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Hate to say, but watching Pox  play Arsenal  and they look competitive with a touch of aggression that's been missing all season at Swindon
 

What do i know Arsenal just score

Yeah they don’t look too bad. Shame we let Bodin go as he went on to have a decent career.

Bodin going was because PDC had it in for Bodin Senior and it was done out of spite

Come on Arsenal

They lares playing  the typical underdog way

All elbows and aggression....

Arsenal have been in no danger and just waited fir the opportunities

Horrible team.  Horrible club.

Huffed and puffed but didn’t lay a glove on the Arse. About as deadly up front as us at the moment!

Always good to see the yellow filth lose though.

11,538. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

You can see where Garner and to a lesser extent Lindsay get their ideas of possession type football from with Arsenal game tonight.
However what both Garner and Lindsay obviously don't understand you need highly skilled players to play it.
Simply put we are currently miles apart from competing tippy tippy stuff and not at the races with aggressive division 4 play
Get the ex Crewe guy in quickly and let's hope he can do a good job.

Didn’t watch it but on a similar subject really enjoyed Sheffield Wednesdays positive performance against Newcastle the other day.

A team we could learn from.

Tinpot

Is that there capacity? Surely they must have sold out.

the penalty claim for arsenal- where the oxford bloke dives in to block a shot and hits arm which is on the floor. commentators saying he has to put his arm somewhere. well yes but he put himself that position.

what is a natural position on a football pitch because with both feet off the floor and flying in to save a shot it doesn't seem natural.

you could argue that they were over capacity yet again. as always with their cup matches there were blokes standing on the back of vehicles looking over the wooden fence. does that count towards attendance?

I'm hearing they didn't sell out.....how? Surely there is enough arsenal fans in Oxford to sell that three sided wank pit out?

It did sell out - you had to have stubs from the previous round and a few went on general sale but were gone quick. The divide between the two sets of fans takes out about 500 seats and I don't know if Arsenal sold out.

To be fair when we played Citeh, the capacity was reduced by around 300 because of cameras etc. I can't believe they need such a massive gap at Pox to divide the fans.

Car park season ticket holders.

Didn't Pox get arsenal in the third round draw after we lost at our first game at the 3 sided kasssimo

We were a league above them at the time, can't have been long after the last game at manor turbo double.

All it shows is that we need to get out of  L2 at all costs. It's a spiral of stagnation.

Are you based in Cowley, Oxford?  Lived in Oxford myself during the Hoddle period...and the period soon after when Joey Beauchamp (RIP) signed for us.  Interesting times.

Yep. An awful game settled by a Jefferson Louis goal that I'm not even sure he touched from a throw-in. Willy Carson on the tele beforehand saying that he wanted a draw.

We played away at Highbury in the next round.

They didn't get their McKirdy moment, that's the key for me.

It's known as the Ford Transit stand. Don't let anyone tell you it's a three-sided ground.

Spoke to a work colleague who lives near the ground, he told me the traffic warden was having a field day with cars parked where they shouldn't.   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Those plastic fans won't return.  :smugfu:
Haha jump on Johnnies.  :bye:

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

https://twitter.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1612927957542002690?s=20&t=5R3hgt52KyOPgNt6QCsfYw

ooops.

not going to laugh until our own charges are dealt with

On BBC now too https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64234307  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Just read it on the BBC and then came straight here. I knew someone would have posted it by now!

They've been doing that for 25 years, all the locals know.

Suspect it was those from North and Greater London/Reading etc. that got parking tickets.

I must confess that I didn't realise, until someone mentioned it on Facebook a minute ago, that the lease of the Three Sided Dream Palace ends in less than 4 years, hence the push to move to Kidlington.

Yep, glad to get out of Kassam's shithole.

Oxford have the lowest number of away fans following their team at the Kassam than any other club in L1. An average of around 450

Its gonna be tight to do it in 4 years though.

I've not been following this, so apols for the basic questions.  Is the implication here that Kassam would be minded not to renew with OUFC in 4 yrs from now - hence the rush to find another home?  Or is it that OUFC will be no longer obliged to rent the stadium from then?  (In other words, is the club looking to leave a stadium it's never really liked; or is it being pushed out?)

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking of the Kassam as a 'new ground' still.  (What is it...20-25 yrs old?)  So the idea that Oxford could be moving to an even newer ground is interesting.  Unsurprising given the nature of the city, but how do the fans feel about having to move further and further from the centre?

Should be renamed Kidlington Wanderers.

Oxford have new minted owners.
Kassam charging extortionate rent for a triangle. They want to move out and build a new ground, however land and property in Oxfordshire is premium price notwithstanding getting planning permission when you already have a football ground is proving tough.

Always going to be objections even without great crested newts.

They could always build a 2 sided ground.

It seems that everyone has minted owners these days

22 years old. Definitely still a 'new ground' in almost all eyes. Kassam would love to rent it to us again and get his nearly £million annual payments (it may be over that now, I've not studied the accounts for a while - initially it was £500k pa, then £600k, then maybe £800k, but that was about 10 years ago). If we went he'd probably get a rugby team in on the cheap. He's already made way more than his money back from the ground and bowling alley/cinema/Hilton/Holiday Inn. Being a landlord is his business, after all - made his early millions by buying up the grottiest B&Bs in London to put ayslum seekers in, whilst collecting ridiculous rents on their behalf from the government.

I can't remember exactly how many but about 5 owners of the club since Kassam have tried and failed to get anywhere remotely meaningful in negotiating the sale of the stadium with him. He was quite happy just collecting the rent and other revenues.

As the lease is nearing its end the club need to explore other options as a practicality and also a bargaining tool. We may need to move, but if it becomes clear that a new ground is a real possibility, Kassam may miraculously have a change of heart and be willing to negotiate a sale. The current club owners haven't made their position public for obvious reasons - they may have already decided not to 'negotiate' with (get fucked by) Kassam any more. We don't really want to stay there but it would make more financial sense to buy it than build a new one.

And, yes, 4 years is not long but just about do-able. Something needs to happen soon - without planning approval and a decreasing time-frame Kassam will have us over a barrell again.

They will be ok if they get stuck they can ground share with their Thames Valley friends along the M4

🤣
FA investigators will look at Oxford defender Ciaron Brown's phone

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0cEx5iWLKUsx6E6dgoSaDafhbBfQRASiRpw6ZY8wihL4wgymYVz198PRhvVaStJLWl&id=274917909278341

Brown scored our winner at the weekend.

Quote from the MD:

3 years, then. Jeez, obviously I’ve no great affection for OUFC but having your balls squeezed by Kassam - again - must be a bitter pill to take.

Ouch thats not good. As Audrey says.

I hear Northampton are open to ground shares.

I don't want you to go bust. I want you to be perpetually shit and for as many of you to be as miserable as possible. That means staying in Oxford.

Its what their Dad of a pedophile ring leader who ripped off the elderly former owner would have wanted.

How can we ever forget Mr Maxwell🤣

Cap’n Bob

This won't be a popular view, but I empathise massively with Oxford's position.  We have had very significant shit ownership/off field matters of our own to deal with over the years.  And while I want to beat OUFC soundly every time we meet them (which hasn't been much, lately), I'll wish them nothing but the best of luck in sorting out their own off field/ground issues.

They're a similar club to us with a similar fanbase...just 35 miles up the road.  We've so much more in common with the yellow lot than many would care to admit.

Thanks for providing the update, Goat.  Genuinely interesting.

You're right, that isn't a popular opinion with me.

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Well, I'm Team Ardiles on this. Wish Oxford no success on the pitch but no misery off it (well, maybe a little bit. But not club threateningly bad). Only one league side I'd be happy to see go out of business and it's not them.

Yeah I wouldn't want to see them go out of business and I agree, there is one club that I would, but the reactions I saw to our issues were pretty much the same as mine, so they can go right to the brink with misery off the pitch as far as I'm concerned.

They could ground share with Oxford City?  :D

Milton Keynes?

1000%

Yeah, that I think everyone would agree on, including Oxford.

I have the same opinion, but I also think it needs an expiration date.

At some point the majority of their active support will be those that have only ever supported MK, for as long they can remember. As the time passes, their origin story will fade from being common knowledge etc.

Hard to wish harm on anyone’s lifelong club.

Not for me. They've got access to the internet and will know what their club is. Never forget.

But then I'll have to admit I'm old.

Yeah its a scummy origin, isn't it?

5/6 year olds growing up in MK and just discovering football are hardly likely to care.

I have zero issue with their young fans who have grown up supporting what has always now been their hometown team

Still hope they go bust.

They can support Milton Keynes FC or AFC MK or whatever. The fact they still have Dons in their name is fucking insulting.

To be honest i dont find them as annoying as the AFC Wimbledon lot.

But then again, im a cunt.

Kingstonian ground stealers!!

You knows it!

Yes, well beyond time for that to die. No good reason for it to still be there.

Would you think the same if it had been Swindon that they moved away to MK, because let’s be honest around that time it could quite well have been.

They are an abomination to football and always will be

The FA should never have sanctioned the move

I was referring to the adopted “Dons” part of their name. So yes?

Apologies, I thought you meant the ill feeling towards them

That was a domino effect which actually was impacted by Chelsea FC and some might say initially the Khosla's (who effectively cashed in about 20years ago) when originally selling the lease to AFC Wimbledon. Wimbledon had no real choice but to sell the ground shared ground (with Kingstonians) as Wimbledon themselves were after all trying to get back to Plough Lane. Plus Wimbledon at least gave about £1m to Kingstonians from the sale...a reminder that the Khosla's didn't hand a penny over to Kingstonians.

There was nothing in that agreement to really stop Chelsea FC from allowing Kingstonians to continue playing at Kingsmeadow though. Probably worth looking at the bigger picture of why Chelsea FC, were allowed to own a ground about 10miles away in the first place; just so their Academy and Ladies sides had somewhere "nicer" to play...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/25/kingstonian-kingsmeadow-lost-stadium-chelsea-afc-wimbledon

Oh, I see what you mean, no I didn’t make that very clear.

At present, plenty of their fans were full adults at the time of the league position/club theft, and somehow thought, “yeah I’ll back that”  ::)

I guess why not as they never had a football league team so it was happy days for them irrespective of how wrong it was.