Bojangles 602 Posted October 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, mc131 said: Must be on the wind up, no where near ready And Atkins is? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fromafar 10,397 Posted October 21, 2022 3 hours ago, crescent girl said: Oxford was the most-successful club in Britain this year, bar none. You really think that an expensive team is the key to success? Agree,for crowd levels only though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lucifer sam 3,954 Posted October 21, 2022 6 hours ago, GiveusaB said: Anything/one would be better than last season by looks of it ? A massive anti-climax with all the hype and support that surrounded the return of the Club? Oxford have had a hugely successful first season. Silverware in the first season back (NLRC winner), Chargers getting to the play-offs and great crowds for both Cheetahs and Chargers. I suspect the NL crowds are around double the Championship crowds at Birmingham. That translates to a great atmosphere at Cowley, especially given the younger-than-usual crowd demographic at Oxford which sees many twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings on the terraces alongside the older fans. You'll find there's not many Oxford fans on the BSF, simply because it's all doom-and-gloom on here, and our first season since 2007 has been anything but that! 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fromafar 10,397 Posted October 21, 2022 6 hours ago, GiveusaB said: Anything/one would be better than last season by looks of it ? A massive anti-climax with all the hype and support that surrounded the return of the Club? Strange quote. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazc 7,119 Posted October 21, 2022 Oxford have been a breath of fresh air to Championship Speedway. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lefty 1,268 Posted October 21, 2022 44 minutes ago, Gazc said: Oxford have been a breath of fresh air to Championship Speedway. Fair credit. They were Dunton'''s Old Farts when I first went to Cowley in the early seventies! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skidder1 7,651 Posted October 21, 2022 5 hours ago, crescent girl said: Oxford was the most-successful club in Britain this year, bar none. You really think that an expensive team is the key to success? Crikey the Christmas Cracker jokes are out early this year!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazc 7,119 Posted October 21, 2022 Poole fans can’t help themselves give another club credit and it’s look at us what about us. Should start a why does everyone hate Poole thread oh wait. Anyway Oxford can hold there head high after a very good first season back. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mc131 366 Posted October 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Bojangles said: And Atkins is? As a pointer yes at this stage he is ahead of Boughen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baiden 90 Posted October 21, 2022 45 minutes ago, mc131 said: As a pointer yes at this stage he is ahead of Boughen That’s debatable. Atkins (17+1) only managed to score one more point for the Chargers than Boughen (16+1) over the course of both legs against Leicester in the NDL playoffs. Plus Boughen had 4 heat wins to Atkins’ 2. Considering they were Boughen’s first ever meetings in this country, it’s fair to assume he will get even better…and better far quicker than Atkins will. Not saying Boughen is ready, but the lad clearly has potential. And if the Cheetahs were prepared to throw Killeen in even quicker, it’s not beyond possibility that Boughen would get the call. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baiden 90 Posted October 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Skidder1 said: Crikey the Christmas Cracker jokes are out early this year!! I think the ‘most successful’ comment was meant from a financial/commercial point of view. Obviously not from a trophy perspective! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lewy 2,329 Posted October 21, 2022 Just now, baiden said: I think the ‘most successful’ comment was meant from a financial/commercial point of view. Obviously not from a trophy perspective! Everyone else got it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gazc 7,119 Posted October 21, 2022 Just now, lewy said: Everyone else got it. As I say it is called the look at me syndrome. Or aren’t we great aren’t we. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mc131 366 Posted October 21, 2022 10 minutes ago, baiden said: That’s debatable. Atkins (17+1) only managed to score one more point for the Chargers than Boughen (16+1) over the course of both legs against Leicester in the NDL playoffs. Plus Boughen had 4 heat wins to Atkins’ 2. Considering they were Boughen’s first ever meetings in this country, it’s fair to assume he will get even better…and better far quicker than Atkins will. Not saying Boughen is ready, but the lad clearly has potential. And if the Cheetahs were prepared to throw Killeen in even quicker, it’s not beyond possibility that Boughen would get the call. Come on atkins was at heat leader against probably the best 2 in the league and boughen at reserve. Yep threw killeen in after a near faultless 1st meeting and he didn't score the jump in massive and does no good chucking riders in far to early. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bojangles 602 Posted October 21, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, mc131 said: Come on atkins was at heat leader against probably the best 2 in the league and boughen at reserve. Yep threw killeen in after a near faultless 1st meeting and he didn't score the jump in massive and does no good chucking riders in far to early. If you take Leicester's three heat leaders (D. Thompson, J. Thompson and Coles), they performed the following... Atkins (beat them TWICE - Joe Thompson once and Connor Coles once) Boughen (beat them ONCE - Connor Coles, BUT he would have also beaten Joe Thompson if he hadn't lost his steel shoe) They faced all three of them the same amount of times, and rode in the same total amount of heats across both legs. Reserve or not (apart from heat 2, they were pretty much in the same quality heats and performed very similarly). Did you watch either meeting against Leicester? Because Boughen showed far more potential than Atkins. Edited October 21, 2022 by Bojangles Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
