Lord Duckhunter

Too many noddy supporters.

Which clown is going to be the first to call for Nigel Adkins

Fuck me, are you for real. We’re hardly the Droogs of Juventus, we might get a few “sack the board” as they leave on the 83rd minute, but it won’t be “intense”. If you think our firm will scare SR into action you’re deluded.

The earlier posts on this thread are quite magnificent as well 😂

There’s two obvious questions here. 1. Should Ralph have been sacked? Absolutely, he should have been. He should have gone in the summer and the fact they minced around sacking his back room staff should have rang alarm bells. Secondly, is Jones the man to replace him? From the first couple of games, it doesn’t look like it. It’s too early to judge whether he will keep us up, but clearly you can judge the bloke on 2 games, and they’ve been fuck8ng woeful. Ralph ball at its worse. I didn’t particularly notice the alleged “more direct” approach yesterday, apart from the occasional longer straight ball from the back (we hit long diagonals many times under Ralph). The disappointment for me was that I was expecting a significant decision, people make the comparison with Branfoot, but Branfoot made decisions. This bloke seemed to just play Ralph ball. Personally, I’d have liked him to do something to impose himself. Drop the keeper, change the skipper. It doesn’t need to be done aggressively or damagingly, “we want James to concentrate on his game”, “he’s going to be a great keeper, but needs taking out of the firing line”. Something that’ll show he’s not prepared to let the weak mentality continue. I guess the nearest he got to it was playing Lyanco, but he’s clearly the weakest Centre half. What I’m hoping is he doesn’t buy into the Saints way, insists on a couple of old heads (think Gary Cahill when he left Chelsea as an example). A couple of leaders, a couple of pirates to upset a few. How many fouls did we make yesterday, Brighton we’re taking the piss and we just took it. If Jones thinks he can play a slightly different version of Ralph ball he’s dead already. Fuck this pressing shite. Become hard to beat, kick and fight, and then hope we can get someone in that can score a dozen goals. Anything else and we’re fucked and he’d have blown his big chance. Graham Taylor at England. Wanted to play like big Jacks Ireland but never quite went through with it, ended up caught between 2 stools instead of being himself. Jones needs to impose his style, his tactics and live or die by the consequences.

I’ve seen Emma Hayes mentioned by the odd one or two, but I agree, now is not the time.

He’s the club captain, he’s an experienced pro, he’s the one who is meant to be driving this young players on, helping them a la Jimmy Case. Instead of that we get excuses from some posters, he’d be better with better players, it’s the crap players fault he’s poor. He basically sums the club up. Nice boy, good pro, tactically and emotionally intelligent, educated speaks properly, probably nice to his parents, but fucking soft, one paced & not nasty enough to play the role we need. Get rid asap and get a pirate in instead.

Not on yesterdays performance he wasn’t.

Prowse & Diallo probably look great in training & friendlies good touch, vision, drifting into decent positions. But when the muck and bullets are flying around they’re soft as shite. Same with a few of them.

He had Jose Fonte, Adam Lallana, Ricky Lambert, Lovren, Morgan, Victor, Steve Davis Clyne, Luke Shaw, & a half decent keeper. This blokes got fucking Djneppo, moi, Lyanco, Che Adams, a Boy Scout as captain and a 12 year old keeper that couldn’t catch a fucking cold. He inherited a side that played decent football, that were on the up and had been mostly together winning matches the past 2 years. This blokes inherited a team of weak willed, mentally poor side that have got beat week in week out for pretty much a calendar year. I’m not saying he’s a world beater, but a bit of perspective is in order. Comparing now to Poch taking over is just ridiculous, Nigel was unlucky to lose his job, Ralph kept his too long. There was no mentality that needed turning round, no massive leap needed. Poch inherited, real men, proper players. Jones has inherited a bunch of soft arsed son in laws.

We’ve been like it for the past year. Ralph had all preseason and we looked a fucking shambles.

Absolute fucking pony today… And to think there’s Saints fans thinking he should have gone to The WC.

No, but I’m expecting him to save the first one. In the words of Boycott, my mum could have caught it in her pinny.

Fuck me. He chucked the first one in the net. The first goal was always going to be crucial, and he fucking gave it to them on a plate. It wasn’t ALL his fault, but his contribution was far and away the most telling.

Yep, this modern shite is a right load of old pony. Hipsters really do think they’ve reinvented the wheel. Peter Taylor identified players that weren’t particularly rated, players where nobody really saw their potential and gave them to Cloughie to man manage and fit into a playing style. In the case of Kenny Burns they even turned him from a centre forward to a centre half. John Robertson was a ciggie smoking over weight reserve at Forest, Roy McFarland a Tranmere player, Dave Mackay a has been on one leg. In those days it was called Management, using their bins. There wasn’t a spreadsheet anywhere near the place.

I wish Soggy would go on a posting strike, that’s one I would fully support.

Some of us are interested in what egg gives a monkeys about.

It’s strange isn’t it. They do it for a well established ladies competition. A competition that doesn’t need the hype,as it’s a well respected proper female sport.

Nail hit firmly on head. I presume it’s the same sport because we have birds analysing the game because they’ve played it, we have a Saints ladies thread on the main board, goal scoring records are compared and success is measured against the blokes. Yet when the woeful standard, fitness levels & attendances are mentioned (that’s not even start on the goalkeepers)all of a sudden it’s a different sport. As you rightly point out, it’s either a shocking level of football or it’s a newish sport that gets way too much exposure than it should.

The 50 years of TMS radio programme started with some bird commentator shouting “England have won the World Cup , England have won the World Cup”, like a demented fisherwoman as the chicks won. That was it, the first piece of commentary reliving TMS’ greatest cricketing moments wasn’t John Arlott, wasn’t Bothams ashes, Lakers 10 wickets or Bradmans duck in his last test match, it was something 95% of cricket fans didn’t even know had happened.

Major honour 😂

We don’t want to play them over 2 legs or in a final and at least it’s at home. It’s a free hit, so you never know.

There’s been a pathway for young girls to play football for over 20 years, way before the present hype. My 22 year old daughter played, & each of my 3 boys played with girls until a certain age (can’t remember which age it was). It’s been “normalised” for years (the only thing that’s not normal is the coverage given to a sub standard sport), look at crowds around the country, there’s never been a higher percentage of them attending football. It’s got nothing to do with chick “role models” or the hype, and everything to do with the gentrification of the game & the modernisation of the facilities. For every girl that this Beth women inspired to ask Santa for boots, bloke players inspired hundreds and hundreds more. She completely deluded to come out with the statement she did and if Nathan Redmond claimed he’d inspired little boys to put boots down on his Santa Xmas list, the piss would be taken.

Fuck me, 2 games, one of which came a couple of days after he started and the other in a cup that nobody takes seriously until later rounds.

The statement was pony, not the sentiment. There won’t be hardly any little girls asking for football boots because of the chick game. You’ll see from the pathetic attendances that the chick euros won’t make a blind bit of difference to young girls love of the game. The mens game drives their interest and participation.