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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...

I notice on another forum that we're being linked with former Newport County centre-back Darcy Blake. That, IMHO, would be an excellent signing having seen him a fair few times last year.

The new owners seem to reckon that investment and a promotion or two are the only realistic way to get the club near to turning a profit. This is of course a big risk... Yes, and that's fine - but it depends on who's taking the risk (which was the point I made in my post on the other thread). If th...

Not a surprise was it? - but the timing is interesting. Quite. For all of Appleton's diplomacy ("you shouldn't rush these decisions" etc), we've basically paid Kitson for the last two months to do nothing except go on holiday and then report back for about a week's worth of training. I tr...

I am amazed no one else has raised their head above the parapet to raise concerns. I think, in fairness, that some of us have - just not on this thread. I'm delighted to see some of the faces who've come in, but I completely share your concerns about from where the money is coming. I also think the...

Maybe it'd be appropriate to let the last (for now) word on this debate go to a one-time contributer to the old Rage On fanzine, Ed Horton, whose book from 1997 I am currrently reading, and the following extract of which struck me as particularly apt to our current circumstance. Football clubs have ...

For those of us who don't venture to the Other Place, could someone summarise? Ok, Charlie Methven wants zillions of people to like a Facebook page. Uncle Firoz points out that err, there is a legal contract to pay rent at Minchery Farm until the Universe ends, the governing Labour Group in Oxford ...