Lord Duckhunter

It’s relative what other clubs spent. Last season we were 13th highest spenders. Puel & Pellegrino we were 12th highest spenders. Hughes we were 13th. All much of a muchness. People are making excuses for the bloke. He’s got better centre halves than Puel had (after VvD got injured), yet we can’t defend. We’ve got no bollocks, yet 6 of the present squad did us proud at Wembley despite a horrendous decision and a 2-0 deficit. Nowadays facing that, we’d get beat 4 or 5 before crying about the unfairness of it. As I wrote, if we go out of the cup at Boscombe questions will need to be asked.

What restraints has he got that the previous 3 managers didn’t have?

I really don’t get the kissing of his ring piece by a large section of our fan base, and the press. Par for us is about 10-14 in the league and, given ok draws, a decent cup run in one of the cups. Last season we finished 11th, had 2 horrific cup draws. We also had an embarrassing 9-0 home defeat, but measured against that, he did oversee stuffing the skates. Overall I’d say a par season, nothing more nothing less. The fact the back end of it was so good, boded well for this one. Where are we now though. Lose to Boscombe and we’d have been dumped out of both cups by lower league clubs, one of whom has nearly as bad form as us going into the game, and have again suffered a humiliating 9 stuffing, have failed to beat 9 men, gave Spurs 5 goals with tactics from the Under 11’s, and suffered countless other embarrassing performances. If we limp over the line questions must surely be asked. Personally, I’m on the fence. The cup game will make or break it for me. It’s a winnable game, that game defines his future for me. Lose it and what have we got. A couple of decent wins, spells of good football. But ultimately, the bloke would have given us 2 bang average seasons.

If the injuries are a result of overplaying them , bringing players back too quickly from previous injuries, or not training them properly, whose fault is that?

It’s just fucking excuses. Other sides press, other sides work hard, other sides have injuries, poor refereeing decisions, limited time between games, small squad depths. Why do some of our supporters try and cover up poor management and poor performances from players, by making out we’re somehow unique.

Too much fannying around out wide.What’s wrong with getting past or level with the full back and whipping it in. The problem is modern wingers play on the “wrong” wing so their natural movement is back inside. It’s ok if you’re Mahrez where you pick a beautiful weighted pass, or knock it square to KDB to do so, but when you’re fucking Nathan Redmond, cutting in to square it to Prowse or OR, who again pass it square, it’s becomes so predictable. Nothing wrong with getting in the mixer from wide angles, especially with Che Adams being a big physical lad and Ings sharp to pick up any bits. Knocking long straight balls isn’t great, we’re not Burnley. But we could get it into the box a bit quicker than we do.

Exactly. Puel took loads of clog, yet he managed to get a back 4 that contained Yoshida and Stephen’s behind a midfield of OR & JWP to defend properly and with a structure. He went to Liverpool in a semi final with those 2 at centre half, OR, JWP, & Steve Davis in midfield, with Redmond, Tadic and JRod up top. Only Tadic is a miss and he couldn’t defend for toffee. From Jan till the end of season Claude took clog, yet he won 6 games in the second half of the season. We need to win another 6 from 13 to match that, and need 16 points to match the pitiful (in most supporters eyes)total of 46. All this without VvD, a centre half pairing nobody would pick now, and whilst taking us to a cup final. Let’s see how Ralph does, but he’ll be going some to match that. The cry was that a lack of entertainment and goals were killing the club, well we’re certainly seeing a lot of goals lately. Unfortunately, they’re in the wrong fucking end.

A midfield warrior that ducks instead of taking one in the face. Yeah, just who you’d want beside you in the trenches. Wake up and smell the coffee, he’s soft as shite, a bottle job. Victor wasn’t the greatest p, but he’d of taken one for the team yesterday, as would of countless players from the past. The fact the captain wouldn’t tells us a lot about him and the culture around the club. Soft arsed.

It’s funny isn’t it. Had Stephens been playing and been in the same position as Vesty, he’d have got blamed by most. As he wasn’t and vesty is a forum fav,it’s the keeper fault. Im not saying he’s great, he’s average, always has been. But he’s the best we’ve got and he’s not helped by woeful defending and Golden Bollocks ducking rather than taking one in the face.

Pony. They got 34 points, we have 30 already. we won’t go down. End of.

We lost because we didn’t defend properly.

Pony, they’ll be literally be 100’s of decent applicants if he goes.

If you think we defended properly, you’re deluded.

Sums him and this bunch up.

Look at the third goal, then tell me JWP is captain material. Bottle job, ducked. Disgrace, I’d take the arm band off him for that.

Careful. I took a lot of abuse when I posted that it was embarrassing, noddy club behaviour.

There’s only one thing that matters. Did the ref say wait for my whistle. If he did, he’s right to disallow it.

Grow up, there isn’t an agenda against us.

It’s such a long time ago, I can’t believe anyone can even remember what life was like before Brexit. Fuck me, it’s Feb 23rd, it’s really quite astonishing they haven’t completely changed the country by now. What are they playing at, we’ve been left nearly 2 months ffs. Im lucky enough to remember how the country completely changed within 7 weeks of joining the common market.

VAR isn’t just there to rule out offside goals, it’s to allow onside goals the Lino thinks are offside. How do you do this, without stopping the game when the officials thinks its offside? As for sat, that’s entirely down to the Lino, not VAR. the Lino is supposed to raise his flag after the play has broken down if he thinks it’s offside. So once McCarthy made the save he should have put the flag up, as he didn’t he obviously missed the offside. VAR’s offside remit is only to rule on goals, any offside that doesn’t result in a goal, remains with the onfield officials decision. In this case they made the decision onside, so a corner was the result (as it would have been with no VAR)

I was looking at Agadir a couple of years back, but someone told me it’s full of Russians. Having spent time in Kos with them, it was a no from me. Are there a lot of them there.

Yep. Horrendously offensive from Johnny Cash & Miss Piggy. Fucking racists.

Yeah, The Greeks welfare was put ahead of saving the Euro, and their vaccine roll shows how much they care. Good job we were in for 40 years, otherwise we’d have walls made of cardboard and use cornflakes as insulation.

And wave hands about.

Yeah, fucking Reed not spending his money. We’d have won the league if he’d put his hand in his pocket.