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Oxford United boss encouraged despite latest defeat
9:30am Wednesday 19th September 2012 in Sport
By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
Peter Leven slots home his late penalty at Cheltenham
DESPITE suffering another defeat, Chris Wilder felt Oxford United restored some pride with their performance at Cheltenham Town last night.
A Peter Leven penalty ten minutes from time gave United hope of salvaging something from the game, after sweet strikes from Darren Carter and Shaun Harrad had put the hosts in charge.
But the U’s were unable to find an equaliser and went down 2-1, their fourth successive npower League Two defeat.
Although it was another setback, Wilder, who blasted his players after Saturday’s defeat at Burton, was encouraged by the display.
“I have said to the players that I can accept that,” he said.
“I am disappointed with the result, but I don’t think we deserved to be beaten if I’m honest.
“We don’t accept losing lightly, but we will win more games than we lose if we play like that.
“I am sure there’s a win around the corner, that’s what we have got to believe.”
He added: “There’s things we can’t control that are going against us, but the heart and spirit is definitely there.
“If you have got that, you have got something to work from.”
One of the main positives was the return of Lee Cox from injury.
The midfielder had not featured since August 21 after picking up a groin injury, but made it through 90 minutes.
The on-loan Swindon man felt the U’s were unlucky to take nothing from the game.
He said: “I was quite surprised with how I lasted, but with the first game back, the adrenalin helps you through it.
“I think we definitely deserved something out of the game.
“We had a lot of chances, we fought hard, but it was just unfortunate again that two wonder goals have killed us.”
Comments(32)
BigOx22
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10:47am Wed 19 Sep 12
AylesburyOx
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11:11am Wed 19 Sep 12
“I am sure there’s a win around the corner, that’s what we have got to believe.”
Still, better than motivating the players, working on your coaching and coming up with a tactical strategy.
Law of averages dictates that we must win at some point; I'd say we have a greater chance of getting there faster Mr Wilder if you stepped down as manager
Joe1
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11:16am Wed 19 Sep 12
Get real, with the current team & yr tactics CW, we will not get anywhere let alone survive in this division.
If we don't win at home on Saturday, time to move on Mr.Wilder.
"COME ON YOU YELLOWS"
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LeGod
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11:23am Wed 19 Sep 12
Conference here you go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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FOREVER IN OUR SHADOW
BigOx22
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11:53am Wed 19 Sep 12
Underfaker
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11:57am Wed 19 Sep 12
umpcah
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12:06pm Wed 19 Sep 12
DuberryandBeanofan
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12:27pm Wed 19 Sep 12
umpcah wrote:How can people comment if they weren't at the game??? Get up from your chair and get down to the Kassam. No trolls are needed. I don't get people who comment on a game and then say "I didn't go" It does my head in. You try to be a manager!!!
“I am sure there’s a win around the corner" says Wilder. Oxford fans need to know which corner !
northampton yellow
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1:15pm Wed 19 Sep 12
onthebench
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1:42pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Beau champ mummy
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2:28pm Wed 19 Sep 12
adlibber
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3:56pm Wed 19 Sep 12
onthebench wrote:You mean like those giants Stevenage,Dagenham&R
Just a thought for everyone calling for Wilders head. (and I know football is not the same as an "ordinary" job before anyone brings that up). If you are lucky enough to have a job, but your machinery or computer (aka players!) aren't performing as well as you know they could. Plus maybe some of your machinery wasn't working at all (aka Duberry, Davis, Whing), some only at lower efficiency than usual (Levin, Cox) would you feel that it is fair that your fellow workers (supporters) gather around your desk singing "sack him/her - they haven't got a clue"? The people asking for someone with a family to be sacked should take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask what made them so cruel and uncaring. We are in Division 2, not the Conference - thank you Mr Wilder, and whatever anyone may think, we have not gone out and splashed big cash on players (aka Rotherham, Fleetwood). Frankly, nor do I want us to. We must operate within our means and not end up as another Plymouth or Glasgow Rangers. A reality check is required by many of our supporters. My reaction to the poor run we are on, I'll shout louder in support to help turn it around!!
edbridge etc who have exceeded themselves on far less resources? Wilder has had four years decent resources and a very loyal fan base. It's not a question of a family man getting sacked because it's not just any old job. If a Chairman of a commercial company performed so badly that customers left and the business fell into debt the chairman would be gone. Wilder is in a competitive business based on results and no club would keep someone in charge on loyalty alone, particularly when the team is failing.
That's the reality check - you can't expect fans to just pay up and shut up when the manager has run out of ideas and the players are not performing. A change is needed now. Another mediocre season will drive fans away. Lenagan has to act like a Chairman now and address this dire situation. If we head back to the Conference I think the club will disappear.
Brenda Jackson
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3:57pm Wed 19 Sep 12
and feel proud that we were 'only' beaten by the odd goal, progress indeed!
'onthebench' You big old softie you, Football is SUPPOSED to be competitive
it's a RESULTS game -even Chris Wilder would agree with that, at the moment CW's team are neither COMPETITIVE nor getting results!! Shout as loud as you like saturday- as i and many thousands do, match after match- But the term is, 'Flogging a dead Orse!! There are the Stevenages of this World making mugs out of us -on half our attendances, according to the Chairman, our Budget is for a top three place at the end of the season, believe him or not? CW has 'lost the dressing room' he's now lost many of his supporters, and can't win a raffle. If we want to be successful, there's no time for losers.
Beau champ mummy
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4:12pm Wed 19 Sep 12
Merekat1
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4:56pm Wed 19 Sep 12
A man so out of his comfort zone that he'll do great harm to this great club if he is allowed to continue much longer.
We deserve better and I hope Mr Lenegan takes action before fans desert the club in droves and nobody wants to see that.
LeGod
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5:36pm Wed 19 Sep 12
We knew Di Canio would succeed and now we see the Yellow bellies declining and the Reds improving game on game and YES were in a league above you as well whereas your slipping down the league at a rate of knots.
Looking at your next five games i can only see one potential win if so the decline will be spiralling out of control towards oblivion again.
You had your big night in the JPT against us Yes we made good money from it last season but im glad were out and now all i can see now at your club are edgy nervous players not relaxed on the pitch and your season falling apart.
Never mind you'll hold your own in the conference as you'll be a big fish in that league behind Luton.
bigchet
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6:03pm Wed 19 Sep 12
northampton yellow
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6:39pm Wed 19 Sep 12
hawkeye1
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6:40pm Wed 19 Sep 12
AylesburyOx
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6:43pm Wed 19 Sep 12
LeGod wrote:Say what you will; we could be bottom of the Boddingtons Sunday League division 12 getting 8 nil drummings every week by Railway Arms United and Kings Head FC. We could have only 8 player with a combined aged of 350 and only 13 legs between them. We could literally have a donkey in midfield and play on a football pitch that doubles up as a pig farm and have a fan base of 6.
Well i take all you Yelllows fans back to this time last year. We had just appointed Di Canio and you were overjoyed as you were near the top of L2 and i remember distinctly you lot daily invading our forum at STFC ridiculing Di Canio as our manager. Well what do you have to say now.
We knew Di Canio would succeed and now we see the Yellow bellies declining and the Reds improving game on game and YES were in a league above you as well whereas your slipping down the league at a rate of knots.
Looking at your next five games i can only see one potential win if so the decline will be spiralling out of control towards oblivion again.
You had your big night in the JPT against us Yes we made good money from it last season but im glad were out and now all i can see now at your club are edgy nervous players not relaxed on the pitch and your season falling apart.
Never mind you'll hold your own in the conference as you'll be a big fish in that league behind Luton.
We could have all those things, but I'd still leap out of bed every morning and punch the sky with pure unadulterated joy knowing I wasn't a Swindon Town fan.
melatwyke
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9:04pm Wed 19 Sep 12
brocky152
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10:47pm Wed 19 Sep 12
onthebench wrote:Here here othebench.
Just a thought for everyone calling for Wilders head. (and I know football is not the same as an "ordinary" job before anyone brings that up). If you are lucky enough to have a job, but your machinery or computer (aka players!) aren't performing as well as you know they could. Plus maybe some of your machinery wasn't working at all (aka Duberry, Davis, Whing), some only at lower efficiency than usual (Levin, Cox) would you feel that it is fair that your fellow workers (supporters) gather around your desk singing "sack him/her - they haven't got a clue"? The people asking for someone with a family to be sacked should take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask what made them so cruel and uncaring. We are in Division 2, not the Conference - thank you Mr Wilder, and whatever anyone may think, we have not gone out and splashed big cash on players (aka Rotherham, Fleetwood). Frankly, nor do I want us to. We must operate within our means and not end up as another Plymouth or Glasgow Rangers. A reality check is required by many of our supporters. My reaction to the poor run we are on, I'll shout louder in support to help turn it around!!
Are we 7 games in to the season or 27? Far too much panicing going on. Success comes with hard graft and Wilder grafts but sadly some of his squad don't!! 3 wins and 4 defeats isn't our worst start to a season and certainly not a sackable offence in my opinion!!!
Those supporters intending turning up on Saturday with such a negative attitude towards Wilder and the players would be better off staying away in the short term just until confidence returns and we are back to our winning ways.
adlibber
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6:06am Thu 20 Sep 12
LeGod wrote:Concentrate on your own club and in particular your hilariously fascist manager who I hear is considering a trip to Gretna Green to marry himself. I imagine you have that famous picture of PDC in his Lazio kit doing his nazi salute on your wall,probably stimulates you too. Your opinions are tedious,repetitive,i
Well i take all you Yelllows fans back to this time last year. We had just appointed Di Canio and you were overjoyed as you were near the top of L2 and i remember distinctly you lot daily invading our forum at STFC ridiculing Di Canio as our manager. Well what do you have to say now.
We knew Di Canio would succeed and now we see the Yellow bellies declining and the Reds improving game on game and YES were in a league above you as well whereas your slipping down the league at a rate of knots.
Looking at your next five games i can only see one potential win if so the decline will be spiralling out of control towards oblivion again.
You had your big night in the JPT against us Yes we made good money from it last season but im glad were out and now all i can see now at your club are edgy nervous players not relaxed on the pitch and your season falling apart.
Never mind you'll hold your own in the conference as you'll be a big fish in that league behind Luton.
ll informed and irrelevant. Your selective silence on 4 occasions (you know, when your successful team failed consistently to beat a team you spend months of your life ridiculing) simply proves how pathetically empty you are. And really chap the amount of time you spend on this forum should be a worry to your parents.
It's time you wandered off into the sunset and given the sun will never set over Swindon's dark cavernous uncultured cow pat you may have to move. Come to Oxford I'm sure your views will receive a warm welcome.
Megastar07
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6:31am Thu 20 Sep 12
Let's start a poll
brocky152
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6:58am Thu 20 Sep 12
Megastar07 wrote:In
In or out Let's start a poll
BigOx22
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9:01am Thu 20 Sep 12
Megastar07 wrote:I will wait till after Saturday. I'm not throwing my season ticket away what ever happens.
In or out
Let's start a poll
Carterton Mike
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11:21am Thu 20 Sep 12
When we beat Swindon on the 5th I turned to my friends and said " that will be the last time we win for a while "
Why can't this stupid hatred between OUFC & STFC stop. Let's concentrate on the league, and see all the other teams as the ones to beat !
HOWEVER I don't see this happening until the club has an attacking coach.
Give Wilder 2 more games to turn it round. If not then he must go.
darkskies
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3:07pm Thu 20 Sep 12
Carterton Mike wrote:Here here I totally agree with everything you said CM. my dad brother and brother-in-law are all Swindon supporters but I am OUFC through and through. The wons against Swindon were great but ots league points and league wins we need
Very disappointed at Cheltenham, proving once again the Yellows can't SCORE. I have supported since 1954 and am sadder now than ever before!
When we beat Swindon on the 5th I turned to my friends and said " that will be the last time we win for a while "
Why can't this stupid hatred between OUFC & STFC stop. Let's concentrate on the league, and see all the other teams as the ones to beat !
HOWEVER I don't see this happening until the club has an attacking coach.
Give Wilder 2 more games to turn it round. If not then he must go.
COYY
BigOx22
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4:34pm Thu 20 Sep 12
Carterton Mike wrote:Yes we need an attacking coach! I don't understand why the players can't play like we did against Swinedon every game. Something must have been said before the game to get them to play like that. I would have settled defeat against the scum for us to have won the last 3 games in the league. It was a tinpot trophy that we don't really want and to be honest we ain't going to win.
Very disappointed at Cheltenham, proving once again the Yellows can't SCORE. I have supported since 1954 and am sadder now than ever before!
When we beat Swindon on the 5th I turned to my friends and said " that will be the last time we win for a while "
Why can't this stupid hatred between OUFC & STFC stop. Let's concentrate on the league, and see all the other teams as the ones to beat !
HOWEVER I don't see this happening until the club has an attacking coach.
Give Wilder 2 more games to turn it round. If not then he must go.
Flipmode
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5:25pm Sat 29 Sep 12
badger86
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8:51am Mon 1 Oct 12
adlibber says...
9:59am Wed 19 Sep 12