes, but if you're struggling to sell sponsorship, reduce your prices. You might not get £50k, but you might get £30k - either way, that's money in the bank and a reco...

I'm in full agreement with this. I have no doubt that having a good scouting network is one of the key elements to making the club sustainable going forward, particularly whilst we have so few other revenue generating options. Myles can you please tell us when you were last CEO of a professional fo...

Tom raises an interesting point about priorities. For me, much as I would want to see a better ground than what we have now, that's not the priority; promotion is, and I think getting promoted into Division 3 / League 1 / Whatever-The-Bloody-Hell-It's-Called-This-Week has been the #1 priority of eve...

joepoolman wrote:I personally don't think we need another centre-forward.

Are you for real‽

Well, yes and no, OUFC4ever. You're right that the Throstles were well worth their half-time lead (albeit through a shabby own-goal). I thought Sessignon tortured our back line, and we couldn't handle Brunt on the wing. Ideye also had a sublime shot which was worthy of a goal. And yes, we looked muc...

Just on the safe standing issue, I'm delighted that the Lib Dems have made it a manifesto commitment. Whatever some of the posters on here may think about the party, they deserve credit for being the first mainstream party to actually take a stance on it. One can only hope that by doing so, it puts ...

You must be the one of the only Oxford fans out there that doesn't miss the Manor, I've said it before and I'll say it again: whatever the economics of it, whatever the long-term shortcomings it may have had, I'd take the Manor back in a heartbeat. It was the Manor that made me fall in love with fo...

CONS (to anyone buying them) they are not redeemable they can only pay dividends out of available profits (of which there are none at present) no voting rights no right to attend the AGM. Apologies if this is a naive question, but why would anyone in their right mind buy them? Good for the club in ...

On seeding, lets not forget that Premiershit teams threatened to pull out of the competition without seedings and early round byes for teams in Europe. Much as I hate the business model that football has become (and The FA have so much to answer for on that), without the Premiershit teams there wou...

Without the sponsors, there'd be no competition. That's a harsh reality. Bollocks. There'd probably be lower wages for the top stars, and probably less money for greedy directors to take out of their clubs, but football managed perfectly well before the age of mass sponsorship, just as it managed p...

[Seeding] keeps it interesting to the... sponsors. Bugger the sponsors.It's our game, not theirs. On your wider point about giant-killing, it's a shame that domestic cup competitions have been purely reduced to that dynamic. All the early rounds FA Cup or Milk Cup coverage now is a patronising, sep...

Any sports fan should find the very idea of "seeded" draws utterly nauseating. Only ever done to favour the soi-disant 'big' clubs, and total anathema to the principles of proper competition.

GodalmingYellow wrote:...unless a stadium deal can be done that makes significant money for Eales & Co.

There you go, fixed it for you.

I suppose today's signings combined with that of Joe Riley shows the policy of playing our own young players rather than someone else's has been put on the back burner then. Wow. That must be the most negative reaction ever to (on paper) two very exciting signings. I think it's an eminently fair re...

As I understand it B'n'R are paying about £30k for this sponsorship deal. This is around half the figure which had been agreed with another party before IL got sidetracked and stopped answering his phone. If that's true, I'd love to see the Oxford Mail do some digging and ask some serious questions...