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Getting the mojo back for Oxford?
Callumcafc
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We’ve seen how this team can play - against now table toppers Plymouth, we scored five goals and completely dominated the match.
Our home record is not a disaster with two wins and three draws from five. We must convert the next match against Oxford into three points or the season does begin to feel very grim indeed.
My impression is that the weekend drained a large portion of this team’s confidence and getting that back is a tough task.
Our home record is not a disaster with two wins and three draws from five. We must convert the next match against Oxford into three points or the season does begin to feel very grim indeed.
My impression is that the weekend drained a large portion of this team’s confidence and getting that back is a tough task.
Does Garner go back to the XI that played in that Plymouth game, with the exception of one of Egbo or Sess coming in for Clayden?
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Oxford schooled us last season. It was the first game I left at HT to watch with a pint in the bar like some oddball.0
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And yet they are in bad form so far this season. Below us in the table in 19th. They’ve lost three of their four away games. We have to take advantage of that.mendonca said:Oxford schooled us last season. It was the first game I left at HT to watch with a pint in the bar like some oddball.0 -
Sessegnon has to start if he’s fit enough. Was consistently good at the start of the season and, like Rak-Sakyi, looks a level above the rest of the squad.Wollacott
Egbo - Inniss - EOC - Sessegnon
Payne - Dobson - Fraser
JRS - Leaburn - Kirk
Its very attacking but that’s what Garner-ball is supposed to be about. We can’t defend so might as well get the best attacking players on the pitch and go for it6 -
Garner can’t keep complaining about our lack of end product or quality in the final third. Then keep leaving out Kirk, Payne and Leaburn who have probably shown the best final product in terms of crossing/shooting so far this season in their limited minutes. Picking Stockley, Morgan and CBT is just going to see more of the same, good build up, poor crossing and finishing0
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It’s going to get hard for BG now. It’s not like we have better options to come in and replace those that aren’t delivering.
Stockley has no goals in open play, Aneke is still injured which only leaves Miles Leaburn.CBT and JRS aren’t composed enough in the final third, but the replacement options are Kirk and Mansfield - neither have pulled up trees in their time here and it’s negligible as to any real difference they can make.
Payne in for Morgan or Fraser, McGrandles in for Dobson, what difference will it make?
No natural left footed left backs other than Clayden and Chin, means one of Egbo, Clare or Sessegnon playing out of position.For me it doesn’t matter who starts, there’s simply not enough quality.1 -
Another thread where there’s no answer other than more discussion about the same old same old.
We can’t effectively change things, other than perhaps turn up in droves and be the 12th man!So why the endless meanderings and putting the same words in a different order. It doesn’t solve anything, all it does is show how endlessly we all talk about the same thing, day in day out.2 -
I left on 33 minutes, the real oddballs stayed till the end!mendonca said:Oxford schooled us last season. It was the first game I left at HT to watch with a pint in the bar like some oddball.0 -
The thing I enjoy about the Oxford fixtures are the obligatory post match comments from KR “Charlton are a great club, I loved my time here. If they could just find a bit of form I think they could be a Championship club, the stadium, the facilities, everything is in place”1
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This is must win territory for us now and I truly hope the players can step up and deal with the pressure. I dread what the mood will be if we don't get a result.0
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His defence of Adkins and Jackson, last season, make much more sense now.cabbles said:The thing I enjoy about the Oxford fixtures are the obligatory post match comments from KR “Charlton are a great club, I loved my time here. If they could just find a bit of form I think they could be a Championship club, the stadium, the facilities, everything is in place”1 - Sponsored links:
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Give up the extended midfield gameplan that encompasses everyone from the lone striker down to the goalkeeper and put in place an attack and and a defence and we could be in with a shout0
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Big home game against the mighty Oxford City. Or is it United? Heady days.1
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Just tell the players that anything less than a win then they will be locked in a room with Gobinson after the match & forced to listen to his assessment of the game.1
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But what if this is our Mojo playing against a team with 11 players over 90 minutes?0
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Before they take advantage of us.Callumcafc said:
And yet they are in bad form so far this season. Below us in the table in 19th. They’ve lost three of their four away games. We have to take advantage of that.mendonca said:Oxford schooled us last season. It was the first game I left at HT to watch with a pint in the bar like some oddball.
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Oxford won the League Cup as recently as 1986 , this will be a tough fixture make no mistake (leave that to our defence)6
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Not many teams will get points at home against them. Make no mistake.oohaahmortimer said:Oxford won the League Cup as recently as 1986 , this will be a tough fixture make no mistake (leave that to our defence)4 -
We played a wounded animal today, they haven’t started well and had a point to prove.Off_it said:
Not many teams will get points at home against them. Make no mistake.oohaahmortimer said:Oxford won the League Cup as recently as 1986 , this will be a tough fixture make no mistake (leave that to our defence)2 -
Football forums might not be for you..... just a suggestion.sillav nitram said:Another thread where there’s no answer other than more discussion about the same old same old.
We can’t effectively change things, other than perhaps turn up in droves and be the 12th man!So why the endless meanderings and putting the same words in a different order. It doesn’t solve anything, all it does is show how endlessly we all talk about the same thing, day in day out.2 - Sponsored links:
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You might be right, I’ll 🐻 it in mind.Exiled_Addick said:
Football forums might not be for you..... just a suggestion.sillav nitram said:Another thread where there’s no answer other than more discussion about the same old same old.
We can’t effectively change things, other than perhaps turn up in droves and be the 12th man!So why the endless meanderings and putting the same words in a different order. It doesn’t solve anything, all it does is show how endlessly we all talk about the same thing, day in day out.
Point being this thread could have been tagged on the Post Match views or the Garner thread, rather than a new one to bang on about the same thing.
Just trying to be economical and tidy;)2 -
It has become clear that the Plymouth performance was an outlier.Callumcafc said:We’ve seen how this team can play - against now table toppers Plymouth, we scored five goals and completely dominated the match.
Our home record is not a disaster with two wins and three draws from five. We must convert the next match against Oxford into three points or the season does begin to feel very grim indeed.
My impression is that the weekend drained a large portion of this team’s confidence and getting that back is a tough task.Does Garner go back to the XI that played in that Plymouth game, with the exception of one of Egbo or Sess coming in for Clayden?
I don't mean to be disingenuous as we were playing well and edging it, but them going down to ten men made things so much easier for a team set up for a passing game.
Mediocre centre backs and poor defensive organisation coupled with a complete absence of a clinical finisher is killing us.
Failing to win games and loss of confidence will become self perpetuating if not arrested soon and the signs aren't good0 -
Alright... what we tried for Oxford didn't quite work as hoped. Here's what my team would be for Lincoln on Saturday...
Wollacott
Egbo - Thomas - O'Connell - Sessegnon
Clare - Dobson - Fraser
Leaburn - Stockley - Kirk
Subs: MacGillivray, Inniss, Chin, Morgan/McGrandles, Payne, Blackett-Taylor, Rak-Sakyi0 -
No combination of eleven players in that squad excites me whatsoever.1
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I’m inclined to agree now, we’re average so we may as well pick the same formation and just hope it clicks.cafctom said:No combination of eleven players in that squad excites me whatsoever.1 -
They were very lucky. They were near the bottom of League Two, and QPR were top or thereabouts.oohaahmortimer said:Oxford won the League Cup as recently as 1986 , this will be a tough fixture make no mistake (leave that to our defence)Unfortunately the QPR club doctor oversubscribed the team with sleeping pills the night before the final because the players were nervous, and they were all half asleep still when the came onto the pitch. Lost 4-0 and didn’t even put up a fight.1 -
They were both in the top flight of English football that 85/86 season. Division 1 as it was known at the time.JamesSeed said:
They were very lucky. They were near the bottom of League Two, and QPR were top or thereabouts.oohaahmortimer said:Oxford won the League Cup as recently as 1986 , this will be a tough fixture make no mistake (leave that to our defence)Unfortunately the QPR club doctor oversubscribed the team with sleeping pills the night before the final because the players were nervous, and they were all half asleep still when the came onto the pitch. Lost 4-0 and didn’t even put up a fight.
Both teams finished that season in the bottom half of the table.
Oxford won the League Cup final 3-0.1 -
The early season Plymouth performance was a combination of a buy-in to Garnerball’s midfield game by players that still had an idea of how to score goals and defend. I don’t think Plymouth losing a player made that much of a difference. Since then the players from the ‘attack’ to the goalkeeper have all become midfield players.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
It has become clear that the Plymouth performance was an outlier.Callumcafc said:We’ve seen how this team can play - against now table toppers Plymouth, we scored five goals and completely dominated the match.
Our home record is not a disaster with two wins and three draws from five. We must convert the next match against Oxford into three points or the season does begin to feel very grim indeed.
My impression is that the weekend drained a large portion of this team’s confidence and getting that back is a tough task.Does Garner go back to the XI that played in that Plymouth game, with the exception of one of Egbo or Sess coming in for Clayden?
I don't mean to be disingenuous as we were playing well and edging it, but them going down to ten men made things so much easier for a team set up for a passing game.
Mediocre centre backs and poor defensive organisation coupled with a complete absence of a clinical finisher is killing us.
Failing to win games and loss of confidence will become self perpetuating if not arrested soon and the signs aren't good
I like Garnerball but it needs a couple of adjustments to embrace the fact that you need to score more goals than the opposition if you want to win games0 -
Excuse me, what about my supa dupa new line up!?cafctom said:No combination of eleven players in that squad excites me whatsoever.
Wollacott
Clare Inniss Thomas Clayden
Dobson
Egbo Fraser SessegnonJRS/CBT Leaburn/Stockley
8 players who can defend (plus Stockley for set pieces) and five players who can attack.
It’s almost cheating. I can see us winning every match playing this system. Only a fool would disagree. 😊It’s genius.0 -
Plymouth also played directly into our strengths by being really open. Everyone else saw that and realised what not to do...letthegoodtimesroll said:
The early season Plymouth performance was a combination of a buy-in to Garnerball’s midfield game by players that still had an idea of how to score goals and defend. I don’t think Plymouth losing a player made that much of a difference. Since then the players from the ‘attack’ to the goalkeeper have all become midfield players.Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
It has become clear that the Plymouth performance was an outlier.Callumcafc said:We’ve seen how this team can play - against now table toppers Plymouth, we scored five goals and completely dominated the match.
Our home record is not a disaster with two wins and three draws from five. We must convert the next match against Oxford into three points or the season does begin to feel very grim indeed.
My impression is that the weekend drained a large portion of this team’s confidence and getting that back is a tough task.Does Garner go back to the XI that played in that Plymouth game, with the exception of one of Egbo or Sess coming in for Clayden?
I don't mean to be disingenuous as we were playing well and edging it, but them going down to ten men made things so much easier for a team set up for a passing game.
Mediocre centre backs and poor defensive organisation coupled with a complete absence of a clinical finisher is killing us.
Failing to win games and loss of confidence will become self perpetuating if not arrested soon and the signs aren't good
I like Garnerball but it needs a couple of adjustments to embrace the fact that you need to score more goals than the opposition if you want to win games1
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