Lord Duckhunter

Deluded about what? They should be in the top 6 pretty much every season. Probably the best stadium in the league, they are underachieving big time. Nothing deluded about high expectations…

Soggy will soon change his tune when he sees the latest Oxo family.

Maybe it was Bree & The keeper. It wasn’t a criticism of Tonda, if he’s created an atmosphere where players dig each other out, that’s a positive. Lots of managers have managed through the senior pros. Better than all cuddling each other under Lego or Still.

Jumpers for goalposts, players played 6 times a week in my day, then trained on their day off. Just because players can play 3 times a week, doesn’t mean they should. It’s the same attitude as “my granddad smoked 20 a day and lived till he was 87”. Sports science has changed, & supporters mentality should as well. Elite athletes could play 3 times a week, but it’s been proved they shouldn’t. Whilst you can’t stop midweek games, you can monitor fitness levels and rest players when they’re at risk of injury. All employers owe their employees a duty of care, regardless whether it’s millionaire footballers or Doris the tea lady pushing her trolley round the CPS filing room at coffee break. Any manager who ignored the medical team wouldn’t last very long. Gone are the days when Shankley and the like would ignore injured players and gone are the days when players did what they were told even if it meant putting their health at risk. Medical teams can now overrule managers over concussion injuries (no more, tell him he’s Pele moments), they’ve hung up their magic sponges and their influence will grow and grow. When you add in agents needing players to stay fit & the moneyball model most teams engage in now, we will see more and more of it. The days of clubs flogging players to death, then fucking them off to limp through the rest of their lives are thankfully over.

Not only that, slagging a team mate off isn’t going to go down well with players, or even the owners.

They came out second half looking like someone got into them at half time. Who knows whether it was him or the senior pros, but either way, the players showed desire and determination to get back into the game. That’s something we’ve lacked the last few season and long may it continue. He’s now clearly here for the season and deservedly so…

Why? They’ve beaten us 4 of the last 6 games and before that stuck 9 past us, as well as winning in a semi final…

😂😂😂

Exactly. Had he picked Matsuki to start over Fellows everyone would have be moaning. He made one change that everybody wouldn’t have made, but more than made up for it second half. I had this I follow thing on my firstick with Blackmore commentary. He couldn’t work out why he took Bree off, urging him to take a central midfielder off (Downes I presume). Funny that with Bree gone, Charles shifted over slightly, and scored from where Bree probably would have been. He got it wrong leaving Stewart out, but he needs praise for the way he sent them out second half. First time for years, we haven’t rolled over after getting a chasing first half. Jack & THB lead from the front, brilliant performance second half…

That’s not the reason Jander put in one of the worst performances for years, that’s not the reason their wide men are terrorising the full backs or fellows gives a ridiculous back pass. That’s on the players, nobody else.

That’s disgraceful. Jander, one of the worst performances I’ve seen. Fellows & Azaz, too soft. Archer, just shite. Wellington & Bree getting a bit of a chasing, but to be fair to those 2 they’re up against decent players. Even Downs is struggling, but again, in fairness he’s not getting any help in there. Easy to blame Tonda, but he’s not the one being out battled, losing 50/50’s and giving the ball away.

Took the best ever penalty in a non league game…

Perhaps it’s not true…

Sarwar seems a bloke of integrity, calling for Sir Kier to go over appointing Petie.

We’ve got baying nods…

So decent and honourable, not in it for himself at all….

What a big girl’s blouse. Analog poster in a digital age

In the old days the ref would probably have pretended in his opinion neither were fouls and given the goal. This is a result of the drive towards “consistency “ and referees not able to use common sense. Had he not followed the rules 100% Howard Webb would have hung him out to dry…. Taking the emotion out of it, Liverpool would probably have been happier with losing 3-1, than losing 2-1 & the player missing the next match. It was quite funny their players arguing the goal should be disallowed, when the outcome of that meant a red card.

Sent off for denying a goal scoring opportunity, when the goal was scored. 😂😂. The only person denying the goal, was the ref…

What a load of old pony. This is down to Starmer 100%, trying to deflect it to Nigel or the Tories is pathetic. Maurice Glasman, the only labour politician invited to Trumps inauguration, claims he was told to basically shut up, when he advised.”Withdraw Peter Mandelson. He is the wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong place.” If Starmer saw that memo, his position is untenable…

Why don’t you just put him on ignore, you weirdo…

Why not, Sunderland got outplayed by Sheffield Utd, yet won it. If we win enough games to make the play offs, we’ll be in some run of form. I bet we’ll even be favourites. Crystal Palace did exactly the same thing, kept on winning to sneak into play offs, then won them.

Now we’re pretty much safe from relegation & The Skates finishing above us (which wasn’t a given when Still was here), we can go full out, nothing to lose, win every game mentality. Whether a modern coach will do that is debatable, he’s probably got one eye on not losing too many to remain in position for next season. It’s unlikely, and we need everything going for us, particularly around injuries. We can’t lose Wellington or Bree, probably can’t lose the centre halves, and we need Ross Stewart to do something he’s been incapable of doing, stay fit. He’ll also need to go on a Saganowski like goal spree & the new bloke chipping in with a few here & there. The only department we can sustain injuries in and not have a big drop off in standard is central midfield. Whilst we could cover other areas ( bar full back) on the occasional basis, any 2 or 3 game unavailability anywhere other than central midfield and we won’t be good enough. Our starting 11 are capable of winning the amount of games needed, if they play well every week, but the replacements won’t be.

I doubt if Jones is going anywhere soon, unless they’re relegated. What we can offer is security. If he intends to run down his contract & then gets a long term injury with a handful of games left, he’s fucked. Surely we can play on that & get him on a 2 year with a 3rd year option. The problem is he is a steady Eddie & the club probably think they can do better in the summer, he’s also not a Premier league player. The chances are we’ll be in this league, but if we’re not, the worse that can happen is we’re paying him a low (for premier league) wage to do fuck all. I don’t think anyone will moan and use that as a stick to beat SR with, or at least they shouldn’t.

Not really. He’s been royally fucked around by this club. How many managers has he played for, he’s been in and out of favour every time we’ve changed manager. If we don’t make the play offs, we’ll probably get another one next season, they might not fancy him, and he’ll be on the fringes again. The alternative is playing week in week out for a bloke who rates him, there’s a lot to be said for that.