Lord Duckhunter

Driving home from the game Sunday I heard Blackmore address this. Says he chucked the name out there a couple of weeks ago as a personal choice, and some mugs on Twitter have run with it. Went out of his way to say it was just his opinion based on absolutely nothing.

You’ve spent all season telling us Ralph didn’t sign the players, now you’re saying Jones did at Stoke. Based on what, your knowledge of Stoke City’s transfer policy 😂. Consistent as ever.

Good.

To be fair to Tella, he was probably fucked after playing for Burnley the day before.

So do I, we haven’t won a game since he left.

I thought Bally did a great job for us. Sensible choice.

I’m waiting for the meltdown on here when Bournemouth appoint Bielsa.

If football clubs listened to supporters Claudio Ranieri wouldn’t have ended up at Leicester.

Alan Ball was a World Cup winner, one of the best players of his generation, but the city players pretty much took the piss out of him from day 1. This respect stuff is a load of old pony. If he runs decent sessions, is a good man manager and is tactically aware players will play for him. End of. He’s got a “pre season” coming up with most of them, time to get his ideas over and get some positivity around the club. Writing him off before he’s even met the players is ridiculous.

On the face of it, it’s not a particularly exciting appointment. But I haven’t a clue what the blokes like, and I doubt many of the critics have either. Somebody at the club has clearly identified him as a good fit, so let’s hope they’re right. There’s nothing wrong with his failure at Stoke, provided he’s learnt from it and become a better manager as a result of it. Sometimes failure teaches you more about yourself than success. Another god botherer Davie Moyes has put poor spells at clubs behind him and done a decent job afterwards. The lack of top flight experience could be any issue, but I don’t see our lads as the “show us your medals” type of professionals. If he puts a few decent sessions on and is tactically intelligent, I’m sure they’ll buy into him. It’s a big chance for the bloke, let’s hope he takes it and in a couple of years time we’re calling him a disloyal twat when he fucks off to a bigger club.

What about his team & performance against Leicester in the semi final? The attitude that day was pathetic.

Does he fuck off down the tunnel when they lose?

As opposed to mincing around with it going absolutely nowhere, until giving it away. And they’re all ITK. Fucking place must be as leaky as our defence.

When was their first go?

“Important figure” my arse. Hanging around for longer than other duds doesn’t make you an “important “ figure. Shows the noddy mentality at the club and within the fan base if anyone believes this pony. He inherited a shit show and has left behind a shit show.

Typical Ralphball. Easy risk free passing, mincing about, and generally flattering to deceive. “Had Moi scored, had Che scored” blah blah blah. Had they both scored, I’d bet my life we’d still have lost, probably 5-3 or similar. I wouldn’t turn the radio on Thursday lunchtime if I was JWP.

How can “money no object” come with the caveat “within reason”. It’s either money no object, or a budget.

😂

This is a pretty decent article. Basically, they’re fucked going into the next presidential elections with Biden, Harris will be as bad & The GOP are also fucked because of The Donald. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11392027/ANDREW-NEIL-Republicans-poised-victory-midterms-huge-political-crisis-beckons.html

Why are they so “desperate “ to get away from France?

Spot on. We also didn’t turn off the printing press’ early enough & didn’t raise interest rates quickly enough. Had we locked down longer, we’d have been in an even worse situation. Labour can tinker around the edges with wealth & windfall taxes, but they’ll be in the same straight jacket if they form the next government. The markets will view unfunded spending increases the same why it viewed unfunded tax cuts.

By the time of the election their “plan” won’t differ greatly from the trajectory we’re on. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me if come that time Starmer will do what Blair did & promise to stick to Tory public spending plans. Anything else leaves them fighting Sunak on his home turf, risky strategy.

Entirely possible, free from the dead hand of Ralph.

What a load of old pony. They didn’t want to sell the benefits of The Euro, Schengen or ever closer union to the people because of some right wing backlash, they didn’t do it because they knew there was no fucking chance the Great British public would accept them. Forget about 48/52 it would have been a landslide had the remain proposal contained joining the euro. You’re deluded if you think it’s just right wingers holding back full integration. There’s not a hope in hell we’ll give up £, you’ve more chance of going to the moon in a shoe box.

What a horrendous fucking pointless day. I felt like John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Fucking replacement bus’ left right and centre, black cab & Ubers. Horrible waste of drinking time, (the journey, not the match……although on second thoughts). As for the game, they were a lot better than us first half, and we were slightly the better side second. Again, we’re too slow moving the ball, too obsessed with possession meaning sideways, backwards, safe passes over and over. Our whole approached summed up by the captain. Soft, safe, fucking possession for the sake of it. Horrifically boring side. Che Adams excellent until it comes to finishing, but if he could finish, he’d have fucked off by now. Lyanco’s error cost us a goal, but other than that did well against decent tricky players. Our crossing was woeful, absolutely terrible. Got in decent positions down the sides, but the final ball is poor. And why do we persist in fanning around at the back, Che can hold the ball up, get it up to him and play off him. He’ll get it down, then we can play from there. I’m sick to death of watching Prowse, Salisu & Diallio give sloppy passes to them in our fucking half. Talking of Salisu, he needs to shape up imo, Caletta carr looks the part to me, and ABK is probably our best centre half, so he could find himself Sat on the bench if he doesn’t cut out the sloppy shit.