Lord Duckhunter

Fuck me, there’s a surprise. Blackmore sucking up to the manager. I don’t give a shiny shite what a manager sounds like at a “presser”, too many nods do. Results are the be all & end all of it, and they’ve been bang average so far. You can’t even point to games where we’ve played well & missed chances or unlucky situations have cost us. On balance, I’d say the opposite, we couldn’t really complain if we had one or two points less. Tactically it looks a bit of a mess to me, you can’t really see what he’s trying to do. It’s not like you’re sat there thinking “when this clicks, we’ll be fine”, for the most part we look disjointed. The most worrying aspect is we still can’t defend, he’s had all summer with and it still looks a mess. The excuse of not having the team fully formed until after the window, has some merit when discussing the forwards, but not defensively. Downes, Charles, THB, Captain Jack, Ronnie E, Wood, Manning, Taylor have all been there from day one, yet we look unorganised and under coached in that important aspect of the game. It’s the unglamorous side of coaching, boring and repetitive, but vital. Nothing I’ve seen so far tells me this blokes capable of doing it well.

How do you think it’s paid for now, the magic money tree? There’s dozens of different models of running a national health service. I’ve used health services in France, Spain & Greece. My experience with all 3 are better than I’ve had with the NHS. Open your mind, there is a reason other countries haven’t copied our outdated 1940’s system.

Me neither. Had it not been for 3 mins against Wrexham it would be even worse. Why do so many of our supporters lap up the pony these hipster managers spout at “pressers”. All that matters is results. Very early days, but Middlesbrough have a new manager and are top of the league. So far I’ve been completely underwhelmed by his results and tactics.

Yes, they might get a shock when they don’t have to wait weeks to see a doctor or get an hospital appointment. Is that the best you can do, the NHS & Welfare. The NHS is horrendous & the welfare state becoming unaffordable. The German chancellor is facing up to reality, eventually someone will force us to. “The welfare state that we have today can no longer be financed with what we produce in the economy,"

Shock? On second thoughts, it’s a shock it’s only 15 points.

The Robot has been busy today, let’s hope he was allowed a coffee break.

That was in the second division. He’d have done exactly the same had he replaced Ralph in summer 2023

Let’s hope Nigel sorts the police out & stood their time wasting as well.

Doesn’t seem that long ago he was on Linekar’s podcast & Monday night football, thrilling the hipsters with his modern approach, whilst educating us dinosaurs. The myth of his management has well and truly been busted & it wouldn’t surprise me if the myth that’s he’s “a nice man” will follow as the pressure mounts. He’s a self centred arrogant cock, who should have been ran out of town this time last year when it became obvious that he put his career, sorry project, above the well being of our football club. For me that’s unforgivable. As bad as other managers have been, they’d have done anything for 3 points, this fucking Lego headed vegan onion wouldn’t. He deserves every bit of clog he’s getting and long may it continue.

Wasn’t just him though was it. Far too many Nods were “impressed “ by him (and his buddy Wilcox, how’s it going at Utd), stuck up for him and blamed the players. Even chumps like Blackmore sucked up to him until the very end. We went up despite him, and we’re a fucking mess because of him.

“Vote reform & get rid of 9 Pinters” Not quite “take back control”, but a decent pitch to the masses.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk The impact of Brexit is likely to have been minimal – the decline in returns predates it, and, in practice, few people were returned under the Dublin Agreement (an average of 560 a year between 2008 and 2020).

😂😂😂😂 No wonder we’re in the shite if that washed up soaking wet remoaner is one of the “finest legal minds”. You’d think he’d STFU after losing his seat despite the Lib Dem’s standing aside. Wasn’t his legal expertise in Health & Safety anyway, he looks the friggin type.

I don’t actually think they’re trying to dodge the authorities & any are sneaking into the country secretly. They get waved off by the French and picked up by us mugs. There’s no need to sneak in.

And there were people on a forum claiming he was unlucky that his offices caught fire, and nobody in the world could have stopped the fire.

Yet another goal that no keeper on earth could stop. 😂😂

😂😂 Good luck with that… “vote for me & we”ll take people who want to live in the UK”. I think you’re also forgetting freedom of movement. One sure way to boost the right across Europe is to force them to take our overspill.

What do you do with “the greedy”? Every single one of them is leaving a safe country, they just prefer to live in The UK than The EU. If you locked every single one up 5 years for entering the country illegally, they’d soon stop. That’s how it’s going to eventually play out. It’s not going to be solved by the EU & UK sitting around singing “I’d like to teach the world to sing” (good luck with getting Hungary & Poland to take their share). They’ll be housed in shit holes, sent to a third party country like Rwanda, or camps will be built in some remote British territory somewhere. We’ll leave the ECHR & other conventions and make it so horrible they’ll stay in Europe (who will eventually do similar).

Dear God…. The people on the boats chuck their ID away and then claim they’re from Syria or Afghanistan. Even if the officials say “well you should have applied via official channels’, what happens to them then. Where are they deported to? Do we guess where they’re from and send them there?

You’ve still got the fundamental issue that most will be granted asylum. When you can’t prove where someone is from, how can you return them anywhere. It’s all well and good saying that anyone arriving illegally will not get the right to remain, but what does that look like. Only a mug is going to say “I’m from Morocco ”, or some other country we can return them to. The other thing is the public are beyond a technocratic approach to sorting this. They just want the boats to stop. Processing people quicker or more fairly won’t cut it. Unless they see a reduction in the numbers crossing Labour are fucked.

Exactly. There’s only 1 way to stop them and its unpalatable to a Human Rites lawyer like Sir Kier. You bang them up in some god forsaken detention centre in the middle of nowhere and keep them there for years. France or any other EU country will seem a lot more attractive than that.

Personally I’d rather he played the correct formation at the start and didn’t have abandon it and chase the last 15 because we’re behind. Make no mistake, we’re extremely fortunate not to have only 1 point. There’s not many games you score 2 in injury time. To go behind in 100% of our league games must indicate that something is amiss.

How do you send people back to Afghanistan or Syria?

It’s amazing how many perfectly placed shots he faces, more than any other keeper I’ve ever known. He is truly the unluckiest keeper that’s ever played the game. The amount of unstoppable shots he faces is remarkable. I’ve not seen anything quite like it in 50 years of watching. The closest I can think of is the remarkable amount of world class Banks like saves from opposing keepers that dogged Shane Long during his career.

Only when we’re behind and there’s about 10 mins left. He throws on a forward and withdraws a centre half. It’s like sides throwing a centre half up front, managers aren’t showing their tactical flexibility or tactical genius, it’s a fucking Hail Mary move. If it was 0-0 he wouldn’t have done it.