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« Reply #30 on: Monday, March 8, 2010, 15:09:15 » |
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A lot more skillfull than anyone will give him credit for it seems.
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Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #31 on: Monday, March 8, 2010, 17:05:34 » |
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You've just brought back a bad memory for me! Possibly the single worst player we have ever signed. The guys what, 6'4" yet can't win a header, doesn't jump, got the pace of a 1940's tractor and a turning circle of a lada. He somehow managed to be club captain for the best part of 2 years yet hardly played a game, an untried 17 year old was even preferred to him in central defence earlier this season. He was truly awful. Was he that bad when he was at Swindon? or has he just got a lot, lot worse with age?
We signed Hoofwood, at a time when anything crossed into our box seemed to be headed in by the opposition....King rightly figured that a big lump was required and got Heywood from Burnley reserves, they may have been Div 2 at the time. He couldn't jump back then, but could effectively lean into people and stick his head on the ball....he did OK for us for a couple of seasons, but made the classic error of thinking he was better than he was, went for a few bob more in wages and was found out. Like a lot who leave us...Billy Paynter will be next in line. |
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Spencer_White
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« Reply #32 on: Monday, March 8, 2010, 18:51:55 » |
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From the day Heywood signed for Swindon he went downhill every season of his career.
He was a decent bloke, and he was a big factor keeping us up in 2001. But I used to see him out on the Town a lot and you wonder if he could still have been League 1 level if he had looked after himself?
Tinnion gave him a big contract and in a lot of ways he did us a big favour leaving, because he was on the way down and we might have stuck with him for years.
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DMR
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« Reply #33 on: Monday, March 8, 2010, 19:02:23 » |
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Disagree... playoff season 03/04 he was solid as a rock week in week out.
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Spencer_White
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« Reply #34 on: Monday, March 8, 2010, 19:29:54 » |
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We conceeded fewer league goals in 2001-02 than we did in 2003-04.
Reeves was going rapidly downhill as well, but I remmember thinking Heywood wasnt the player he was in the 3-0 defeat at Chesterfield in 2003.
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One F In Fitton
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« Reply #35 on: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 00:50:53 » |
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I said as soon as you signed LP that he would have a really positive influence on your struggle to avoid playing the 'Oxfords' of this world. The perfect sort of character for a team in your predicament.
He isn't lacking in ability, as I'm sure you've seen, but my thinking was that his main strength would be in training, in the dressing room, his ultra-positive personality keeping your other players 100% switched on.
The right move for everyone - we've improved & left him behind, he needs games at this stage of his career (and a contract), and you needed this type of character and his amount of experience.
I hope you survive. But if you do go down - FUCKING KEEP THOSE OXFORD CUNTS DOWN THERE.
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« Reply #36 on: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 16:30:07 » |
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FUCKING KEEP THOSE OXFORD CUNTS DOWN THERE.
I think Pox are doing that all by themselves.... |
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One F In Fitton
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« Reply #37 on: Monday, March 15, 2010, 22:14:29 » |
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I think Pox are doing that all by themselves....
Christ I hope you're right - but I'm not counting my chickens just yet. Much more encouraged than I was a month or so ago though. |
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« Reply #38 on: Monday, March 15, 2010, 22:16:40 » |
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Christ I hope you're right - but I'm not counting my chickens just yet. Much more encouraged than I was a month or so ago though.
I want Oxford to gain two successive promotions. Are derbies not a lot more fun when we actually get to play each other? |
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« Reply #39 on: Monday, March 15, 2010, 22:21:00 » |
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Ha even if they did do two, still wouldn't be enough to play us in a league match  |
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chalkies_shorts
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« Reply #40 on: Monday, March 15, 2010, 22:22:14 » |
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I want Oxford to gain two successive promotions. Are derbies not a lot more fun when we actually get to play each other?
Let the fuckers rot in the Sunday League. We can play each other every 10 years in the Cup for their Cup Final and then give them a shoeing on and off the pitch. They can then go back to playing Barrow Temeperence XI until they earn the right to play a league team again and they can hope they strike lucky and draw us. Obviuosly if we go up then this will be nigh on impossible as the Scummers would need to get thruogh to the 3rd round. |
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One F In Fitton
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« Reply #41 on: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 00:03:12 » |
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I want Oxford to gain two successive promotions. Are derbies not a lot more fun when we actually get to play each other?
Not if you've lived amongst the cunts since the early 80's like I have. I do agree that there aren't many better things in life than beating them (I accept that for some people it's the slave-traders/Reading, but living where I do it is 100% Poxford), but every single day since they got put back where they belong has been just so enjoyable around here. They don't even bother arguing anymore because there is nothing they can say. For the first couple of years it was always "You're going down & we're coming back up", but they don't even bother with that anymore. Lording it over them and watching their faces go red is the best fun that you can have with your clothes on. |
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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 22:05:21 » |
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Watching that it reminded me how much i love footballers who move clubs and their accent changes almost instantly like It's a primal thing just to fit in  Paul stewart was one who moved all over the place and of course that famous clip of Jan Molby when he first joined liverpool and then watching an interview of him a year later with a scouse accent which was shown on fantasy football a few years back. Ignore me |
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« Reply #44 on: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 22:15:37 » |
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Watching that it reminded me how much i love footballers who move clubs and their accent changes almost instantly like It's a primal thing just to fit in Paul stewart was one who moved all over the place and of course that famous clip of Jan Molby when he first joined liverpool and then watching an interview of him a year later with a scouse accent which was shown on fantasy football a few years back. Ignore me Peacock's always had a stupid voice! |
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