Official Match Thread Oxford United v Southend United

[Bluegoose]

Dire aimless, looks like they are just running it out till holiday time

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Second excellent chance to score goes begging.......don't know who missed it......found the keeper and not the back of the net...........it was Cox!

 

[Bluegoose]

We are not miles better, we have a comedy defense which folds once we go behind.

 

[Ricey]

Harrison for Kightly, not sure what the plan is with that sub.

 

[mattitouk]

Harrison coming on for Kightly.

 

[Barling Magna]

Great save by the Ox.....

 

[Shrimper]

Really CP seems to have as much idea as PB. I'm not really convinced he's going to work too much magic over the closed season (spend the cash)

Need to see what he does first, will have targets and players that he wants at the club. We've improved at home, our away form is terrible.

 

[Barling Magna]

Wimbledon equalise.

 

[mattitouk]

We need a miracle to get something out of this game.

 

[southendkid]

True. It would be controversial if leeblue had said she was lagging behind because she was a woman, but he didn't. She's presumably not as fit as she needs to be. I've seen plenty of male officials like that over the years. Maybe we need Jessica Ennis-Hill to run the line?

I did a bit of research and it turns out there actually is a fitness test referees have to pass to officiate in matches (whilst there are separate requirements for men and women, women have to pass the men's standard if they want to officiate in the men's game). Interestingly though you only need to do it once a year, which suprises me. I could easily train to pass this and then slack off for 10 months until it was time to train for it again. Maybe they should increase it to once a month so that the refs don't let their fitness slip?

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&s...FjACegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw1h0bFLK_VqgQxq2lC8quX_

 

[Bluegoose]

Just chip it up from the free kick, I would just pass it to their player save time.

 

[ESG]

BBBC bags his second of the afternoon. Oh sorry wrong place:hilarious:

 

[kaymac]

Yep, wrong league as well....

 

[mattitouk]

4 minutes added time.... I do like a snooze!

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

4 minutes added time to suffer. Positives from today?........we didn't concede more than two???

 

[SeaSideDoughnut]

These comments about the offside not being called are needless. Gender shouldn't be a factor. Any person, whether it's a female or a middle aged male can get caught behind the run of play or not be fit enough to keep up.

The line should read the official couldn't keep up. Not the female official.

 

[Bluegoose]

One more to tick of as a totally dire performance

 

[Barling Magna]

Another hopeless away performance. We're down to 15th, eight points above the drop zone. Both Rochdale and Oldham have games in hand. We still need another three points to breathe easily.

 

[eastling]

Not as dire as Plymouth nor Bristol Rovers away but still rubbish. Some decent half chances that we need to make more of away to counteract the dire defence

 

[steve1972]

No we won't, we could lose all our games and not go down....oldham are playing rochdale in the week as the game in hand so we will be 7 points clear with 4 to play. Teams going down dont average 7 points in 4 games. 51 will see you safe this season, you'll see. I dont think in the history of 3 rd tier a team has gone down with 53 points......in response to barling magna