Oxford (A) match thread Sep 2nd

[ollyandpatch]

Just noticed that 3 seats on official  coach 1 have come available if anybody needs transport.

[Rampant Zebra]

Be good to see how our squad looks the day after deadline day, decided not to go though after last seasons visit. Hope that brings a win!

[chickensteve]

For me, this match is the litmous test of how/if/where we've improved as a club from last season. Last season we were tonked by them. I will take a draw, love a win. I think rippers saves us the effect of conceding 2 goals a game from what I've seen. An end to end 1-0 to the tiny club with a 4 sided ground is my bet.

[bomber]

Never been a happy hunting ground for us ! Hope we do much better than last years drubbing. Anything from this and we can be very satisfied. 

[matmat]

3 hours ago, chickensteve said:

For me, this match is the litmous test of how/if/where we've improved as a club from last season. Last season we were tonked by them. I will take a draw, love a win. I think rippers saves us the effect of conceding 2 goals a game from what I've seen. An end to end 1-0 to the tiny club with a 4 sided ground is my bet.

Not really a litmous test for me, I can already see we are far improved from last season whatever the result on Saturday. Was my worst away trip of last season, missed the start of a game for the first time in years, and we were one down before I even got in the ground, just got worse from there. 

Will be going down with confidence on Saturday, looks like they've probably improved since last season, but we are a lot better side than they faced last year. Quite tempted to lump on us at 4/1 actually, pay for the trip!

[saintvaliant]

Of the 2 blocks available online it appears there is only 100-120 tickets left with one block completely sold. The middle block doesn’t show online so assume that is being sold by the club shop for “in person” sales.

Allocation was 1,400 odd so looks a decent following.

[bycarspete]

Lost all 5 times we have played at the kassam including that dreadful 4 nil game last season. Very likely we will lose Saturday but our target is 50 points and to avoid relegation that 6th place we are in is a false league position really.

Wow hopefully the players have more belief in there ability, forward together Super Vale Away, results are on the day, lots of effort some skill and a little bit of luck can turn the score in your favour,

[valefan16]

Point be ok but after this we have 5 games we will be well fancied in of which 4 are at home so a great chance to build on momentum, hence anything here would be a huge boost going into those fixtures.

20% of the way to the first target (safety) so keep going and try to get to that target as quick as possible and who knows after that.

[JoeB2]

If Arblaster plays we have a decent chance. He's reasonable at football in my opinion.

[oldvalefan]

3 hours ago, JoeB2 said:

If Arblaster plays we have a decent chance. He's reasonable at football in my opinion.

Reasonable he's absolutely brilliant.Best young loan player in a long long time!!

[ollyandpatch]

Does anybody know how tickets sales have gone? I think we took about 950 last season and I see you can pay on the day.

[Warren]

3 hours ago, ollyandpatch said:

Does anybody know how tickets sales have gone? I think we took about 950 last season and I see you can pay on the day.

This is a nightmare place to get to on public transport from Liverpool. That's mainly because the city traffic is log jammed. Giving it a miss this year. 

[Warren]

This is where we find out how much the defence has improved. Play well at the back with the keeper diving round a bit and a good result can be achieved. I would be surprised if Oxford are actually a top of the table team that will storm their way to promotion. You never know, but I suspect we can reduce their lofty status if we play well and, in particular, don't concede an early goal changing the dynamics of the game.

[The French Connection]

League Cup Winners and a few seasons in the top tier, but a smaller ground than a rising Port Vale. Always grateful that they let us have Martin Foyle.

We paid top whack for Tin Foil, but he was worth it.

[ollyandpatch]

I forgot we were playing tomorrow. !!