Lord Duckhunter

I’m fucking getting knackered just watching Ryan Frasier running around.

Although they might be able to rest 2 during the game against us.

What do you expect, he’s got to be in his 50’s.

You’re being generous. Personally, I think he decided it wasn’t a red, but with all the commotion forgot to give the yellow. Any other explanation beggars belief. You can’t look at that and say it’s not worthy of any card.

They’re right, the initial contact was outside the box. However they need to learn the rules. If a foul starts outside the box and continues inside, it’s a penalty and If there are two fouls, one outside and one inside then the referee, who has played advantage after the first offence, should award a penalty. either way it was a stonewall. Lucky to stay on, and even luckier not to receive a yellow.

Stop digging.

Agreed, Broja over Armstrong is the key. Gives us some many more options. Unbelievable anyone could think otherwise……

As me and Egg have already explained to you,(without needing my grandson to draw a picture with his new Xmas crayons) if both the full back and the wide men favour the “wrong” foot you’ll condense the pitch and make it easier to defend against.

I didn’t see it and I had my eyes on him thinking it was a borderline red (no genuine attempt at ball). Our website doesn’t show it either. Unless he showed it running from the monitor or after the penalty I’m pretty sure I’d have seen it.

What I meant was there doesn’t need to be a big man on the end of it. Most crosses nowadays are passes pulled back, accurate pin point delivery or driven along the 6 yard line. Not many fighting balls go in there these days. Look at Jota, he’s hardly Joe Jordan but he gets on the end of a few. If we get blokes in box the crosser can pick them out.

He didn’t though did he? He had to be told to rectify his fuck up. How the fuck he didn’t give it in real time was beyond me, even worse was (unless I missed it) he didn’t even show a yellow card. Appalling refereeing, he was saved by the result.

KWP deserves to be in the side, so Perraud is just going to have to bide his time. I’ve nothing against inverted widemen or full backs, but not down the same side together. Surely one of the reasons you play the wideman on the “wrong” side is he cuts inside dragging his full back with him, which gives our full back more space to overlap. If our full back then has to come inside because he doesn’t cross particularly well on his wrong foot, then it’s a wasted opportunity. All this pony about crossing and who heads it in, is just that pony. Nowadays when you get in behind their full backs the cross is low, or pulled back for someone. If we had an exceptional left back, then one of KWP or Tino will have to warm the bench, we haven’t, and we’re not good enough to leave better players out. I just wish we had a better left footed wide man in front of him.

Course there’s excuses for the individual players. The batsmen don’t get enough games where they can learn how to build an innings, don’t play enough of the long form of the game. Aren’t given enough time or practise on Aussie wickets. What are they expected to do, arrange their own games?

I don’t what the rest of the country is like, but round here the service from local GP’s is disgraceful. It’s like they’ve taken the opportunity to weed out all the time wasters that want to see a Doc for the slightest sniffle. I’m all for telling time wasters to fuck off, but they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water and people with serious ailments are waiting too long to actually see a doctor. Plus, the time wasters don’t sit at home getting over their mild cold, they’re down clogging up A&E.

Test cricket is incredibly popular in this country, but the powers that be are doing everything they can to undermine it. Stop trying to recreate the IPL and attract a different audience. Nippers aren’t stupid, they’re quite capable of sitting down and understanding the intricate ebbs and flows of the proper game. Why the headlong rush into becoming another version of baseball? Australia seem able to treat test cricket with the respect it deserves, and prepare people to play it. They seem to have the balance right between the modern world and tradition, why can’t we?

I thought his kicking was good, and he was positive at corners. Nothing particularly wrong with his game yesterday, and I’m far from a fan of his.

You’d hope he realised something was up when the centre half was taking goal kicks.

Who is this fucking annoying women on motd?

Pony. He played well today.

Positional wise he was excellent, look like he stuck to his role in the game plan 100%. But, he just lacks a bit of spark, bit of acceleration or something different. A couple of times he could have broken between the lines or got us up the pitch, he would have done in his prime. Unfortunately, he looks like a good pro way over the hill.

Agreed. Protects the ball, when the ball sticks up front it makes the midfield better. Some of his hold up play was superb today, especially from a nipper. Looked like an old pro out there.,

Debate over…. He needs to play every fucking game. Head and shoulders above our other “strikers”.

Broja is a proper centre forward. Holds the ball up, upsets their centre halves, puts himself about, good in the air, quick feet and no slouch. My motm today by a mile. We look so much better with him up top. Nice to see a bit of gamesmanship from Forster, upsetting their muppets with his time wasting. Unexpected bonus, at 1-1 I thought “here we fucking go again”. Walcott, WTF, but other than that Ralph did ok today. But ffs Ralph, Broja ahead of Armstrong & Adams all day long. Please !!!!

I see Ralph has started whinging about the fixture list over Xmas now.

Probably embarrassed. According to this he signed.