Lord Duckhunter

Personally, I think the modern players are far far more skilful than in the past. Centre halves now bring the ball down and play, whereas it was only a handful previously. Look at OR and contrast him with tough tackling midfielders in the past. He receives the ball in tight spaces, plays little passes and keeps possession. Up front they’re pretty much all skilful, full of tricks, flicks etc. That famous Worthington goal could of been scored by a dozen forward players nowadays. The great players you mentioned had fantastic skills, but most modern players possess them nowadays, and in a game played a lot quicker. However, there were massive differences back then, which is why these types were so loved. One was they did it despite the culture. A culture that discouraged fancy Dan’s and managers that were anti fancy tricks (except for a few notable exceptions). They also did it with heavy footballs, defenders committing GBH on them, and on mud heap pitches. They also lived a lads life off the pitch, they were glamorous Jack the lads, rock stars when rock stars acted like rock stars, not woke warriors.

Sad news, such a great entertainer and player. My mates a Huddersfield supporter and Frank is his absolute hero, he’ll be in bits tonight. Guys like Frank, Rodney Marsh, Tony Currie, Stan Bowles and of course Bestie, made the 70’s such a great period to watch the game. To watch them take the piss whilst suffering tackles that bordered on GBH,was a sight to behold. Then off down the discotheque to pull a few birds. Great days...

Do you still believe in Father Christmas?

Can you get it on iTunes (or whatever it is now), or do you need to download app

The snap dragon has her second one next week, so fingers crossed.

We’ve beaten them since. To do a palace we needed Utd.

Let’s hope not.

It’s on... Provide Utd buck up...

Correct. It’s the play station hipster generation I’m afraid. All stats and “support strikers”. When they score their goals and how many they miss, is just as important as bare stats. He’s not a bad player, but that wasn’t the argument. It was whether he’s produced a “good” return, I don’t think he has and his lack of quality is a contributing factor in our average season.

Awful miss against Brighton

What a load of Pony. Ings drops deep just as many times as Che when the play together and when Ings doesn’t play, Adams is the main man up there. What’s the obsession with stats, they’re for play stations. Wingers should be getting 9-11 goals a season, not strikers (whether support ones or not). Bringing it back to Redmond, that’s where he lets himself down. He should be aiming for double figures, his finishes yesterday shows he’s got the potential to do that.

They were in the third division thou.

What’s a “support” forward. Some sort of play station position? Or just an position invented to cover up a players lack of goals.

A good return? You're either taking the piss or you’ve got pretty low standards. He’s been average.

This is pony. He’s been a better singing than Boufal or Austin, and probably Long. It’s way too early to judge Adams and I assume you’re joking when comparing Obafemi. Why do you think he’s played so many minutes? Is it because he’s fuvking rubbish, or is it because 4 different managers see something in him?

Rio Ferdinand has just said the complete opposite. He reckons the closer they get to winning all 4 the harder it’ll become. The pressure to create history builds and builds. It’s probably why it’s never been done.

Depends how long it took him to get back in.

Ahh shit. We’ve just lost the “gave city the hardest game 2021” trophy. Peps just awarded it to Everton.

Utd anyone? History repeating itself?

How dare you!!!! I was on the floor of my lounge crying when we won that. I even had a tee shirt made “stop the count”.

Exactly. It changes nothing as far as Ralph’s performance is concerned. I’d expect a reasonably competent manger to beat a lower league side in a quarter final, Mark Hughes managed it. Making out it’s some sort of overachievement is noddy club.

Nobody is deriding it, you plank. Merely pointing out that beating a team from a lower division isn’t that big a deal.