I've been reading this thread, just not replying!
With the end of the season they had you can't really blame them. I think they'll go up next year.
In previous seasons we've always hoped to challenge just because our budget is much bigger than the other sides down here. Wilder knows his stuff and has completely turned round his inherited squad. Given the summer and his own faces, we should be alright
the Manor was a crap hole with a modest capacity.
The Manor was a beautiful ground! I still miss it.
Oxford Fan,
Did you go to the game today?
If so, what happened?
Do you mean the aggro and 'streakers'? At 0-1 a man ran onto the pitch in pants and a vest. None of the stewards seemed to know what to do, so he legged it down to the fence end and scaled it. Nice work and quite amusing at the time.
Then a raah idiot from down in front of where I was sitting took his vest off and tried to do the same. He ran the length of the pitch but the stewards took him down with a couple of attempts and he was unable to escape.
This is all in the space of a couple of minutes. Other fans were understandably getting a bit pissed off with the delays. Next a skinny bloke goes for it. Lots of booing. Ran around the middle of the pitch as the stewards had blocked the fence off. Billy Turley decided he'd had enough, shouts and him to get off the pitch. He didn't, so Turley flattened him and starts to drag him off the pitch. Stewards take over and remove him.
Then we took our free-kick, and scored. 1-1. About 100 of our fans go on the pitch, one grabbing the corner flag. Preece called his Northwich players off the pitch. Match delayed for five minutes.
Understandably alot of our fans were annoyed at the ones who went on the pitch. Things started to get a bit messy in the Oxford Mail stand, people squaring up and a couple of fights. 'Are you Swindon in disguise?' being sung at the invaders - which they didn't like too much.
I think the crowds would be better now.
Basically Im saying that a lot of Oxford fans were either too scared to come last time, or didnt think it worth the hassle.
Definitely would be better crowds. When I started going to the Manor regularly around 2000, the general opinion was that Swindon away was not a trip you made. Just wait for the home match.
Now I think we'd look at bringing a decent couple of thousand at least.
