Lord Duckhunter

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.

It’s not incompetence, it was subterfuge. Just like Europhiles have been doing for the past 40 years, he lied to the British people. Quite rightly he calculated that the vast majority of the public couldn’t really give a shiny shite whether there were checks on the GB/NI border, that the desire to get Brexit done was more important to his supporters and Brexit voting constituencies. MP’s had the opportunity to ensure this wouldn’t be the case by voting for May’s turd, but they turned it down. Far from incompetent, it was a clever strategy. We’re out, and getting back in is going to be so much harder than stopping Brexit ever was.

You make it out as if the manager is just given players and told to manage them. That he has no say in who comes or who is let go, that he is unable to tell the powers that be the positions he wants strengthening and that he is some sort of bystander when decisions are made. He’s been in charge 2.5 years, which is a decent length of time for a modern manager. The goalkeeping debacle has happened under his watch, the buck stops with him. It seems he wanted Jankewitz out of the club, and he’s gone. So he clearly does have a say and influence on who comes and goes. He’s paid to make decisions and it appears he’s decided to get by with these 2 poor keepers in nets. That’s down to him, nobody else. Managers live and die by those decisions, however Teflon Ralph seems to escape the die bit of his decisions. If the keepers cost us our place in the league, it’s his fault for not replacing them and deciding our priorities were elsewhere.

Spot on. Big failing of the manager as well. Not that the apologists will blame him, Teflon Ralph will get away with it again. Any decent manager can see we need a someone else in nets, and any decent manager would insist that after left back this was our top priority.

I’m not paid millions of pounds to decide. Ralph is, the buck stops with him. At least we’re on the same page. You clearly accept that a keeper could be signed, depending on the managers priorities. Personally, I think it’s a fucking high priority.

You’re all over the place.

Like a lot of players his contract ran out at the end of June. Because of Covid the season was extended past that date, and other players agreed an extension till the end of the prolonged season. He refused and therefore didn’t play.