Lord Duckhunter

Fuck me there’s stattos on other sites. Perhaps we could have a Play Station tournament with them.

Villa have a far far better keeper than us. Centre halves that are decent, their full backs are on a par. Douglas Luiz actually stops people playing through their midfield and John McGinn would walk into our side, really good player. Traoré is head and shoulders above fucking Djenepo, and you can’t tell me Redmond is better than Trezeguet or El Ghazi. Watkins isn’t at Ings level yet, but the play station statos would have wet their pants if we signed him from Brentford. Even their fringe players are men you’d want digging in for you.

Absolute pony.

Wonder if all the players are vaccinated, and if not, what the clubs position is regarding the ones that aren’t.

Yes

Exactly. Which is why we need to get rid. We’ve absolutely zero spirit or balls, and as you say, he’s integral to that.

Sell & move on.

Interesting move. Don’t know why some people are being negative. Seems like a good idea to me, whether he’s the right bloke is a different matter (I wouldn’t have a clue having not followed his career). Can’t see it doing any harm though.

Surely the simplest solution is vaccination or proof of a negative result within 48 hours of game. Either that or a Covid stand. All the non vaccinated could be herded into the chapel. We allow skate in previously so we’re used to policing disease ridden people

Surprised we’re not in for him, sounds perfect for Ralph.

I decided to delete the app a long time ago, as did my snap dragon who is frontline NHS. They’re actually advising this at her hospital as too many getting pinged. We’ve taken the view that until it’s compulsory, we won’t use it. It doesn’t mean we’re irresponsible, my lad tested positive and faithfully completed the details of who he lived with. We were then contacted by track and trace and told we had to self isolate and take test. Don’t let people tell you you’re being irresponsible by not having it. We did the right thing when we had an outbreak in the house. Provided you are sensible and it’s voluntary, there’s absolutely no need to have it.

Yet again a Ralph apologist twists what’s been written. Nobody is blaming Ralph for the lack of money. If he decides the limited money is needed elsewhere, that’s down to him. If that’s the case, people can question his judgement, can question whether getting Walcott in rather than somebody in nets, was the right judgement or priority (and don’t give me any pony that has no say in what positions are recruited). One can presume he’d rather spend the money elsewhere and have one of these 2 in nets. If that’s the wrong call, whose fault is that, Les Reeds? We can also question why we’ve got 2 shite keepers who are both out of contract in ‘22 and nobody has addressed this. Hes the manager not some back of house office bod.

In the real world people who don’t perform to the standard required get sacked, in football they get paid and people like you stick up for them. I presume you want people thrown out of the ground for bullying Redmond or Stephens when they make a mistake. The bloke is taking the piss. It’s not the fucking Boy Scouts, it’s elite sport. It’s a tough environment that gives you unbelievable riches for performing at that level. Fall below the required level and then sit on an elite level contract, and the shit should rightly hit the fan. It’s not like he’s losing everything. He’s a multi millionaire, who could probably earn half a million a year elsewhere.

Football isn’t like the real world. My boss wouldn’t come into the staff canteen and start throwing tea cups around and calling me fucking useless in front of everyone else. You soft arsed Nods would have the HA advisor in the dressing room in case somebody upsets our little darlings and swears at them.

It’s a ruthless cut throat business. Players that aren’t good enough, need moving on. You Nods are happy with a multi millionaire taking the piss, unbelievable. You weren’t so accommodating with Pelligrino.

Splitter

Yep. That’s down to Ralph. He froze the Swiss nipper out of the club, but seems ok with lurch stealing a living.

Telling a player you’re not good enough for the first team squad, so have to train with the stiffs, is not illegal. Provided he’s paid, a tribunal can’t decide who is and isn’t in the first team.

Pony. Bosman was about players out of contract. Previously the club that held their registration could demand a fee, or stop him moving on a free. Post Bosman they couldn’t. It had nothing to do with players that had a year left, like lurch

Splitting them is clearly the best option. The only issue is not realising they’ve been split. When I saw the title of this one started by Soggy, I actually thought “fair play to Soggy, I didn’t know he had a sense of humour”. Unfortunately, it soon dawned on me it was a mod split.

What’s needed is some good old fashioned management. Ignore him, make him train with the kids,don’t give him a squad number, make his life a misery. He’ll have 2 options then, fuck off and sign a half decent contract with Celtic or A N other, or have a miserable last season of his contract putting the cones out and practising with the nippers. Cloughie, Shanks, SAF, these guys didn’t get to the top by namby pamby #benice management, they were ruthless bastards, who would crush anyone who stood in the way of bettering the club. Ferguson humiliated Jim Leighton at Utd so much that Leighton hasn’t spoken to him since (and Ferguson had him at Aberdeen and bought him to Utd). Lurch has been stealing a fucking good living from us the past 3 years, he hasn’t earned that wedge. Whist we have a obligation to pay him, we don’t have an obligation to put him in the first team & be nice to him. If I was Ralph he’d have been in my office the day after the season ended and I’d have spelt out a few home truths to him. I’d them ask him “What’s it to be lurchio, the most miserable 10 months of your career, or a free transfer somewhere? You decide”.

Blame Les Reed or Puel for the lack of money, absolve Ralph of any blame.

*not his real name

Nope. It’s inconsistent & pony. I didn’t get pinged but I got contacted by track & trace because someone l lived with was positive. Theres 3 others in house, all double jabbed, we all had to take a test then self isolate for 10 days. The snap dragon & daughter both work in the NHS, so they were suddenly “realised” earlier in the week. So it’s ok for them to work within close proximity to people, some of whom aren’t jabbed, within a 10 day period , but not for me to go into a socially distanced work place, where all my colleagues are double jabbed. It just doesn’t make sense.

We’re you asleep in Dec ‘19? That’s when Boris won a landslide with the slogan “get Brexit done”. Other than that, good point well made.