Lord Duckhunter

5. We have a 1950's system that is unfit for the 21st century, but no political party have the balls to do anything about it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jeremy Corbyn on the local election results, said "The results were mixed. We lost seats but we are closing the gap on the Conservatives." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What a losing cup final, 11th,8th &14th. I thought the perceived wisdom was that's failure Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That wasn't the story when I posted, it was very early in the count The funny thing about people celebrating their demise is they haven't seemed to have grasped why. It's not because their ideas were defeated, that their arguments were shown up, their ideas were discredited or that public opinion turned against their main policy. It was because they won the argument, their very reason to exist, even their name was about Britain leaving the EU. Personally I thought there was an opportunity for them to make headway in certain areas but the Tories are hoovering up votes even in these areas. A mixture of abandoned principles , chaotic leadership & Nigel stepping down has handed these voters to The Tories on a plate . Unless May ****s up Brexit they're finished. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Local elections going well for May tonight. Pretty disastrous for Steptoe and not much sign of Little Timmys fight back. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We are not a laughing stock , not to the media, not to pundits & not to other supporters , although if they read some of the posts on here, we may start to become one. Lack of ambition is just a pony phrase that gets trotted out (pun intended) time & time again. I have plenty of ambition for the club, and I suggest that the club have plenty of ambition , but it's realistic ambition. Our 5 year plan was incredibly ambitious when we were in league 1 at -10. I don't know what our ambition is now , but suggest it will be top 10 finishes every season & challenging for Europe, whether in cup or league , season after season. For a club our size that's pretty ambitious imo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How many other clubs are there where the owner passes the managerial appointment to a DoF. Did Cortese leave it to Reed? History has told us that new owners bring in a new manager eventually. The Glasers didn't, but they inherited a pretty decent one. Personally, it wouldnt surprise me if Reed left as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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People seem to be ignoring the ****ing big elephant in the room, the takeover. New owners invariably want their own man in, so chances are he'll be gone after that anyway. I can't see the present board moving him on whilst any takeover is in the offing ,unless it's with the express agreement of potential new owners. If not, who would want the job knowing that they'll have new bosses soon, bosses that would want their own man in. If the takeovers coming along the line , I doubt Puels going anywhere before then Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Correct. Greece is a net beneficiary of EU money, we're a contributor. It's entirely different. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's not some sort of debating society,it's breakfast TV. When asked the answer is yes. It's not as if there's going to be any come back. If anyone nukes us the last thing on people's minds is Ashworth or Abbotts answer to Piers ****ing Morgan. They are complete & utter amateurs, who are unable to connect with the electorate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

**** sake have we got another 2 years of remoaners accepting every thing the EU say as gospel & gleefully jumping on every leak claiming it weakens mrs Mays hand. Here are some simple truths. **** all is going to happen until the French & German elections are over. The EU are going to leak like a sieve and everything they leak will be pro EU & Anti British. The EU face a massive hole in their budget when we leave. Don't the EU realise the more they spin & brief how hard and complicated a deal will be,the more this plays right into Mays narrative in this election. What do they think, the harder a deal looks, the more the public will call for Steptoe to do the deal. Are they trying to increase May's majority even further or are they just incompetent fools. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

22Stekelenburg 2Soares 26Caulker 17van Dijk 21Bertrand 4Clasie 12Wanyama 11Tadic 10Mané 8 Davis 19 Pelle The side that lost 6-1 to Liverpool . **** me if that's our reserves ,Koeman underachieved only getting 6th with the first team. We must have had some side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Had VvD not missed 2 absolute sitters & JRod missed countless chances we'd have qualified easily. Still can't blame VvD on here, so it must have been Puels fault he missed them Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pony . We will not sign up to the Norway deal. It's nonsense to suggest we will Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The question was whether we would respond to a nuclear attack from another nation. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You've got to wonder who on earth is advising these clowns at Labour HQ. Ashworth is one of the more sensible ones, but even he seems incapable of answering yes and shutting down the debate. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XuLJ3jXBScM Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Perhaps the FA should have a Harlem Globetrotters type side touring round to entertain "fans" like you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's great that you know what Theresa May thinks, perhaps you could let us know how she thinks the election is going. She's not Diane Abbott, I'm sure she's completely aware that trade deals need some kind of court. Perhaps you could point us to any quotes where she says there won't be one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What I don't understand is the complete and utter **** wittery of not even having prepared for the most obvious question , "how much will it cost". What a bunch of amateurs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And it's probably the thing that winds me up the most, that and "he's got no plan B". The reason a lot of modern managers don't leave anyone up front is this; If you leave 1 or 2 upfront or even 3, the opposition counter it by adding 1 extra. Theses defenders are in a defensive structure. If you leave nobody up front you obviously have more defending (admittedly against more attackers, because they don't need to stay back and defend), but the idea is when you break, you break from all angles and areas, it's harder to defend the counter attack when players don't start in set positions and you don't know who you're picking up.Its not about being defensive only but about being defensive but being able to break quickly and randomly. Take the Liverpool away goal, would Simms & Long been able to break so effectively and would Liverpool's defending been so stretched had they stood on the halfway line and been marked by 3 Liverpool players. That is the theory. Some managers prefer this and some prefer to leave players upfront, that's down to personal opinion. But what winds me up is people asking why nobody is left upfront, when it's ****ing obvious why.

This is spot on. Various measures supposed to help the poor actually shackle them to low wages. WFTC's being a prime example & so is the minimum wage. Instead of wages reflecting the value of people's work ,tax credits plus unlimited low skilled immigration have conspired to keep the low paid workers wages down. I have minimum wage blokes working for me who have turned down OT & promotions because they just lose the extra money off their benefits and there's no point in me offering higher wages to attract people from other employers, because everybody is on roughly the same money. The minimum wage isn't a minimum, it's a benchmark Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What part of my post where I said Poch was clearly a better manager did you not understand. You just ignored it because it didn't suit your agenda. The point I was making was if Poch, a better manager, could only get a group of better players to 8th, why on earth do people think Puel can do as well with this bunch. Perhaps you think Poch underachieved. But if you think he did a great or good job with that group, judge Puel against that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm with you mate. Taxes are way too high & need to come down. Modern politicians seem incapable of understanding that lower tax can lead to higher tax take. They're obsessed with rates rather than tax take. Who gives a **** if the rich only pay 40% if it brings in more money. As for welfare the problem is that it's spread too thinly. The deserving poor don't get enough money because the pot is too small. The pot is too small, not because there's not enough money in it, but because too many people are taking out of it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And we haven't had VvD or Austin since Jan. If you took VvD, Mane , Pelle & Vic out of Koeman's side from Jan till end of season do people seriously think we'd have finished 6th. Puel has been given the worst group of players since Nigel Adkins and surprise surprise he's lower in the table. Personally I think 10th with this group plus a cup final is every bit as good as 8th and no cup final with Poch's side. I actually seem to remember the Sunderland meltdown thread where people complained about him concentrating on the league and expressing the opinion that they'd rather drop a couple of places in exchange for a cup run. That was obviously pony. If people think this season is unacceptable, they're going to have years and years of upset. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk