Lord Duckhunter

Exactly this. This must be the longest knee jerk in history. A lot of people have been worried for a long time, it’s not just “the Villa game” (tm Gaston)

My understand is most contracts have a fixed term for payments, but that this won’t necessarily mean the contract is paid up in full. For example, 5 year contract signed, with 2 year severance pay. So somebody sacked in year 2 will get 2 years money, not the 3 left on his contract.

The BCP area has a population closing in on 200k, (I believe Poole is the biggest town never to have had a football league club). In the 25 years I’ve lived down here there’s definitely been a shift with less and less people travelling up to Saints, this trend has increased significantly since their spell in the top flight. More and more people I meet and discuss football with consider themselves Bournemouth supporters and although most are a bit 2 club nods, in my opinion 25K is realistic in a new ground. Without doubt they could definitely sell high end hospitality if boxes existed. Their ground is ripe for housing development and pretty expensive properties at that. So if they could find somewhere to rebuild it’s definitely feasible. There is room for growth and money making opportunities, and it’s not ordinary punters through the door that make owners money anymore, its being in the Premier league and the TV monies involved and to a lesser extent the hospitality/hotel opportunities that accompanies premier league football. I can certainly see why someone would want to get involved. The council are also pretty skint & allegedly corrupt, so the same old NIMBYS May be bypassed where development is concerned.

It isn’t us that’s made them look bad, it’s the rest of the fucking teams they’ve played. We’ve actually made Villa & Wolves look ok. Leicester have just taken another dicking, Chelsea sacked their manager & Utd got done by Brighton & Brentford. Your noddy mentality is what’s wrong with a number of our supporters. You keep claiming we had a tough start, we didn’t. 7 games and we’ve faced one decent side. If those 7 games included City, Liverpool, Arsenal, you’d have a point. But they didn’t, and you don’t. We have made a poor start considering the fixtures we’ve had. If you’ve got to play 3 of the big clubs, you’d pick Chelsea & Utd at the moment. You’d want Leicester every day of the week this season, & Wolves and Villa have made awful starts.

They took deadwood off our hands last season, perhaps Leicester will replace Rodgers with Ralph 🙏

Why do you persist with this pony “those fixtures” as if they’re tough. Chelsea were such a shambles they sacked their manager, Utd got dicked by Brentford & Brighton, Villa are shiete, Leicester have pretty much lost every fucking league game so far, and wolves have only won a league game because they played us. That leaves Leeds, who aren’t exactly world beater and spurs. One good side, one. Contrast that with Bournemouth who’ve played Man C, Liverpool, Arsenal & city and still have 1 more point than us. We’ve had a pretty fucking easy fixture list, 7 points from those games at the times they were played, is not “par”, far from it.

Their next five games are; Brentford, Leicester, us, West Ham, & Fulham. For a team nailed on relegated they could be above us by WC.

Some people reckon we had a “tough” set of fixtures, they’ve played Liverpool, City, Arsenal & Newcastle as well as sharing wolves & Villa with us.

We needed an oven ready keeper in nets. Nope Needed a centre half-tick (on the basis of half a dozen games) Needed a goal scorer-nope A few promising nippers doesn’t make it a good window.

The Guardian? It was probably based on diversity rather than ability to play football then. If it was so good, why are we shite?

He’s an intelligent player, tactically he’s good, positional sense is good and clearly he’s a good pro. However he lacks pace & strength which are the main ingredients to play in this league. To lack one of them is tough in England ,but to lack both the rest of your game (touch, passing ability, skill, vision, etc) needs to be world class. The rest of his game is nowhere near that level and I can’t quite actually believe our scouting system thought it ever would be. He may just about get into a poor premier league squad, with the odd appearance here and there, but the fact he seems to be playing regularly tells you everything you need to know about our manager and recruiting policy.

Called good by whom? One eyed saints supporters. The keeper costs us goals, Moi and Adam Armstrong are in ahead of some of our signings, we’ve lost OR and we haven’t addressed the glaring lack of a striker. Fuck me if that’s good, I dread to think what you consider average.

If you think we’ve had a tough start you’re deluding yourself. Take off the red and white specs and open your bins. We couldn’t have faced Chelsea at a better time, Utd had a poor start as well. Boscombe have the same points and they’ve faced Liverpool, Man C and Arsenal (as well as Newcastle today). Typical Noddy mentality some of our fan base have. If we’re saying we can’t compete with Leeds, we really are fucked.

Tough set of fixtures, pony. Chelsea & United look by far the weakest of the top 6. Leicester, Villa and wolves are fucking pony at the moment. Leeds finished below us and lost their best 2 players. Spurs, that’s about it.

The only reason Villa only scored 1, wasn’t because of improvement in our defence. It was because they are fucking pony, if we play like that we’ll get done 5 or 6 against any half decent side. Whilst our centre half pairing appear to be better, there’s absolutely no improvement in our defensive structure or mentality. When was the last time we kept a clean sheet in a league game? Our centre halves are being hung out to dry by a piss weak midfield.

Being Ralph.

He’s always been like that.

Ralph never does. He gives it large when we win away, but when we lose he skulks off down the tunnel. Blokes a fucking fraud.

That was as bad as anything we saw under Hughes or Peligrino. Just unacceptable…..

Even the commentators are taking the piss.

Fucking hell , moi still on 😂

How many goals is the keeper going to cost us until he gets the stick the other two got. Piss fucking poor there, that’s about the third time this season.

What complete and utter pony. The vast vast majority of the opposition to us joining the EEC came from the left. People like Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Peter Shaw, they opposed us joining because they considered it skewed towards big business and a bosses club, as well as being undemocratic. They weren’t people clinging to UK exceptionalism in any way shape or form. More Labour MP’s voted leave than remain in ‘75, The TUC was anti EEC, as were SNP, Plaid Cymru, & Sinn Féin. The only national paper that came out for leave was The Morning Star. I know you Remainers like to look inside people’s souls and know why they voted a particular way, but there’s no way a longing for empire played any part in 70’s euro scepticism.