Lord Duckhunter

These are my feelings exactly, and it took an injury for him to play our best goalkeeper. That said, he did everything he was asked and got us promoted at the first attempt. He’s delivered some fantastic football this season, but also some horrendous boring possession based slow dross. He was right about Jack Stephens, his leadership & spirit were needed when it mattered. I also thought he acted with class at the end of the game as well, so perhaps he wasn’t quite the cock I thought he was. He’s shown yesterday that when we have less of the ball (as we undoubtedly will do next season as well) he can finally set us up to defend properly. Decent keeper, left back, & a centre forward we’ll stay up, no bother.

McCarthy has been fantastic during the play offs, a major reason we came through them. He was everything you want from a keeper, and even his kicking was up to standard. If this doesn’t prove the value of a decent keeper, then nothing will. Personally, I think Baz’s injury was a blessing in disguise and deep down I’m sure Lego knows it.

That’s exactly the point. Yet people are still claiming it’s “guff”.

The first post attacking anyone was critical of somebody who voted for Boris, although you conveniently over looked that one. That’s what makes your “morally superior” act so ridiculous, its selective outrage.

Is membership of The CoT still open or has it closed to stop an influx of Leeds fans? Those guys will be able to get their hands on spare tickets.

Says the bloke who voted for Jeremy Corbyn & who wanted Abbott as Home Sec. Both subsequently checked out the party for anti semitic reasons. 😂 You’ve got more front than Sainsburys.

How does that help women & children in Gaza today? Get them out of there, into Egypt or Jordan, & they will be safe. Surely that’s the priority at the moment.

I think you’d have something to say if The Tories refused to help Ukrainian women and children for the same reason.

He’s as bad as Lego head. We had a bloke in work moaning about him a few weeks back. Said they had a corner & 3 passes later it was back with their own keeper. He said “can you believe it”, I said “I fucking can”. It’ll be Russball without the nice hair & beard.

Some Arab countries clearly think they are, this is what Jordan’s King Abdullah said , “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.” Shocking…

I’m not telling people how they should feel, their feelings are irrelevant. I was merely stating why Israel occupied the West Bank. Being surrounded by countries who deny your right to exist, means you have to protect yourselves military which is why the Israelis eventually launched the 6 day war. Had the Arab league not attacked Israel the morning after the British mandate ended, things might have been different. Egypt & most other countries now seem to accept Israelis right to exist, so they’ve moved on since 1948. I imagine this is due to Israelis military strategy & strength, rather than some sort of enlightenment.

You’re not sure of the point being made, then make the same point 😂😂 Martin got this job on the back of the way he played at Swansea. Had he got promotion playing a long ball game, it would have been better for Swansea, but not for his career. Souness’ point was that this is why managers don’t change, don’t adapt, don’t play a bit more pragmatic if they need to. It’s not about what’s best for their club, but what is better for their career.

I think I’ll go with Souness, rather than someone who seems incapable of grasping the point being made.

He didn’t. Believe it or not, “going all Fat Sam” isn’t a punditry term (although it should be). I guess I thought it was a concise & shorthand version of certain tactics and didn’t account for the forum pedants. His was spot on, as was Wade Garrett, they’re more interested in playing the “right”way than actually doing what’s right for the club. I’ve no doubt Lego would rather finish 4th playing his way, than get it in the mixer every time & finish second. The way football is, it’ll be better for his career.

Everton would have gone down if Baz was in nets instead of Pickford.

Booked Sat, got mine today. Fuck me, couldn’t they make them any bigger? Luckily I’ve got a new pair of trousers to wear on the day.

The West Bank wasn’t occupied by Isreal until the 60’s. It was occupied by Transjordan, who at the time denied Israel should even exist. In Western Europe a country could co exist with a neighbour shaped like Israel is, but it makes invasion pretty easy when there’s hostile nations all around you. In places the original 1948 border is 9 miles from the sea. It would be so easy for a hostile force to split the country in two. It could be argued that had isreals neighbours lived beside it in peace from 1948 (as most do now), then maybe they would give up the West Bank. But I realise this is crossing into tit for tat territory. There will never be a Palestinian state acceptable to The Palestinians without the West Bank & they’ll never be a Palestinian state with the West Bank acceptable to the Israelis. That’s the long and short of it. Maybe a few generations from now a Northern Irish type fudge will satisfy both sides, but you & me will be long gone by then.

You only have to look at a map to see this will never ever happen. When Isreal was created the West Bank was designated a part of an Arab/Palestinian state, but Jordan occupied it following the 1948 Arab attack on Isreal. militarily & because of the shape of Isreal, it would be madness to allow a hostile enemy that footprint, which is why Israel went in during the 6 day war. That’s even before you take into account the importance of Jerusalem to Israeli’s from a cultural & religious point of view. You could have a new isreali government committed to a 2 state solution, but I can’t believe that would include The West Bank, never ever going to happen.

You can thank FPP for that, it’s done exactly what it was intended to do. Spiked Newcastle’s guns so they couldn’t spend big even after champions league qualification (which is what’ll happen to Villa), now looks like Chelsea will need to sell assists to comply, hampering their development. If someone wants to chuck money at a club, like City did, they can’t. If they could, it would be more competitive.

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This could be a job where the pony “football philosophy” is illustrated. Lego is probably a better fit if they want to play a certain way, even though McKenna has done a better job this season. The fact he’s devised a system & style to suit the players and found a style to get them out of the league they’re in, counts for fuck all. It’s all about your spread sheets, philosophy & score on the hipster chart. Souness summed it up this week. Said he could see Kompany replacing Pep despite being relegated, whereas has he gone all Fat Sam but kept them up, he wouldn’t get a sniff.

“There’s not a lot of deep thought happening”. Hear bloody hear. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1792272654755586219

So Brighton end up 11th. Didnt we have some chumps on here saying they were achieving more than we did & could replace leaving players and managers better than we did.

Yes, you will need to. I imagine he’ll have to log into his account and buy via that, not sure you can buy his membership via your account, but stand to be corrected. One thing for sure, you won’t be able to get one for him in the membership window if he’s not a member even if you are.

When they say “tomorrow “ that’s today, as the texts came Friday & Sat The raider was there last time, so if you want sum he’ll give it to you.