Lord Duckhunter

It’s not just the defenders. The manager tells them how to play, he needs to look at himself. There’s also no pressure on the ball in midfield, easy for them. Had we taken our chances, they’d be dead and buried. Too easy to just blame the defence & keeper.

We can’t finish.

Fucking Armstrong, bury the fucking thing. Too airy fairy

Confirmation that it wasn’t JWP booked. They’ll know full well on the pitch who has been booked, so his pathetic attempt at a tackle looks even worse.

We also need pressure on the ball, having 2 plodders in central midfield makes it easier for them. We need one of OR & JWP and then someone that gets to players quicker.

Fucking centre midfielders both put fanny attempts at a tackle, then the keepers too deep, he should have cleaned that up.

I haven’t seen Moyes daughter, but I hope she resembles her mum.

Pickford doing his Forster impressions today. 2 pathetic attempts to save the ball, neither in the corner. Useless....

It happened to me at first. If you wait a bit, try again it my work second time. It did for me & my mate took 3 attempts but got there eventually. One watch out is there’s a delay before the option you need reappears.

Why would you want to opt in and out? Presumably, they’ve done it to stop people opting out of shite games and back in for the attractive ones. The only thing people can complain about is if you can’t attend because you or a family member have the virus and can’t attend. However, they don’t refund if you get flu or a heavy cold and can’t attend in a normal season . I guess asking people to prove it is just too complicated. Personally, I think it’s fair enough, they’re only asking for a handful of games.

This is just not true. Managers don’t expect wingers to go past full backs time and time again, if they did they wouldn’t play them on the opposite side. Managers were players, so I expect they know a lot more about beating players and the difficulty of it more than you or I do. If, as you claim, failing to beat the full back gets you benched, why does Redmond play every week? And if making tackles grantees a 10 game run in the side, why has OR spent most of the past 2 seasons on the bench. Your post is full of out of date cliches,

Flair players have never been given more chances than they get in the modern game. The game is full of players that do wonderful things that in the 70’s were only produced by Frank Worthington, Rodney Marsh & the like. Players that were frozen out by England mangers and shunned. I remember watching Tony Currie produce a masterful performance for England before being dropped, & Sir Alf actually warned Rodney before his first game that any “ fancy stuff” would result in him being substituted. The fact that Boufal can’t get 4 or 5 completely different managers to show faith in him is telling. Flair players don’t get treated terribly at all nowadays, centre halves are encouraged to play, midfielders encouraged to receive the ball in tight spaces and forwards are encouraged to try the “fancy stuff” that was so frowned upon in previous generations. Boufal is all fur coat and no knickers, a show pony who doesn’t actually produce very much. Managers haven’t given up on him because they’d rather have a steady solid average joe, they’ve given up on him because he’s not very good. They’re not Branfoot like clones who have a dislike for giving the ball away or trying something that doesn’t come off. If they thought he’d come good they’d give him all the time they needed to do so.

I don’t often agree with Martin Samual but he hit the nail on the head in his article today. “Alex Scott is going to be the new presenter of A Question of Sport. Apparently, she was considered the best person for the job. The best person for every job these days it seems. Maybe she could be both captains and answer her own questions, too. Matt Le Tissier played his last game for Southampton on January 30, 2002, coming on as an 82nd minute substitute for Kevin Davies against West Ham. Sky may think this makes him yesterday's man, along with Charlie Nicholas and Phil Thompson — all three have been stood down from their jobs on the excellent Soccer Saturday programme, replaced by fresher faces. Yet is Clinton Morrison or Tim Sherwood, Tony Pulis or Glen Johnson really more relevant to the modern generation than Le Tissier? His legend endures, beyond that of much younger players, because his highlights reel is extraordinary. And the way young people consume media these days, it is only a matter of time before a YouTube clip of Le Tissier, or a video lasting 30 minutes showing goal after spectacular goal, is discovered. My boys were five and four when Le Tissier quit. They all know him, though. They can all relate individual moments from his career, too. It's not the same with the rest of the Sky panel. More than any of the Soccer Saturday pundits, Le Tissier's feats live in the present. Yet the rush to jettison the old has meant the promotion or presence of any new face, certainly a woman or a BAME individual, is dismissed as part of a politically-driven agenda. The excellent Micah Richards has suffered from this, too. Change is inevitable. But it could have been handled considerably better.“

Unbelievable that Ball gets a pay rise after losing so many listeners. She’s horrendous & it’s no surprise she’s lost so many listeners. Sums Radio 2 up, it’s going right down the pan. Apart from Ken Bruce, it’s lost it. Ball, Jeremy vine smugfest & then Steve Wight, whose still doing his 80’s act.Here’s a factoid for you, he’s fucking overpaid, he needs serious sackin (no G). The weekends even worse. Tony Blackburn, whose 103 years old, Dermot O’Leary, that Carr mincer with some dopey bird, & then some clown could Rylan. It’s a piss take. #defundbbc

As opposed to Boufal who has set the league on fire, & excited us with his fantastic performances.

“Know next to nothing“ , apart from watching him fail time & time again. Oh & 4 or 5 managers who see him day in, day out in training as well as every single minute in a Saints shirt, I guess they know “next to nothing” about him as well. Of course, you know better lol.

BBC playing a blinder. Playing right into the Government’s hands. The gradual undermining of support that occurs every time these underserved salaries are published, makes decriminalisation of non payment easier & less controversial.

The question was about Charlie Elphicke, apart from voting remain , what’s his conviction got to do with Brexit.

Excuses, excuses. We had the same with Gaston. He had chances, he blew them, he didn’t have the ability needed to play in this league. Not good enough, that’s it.

What’s that got to do with the thread. Unless you’re implying that remain voters are more likely to be sex pests, I don’t see why you’re bringing it up.

Like Gaston, he’s been a monumental waste of money. Not good enough for our league, never will be.

Yep. House of Commons could have stopped Government going back on parts of WA, but clearly decided there was good reason to do so. An independent Sovereign Country showing its democracy at work, good to see. Although I’m sure the undemocratic Lords will try and override the will of the people.

I called them today & they said they’d had loads of trouble with the vouchers. Said they’d get someone to call me back within 2 days. How hard is it really, nearly every retailer manages to process vouchers online.

Ralph must have done as well. Played him week in week out & he was his captain (until he wanted away), does Ralph get a lol as well?