Lord Duckhunter

So you didn’t enjoy Euro 96, stuffing 5 past the Germans in Germany, Beckhams penalty against the Argies, beating Germany and reaching the Euro 2020 final? It wasn’t that we were particularly good in ‘90. We were shite most of the tournament.

It’s because more and more people can WFH meaning the impact on commuters is a lot less than during previous years. The biggest impact they can make is fucking up our leisure activities, that’s why they’re doing it.

And Chris Nicholl

Careful, the wokies will be after you…..

The base is Thatcherite, a different economic philosophy.

They’re increasing borrowing to try and stimulate growth, exactly what the Labour Party would be doing if they were in office. The difference is what they’re using the additional borrowing for. They’re hoping tax cuts & deregulation will boost growth, basically Reaganomics, whereas Labour would be “investing” in public services & targeted giveaways, hoping that’ll boost growth. Personally, I’m more Thatcherite and think we should be tightening fiscal policy at the moment, but at least we’re now being given a clear choice. One thing for sure the Pinko blob haven’t produced much growth the past few years.

Who is this Rushi?

“Rushi” “dumb and dumber” #irony

This is the ridiculous stick that the anti Puel people use all the time. It’s interesting to see what the great player himself thought of Puel.

They moved too late and too slowly. If you think continuing with historically low interest rates is the way to combat inflation, than it’s you that’s bonkers.

Load of old pony

It’s a sport, not the fucking opera. The result is the be all and end all of everything. That’s the problem with our club, too many noddy supporters like you. Seems like you act like a customer, not a supporter.

Pony.

IMO….Chelsea was an excellent performance, as was Man Utd. The last half hour of Leeds, and to some extent Leicester were acceptable. Spurs was horrendous, Villa even worse, and the first hour against Leeds was pony. Wolves was just average. In other words, the seasons been typically Ralph.

Early season performances can’t be viewed in context without also taking into account the second half of last season. The reason Davie Moyes is more secure in his job despite a poor start is the job he did last season. Ralphs early season performances mirror the back half of last season. The board clearly thought those performances weren’t acceptable, because the back room staff were binned. Have things got any better? Not so far…..And that’s why he’s living on borrowed time.

We may have lost but and least we turned up and gave it a go, unlike WGS’ side. God can you imagine the “I want to be entertained” Noddies thoughts had we set up like we did against Arsenal? His best was as good as Ralph’s, but his worse was nowhere near the lows The Alpine Klopp has delivered, nowhere fucking near.

I thought he should have gone preseason 2021, then thought he should have gone last preseason. I actually think the new owners dropped a bollock by not getting their own man in. However, I’m not a great believer in changing horses mid season unless it’s absolutely necessary. I’m not 100% sure we’re at that stage yet, but we can not accept many more of the lacklustre performances he produced on Friday. I’d probably reassess once the World Cup starts, and depending on results by then and more importantly who is available, make a decision then. One thing for sure, unless he shows some solid consistency or gets us to a final, he needs to fuck off come the end of May…..

I don’t think he’s a defensive manager in the traditional sense, he doesn’t really set teams up negatively or not to lose. However, he’s adapted to some of the thrashing’s we’ve received by not being so gung ho going forward. We seem to now keep the ball for the sake of it, as opposed to keeping it to move the opposition around and create overloads around the pitch. At their best his sides won the ball quick and early and then went for it, now if we win it, we’ll go sideways, backwards, sideways, allowing the opposition time to get set in their defensive structure. We are caught between 2 stools, not a Puel like team that are set up to defend properly, neither are we a Ralph at his best team that pressed early, aggressively and then went forward positively. The full backs don’t seem to play as high up the pitch as before, JWP must play half his passes backward, we’re nowhere near as dynamic as we used to be. I’ve always thought he was a bit of a fraud, all this Klopp of the alps pony, but I think it’s undeniable that he’s a worse manager now than he was upon joining us. Those 9-0’s have changed him, we’ve lost the best bit of him and the worst bit has always been pretty shite. I used to think he was an average manager over rated by a lot on here, he’s now a pretty poor one who’ll be lucky to see out the season.

😂 so this is how you justify Burnley have a better squad, & 9 of them would get in our starting 11. I could counter by saying “how shite are Burnley, Dale Stephens got a game for them last season”. The simple fact is that most neutrals will think Dyche did a decent job keeping Burnley up in previous seasons, and had a pretty poor squad when they finally succumbed to the inevitable. To use finishing above Burnley as some sort of achievement really shows the thinness of your argument.

Barnes, J Rod 😂 .Barnes only started 8 games for Burnley, but he’d make the saints side. Your defence of Ralph is getting funnier & funnier by the hour. Now he somehow managed to finish above the mighty Burnley, and without top top players like Ashley Barnes. So who are the 2 out of JWP, KWP, Tino, Salisu, Adams, Broja & Oriol Romeu that will get into your joint Burnley/ Southampton team?

What sort of jobsworth confiscates somebodies lockets, what does he think, the bloke spiked them with Novichok?

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”.