Lord Duckhunter

“Star” maybe pushing it a bit, but I randomly bumped into a man from Beatle folklore yesterday. Wandered up the the Ale house and there were 3 old blokes performing. Including one Howie Casey, who played with Wings, The Who, ABC & T Rex. He played The Cavern with the Beatles & was in Hamburg before them. He was famous in the Beatle story for writing to their first manager Allan Williams, telling him not to send “that bum group the Beatles” to Hamburg adding they were too inexperienced and "crap," and they would ruin the reputation of Liverpool bands and "louse it up for everyone" who had a good thing going in Germany. He was actually a very nice man and had a chat after buying him a glass of wine. Didn’t mention the “bum group” story. Said he’d been a working musician since 1954, was now 89 but still loved it. Said he’d knew Ringo before the others and still received money from Paul for his work with Wings in the 70’s. Even remembered the gig at Southampton Gaumont in ‘79 I went to said “I think it was Xmas time” (it was in Dec, but if he didn’t remember made a fucking good guess). Said he’d been down south years, but was still performing as “what else will I do”. Just a bit weird bumping into him like that, but a very interesting bloke.

WTF has Toure got on his head. Games fucking gone. You’re an analyst, not a fucking milkman

I’m with you on that one. As was JWP & James Beattie. Peligrino wasn’t a left field appointment or trying to be too clever, he had a decent playing and coaching pedigree. Understandable appointment. That “it started in a chapel” song is fucking pony. Unoriginal pony. We’ve got more cover versions than Robson & Jerome. Ricky Lambert one, even the Matt Le Tiss one was a copy. WTFILN is the only bit of originality/humour the past 20 years, and we don’t sing that anymore.

Martin O Neil changed things at half time that Rohl was incapable of reacting to. O Neil schooled him there…

All that matters is results now. Whilst it would have been nice to have banged in 5 or 6, can’t be unhappy with 3 points away from home. They’re pretty pony, but they are going to pick up a result or two before the end of the season, so it’s nice to get the job done. Nobody really shone that much, but nobody (apart from Archer) was pony. Good save at the end, Azaz was ok, hard to pick a man of the match. Thought the big lump upfront showed a lack of quality and showed that he has brain to challenge Adam Armstrong’s offside stats. No injuries, no important bookings, in and out with 3 points. Let’s do the same at West Brom.

I’m surprised at your pony, he won 4 of his first 5 ffs

Which right backs were available instead?

That’s it then, case closed….

Downes will miss Coventry if he’s booked, so probably sensible to leave him on the bench all game if possible.

To be fair to the guy, he said he’d he unite the nation and he has. North, South, Rich, Poor, the old and the young, pretty much everyone thinks he’s a completely useless bellend…

Who would he have played as right back in 4 then Einstein? Bree was at Charlton, & the other 2 were mostly injured. Stephen’s?, that bloke who we just stuck 5 past? If only we’d listened to you, we’d be in the play off places now… The fact is, as soon as he had a decent right back on the books, he reverted to a 4.

We’ve actually got a labour MP here, the first time in the 30 years I’ve lived here. He’s not a bad bloke actually, gets involved with local problems (things the fucking useless BCP should be sorting), he actually called for Starmer to go about a month ago so, so is ahead of that particular curve. He’s only has an 18 majority so I doubt he’ll serve another term, but he’s better than the pompous Tory twat we had previously, and better than the fucking dopey Lib Dem bird in the next constituency, whose daughter went to school with mine and had always been a busy body traffic warden type. If he stood as an independent he might attract the support of floating voters like me, but folk round her aren’t voting for Reeves to run the economy, Fucking Sir Kier, Lammy and the Ginger Growler. They’ve had their chance and blown it..

Especially as Zack would have sorted out her tits…

I suspected she must be a bit dopey to be married to you. Thanks for confirming… I don’t know why everyone getting so uptight about dodgy votes in this particular election. This has been going on in Muslim areas for years. Whatever next, people getting irate about postal voting fraud & voter misrepresentation. Nothing will change, can’t upset the Community leaders….

It’s not, only the truly biased would think it was. The only way Reform was going to win this seat was the leftie vote splitting 50/50ish with 3 parties on approx 30% and them coming through the middle. That’s obvious to anyone other than the completely biased. In 2024 Leftie parties accounted for 70% of the vote there, the difference being Labour mopped up over 50% of it. With their vote down to 25%, Reform had no chance, they’re never going to pick up enough disgruntled Labour supporters anymore than the Greens would pick up disgruntled Tories in a blue wall seat. A local candidate may have picked up 2 or 3 % more, but their ceiling was always 30%ish in that seat. As for Starmer, he directly cost them the seat as Andy Burnham would have won, no bother. He’s done, his MP’s know it and deep down he must know it. Labour don’t like removing leaders, they’re hopeless at it, but with The Greens offering an alternative on the left and Reform eating the red wall lunch, the locals are going to be an unmitigated disaster. A fully deserved ending to a complete and hopeless spell in charge of the country. The Will Still Prime Minister….

The time consuming ones are line decisions not the subjective ones.

I assumed we had shifted Baz & he was in a coaching role at QPR.

For the 2025/26 Championship season, Queens Park Rangers (QPR) has been one of the most rotated sides in the league under manager Julien Stéphan. The club has averaged approximately 3.2 changes to the starting line-up per match, placing them among the top five most "changed" teams in the division. Rotation Comparison (2025/26 Season) Compared to other Championship sides, QPR's rotation has been significantly higher than the league average of 1.8 changes per game. In the 2025/26 Championship season, Southampton has been one of the most consistent teams regarding their starting XI, averaging 1.4 changes per match. This is significantly lower than the league average of 1.8 and contrasts sharply with highly rotated sides like QPR (3.2) or Coventry (3.8).

There was just as much division in the 80’s when there was no social media.

He took a full back off at Leicester & replaced him with a forward. He changed from a back 3 to a 4. He has brought an extra centre half at the end of a couple of games. To say he doesn’t try anything different is pony…

Pre VAR an accidental handball would be a goal. So with no Var the ref made the right decision.

Not really, the rules were changed because of VAR so would have been a goal pre VAR.

Is that a bad thing?