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Just heard from my contact at the Poxford mail, he says plans from pox are gathering speed about them having a huge flag stroke display for our visit. Something like the ox's head or something. I wonder if it's pink!

Any plans to counter this? Maybe create a PDC flag? Imagine his reaction when he sees it, he'd love it. It'll also piss the pox off big time!  :D

Maybe even a simple red card display?

Thoughts?  :clap:

I'd go for something more subtle - an AK47 for example

Cant you just go mad with an ak 47?

Be a lot more fun

Beat me to it KR!

What about sneaking in an AK 47?

Beat me to it KR and Tans!

How about an AK47?

Beat me to it KR, Tans and Crispy!

SAS display

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

It's good to see the pox will have enough fans in the ground to be able to pass a big flag around...for a change
 :)

Only in three stands, of course.

its all a bit ott and embarrassing isnt it? At the end of the day, its only a league game ffs.

Saying that though, would be good for us to get one for the jpt. Someone mail Nick.

Sounds like a good contingency plan to me. Get a big flag so they can all hide behind it and avoid watching us muller them.

They're making a flag especially for the game?!

How sweet.

Thought this was going to be about our hooligan turn out for the coming match. instead  :gay:

Make your mind up, either flags are good enough for all cup finals or none ;)

But JO remember, this is their cup final!

We should have a sweepstake on how many minutes it will take them to fold them up when we crush them.   

They're doing a flag to advertise our official away travel company? How sweet !

Just wondering if there any arrangements for Oxford yet in terms of a special train and a designated pub.  Just deciding how to get there and whether it’s worth getting to pox much before KO.

Cheers

If ever there was a game for making your own arrangements (finding a nice village pub outside Oxford, for example) and making your way to the ground as late before kick off as you can, this is it.

Yep, although may have to travel by train, which is not conducive to a country pub.

Then prepare to have every minute of your day, from the moment you get on your train at Swindon to the moment you return there, timetabled, marshalled and dictated by Oxfordshire's finest.

Could it not just take a lead from the events of Figo's return to Barcelona after he went to Madrid...

Smuggle in an Ox's head and throw on the pitch - now that would wind them up?

Constable speaks!

 http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/oxfordunited/9533423.I_wouldn_t_have_joined_Swindon_for___100K_a_week__says_Oxford_United_star/?ref=twtrec

So saying he wasn't interested never entered his mind?

Just shows how gullible they are up the road, Cuntstuble has really pulled the wool over their eyes on this one.

He clearly didn't want to come here. That was obvious at the time

So much so that he didn't think to tell anybody for hours?

That original club statement still baffles me.

'After discussions with the player, we have allowed him to talk to the club'

Bored of this now.

He's their player.  He's shown them a lot of loyalty, and will almost certainly score against us on March 3rd.  These are the only things we need to worry about now.

Oh who gives a shit. He's just some bog standard, average league 2 clogger who would've quickly realised than he'd be one of our worst strikers.

But basically the "discussion" was the club letting Constable know their position; that they were accepting the offer and their reasons for doing so. Clearly they also told him that they were reluctantly accepting the bid, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed.

Exactly.

Why would they need to 'allow' him to do anything?

Why not just say 'the player will talk to the club'?. Why 'we will allow him to talk to the club'?

Very strange semantics to use for a player that didn't want the move.

*Edit

The actual quote was:

Oxford United Football Club can confirm they have received a much improved offer from Swindon Town Football Club for James Constable and after discussions with the player have given permission for him to talk to the club

Given him permission? Rather an interesting way to word it.

Yet another Constable Thursday...

I've read this about 100 times and I'm still unsure what original poster meant by SAS

I reckon it's gonna be this (Surfers Against Sewage) banner:

[url width=844 height=219]http://www.sas.org.uk/wp-content/files_mf/cache/th_24cb5c63a3e363459f1fd6e0eec78f65_1273152720homeextra1.jpg[/url]

SAS, shock and stun

hahahahahahahahahah.
If he think's staying at poxford over us is a better footballing decision then he's clearly mental.

In all honesty, it probably is the best footballing decision for him.

With us, especially as we go up, he's likely to get found out and disappear into obscurity. At least the pox are likely to stay at his level. Big fish, small pond and all that.

Maybe he won't have to train as hard.

What a load of bollox. I thought we were supposed to pay stupid wages yet he could earn better elsewhere. Just as well we didn't sign him, he'll be committef if he continues to spout this shite.

I'd like a big banner with

'Firoz Kassam - 2012 Landlord of the Year'

Brilliant Jan!

How about a giant banner displaying a stand? We could hang it over the fence.

Mate sent me this. I wish we could do this.  :D

"seen the thread/posts and think it's idol chatter maybe a little bit of an inkling but nowt much.

Flag is coming on well from what I hear. The badge has been drawn up ready to paint and two strips of the flag done too. The boys may be using the priory marquee for some of the work which should give an idea of size. I don't have any pictures but from what I understand it's going to be a fair old size. The fabric for the badge had filled a classroom or similar from what I could tell.

Cheers to the chaps who donated online and those who gave me a bit of cash in the priory yesterday it is much appreciated and has already been passed onto the lads to pay off the fabric

Given a choice between having a huge flag and winning the league...

what do you mean by "SAS display" ?

Maybe they could put the flag on the fence, they could even paint some pretend fans so it looks like they have supporters at all ends of the ground.

What a waste of money.

A flag that will be used for one game.

I suspose it is Oxford's big day.

It won't be used for one game, Ralphy. As I understand it, the flag makes no reference to your club or our rivalry.

What is on this mythical flag then ??

Just a pic of Beano ?

Maybe it will have the world cup on it...this is their world cup final afterall!

You've made the mistake of quoting your own manager there.

Nowt wrong with quoting our own manager's words - particularly when he's lead us to top of the league.

There is when your feeble attempt at a comeback is actually how he described the game, not us.

It is, that's why we sold out 3 months before we played you. Oh wait, no, I think that was you.

edit: I'll be gutted if OF turns out to be SuttonRed in a KR style ruse. Gutted.

Selling out a home derby is not a bad thing. Not selling out a home derby is a bad thing. Has Paolo got his plaque for your defeat of Wigan Reserves yet? I think you did manage to sell that one out.

So much so that they have dropped 2000ish home fans off their last 2 home games, must be saving all their beer tokens for the big game.

Oo oo oo pick on me, pick on me. I wants to be sassed! Here it comes...

"Oxford United stink"

You should take a flag of firoz kassam

Kassam is a legend.

Maybe it should look like this?

12,113 . Lets see how you do ;)

Have you got your plaque for.....wait.. :hmmm: ......still nothing....I'm sure I'll get it in a minute.....nope nothing, sorry OF  :D

Normally I only go fishing with the slightly dumb ones.

I'll take the compliment.

And what does that tell you? Poxford are way down the priority list of opposition teams we care about.

Haha. Most pathetic 2 pages I've read in a while. And I've not ignored pericarp.

You can sell out a game against a shitty northern Premiership reserves side but not your local derby. Strange.

Should tell you something really then.

Beating the Pox wont make us top story next saturday night on sky sports news.

Although it might on the tuesday after if we equal the 4th tier successive wins record.  :D

Am desperately trying to refrain from saying "Hello, McFly"

Your part-time fans need to sort their priorities out?

Are you joking?

Mostly.

Looks like you have more part timers than us OF. 5'000 odd is your average over the past 2 home games yet against us it swells to 11,500.

Higher numbers of part-timers is not a bad thing, even when you cherry pick the statistics. Obviously our glamour ties against Barnet on a Tuesday night et al are going to be low attendances, preceeding a game where we've sold loads of tickets.

As long as they know when to turn out, that is the main thing.

We had a crowd of 10k for the visit of Barnet on a Tuesday night.

OBSESSED that's why this is their cup final and all Oxford fans know it, all we care about is getting out of this league and that wont be decided next Saturday.

KR is that Kingston Robin that used to go on the old rivals site?? poor fucker used to get some stick on there,do you know if he posts on here under a different name?

Deservedly though, he use to write reams and reams about his thoughts on the games, the teams, the formation, the pitch etc etc,  based on nothing more than the ceefax updates.

He's around a lot these days.  London Reds regular.  Nice chap.  I'm fairly sure he reads this board.

Yeah its suttonred i heard

I hate myself for arguing with KR for literally years. Nobody told me not everything on the internet is real.

I used to read mos when I was younger, I vaguely recall him getting all sorts of grief!

We can go back and forth with insults all day long. At the end of the season, we'll see who's laughing.

Just quote FACTs we have always attracted bigger crowds than you. Take averages when we have been in the same division as a leveller and I will let you post the stats.
I remember in the 70'80's your average home gates were often around the 4,500 mark so fair play for increasing your attendances but you have always been behind ours. Rare to see double figures but its your big day next week so enjoy it.....after that bacj to the 6000 and getting lower.

Fuck off :)

Just for you comedy!! Grimly hanging on well past it's sell by date. Never been the same since batch and onions went disco square.

http://www.fansonline.net/swindontown/mb/view.php?id=7119

So that's where Watchfield's finest are hanging out these days.

I don't even know if watchfield is a real place? Can only assume you mean riddel, sigs, leroy or townfish? The lurking gayers.

Yeah, some of them. Perhaps hanging out wasn't the best choice of words.

The reason oxford didn't get the extra stand was due to lack of interest from home fans which tells you there was about the same amount of interest from oxford fans as there was from our fans.If our capacity was the same as yours it would of been a sell out

I miss MOS.  Do Leroy and Riddel still cyberexist?