Team to face Winchester

[tatabanya]

silver parish owen hinchliffe long horton bonner connor mcdonagh woodley west

Not that well acquainted with the youth team but according to twitter that is the line-up.

Any unfamiliar names?

[rollsy89]

I don't know Long. Maybe he's the young trialist then?

[Londonroader]

Jul 22, 2010 19:08:54 GMT rollsy89 said:

I don't know Long. Maybe he's the young trialist then?

Nope an acadamy player, good lad is Sam.

[captainox]

any twitter updates on score

[dabigfella]

Jul 22, 2010 19:36:06 GMT captainox said:

any twitter updates on score

I second that!

[The Fence End]

No, Rage online had the team but hasn't mentioned a score. Shall we assume it's 0-0?

Edit: Rage Online's Twitter says it's 0-0 at half time, attendance about 110 or so.

[The Fence End]

According to Rage Online's Twitter: "Full time 0-0 dullsville"

[slappy]

NIL NIL not a lot going on. Got there and found the normal entrance closed, so was directed to the turnstile entrance - which was indicated by someone scribbling in chalk "turnstiles --->" on a brick wall.

Still they had a clubhouse serving beer and drinks, a metal container / portakabin club shop, and a snack bar caravan too.

Entrance was £7 to get in plus I think £1.50 for the programme. One small stand with seats by the half way line, and a miniature covered metal terrace behind.

Woodley was the only full squad member there, although ex OUFC player Guy Butters was there for Winchester. He looked like an overweight sunday league central defender, but was good at winning the ball.

I was a bit disappointed that the club didn't send anyone down to cover the game apart from Les Taylor and his assistant? No first team players watching, no Wilder, Lewis, Melville etc. No-one from the Oxford Mail to report back, nor from the club for match reports or photos.

A few chances from both sides, but no real threats. Winchester probably came closest towards the end with a couple of dangerous set pieces.

Funny moment of the night was when Winchester took a throw-in instead of a free-kick, the ref blew up to stop play. The player then went to retake the throw in, and one of our lads (on the pitch) called over to him"It was a free kick you nob!"

[The Fence End]

I like the fact you can up load pictures to your posts on here!

[tatabanya]

Jul 22, 2010 22:09:27 GMT slappy said:

NIL NIL not a lot going on. Got there and found the normal entrance closed, so was directed to the turnstile entrance - which was indicated by someone scribbling in chalk "turnstiles --->" on a brick wall.

Still they had a clubhouse serving beer and drinks, a metal container / portakabin club shop, and a snack bar caravan too.

Entrance was £7 to get in plus I think £1.50 for the programme. One small stand with seats by the half way line, and a miniature covered metal terrace behind.

Woodley was the only full squad member there, although ex OUFC player Guy Butters was there for Winchester. He looked like an overweight sunday league central defender, but was good at winning the ball.

I was a bit disappointed that the club didn't send anyone down to cover the game apart from Les Taylor and his assistant? No first team players watching, no Wilder, Lewis, Melville etc. No-one from the Oxford Mail to report back, nor from the club for match reports or photos.

A few chances from both sides, but no real threats. Winchester probably came closest towards the end with a couple of dangerous set pieces.

Funny moment of the night was when Winchester took a throw-in instead of a free-kick, the ref blew up to stop play. The player then went to retake the throw in, and one of our lads (on the pitch) called over to him"It was a free kick you nob!"

Did Woodley look anything special or a cut above?

Think the fact he played in this shows that we will probably bring in another striker.

[Winchesterox]

Jul 22, 2010 22:09:27 GMT slappy said:

NIL NIL not a lot going on. Got there and found the normal entrance closed, so was directed to the turnstile entrance - which was indicated by someone scribbling in chalk "turnstiles --->" on a brick wall.

Still they had a clubhouse serving beer and drinks, a metal container / portakabin club shop, and a snack bar caravan too.

Entrance was £7 to get in plus I think £1.50 for the programme. One small stand with seats by the half way line, and a miniature covered metal terrace behind.

Woodley was the only full squad member there, although ex OUFC player Guy Butters was there for Winchester. He looked like an overweight sunday league central defender, but was good at winning the ball.

I was a bit disappointed that the club didn't send anyone down to cover the game apart from Les Taylor and his assistant? No first team players watching, no Wilder, Lewis, Melville etc. No-one from the Oxford Mail to report back, nor from the club for match reports or photos.

A few chances from both sides, but no real threats. Winchester probably came closest towards the end with a couple of dangerous set pieces.

Funny moment of the night was when Winchester took a throw-in instead of a free-kick, the ref blew up to stop play. The player then went to retake the throw in, and one of our lads (on the pitch) called over to him"It was a free kick you nob!"

Agree about Butters, he was actually not bad, but you wouldn't want to mess with him down the pub! And didn't the Winchester no. 8 moan a lot! It was Winchester's first team and I thought our youth matched them really. No great chances either end but it was quite entertaining. In the first half I was stood near the Oxford 'bench' and thought it quite amusing that Les kept shouting 'Keep it' and they never did! Thought Woodley needed a better partner than West and our No. 5 (Henry?) was strong at the back. Spent the 2nd half talking to the Winchester owner Paul McCarthy, stood behind Cockerill. I understand that he is not too popular but he seemed alright to me.

www.winchesterfootballclub.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=111.0

[grb]

No 5 would have been Henry Owen who played the second half at Didcot (and scored). He's a decent prospect from what I've seen of him.