Lord Duckhunter

You don’t tend to have 4th officials at grass roots level. My lad plays in the Wessex league and I’ve never seen one (mind you they probably don’t officiate from the bar, so I could have missed it)& I dread to think who’d want the gig when The dog & duck meet The Farmers Arms on Sunday morning. I’d be amazed if they fundamentally changed the length of professional game & leave the semi pro & amateur game at 90 mins (I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just that they won’t).

There’s only one way to stop time wasting and that’s to change the time from 90mins to a ball in play figure. I’ve no idea what it is, but I imagine about 60 mins is probably about right. 2 X 30 min halves and clock stops when balls not in play. I imagine it’s harder to do so at grass roots & lower level, so probably the reason it’s not done. But with all the will in the world you won’t stop time wasting until it becomes pointless.

Pound to a penny it’ll be in the championship next season anyway.

Wait until we have a perfectly good winner ruled out but a useless Lino & then see the reaction. I doubt there will be many “football is back” posts then. I never wanted VAR, but you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

Played some really good passes from the back and looked comfortable on the ball, but he’s paid to defend and his defending was just about adequate. It’s really just a trade off between this possession from the back style & defending robustly, because I doubt they’ll be any big ugly pirates who can play out from the back wanting to play for us in the championship.

Comes across as a decent intelligent guy, very sure of himself and committed to his football beliefs. I don’t think anyone could accuse him of being a patsy or being told which system or players to play. I thought sky went a bit overboard on the “transformation” of our playing style, it’s not like we’ve gone from knocking long balls or playing like Brentford to a possession game. We’ve pretty much tried to keep the ball and pass it to death most of the past 3 or 4 years, we just weren’t very good at it and we were playing against far far superior opposition than Sheff Weds. Personally, I think he’ll end up dividing opinion, especially if we start losing games in which we have 70% of possession but only 2 shots on target. It will be interesting to see how we go about chasing games under this style, because it’s going to get frustrating if we’re still mincing around with it. That football played with zip and a bit of sharp passing is great, but even City & Arsenal sometimes play it too slow and it gets fucking tedious and extremely frustrating.

Good win against a fucking awful side. We’re going to have to be more ruthless than that against decent opponents, but a win is a win. Second half we were the wrong side of the mincing line, until Stu came on and injected some urgency. It’s going to be a fine balancing act and at times it’s going to be fucking frustrating watching that week in week out. Ive a feeling my blood pressure is going to shoot up regularly this season, particularly when we’re chasing the game.

I think Whitey is on to something, he’s ahead of the game here. As it doesn’t matter who tries to save the shots, we could put Prowse in nets. But (here’s the genius bit), if we get a corner or free kick around the box, he could swap position & a full back could go in nets. We’d end up with 11 outfield players, and wouldn’t suffer for it.

I turned off at “would you fight a duck sized horse, or a horse sized duck”. What a bunch of fucking twats, imagine asked Bestie or chopper Harris that.

Doesn’t that just defeat the object. Although I guess it means you can pretend you’re not interested in what someone’s writing, but actually hang on their every word.

What the fuck is this fucking pony build up on sky. It’s for fucking 12 year olds.

You claimed you had me on ignore, yet within 5 mins of an avatar change you’re posting about it. You’re losing track of the shite you make up.

We need to get rid of this “we march on” pony….

Be realistic FFS.

Well said. I don’t know why it’s on the main board either. If I started a thread about pub football it wouldn’t be.

A Sovereign Government deciding policy. Whats funny about that, It’s how most countries operate?

I know, who is going to mince around passing sideways and backwards now?

Pony

Just about sums it up. Fuck me, imagine if these woke twats were around in ‘76. They’d have probably called the cup final off……

This just about sums it fucking up. Hysterical reporting by activist media lapped up by “good” people…. 2 weather forecasts, one from the early 90’s & one from the Woke era. It’s not informing the public of the weather, it’s campaigning…

They’re really stuffed when everyone is compliant aren’t they Soggy? “Details of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's 'Pay as You Drive' plan which could replace the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Congestion Charge have been shared in a new interview. The proposal would see drivers in London pay depending on the time of day, amount of passengers and the distance they drive in London. Speaking to the Financial Times, Khan revealed details on how the idea might work sharing that it could be a long time until the plan was implemented. The 'Pay as You Drive' scheme would replace the Congestion Charge which costs £15 a day and the ULEZ charge of £12.50 a day.”

😂 Are you really that bone headed, or is it an act?

Yeah, we need to listen to these top scientists.

Exactly, it’s revenue raising dressed up as saving the environment, and saps like soggy lap it up. Nobody tries to pretend toll roads or bridges are anything else.

It’s nothing to do with public health, cleaner air or any other such pony. It’s all to do with raising revenue now as well as getting the infrastructure in place for future raids on the motorists wallet.