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All I can say is.....

Come on Crewe, Southampton and especially Bolton. Hopefully 30k+ (25k more than normal) crying Pox fans  :)

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I’ve decided to make sure the stains get beat. I’ve backed them!

Good plan Aud.

This game is huge for Oxford.

They're bleeding money at the moment. Unsustainable losses.

They can't win today.

Up the wanderers.

I like your thinking.

Come on Bolton.

I shall not be watching, though.

No fucking way.

Yep same here, I want them to lose but wouldnt want to see them win.

Yeah, I’m sure people started thread like this a couple of years back about hoping Port Vale would lose at Wembley - they didn’t.

We’ve had our worst season ever and the scum are going to get promoted to the Championship; a division we will never been good enough to frequent ever again.

Perhaps Lee Power was the good guy…perhaps he was trying to do what’s best for us and free us from this soul destroying addiction.

That’s bollocks. He was a crook and once it started going tits up he tried his best to get out with not a care about what that meant for the club.

There may be a debate on who’s worse than who, but that’s hardly uplifting.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Ffs

Not denying Power was a cancer killing the club…
Maybe, just maybe that was the human thing to do.
Like putting a pet to sleep…no more suffering.

Come on Bolton ffs

Things are shit. They will not be shit forever. We just have to see this storm out.

Hopefully in my lifetime!

FFS. 2-0.

Very cynically I don’t think you can make the claim ‘they will not be shit forever’ the gaps between the haves and have nots is only getting bigger.

So many clubs slipped out the league burdened with financial issues that probably won’t ever come back.
Southend, Scunthorpe & Yeovil have all played in the Championship more recently than us and look at them now…do they ever make it back?

That’s what happens when you do stupid tinpot things like starting threads hoping the other team win & changing your avatar in a show of support.

You end up with egg on your face…

Bury & Hereford are also good examples of what can happen if mis managed.

Games not over yet, fucking lightweights

So my avitar decides what happens on the pitch then🤣

Yeah Oxford are only winning because of this thread.

I am off to sign up to the oxford forum and make a hate thread for every swindon game next season

we're going up as invincibles.

Pox going up to the Championship will hopefully galvanise the Town fans in being even more pissed off at our board. Seeing our smaller neighbours doing well whilst we carry on doing an impersonation of a Sunday league side.

When our fan base is made up of people such as Boo, Ben Sharp and Gareth Gillman... I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Left behind by city, reading and now fucking Oxford. Fucks sake

Thinking exactly the same and notwithstanding we haven’t stopped falling.
I am going into hiding after this.

Only leaves Cheltenham😁
Fuck me it’s depressing at the moment following STFC

Cheltenham have been better than us for some time.

You have to change your mindset, we beat Man Utd

And have a good record against us at their place :D

Rovers & Cheltenham too…

My god the stats seem to indicate that BW are all over the piss stains.

No shots on target!

Apart from the stats that count….

Indeed.

The icing on the cake of a shit season. We need to get some new rivals, won't be seeing these twats for a few years. Vale?

I guess Pox are the smallest club in the championship  :sherlock:

I’m not bothered to be honest. We’ve got far bigger issues in our own house to sort. If anything puts even more pressure on the current board to turn it around or sell up which is good for the football club.

Piss stains seem to have caught Bolton on the right day.
Even we could have beat them.

Chippenham?

True that.

I doubt the piss stains being in the PL will mobilise the twats into anything other than treading water.

Don’t think even relegation out of the EFL will galvanise some of our fans into action

I see Bolton played like we did against Preston.

Ah the championship,

The league where a 6 month purple patch means you can sell a player for 10+ million quid.

Oxford's unsustainable gamble has paid off.

Clem will have us there in a couple of years, it was 5 years wasn't it?

Power said 5 years🤣

Perfect executed gameplan there to be honest.

Meanwhile, CM says in January we have a three year plan to get to League One.

soapy tit wank

And they lost their manager last November

I thought we were still aiming for promotion this season back then?   :clap: :doh:

That game depressed me way more than I thought it could. 

Can't say they didn't deserve it.

Bolton were Swindon v Preston and Millwall. Didn't show up. Could have played until next years play off final and not created anything meaningful. Stains were sharper whilst being technically and tactically much better.

Icing on the shitcake that has been this season. Hope to god this summer brings change either in the way of a new owner or the current one putting people in place who have the knowledge to run a football club successfully. Sadly i have no faith in either, in our current state we're more likely to go down than up.

Today is a bad day for Swindon. Oxford have just won the mini jackpot. Brannagan for example has just become a 10 million pound player in The Championship.

What a time to be alive.

If we appointed a manager with Buckingham's CV there would be hell to pay from most fans yet he's Oxford through and through and taken them to the promised land.  Not really a dig, more a nod to what a thought out stategy can do.  Never thought I'd be jealous of Oxford.

They have investment. End of thread.
They have spent wisely on players whilst we contemplate a fucking bike rack.

Exactly :clap:

Don't forget the Doncentration camp outside the DRS (TM Leggett '24)

5 years to scavenge as much money out of the club as he could before the fans realised what he was really up to.

Anything planned for us now will be like this  :)

https://youtu.be/cing-9DjpWc?si=8oCqblU9ApDeCyxv

Then we got fooled after watching Clem mix with the supporters away at Scunthorpe!

Bloody hell don’t remind me.
Another all time low tonight.

It must be a nightmare for you as there must be lots of piss stain fans where you live.

Nice for Billy Bodin at least. So it goes, we have plenty of our own issues to worry about.

Don’t care! (About the playoffs)

They also seem to sell a few players for top dollar.

Out with a couple next weekend. Plus a Reading fan.
South Oxon was worse, unfortunately I grew up with a few. North Oxon I can hide.

There won’t be nothing recent to talk about😁

All of us older lads. We all talk about the games of yesteryear.
In fairness they are cracking lads. One Pox fan in particular like a Brother.

Very cagey so far. Favouring Crawley because of the Town connection and Crewe is quite local for me.

Gap between us and Oxford is at risk of expanding ten fold from now. As others have pointed out, the financial gains of the championship make even a relegation season straight back to League One beneficial, paired with a new stadium on the way.

Whilst we’re moving in the complete opposite direction and even if the perfect new owners came in tomorrow, would take some decent time to rectify.

Makes you again look back and wonder if Black had just held on for 6 more months and sold a more attractive Championship club onto new owners instead of anyone in January of that year. Sigh.

You can even look back more recently and wonder what would have happened if we’d beaten Preston in the play off final in 2015.

I think its good that such a small badly supported team get a chance to play in the Championship.

Preferred Elm Park to the Manor Ground.

Crawley 1 up

 Now 2.

Promoted

Jesus wept... this season just gets better and better...

Fair play Scott Lindsey you proved the doubters wrong :clap:

Further evidence were it needed, of how fucked up and tin pot our own Club is...

Spot on Shaun.

There will always be that 6 : 0 win at the County Ground, but that's when our season peaked.  It's all utter crap and not getting better unless something drastic happens.

Just the kind of manager we need to go in for.  Lg 2 experience, small budget only, took on a club in the nether regions of Lg 2, cleared out the deadwood - installing a professional attitude where players turned up on time or were shipped out. 

Literally none of us expressed regret at Scott's departure at the time  (other than possibly its timing).

Well done, Sir.

I don’t get the Lindsey love in. He was useless for STFC, and left of his own accord. He wasn’t chased out.

But, no manager will succeed at this club while the current regime is in ownership. Clem is a chancer with money issues who’s surrounded the club with undesirable people. The sooner he buggers orf, the better.
The sad part is, we were all cockahoop with joy when he prized the club from that other chancer, Power.
The reality is, there are not many people willing to invest their own money into a football club. I believe Clem thought he could pull a few pints in the CGH, and season tickets would rocket propelling this club toward league one, then the championship (5 year plan anyone?). Turned out the flamin’ dingo didn’t have a clue about running a football club, and we have discovered his  deceptive persona is not what he initially promised!

The club isn’t debt free, despite what the Vegemite Villain proclaims, he has loaded the ‘cleared debt’ on the club as payable to Clem on his exit.  
Is there going to be money available to redevelop the CG as per the agreement of purchase with SBC? No frickin chance.
Ideally the club needs to be fan owned at 51% to stop this cycle of chancers using this club. It would have been great if the Eady trust money could have been used to leverage shares in the football club in conjunction with the ground purchase…

I don’t have regret over any of them leaving here, not from a bitter point of view but because what they’ve all achieved at Crawley today wouldn’t have been achievable here because of how much we now know about what’s going on at our club. Building a successful team and culture here is near to impossible so I don’t look back at any of those players or coaches with “what if’s” because it just wouldn’t have happened here. Simply put, our club is not setup for success right now.

Yesterday hurt, today doesn’t invoke as much feeling, congratulate them all and move on with trying to fix our club.

As well as that, my more controversial and debatable argument is that style of football with that calibre of squad wouldn’t have been as successful at Swindon as it is at Crawley (no offence intended). When we tried that style at this level (repeatedly), we saw how many away teams came and sat 11 men behind the ball and we struggled, whether that’s because of the size of our club in this division making it easier to adopt that approach or otherwise, it worked. Most of our success came away from home where teams came onto us and attacked us and spaces opened up. It’s one thing playing that style when there’s gaps to exploit, it’s another ball game entirely when you’re doing it against a team sitting in and you have to create openings. Crawley started the season as relegation favourites and had a decent but steady finish into the play offs, I’d be interested to find out how away teams approached their games at Crawley and whether they experienced the same of teams sitting in against them and how they fared or whether teams didn’t show them as much respect and this left more gaps to exploit. Although I’ve not checked the numbers on Crawley enough to verify that so might be chatting absolute shite.

Worst ever finish.
John Trollope’s record broken.
Oxford promoted to the Championship via a successful trip to Wembley.
Ex manager taking Crawley up to L1 via a successful trip to Wembley.
Even our Premier League legacy of conceding 100 goals in a season has been broken.
We’re probably the most insignificant team in English football.
Only relegation would have made it any worse.

No, that's Rochdale..Oh wait..

And Rochdale's trajectory is what worries me.

Hereford’s worry me.

Yep ...  you were one of the many who were not a fan - particularly of his post match interviews .

It doesn’t stop me from congratulating him though.

Or the dicking from Aldershot

That was an all time low for me... that hurt, almost physically...

Well that went well!  :no:

I was in Wantage over the weekend and there was plenty of yellow about unfortunately. One of the guys we drink with on our local is an Oxford fan, think I'll be avoiding going out locally for a while, good for the waistline doing that at least!  :nod:

Edit - just watched the league 2 highlights on Youtube and right at the end who was lifting the trophy, none other than Ben Gladwin and Conroy.

This, worst result ever in the clubs history bar none.

Cheer up guys. It was 20 years ago since the Withdean. :)

We seem to get 1 good season every 10 years.

Must be due for one then surely.

what constitutes as 'good'?

Did the ben garner season count???

If so we still have another 8 years to go!!!

Plenty of salt in the wounds this weekend just gone. Fuck sake.