Lord Duckhunter

How often did you watch away from home?

They get more than the standard deserves

In most cases the incumbent looks vulnerable when new owners come in, but in this case I reckon he’s pretty secure. He obviously can’t afford to produce some of the cluster fucks we witnessed the second half of last season, but I’d say he’s pretty safe. The takeover appears to have taken his main excuse away so let’s see how he does.

It was not. A few games towards the end were pretty boring, but worst since Nichol is complete & utter pony. It was a damn sight better than some of the pony second half of last season. Oh I forgot, it doesn’t count unless you were there and had coughed up the wedge. Plastic support if ever I’ve seen it.

Nope. You wouldn’t write “their monarch WAS only ever at arms length “, you’d write “their monarch IS only ever at arms length.

Complete and utter bollocks. You’re worse than a fucking glory hunting Man U fan. If you think that’s the worst since Chris Nichol you’re clearly clueless about all aspects of the game. It’s a sport, we’re a professional sports team, not the friggin Harlem Globetrotters.

What a ridiculous way to judge a season. It means a team relegated with 37 points have had a “better” season than a team staying up on 36 points the following year. That teams finishing 2nd & in some cases 3rd had a “better” season than Leicester did when they won the league and Arsenals invincibles had a worse season than Liverpool when they were only runners up. We were the 8th best team that season, and got to a cup final. If Ralph did that he’s fan boys will be building him a statue.

The most impressive thing about Brentford was the way they put blowing promotion out of their mind and came up the following year. Shows a mental toughness we could do with at our club. If this guy played a major role in imbedding that culture, it can only be a good thing.

Were Forster & McCarthy in nets?

Australia isn’t a republic. Their “constitutional apparatus “ is in fact a Constitutional monarchy, like………The UK.

If they get rid of the pony “we march on” mantra, they’ll do for me.

His managerial record is better than Xavi‘s, so on the Twar managerial spreadsheet he should have got the job.

Because Ole got the job on the back of his managerial record and not his playing career 🤪🤪 If Potter rocks up at OT this summer there’s going to me mayhem, Moyes couldn’t make it work and his record at Everton was far superior to Potters. I hope to god people like you aren’t running our club, if they are I’m in the Ralph cult. I dread to think who your replacement will be if he left, Ben Strevens probably.

Good point well made, which is exactly why I listed them in the post you replied to. Which clubs would swap their present manager for a bloke who you’re surprised isn’t at a top club? Excluding Norwich & Watford who are in the bottom 3? Everton fans probably would ,which just emphasises your lack of judgement when it comes to managers. The only fans that “might” want him, and support a club slightly bigger than Brighton, want to ditch the manager that has impressed you this season……🤪

Laughable. The supporters of every club you’ve named would be in uproar if Graham Potter was appointed instead of their present incumbent. Which clubs in the league would swap their manager for Graham Potter. Watford maybe, Everton (although Rafa’s impressed you), Norwich perhaps, who else would take Potter instead of the manager they’ve got. The thought that Manchester Utd would have him is delusional, it’s real life not a frigging computer game.

Antonio Rüdiger

Covid wise there will be, I doubt any club would falsify Covid results. What can they do? Get somebody who has Covid to take the test for somebody that hasn’t. However, that’s a dangerous route to go down, particularly if the bloke pretending the test is his, then catches it. I’d imagine a conversation along the lines “You know shelvey had Covid 3 weeks ago, well he’s gone and got it again”, wouldn’t go down particularly well with the league. Id have thought during conversations with the Gov or PHE, reporting accurately Covid numbers would figure quite high up. The only falsification they can really get away with is non vaccinated players being in contact with positive people. That’s pretty hard to disprove. I guess the issue is with injuries, but they’re really subjective. The tears and pulls are easy to prove, but knocks and slight strains pretty impossible because players will play through them. How can a doctor tell someone with a “knock” he’s fit to play, If he says he isn’t?

Did they postpone a load of games before doing that, or was that rule in place from the start? The league made a rod for their own back by postponing games a couple of weeks ago. Had they said then that teams had to play regardless of numbers, then they could insist Newcastle do this time. The sure fire way to a court case is allowing Brentford to postpone, but not allowing Newcastle to.

The way things are going there’s going to be 30 odd games postponed, good luck with proving this one was any different than any other.

This is just not true. The league rules state the club need to supply “Supporting medical information to verify the status of each unavailable player, which will be reviewed by the League’s medical advisers”. Their website also states that not having 13 players is only 1 reason applications are accepted, they state that games have also been postponed recently for other reasons including, “Where the status of a COVID-19 outbreak within a club’s squad remains unclear very close to a match. For example, where there remains a concern that not all COVID-19 infections have been identified and there is insufficient time to resolve that concern before kick-off. - Where the club does not have sufficient time to safely prepare its players in the lead up to a match. For example, where the UK Health Security Agency has requested the closure of a training ground and suspension of group training following an outbreak during the preparation period ahead of a match.” Just calling people cunts without know the full reasons for the postponement, without knowing what evidence has been presented and what checks were made is pretty ignorant imo.

Bless…

Dear god. There were different rules in place last season, and 20 odd games hadn’t already been postponed. It is not “cheating” to request a postponement, they haven’t cheated anymore than Brentford cheated when they requested a postponement. Posters anger is aimed in the wrong direction, once the league started allowing postponements teams will request them.

Ralph grasped it, he admitted he made a mistake. He agreed with us, it was the wrong formation for that game. What more evidence do you need that you’re wrong, when the bloke who decided the tactics held his hand up. #cult

Not at all. The criticism was about playing it away at Liverpool, with people pointing out that it may not be the best idea to try something new up there. Nobody criticised the principle of getting away from his obsession with 4-2-2-2, just the timing. Matching up spurs at home, is entirely different to doing so at Anfield. Anyway he himself said is was a mistake, so is Ralph also fickle?