Why are we so utterly sh*t?

[Ancient Colin]

Coming back to one of the earlier strands, I was thinking about the &quotloyalty&quot issue ... and that question about whether or not to attend games. I'm going on Saturday, but I definitely waivered, I'm due in London, it's a scramble, it's relatively early in a relationship and neither partner nor others involved would remotely understand why I might chose to watch something that makes me frustrated, angry and upset and is so far off the general sporting radar as to be incomprehensible. This time I've held the line: I won't always, not with what we are served. I can't be alone in this.

I'm not going to transfer allegiance. I lived for a fair while with a gooner and I'd go with her to Highburyquite often. I'd want Arsenal to win, but it wouldn't bother me much if they didn't. She came to Ox games and felt much the same. I've got teams that I like, teams I don't, and I've got Oxford. But do I need to put myself through this hurt and humiliation and exasperation so often? I fear not, and I can't imagine I'm alone in doubting whether I'll buy a season ticket in the summer. And so we drift away and so the financial mire darkens any last vestigial hope ...

[The Enforcer]

I wouldn't mind the club being at this level much if we could at least pass the ball around a bit and get a few decent crosses and shots on target every game.

[Steppers]

I too cannot see how I can buy a season ticket next year (which would be my 25th year) I only go now as I sit with my dad and it is our thing.

I do not have kids but it will hopefully not be long, and I want us to be half decent if I am going to do to them what my dad did to me 25 years ago.

I have missed about half the home games this season normally one would result in a visit to the doctors!

Finally, I went with the father in law to Plymouth v QPR on boxing day and I can take one positive in saying the the standard of football was no better than the stuff we have to watch although they had a proper winger which was nice!!!!

[GodalmingYellow]

[quote=&quotKernow Yellow&quot]Even for you weirdos who think curses, voodoo dolls and Mars entering Uranus can actually have an effect on anything./quote]

You'd have to be a weirdo to shove a chocolate bar where the sun don't shine, and surely it would only have an effect if it was a laxative!!

[DLT]

I had a season without a season ticket two years ago and saw the same number of games as when I do have one.

I think the only reason I went back to getting one was because of the 'buzz' of the conference and wanting to ensure I had 'my seat' with my mates every week.

This year I could quite easily sit in Catherine Wheel for another hour and forget the football.

Don't worry folks, I seriously think the end is nigh and then we can all move on to 'better things'.

[Pe├▒a Oxford United]

I mused on another thread as to whether or not I'd have jacked it in or not if I were still living in Oxford.

I don't really know - if I had as much interest in other things as I do now, then answer is yes - but then again I partly developed these interests because I'd moved away from Oxford and couldn't base my life round the football club as I had done before.

But you know, I really hope I would have dispensed at least with the season ticket by now.

[Pe├▒a Oxford United]

There's another thing - I'm a decent chessplayer, in the top three hundred English players, but I wouldn 't go and watch somebody like me playing chess, I'm not in that class or close to it. And yet the players who play for Oxford now are probably barely better at what they do than I am at playing chess.

I dunno - had Oxford been in the Conference in 1983, when I started, would I have got interested? Probably, if they'd been obviously destined for bigger things. But had they been at their worst for half a century - probably not.

[DLT]

This year I could quite easily sit in Catherine Wheel for another hour and forget the football.

Don't worry folks, I seriously think the end is nigh and then we can all move on to 'better things'.

How foolish does that look 6 hours later.

[Ascension Ox]

There's another thing - I'm a decent chessplayer, in the top three hundred English players, but I wouldn 't go and watch somebody like me playing chess, I'm not in that class or close to it. And yet the players who play for Oxford now are probably barely better at what they do than I am at playing chess.

I dunno - had Oxford been in the Conference in 1983, when I started, would I have got interested? Probably, if they'd been obviously destined for bigger things. But had they been at their worst for half a century - probably not.

Maybe you should predict the death of your interest in Oxford United every week.

Come on you yellows

[Snake]

There's another thing - I'm a decent chessplayer, in the top three hundred English players, but I wouldn 't go and watch somebody like me playing chess, I'm not in that class or close to it. And yet the players who play for Oxford now are probably barely better at what they do than I am at playing chess.

I dunno - had Oxford been in the Conference in 1983, when I started, would I have got interested? Probably, if they'd been obviously destined for bigger things. But had they been at their worst for half a century - probably not.

Perhaps, but if today was the first time you ever watched Oxford United you could say that you started supporting Us when we were at our lowest point in fifty years and started the long climb back. Not that I was there (even though I was included in the 3842 home attendance as I’m a season ticket holder). It was certainly good of the other 642 Oxford United casuals to turn up and I’m genuinely pleased for every single one of them (he said between gritted teeth and regretting his decision to try to aid his recovery from Man Flu rather than going to the match).

Only 9 points away from a play-off place now, having played only a game more than those in the coveted play-off positions, and that’s grounds for optimism surely?

On the flip side, the despair has become easier and easier to handle as each season has gone by, and I can cope with that now – it’s the hope I can’t deal with.

/

I note we’ve got a Tuesday night game at home coming up against more crap opposition.

[The Enforcer]

I wouldn't mind the club being at this level much if we could at least pass the ball around a bit and get a few decent crosses and shots on target every game.

Now, that was more like it!

[The Enforcer]

And that was normal service resumed. Not a single effort on target again against a side supposedly in dissaray. And then I'm not allowed to walk to the car without being soaked through to the skin. Oh just make the club go bust and then we can all be shot of the rotten thing.

[Snake]

Well, at least we don’t have to do the hope thing any more - we can just go back to holding our heads in our hands and do the normal despair stuff until the summer when we’ll be fed nothing but positive stuff from the club in order to extract our cash for Season Tickets.

The first 20 minutes tonight were ok I thought (bear in mind I never went on Saturday so my expectations were not as high as most peoples). Ball on the floor, fantastic bit of backing from the Left Side/Right Side London Road, but as soon as Mac got injured it was just more of the same old, same old, Oxford.

I realise that nearly everyone on this board are not superstitious, but for the first time ever I left the ground about 10 minutes early tonight and so I missed the torrential downpour that greeted you normal and sane people as you exited the ground.

There is always next season I guess - and the Oxfordshire Senior Cup is still up for grabs.

[Jimski]

I basically made the decision tonight that I won't get a season ticket next season. I'm probably already missing enough games that it's not worthwhile, and I was just utterly bored, cold and miserable through that absolute shocker of a performance. There doesn't seem like a lot of point to this. Another sub-4000 crowd too. Trouble looms...

[Baboo]

I was just utterly bored, cold and miserable through that absolute shocker of a performance. There doesn't seem like a lot of point to this. Another sub-4000 crowd too. Trouble looms...

Spot on.
Entertainment value - nil.
Terrible performances from Day &amp Yemi.
Pettefer and Trainer back to nothing performances in midfield.
Murray - wanted to play football but those around him didn't or couldn't &amp he soon became just another Oxford United player - i.e. not very good. (What is it about our club that does this to players?)
McAllister's injury - how cruel is that. With it all hope for the rest of the season disappeared (&amp it's only bloody January 8th). But even with him on we didn't look better than supposedly woeful Weymouth &amp when he went off they looked so much better than us. They really did seem to want it more.
The only bright sparks were Clarke (best run of the game) &amp Fisher (battled well for a youngster and showed no little skill). Their application should shame many of the senior players.