Lord Duckhunter

Judge a manager over a season, not some artificial span of dates that suits people’s agendas. I don’t give a shiny shite whether he’s a genius over a “Calendar year” or wins every game he’s ever played in April. Do you get an award for manager of the calendar year, or get extra points? He was 11th last season, which isn’t over performing, it’s about par. Let’s see where he ends up this season after every side has played each other twice. That’s how managers are judged, or at least were until the cult of Ralph started up.

If we’re going down that route, I’d prefer John Terry.

If Ralph got us 8th some of the clowns on here would be pushing for a knighthood. So far, he’s done a worse job than Puel, a better job than pelligrino,and a similar job to mark Hughes. However, it was “all on” them, wasn’t it?

You wouldn’t say that if you worked with their twatty fans

At least Branfoot would have made sure we put some tackles in and made the players put themselves about a bit. I’m pretty sure he’d be giving them some clog tomorrow as well.

People seem to forget this. They were bottom of league 2 with -17 points when he took over. He did every bit as good a job as Nigel Adkins did for us. Before the Russian he had to work for Eddie Mitchell, so he’s used to working for chancers. But I wouldn’t want him myself though.

Depends how you define late 2019. Its laughable that you pick a date that follows 2 straight losses. Newcastle away & West Ham home, both we were poor as fuck. Prior to lockdown we lost 3 out of 4. West Ham away, Burnley at home & Newcastle at home, in all 3 we were fucking woeful. Stop making excuses for the bloke, wake up and smell the coffee.

Imagine how this bunch of gutless pussies will fare once crowds come back in?

If that is true, how do you explain how shite we were in late ‘19 early ‘20?

Lose next week and that’s me done with him.

And my cocks a carrot

You’ve changed your tune.

Whatever constraints that are on the manager, or however bad owners are, the manager is responsible for the culture around the first team and the motivation of it. The culture is fucking soft arsed from top to bottom and the players appear to lack desire. That’s 100% the managers fault. When he fucking goes down and blubs when we unexpectedly win, when he’s happy to lose by 5 provided Pep throws him a bone. Does anyone wonder why we’re a bunch of fucking fairies

For a bloke who deals in facts, you over look the obvious. I couldn’t give a shiny shite whether we won the “superb for x amount of months” trophy. Final league position and games won are all that matters. At this moment in time, that period looks like a blip, because we were fucking woeful before it, and fucking woeful since.

As is Ralph

Play poorly under Hughes- Hughes shit. Play poorly under Ralph- Problems with the club. There’s nobody who can honestly say Claude Puel wouldn’t organise this defence better, no argument at all. It’s a fucking shambles, and that’s at the mangers door.

Laughable. did short-termism win when Hughes was sacked, because this bloke is doing no better. You’re just making excuses for him.

I bet the happy clappers from weds now realise how fucking stupid they are. You can not go through the motions one week and they switch it back on the next. Perhaps Potter will say some nice things about us and make them happy. That was as bad as anything Puel, Pelligrino and Hughes dished up, yet the excuses will keep coming and the blindness towards his failings will continue. Golden bollocks is fucking woeful without OR, can’t tackle or disrupt, and passes backward and sideways every fucking time. The centre halves look like strangers, does Ralph even drill them. Puel had Stephens & Yoshida playing to a far higher standard than these two. The club is soft as shite. Soft arsed manager, captain and players, yet some fans lap it up.

Seconds left and we fanny around with the ball. Fucking atrocious.

Has their keeper made a save in the last half an hour?

You’re still making excuses for him, unbelievable....

Whilst some were creaming themselves over only losing 5-2 and peps generous words, some of us saw this coming.

Bertrand is embarrassing himself now

No. There’s just excuses made for him.

I was thinking the same, but didn’t want the clog lol. Redmond is ok defensively, he fills in ok. I’d push Minimino up top and Redmond in front of Bertrand.