Lord Duckhunter

Why doesn’t he deserve it? Why is he made out to be some sort of club legend, he’s an average manager that’s done an average job and is now doing a shite one. All the fucking jazz hands & crying at Liverpool pony, yet when the chips are down he disappears. He never acknowledges away fans now when we lose, regularly chucks players under a bus, allowed blame to be handed to the minions, and makes excuse after excuses. The mask has slipped, he’s an arrogant stubborn fraud, whose started to steal a living….

Not to Aston Fucking Villa they didn’t

I think you’re a tad confused

Your defence of Ralph seems to be built on the misguided belief that he hasn’t been given the tools to do his job. That whoever was manager would have ended up with our awful forwarded line. It’s not quite as simple as that, another manager my have had a favoured player that was desperate to play for him, think of Pelle re Koeman. Players may well have been put off by what they’d heard from their mates/agents about Ralph’s style and signed for another manager, some may not want to come to a struggling side in a poor run of form under a manger who keeps getting stuffed, and other players may well have wanted to stay instead of looking at other outside options. I’ve no idea whether Danny Ings got on with Ralph, but I’ll bet my life he’d have stayed if Poch was manager. The general air of uselessness that Ralph has presided over could be the reason we have a useless squad……

5-5-0

How was Danny Ings’ relationship with Ralph?

How was Danny Ings’ relationship with Ralph?

He’d been on a hiding to nothing. No fucking chance he’ll come here.

Perhaps we wouldn’t have needed to if they wanted to re-sign/sign for Ralph.

Yeah, because doing it the previous season is exactly the same as doing so 10 years ago (and failing at other jobs in between).

Exactly. They were at the bottom of the championship when he took over.

They’ll probably have Dyche by then

Should be 5 already. 9-0 in coming?

The point Darling was making was we need 2 tax bands not 3. BR & then a higher rate, the specific rates are arguable and changeable depending on circumstances. If 3 tax rates solved anything Labour wouldn’t have waited until their last month in office to bring it in. If you read the whole of my post you’ll see I even suggested the top rate could be 45p. The scandal is more and more people are paying 40p, due to fiscal drag. My snap dragon and many of her NHS colleagues have been caught in it, yes they earn good money, but they’re in jobs that never would have attracted a higher tax rate 20 years ago.

“In the long run you have got to keep your tax rates internationally competitive, which means something like the two rates we used to have." Alister Darling…..

So it starts..l.. As Peter Hitchens says “the biggest obstacle to conservative policies is The Conservative party. The MP’s masquerading as Tories wet their pants the first sign of any flak. The 45p rate was a political manoeuvre by Gordon Brown brought in during the dying days of his administration (then 50p), and what have the clowns done? Fallen for it, that’s what. Why take the political hit & then row back (although it should have gone years ago). They’re stuck with it now, an incoherent tax band that raises fuck all in the grand scheme of things. They’d be better off raising the 40p rate to 45p, then raising the thresholds in-line. Yet again they talk the talk but fail to walk the walk. They’re now dead ducks & the Lib/dems amongst them will smell blood.

Roy Keane always says you shouldn’t judge a team or their desire in games against big clubs, they have to be on it or else they’ll get embarrassed. The time to judge them is in winnable games.

Perhaps they tried to sort it out “internally “, didn’t get anywhere, so went to the press as a last resort. Maybe there’s people on the board like you who couldn’t see what was bleeding obvious to everyone else.

What a load of bull. You’re full of shite. We keep hearing this pony about about “the end” of Claude’s spell. It’s just not backed up with facts. In May alone we drew away at Anfield, lost to Arsenal, drew with Manchester Utd and beat Middlesbrough, before a disappointing last day defeat. That’s it really, losing to Stoke & a boring 0-0 with Hull in April were the only sub par results towards the end. In April we only got beat by Man C & Chelsea but the weeks preceding that we stuffed 4 past Sunderland & Watford in consecutive away games. Since the first week of Feb our only defeats were to Spurs, Chelsea, Man C, Arsenal & Stoke. Yet you and your like weren’t happy… Customers, bloody hell…..

Last season was clearly a blip……… I don’t mean remaining unbeaten against City, but not conceding 9 in a game during the season. Ralph could well be back on track for the annual 9-0. Fucking Claude Puel & les Reed

1/50

No chance, Pep doesn’t “settle” for anything.

His “celebrations” are pure noddy. He should be sacked for that alone.

Dear god, are you for real.

How many years are you going to give him? He’s had a fucking long spell for the modern game and he’s taking the club backwards. We’re as bad now as when he took over. Blokes a fucking fraud, the back room staff took the shite last season, when the buck stops with him. Average manager bigged up by some of our deluded fan base. If his name was Ralph Higgins from Barnsley you’d be calling for his head.