Lord Duckhunter

Fucking hell, the state of that. Somebody needs to have a word with her. It’s not all about you dear, proper footballs back “the summer the country has just seen” 😂😂.

Once he’s perfected dressing himself & then using a bicycle without stabilisers he might do.

Fucking hell, Trumps going to piss it if they put this clown up again. Simple things like putting on a coat & riding a bike seem beyond him.

I thought playing American idiot was a bit classless to be honest.

Personally I like 3 at the back, but you have to have the players. My preference is a centre half and 2 physical full backs, Venables played this way with Gary Neville & Pearce as his wide centre halves. The benefit of this is they can negate one of 3 at the backs biggest weakness, namely centre halves getting dragged into the channels and having to defend one on one in wider areas. Bednarek in particular looks like a fish out of water in this scenario. KWP is the perfect wing back, not sure about the French lad in that role, but OR & JWP are tactically intelligent and the new fella looks like he is. So basically, we have players who can play a formation with a back 3 in every position, apart from the crucial ones. We just haven’t got good enough defenders to play a 3. IF Ralph wanted to play this way, then he or the recruitment team should have addressed this. Until they do, it’ll be a fucking car crash to continue with it.

It’s amazing isn’t it, who’d have thought it? Getting more forward thinking players on the pitch and going for it against a side that only just avoided relegation resulted in 2 goals? The problem is this bloke can’t set us up to defend, doesn’t seem to be capable of drilling the players defensively and putting a structure in place that limits the opposition’s chances. Any backs against the wall wins (Arsenal, The crying game etc) have come on the back of exceptional individual performances, not through tactically smothering the opposition. Without reigniting the Claude Puel debate, week after week, we had a defensive structure that was drilled, perfected and implemented, everybody knew their role and stuck to it. Teflon seems to want to tighten up defensively, but throws random players in, and nobody seems to know exactly where they stand. We end up with the worst of both worlds, unable to defend properly but stifling our “playbook”. I honestly think the drubbings we’ve taken have affected Ralph, have made him manage differently and manage in an “unnatural “ way for him. Just as Claude Puel would probably have been a disaster trying to be more expansive (rumours are he refused to change his style), defensive Ralph is a shit show. Yesterday a prime example, woefully inadequate defending and limp up front. Personally, I want a manager in who can tighten us up, I want us to be more defensively sound, but not against fucking Leeds at home. Had we gone for it, I reckon we could of run out 3-1,4-2 winners. Hade we Claude’d them, maybe 1-0 . We ended up with the worst of both worlds. It’s good that he’s shown a bit of flexibility, but the flexibility should be around little tweaks here and there, not weird line ups. Personally, I like 3 at the back, but we have t got the players or the structure or the managerial nouse to play it. 3 years into the job and he doesn’t seem to know his best line up or formation, that’s pretty fucking poor.

Where’s this pony about tough fixtures early on coming from? Spurs away is tough, but Leeds & Leicester have both lost key players, Leeds finished below us last season. Man U are a shambles, Wolves going backwards, Villa aren’t great, and Brentford are well, Brentford. So Aug/Sept we’ve got 8 games, 2 of which Chelsea & Spurs are tough. The rest are pretty fucking soft in the context of staying up. More noddy mentality. Tough games, my arse.

I can’t think of anything worse. Shite beer in a plastic glass, nope I’ll be sticking to the boozer

What a ridiculous question . The buck stops with the manager. If we’re a steaming pile of dog shit after he’s fired, then it’ll be the next managers fault. Just as it was Hughes’ after Peligrino left. I bet my bottom dollar you had your pitchfork out for those two, why should Teflon be any different?

Languedoc-Roussillon is beautiful, if it wasn’t full of French it’d be perfect. Love Crete, and the people are fantastic. Further afield St Petersberg/Tampa side of Florida is lovely.

Dear God.

Fucking spot on.

#Noddy We've spent most of the past 50 years in the top flight, have had premier league money for all but about 6 years of its existence, have a stadium bigger than about 74 other English professional sides. By every measure we should be in and around the top 20 clubs. Admittedly, we’ve got a few too many Noddy supporters, but it’s not an “achievement “.

Some of us saw through him 18 months ago.

It’s a fucking joke that some people don’t appear to believe a manager motivating the team gets better results, it seems they all give 100% all the time, regardless who is in charge (unless the supporters upset the little darlings) . What a load of old pony. If that was the case, how on earth did Brian Clough take journeymen players to European cups. John Robertson said when Cloughie stuck his thumb up in the dug out and it was aimed towards him, he felt 10ft tall, the best player in the world. Had fucking Ian Branfoot done so, would he have felt the same.

If it hastens Teflon’s departure, the bloke deserves a new contract. It’s over, put a fork in him, he’s done……

Any players that can’t take a bit of clog from supporters need shipping out pronto.

Some of the players going through the motions Sat, and disgracefully at Brentford, have played in games where we’ve hung on, put our bodies on the line and got a decent result against far better sides. If Sat & Brentford were players giving 100%, then my cocks a carrot and if you can’t tell the difference between not being good enough & not giving your all, perhaps you should watch the chicks instead.

It’s not just fans, it’s the culture of the club, top to fucking bottom. Of course we can’t compete with the top sides, that ship sailed years ago, but we can fucking compete with half the friggin league. We need a few pirates to de-Noddyfy the club. Watching Ralph suck up to Klopp & Pep sums it up for me. And when was the last time one of our players was booed or abused by the opposition? Forget “nobody likes us, we don’t care”. We're “everybody likes us but nobody cares.” We’re becoming a nothing noddy club. Soft as shite, and grateful the big boys let us play against them.

Where does this “grateful to be in the league” pony come from. I’m 50 fucking 7 and we’ve been in it most of my supporting life. I don’t take it for granted, and I’ve been lucky, but stop with this noddy mentality. We’re a top 25 club, we’re not particularly overachieving by being in the top 20.

I maybe old fashioned but I thought preseason was the time to get the players “up to speed” for the season ahead. For a manager 3 years into the job to be spouting this pony is just Teflon doing what Teflon does best. Making fucking excuses.

And what they read about it, and the conclusions they should draw from those readings. My fathers generation had the glory of Empire rammed down their throats by the establishment, and I fear my grandchildren will have woke pony rammed down theirs.

They really weren’t

Personally, I think we had a side with bigger bollocks then, Yoshida & Hojberg weren’t the best, but they had a bit of guts. Ings was a class above anything we’ve got up front now. We needed to have a bit of toughness first 20, and we showed it. Can you guarantee this bunch of son in laws will front up early as well, I fucking can’t.

He tries to be a clever dick, to show everyone how he see things mere mortals can’t. The thing is, it’s not that complicated. We’re not a particularly decent side, but we can’t have the better players on the bench or out of position. You pick Stuart Armstrong, if Tino is injured you play Perraud, you play OR as a defensive midfielder, you fucking play Che Adams. Add to those 4 JWP, KWP, & Salisu who pick themselves, and one of Bednarek or Lyanco. He was basically left with 3 decisions. One is the keeper. Obviously, he wanted Lavia & Aribo, so it probably needed a tweak, but we had the 11. It really shouldn’t be beyond a top flight manager, but we had a Horlicks of a team that left everyone scratching their heads.