[ Fri 15th Aug ] v Oxhey Jets, KO 8pm FA CUP EPR HOME

[AndyKirkup]

Thoughts of the Oxhey Jets manager ahead of tonight's game:

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/ ... _Diamonds/

[Trek]

Oxhey manager sounds really informed about our new club. :o

[paulg]

Oh dear, sounds like their manager hasn't bothered to do any prep or scouting:

“I’m unsure what to expect from them. I don’t know whether they’re a team on the decline or a team that have lost their funding and dropped down the leagues but are slowly rebuilding,” admitted Gladdy.

Hopefully that'll play into our hands

[Olly]

A team on the decline? Seriously, how difficult is to just google our club, takes five seconds and the good thing about our club is that you can actually find stuff out about us with a fully updated wikipedia page and website, unlike most other clubs at this level. And all it would take is a look back at some of our games against SSM clubs last season to see what we're capable of and who our danger players may or may not be.

And on the contrary, I was impressed to hear we sent a scout to their game last week, so should at least know something about them.

[BartonRaz]

Oxhey manager sounds really informed about our new club. :o

Laughed out loud when I read that bit. SURELY everybody in football knows that Rushden & Diamonds went bust? We were a full-time club in a national league at the time. For someone in football and not a million miles away to not know that is baffling.

[Trek]

What's b****y annoying is that when you click on to AFC Rushden & Diamonds name on tonight's FA Cup fixtures listed on the FA's web site it doesn't link to our OWS. :( I've complained to the FA giving them the link but I don't expect them to correct it.

[sussexdiamond]

"We will try to rein in our attacking flair" managerspeak for " We will park the bus"
He probably models himself on Mourinho....pretends to be thick.

[Formic]

I wonder how many of tonight's side will have memories of the St Andrews debacle in our previous cup game? Let's hope they turn that into a resolve to stop it happening again (with the Jets being a higher placed side than St Andrews), rather than freezing for a second time.

[davealbon]

I'm waiting for their team coach to pull up outside Nene Park...... :lol:

[Olly]

At least they got the right ground in the end!

'Jon Dunham ‏@JonDunhamNT 2m
So I pull in at the Dog & Duck at the same time as the Oxhey Jets players. One of them got a fag on the go as they walk in #legend #FACup'

:lol: