FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.8: CARABAO CUP ROUND TWO Getting worse Our season so far was bad enough anyway and our injury list long enough with Sam Baldock, Josh Murphy, Yanic Wildscut, Marcus Browne and Elliott Moore already on it but now we can add James Henry, Alex Gorrin and Marcus McGuane. Every single one  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.7: MORECAMBE AT HOME Our opponents and other musings Many times we hear “there are a lot of big teams in League 1”. We’ve probably thrown that into conversation ourselves when discussing our division with people who are in to football but don’t really have much of an understanding of what  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.6: LINCOLN AT HOME Poor start? I don’t think any Oxford United supporter has been particularly inspired by our start to the season. It’s better defensively; pretty woeful attacking wise. Bang average at best entertainment wise save for a few inspired moments. Deserved to lose both away games. Only played well  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.5: BRISTOL ROVERS AWAY In, extended and out temporarily With Kyle Joseph joining us on a year long loan from the team we put out of the Carabao on Tuesday night, we’ve now got a striker who is a bit over six feet tall. Karl says he’s got high energy, is  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.4: CARABAO CUP ROUND ONE Carabao Cup This is a competition that attracts little attention at the first round stage but I quite like it. Even though we’ve got ’86 it will never as a competition match the FA Cup with all its rich history and folklore but it does have  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.3: CAMBRIDGE AT HOME Our opponents Cambridge spent nine seasons in the Conference, from 2005/06 – 2013/14 and then seven in L2 before returning to tier three for the first time in 20 years last season. Although they started as one of the favourites to go straight back down they survived  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.2: DERBY AWAY More so than ever I had intended to cut down on the size of these Views but I’ve started off doing anything but with the potential that this could turn out to be the longest ever. There’s a good reason for that though. The team we play in  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 22/23 – NO.1 THE BUILD UP I rarely produce a FV in one sitting and certainly not when it’s a pre-season preview. I have no deadlines unlike in real journalism. This approach though brings a big challenge. New signings change things. That balance between pessimism and optimism as to what lies ahead keeps  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.50 Well done to this lot for travelling down OXFORD UNITED 1 DONCASTER ROVERS 1 Fifty, that’s a nice round number to finish with. Obviously I wish it had been more. Fifty three would have done nicely especially with a joyous positive write up in the last. But we knew before  [ more ]

FAN’S VIEW 21/22 – NO.49 ROTHERHAM UNITED 2 OXFORD UNITED 1 Oxford fans full of hope in the Bridge before the game  I set out for South Yorkshire in optimistic mood. I came away thinking that while we’d not been terrible, far from it, we’d not been anywhere near good enough to win this game  [ more ]