Lord Duckhunter

The official scores on the doors from this years culturally enriching largely peaceful Notting Hill Carnival are in. 61 incidents where police officers were assaulted. 8 stabbings. 349 arrests 53 Assaults on emergency workers 13 sexual offences 2 deaths

We weren’t going down under Nigel, we’d improved already.

Spot on, too many of our nods are like star struck teenagers, grateful for one glimpse of the promised land. My arse. We’ve been in the top flight most of the past 60 years, we’re not Luton, or Swindon or even fucking Boscombe. We’re an established top flight club that has slipped out of the league occasionally. If Lego doesn’t put his ego aside and start using tactics and systems suited to the players we have, he needs to fuck off for someone who will. We’ve had 3 pretty easy games (once Newcastle were down to 10) so to come away with 0 points is bad enough, but to continue playing in the way that gave us 0 points, is fucking criminal.

Russ would leave his chin wide open, cant defend properly. You’d have to kill Jonesy to beat him. Russ hasn’t got the killer instinct

Russ would mince about looking good, but Jones only needs to bide his time & Russ will make a mistake and hand it to him on a plate.

He’s got this international break to clear his head, and to work with the players not on international duty. He’s got to work out tweaks to his tactics, rethink some of his beliefs and put into practise lessons he’s learnt from the 3 games. I’d them give him until the next international break to see if he’s willing to adapt. It’s not necessarily about results, but if we’re still making the same mistakes, playing the same way & insisting Jack Stephen’s is Beckenbauer then we need to pull the pin at the next break. If there’s sign of progress & of flexibility, then he should stay. But the club shouldn’t go down because of Lego heads ego. He needs to change & change quickly.

Even this is bollocks. He was quick enough to ditch AM despite the credit he had from the play offs. He picked the wrong side, a real bloke would hold his hands up & just say that. He’s trying to kid us his fuck up is because he’s such a great guy. He’s a pony merchant.

The worst thing about the first goal was we’d minced about and nearly conceded 30 seconds prior to that. If, as Lego claims, he didn’t want us “passing it about in those situations “ why wasn’t he going nuts on the line after the first mistake, why wasn’t he shouting for us to knock it long. A few minutes till half time, we got let off the hook and we then still played the same way. Fucking 100% down to the manager, because every player left to his own devices would have breathed a sigh of relief over the let off, and hit it long 30 seconds later. If he continues to blame the players, he’ll have lost them by Oct, no bother.

Basically, yes.

Yeah how we miss the goal scoring talent Jones had at his disposal. Che Adams, Mara & the goal machine Theo Walcott.

We were in the league for 10 years, 10 years of premier league money, we were only down 1 season, we’re not like “most” play off winners . We’ve literally given 3 goals away this season as a direct result of the managers tactics. We’ve played against 10 men, against the team that finished 4th bottom last year, and the mighty Brentford. Just because other teams go straight back down, doesn’t mean we should put up with tactics that make it inevitable we will do so. I don’t think I’ve heard a commentator so exasperated watching a tactical performance before. It’s been a complete and utter tactical shit show in all 3 games.

If he doesn’t change he’ll go. Even if SR want to stand by him, the players will chuck him under a bus eventually. There’s no way professional players will continue to put up with being made to play like that week in week out in this league. If we continue to get dicked, he’ll lose them.

Wait till Lego gets hold of him.

As manger

Hopefully that’s the last time we see Smallbone & Armstrong for a while.

The only people weeping are the fucking Saints fans.

Another one down to the manager I’m afraid. Fucking madness.

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Fuck him off. ASAP.

On paper looks a great signing. He’s got a bit of devil & character in him which is great with a keeper. I’ve no doubt he’ll pinch the odd point here and there which could make a massive difference come the end of the season. Far and away SR’s best signing & probably the first time since Rickie Lambert we’ve signed a stand out oven ready performer in our league . The absolute best keeper available to us, well done to all involved particularly Lego.

Got to be Billy Bragg as well.

I wonder what old Gordy Brown thinks, seeing as he put it there in the first place. Still, different PM’s different priorities. Maybe they could give it to a couple of pensioners without Winter fuel payments to burn this winter.

I’d have the JWP who played a bit further forward, but keep the other version. The one we saw about 80% of the time. Fucking hell the sideways, backwards, safe football is bad enough as it is, without the GOAT of walking football back in the building.

No need to wait and see what’s happened to our tenants, their rent has gone up because supply is going down. Exactly the same thing that happened when Osborne introduced restrictions on buy to let mortgage tax relief, instead of hitting “greedy landlords”, it hit ordinary Joes because supply went down. So many sold up, the ones that didn’t were able to pass the extra tax due onto their renters.

This. A rise in CGT from the current 20 per cent to 40 per cent or even 45 per cent now seems certain. The trouble is, people are already planning ahead. There are reports from accountants and financial advisers across the UK that small companies are being sold, share portfolios cashed in, and property holdings reshuffled to book the gains right away. That makes perfect sense of course. If you sell now, you only have to pay 20 per cent of whatever profit you have made, whereas if you wait until the end of the year you will have to pay twice as much to the government. The result? The raid will generate almost no additional revenue, for the simple reason that everyone will have sold if they can, and if they can’t, they will just hold onto the asset until the rate comes down again, or they can move abroad for enough years to avoid it. If you are going to raise CGT you have to spring it as a complete surprise, and implement it on the same day that it is announced, so that no one can plan ahead. Instead, Labour has made a complete mess of it. In reality, all it has done is expose how hopelessly ignorant this administration is of basic economics. Neither Starmer nor Reeves, even though she keeps boasting about how she ‘knows how to run the economy’, have worked out that taxes impact the way people behave, and that has to be taken into account when planning any major changes. That hardly bodes well for the next five years.