Lord Duckhunter

You’re deluded. Burnley a better squad 😂😂 Rodgers has won the FA cup and got them into Europe twice, Moyes has got West Ham into Europe, they’ve got credit in the bank to ride out a rough spell. Ralph has done what,? never finished in the top 10, been given 2 shallacings as well as plenty of embarrassing defeats. It’s been fucking ground hog day season after season, a few decent performances, a few meh performances and a complete of disgraceful performances season after season. The only thing that ever changes is the excuses put forward by the cult.

Is Spurs Conti’s team? Im damn sure the manager would have held discussions with the new owners around their business plan, their philosophy, and how they wanted to run the club. I’ve no doubt had he not bought into their vision then a parting of the ways would have taken place. No manager has 100% control over buying and selling players, so absolving the manager of any blame when they’re poor is just a cop out. A cop out that depends of the individuals view of the manager, when it’s Hughes he’s a pony manager, when it’s Ralph it’s the poor players he’s been given.

If it isn’t Ralph’s team, it certainly wasn’t Mark Hughes’ team either, yet I don’t recall too many sticking up for him or praising him for keeping us up. The defence of Ralph is becoming laughable now. Although there’s less of them drinking the Kool-Aid, some have clearly jumped the shark. He’s had a long stint (for the modern game) in charge, his culture, his identity is stamped all over the team, and the fact nobody ever knows what we’re going to get performance & selection wise each week, is damning. He dodged a bullet in the summer, when his back room staff were blamed, yet it looks like more of the same. Whose to blame now, Doris the tea lady or the bloke that washes the kit? If Ralph is still here in 2045 Lighthouse will still be claiming “it’s not his team”.

If only…..

What on earth makes you think Fat Sam or any other dinosaur would be appointed? This is a pony argument, completely and utterly. Keep Ralph because we may get fat Sam, Arry, Steve Bruce or Alan Curbishley. You’ve sold me!!!!!!!Ralph in

Exactly this. This must be the longest knee jerk in history. A lot of people have been worried for a long time, it’s not just “the Villa game” (tm Gaston)

My understand is most contracts have a fixed term for payments, but that this won’t necessarily mean the contract is paid up in full. For example, 5 year contract signed, with 2 year severance pay. So somebody sacked in year 2 will get 2 years money, not the 3 left on his contract.

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club). In the 25 years I’ve lived down here there’s definitely been a shift with less and less people travelling up to Saints, this trend has increased significantly since their spell in the top flight. More and more people I meet and discuss football with consider themselves Bournemouth supporters and although most are a bit 2 club nods, in my opinion 25K is realistic in a new ground. Without doubt they could definitely sell high end hospitality if boxes existed. Their ground is ripe for housing development and pretty expensive properties at that. So if they could find somewhere to rebuild it’s definitely feasible. There is room for growth and money making opportunities, and it’s not ordinary punters through the door that make owners money anymore, its being in the Premier league and the TV monies involved and to a lesser extent the hospitality/hotel opportunities that accompanies premier league football. I can certainly see why someone would want to get involved. The council are also pretty skint & allegedly corrupt, so the same old NIMBYS May be bypassed where development is concerned.

It isn’t us that’s made them look bad, it’s the rest of the fucking teams they’ve played. We’ve actually made Villa & Wolves look ok. Leicester have just taken another dicking, Chelsea sacked their manager & Utd got done by Brighton & Brentford. Your noddy mentality is what’s wrong with a number of our supporters. You keep claiming we had a tough start, we didn’t. 7 games and we’ve faced one decent side. If those 7 games included City, Liverpool, Arsenal, you’d have a point. But they didn’t, and you don’t. We have made a poor start considering the fixtures we’ve had. If you’ve got to play 3 of the big clubs, you’d pick Chelsea & Utd at the moment. You’d want Leicester every day of the week this season, & Wolves and Villa have made awful starts.

They took deadwood off our hands last season, perhaps Leicester will replace Rodgers with Ralph 🙏

Why do you persist with this pony “those fixtures” as if they’re tough. Chelsea were such a shambles they sacked their manager, Utd got dicked by Brentford & Brighton, Villa are shiete, Leicester have pretty much lost every fucking league game so far, and wolves have only won a league game because they played us. That leaves Leeds, who aren’t exactly world beater and spurs. One good side, one. Contrast that with Bournemouth who’ve played Man C, Liverpool, Arsenal & city and still have 1 more point than us. We’ve had a pretty fucking easy fixture list, 7 points from those games at the times they were played, is not “par”, far from it.

Their next five games are; Brentford, Leicester, us, West Ham, & Fulham. For a team nailed on relegated they could be above us by WC.

Some people reckon we had a “tough” set of fixtures, they’ve played Liverpool, City, Arsenal & Newcastle as well as sharing wolves & Villa with us.

We needed an oven ready keeper in nets. Nope Needed a centre half-tick (on the basis of half a dozen games) Needed a goal scorer-nope A few promising nippers doesn’t make it a good window.

The Guardian? It was probably based on diversity rather than ability to play football then. If it was so good, why are we shite?

He’s an intelligent player, tactically he’s good, positional sense is good and clearly he’s a good pro. However he lacks pace & strength which are the main ingredients to play in this league. To lack one of them is tough in England ,but to lack both the rest of your game (touch, passing ability, skill, vision, etc) needs to be world class. The rest of his game is nowhere near that level and I can’t quite actually believe our scouting system thought it ever would be. He may just about get into a poor premier league squad, with the odd appearance here and there, but the fact he seems to be playing regularly tells you everything you need to know about our manager and recruiting policy.

Called good by whom? One eyed saints supporters. The keeper costs us goals, Moi and Adam Armstrong are in ahead of some of our signings, we’ve lost OR and we haven’t addressed the glaring lack of a striker. Fuck me if that’s good, I dread to think what you consider average.

If you think we’ve had a tough start you’re deluding yourself. Take off the red and white specs and open your bins. We couldn’t have faced Chelsea at a better time, Utd had a poor start as well. Boscombe have the same points and they’ve faced Liverpool, Man C and Arsenal (as well as Newcastle today). Typical Noddy mentality some of our fan base have. If we’re saying we can’t compete with Leeds, we really are fucked.

Tough set of fixtures, pony. Chelsea & United look by far the weakest of the top 6. Leicester, Villa and wolves are fucking pony at the moment. Leeds finished below us and lost their best 2 players. Spurs, that’s about it.

The only reason Villa only scored 1, wasn’t because of improvement in our defence. It was because they are fucking pony, if we play like that we’ll get done 5 or 6 against any half decent side. Whilst our centre half pairing appear to be better, there’s absolutely no improvement in our defensive structure or mentality. When was the last time we kept a clean sheet in a league game? Our centre halves are being hung out to dry by a piss weak midfield.

Being Ralph.

He’s always been like that.

Ralph never does. He gives it large when we win away, but when we lose he skulks off down the tunnel. Blokes a fucking fraud.