Lord Duckhunter

I listened to that podcast after the Villa game and it was a load of old pony. He was trying to imply getting rid of Martin, but going down anyway would mean us losing our best talent. It was one of the pony reasons he gave for sticking with him. The reality is the talent will leave regardless of who is in charge. The thought players will stay for Lego is deluded. His job isn’t to maintain access to the club, it’s not a juggling job. His job is to ask questions listeners want to ask. He wasn’t “juggling” when he went after jones. He was scared of Ralph & he’s scared of Lego. Not a great trait for a journo.

To be fair, he’s only won 1 less premier league game. The only concern I have is he’s dead, but even that isn’t a deal breaker when up against Lego….

I’d take Westwood over Lego.

Blackmore should be calling out Lego if, sorry when, we lose today. Instead of sucking up to the bloke he needs to ask him about the contrast in Ipswich’s approach to staying up. Instead of tha5 he’ll probably go on about how “cruel” the league is, and how plucky we were.

I’ve had Soggy on ignore this early this morning, and I haven’t read an anti semitic comment since, not read anything about lactating birds at work, or black female politicians. A coincidence? I think not….

Fucking dinosaur…

We can’t even compete with fucking Ipswich.

She’d be better than Lego

7 points and 8 worse GD than Ipswich before Xmas. Shocking performance, just shows how poor a job Lego is doing. Beggars belief that anyone can defend this fraud anymore.

It was a well written decent article, no way was it an “in my day’ hatchet job. The article started with Souness speaking as a spectator, how he turned over from watching Champions league tippy tappy Lego type ball, to watch a championship game. He then explained how it was different in his day, but how they were told to get it into the “badge kissers” early. Saying that Ronnie Moran used to stop the game after too many sideways passes, saying “that’s old mans football, I could play that”. He then broadened this to Lego, saying only the best could play this way, before questioning why Lego announces he won’t change & how this helps our opponent because they’ll know how we’ll play. He ends it by saying Real Madrid changed against City, went long and beat them, saying “that’s management “. It added to the debate. So what if he’s in his 70’s, you wouldn’t dismiss Paul McCartneys views on modern music with “ what’s that old cunt know about writing songs, he hasn’t had a hit for 40 years”.

Rupert calling out racism…

I see Souness had another dig at Lego and the Lego style in the paper today. Now, a defender is a very different animal. They have the most touches of the ball but to what effect? Some managers will come out after losing a game and point out 'look, we had 65 percent possession...' Yes, but the majority of that is in your own half and under no pressure. It can make for lots of average fare, it's hardly edge of your seat stuff and can't be enjoyable for the supporters. I bet if you asked most of these defenders today if they are comfortable doing what they are being asked to do, the majority would say 'no'. Only the very best ones can get away with it. The rest make too many mistakes in and around their own box which leads to too many efforts on goal and conceding unnecessarily. The Southampton manager Russell Martin said this week he was embarrassed to be on five points, yet in the same breath says he's never going to deviate from his principles of playing out from the back. To win football matches at any level today you must have an element of unpredictability. So, I'm not sure it's too wise to be sending out a message telling all the opposition you are going to play the same way all season.

We’re going to see a lot more of this going forward. We’re now at the stage where managers have what Simon Jordan calls “fuck off money”, they’re earning brilliant money and they all had playing careers post the sky boom. 40 years ago if he failed and couldn’t get back in, Martin couldn’t of retired, he’d have to get a job somewhere in civvy street.Now what’s the worst that can happen, he retires on money most of us will never earn. There’s also far more roles around the game than there ever was, from DOF, to pundit, to podcaster. They’ve also got the ready made excuse managers didn’t have in the past, poor recruitment. Branfoot signed Speedie & Dixon, the twat. Lego gets a free pass over BBD & Archer. I think this is driving managers to manage on their terms, the desperation is gone. Failure is not life changing, so why spend hours on the training ground drilling the back 4 like George Graham did, when you can coach them RussBall, enjoy yourself, become a “brand manager”, the only real pressure is pressure you bring on yourself. Failure isn’t down to you, it’s down to recruiting, it’s down to the unbalanced nature of the league. Why grub around trying to grind out results, when you can be respected by your peers for “playing the right way” and have some fun on the way.

Yep, done. He’s jumped the shark now with his pointless links & his desperation to start an argument on every single thread.

He’s full of manure

Plus he’s been up Spurs managers arse since he walked through the door. Celtic connection. “One for the purists” load of old pony, Spurs are exciting at times, there’s fucking zero excitement watching RussBall.

Ask yourself this. In any relegation season, the experts & pundits, ex pros and ex managers all say the following about teams down the bottom, “continue to play like that & they’ll be ok”, or words along the lines of they’re giving themselves a chance. I’ve yet to hear one pundit, one expert, one journo, or one supporter of another club say anything other than “continue to play like that & youre fucked”, not one. Lego’s fan boys on here blame individual errors, bad luck and other pony for our pitiful points total. Nobody paid to give their opinions, says we’re playing the right way, we just need more luck or cut out errors. They just say we can’t play this way, and if we do, we’ll go down. Every fucking one….

We’d have more than 5 points.

He’s sucking the life out of the supporters. Even last year was pretty fucking boring, 🥱

Make him stop

My understanding was that Lawrie recommended Branfoot for the job in the first place. That was told to me by a journo who covered Bournemouth at the time.

Fuck me, the “words greatest WUM” is struggling now. It’s like watching Jose Mourinho, the decline is obvious. He’ll be posting on Mumsnet soon….Sad to see.

This was on the build up thread, but should be on here as well. This should be it. He has acknowledged what so of us have suspected all along, we went up despite him, not because of him. What was it he said last week, “I’m not here to grind out results”. Well he’s in the big league because “emotion took over” and we did pretty much grind out a result. Not because of Lego ball, despite Lego ball. If emotions hadn’t taken over we’d have fucking lost, no doubt about that… what a cock, he’s even managed to talk down his greatest achievement with his babbling too clever by half pony. Forget Pep, he’s fucking David Brent with a Lego head….

No they fucking don’t. You arrogant cock, you’re being criticised because “your” style of play has left us with one of the worst starts ever. You’re being criticised because “your” players are making the same mistakes over and over again. You are not being criticised because you’re some sort of maverick or a misunderstood genius. This isn’t Bob Dylan going electric, it’s fucking Pinky & Perky singing the hits of Cliff Richard…..Lego twat.

Don’t forget, we also had a long spell during the summer where we didn’t concede as well.