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by Isaac
Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Fylde under big week
Replies: 2
Views: 79

Re: Fylde under big week

ifollow for me against Wigan. The 1st half was very poor, Dale and Long down the right hand side looked like they'd never met, let alone done any training together. Fair play to Long though, he recovered reasonably well in the 2nd half. I dread to think about the amount of booing there'd have been i...
by Isaac
Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Fylde under big week
Replies: 2
Views: 79

Fylde under big week

My 3rd in person game of the season, decent weather for Blackpool given it was the middle of Feb and I am always bewildered by Blackpool, it's such a strange place - feels like a big city of run-down small shops and b&b's. Football wise, a more promising performance against a side you'd expect (...
by Isaac
Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Gas-tly
Replies: 3
Views: 353

Re: Gas-tly

There were a lot of complaints about lack of a plan on Radio Oxford after the game, which leads to criticism of the manager but I'm pretty sure the plan was the same as the game at Carlisle, get the ball into the feet if Rodrigues/Goodrham, then play from there. Not necessarily a great plan, admitte...
by Isaac
Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Great Border City
Replies: 0
Views: 750

Great Border City

My most local fixture - we had a good amount of fans there, probably a large percentage being exiles but the atmosphere was good even when we didn't start that well. Sadly I don't think we'll be in the same league next season as Carlisle look in a fair amount of trouble. I usually drive to this game...
by Isaac
Tue Jan 09, 2024 4:33 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: outcobbled, a short canvas, rammed, and not addicked
Replies: 11
Views: 934

Re: outcobbled, a short canvas, rammed, and not addicked

maybe the club are reading this forum (although obviously we're not the only ones complaining). Anyway, this is better from the club. https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/2024/january/tim-williams/ Buried in there is the news the Chris Hackett, former wing speed-merchant is our new assistant. Seems reasonabl...
by Isaac
Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: outcobbled, a short canvas, rammed, and not addicked
Replies: 11
Views: 934

Re: outcobbled, a short canvas, rammed, and not addicked

It's strange/worrying isn't it? On the face of it things are going well, our average attendance is higher than it's ever been, league position wise I don't think we've been better than this is 25 years, but off the pitch it's a bit more concerning. The lack of an assistant manager still is odd - Buc...
by Isaac
Mon Dec 18, 2023 3:15 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Oh, Biscuits
Replies: 3
Views: 568

Re: Oh, Biscuits

Much better against a team who admittedly were very poor and low on confidence. Signs that Buckingham might be a bit more attacking than Manning was, seemed like a vintage Robinson set up with Brannagan further forward and the wingers very much out wide and two full backs who weren't centre halves r...
by Isaac
Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:35 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Painful Posh Pummelling
Replies: 2
Views: 418

Re: Painful Posh Pummelling

Ridiculously harsh to lay this at the door of Buckingham given he's been here 3 weeks or so - he speaks relatively similarly to Manning which is no surprise given he's had a similar career history. Ultimately, if you lose it doesn't matter what you say afterwards. This season we've never been a team...
by Isaac
Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:47 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Completely bazooka'd
Replies: 2
Views: 481

Completely bazooka'd

A deserved defeat. The first 15 minutes were reminiscent of the Stevenage game where we were getting battered and struggled. The difference was against Stevenage we had Long, Moore and Brown as our centre halves and eventually they got to grips with it, whereas here we had Negru and Thorniley and th...
by Isaac
Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:01 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Liam Managing
Replies: 12
Views: 2708

Re: Liam Managing

Disappointing decision from Manning to scarper at the first half decent opportunity. The statement on the OWS suggests the club are annoyed with him, having given him (supposedly) a very good budget, the assistant/coaches/analysts he wanted, they probably reasonably expected he'd stay longer than 6 ...
by Isaac
Mon Oct 30, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Wycombe
Replies: 3
Views: 529

Wycombe

It's very rare to get two such similar or almost identical incidents in a game isn't it? I can't really think of another game where that's happened. I think the referee gave the Wycombe penalty because everyone stopped. Either way, very tricky to see why you'd give one and not the other. Although I ...
by Isaac
Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:45 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: WigPool
Replies: 1
Views: 465

WigPool

Two similar performances I felt. Started well in both games, kept the ball and played some very good football and then gradually got worse. The 2nd half of both games were poor. Blackpool got the draw by waiting for us to tire and then going for it. Wigan similar, but were better on the break. Both ...
by Isaac
Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:45 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Rovers
Replies: 4
Views: 648

Rovers

Strange game, Rovers were much the better team first half, but missed chances and good saves from Beadle cost them. 2nd half, with a different formation and we were significantly the better side. But missed chances and good saves cost us too until the 2nd goal, which should have been the 3rd or 4th ...
by Isaac
Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Leigh-thal
Replies: 2
Views: 467

Re: Leigh-thal

It's good isn't it? Weird watching games with no serious worries about the result - Fleetwood away and now Shrewsbury have both been played like pre-season friendlies for the last 30 minutes. The only (unfair) complaint could be it's a little bit boring, we could have really gone for it in the last ...
by Isaac
Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Fleetwood Pilley-ed
Replies: 2
Views: 508

Re: Fleetwood Pilley-ed

We deserved the win, 3-0 was probably about right, but we've played a lot better this season in games I've watched on ifollow - Derby, Barnsley the obvious examples but also first half against Charlton. If we'd played like that it might have been 6-0. Fleetwood were bad. We probably didn't pass the ...