Lord Duckhunter

This is it in a nutshell. That’s see how the season pans out before deciding whether he should go. However, I really can’t see anything changing. You can’t give players heart, he seems incapable of changing course and sides aren’t suddenly going to forget how to counter his tactics. We read that his finger prints are all over the club, that his style is imposed on all our sides, if that’s the case then results in the lower age groups damn him as well.

You’d think not, but I guess it depends how he conducts interviews and of course the famous measure of , how many points he’s got. Is it a good 8th or a bad 8th.

Lol, consistent as ever.

Is Covid worse in Southampton?

What a load of pony. Puel did a far far better job than that.

Good post, really good. He also seems to employ a game plan of substitute by numbers, rarely surprising anyone with the timings or personnel. For an alleged good man manager his use of the goalkeepers is bizarre, it wouldn’t surprise me if both were wondering what the hell is going on and both were suffering because of it. He also dropped Che recently when his confidence must of been sky high and he’s accountable for the complete loss of confidence that Bednarek is suffering from. I question making Prowse skipper, as it smacks of wanting a yes man in the role.

Frustrating isn’t it. Seeing the same thing over and over and over again.

Again excuses. Again, I’ll ask. What about his first horrendous spell? Were those awful performances beyond his control?

My favourite bit was when he found himself in the box and instead of shooting tried a pass. He over hit it horrendously and then blamed the full back.

Again excuses. It didn’t work at the start of the 2019/20 season. Why is this always overlooked by the cult. It wasn’t a “compressed season” we didn’t have “a terrible injury crises” and as for lack of squad depth, Ralph specifically said he wanted a smaller squad. He got the size of squad he wanted, yet the cult use that as an excuse. Unbelievable.

Had his day. That “and it’s live “, does my fucking head in. So contrived.

How many West Brom players would get in our team?

Pony. They make excuses for the bad. We were fucking woeful at City, they stuffed us whilst in second gear, if you read some of the cult it was a decent performance. The 9-0 was down to the officials, other defeats it was tiredness or injuries. We lose to Spurs and it’s all about how well we played first half, not that we chucked the game away AGAIN. You haven’t answered the fundamental point, the cult judge him differently than previous managers. If Mark Hughes had us 11th one season, suffered two 9-0’s, been stuffed countless times and had a run like this, they wouldn’t be sticking up for him or making excuses.

I doubt there’s many supporters who thought we’d be in the bottom 4 or 5 this season. All of a sudden 16th is ok. However the Ralph cult try to spin it, this season has been a terrible disappointment so far and can’t end soon enough.

How do you explain our awful start to last season then? Maybe he’s just not that good.

Wish it was Bantz... But cult and fan boys sum it up perfectly. How else can you describe the posters who refuse to look at his record dispassionately , and keep making excuse after excuse for his inability to react to the game in front of him. There’s absolutely no doubt these people don’t judge him as they’ve judged other managers, and if his name was Ralph Higgins they wouldn’t be so generous.

He’s not better than Che Adams imo. Burnley play to his strengths, Ralph won’t.

That doesn’t count, it’s not a calendar year. The cult only recognise calendar years as a measure of success

People seem to be forgetting the god awful spell we had at the start of last season, before a couple of scrappy wins against Watford & Norwich. He’s had 2 pretty horrendous spells with a great run in the middle. The great run coincided with lockdown and teams coming to terms with no supporters & bubbles etc. Can the cult not contemplate that the good run was the blip, and the 2 shitty periods the norm. Maybe the great run was a one off, why do people think that run will be repeated. Sport it littered with people or teams that do well for a spell, but then go back to their natural level, Ralph maybe one of them. One criticism I had of Poch at our club is we rarely ground out wins we didn’t deserve. We had to play well to win (and we did frequently), however when we were off, we lost. Ralph seems to be the same. I can’t recall too many games we’ve won where the opposition wonder how they lost. When we win, the opposing manager generally says they lost to a better team on the day, and the pundits generally say we deserve it. We never pinch games. A continuation of that will cost us in the long run, because non top top players are incapable of playing at the top of their game week in week out. For a club like ours having a manger that can grind out results when we don’t deserve them, is crucial. The main part of this is being defensively sound and having a structure that makes us hard to play against. Ralph seems incapable of doing this and that’s why his future should be in doubt.

Of the 7 teams that finished above Puel, who should we have been disappointed not to be higher than?

Where were all these caveats around money quality & wages when Hughes, Puel & Pelligrino were getting clog?

Agreed. With Kane they stuffed 5 past us.

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So we can’t judge him over 4 months and we can’t judge him at the end of the season. We can only judge him now? I haven’t once called for his sacking, not once. Yet. I realise the cult have made their minds up, one even posted “legend” when he cried , but I’m waiting until the end of the season, if that’s ok with you.

Teflon Ralph, more excuses.