Lord Duckhunter

Years? A couple of seasons more like.

You make it sound like people think it’s a bad thing. Only a few meat heads would begrudge your “friend” happinesses. I couldn’t give a shiny shite if she is now a man, I doubt would anyone else on here would either. It’s just a straw women you’ve set up.

They’re both toilet so we can’t keep having this “he should be playing instead ” every single time a goal goes in, or we don’t win. McCarthy has actually done better this season and has done nothing to deserve being replaced by FF. Lurch may have saved this one, or that one, but he’d have let others in, as they’re both much of a muchness. I doubt results would have been any different. McCarthy is here for the long run, FF ain’t, it’s perfectly reasonable and understandable he’s the number 1 and it doesn’t help anyone, least of all the back 4 to keep chopping and changing.

I know playing full backs further up the park is sometimes just a lazy call from supporters & isn’t always a good move. But Tino is a young man and is he really a full back? I’ll be amazed if he plays out his career there, he’s got midfielder written all over him to me (maybe even central eventually). So why not try it, even if it’s a total fuck up, it can’t be any worse than Walcott.

Homosexuality is punishable by death over there, but Newcastle will be wearing the Rainbow laces.

Perhaps East Kent was minted.

Redmond has done ok this season. He’s still Redmond, but the fact he’s in the starting 11 is a damning indication of just how patchy/poor Djneppo, Walcott & Mo are. All of them have flattered to deceive and none of them have nailed down a starting place in what is a pretty poor side. We’re somehow ended up with arguably our best performer from last season (KWP) sat on the bench. Frankly we’re not good enough to have players of that standard on the bench. The manager needs a system where our best 11 are playing, and I don’t mean playing right backs at left back or wide midfielders up front. Surely to god it’s worth trying Tino in front of KWP, he can’t do any worse than the blokes we do play there. And what’s wrong with A Armstrong playing off the big lad up front. When fit Stuart Armstrong can play left side, with 2 of JWP/OR/Diallo in the centre.

He should have gone as soon as last season ended, giving a new manager a preseason and a little bit of money to get a couple in. We’ve put all our eggs in the Ralph basket now and unless there’s an outstanding candidate available and willing to join us, or we go on another losing streak like we did last year, it makes little sense in moving him on. Performances have ensured we’re not really in the position we were with Peligrino (get him out or we’re defo going down), but we’re in a pretty precarious position. We’ve got a pretty poor squad, managed by a pretty poor manager,

Well seeing as Burnley & Brighton also beat them around the same time, I doubt Klopp felt particularly good. By the way, Dyche & Potter didn’t start blubbing either.

Fair result, we showed a little bit more quality but they had a couple of half decent chances at 2-2. Walcott & Mo fucking woeful. Typical Ralph performance, played half decent at times, but he didn’t effect the game at all. His in game management is decidedly average most weeks.

I’ve been to The Caneries twice since Sept and the UK locator & Spainish health forms were pretty similar, as were the checks at either end. The airlines were stricter and checked more thoroughly than the civil servants from either country. The only people who really gave a shite were the hotels in the caneries who face massive fines if they don’t witness and record all their guests vaccination status. It was interesting seeing the various nationalities attitude towards Covid, it’s easy to judge because the bars and centres are broken down into nationalities. The Spainish were the most cautious, the Germans and Dutch far and away the most carefree.

This has got the makings of another bore off between stattos

Fucking joke, just wearing them to virtue signal. Just as bad as Labour MP’s who wear them in the commons but didn’t bother in the the bars at conference. You either believe in wearing them, or you don’t.

Football’s moved on, the club’s moved on, the only involvement I want him to have is shaking people’s hands and telling a few stories in the hospitality areas. He’d be a fucking disaster on the football side of things.

It’s the most ridiculous debate that takes place on here, because there really isn’t any debate to be had. He did a bloody good job and I couldn’t really give a shiny shite whether he’s flopped since, that’s not relevant to what he did for us. He wasn’t here for the full league 1 season, and when he joined every single person would have taken being in the premiership 2 seasons later. The fact he did it with style, great football and with personal dignity and class, only adds to that IMO.

He did just as well as Rafa and they love him.

Great goal.

Classic SOG

I prefer using my bins to base my opinions on, not a spreadsheet

Exactly, you’re starting to learn something. Get it in the fucking mixer. Is there an XJ, Pd or Uv for that?

What a load of old Pony.

Are you planning on spamming every thread with this pony?

Teams win when they don’t play particularly well. I thought a student of the game like yourself would have known that. I obviously had you down as more knowledgeable than you are, sorry.

What a load of old pony. Particularly benchmarking this season against last. Based on our performances, and the opposition’s performances I’d say we’re probably a couple of points shy of where we should be. That’s always going to be the case because without a decent striker we’ll struggle to get goals. We need to play well to win, which isn’t a great situation to be in.