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I mean come on lets get real. It's highly likely we will never play them again. There not even a League Club anymore and certainly dont ever look like being so anytime soon. I personnaly cannot get worked up into a frenzy about such a small club plying their trade 2 Leagues below us. God forbid if we reach The Championship next season. Will anybody really care about playing Oxford? Surely the whole point of having a rival is that you play them on a regular basis for bragging rights. For me, I consider Bristol City as the team who we should now consider our main rivals.

*Prepares to be shot down in flames*

Why are you posting about them if you want to forget?

We have had this debate many times over. Oxford are our rivals and always will be. We may get them in the FA Cup (if they qualify) or whatever.

certainly setting yourself up for some comments from Shity fans  there, especially if they surprise all expectations and don't make a balls-up of the play offs. again.

I agree with the grim reaper. In my case its because i know quite a few shitty fans and precisley no poxford fans.

Oxford will always be our main rivals, okay so they're having a bad time of it at present but they'll be back, that's football.  Look at Burnley and Blackburn haven't been in the same division for ages but the Burnley fans still hate Blackburn.

Oh and Oxford will go up next year, so the gap between us may narrow somewhat.

I would be very surprised if they did go up next season, isn't there talk of them losing their professional status next season, therefore playing on a level with most of the other clubs in The Conference.

And start focusing on Cheltenham? No thanks  :-))(

Nope!

Well not until they go bust anyway! :wink:

I wouldn't want them to go bust.

I do get sick of the anti-oxford chants though..they're sung all the time during a completely different match. I think Rovers are more of a rival now rather than Oxford..although they will always be our number one hated club.

You can't just 'pick' a rival  :-))(

A rivalry builds up over many years in history

I think you have to live with and around rival fans to realise the true extent of how fierce a rivalry is.

I can very much assure you that the Oxford/Swindon rivalry is as fierce as ever.

Very funny Si, have a coconut.

True. But of course there is and can be more than one. And its not the same for everyone. You live in oxfordshire, so hate the pox more I'd imagine.

I dont live in Bristol, but I get plenty of shit from city fans i know. This and the fact we've played them regually in recent years makes me hate them more. its a personal thing.

Spot on.

I would imagine most of our fans live in Swindon. I reckon Supermarine should be our main rivals on that basis.

We hate Marine, scum
We hate Marine, scum

I might start calling them Sub-parMarine to remind them of their rubbishness.

Poor effort at a wind up.

Wind up?

They'll be back in the league at some point, probably sooner rather than later. Then it depends how quickly they can get out of league two, or what happens to us. It could be 5, 10 or 50 years before we play them again but we will and I'm sure the time apart will make the next clash between the two clubs that little bit more hostile.

We've been taunting Oxford fans about their non league status, plus this is the 10th consecutive season we've finished above them so they'll want their revenge. I'm sure some of our fans are still unhappy over the 1-0 defeat at the Kassam.

It's a shame there won't be another Oxford / Swindon match at the Manor, they were ace. I'm glad I went to them when I could...

Oxford will win the Blue Square next season.

And with Malpas in charge we may be playing them sooner than we think.

Who needs Mourinho?
We got Marine-io

They are Scum - pure and simple and I will always hate them regardless of which divisions we are in. I lived in Slave Trader Central for 10 years but always hated the Pox Scum more and still do.
I don't even understand why we would not hate them. What sort of Town fan doesn't hate them? I can't believe we've got fans who don't hate them - freaks.

Yep :evil:

Thats the spirit lad.

I don't think you can say that for sure.  Our rivalry with Oxford is nowhere near as fierce as it used to be - for the simple reason that fewer & fewer of our regular fans remember competitive encounters with them.  With every year that passes with them out of the league, the rivalry drops away further.

How many 16 year olds at the County Ground these days have seen a game vs Oxford?  Not many.  If they are still non-League in another 10 years, most of our fans won't give a hoot about them.  There will just be boring old duffers like me, sitting in pub corners and boring anyone who wants listen with stories of 4-1 wins.

they still hate us with a passion so we must continue our hatred of the scum too.

i for one hope we do get to play them again, as i love the rivalry with them.

On that basis, we should also loathe Gillingham.  (And I can honestly say I couldn't give a rat's arse.)

Again, spot on.

I do keep wondering if I'll ever stop finding it so funny they are non-league...so far I haven't  :soapy tit wank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hcUUYT-eTw


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Does the volume of responses answer your question?

I hate the cunts, I hate the cunts so fucking much that I want them to come up again so we can play and beat them.

I hate the cunts so much that I almost love them.

I must admit I've stopped checking their results but that may be more to do with the position of Bristol City. I don't hate City as such but I'd rather they didn;t get to play in the Prem if it's all the same.

We'll know it's gone when someone posts about wanting the plucky non league team to win the Cup 3rd round in a few years I suppose, and it turns to be Oxford playing Barnsley or something.  Motty will visit the Kassam and interview Oxford's heroic centre forward who just happens to work part time on the roadworks on the A34 to Newbury.

I don't think the rivalry will die. I've only ever seen one game between us and them and I will always consider them our main rivals. Its a good laugh to have a rivalry with City and Rovers when we're playing them often enough, and I reckon just one game against Oxford would bring the hatred back

Absolute bollox will they.

To suggest dropping Oxford as our enemy is insane.

If I see or hear anything associated with that club I get angry  :twisted:

Oxford is the only match when I walked back to town, every 50 yards or so some blokes come up to you questioning whether you're "local" or not - i.e. looking for a rumble.  We ended up being confronted not 20 metres from next one sunny afternoon in the end.

There's been a bit too much talk about all this recently  :x The basic fact is no matter how low those fuckers go they are our true rivals.So we haven't played them for a while so what,we 'll play them again.I know there are younger fans who've never seen us play the pox but there really is nothing like it.Nothing compares in any way with the depth of hatred i have for those fuckers in yellow and blue.And not just cause i'm from poxfordshire either.Its just because.Lets just get a grip and not worry about it,it really is a non issue.Otherwise we'll be going on about how cheltenham or mac dons are derby games next for fucks sake :-))(

If they get promoted next season, should we try and get relegated just so we can play them again? I mean let's face it we're never going to win any major competition, surely the most important achievable thing for the fans would be doing one over our proper rivals a couple of times a season.

not really is it.it is a mutual loathing that is still quite fresh.and is different to gillingham due to the location.
oxford are for me without doubt our most hated rivals.and vice versa would be said by them.

I think we should get relegated to the Conference, and then win it easily. Not only will we get to thrash Oxford twice, but we'll show them how easy it is to win the bloody division that they are struggling in.

I'm not sure what the rules are in the conference, but if we drop low enough aren't we aloud to drink pitch-side? I really think the football club has its priorities wrong.

Good point Ben, I believe it's number 11 on the ten point plan

Weve always been too soft on Oxford. They are always absolute cunts to us.

Anyone who has been to an England away game knows what they can be like. Seen them be totally out of order on many occasions.

Saying stuff like this just makes you look like a mug because sooner or later you will come into contact with them.

The problem for us is we are historically the superior club in the rivalry, therefore we don't seem to have the hatred of them that they do for us.  Some town fans dislike Oxford, but the oxford fans I've come into contact with loathe us with an absolute passion.

We need some of that passion.

   Being an O*ford fan is defined by an irrational hatred  of Swindon....being a Swindon fan is a bit different...it can include a loathing of O*ford,  but isn't compulsory....take my generation I'd been going to games for some years before we even played O*ford.  There are sizeable numbers who reserve their real loathing for all things Bristhole.

I definately agree. When Reading got promoted from div 2 in 2002 they gave it all this 'we'll never play you again' and all that. You see it quite a bit when fans say 'we'll never play you again' and its absolute bollocks. I see Hull doing it on the scummers rivals site. Football is cyclical and quite often fixtures can come round again much quicker than you think.

When fans say 'we'll never play you again' I just think you are a mug. One theory Ive got is that clubs like Reading seem to have a constant turnover of teenager fans. They take an interest while they can get cheap tickets, then never go as adults, partly because they were always part Premiership armchair supporters. No sense of history. No sense of anything apart from the two XI's on the pitch. Plastic.

Whatever it is. Lets put this nonsense about the scummers to bed. They are our hated rivals and always will be.

As for the passion, janaage. I do think the Scummers hatred of us is unhealthy. They are seriously seriously obsessed with us. Spoken to many other sets of fans who think they are just plain sad. It is a negative passion. Whereas we've got a far superior history and sense of romance as a club.