Lord Duckhunter

Most spare cash goes on nights out & holidays. Don’t eat out much nowadays as the value for money is horrendous in most places. Me and the old snap dragon try to get away 4 times a year and try and make it somewhere different each time. Clothes wise, I like Claudio Lugli shirts & Paul Smith tee shirts, other than that buy anything that’s on offer online (won’t go into shops, it does my head in).

It can’t just be Nuno though. He was sent on loan by somebody else, and nobody seems interested in him. He’s always been bang average, over rated by a majority of our support. Looked ok with decent players around him, but only really played well in a shite side when Jones pushed him further forward for a few games. I’d have him back in that role, but the thought of him & Downes playing together in a central midfield role is the stuff of nightmares. Fuck me, you think it’s boring now, those 2 would suck what little life there is out of the stadium. If he was further forward playing in their final third, yes. But only if Tonda threatens to shoot him if he drops back to take the ball off the centre halves.

Thank god Kat got rid of Cortese then, seeing as how we finished higher than Bournemouth ever have 4 times, played in Europe twice (as opposed to none) & reached one more cup final than they have (which is again none). All since she took over. Terrible owner, I wish we were like Bournemouth, with that 9th place finish.

Proven & top are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

They’re also in an environment where winning isn’t the be all and end all of their job. I wonder how much that affects their thinking.

He’s on approx 76k a week,that’s from a reliable source.

I’ve got ambition & vision, I could make this club a success, no fucking problem. I’d be like Peter Risdale or Cortese, I’ll take us to heights unimaginable . I’ve got a great business plan, and bucket loads of self belief. I’m actually only missing one piece of the jigsaw, finding a mug to finance it…

There’s more chance of going to the moon in shoe box than a labour PM saying something like that.

What a cunt Martinelli is, the blokes clearly badly injured and he’s pushing him off the pitch. Someone needs to fucking clean him out…

Starmer should take note. Denmarks PM announcing a deportation policy aimed at illegal Muslim migrants, stated; “You are not supposed to be here. We are fed up with your reckless way of life. We are fed up with your culture of dominance. You are destroying the happiest country in the world,”

Exactly. The cry seems to be, our defence is complete and utter shite, we need to shift most of them out, just not the worst one, you know, the one who can’t even get a game…we need to keep him.

My mum was a Londoner & the old man from Boscombe. They moved to Southampton so they weren’t too far from either (it was the early 60’s). The old man used to go back home every time Boscombe were home & see his mum & catch the game. By the time I was old enough to go to football he had started visiting The Dell as it was easier to watch locally than drag a 6 year old down to Dean Court. ‘69/70 was my first season, but I don’t remember too much about it. By our relegation we had moved back to Dorset as my mums’s mum & Dad had retired down here (meaning we didn’t need to visit London). The old man tried to get me to switch allegiance, but I was hooked on Saints by then. The old man is 90 now, he still bangs on about me supporting “that lot”….

Was terrible first game of the season at centre half, and nothing I’ve seen since has changed my mind. The worse of our horrendous group of centre halves and some people are calling it a “mistake” to get rid 😂 Weird….

You’re trying too hard mate…

A copper once pulled me up on parking my car at the pub & walking home. He wasn’t saying I should have driven home, only I should have parked elsewhere. Said you’re advertising the fact you had a skinful the night before. He reckoned some wankers used to nick loads of blokes picking their cars up in the morning,as the alcohol hadn’t cleared their system. They would look at the pub carparks and if they then saw the same car on the road would find an excuse to pull them over. He hated those cops as much as us. I try not to drive the whole following day after a skin full, but if I do try and give it 12 hours at least. These new limits will make that harder to judge. You’ll probably be ok because traffic plod will be too busy nicking people for doing 25 in a 20.

So it’s ok if there isn’t?

If everybody drove around at 10mph , we could reduce it further, and if we banned cars totally, we could save those 9 unfortunates souls.

Finally a session of proper batting, shame it’s the second from last fucking day….

Fuck me. That was the start of it, didn’t JWP say the club's culture and dressing room environment had deteriorated by his last season. The bloke was a busted flush….

I know he’s a short arse, but that jump, fuck me. He’s got to head that away. Leapt like a salmon, leapt like Baz more like…

It’s fucking weird, you’ve got Tall Paul banging them in, Bree doing ok in this league. Is it shite coaching or the club being wedded to having certain type of players and those 2 not fitting the mould. It’s fucking crazy. Bree can play wing back, full back and even centre half & TP is something completely different to bring off the bench. When we’ve kept Archer & Manning, it doesn’t make sense.

The margins at the top level are minuscule, and the championship is a top level league. They may give 100% “on the pitch” (although I’m not convinced), but if they’re not training 100%, don’t have the correct mentality 100% of the time, aren’t living the lifestyle or have the mindset of a professional athlete 100% of the time, the drop off will be noticeable at this level. Nobody can convince me these players are giving their best 100% of the time, day in day out.

I’m glad somebody has said it. The problem with naming a clique & “bad eggs” is people let their opinions of players abilities seep into their opinions on who the bad uns are (myself included). Because Jack is a captain who isn’t an automatic pick, because he’s been asked to play various roles, and because different managers have made him captain, people use that as evidence he’s a malign influence in the club. If you stepped back and take the emotion out of it (which isn’t something we do with football opinions), these things actually mean he does have the right attitude and can be relied upon to do his best (however bad that is). I felt slightly uncomfortable with the reaction to the win at Wembley. Whilst I didn’t post it, so will be accused of hindsight, I did feel the celebrations were a bit too full of themselves and a bit too congratulatory. I thought “we’re back where we belong”, having spent the vast majority of my life watching us in the top flight, and I got the feeling the players felt the same. However, they’re not supporters, not emotional fans and their attitude should have been “the hard work starts now”. I didn’t get that impression at all, and nothing I’ve seen since has convinced me that the desire is there. Both the players and manager seemed a little bit too cock sure of themselves after that win. It wasn’t a cup win, it was a trophy for being the third promoted team. The players, Manager & the clubs attitude felt different from Nigel Adkin’s time, a little bit more humility from far far better players.

His last 3 or 4 performances haven’t been anything special, he needs to find a way of overcoming the opposition who are working out ways to stifle him. Clearly most supporters are going to blame the manager, because Leo can do no wrong. But the next few weeks will determine just how good he, is or whether he’s just a show pony like Gaston or Boufal were. If making him captain helps him return to the levels he showed 3 or 4 weeks ago, I’m all for it. But, his drop off in form has been just as bad as some of the others lately, so he should face the same scrutiny…..