Ominous. It feels very reminiscent of the early Dai days; decent players with experience on paper but no coherent plan, and other teams just look hungrier and fitter. We held our own in the first half, then they upped their intensity and we had no answer. Forget about quality, they earned the right to play and we didn't.

Relegation a real concern. January is big; we the amount of investors involved, we should have more resources available than those around it. It has to be spent well, and it'll be costly as we have ourselves in a panic situation. I also wonder if we need a Martin Allen style coach to put a rocket up arses.

I'm considering skipping games now.....They've got my ST money but Im starting to get fed up watching the same shit week after week.
I'm sick of these players as well. Half of them look out of their depth. We have recruited really badly. Did Hunt have a say? no idea, but whoever recruited them needs to be shown the door.
I was hoping also we would be getting the Wigan Richardson and not the Rotherham one.....It's starting to get worrying now.

His agents brother

You blaming the manager or the team?

You can say that again!

I do agree we need a team that is more phyaical and more aggressive. But not sure about coaches who rely on the hair dryer treatment. Feels a bit old school. And Graham Alexander doesnt strike me as a rocket up the arse sort of guy, yet his players are clearly showing so much more effort than ours.

A competitive first half but we were hardly in it during the second.
Most of the 50/50s were won by Bradford and there is no excuse for that.

I liked the Bradford commentary, the main man knew his stuff and wasn't biased although early on he did describe Big Kelvin as being "burly" which we know he isn't.

Why do these commentators need a pundit alongside them-?
He would have been fine on his own and Kiwomya could barely put two words together.

So, the simple matter of a result probably needed v Luton to stop us being in the relegation places for Christmas followed by a relegation clash on Boxing Day at Plymouth.
Oh the joys of following a football club-those Premier days feel like light years away, did they really happen?

Just a distant memory. Twenty years ago since the 106 team

I do agree we need a team that is more phyaical and more aggressive. But not sure about coaches who rely on the hair dryer treatment. Feels a bit old school. And Graham Alexander doesnt strike me as a rocket up the arse sort of guy, yet his players are clearly showing so much more effort than ours.
Not sure the answer. But the team has the quality and experience on paper to do better. Who is leading us to move forwards instead of sideways / backwards? Who is bringing energy and intensity? I don't see much accountability for the level of performance at the moment. And that's the biggest problem to solve, whatever the answer is.

Dread to think what kind of salaries we're locked into with Wing, Marriott and O'Connor for the next 3 years. Legs have gone already.

Along with Lane who is yet to show he can be fit for more than 15 minutes at a time

What`s happened to O`Mahony?

With players like Wing and O'Connor, the only solution is to make it work. They are good L1 players at the peak of their career.

The question should be what signings would complement them and allow them to perform consistently. Like Tuchel picking players to bring the best out of Kane and Rice for England instead for a team of no.10s.

We really don’t try to help ourselves either.

It was pretty obvious they stepped up the press in the second half and focused on Wing. At no stage did we try to do anything about it. Why not try to move Wing around for a few minutes and see what they did. We just kept doing the same thing with the same end result.

We were doing fine until Marriott came back into the squad

Seriously we do need to get a win in the next couple of games or I do fear for us. We’re so clearly lacking in certain areas - a striker and any pace at the back. It’s a pretty poor state when we’re relying on a transfer window to get us out of trouble again

Anyone who thinks we are going to bring in players up to standard who will improve the areas we need needs their head checking. We’re oxf*rd.

Tbf the new owners ambition is to get us out of this division, they could be doing it in extra quick time.

You've obviously accepted that we are a lower end/ relegation threatened league one club, to be honest, I expected more after the takeover in the summer.

Lose to Luton on Thursday, good chance we could be 2nd bottom for Christmas.

League table partly shows the strength at the bottom. We were 6 points clear of the relegation zone; 2 losses and it's gone. That's unheard of. We'd normally still be 3 or 4 clear.

It`s a recurring theme, we beat Stevenage and climbed 8 places to 12th, then after the Saturday games we were back down to 17th. have to say we look the 2nd weakest team after Port Vale in this league on current form.

Think this went exactly how we expected.

Tbf based on who we signed I’m not especially optimistic

Tbf based on who we signed I’m not especially optimistic
Can't take Brogue seriously tbf, his anti Couhig agenda has been blatant from day 1. We were in a similar position under SJM and it preceded our best ever decade.

I'll judge Couhig on how he responds to things going badly instead of demanding instant results. God forbid, if we go down this season he can still salvage it if he's committed to learning from mistakes and leaving us in a better position.

Tbf based on who we signed I’m not especially optimistic

And now we are scrabbling around at the bottom of the league it’s going to much harder to entice a player of a sufficient ability to join. Had we been knocking on the playoff door we could have potentially brought in a much better calibre of player. But no one’s going to join a club on the verge of relegation in January.

Tbf based on who we signed I’m not especially optimistic

And now we are scrabbling around at the bottom of the league it’s going to much harder to entice a player of a sufficient ability to join. Had we been knocking on the playoff door we could have potentially brought in a much better calibre of player. But no one’s going to join a club on the verge of relegation in January.
In 2000 we signed Martin Butler and Adie Williams. We're still a bigger draw than teams like Stevenage and Wimbledon.

And now we are scrabbling around at the bottom of the league it’s going to much harder to entice a player of a sufficient ability to join. Had we been knocking on the playoff door we could have potentially brought in a much better calibre of player. But no one’s going to join a club on the verge of relegation in January.
In 2000 we signed Martin Butler and Adie Williams. We're still a bigger draw than teams like Stevenage and Wimbledon.

Ady was signed in the summer. And pardew was backed that season, butler cost 750k. You see us spending 750k on a striker in January?

In 2000 we signed Martin Butler and Adie Williams. We're still a bigger draw than teams like Stevenage and Wimbledon.

Ady was signed in the summer. And pardew was backed that season, butler cost 750k. You see us spending 750k on a striker in January?
Yes. We have several investors on board and the risk of relegation is much more costly.

And now we are scrabbling around at the bottom of the league it’s going to much harder to entice a player of a sufficient ability to join. Had we been knocking on the playoff door we could have potentially brought in a much better calibre of player. But no one’s going to join a club on the verge of relegation in January.
In 2000 we signed Martin Butler and Adie Williams. We're still a bigger draw than teams like Stevenage and Wimbledon.
Maybe we were in those days, not anymore I'm afraid

You've obviously accepted that we are a lower end/ relegation threatened league one club, to be honest, I expected more after the takeover in the summer.

The Wycombefication process is complete. First the owners. Then the staff. Finally the supporters.

Ady was signed in the summer. And pardew was backed that season, butler cost 750k. You see us spending 750k on a striker in January?
Yes. We have several investors on board and the risk of relegation is much more costly.