Lord Duckhunter

It was a well written decent article, no way was it an “in my day’ hatchet job. The article started with Souness speaking as a spectator, how he turned over from watching Champions league tippy tappy Lego type ball, to watch a championship game. He then explained how it was different in his day, but how they were told to get it into the “badge kissers” early. Saying that Ronnie Moran used to stop the game after too many sideways passes, saying “that’s old mans football, I could play that”. He then broadened this to Lego, saying only the best could play this way, before questioning why Lego announces he won’t change & how this helps our opponent because they’ll know how we’ll play. He ends it by saying Real Madrid changed against City, went long and beat them, saying “that’s management “. It added to the debate. So what if he’s in his 70’s, you wouldn’t dismiss Paul McCartneys views on modern music with “ what’s that old cunt know about writing songs, he hasn’t had a hit for 40 years”.

Rupert calling out racism…

I see Souness had another dig at Lego and the Lego style in the paper today. Now, a defender is a very different animal. They have the most touches of the ball but to what effect? Some managers will come out after losing a game and point out 'look, we had 65 percent possession...' Yes, but the majority of that is in your own half and under no pressure. It can make for lots of average fare, it's hardly edge of your seat stuff and can't be enjoyable for the supporters. I bet if you asked most of these defenders today if they are comfortable doing what they are being asked to do, the majority would say 'no'. Only the very best ones can get away with it. The rest make too many mistakes in and around their own box which leads to too many efforts on goal and conceding unnecessarily. The Southampton manager Russell Martin said this week he was embarrassed to be on five points, yet in the same breath says he's never going to deviate from his principles of playing out from the back. To win football matches at any level today you must have an element of unpredictability. So, I'm not sure it's too wise to be sending out a message telling all the opposition you are going to play the same way all season.

We’re going to see a lot more of this going forward. We’re now at the stage where managers have what Simon Jordan calls “fuck off money”, they’re earning brilliant money and they all had playing careers post the sky boom. 40 years ago if he failed and couldn’t get back in, Martin couldn’t of retired, he’d have to get a job somewhere in civvy street.Now what’s the worst that can happen, he retires on money most of us will never earn. There’s also far more roles around the game than there ever was, from DOF, to pundit, to podcaster. They’ve also got the ready made excuse managers didn’t have in the past, poor recruitment. Branfoot signed Speedie & Dixon, the twat. Lego gets a free pass over BBD & Archer. I think this is driving managers to manage on their terms, the desperation is gone. Failure is not life changing, so why spend hours on the training ground drilling the back 4 like George Graham did, when you can coach them RussBall, enjoy yourself, become a “brand manager”, the only real pressure is pressure you bring on yourself. Failure isn’t down to you, it’s down to recruiting, it’s down to the unbalanced nature of the league. Why grub around trying to grind out results, when you can be respected by your peers for “playing the right way” and have some fun on the way.

Yep, done. He’s jumped the shark now with his pointless links & his desperation to start an argument on every single thread.

He’s full of manure

Plus he’s been up Spurs managers arse since he walked through the door. Celtic connection. “One for the purists” load of old pony, Spurs are exciting at times, there’s fucking zero excitement watching RussBall.

Ask yourself this. In any relegation season, the experts & pundits, ex pros and ex managers all say the following about teams down the bottom, “continue to play like that & they’ll be ok”, or words along the lines of they’re giving themselves a chance. I’ve yet to hear one pundit, one expert, one journo, or one supporter of another club say anything other than “continue to play like that & youre fucked”, not one. Lego’s fan boys on here blame individual errors, bad luck and other pony for our pitiful points total. Nobody paid to give their opinions, says we’re playing the right way, we just need more luck or cut out errors. They just say we can’t play this way, and if we do, we’ll go down. Every fucking one….

We’d have more than 5 points.

He’s sucking the life out of the supporters. Even last year was pretty fucking boring, 🥱

Make him stop

My understanding was that Lawrie recommended Branfoot for the job in the first place. That was told to me by a journo who covered Bournemouth at the time.

Fuck me, the “words greatest WUM” is struggling now. It’s like watching Jose Mourinho, the decline is obvious. He’ll be posting on Mumsnet soon….Sad to see.

This was on the build up thread, but should be on here as well. This should be it. He has acknowledged what so of us have suspected all along, we went up despite him, not because of him. What was it he said last week, “I’m not here to grind out results”. Well he’s in the big league because “emotion took over” and we did pretty much grind out a result. Not because of Lego ball, despite Lego ball. If emotions hadn’t taken over we’d have fucking lost, no doubt about that… what a cock, he’s even managed to talk down his greatest achievement with his babbling too clever by half pony. Forget Pep, he’s fucking David Brent with a Lego head….

No they fucking don’t. You arrogant cock, you’re being criticised because “your” style of play has left us with one of the worst starts ever. You’re being criticised because “your” players are making the same mistakes over and over again. You are not being criticised because you’re some sort of maverick or a misunderstood genius. This isn’t Bob Dylan going electric, it’s fucking Pinky & Perky singing the hits of Cliff Richard…..Lego twat.

Don’t forget, we also had a long spell during the summer where we didn’t concede as well.

You need to tell Badger, he claimed she was. I guess they all look the same to some people.

When was she Home Secretary?

Unless you know the terms of the contract, you can’t really complain about it. If they’ve left any break clause as it was (for example we’ll pay you a years money on termination), then all they’ve done is exactly what you wanted them to, given him a pay rise. Whether it’s a 3 year contract or a new 4 year contract, or even a 100 year contract, doesn’t mean a thing unless you’ve agreed to pay the full contract up if sacked. In July ‘23 I’m sure pretty much every supporter would have agreed that if he got us up he deserved a new deal. Hindsight is a wonderful thing… “If I get you up, I want a new deal” isn’t exactly a piss taking outrageous demand, any agent with half a fucking brain would be after that.

I’d be disgusted and ashamed if I banged my cousin…She’s a right 9 Pinter….Id need 5 pints before even slapping her arse..

It’s untenable that we can continue on this trajectory, end up with a horrendous points total and somehow a line is drawn under this season. This is going to get more and more toxic, unless one of two things happens, a change of manager or a change in results. We’re not Luton or Blackpool, where the mangers has done a remarkable job to get us into the big time, we’ve spent nearly all of the past 60 years up there, and will have spent 11 of the past 12 in this league. I can’t believe many supporters will put up with 9 months of abject failure based on the fact we finished 4th last time we were relegated. Unless Lego takes this to end of April before being relegated, he’s toast….

Still sounds like an upgrade. Although, Lego’s substitutions & tactical changes do influence the game, they tend to make us even worse,

It’s a load of old pony, and they’re all at it not just Lego head. They should sit quietly in the dug out or in the stand. If they’re in the dug out, they should only leave it to tweak something or dish out a bollocking. No wonder players can’t think for themselves. Souness tells the story of his Liverpool debut when in the dressing room he quietly mentioned to Ronnie Moran that nobody had told him how they wanted him to play. Loudly Moran shouted “we paid 350k for you and you’re asking me how to fucking play, work it out for yourself”.

Fuck me. I didn’t know she was a Muslim…