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I see that Oxford have sacked their manager.  Someone called 'Patto', apparently.

Pato Banton?

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They must have heard he is in advanced talks with their rivals down the A420 about becoming their new manager!!








And if that's right, I'll not be going to the CG until he is sacked!

Ronnies been looking for an excuse not to go, I heard his mrs is cursing me for taking him to that one game! :)

They are more deluded than we are
http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=88288 they are near the bottom of the conference in financial difficulty with a crap squad.

Darren Patterson Red 'n White Army!

Orrrr maybe not...

Most of their fans are in favour of John Ward taking over on their forum.

With any luck Jim Smith will stay on and take them down again.

Manager Patterson axed by Oxford
Darren Patterson
Patterson had been under pressure from disgruntled Oxford fans

Blue Square Premier club Oxford United have sacked manager Darren Patterson.

Former U's manager Jim Smith, now a club director, has been installed as caretaker boss and will take charge for Thursday's match against Mansfield.

Oxford chairman Kelvin Thomas said: "Darren is a very honest, hardworking young manager who has given everything he had to the role.

"However, we feel that a change of manager and a change of direction is needed at this time."

Patterson, 39, joined the coaching staff at the Kassam Stadium in 2002 and became manager just over a year ago.

Results this season have been disappointing and Oxford are currently 16th in the table.

Patterson's last game at the helm was a 2-0 defeat against 10-man Torquay in the FA Cup first round on Saturday.

Malpas to Oxford.

That fact never grows old.

They seem to think Steve Coterill is an option when he's made it perfectly plain he doesn't want to go back below the Championship. At least with our random speculations they haven't ruled it out.

Don't think they have the money to appoint a reasonable name... If they're sensible they'll appoint someone who's been there and done that at Conference level.

I don't have to look for an excuse Ash, let me just mention Millwall, Huddersfield etc etc!  I'll be there on Saturday - unless they appoint Patterson!

I thought he was doing a wonderful job !!!

Agent Paterson you can leave with your head held high, you have done a sterling job, unfortunelty you failed on the last part of the plan...to get them relegated again.

We need a new agent in there, we can't have field marshall smith getting anywhere close to a winning run.

Malpas In!

I wasn't Malpas' biggest fan, but I wouldn't wish that on the poor chap.....

A fair point.

Heard up the town earlier Andy King is in with a shout :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Seriously.

I nearly wet my self.

http://www.vcbet.com/coupon_outright.jsp?&eid=138379500&eid=&ot=205400&cl=1 (http://www.vcbet.com/coupon_outright.jsp?&eid=138379500&eid=&ot=205400&cl=1)

King at 12/1!

Andy King for Oxford!  :D  :nod:

Malpas at 16/1 too

He'd be a great appointment for them.

Atkins is even shorter at 10/1, so you can disregard those odds as pure crap.

dont worry one my college tutors is 5th favourite for the job at 12/1. his name is Andy Slater and manages Abingdon Utd.

I'd be incredibly unhappy if Andy King went there. He'd go from one of my favourite managers to my least favourite.

I dunno, he might do alright with them and we might get another real local derby one day.

I'm eagerly awaiting our appointment, there are quite a few good candidates about for us.

Have you a new manager yet? Honest question, I found out that you had sacked Malpas a week after it happened.

No. There are many things going for our new board but speed doesn't seem to be one of them.

We havnt yet. Who is in the running for you lot

On some of their forums they are suggesting that Cotterill will get the job  ::) :D

"A host of Blue Square Premier managers are thought to be interested, including Mark Cooper (Kettering), Liam Daish (Ebbsfleet), Mark Yates (Kidderminster), Jim Harvey (Forest Green) and Billy McEwan (Mansfield).

Former Cheltenham boss Steve Cotterill is understood to be interested, as well as others from below Oxford’s level, such as Dover boss Andy Hessenthaler and Elliott, who is assistant at Unibond Premier side Hednesford Town. "


It won't be Cooper as he has a release fee which we can't afford. Forest Green and Mansfield are below us in the table so its unlikely to be their two. I doubt it would be Elliott as a manager as he doesn't have any experience at this level and we want instant results not experimentation or transition. I'd love to see Matty as assistant. Hessenthaler would be my shout. So when I said "there are a few good candidates about for us" that was optimistic bullshit. I'm still hoping for a good appointment though, there seems to be lots of choice.

Where's that from? Cotterill has repeatedly ruled himself out of League One Jobs let alone non League ones.

The Oxford Mail. So its probably bollocks.

You could always end up with my college tutor, who manages Abingdon Utd.

Its unlikely. You mentioned it before too. Ian Atkins is on shorter odds than him, and there's 0 chance of us re-appointing Atkins.

Not with Victor Chandler is it? The only time you can really really rule a candidate as definitely out is when VC price him down to 3-1 fav then refuse to take any more money on him

Seems as though we want Cotterill or John Ward. Probably SC.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/oxfordunited/3960282.United_to_step_up_hunt/

Cotterill surely won't drop down? I'd guess either John Hollins, John Ward or the ghost of Saddam Hussein will take over.

As the article says, the man at the top of our list is wanted by other clubs (you?) so may take a post higher up the leagues. We probably won't get the number one target but here's hoping.

come to think of it, if its cotterill the article is talking about (it sounds as though it almost certainly is), then he must have applied for the job, so is interested.

The John Hollins article in the NLP on Sunday was interesting... Weymouth's chairman is clearly a knob.

link perchance?

http://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/article.asp?aid=6232&iid=111&sud=1443

Nobody has defended the Weymouth chairman.

They also think that FGR's Jim Harvey is top of your list.

Cheers for the link rich. I wouldn't mind any of the top four or so candidates being appointed, their credentials sound good.

River Racing: 9/4 John Ward, 5/2 Mark Cooper, 3/1 Jim Harvey, 7/2 Steve Cotterill, 4/1 Matt Elliott

...But Cotterill told the Oxford Mail: “I haven’t applied for the Oxford job and I hadn’t applied for the Swindon job either.”

He clearly wants to manage at a higher level, after success at Turf Moor.

“I spent four years – the longest spell I have had in management – at Burnley, and I left there, it wasn’t that they sacked me.,” he added.

“With my record, I don’t see any reason why my next management job shouldn’t again be at a Championship club.”

I always thought he was a cunt. I was right

to be fair though, after spending a while at cheltenham his resistance to dropping back down is completely understandable.

still a bit of a c though.

He did a reasonable job at Burnley, but I cant help but think he'll be waiting a long time to get a "bigger" championship club.

http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89062
I just wish this is true, I would laugh my bollocks off if he ended up at the Pox

MAURICE MALPAS YELLOW AND BLUE ARMY

:D

oh man i would LOVE that!!!! :D :D :D

Best. Christmas Prezzie. Ever.


Or maybe not.

Sorry I don't know much about this non-league football thing. Can they actually go any lower - and still exist?

:P


with any luck they'll go part-time :D

Just when you think Poxford cant possibly get any funnier, they then surpass themselves.

I would so love this to be true

I get it now.  Oxford United exists solely for our amusement.  Please let this be true.

(Not a personal dig at Malpas, who took more than enough stick during his time with us.  He just couldn't manage.  That's all.)

Haha, I would pay good money to see this happen.

Some of them think they'll be able to get Holloway!?

Looks like those chaps up the road, have deleted this thread, a bit of banter obviously upsets them

can you hurry up and appoint a manager please? you're taking ages and it's slowing us down too.

crewe should do the same, ward is waiting to hear back from them and you.

I'm pretty sure Ward was told after his interview he wouldn't be getting the job.

Richard Money set to be unveiled this 'arvo.

(For the benefit of OF who only reads Other Football Stuff and General Discussion).

that's good news. who will crewe hire?

Either Glenn Madeiros or Sheena Easton apparently.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/crewe_alexandra/7789853.stm

Here you go, confirmed as Madeiros and Easton:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/crewe_alexandra/7789853.stm (http://redo.me.uk/izoso)

SHould have changed the pic..

 and "... both men ..."

unless you know something we don't know?

Sheena is post-op now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/o/oxford_utd/7790788.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/o/oxford_utd/7790788.stm)

Never heard of him but there ya go. Still, they've got someone in place one hell of a lot quicker than us and they're about as tinpot as it gets.

"An extensive search" bloody hell they don't know what an "extensive search" is do they?

I remember him from his Rotherham years and when he was Halifax boss. Chris Wilder has lower league experience but I would say it's most underwhelming for them.

 That's pretty impressive knowledge of lower league football....I'd have certainly struggled if he'd come up in a quiz.

Have you still not got anyone in? I'm happy with our appointment.