v Oxford United (a) - 18/1/25

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 hours ago, RoversTilliDie said:

I said on this site after the Portsmouth game, I was far from impressed with the performance. I could sense this result coming, we're simply not good enough for the top 6 at the moment.

Our football since we lost Travis and Pickering and Ohashi has been very poor. More like relegation form than promotion form. We aren’t making more than a couple of good chances per game and we aren’t taking them.

[GHR]

18 hours ago, Andy said:

You could see the deflection in real time (well, on telly, maybe not inside the ground), though I couldn't see who it came off.

Let's be honest, Pears wasn't saving it either way.

Shame the free kick was given away in the first place, very soft.

Anyone in the bottom corner of our stand probably could have - I was bang in the middle of that bit and had pretty much a prime view of that and Buckley's attempted rocket into the same corner in the first half. Didn't clock at the time it was because Beck turned his back on it but was very obvious that unless Branigan had the same ability as Roberto Carlos it had taken a deflection.

[RoverCanada]

On 20/01/2025 at 13:21, GHR said:

Anyone in the bottom corner of our stand probably could have - I was bang in the middle of that bit and had pretty much a prime view of that and Buckley's attempted rocket into the same corner in the first half. Didn't clock at the time it was because Beck turned his back on it but was very obvious that unless Branigan had the same ability as Roberto Carlos it had taken a deflection.

Yeah, I was about upper-middle in the away end and had a great view of:

a) Buckley's rocket - maybe it looked closer than it actually was, but I was surprised that didn't make the 2min highlights! He's had some poor long shots here and there (yesterday an example), but he does have that 'in his locker'; see Birmingham a couple years ago (took some hunting, oddly struggling to find it on YouTube, but it's on Rovers' FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/1Rovers/videos/buckos-rocket/2274552452710855/ Part of the problem with Buckley is having to scour a fair bit to find those bits of magic from him...)

b) it was clearly a deflection on the free kick (but couldn't tell it was Beck's head!)