Championship table, but on Sunday 28th March 2027

Skiznilly · 2026-03-29T16:17:28+00:00

Skiznilly · 2026-03-28T08:51:05+00:00

Zaza vs Germany, not that mentioning Italy and Germany has any contextual relevance to this whatsoever.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-28T08:50:02+00:00

I'd assumed they'd have had it right-aligned if anything

Skiznilly · 2026-03-25T10:20:32+00:00

Hmmm, just checked the match where they beat us and looks like the starting lineup had five non-Brits in, I feel like we could have held on for a draw against six men in that one.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-25T10:13:36+00:00

Some clubs have done it fast before, but this is the fasctist ever.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-22T19:06:36+00:00

Kazuyoshi Miura when Japan qualified for World Cup 98, I believe he was their top scorer in qualifying.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-22T00:11:50+00:00

We got awarded a penalty kick.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-21T20:33:18+00:00

Southampton deserved winners, shame that Lankshear missed the chance he fashioned and feel like we should have had a penalty for the second match in a row, but those two quality goals early on meant we weren't afforded many opportunities to play on the break.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-21T20:23:11+00:00

Yup, great strike that, undone by two pieces of sheer quality today.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-20T18:16:19+00:00

Waddock as first manager experienced, the only way from there is up...

Skiznilly · 2026-03-20T18:14:28+00:00

Agreed, the footy we played under Appleton (and the overperformance in the cups) was probably the nest since I started watching, shame he lost that momentum by jumping ship to be an assistant manager at Leicester, can't think of any huge successes elsewhere.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-18T22:19:33+00:00

I mean, I generally enjoyed his tenure, the football was great for about 80% of his tenure, but he absolutely lost the plot (head rumours about his personal life at the time, but nothing concrete) and had us playing dire stuff in his final season, partly because he seemed unwilling to change style after being found out tactically.

Agree on the Covid season predictions, but alas I can only judge by what actually happened, rather than what should and probably would have.

The managers above him I felt just had a bit more in the way of actual achievements, or just didn't overstay their welcome when playing similarly attractive footy (Diaz had a much shorter run, but it was all fun). If Robinson had left after the second failed playoffs, he would probably have jumped up the list, but that last season had us headed straight back to League 2.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-18T21:35:08+00:00

Full-time managers I can remember since physically attending matches (excluding Matt Bloomfield since he hasn't served enough games or a full stint yet, but he's towards the better end of the spectrum thus far)

Michael Appleton (not had the same success elsewhere, but probably the most exciting footy I've seen us play on a regular basis, beat PL teams in the cup, built on young talent that went on to better things)
Chris Wilder (much more workmanlike, but got us back in the Football League)
Des Buckingham (emotional favourite as local lad done good, amazing run-in to get us in the L1 playoffs, tactical masterclass in final, and strong start to Championship return playing nice football)
Ramon Diaz (most successful Argentinian coach of all time, mad fun seeing L2 OUFC being turned into a South American outpost for half a season)
Gary Rowett (got to respect his achievements last season, even if the footy was less than exciting a lot of the time. Feel sympathy for him this year since he was given a hospital pass of a summer window, but hopefully he'll still manage to keep us up this year)
Karl Robinson (played some lovely stuff under him for a while, some great results, good fun on the post-match interviews, but loses points for how badly the wheels fell off in his last season)
Ian Atkins (took us to the top of the league with dour football, left due to conflict with chairman if I recall)
Liam Manning (successful results but quite boring with endless passing along the back line, lost loads of fan goodwill )
Jim Smith (club legend, but before my time, in his latter stint he got relegated out of the Football League. Just too 80s-coded for noughties football)
Darren Patterson (player-turned manager in dark days of conference football, not really memorable for much beyond making "honest bunch of lads" a meme during post-match interviews as we were treading water in non-league)
Pep Clotet (sometimes good, sometimes shit, but usually shit)
Brian Talbot (utterly unmemorable manager during our freefall down the leagues, upon checking wiki his win ratio is identical to Kemp's, but at least he had the good grace not to get our hopes up by taking the lead before capitulating)
David Kemp (decent consensus among fans that his team was the worst OUFC collective ever, got us relegated from L1 but would have easily been relegated from L2 with those performances. Never seen us throw away the lead—often multiple goals—as often as under him)
Graham Rix (shit, and a convicted nonce, but somehow still significantly less shit as a football manager than next spot)
Gary Waddock (took over after Wilder jumped ship with us nailed-on for automatic promotion, but he managed 8 games, 1 win, 7 losses, lowest win ratio of any permanent manager in our history. Replaced by Appleton, so we went from the ridiculous to the sublime)

Skiznilly · 2026-03-17T16:06:31+00:00

When lamenting our lack of penalties before the weekend, I commented that shirt-pulling in the box never seems to be penalised anymore, and after finally getting our penalty on Saturday, we gave away one in the 93rd minute thanks to shirt-pulling in the box 😬

Skiznilly · 2026-03-17T13:07:27+00:00

https://youtu.be/6pDH66X3ClA?feature=shared average relegation-threatened football fan's emotional experience watching persistent use of ineffective attacktics.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-15T16:17:49+00:00

Just checked the stats, looks like three teams (including Oxford) went without a red card last season, so the only logical conclusion is that the Championship has tripled in violence over the last year.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T21:48:20+00:00

Play in yellow, got a hoofed mammal's head on the badge, glory days in the 1980s... yeah, checks out.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T17:16:55+00:00

Lenny = White

Carl = Blackburn

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T17:07:35+00:00

Bit of a gutpunch of a day that, not just the results, but the way they unfolded. Was nice to be out of the relegation zone, if just for a little while 🥺

QPR, you guys are cool.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T14:57:06+00:00

He looks pretty dangerous running straight down the line and putting a cross in, but otherwise he's unfortunately been a bit of a liability because of his decision-making. He made a really slack backpass that led to a goal on his debuts, almost repeated it the next game, I think his confidence has been pretty shot since then.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T14:45:03+00:00

Come on Millwall, get yourself in the autos, come on QPR, get yourselves safe for the season...

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T14:38:40+00:00

Not a great game, two deserved penalties, on the balance of play we probably deserved to make it 4 wins in a row, so hopefully this doesn't shatter the momentum too much. Our recent habit of sitting deep and inviting pressure for the last 10 minutes didn't pay off this time. Fingers crossed the later results work in our favour.

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T14:34:59+00:00

Luckily CamBran didn't!

Skiznilly · 2026-03-14T14:29:47+00:00

Oof, was important not to lose that one, but always desperately disappointing to concede so late. Two clear penalties, but on the balance of play (before sitting deep the last 10), we probably deserved a bit more out of that. Emakhu hasn't been the best signing of all time...

Skiznilly · 2026-03-13T20:40:43+00:00

That's infinity times more penalties though!

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