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Title: Oxford
Post by: Tails on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 00:56:10
Currently lie in 22nd place in League Two, two points ahead of 24th place.  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What a joke they are.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Simon Pieman on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 00:57:25
Could be us if we were to go down. Not that I'm wishing to paint too much doom and gloom in the early hours of a Sunday.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Tails on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 01:18:00
Could and If being the key words there


Title: Oxford
Post by: my-velocity on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 11:53:27
They were up there a while ago, seems a very tough league.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 12:40:05
When you consider they're one of the few clubs who are financially solvent...and have a model chairman who has backed his managers all the way its a bit friightening for next season.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 12:44:22
damn and i was looking forward to a derby next year ah well  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


Title: Oxford
Post by: Whits on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 13:12:41
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb606/F2231916?thread=2460099

the above is quite funny. it also looks as if talbot has turned into king and ripped the shit out of ashton live on radio last night

http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38410

 :D

its really not looking to good for them is it!  :wink:


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 13:13:15
:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


Title: Oxford
Post by: Batch on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 13:20:28
:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Wait a minute Whits you have given me an idea.  The real Andy King is available for work. Maybe he can coach Talbot to take talking shit on the Radio to a higher level.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Johno on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 13:24:04
good old oxford. always something going on with them.


Title: Oxford
Post by: reeves4england on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 14:05:37
Its great. All we have to do when times are bad is look at Oxford and it makes you feel so much better!


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 18:38:12
you gloating cunts

see you down here


Title: Oxford
Post by: adje on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 18:50:02
Reg is the new DV85!


Title: Oxford
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:10:56
Quote from: "adje"
Reg is the new DV85!


 Tuesday crushed the last ounce of optimism out of me...its plain the players have jacked it in....we've a mega CVA payment to meet next season, so the budget will be minimal.

 O*ford struggle yet owe nothing, can afford to play the likes of Mooney more than us, and spent money in the transfer window.....we've lost this season already to 3 L2 sides in cup comps.

 From hereon...I believe we're in a medium term battle to retain our league status, until the CG situation is resolved one way or the other.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:14:21
im with Reg on this! i can see us sliding out of the league!


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:35:18
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "adje"
Reg is the new DV85!


 Tuesday crushed the last ounce of optimism out of me...its plain the players have jacked it in....we've a mega CVA payment to meet next season, so the budget will be minimal.

 O*ford struggle yet owe nothing, can afford to play the likes of Mooney more than us, and spent money in the transfer window.....we've lost this season already to 3 L2 sides in cup comps.

 From hereon...I believe we're in a medium term battle to retain our league status, until the CG situation is resolved one way or the other.
i dont think we can be compared to other clubs so closely though, with kassam in charge. he's running oufc like any of his other businesses, but football clubs cannot survive like that.

in fact, maybe it balances out considering our good finances but poor chairmanship, compared to the majority in div3 who have little money but are well run clubs with good spirit at the board level.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:36:47
well ran clubs? we could do with a board that makes us one of them!


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:38:25
when are your last set of accounts for? '01-'02 or something!?


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:40:09
exactly! i fucking hate the people who are running our club!


Title: Oxford
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Sunday, March 12, 2006, 19:45:49
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "adje"
Reg is the new DV85!


 Tuesday crushed the last ounce of optimism out of me...its plain the players have jacked it in....we've a mega CVA payment to meet next season, so the budget will be minimal.

 O*ford struggle yet owe nothing, can afford to play the likes of Mooney more than us, and spent money in the transfer window.....we've lost this season already to 3 L2 sides in cup comps.

 From hereon...I believe we're in a medium term battle to retain our league status, until the CG situation is resolved one way or the other.
i dont think we can be compared to other clubs so closely though, with kassam in charge. he's running oufc like any of his other businesses, but football clubs cannot survive like that.

in fact, maybe it balances out considering our good finances but poor chairmanship, compared to the majority in div3 who have little money but are well run clubs with good spirit at the board level.


 From the outside Mr K looks like the very model chairman...got the new ground done with the bolt ons to avoid going into unsustainable debt....responded to fans in changing managers, and attends fans forums and matches.

 Without his input....for which I believe he has been awarded an honorary fellowship of a univ....for services to the community in O*ford....you'd have been non league 4 or 5 years ago.


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 00:03:38
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "adje"
Reg is the new DV85!


 Tuesday crushed the last ounce of optimism out of me...its plain the players have jacked it in....we've a mega CVA payment to meet next season, so the budget will be minimal.

 O*ford struggle yet owe nothing, can afford to play the likes of Mooney more than us, and spent money in the transfer window.....we've lost this season already to 3 L2 sides in cup comps.

 From hereon...I believe we're in a medium term battle to retain our league status, until the CG situation is resolved one way or the other.
i dont think we can be compared to other clubs so closely though, with kassam in charge. he's running oufc like any of his other businesses, but football clubs cannot survive like that.

in fact, maybe it balances out considering our good finances but poor chairmanship, compared to the majority in div3 who have little money but are well run clubs with good spirit at the board level.


 From the outside Mr K looks like the very model chairman...got the new ground done with the bolt ons to avoid going into unsustainable debt....responded to fans in changing managers, and attends fans forums and matches.

 Without his input....for which I believe he has been awarded an honorary fellowship of a univ....for services to the community in O*ford....you'd have been non league 4 or 5 years ago.
your nuts reg.

from the outside he appears just as shambolic as he is, its just you don't seem to know very much about him equally i dont know much about your situation other than accounts not being filed for ages.

got the new ground done and admits he took a tidy £6m profit on the manor land away from oufc and into his personal coffers. now we rent a ground. nobody knows what might have happened if he hadn't come in, there were 2 other parties but that's history now. yes he saved us but he's fucked us over too.

the bolt ons are completely separate from the club and all the profits are never seen reinvested at the club. bowlplex, gym with swimming pool, bingo, hotel, cinema, restaurant, 2nd hotel (coming soon) surrounding the kass stad rake it in.

if he wanted to build a promotion winning side and setup he could do it at the snap of his fingers (if anyone would work with him anymore).

he attends fans forums and ignores questions he doesn't like. he just says "next". PR is his worst aspect (or best)); there is little and when statements are released (e.g. the one the other day) their only purpose is to delay fans' action. he always manages to just subside any action with clever decisions.

the fellowship is a great example of what money can buy you. it was laughed at by the oxford fans i know, and those on TiU.

if we've got such a wonderful setup and chairman then why has it all gone tits up, reg? there's one common denominator, Firoz Kassam. if he doesn't relinquish complete operational control of oufc then we're fucked.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, March 13, 2006, 07:22:07
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your nuts reg.


   Yeah....what about my nuts?

   
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if we've got such a wonderful setup and chairman then why has it all gone tits up, reg? there's one common denominator, Firoz Kassam. if he doesn't relinquish complete operational control of oufc then we're fucked


  The other common denominator is the fans.....


Title: Oxford
Post by: larwood on Monday, March 13, 2006, 08:02:22
It was such a laugh on Saturday finding out the Pox were third bottom  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
They've got a couple of games in hand though,playing Rovers on Wednesday.I still think the fuckers will stay up but at least they ain't going up :D


Title: Oxford
Post by: red macca on Monday, March 13, 2006, 11:08:40
reg has spouted shit all season not just since tuesday


Title: Oxford
Post by: larwood on Monday, March 13, 2006, 12:52:34
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reg has spouted shit all season not just since tuesday

 :shock:
Sacrilegious! Reg can say whatever he likes Macca,because he's Reg and he rules :)


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 14:25:30
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
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your nuts reg.


   Yeah....what about my nuts?

   
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if we've got such a wonderful setup and chairman then why has it all gone tits up, reg? there's one common denominator, Firoz Kassam. if he doesn't relinquish complete operational control of oufc then we're fucked


  The other common denominator is the fans.....
you're nuts reg.

pedant.

the fans who turned up 500 in number at the recent fans forum only to be fobbed off by kassam once more? he also allowed to us to question talbot (strict pro-FK answers only, or he loses his job) and steve hanks (general manager, a far below standard appointment to appease our demands for someone to run the club properly, now sacked).

the fans who attended div3 matches 5000 strong for 5 years. we've put up with alot of crap and got little reward. take my case for example, i began supporting at christmas 2000, saw us get relegated and concede 100+. end of the season kassam makes a speech about the wonderful journey ahead of us, etc etc basically promising success.

we've done nothing; one season finished just outside the playoffs after kassam and atkins bodged things up.


Title: Oxford
Post by: janaage on Monday, March 13, 2006, 15:36:11
"i began supporting at christmas 2000, saw us get relegated and concede 100+. end of the season kassam makes a speech about the wonderful journey ahead of us, etc etc basically promising success."

You glory hunting bastard!!


Title: Oxford
Post by: Batch on Monday, March 13, 2006, 15:39:34
Yeah. Actually no. What's the opposite of a fairweather supporter. That's Oxford_Fan that is.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Asher on Monday, March 13, 2006, 15:59:29
Makes me laugh, if people think they can run the club better put your money where your mouth is and do a better job.


Title: Oxford
Post by: janaage on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:00:49
It's quite funny that in our hour of darkness, as if by spite, Oxford have to do that much more.

We think we're shit cos we're in danger of going down to Div 2, so just like that bloke up the pub who's been there and done everything before, Oxford rub it in our faces by flirting with relegation to the conference.

It's like the Monty Python sketch pre cruxifiction "You lucky bastards, relegation to League 2, what I'd give for relegation to league 2, you lucky lucky bastards!!!"


Title: Oxford
Post by: red macca on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:04:49
Quote from: "larwood"
Quote

reg has spouted shit all season not just since tuesday

 :shock:
Sacrilegious! Reg can say whatever he likes Macca,because he's Reg and he rules :)
well i think reg just asks jeeves alot of questions :D


Title: Oxford
Post by: land_of_bo on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:09:54
I asked Jeeves who Reg Smeeton is...

Reg Smeeton, Newsagent and walking encyclopedia


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:11:06
Quote from: "Asher"
Makes me laugh, if people think they can run the club better put your money where your mouth is and do a better job.
believe me, we'd love it if he let someone else have a go. he says he's not selling though.

i reckon i could do a better job, but i only have -£9,000


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:14:02
this thread sums up our fans' desperation

http://www.oxfordshireforums.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38487


Title: Oxford
Post by: Asher on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:21:51
I meant swindon, actually every club.


Title: Oxford
Post by: land_of_bo on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:30:35
I don't think Mr Smith seems that interested...


Title: Oxford
Post by: janaage on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:36:18
Begging posts, reading that kinda stuff's cheering me up.  "Please save us Jim....blah blah blah"

For fucks sake get a life.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Batch on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:42:39
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
believe me, we'd love it if he let someone else have a go. he says he's not selling though.


Didn't he try that but nobody was willing to pay the £1?


Title: Oxford
Post by: larwood on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:44:17
One of the things i missed by going to Yeovil on Saturday was my fix of pox fans moaning on the radio :( I bet there was some real gold on radio poxford :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Oxfordshire forums here i come :D


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:49:09
Quote from: "Batch"
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
believe me, we'd love it if he let someone else have a go. he says he's not selling though.


Didn't he try that but nobody was willing to pay the £1?
it seems that offer has now expired and willing buyers are being exessively scrutinised so we're now at the other extreme.

there's doubt over whether the £1 was ever true, and what you would have got for the £1 (a football club with no stadium).


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 16:50:00
Quote from: "janaage"
Begging posts, reading that kinda stuff's cheering me up.  "Please save us Jim....blah blah blah"

For fucks sake get a life.
i'd have thought that if any other clubs supporters would understand such desperation it would have been swindon.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Monday, March 13, 2006, 17:08:51
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
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your nuts reg.


   Yeah....what about my nuts?

   
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if we've got such a wonderful setup and chairman then why has it all gone tits up, reg? there's one common denominator, Firoz Kassam. if he doesn't relinquish complete operational control of oufc then we're fucked


  The other common denominator is the fans.....
you're nuts reg.

pedant.

the fans who turned up 500 in number at the recent fans forum only to be fobbed off by kassam once more? he also allowed to us to question talbot (strict pro-FK answers only, or he loses his job) and steve hanks (general manager, a far below standard appointment to appease our demands for someone to run the club properly, now sacked).

the fans who attended div3 matches 5000 strong for 5 years. we've put up with alot of crap and got little reward. take my case for example, i began supporting at christmas 2000, saw us get relegated and concede 100+. end of the season kassam makes a speech about the wonderful journey ahead of us, etc etc basically promising success.

we've done nothing; one season finished just outside the playoffs after kassam and atkins bodged things up.


   Thing is O*frod have done very little since Maxwell bought a bit of success on the back of money stolen from the Mirror group pension fund about 20 years ago......even when you went up,  in 95/96 the average at the Manor was a little over 5000....Kassam is similar to Madejski in that in the early years he wouldn't throw any personal money at Reading, but generated it through crowd support...and other spin offs....O*ford just don't get the crowds.....and nor do we at the moment which is why I expect us to struggle in the medium term.


Title: Oxford
Post by: janaage on Monday, March 13, 2006, 17:22:03
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "janaage"
i'd have thought that if any other clubs supporters would understand such desperation it would have been swindon.


No mate, although people like you seem ok, there are too many brain dead Oxford fans who try to take the piss out of our club all the time, for me to care about the goings on down your way.  

Even this year when you're still in a lower division, the Oxford retards tried taking the piss out of us.  Well we're not hearing too much from them now, cos they're too busy shitting themselves.


Title: Oxford
Post by: oxford_fan on Monday, March 13, 2006, 18:03:10
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "Reg Smeeton"
Quote
your nuts reg.


   Yeah....what about my nuts?

   
Quote
if we've got such a wonderful setup and chairman then why has it all gone tits up, reg? there's one common denominator, Firoz Kassam. if he doesn't relinquish complete operational control of oufc then we're fucked


  The other common denominator is the fans.....
you're nuts reg.

pedant.

the fans who turned up 500 in number at the recent fans forum only to be fobbed off by kassam once more? he also allowed to us to question talbot (strict pro-FK answers only, or he loses his job) and steve hanks (general manager, a far below standard appointment to appease our demands for someone to run the club properly, now sacked).

the fans who attended div3 matches 5000 strong for 5 years. we've put up with alot of crap and got little reward. take my case for example, i began supporting at christmas 2000, saw us get relegated and concede 100+. end of the season kassam makes a speech about the wonderful journey ahead of us, etc etc basically promising success.

we've done nothing; one season finished just outside the playoffs after kassam and atkins bodged things up.


   Thing is O*frod have done very little since Maxwell bought a bit of success on the back of money stolen from the Mirror group pension fund about 20 years ago......even when you went up,  in 95/96 the average at the Manor was a little over 5000....Kassam is similar to Madejski in that in the early years he wouldn't throw any personal money at Reading, but generated it through crowd support...and other spin offs....O*ford just don't get the crowds.....and nor do we at the moment which is why I expect us to struggle in the medium term.
so why, despite having one of the biggest budgets in the league for the past 5/6 years, have we never even got anywhere near promotion? same goes for attendances.

the issue of punching above our weight is irrelevant anyway, its about kassams sly tactics and not club history or stature.
Quote from: "janaage"
Quote from: "oxford_fan"
Quote from: "janaage"
i'd have thought that if any other clubs supporters would understand such desperation it would have been swindon.


No mate, although people like you seem ok, there are too many brain dead Oxford fans who try to take the piss out of our club all the time, for me to care about the goings on down your way.  

Even this year when you're still in a lower division, the Oxford retards tried taking the piss out of us.  Well we're not hearing too much from them now, cos they're too busy shitting themselves.
you dont seem to understand the concepts of rivalry or independent thought. brush up on the 2nd one at least.


Title: Oxford
Post by: janaage on Monday, March 13, 2006, 18:09:50
I do OF, that's why I want you lot to go down, I'd love to see Oxford struggling against the giants of Forest Green and Southport etc.  It'd be great, especially if we, somehow, stay up!!

Enjoy the rest of your season.


Title: Oxford
Post by: Iffy's Onion Bhaji on Monday, March 13, 2006, 19:20:11
simple message to POX  :fu: i hate you cunts! rivalry understood OF?