Lord Duckhunter

Every time Soggy, knows, meets, or speaks to somebody, they always seem to back up his opinions.

Leeds finished below us and have lost their best 2 players. Leicester have lost players as well.

The problem is the country isn’t ready for it. The pitch should have been prepared a couple of years ago when The Chancellor was paying people to stay at home and the BoE was printing money. The consequences of this should have been spelt out and nobody should have been left in any doubt a reckoning was coming. The Ukrainian situation has only added to the problem, they’d still be a massive problem regardless of what Russia did there. People won’t accept pay restraint, and you can’t really blame them when there’s plenty of work about. High Inflation is a cancer in the economy and as you’ve said we’ll end up in a vicious circle. The only way out of it is horrendously high interest rates, job losses and a recession. People will only accept pay restraints when they’re worried about the future and their future job prospects. For all Tory hopes that this is ‘79 & Thatcher did this and Thatcher did that, we’re nowhere near there at the moment. It’s more like Heath/Wilson/Callaghan 70’s. The Tories will kick the can down the road hoping to squeak back in, whoever wins the next election will probably do the same, rinse and repeat for a few more years. There is absolutely no way people are ready for the type of recession needed to bring inflation down to the levels we’ve seen for 20 years.

We need to keep him even if he’s not a regular starter. I don’t go for all this old pony that we should “let him go if he wants to play week in week out”. He’s a good pro who’ll keep the ones that are playing on their toes as well as covering for injuries/suspensions. We’re not good enough to let players of his ability to leave just because he can’t get a game. If Diallo kicks on then maybe, but that’s not this window.

Exactly. 3 or 4 points is about par for the fixtures we’ve had, we’re not going to get much from the top sides so need to find 10 or 11 wins from the likes of Leeds & Leicester. Utd will probably lose to Liverpool tomorrow, so they’re ripe for the taking next week. Let’s go for it from the off, not wait until we’re behind.

Dear God

The blokes clearly not up to it. Struggles to ride a bike & put his coat on. If it was The Donald you wouldn’t be making excuses. The title of the thread is “what is wrong with America”. The state of its president is clearly one thing wrong with it.

Yep, correct. Clinton, Trump & Biden have to be the worse 3 candidates ever produced, and at this rate it’ll be Trump V Biden 2. Neither are fit for office,

I don’t buy it. He’s seems to struggle with the complicated nature of handshakes. https://www.gbnews.uk/news/joe-biden-confusion-as-he-seemingly-forgets-he-shook-senators-hand-and-goes-in-for-another-handshake/351286

Biden meets the invisible man.

“Interesting” wouldn’t be the word I’d use. He’s fucking pony, he’s had chance after chance. Most games he looks like a bloody great fairy mincing around & constantly feigning injury.

Never.

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 “.