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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 11, 2022 15:10:17 GMT
It’s a funny one this is
Obviously, when we couldn’t buy a win you’d have deffo put this down as a home banker, but now and following on from their 2-0 defeat to AccyStan and our battling come back against Charlton Pathetic, you’d have to fancy us, backed by yet another solid 1000+ away following
Im confident for 1-2 away win
COYWM Let’s do this⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Win this and win our game in hand on them and we should be able to eventually swap places with them into the play off zone if we carry on
We are currently the second best team in this league according to form
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Post by whiteofthesouth on Feb 11, 2022 15:59:56 GMT
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Post by realtrottersforever on Feb 11, 2022 20:22:13 GMT
tough one, bearing in mind our dodgy away form, and Oxford's good home form.
Oxford are third in the home table split. 10 wins from 16. just 2 losses. away from home , much weaker. played 15. lost 6. lost more than they've won.
our record away. played 15. lost 9. won 4.
against sides in the top 8 places now. played 5 away games. lost all 5. but generally only by a 1 goal margin, and we know this team is an upgrade on the pre-window team.
away clean sheets. just 2 in 15 for us. Oxford. home clean sheets. 5 in 16. good but not great.
fail to score stats : Oxford- only 2 blanks in 16 home games. BWFC : 8 blanks in 15 away games. joint worst record in the Div. you could say again this new team should do better, but it didn't work out that way at Morecambe with 1st shot on target in about 90+10 mins was Baka's goal.
form : oxford- last 4 at home. 3 wins 1 draw. bwfc. last 4. away : 1 win. 1 draw, 2 losses.
Oxford don't have many names that scare me on paper. best one is Matty Taylor ( not the ex-bwfc player !) with 14 lge goals. saying that, James Henry ( the ex-Wanderer) does have 7 lge goals, and Sykes & Brannagan have 8 & 9 respectively which are very decent totals. although Brannagan's total includes a rather freakish 4 penalties in the one game against Gill's a week or so ago.
i'll go 1-1, but certainly not impossible that we edge it, especially if we score first.
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Post by whitesince63 on Feb 11, 2022 22:50:29 GMT
I think we have to forget the previous results rtf, just as we did last year because our team is so much improved since the new signings came in, it bears no resemblance to what we can achieve now. I may be being a bit too optimistic now but frankly I don’t think there’s anyone in L1 we can’t beat, home or away and in fact I think it might be easier for us away from home where teams have to come out against us and with so much more pace and skill up top, we should be much more lethal. Some of our imports haven’t even got up to speed yet and we’re winning, so it bodes well for the future. Tomorrow is for me critical because as rftr says, if we win and still have a game in hand over Oxford, the job of catching them suddenly looks much more achievable. It’s a true 6 pointer and I’m confident we’ll win it so I’ll go for 1-3 to the Whites and a real message that we’re coming for that top six.
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Post by OohMac on Feb 12, 2022 9:04:03 GMT
Yes I agree we should park the away form before Jan. Its apples and oranges. But the two away games weve had since have not seen us perform too well and weve been fortunate with two late goals to get us a good 4 points.
Yes, you create your own luck and we kept those teams at Bay(Morecambe) to allow us that chance to get poits late on. But both of the teams are near the bottom. Oxford arent.
Charlton too showed signs of fatigue.
Realistically we need to be taking all points off Oxford to catch them and then hope that the clubs between dont hit the form were on. Its why I think it is too late or rather too big an ask to keep winning in this tight league.
I see a 2 or 3 to 1 but unsure which team will get the spoils. Head says Oxford, heart says Bolton. Wallet says leave this one off the coupon.
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Post by davidm on Feb 12, 2022 9:51:11 GMT
A difficult one to predict, this match.
All logic says a play-off chasing side at home to a mid-table side should be a home win but, as said above, we are a different team to the one that was floundering a few matches ago.
OohMac is correct. Despite 2 recent good results, our away form is still average at best. We didn’t play well at both Shrewsbury or Morecambe but in fairness we kept going and got points in the end.
For us to get up the table, our away performances need to be as fluent as per the home games against Sunderland/Cambridge.
Team wise – there are hints of changes – Bodvarsson, Lee back?
I think the back 6 pick themselves and there should be no changes there.
Williams and Morley likewise are currently automatic picks which leaves one midfield spot – Dempsey or Lee. I would go for Lee as he is class on his day. His day often depends on the opponents and the conditions. No good in the mud or against over physical teams but perfection with the ball on the ground on a good pitch. So Lee for me today.
Upfront – again Charles is a definite pick. So we then have Afolayan, Fossey, Bodvarsson, Sadlier, Amaechi, Bakayoko for 2 positions. My choice would be Afolayan and Fossey but the manager is right when he mentions the number of matches this month so maybe the odd change there.
As with last season, when I think that whites63 and I were the ones who felt we could win every match, I am back to super optimist.
I have been away to Oxford only twice – 2-0 win and a 0-0 so maybe I should be there today to keep my record up but it’s i-follow today.
Optimistic so a tight 1-0 win.
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Post by chip on Feb 12, 2022 10:11:16 GMT
Should be a good game I have paid my £10 to my mate to watch it so I will try to keep people informed as to what’s happening. Heart over head again 2-1 to the super whites onwards and upwards stay safe one and all COYWM
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Post by whiteofthesouth on Feb 12, 2022 11:06:49 GMT
It’s pretty unfair to judge our away form on what happened at Morecambe. Of course, in football you have to take whatever the weather throws at you on the day, but the poor conditions massively favoured the less skilful team. Couple that with the wholly incorrect sending off with more than twenty minutes left on the clock, which led to their goal, and the fact that we had a strong bench, which ultimately gained us the equaliser anyway, and that was a game we could easily have taken all three points from. On a better pitch with less extreme weather and our squad bedding in more each week and I have no fears.
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Post by OohMac on Feb 12, 2022 11:22:01 GMT
How are people watching a Saturday game through I Player by the way. Thought it was audio only?
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Post by owdonlad on Feb 12, 2022 11:40:51 GMT
How are people watching a Saturday game through I Player by the way. Thought it was audio only? You have to get round the law by getting a private link thingy and thus moving your self to an other country outside the UK cost about £60 per season i belive .
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Post by riochforthereebok on Feb 12, 2022 12:45:31 GMT
How is this so whites, if Rotherham have won their last 6, whereas we have won 5 plus a draw??
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Post by chip on Feb 12, 2022 13:09:25 GMT
OohMac a mate of mine has a fire stick and if he’s going out for the day I will pay him to lend it me. Ask no questions tell no lies 🤷♂️
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Post by chip on Feb 12, 2022 14:54:22 GMT
Strong team no keeper on our bench 🤷♂️I always find that strange because they could always take your keeper out by accident you never know COYWM
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Post by chip on Feb 12, 2022 15:08:56 GMT
3 Minutes in, feeling each other out at the moment ooh shot from Oxford just past the far post. We need to tighten up a little bit COYWM
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Post by chip on Feb 12, 2022 15:13:06 GMT
Ooh dear 1-0 down great free kick the wind has helped it in COYWM 1-1
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