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lost again today to hayes and yeading  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

hahaha

Manager sent off at HT too  :clap:

What's their forum?

wrong

Oi. You there. What's your forum called?

They'll be in the Play-Offs regardless. That's where it becomes a lottery and many people will write them off so that might work in their favour.

However, Hayes & Yeading? Ouch.

fuck them.it's all about us

HAHAAA they were doubled by a team of part-timers. First time they've had back-to-back defeats this season. The texts & phone-calls on Radio Pox after the game were truly entertaining.

Serious concerns about the manager/money (going to break-even this year, but the original debt is still there)/fans going to give up/fans forum wanted to get the chairman to explain what the future plans are/got rid of their best players a few months ago/no goals in the current squad.......

They are going to have to get through at least one of Stevenage/Luton/Rushden in the play-offs if they are going to achieve promotion - all form teams, and O*ford's confidence is disappearing fast.

Their website

Attendance 1600
Away - Most of the above

ALOL chip on your shoulder mates? Maybe it's because your load of toss team has performaed the biggest choke in English football history? To now be EIGHT point behind Stevenage is ALOL.

Oh and another amusing little footnote to today's game; they were interviewing assistant manager Mickey Lewis (he was a dirty fat cunt for them), and you could hear shouting in the background, & the interviewer stopped to explain that the noise was being made by some O*ford fans who had stayed in the ground to abuse the players while they warmed-down.

There must be a film in this.

Oxford's piss poor form is cheering me up alot lately.

2nd biggest choke. We're going to be above Leeds tomorrow. :)

Oi twat, you're on the internet, what kind of an inbred retard can't type "oxford united" into google and click the second link that comes up?

It's true though, we took 1,200. We're the Newcastle of the BSP, except slightly less people have heard of us and hate us. And we have a larger away following.

fuck me we could be 4 leagues apart next year

ffs sake go back to sleep

He's got a point though

The forum I go on is thisisunited.co.uk

Always good for a laugh.

to the tune off 'Lord Of The Dance'.  (Dance, dance, wherever you may be)

Choke, choke, wherever you may be,
You're the shit down the A420.
And the pox are doomed to stay in misery,
You're a pub league team and you deserve to be!

Internet? What is this witchcraft of which you speak?

waaaanky wanky wanky Oxford.

I'm not on about a shitty thisis style forum. I mean a proper one? Or did you lose that upon losing league status?

BSP: HT Stevenage 0-0 Luton

GOAL: Stevenage 0-1 Luton: Barnes-Homer (55) 

just because ya losing

BSP: FT Stevenage 0-1 Luton

1     Stevenage     38     45     81
2    Luton            39    35    79
3    Oxford Utd            38    29    73
4    Rushden & D    39    36    71
5    York                    38    21    68

 
 :D

I think it's great that although a non-league club, they're still competing with the mighty Leeds United... for biggest choker.  :smugfu:

Fucking love it.

SeLOLf procLOLaimed CheLOLsea of the ConfeROFLence.  :soapy tit wank:

Surely this deserves at least a final warning from the almighty moderators - I can't even read it.

Oh, and just to add my usual position to this old argument, I would love Oxford to be promoted a few times - rivalry is so much more enjoyable when you actually play each other.

There is a lot to be said for that. I suppose I'd be happy to play them again and continue our decent record against them (only lost 10 out of 53), but I much prefer them to be where they are now (or even lower).

If the season finnished now there would be 3 leagues between us.

A league meeting isnt even close. Forget about the Pox for now.

Lets have Bristol City/Plymouth/Reading next season.

Valid point, but living in West Oxon they're pretty much a part of the daily agenda, however far apart we are.

Just been shopping in Wantage both my lads wearing their full Town kits with pride saw a number of twats with oxford tops who just scuttled pass I could not help but laugh at them.

 :clap: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

kids wearing full kits, oh my days :)

I might just go to Oxford in a Town shirt soon. Just go and wave at some Pox.

come on Sailsbury!

beat the pox today!

In the CGH I was told that Salisbury borrowed Town's team coach to go to Oxford.

I wonder how that went down.

Luton hammered Grays 6-0 at home today.The Luton manager Richard Money wasn't happy
with the Luton fans impatience.Jonny take note!  :)

Apparently the police asked the driver to move it away from the ground, so it sounds like it went down like a lead balloon  :clap:. It is not exactly the most conspicuos team bus covered in Town badges with FourFourTwo and EA sports logos  :D

I wore my Swindon shirt around Oxford city centre the day after our play off triumph in 1993.  Got one irritated look from a local, but that was about it.  Fewer people care than you would imagine.

Sorry but I respectfully disagree. Having lived near O*ford for 30-odd years & worked there for over 20 years I can promise you that many people do care. Even Oxon people that have no interest in football dislike all things Swindon-related. O*ford city centre is just full of teenagers, families & Yanks/Spanish/Japanese/Aussies/Germans etc, so of course you're not going to get any trouble. Also it's not exactly a football town so they have less numbers. If you'd have wandered around anywhere away from the city centre - Cowley, Cowley Road, Headington, Iffley, you name it - then you would've had some fun & games, I promise you.

I'm with One F in Fitton on this.

A few years back, we decided to bus it in from Chippy to Oxford and get the train to Wycombe to see Swindon. I had the old round neck Town shirt from the McMahon era on under my coat. All that was visable was STFC on my neckline.

Sat in Yates having a pint and a lad of about 20 comes up to me and says ''we're away to Carlisle today, not many have gone (pointing over to a large group of unsavory looking characters) I suggest you leave''.

We necked our pints and left quickly!

Wimp.

Well I lived in Oxford for 4 years, and the only trouble I ever encountered was outside the Manor Ground itself.  As for wandering around Cowley, I did plenty of that when I lived in Cowley.  In my experience, the threat of aggro existed only in pockets.  If you didn't go looking for it, it was unlikely to find you.

All I'm really saying is that in a city of 120,000 (?) odd people, the home gate there is (and was) little more than 5,000 or 6,000...of whom many will come in from outside.  Of course, anecdotally, we've all got stories to tell.  But I think the overall picture of open hostility is grossly exaggerated by some.

I was hardly stood on the table singing Swindon songs though was I !

My shirt was not even visable, just the STFC on my neck.

Anyway, I went to school with a load of O*ford fans and their wankers end of story.

It was parked in a lay-by on A34 near Abingdon apparently.

Sorry Ralphy...I wasn't implying that you were looking for trouble.  As I said, we all have stories to tell.  (I have a few of my own.)  But I'm simply saying that I think they're the exception rather than the rule.

One memory that does stand out is meeting the caretaker chap who used to work at the Gloucester Green bus station.  I walked past his 'office' one day shortly before catching a coach to Swindon for a home game - and there were wall to wall Swindon Town posters.  He was a bit of a fan, and didn't mind the general public knowing it!

Carterton seems to be big Swindon country. Loads live there.

The English department must not have been up to much.

You're be in trouble for that OF.

Fuck off scummer.

:D Well I liked it. Nice one nev

No, they actually had wankers.

Agree about the numbers, I made reference to it. The city of Oxford isn't a Liverpool or a Newcastle, therefore the hostility is less conspicuous. You didn't say that you used to wander around in STFC gear though - and I wouldn't believe you if you did. You'd maybe have a lucky escape or two but it wouldn't be long before you'd have regretted it.

I can relate to the bloke at Gloucester Green, people that are ingratiated into the place will be accepted and there will just be lively banter etc. I had that myself, people knew/know that I'm Swindon and usually it's fine, but not always, and everyone said/says be careful about banding it around too much. These locals wouldn't all have said this for no reason.

Just like amongst the Town fans at Oxford games, random non-football Oxford people will come to Town/Pox games because they want to fight Swindon people. I've noticed it over the years from our side, and my Pox-supporting mates say the same from their side. 

Anyway let's just agree to disagree and look forward to bringing 3 points back from Essex on Saturday.

Fuck that, the pair of you should go toe to toe in Colchester's car park over it. Only decent way to settle it

I think it would be far more interesting for Ardiles to prove his point by actually wearing his Swindon shirt in Oxford and posting photographic evidence on here. And when he's done that, we could all club together and buy him a bunch of grapes and a 'get well soon' card.

 :D

True Ralphy. I often stop there for provisions (wine) on the way home from games and it's common to see someone in a Town shirt - impressively so for a little town in oxon.

I stopped there after the Tranny game, I was sporting my Town TOFFS mid-70's shirt, & this young-ish couple bowled over with a big grin saying "good win" etc. Turns out they're Swindonians who moved there 5 years ago & they seemed pretty concerned for me, I think they thought I was gonna be attacked any minute. I told them (optimistically) that there was just as much chance of seeing a Town fan as a Pox one - they said they had my back if needed. 

Christ, life on the edge in the badlands, eh?

It was pertinent to the conversation, you sarcastic little cuntfuck.

 :eek:

:D I asked for that!

Yep.. sure thing, when I go quizzing on a Monday night at The Chequers in BrizeNorton, I always make sure I've 4 mates on hand just in case the locals see my Town top.

Maybe if you had the required amount of character, then you would be able to let go of the fact that somebody actually had the audacity to voice an opinion that was different to yours. A little too accustomed to people kissing your saggy old arse??

Reg Stalin?? Reg Hitler?? Reg Mussolini?? 

Nah Reg from the People's Front of Judea.

I'm all for arse kissing...as long as it's not blokes.

Isn't Carterton just as close to Swindon as Oxford is anyway?  Certainly looks that way.  Given that the county boundary passes just to the north east of Swindon, I think it's fair to say there are parts of south Oxfordshire where we have a significantly larger following (in the same way that Southampton have a much larger following in Salisbury/south Wiltshire than we do.)

Reg Trademark ?

carterton, burford and faringdon are all swindon strongholds. Wantage, grove and didcot are more a mixed bag.

I've since had a wank, and realise that I was a tad out of order there. All I'm saying is maybe let it go? So what if we disagreed....

You cunt.

ps The bit about the wank is a lie. Honest.

People's Front of Judea?Wankers!

Yeh pretty much, it's just a few miles closer to Oxford than Swindon. People I know that live in Carterton say it's mainly Oxford, but the ratio is much much closer than in Witney (just 5 miles away).

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oxford "devon loch" united are certain of a play off spot now due to wimbledon losing last night

So we'll have the enjoyment of seeing their play-off failure again...

I wanted AFC Wimbledon to go up.  :(

My old man is from Wantage originally. He said they used to run a bus to Town games years ago.

I know that Conference games haven't been televised this season, but has anyone heard anything about their p/offs being screened as a one-off?

That 2nd leg vs Exeter a few years ago was right up there amongst some of the most enjoyable telly I've ever seen. Our faces were aching from the laughter.

That play off match against Exeter was immense.

I remember jumping around the living room when Exeter's penalties went in!

A colleague of mine is in the OU supporters Club and reckons they are in deep, deep financial shit if they don't go up. They overstretched themselves financially last year in an attempt to bounce straight back, so had to cut out their reserve team and almost all their youth setup this season.

They've now got almost nothing they can cut back on next year if they stay down.

I had heard something similar, I hear that they went balls out to get promotion and there will be a full cut back on playing staff and backroom staff if they dont succeed, dodgy times for them :)

Oh dear, how sad, too bad, never mind.

Their attendences have held up well despite dropping out of the League...and as a result, I'm really not sure that promotion to League 2 would provide much of financial boost in any case.  They'e hardly going to attract a new legion of fans by virtue of reaching the dizzy heights of League 2.  And TV money, sponsorship - they're not going to be noticeably better off in League 2 compared with the Conference, are they?

You can put ticket prices up if you move from non league back into the league.

Me too, i think it's because it would increase the chance of them playng Franchise and hopefully dicking them!

I think League two teams make quite a lot more in TV and Advertising revenue than the conference, down in no small part to the fact the conference has no TV deal

  We were quite fortunate that Capn Bob never got his way and formed the Thames Valley Royals.

  For younger readers who maybe don't know, Robert Maxwell, was then chairman of the Scum, they had 3 or 4 seasons of success, on the back of money Maxwell embezzled from his company's pension funds. 

 He might have been a crook, but he could see the future, and with that in mind wanted to amalgamate both Reading and O*frod, use the funds from the sale of their grounds to build a massive all seater at Didcot.

 I think his Franchise might well have been in a decent position to pick up on the crowd increase of the 90's...we could have had a modern giant, one stop down the line, probably hosting European football.

 Reading fans didn't seem too bothered at the time, they were getting sub 5K crowds, but the Scummers then in the top flight kicked up a bit of a fuss, mind you their crowds weren't all that.

 For example, the lowest post war crowd for a visit of ManUre, about 8K came at the Manor.

 What the Scummers got instead, was Franchise Kassam....shit ground, asset stripped and non league football.
 

Ha ha.Never knew he wanted to build a ground in Didcot.Would have made sense though.

Obviously was aware of the rest of it seeing as i'm an old crone.

Old Crone....is your welcome reappearance due to shrubbery purchase, or the start of the cricket season?

I didn't even realise the cricket started today  :-[  Lovely weather for it.

I've had time off work and have done enough housework and gardening to last a few months.Thought i'd skulk about on here for a bit.Especially to have a laugh at the pox.Bless them for making our lives an even better place at the moment  :clap:

It's the earliest start ever I think....always used to be in about another week or so, with a few looseners against the Toffs of O*Bridge.

In classic ECB style, having produced a report, calling for less cricket, they've had to expand the season to cater for more cricket....mostly of the bish bosh type.  Similarly having decided to scrap 40 over cricket, because nobody else plays it, they've scrapped 50 over cricket, because Sky don't like it...but they like 40...

I don't know, I reckon we'd see a fairly significant number put on our gates and teams down here seem to rarely bring more than 100, so there'd be more away fans too. Would hope the average to go up to close to 7k.

That's the first I've heard of this, and bearing in mind that there are plenty of scaremongers on TiU I'm surprised its not been mentioned if true. We were in the shit about a year ago due to a woeful cash flow situation, but that was cleared up and we're now run on a very tight budget (like any club these days).

When you say the supporters club, do you mean OxVox? And we overstretched last year? To "bounce straight back"?

Its true that we don't have a reserve team, though lots of clubs have followed that trend, and there are sufficient games / friendlies around to maintain squad fitness.

Thankfully we have a great chairman in Kelvin Thomas. He's been the catalyst for a massive increase in income for the club.

Though the one rumour I have heard is that he may not be around next season. I'm hoping he is.

That Thames Valley Royals saga was an entertaining chapter, amongst their many entertaining chapters (for us). I remember some of their home games were interrupted due to fans climbing the fences & having a sit-down on the pitch with their banners.

It was always a non-starter and was another example of what a mad (& thieving) bastard Maxwell was. It wouldn't have mattered how far he'd have got with his plans because you ain't got a business if you ain't got any punters.

You're probably right, and it was 5 or 6 months ago that we talked about it so things are probably on a better financial footing now.
I still think that no team would seriously consider axing its reserve team out of choice though - hell, even the likes of Melksham Town and Oxford City have got reserve teams!

I'm not so sure it would have been a non starter...I know it's hypothetical, but Winkelman has shown you can build a club from nothing...their average crowd is higher than ours FFS....

Had Maxwell got a top flight club, in a for then state of the art all seater, with the Prem just around the corner, I think he might have found an audience.

After all Reading added on 15K plastics, quite rapidly.....games for the TVR against Spurs Chelsea ManUre Arsenal etc, would have also attracted armchairs for their one game of the season and there's plenty of them about.

The flaw in Maxwell's plan was the location.  Didcot is at the arse end of nowhere, despite being the meeting point of two important railway lines.  I travel by train to most of the games I go to, but I appreciate that most other people don't.  Would your average Cowley or Tilehurst loyal be bothered with the trek to Didcot?  I doubt it.

There's no precedent for 'parkway' style football clubs.  This idea would have died on its arse.  And fittingly...with a kind of poetic symmetry, so did Fat Bob.

I think the appeal of Didcot, was available land at relatively cheap price, probably wedged near the railway and power station....Didcot isn't too far off the A34.

Something I've never understood is how O*frod never got any penalties from the football authorities, for what was dodgy dealing, whereas STFC did.

Your examples are completely different situations. Winkelman 'moved a club' with no fans to an area with a new population & massive catchment area, & Reading's new fans all got attracted to an existing club = not mergers.

The day that 2 established professional clubs merge is the day that I'll give the pope a blow-job. There was simply too much opposition to it for it to have sprouted any legs. This was just another example of the sheer pride & passion that fans have for their clubs.

Start a new club, yeh fine, but you're never going to finish off 2 rival clubs by merging them together. The people will never allow it to happen. Most fans won't even entertain the thought of a ground-share FFS.

Wallace Mercer tried to do it with Hearts and Hibs. Was always a non starter.

we've followed up our first back-to-back losses of the season with 2 wins in a row, looking better for the playoffs as the confidence is coming back with each game. if we can finish off the rest of the season with this form the playoffs should be interesting, a week ago we had no chance.

You wont get past Luton!  :smugfu:

we could - our players are just as good, and on our day we are better than them. hence we've beaten them once, and they've beaten us once this season (though ours was a proper victory and theirs was due to jammy extra time goals). they drew 1-1 with tamworth on saturday, and anything can happen in the playoffs.

will you be watching us on sky tonight? we have exeter didnt you play them once in the play offs?

I'm not sure the non league competition qualifies as the play offs.  It's a bit like counting our 1894/95 PO against New Brompton.

Headington couldn't even compete when the Southern League was a proper competition with 2 divs of mostly proper clubs...

     Bedminster
     Brighton
     Bristol City
     Bristol Rovers
     Chatham Town
     Cowes
     Millwall Athletic
     New Brompton (Gillingham)
     Gravesend United
     Portsmouth
     Queen's Park Rangers
     Reading
     Sheppey United
     Southampton
     Swindon Town
     Thames Ironworks (West Ham)
     Tottenham Hotspur


 Second Division teams

   Brentford
   Chesham Town
   Dartford
   Fulham
   Grays United
   Maidenhead
   Shepherd's Bush
   Southall
   Watford
   Wolverton L & NWR
   Wycombe Wanderers

   It's a shame Cowes never made it...an away trip to the IOW could have been fun...

Ferry would have been useful to us then.

What a shame that Wolverton L & NWR didn't thrive.  Had it done so, we would never have witnessed the bastard creation that is the MK 'Dons'.