Lord Duckhunter

This long ball narrative is a load of old pony. We don’t play hoof ball anymore than Brentford or West Ham, we used to play long balls with Vestergarrd in the side & knocked it long quite a bit last season for Borja. We still mince around with it at the back, hence the goal we gave away last night. A long hoof ball side wouldn’t have conceded like that. We still don’t get it in the mixer enough either. We had a few chances to do so last night and still fucking went backwards. Our long balls aren’t accurate enough and our forward line are hiding a bit. Broja would be able to play up top with this style, so hopefully we can identify a similar striker because Che can’t or won’t do it alone.

Anyone who thinks Fat Sam is the answer has clearly forgotten his spell at WBA. He’d be a disaster with this bunch of mincers and he’d want a boat load of cash to turn up. Rafa? Don’t make me laugh, he falls out with every single board he works for over transfers. Does anyone seriously believe he’d work for SR. Why would Dyche join this shit show, he can sit it out and pick out a far tastier job.

He wouldn’t have been my choice, but we are where we are. So the question is do we sack him after 4 games (forget the Liverpool game because most new managers would have sat that out, protecting their “record” & if we’d won I’m sure this forum would have chalked it down to Selles), and without bringing one of his own players in? Two important things. Firstly, he’s not a “shit manager”, he’s not a “Sunday league manager” or any of the other nonsense posted on here. He did a damn fine job at Luton. In terms of over performing he’s probably one of the top over performers in the FL at that club. So as a club looking for a FL manager to step up to the next level we’ve taken a chance on him. He’s clearly not at that level yet and is learning on the job, whether he will learn and grow enough is incredibly doubtful at the moment. Secondly, he’s been handed a steaming pile of shite, probably the most disjointed softest squad we’ve ever had in the top flight. A damning indictment of the previous regime and present owners. Ralph let this situation drift, bought into this pony and had a fucking long time (in modern terms)to drive the culture in the club. This is just as much his mess as anyone else’s. Personally, I prefer to see who comes in during the window before pulling the plug, see if there’s a change in attitude and culture within the club. Somebody needs to take it by the scruff of the neck, get rid of the losing mentality and upset a few of the precious darlings. Personally, I think he deserves the chance to do this. I understand peoples anger and don’t think I’m a “better fan” than them. But with this shower of shite, the next bloke that comes in will face exactly the same problem. As he’s SR’s man, and the loss of face that’ll come with sacking him, he maybe given more leeway to do the nasty stuff and kick a few arses. Making a few tweaks to Ralph’s playbook won’t cut it. For anyone to think Rafa or Bialsa, would go anywhere near this lot is delusion of the highest order. Dyche or a Fat Sam won’t put up with these mincers. Both would sort out the men from the boys. I’d give Jones a month to see if he will.

“Sacked now”. It’s a no from me.

I didn’t fucking want him. It’s his side, he’s moulded this lot for 4 years. Replacing him with a dud doesn’t make him a better manager. As poor as we were tonight we’ve been as bad under Ralph and he had Danny Ings for 2 seasons.

The formation isn’t the issue. Would playing 4-2-2-2 or 4-3-3 make players win tackles, make Che Adams hit the target or stop Prowse slowing the game down every fucking time. There’s a lack of intensity, a lack of desire and a lack of will to win that runs deep in the culture of the club. KWP played well, Moi put a decent shift in, I thought the centre half who came on did ok, and Adam Armstrong looked lively for the short period he was on. Lyanco is shite, but he didn’t hide after his mistake. The rest, it was really men against boys. Woeful.

He’s half right. They have been shit all season. There’s a lot of hate for Jones which is understandable, but don’t give the players a free pass. They’re a bunch of fucking tossers. There’s a few hiding, bottling tackles and mincing about. There’s not being good enough, and then there’s not fucking stepping up. I ended up hating the bottle jobs that disgraced the club when Twitchy returned to Fratton that day, and I’m starting to hate some of these cunts. It is his fault, the buck stops with him. He was handed a bunch of fucking mincers, and they’re still mincing about. He needed to kick a few arses and chuck a few out. Do people think Fat Sam or Dyche would put up with it. No they fucking wouldn’t, but Ralph let them get away with it and now this bloke is too.

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Probably be as unhappy as you were after Ched Evans was stitched up by a bird.

The Brian Epstein school of business management. When negotiating Beatles merchandise deal when they first hit it big in America similar was alleged. Epstein said 90/10 split of all profits, the yanks he was negotiating with mulled it over. 10% of all the books, wigs, clothing, poster etc could result in millions of dollars , they thought it a great deal, so they went for it. After agreeing, to their amazement they then realised that Epstein was talking about 10% for The Beatles and 90% for them.

Dear god. Do you really believe this pony. That Everton & West Ham weren’t fully aware he was available. Do you think their scouting dept would suddenly say “fuck me, we didn’t know he was open to a move to England “ if we stole in and got him 😂. That ship sailed years ago.

So if a fantastic goalkeeper or centre half was available, you’d say no because “we need someone to score goals for fun in the Premiere (sic) league”.Here’s an idea, let’s sign a goal scorer and a couple of other players that will improve our side/squad. Tella will offer more than Theo Walcott imo, therefore he’ll improve the squad for fuck all money.

Don’t be such a plank. Nobody is saying he’ll “save us from relegation “. The question is, will he produce more than one of Djennpo, Walcott, or Adam Armstrong. Personally, I’d say he probably would. Therefore he’ll strengthen the squad a little bit.

Spurs first game of the season was fucking woeful after they equalised. Palace away was average at best, and don’t get me started on Brentford last season, one of the most disgraceful performances I’ve seen in decades of watching. Ralph was serving up pony most weeks the past year, and he had years to get his ideas across. This blokes had weeks…

And they get it in the mixer instead of mincing around.

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Any striker? I doubt if timing will be down to us. What sort of agent would agree terms with us and then not hawk their man around? I’d imagine the only striker that’ll rush to put pen to paper in time for Everton, will be pony that nobody else is interested in.

Ings is pretty unrealistic. We’ll need Emery to decide already that he’s no future at Villa and be willing to loan him out. We’d need Ralph to be the reason he left in the first place, and he’d want to come back under a different manager . Finally, we'd need no other club to be interested, because even other sides having a poor season like Leicester or West Ham, look a better bet than us.

If you know any pregnant people, make sure they get the flu jab….

We haven’t played “good football “ for about 18 months….

It’s strange how “friends” always back the posters opinion. “I was talking to someone” amazingly they agreed with me 😂 I met a Luton supporter last night and he reckons Sidney is making things up…..

And only 2 points above the most woeful saints team I’ve ever seen in the top flight. The rest of the league must be fucking unbelievable

I couldn’t give a shiny about the “successful” youth teams, I don’t see much of a pathway to the first team or us producing any first team players. The “new approach “ can hardly be any worse than the old one. The mentality at the club is just not tough enough, we’re soft as shite from top to bottom. The Saints way, it’s just a load of old pony. If the new approach instills some backbone into the club, I'm all for it.

I can’t believe they’re ripping up the impressive tactics that worked so well this past year. Tactics that have us in the top 90 of the pyramid form table. Shocking.

Is that the same Ralph that lost to a woeful Villa prior to Emery?