FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.18: FLEETWOOD AT HOME First a mention of Bolton Covid prevented me visiting the University of Bolton Stadium but such was the performance we put in it would be remiss not to mention it in passing. There were so many ways to keep up with events during the contest and to  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.17: PORTSMOUTH AWAY Staying positive? If it wasn’t for our new minted owners and the vision of a bright future at Stratfield Brake that we’ve been sold, the gloom surrounding our club at present would be pretty horrendous. As it is it still feels quite bleak based on what has taken  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.16: PETERBOROUGH AT HOME Papa John’s humiliation To repeat – don’t care about this competition. But do very much care about losing. The way this season has gone, whilst trying to maintain a degree of realism, I’ve very much been looking for any evidence of positivity and have tried to big  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.15: EXETER AWAY A stat (prior to this game) courtesy of “Notts Yellow” Simon Eastwood has only saved 4 shots at home all season. The running total now is that the opposition have had 11 shots on target and we have conceded 7. Normally it is the first shot in the  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.14: WYCOMBE AT HOME Papa John’s Interest still very little. Checked score early on: 1-0 up. Turned radio on with a few minutes to go and from the description of the way the Chelsea kids were playing knew we were losing. Hate the competition but still hate losing any “competitive” game  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.13: CHARLTON AWAY The take-over This has rightly been well documented in the local media and much debated on social media so I’m not going to cover it in much detail. However, I can’t let it go without saying I can’t see how any Oxford Utd fan can be anything but  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.12: MK DONS AT HOME No Fleetwood next week Well luck is kind of going our way with another game being postponed. Given our very poor form and players out injured very good news indeed. Northern Ireland have called up the Cod Army’s Paddy Lane and from OUFC Ciaron Brown one  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.11: PLYMOUTH AWAY No Shrewsbury Since I wrote the last FV our country not only has a new Prime Minister but also monarch with the sad passing of Her Majesty the Queen on Thursday 8 September. I don’t think you have to be a staunch royalist to greatly admire her and  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.10: BURTON AT HOME Wasn’t at the game Still don’t do the Papa John’s as a matter of principle. Can’t be doing with the Big Boys U21s being involved. I was expecting our youngsters to be given a good run out.  Four were but only off the bench which was a  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – No.9: CHELTENHAM AWAY Going for the record number of injuries? On Friday Karl Robinson was quoted as saying, “It doesn’t look as though any of the injured players will be available for the weekend but the spirit was there and we played well on Tuesday night so we just get on  [ more ]