Lord Duckhunter

Seeing as this is the 8th season since we finished 6th, I’ll see where Brighton are in 8 not 5 years. Let’s also see which team you have a hard on for in 2031.

Since being promoted they’ve finished 15th 17th 15th 16th 9th 6th Yeah far better than our effort 😂

They’re trying to do what we did, only they haven’t been as successful yet. Fair play to us.

I think most people would vote to join a pre Maastricht EEC, with some FoM adjustments. But, we’ve constantly been told that The EU is a rules based organisation & the four freedoms are non negotiable. Margaret always pushed for expansion, believing the new members would mould it into something more akin to what the British wanted. Maybe this will happen eventually, because I can’t see the French agreeing to any sort of of deal acceptable to The British public. They didn’t want us to join when the raging europhiles Grocer Heath & Harold Wilson were desperate to get us in, they’ll hold this grudge for a couple of generations at least.

😂😂 if people really believe those polls there will be a vote. There’s a reason Sir Kier won’t put another vote in his manifesto, and it’s not because he thinks he’ll win or because of pony polling. Watch those %’s melt away when it dawns on people they’ll have to give up the £, join Schengen & we’ve lost our rebate. I bet the pollsters didn’t bring that up.

I don’t particularly find City entertaining, I admire their ability & some of the tactical innovations, but it can be as boring as Coldplay or U2. I prefer Klopps Liverpool or Brentford, and those great entertainers from our last spell at this level. Nigel Adkins’ Southampton. If I don’t find Pep entertaining, I’m hardly likely to find the pound shop version getting me out of my seat.

More entertaining?

So fucking what, it’s just an opinion. I believe that people would have voted differently in the first vote had they known what the Common Market would morph into. We can all play that game. The lies Grocer Heath told when we entered, the lies told by Remain PM’s as they signed subsequent treaties, and their refusal to give the people a vote on Maastricht. All irrelevant, the only thing that matters is whether the British people will vote to go back in, and the answer is a very large NO.

We were possession based under Ralph & Selles, & Jones lasted about 10 mins. it’s a load of old pony to try & make out Martin is bedding in a different style, that’ll take time to embed. Most teams play the same fucking way, when was the last time you saw a side take a proper goal kick instead of.mincing around. Modern players are quite capable of embracing now tactics quickly, they can adapt. Our players are flexible and adaptable, look how quickly they’ve embraced the Fred Kano method of defending.

He’s part of the problem, so I doubt it. When did Wilcox suddenly become some sort of football guru?

😂😂😂 You just don’t get it do you? If so many people realise “we are not better off outside the EU” it should be easy to win a rejoin referenda. There won’t be one though will there? Even the arch Europhile Sir Kier & his band of middle class tossers won’t put it in their manifesto. Why not, because it’ll cost him the election, that’s why. If there was a vote today, we’ll win it again. The country won’t vote to rejoin and that’s the only vote that matters now.

I’ll give you some other examples of teams playing possession football. Nearly every fucking one in the top 2 divisions. They’re all possession based nowadays, you make out Martin is some sort of outrider. He’s not, the outriders are the ones that don’t. Nobody has a problem with possession football. What they have a problem with is what we do without the ball, and Martins obsession with possession for the sake of it. Some of us were watching Brian Clough’s sides, Liverpool & Ajax playing possession football 50 fucking years ago, before the hipsters redefined the game. Martin hasn’t reinvented the wheel, and you can’t see things the rest of us can’t.

So you like some of his ideas, but then pull apart his defensive set up and call his attacking set up “mental”. You call Selles an idiot. I don’t see these tactics being any less idiotic than Russball In fact defensively, Selles set us up better. Had Selles remained in charge, would we be in a worse position? I’m not so sure.

The Doc promised the Rotherham chairman he’d get them out of the second division. When sacking him after relegation the chairman said “you’re a man of your word Tommy, I’ll give you that”.

Fabrice is right, get behind the team FFS. I’ll be there Tuesday, giving it my all. Getting behind Russball “Come on you Saints, you can out possession this shite”. ”Get it fucking sideways”.

Had we won 1-0 & Sully hadn’t been sent off, I bet James Justin would have said it was a red.

Who knows if he’s even a nice guy? He may pick the legs off spiders and kick dogs up the arse for all we know. Same with fucking Wilcox who now seems to have this image of a good appointment. I’ve stopped listening to radio but what was Blackmores questioning like after the game. I bet it was really soft, & probably had a quick mention of his lost love, Ralphy. ❤️

George Galloway was pretty happy, did he “make a mint” or was he anti immigrant. What about Paul Embury from the FBU, or Frank Field. John Mann, fucking right wing bigot. Giles Fraser, journalist & vicar, what did he make? I know it suits the people who lost the vote make out it was some right wing con job, but the left had a long & consistent hatred of the EU (as did the SNP). But as the Labour Party became gentrified and joined the establishment it abandoned that scepticism. Millions who would never vote UKIP or consider themselves “right wing”, voted to leave. All Farage did was provide them with the opportunity, he ran rings round the establishment & forced them to give us a vote.

I didn’t say it had to be centre halves & midfielders only that I could think of a few who played in those positions who would have done so. If you believe there’s a culture where he’s challenged, then you’ve got more faith than I have. The fact they’re all pally pally & all seem to indicate they’re fully onboard the bus, makes me think differently.

In the past there wasn’t defensive midfielders or attacking midfielders, but midfielders. Souness defended & created, even Butch Wilkins who is probably the nearest thing to the modern ball recycling merchants we have nowadays , did both roles. Some were better going forward, some better defensively, but they did both roles. You talk about a 2. It’ll probably end up with a 2, being defensive full back & a 3 being an attacking full back. We’ll run out of numbers soon.

Surely some of the players need to challenge him. I can think of a few Centre halves or midfields that would have done in the past. His tactics are making them look like twats, so you’d hope they’d stand up and have their say. It’s healthy to have a culture where bosses are challenged & critiqued by the staff. I’m not talking about calling him a cunt or squaring up to him (although, again I can think of a few that would have done), but professionally & calmly putting your point across. I doubt anyone will because most of them are still learning their trade, which is why these type of managers like nippers. Could you see Jamie Vardy putting up with that shite if they played like that yesterday?

Unfortunately, the Son in law vacancy will soon be filled in the Duck household. However, if it were still vacant Smallbone would be in the frame. He looks a nice quiet boy who wouldn’t deliberately cheat or hurt anyone. ideal characteristics for a son in law & a modern Saints midfield enforcer.

Fucking hipsters. It’s a load of old pony. 8,6, pivot. Fuck me. What happened to midfielders who could do it all. Defend, get forward & more importantly knock a few in. What was Bryan Robson, an 8,6,4,pivot, ACM, ABC or a midfield player. FFS.

If you’ve just been dicked 5 and are then facing probably the best side in the league, what do you do? You fucking tighten up, be solid from the start and if need be take your 0-0 & move on. What do we do, kamikaze football & get another chasing. Trust the process, my arse. He’s now put himself under intense pressure with a tough run of games coming up. Tuesday could turn nasty & we’re still in September FFS. If he genuinely believes the pony he spouted after the game, then I would be worried about the future. Surely to god he can see that he needs to change a couple of things, nobody is asking him to abandon a possession based game, just to make some tweaks, defend properly & try & make it a bit more difficult for the opposition.

That was fucking shite, as bad as anything under Ralph, Jonesy & RS. Horrendous and utterly predictable once we set up the way we did. We played to their strengths, unbelievable. The midfield is fucking horrendously set up, if we’re going to play like Manchester City where’s our Rodri? Cue ball head can’t cut it and Downes is as weak as piss, and as for KWP playing the inverted full back, that’s laughable. He’s a get down the wing overlapping FB, you know the old fashioned type pre pep. If we’re going to play him like Manning, we might as well play Bree because at least he’ll give us some physical presence in their & he can’t be any worse. Personally, I think Mannings a good footballer, but not in the role he’s performing, in the old days his abilities would be used in midfield, with a full back flying down the wing. Defensively, he’s not good enough. Fuck me 2 of the goals reminded me of my under 11 days, everyone going up front leaving some poor sap defending against 3. It’s entirely down to the coaching staff. I maybe old fashioned but even the dog & duck used to have a spare man. They leave 2 up, we have 3 back. Now it’s all 1 on 1 defending, which is ok if you’ve got Kyle Walker or VvD but not if it’s some of our weak as piss son in laws. I didn’t think Che Adams looked interested, was disappointed with Frazier, thought AA gave his all again (but isn’t great) and thought Edozie was having his best game for us (I hope to god it wasn’t a tactical decision to bin him at half time). As for Sully, bloke can fuck off as far as I’m concerned. Flattered to deceive yet again, gave a goal away and then got sent off. Cooking man……