Golac's Cunning Stunts

I agree it won't happen, but that's a seriously one sided view of Koeman. You mention signing Cuco but not Van Dijk, Tadic, Bertrand, Mane. Also, are you saying we should keep Ralph because he has finally built the squad he wanted? That squad isn't exactly setting the world on fire is it?

Why have you made up a story that it was never due in October when it was due in October? 🤫 Get your facts straight before you write posts accusing people of getting their facts wrong smarty pants.

Don't start! They'll all be posting "The season starts now" again and making themselves feel good about the shite we've had so far.

"one point below par" All this tells me is we are one point below a bottom 5/6 performance overall based on your expected points?

Years ago I did some I.T. work for him at Palace. Got paid for it in the end, but it was a struggle getting payment i seem to remember

I see. Thanks for that I didn't need you to tell me who finished in the top 6 last season and who won Champs league. Do you not think there's more to it than saying "don't worry, we had some hard fixtures, the season starts now lads"? We took 1 point from 6 in two very winnable games so far, the one point being rescued in the last kick of the game. Do you not find that worrying? Do you think games against the likes of Burnely, Brighton, Leeds will be easy? Do you think we have the creativity to break those teams down? Do you think Ralph will change the way we play in order to give us a better chance of beating "park the bus teams" do you think we have enough fire power? Not asking you to answer by the way - these are just things I think on. We'll soon see. I worry the answer is no to a lot of these questions.

The season starts now because sporting life says we started with some hard fixtures? phew. we must actually be good then.

Because if we had him as manager I could change my username to Xisco Inferno

Why on Earth would Watford want Hassenhutl as their manager?

A lot of people saying how well we have done against the top teams and therefore we are doing ok and will hopefully pick up points against some of the "lesser" ones. I think the way we are set up, pressing and playing on the counter suits us to do ok against the better teams. Lets' see how well do when we play say Burnley who will come and park the bus. I foresee disappointment mainly because we do not possess the creativity or flair to break those kinds of teams down. Can easily see that result being a 0-0 or a 0-1

So looking at Ralphs salary and the 21 points haul so far this year, it comes in at something like £215k per point. Pretty expensive!

Why? Serious question, not a poke...

I'm not sure it is. I was looking at the teams in the league trying to identify 3 obviously worse teams and I really couldn't. We'll see what pans out and hope I'm wrong. We will surely be fighting relegation if you follow the form book. I was really hoping we'd improve our defence and GK for this season and looking at it man for man, we haven't. I hope we can turn our brittle mentality round - when one goal goes in we lose all fight and before you know it, one becomes three etc. We could do with a Jimmy Case, Razor Ruddock or Terry Hurlock in the side!

It absolutely does. Last season, we could be 3 up and still be worrying if we would get the 3 points. That isn't changing this season for sure.

We have the same type of fans everybody else. Pretty sure fans of every other team would be as underwhelmed as we are. Last season was dreadful defensively. We have now sold a CB for £15mil and replaced him with a guy from Torino for probably half that. And the Torino fans seem to be thanking us for taking him. Sorry, but this is a massive risk given the situation we are already in - defensively fragile, leaking goals for fun. So forgive us if we're not overjoyed! As you say, all we can now do is support him and hope he does well. Massive risk to take IMO.

How ironic that this description also seems to apply to the person you are quoting.

Agreed. He should have been sacked last season. 13 out of 14 losses on the road this year. He is tactically naive to put it nicely. I was laughing before the season started reading some of the optimistic comments on here from some of the happy clappers. Not sure there is any reason for optimism - Ralph has certainly not changed or improved or learnt any lessons from the dreadful performances he served us up last year.

And Bednarek v Phillips (both looking v right sided)

Thought it would be interesting to post some stats from a fantasy footie site. I know none of this is gospel and there is a difference being a defender in a Liverpool side vs a Saints one, but might be of interest to some

4 I think in total. I will always remember him for that backpass that lost us the game at Cardiff though

Nothing better than a bit of humility when posting on other fan's forums is there 🤣

really surprised you haven't corrected his spelling of the christian name yet. You're slipping

Exactly why the term "virtue signalling" exists - it is all mouth and no trousers. Action is required. No, I certainly wouldn't confront a large group of "mongs" as you put it. (Which immediately shows how superior you feel to these people). I very definitely would report it and expect it dealt with though. I generally find people's behaviour can be offensive, but the people themselves are able to change that behaviour. They definitely won't change it if you keep calling them mongs though

You seem like quite a nice fella but who appointed you the forum's advisor on morals? Also, as you appear to be all for equality, inclusivity etc, why do you make broad statements like "they"? People like you love to make broad statements like these, taking the high ground and simultaneously casting insults at "them". If you can't be more precise about things, I really don't have any inclination to want to hear your views. All you do is put a stop to any debate that might be had. It just polarises and puts peoples backs up. If I want that kind of behaviour I can get it any day on any social media outlet.

The way we're going, it will be our motto both on and off the pitch