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Couldn't be much worse than the first half!

We're doing much better now. Much better.

Has to be I'd think. It wasn't a small deflection. It wasn't going anywhere near goal without it.

Yes!!! Deflected and in! We look much better with it on the ground. Getting Chaplin into much better areas now.

Their keeper alert to the quick free kick. Nice idea.

Have we pushed Chaplin up a bit further this half? Looks more advanced.

Bloody hell, dangerous.

Brannigan not booked for that!? How!?

Sterling for Grimmer, knee injury

Surely we've got to be better pushing Chaplin up front with JCH? I'd assumed that was what we'd signed him to do.

That's exactly it. We played a lot of good football last year, I know it was a league lower, but that was us at our best. This hoof ball just isn't working for us. We've not got enough presence up top for it to work.

What an awful half of football that was. Neither team really displaying much in front of goal.

Almost want Mackie to score to see if he actually goes through with his celebration. Almost. That'd be a nailed on booking, wouldn't it? Then again, we're never going to score in a month of Sundays so he'd best not.

What I don't understand is if we're going to insist on the hoof and hope approach, why haven't we got two players pressing the defence? Surely you need one to win the knock on and another one to get on to it. That's the whole point of the long ball, isn't it?

Thomas did well there, but we couldn't make it count.

We are so deep it's inviting them on to us. And we can't seem to get the ball off them when they have it.

Lucky not to be a goal down from that

It's long ball and Oxford look very comfortable dealing with it.

First really positive bit of play we've had all game, can't do anything with it. That was better, have to do it more often.

Oxford have not really had to face anything threatening yet. We look very deep, very unlikely to score so far.