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POST-MATCH THREAD: Oxford Utd v Charlton Athletic: Saturday 14th March 2026: KO 12:30
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Terrible game, good point, great day out...will take that at this stage of the season. Their penalty looked really soft live, I'll have to watch the replay.2
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Could we have a game plan which does not involve giving away stupid and unnecessary free kicks virtually every time we get into our opponents’ half. The number of times we surrender possession in these situations is frightening.4
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Just that he gets ridiculous abuse throughout the game, even when he’s very clearly not at fault. There was one instance where Chambers hit a really poor pass to him that gave TC no chance, but it didn’t stop people around me screaming at him. The constant refrain of ‘lazy’ when his issue has always been one of quality/confidence rather than effort. Not saying he had a great game (no one did) but the scapegoating is unreal.Sword65pf said:
Care to explain? I’m a bit dopey and that’s gone over my head.ateamofcorygibbs said:My main takeaway from the away end today is some of our fans are very weird about Tyreece Campbell26 -
Good point, kept going to the end and after the exploits to get 2 good wins this week plus the trip up to Boro and short turnaround for today, you’d take it. Wasn’t pretty and shows the limitations we have on the ball. Really pleased with the last few weeks bar Pompey and WBA.Time to recover for next Saturday. Norwich are in form. I’d like to finish as high and as strongly as possible, but it’s so good to observe that relegation scrap knowing we’re pretty much safe. Even if a few teams pick up some results, they can’t all pick up results consistently. Leicester losing today, after a little uptick. There will be others that go on a run, others that now slip up. Was well pleased for Blackburn today for obvious reasons, but that’s only because we’re pretty much safe4
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I wonder how that Millwall fan who slagged us off after the 'boro game feels, after his team's abject capitulation today?
It's probably still our fault...
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I admire every ones confidence but this is not cut and dried.3-4 defeats on the spin,someone below us having a run and we are in the shit.Norwich are on a great run and will be very difficult to beat next week,hope I am wrong and we can get over the line but I feel a bumpy ride ahead,especially as we pose no goal threat whatsoever.18
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Shades of Morgan Fox v Southend, New Year's Eve.ateamofcorygibbs said:
Just that he gets ridiculous abuse throughout the game, even when he’s very clearly not at fault. There was one instance where Chambers hit a really poor pass to him that gave TC no chance, but it didn’t stop people around me screaming at him. The constant refrain of ‘lazy’ when his issue has always been one of quality/confidence rather than effort. Not saying he had a great game (no one did) but the scapegoating is unreal.Sword65pf said:
Care to explain? I’m a bit dopey and that’s gone over my head.ateamofcorygibbs said:My main takeaway from the away end today is some of our fans are very weird about Tyreece Campbell
Those there that day will remember the dog's abuse he got... when other players f*cked up...6 -
That’ll be the situation Brownie called Campbell out for on comms for not giving Chambers an option. Citing lack of movement either towards Chambers or away from his marker if I remember correctly. The criticism was valid IMO.ateamofcorygibbs said:
Just that he gets ridiculous abuse throughout the game, even when he’s very clearly not at fault. There was one instance where Chambers hit a really poor pass to him that gave TC no chance, but it didn’t stop people around me screaming at him. The constant refrain of ‘lazy’ when his issue has always been one of quality/confidence rather than effort. Not saying he had a great game (no one did) but the scapegoating is unreal.Sword65pf said:
Care to explain? I’m a bit dopey and that’s gone over my head.ateamofcorygibbs said:My main takeaway from the away end today is some of our fans are very weird about Tyreece Campbell9 -
For a team with no goal threat, seven points from three games is a more than decent return due mainly to a very solid keeper and back five.
I think 52 points will see teams safe which, for us, equates to a single win and a solitary draw from five home games and three away, whereas those at the bottom will need four wins and two draws. Given that some of those below us play each other, and all teams will play some of those challenging for promotion, it would take an unlikely series of results, and a cataclysmic capitulation by ourselves, for this season to end in a return to League One.
I cannot see our defence, or the manager, allowing that to happen.
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Haven't seen the game but for those that did would Dykes have made a difference had he started?0
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I don’t think so, Leaburn was pretty solidpeterreeves said:Haven't seen the game but for those that did would Dykes have made a difference had he started?6 -
Difficult to say, Leaburn put a shift in but there wasn’t much service for a striker apart from long throws and corners to feed on.peterreeves said:Haven't seen the game but for those that did would Dykes have made a difference had he started?4 -
Difficult to say We created nothing. Our last 3 goals have been from long throws and a pen. If we had Ronaldo and Messi up front would have made no difference. This isn't over yet.peterreeves said:Haven't seen the game but for those that did would Dykes have made a difference had he started?2 -
Its the three defeats to Pompey that really piss me off.Garrymanilow said:I'm just so glad to have that Oxford match done and off the slate now. We've been a bit questionable against our relegation rivals this side of Christmas and it was probably our best opportunity to get pulled back into it today. Since Christmas we've lost twice to Portsmouth, threw away the win against Blackburn, lost to Portsmouth again, drew with West Brom and mercifully beat Leicester, though going into that I don't think they felt they were a relegation threatened side. No six-pointers left for us now, no more must not lose games, just regular matches and then Sheff Weds. Two more points by the time we play them and we'll already be on 50 points so today has to be viewed as a total success. This is the calmest I've felt about it all since before the Southampton home game (though we're still not safe until were safe)14 -
The thing is, it would need 4 teams below us to go on a run, not 1.thickandthin63 said:I admire every ones confidence but this is not cut and dried.3-4 defeats on the spin,someone below us having a run and we are in the shit.Norwich are on a great run and will be very difficult to beat next week,hope I am wrong and we can get over the line but I feel a bumpy ride ahead,especially as we pose no goal threat whatsoever.7 -
Two very tired teams4
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So you keep saying, again and again and again and again….golfaddick said:Looking at some of the results this afternoon that might have been a bigger point than many of us have given credit for.
Doesn't detract from the fact that it was very poor game of football & as I said on the match thread I hope once safety has been guaranteed (by Easter) then we might actually see some football being played.
The entirety of your posts this season essentially boil down to that we need to score goals, you don’t rate Nathan Jones and the football isn’t pretty enough. Every time we play well you make negative comments and every time we don’t you seem almost gleeful.
The sky is always going to be just the wrong shade of blue for you…..16 -
I nearly fell asleep watching it.charente addick said:Two very tired teams4 -
Can someone please translate?WRICURKINCAM said:
Much bad Juju decisions going on in top vs bottom at WBA and Millwall. Need VAR rather than Wrexhamesque stage management and theatricals. Hughes off for Hull? Really?Raith_C_Chattonell said:
I see Bristol City equalised in the 96th minute. I couldn't help but to have a peek at the Borough fan site.killerandflash said:A game too much for us after a brutal week, so delighted with the draw which keeps Oxford 9 points behind us, a gap which they won't close. The weird thing is that I suspect NJ rested players on Wednesday to save them for today, but then we took the lead and winning against Boro then became the priority.
NJ probably could have used the bench earlier, as the midfield did run out of legs, Docherty having done amazing amounts of work in both away games. We looked really tired out there in the second half, but Fullah's cameo did give us a boost.
To show how good the last 4 days have been, Boro would have looked at 2 home games, Charlton followed by Bristol City, and expected 6 points. Instead they got 1.
With ten minutes to go and Borough leading 1 0 one fan was keen for them to see it out ...
... turns out he was wrong
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Thought the game was there for the taking early doors but nothing doing and was very grateful to get a point come the end.
Does anyone know who the player was who did the pitch length running drills in front of us before the game started? I couldn't place him and the folks around me didn't know either?0 -
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Yeah, I agree. The circus lion is normally the star of the cartoon, but the sumo wrestler is often preferred to the disbelieving acrobat.WRICURKINCAM said:Yeah, West Brom 3 Hull 0. Like that is really expected. Twisted contorted manipulation all in favour of the Circus. One Disney believe it.....4 -
Sorry, don't speak Swahili.jimmymelrose said:
Can someone please translate?WRICURKINCAM said:
Much bad Juju decisions going on in top vs bottom at WBA and Millwall. Need VAR rather than Wrexhamesque stage management and theatricals. Hughes off for Hull? Really?Raith_C_Chattonell said:
I see Bristol City equalised in the 96th minute. I couldn't help but to have a peek at the Borough fan site.killerandflash said:A game too much for us after a brutal week, so delighted with the draw which keeps Oxford 9 points behind us, a gap which they won't close. The weird thing is that I suspect NJ rested players on Wednesday to save them for today, but then we took the lead and winning against Boro then became the priority.
NJ probably could have used the bench earlier, as the midfield did run out of legs, Docherty having done amazing amounts of work in both away games. We looked really tired out there in the second half, but Fullah's cameo did give us a boost.
To show how good the last 4 days have been, Boro would have looked at 2 home games, Charlton followed by Bristol City, and expected 6 points. Instead they got 1.
With ten minutes to go and Borough leading 1 0 one fan was keen for them to see it out ...
... turns out he was wrong0 -
I think Google might have trouble with that one 😉.jimmymelrose said:
Can someone please translate?WRICURKINCAM said:
Much bad Juju decisions going on in top vs bottom at WBA and Millwall. Need VAR rather than Wrexhamesque stage management and theatricals. Hughes off for Hull? Really?Raith_C_Chattonell said:
I see Bristol City equalised in the 96th minute. I couldn't help but to have a peek at the Borough fan site.killerandflash said:A game too much for us after a brutal week, so delighted with the draw which keeps Oxford 9 points behind us, a gap which they won't close. The weird thing is that I suspect NJ rested players on Wednesday to save them for today, but then we took the lead and winning against Boro then became the priority.
NJ probably could have used the bench earlier, as the midfield did run out of legs, Docherty having done amazing amounts of work in both away games. We looked really tired out there in the second half, but Fullah's cameo did give us a boost.
To show how good the last 4 days have been, Boro would have looked at 2 home games, Charlton followed by Bristol City, and expected 6 points. Instead they got 1.
With ten minutes to go and Borough leading 1 0 one fan was keen for them to see it out ...
... turns out he was wrong0 -
We're not safe, we're in a decent position compared to those below us but safe ? Not yet !AndyG said:Now we are safe (maybe not mathematically but yes safe) I would love NJ to give a run of starts to Fullah Kelman and Costello to see if we can start to actually play football. Mission accomplished with the dogged stifle the opposition tactics let’s see what we need for next season.4 -
Doesn't want to sit next to girls ............................... he'll learngolfaddick said:
I hope that poor lad isnt sitting on his own. Seems like he's been ostracized.Dazzler21 said:After watching a frustrating game on TV, now we're watching some real grass roots (on 3g) football. Horsham Vs Tonbridge Angels Annoyingly we've ended up with my wife's mates kids and husband who doesn't like football.
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I just hope Lloyd Jones is not tempted away in the summer. The back three are very good and solid and are a good base upon which to build for next season. Docherty is somehow playing his best football for this season which is great. I don’t know if I have ever seen a brilliant 90 minutes from Tyreece but I have seen a brilliant 20 or 30 minutes from him. I will be convinced about Kelman when he starts shooting with his left foot as well as his right. Miles works hard but is not sharp And whilst quick with his feet and much better with his head is not going to be our first choice striker any time soon Although who knows he may well improve in time. felt like a win at the end, but then that’s the theatre of football for you1
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Great away end as usual.
A highlight was my missus thinking we were singing a new song for Sichenje:
We’re the Charlton boys
We’re on a bender
We’re staying in Oxford
with a lad from Kenya
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I get what you’re saying. I used to get irritated by golfie’s constant pessimism .IAgree said:
So you keep saying, again and again and again and again….golfaddick said:Looking at some of the results this afternoon that might have been a bigger point than many of us have given credit for.
Doesn't detract from the fact that it was very poor game of football & as I said on the match thread I hope once safety has been guaranteed (by Easter) then we might actually see some football being played.
The entirety of your posts this season essentially boil down to that we need to score goals, you don’t rate Nathan Jones and the football isn’t pretty enough. Every time we play well you make negative comments and every time we don’t you seem almost gleeful.
The sky is always going to be just the wrong shade of blue for you…..
Nowadays though I agree with him. We’re all fans because we got drawn in by the excitement of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, depending on which generation you’re a part of.
Imagine someone turning up these days as a neutral,. They’re hardly going to ’get the bug’, are they? It’s more like when a friend invited me to go fishing with him. It was boring as hell and was my first and last ever fishing trip. In the short term we’re all happy if we stay up, but in the long term if it continues like this, attendances will decline.6 -
We started well with good possession. Kane Ramsey gave away a needless penalty.OU returned the compliment with a needless penalty as well.Again we kept giving the ball away too often.Harry Clarke had a good game. Nobody was at the end of his long throws. They are almost as good as having corners.I think 53 points would be a good safety target.Not sure if any club has been relegated having reached that number of points.It was a great relief getting a draw in the end as they put us under great pressure in the last 15 minutes or so.We still had chances to win it in added time but a fair result in the end.A precious point towards safety.Travelling support was excellent as usual.10
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A very tough 8 days has returned 7 points from 9. That's absolute quality this stage of the season, especially considering all the parameters of scheduling, teams played against, their form guide etc.
I did think we'd win this, so to grab a point after a poor game is excellent.
Not much else to add really. With WBA and Blackburn winning, it's an important point closer to safety whilst stopping Oxford gaining on us.
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