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Match Thread Coventry City - Oxford Utd - Match Thread - Friday 16th Aug 8pm KO (2 Viewers)

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Jarvo87

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #211
Sky Blue Pete said:
Dovin
Mve
Thomas
Kitching
Bidwell
Torp
Allen
Eccles
Saka
Simms
Wright

Any good?
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No Rudoni? Is he injured?
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #212
Jarvo87 said:
No Rudoni? Is he injured?
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Balls
He’ll be playing wrong wrong wrong Peter
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #213
Evo1883 said:
Available tickets , all the FZ exchange tickets seem to have been sold too View attachment 37780View attachment 37781
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The available season tickets looks very similar to this
 

ricohroar

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #214
Won’t look too full im sure me and at least 8 other season ticket holders on holiday and I guess many more too. Not sure in August the gate will be anywhere near the actual crowd
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #215
ricohroar said:
Won’t look too full im sure me and at least 8 other season ticket holders on holiday and I guess many more too. Not sure in August the gate will be anywhere near the actual crowd
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But equally, more people can attend a game in August for being off work/school.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #216
Evo1883 said:
Available tickets , all the FZ exchange tickets seem to have been sold too View attachment 37780View attachment 37781
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There will loads available in the FZ earlier. Couldn't believe it when I just looked.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #217
Sky Blue Pete said:
Dovin
Mve
Thomas
Kitching
Bidwell
Torp
Allen
Eccles
Saka
Simms
Wright

Any good?
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2 out
 

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #218
Saddlebrains said:
2 out
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Rudoni for Allen and Binks for Kiching
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #219
2-0 Wright and Simms
 
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Cally Fedora

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #220
Saddlebrains said:
2 out
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So:
Wright for EMC
Kitching for Thomas
Eccles for Allen
??
 

SHUNT31

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #221
Saddlebrains said:
3 changes from last Saturday
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Eccles for Allen. Wright for EMC. Da Silva for Bidwell.
 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #222
Pack it in @Saddlebrains - might as well send an email to the Oxford management!
 
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Gynnsthetonic

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #223
Evo1883 said:
Available tickets , all the FZ exchange tickets seem to have been sold too View attachment 37780View attachment 37781
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I would of hoped the adverts over the seats behind the dug outs have gone and we now actually sell them from the off too
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #224
Saddlebrains said:
3 changes from last Saturday
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Guessing EMC Allen (or maybe Torp) and one of the CBs, possibly Binks.
 

mmttww

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #225
No one thinking Da Silva might be one of them ...?

 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #226
Eccles and Wright have to start
Third one either JDS or Kitching
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #227
mmttww said:
No one thinking Da Silva might be one.of them ...?

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Certainly played well the other night
 
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rexo87

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #228
I reckon.

Dovin

MVE Lati Binks Bidwell

Torp Eccles Rudi

Saka Simms Wright
 
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skybluecam

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #229
fatso said:
And yet he provided the 1 defence splitting pass that decided the match on Tuesday.

The one goal we've scored so far in 3 hours of football was put on a plate by Palmer, no one else, just Palmer.

No Bristol player could do likewise. No other City player could manage it, despite fielding half our squad.
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Defence splitting? Come on, it was a fairly routine pass.
 
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SwanLane

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #230
Sky Blue Harry H said:
If you want to get yourself up for tomorrow, have a look at this from an Oxford fan ! (will sing WLADITT with a bit more gusto at kick off).

**k em mate. f**k Coventry. All they're famous for is getting bombed in World War II.

I thought we would take more if I'm honest, as it looks like somewhere between 1,500/2,000 will be going. Saturday 3pm and not on Sky, and we'd have sold out. I think it is a pretty unattractive game for our first game back up, but that shouldn't really matter. I reckon we'll see that tomorrow's Oxford crowd will be many from a certain age, like you and me, who've waited a long time for this and are determined not to miss a minute of this season. I think a lot of the younger generation, who've only been going a few years, might not realise just how significant this game is?

What I do know is that when God handed out birthrights I'm f*****g glad mine said Oxfordshire on it and not Coventry. We'll be there, and we'll be proud, and if any Coventry t**t wants to try and take the P**s, bring it on. Lady Godiva can f**k off too.


They may have 20,000 more fans there than us, but at 10pm we'll have six more points than them, and be top of the league!
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Now imagine that spoken their farmer accent and it sounds even more ridiculous.

i actually think Oxford will be ok this season but this bloke’s already drunk “6 more points” than anyone else.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #231
Evo1883 said:
Available tickets , all the FZ exchange tickets seem to have been sold too View attachment 37780View attachment 37781
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One of the enduring problems at the CBS is selling the tickets in the first few rows of the north stand - it makes the gates appear worse than they are.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #232
It’sabatch87 said:
I think it will be…
Dovin
MVE Thomas Binks Bidwell
Torp Eccles Rudoni
Sakamoto Simms Wright
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If saddle is right with the 3 changes I reckon Kitching is back in. Then again it could be Lati in for Thomas.
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #233
rexo87 said:
I reckon.

Dovin

MVE Lati Binks Bidwell

Torp Eccles Rudi

Saka Simms Wright
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Lati for Thomas is a good shout . Thomas has been off form so far this season
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #234
fernandopartridge said:
One of the enduring problems at the CBS is selling the tickets in the first few rows of the north stand - it makes the gates appear worse than they are.
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Maybe people are scared of being rained on during a sunny day in August...
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #235
fernandopartridge said:
If saddle is right with the 3 changes I reckon Kitching is back in. Then again it could be Lati in for Thomas.
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The Lati obsession starting early this year? (With him playing, not you mentioning it)
 

fatso

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #236
skybluecam said:
Defence splitting? Come on, it was a fairly routine pass.
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That no one was able to make
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #237
fatso said:
That no one was able to make
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Not sure how you can compare?

Torp made plenty of harder passes.
 
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rexo87

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #238
Wouldn’t mind Lati for Thomas tbh. Don’t like Lati at RB or CM but I think he’s pretty solid at CB. Thomas’ passing has been absolutely woeful so far this season as well
 
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Perennial Lurker

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #239
rexo87 said:
Wouldn’t mind Lati for Thomas tbh. Don’t like Lati at RB or CM but I think he’s pretty solid at CB. Thomas’ passing has been absolutely woeful so far this season as well
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Lati at CB is combative and positionally secure . Also is quite vocal as well .
Thomas has been underwhelming so far
 
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Johnnythespider

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  • Aug 15, 2024
  • #240
My guess
Da Silva for Bidwell
Eccles for Allen
Wright for EMC
 
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SkyblueTexan

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  • Aug 16, 2024
  • #241
Took a peek at their fan forum and they’re feeling very confident. Many of them feel they could draw or win the match. They’ve obviously strengthened over the summer and have recorded back to back 2-0 wins. To keep Sargent and Saenz of Norwich quiet and not concede is quite impressive.

it would be great if we could replicate our 6-2 win against them, but I will gladly take any kind of win. 3 points is all that matters.
 
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Ricky Otto

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  • Aug 16, 2024
  • #242
Hi there folks. Oxford fan here.

Our toughest test tomorrow and certainly memories of how you utterly dismantled us last season, and you compounding a very bad run that we were already on. You looked excellent that day and showed us the standard to aspire to. Needless to say we are all very surprised 8 months later to be playing you in the same league. But after 25 years absence, plunging down to the conference, we are pretty happy just to be back and making up the numbers. You are clearly favourites tomorrow and many of you have perhaps rightly predicted a home victory.

There’s a little bit of harshness on this forum though about our away support for tomorrow. The permanent non student population of Oxford is 120,000. By contrast Coventry-Bedworth is three times that at 450,000. The average home support that you get is about three times more than us.

Our home support is 9000 so to bring nearly 1600 (20% of our home support) to you isn’t terrible on a Friday night sky tv game. it would be the equivalent of you taking about 5,000 to an away game.

A little additional context …in September 2018 you came to our place for a sky game and brought 774 fans (3% of current home support).
 
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JohnWH

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  • Aug 16, 2024
  • #243
Ricky Otto said:
Hi there folks. Oxford fan here.

Our toughest test tomorrow and certainly memories of how you utterly dismantled us last season, and you compounding a very bad run that we were already on. You looked excellent that day and showed us the standard to aspire to. Needless to say we are all very surprised 8 months later to be playing you in the same league. But after 25 years absence, plunging down to the conference, we are pretty happy just to be back and making up the numbers. You are clearly favourites tomorrow and many of you have perhaps rightly predicted a home victory.

There’s a little bit of harshness on this forum though about our away support for tomorrow. The permanent non student population of Oxford is 120,000. By contrast Coventry-Bedworth is three times that at 450,000. The average home support that you get is about three times more than us.

Our home support is 9000 so to bring nearly 1600 (20% of our home support) to you isn’t terrible on a Friday night sky tv game. it would be the equivalent of you taking about 5,000 to an away game.

A little additional context …in September 2018 you came to our place for a sky game and brought 774 fans (3% of current home support).
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One of your lot was using rude language towards we humble Sky Blues fans, and disparaging our beloved city on an Oxfordshire themed Internet web forum.
Will you kindly have a word with this gentleman, take away the beers if necessary, and report back your success?

Safe travels if you are visiting. Remember: spend big when patroning in our many retail and eating and spiritous establishments to keep our burgeoning tourist economy alive, and enjoy a restful overnight stay at any of our many fine motor lodges. --not a representative of the local Chamber of Commerce
 
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JohnWH

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  • Aug 16, 2024
  • #244
Oh, forgot to comment on match prediction. 0-0 draw, dodgy offside call against Simms or Wright. Or maybe a tidy 1-0 win courtesy of another Palmer worldy.
 

NortonSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Aug 16, 2024
  • #245
Ricky Otto said:
Hi there folks. Oxford fan here.

Our toughest test tomorrow and certainly memories of how you utterly dismantled us last season, and you compounding a very bad run that we were already on. You looked excellent that day and showed us the standard to aspire to. Needless to say we are all very surprised 8 months later to be playing you in the same league. But after 25 years absence, plunging down to the conference, we are pretty happy just to be back and making up the numbers. You are clearly favourites tomorrow and many of you have perhaps rightly predicted a home victory.

There’s a little bit of harshness on this forum though about our away support for tomorrow. The permanent non student population of Oxford is 120,000. By contrast Coventry-Bedworth is three times that at 450,000. The average home support that you get is about three times more than us.

Our home support is 9000 so to bring nearly 1600 (20% of our home support) to you isn’t terrible on a Friday night sky tv game. it would be the equivalent of you taking about 5,000 to an away game.

A little additional context …in September 2018 you came to our place for a sky game and brought 774 fans (3% of current home support).
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Fair points well made. And correct!
I believe it may be that its your first game back in this division at a ground that’s relatively close that is the issue.
 
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