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Oxford v Charlton | Good Friday | 1pm KO | Match Preview, Predictions, News & Views
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Robinson said he wants to see us promoted. With this in mind, he will play himself in goal with license to roam15
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We could theoretically be 2nd by the end of Monday! Dare to dream chaps!7
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If I remember (w)rightly, Charlton won 1-0 at Oxford in 1969, the year we finished 3rd in Division 2. Charlie Wright saved a penalty. I'm going for a penalty save and a 1-0 win 50 years later.1
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Will be a tough one this, still reckon we will get away with another 3 points 2-1.
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They all need managing with so many games coming up. It is Pearce that needs to be match fit should we need him. Same with Solly and Dyksteel, and with the others - Bielik for example.We have a big and good squad, and with almost everyone fit. Just need to manage it as best as we can to ensure everyone recovers the best as possible and does not pick up an injury, which is more likely if you are being overplayed.killerandflash said:Feeling a bit pessimistic about this, I think this will be a tough game and Oxford will be fired up.
As an aside it feels a bit wrong to keep alternating Sarr and Pearce alongside Bauer. It's not as if Sarr needs to rest, CBs generally don't use the energy that the rest of the outfield players use. If anyone needs to be managed carefully it's Taylor who's played an awful lot of minutes and tends to give 110% every game with his running.
The two we cannot rest is Taylor and Vetokele. Bows seems to be managing it as best he can by dropping Taylor out wide during matches so he does not get clobbered as much.
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I wonder what KR's formation will be ?8
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You have previously been eating Bullshit? WowLennyLowrent said:
Sorry, on a 'Karl free' dietBlackheathen said:
And whale steak for mains?LennyLowrent said:Will be in Kanazawa for this one, eating sea grapes and sea urchins for starter (2:0 to the Karls) but will come back with horse meat shavings in raw egg (Sarr hat trick) 2:3 final score, hard to swallow, but anything for 2nd spot. COYR1 -
Oxford are at last 'improving' under our ex and unlamented manager .. we have improved out of sight under Bowyer .. Bowyer trumps (not Donnie) Robinson .. we win
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My favourite line about Karl would be from Bowyer:
’So Lee what is the most important thing you learnt from Karl’
’That you need more than one formation’
I’d like to think of Karl could limit himself to this many words if the question was asked:
’So what have you learnt from the last season in League and from Lee Bowyer’?
’Well like maybe the old formation which is the best formation-if you have all the players and substitutes to play that formation then clearly my formation is the beat formation but I have noticed me teams losing a lot when they play that when I put the wrong people into the wrong formation so I guess at the end of the day when all is said and done I’ve learnt o need more than one formation.
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I thought he played 2 strikers up front in their Promotion season in League 1 at MK Dons but I now realise that for most games it was 4231 with Will Griggs as a lone striker, (20 League goals) with Deli Ali in the 3 (16 goals) with any two from Powell, Reeves or Bowditch.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
Ben Afobe did play at the beginning of that season but Robinson just seems to have the 1 up front as his default setting.0 -
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Don't like Oxford or Gobinson. Never have. Hope we win handsomely.
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Assuming Robinson stays true to form and plays his favourite formation then I doubt there are many coaches in football who will know more about combating it than Lee Bowyer and Johnnie Jackson. It’s hard to think that we will be out thought in this game.0
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What about a rest for Bauer then? Ideally we would find a way of playing Pearce and Sarr together in one game, but it seems that as they both like playing on the left it wouldn't work.Redrobo said:
They all need managing with so many games coming up. It is Pearce that needs to be match fit should we need him. Same with Solly and Dyksteel, and with the others - Bielik for example.We have a big and good squad, and with almost everyone fit. Just need to manage it as best as we can to ensure everyone recovers the best as possible and does not pick up an injury, which is more likely if you are being overplayed.killerandflash said:Feeling a bit pessimistic about this, I think this will be a tough game and Oxford will be fired up.
As an aside it feels a bit wrong to keep alternating Sarr and Pearce alongside Bauer. It's not as if Sarr needs to rest, CBs generally don't use the energy that the rest of the outfield players use. If anyone needs to be managed carefully it's Taylor who's played an awful lot of minutes and tends to give 110% every game with his running.
The two we cannot rest is Taylor and Vetokele. Bows seems to be managing it as best he can by dropping Taylor out wide during matches so he does not get clobbered as much.
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We are in a two game context when it comes to picking the team.0
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To be in this position is such an achievement when you consider the lack of squad bodies after the Sunderland game back in August. But can we go further? Very tough game and it will be a struggle on the backfoot. 1-1 and the end of the dream.1
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Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.4 -
But do you like anybody?grumpyaddick said:Don't like Oxford or Gobinson. Never have.0 -
9-0 to the Addicks or that might be the Stella and meds talking...0
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No thanks.killerandflash said:
What about a rest for Bauer then? Ideally we would find a way of playing Pearce and Sarr together in one game, but it seems that as they both like playing on the left it wouldn't work.Redrobo said:
They all need managing with so many games coming up. It is Pearce that needs to be match fit should we need him. Same with Solly and Dyksteel, and with the others - Bielik for example.We have a big and good squad, and with almost everyone fit. Just need to manage it as best as we can to ensure everyone recovers the best as possible and does not pick up an injury, which is more likely if you are being overplayed.killerandflash said:Feeling a bit pessimistic about this, I think this will be a tough game and Oxford will be fired up.
As an aside it feels a bit wrong to keep alternating Sarr and Pearce alongside Bauer. It's not as if Sarr needs to rest, CBs generally don't use the energy that the rest of the outfield players use. If anyone needs to be managed carefully it's Taylor who's played an awful lot of minutes and tends to give 110% every game with his running.
The two we cannot rest is Taylor and Vetokele. Bows seems to be managing it as best he can by dropping Taylor out wide during matches so he does not get clobbered as much.1 -
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Have to admit I thought Robinson actually out smarted Bowyer at the Valley earlier in the seasonSage said:
Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.1 -
Just checked into swanky hotel after a lovely 10 mile walk. Off to the spa!0
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Robinson couldn't out smart a parsnip.ForeverAddickted said:
Have to admit I thought Robinson actually out smarted Bowyer at the Valley earlier in the seasonSage said:
Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.7 -
Typical that he becomes a tactical mastermind after leaving us!ForeverAddickted said:
Have to admit I thought Robinson actually out smarted Bowyer at the Valley earlier in the seasonSage said:
Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.0 -
I am unsure I would’ve described it as outsmarted, but more showed us respect by matching up. Everyone was expecting him to go with his usual formation but he didn’t. He showed his experience in management and by the time we could have done anything to counter his tactics, Oxford had already settled and we weren’t playing the greatest.ForeverAddickted said:
Have to admit I thought Robinson actually out smarted Bowyer at the Valley earlier in the seasonSage said:
Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.
We must remember that Oxford’s goal shouldn’t have stood as the game should have been stopped for Cullen’s head injury. If the official had followed the laws correctly, we could have won the game.
At home after a good run, I wouldn’t expect him to change his formation so would assume he will play 4-3-3, but after it working at The Valley, it could be an option to match us up with James Henry in the hole behind the front two.
Interesting match up tomorrow, and hopefully we do the business as I fully expect us to.4 -
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A scrappy ugly affair with masses of “we would of lost that one under that fat p***k”
automatic really could happen, up the Addicks.0 -
If Gobinson beats us then I prefer Fraeye as an ex manager
and that doesn’t make sense....0 -
Two editions of tomorrow's programme. One on sale around the ground, the Charlton one inside. For collector's this is a cracker, although puzzling why Oxford do this.
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Comfortable away win. 3-0. And we all tell Robinson what a usekess twatt he is.0
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He more or less knew all the players in last October’s game. BFG was missing, Sarr was on the bench and didn’t get a game, Bielik came on at 88mins for Fosu. Igor obviously wasn’t playing. Steer was in goal. There had been an international break before which we’d lost 2-1 to Coventry and 5-3 to Scunthorpe. We are a different team now to what we were then.ForeverAddickted said:
Have to admit I thought Robinson actually out smarted Bowyer at the Valley earlier in the seasonSage said:
Played 4-3-3 for much of the season and at The Valley, Robinson matched us up as a diamond.Covered End said:I wonder what KR's formation will be ?
I get the joke but it doesn’t really apply this season other than the lone striker.2
