Lord Duckhunter

He’s a disloyal cunt like the rest of them. They all want a fucking move, every single one of them.

Line decisions aren’t umpires call.

Agreed, it’s been 2 months since they lifted any silverware, fucking losers….

It’s noddy isn’t it?

Was it a bird ref?

Celtic?

Are you taking the piss? He’s far far better than any keeper we’ve got. “Replacement for AM”, replacement for the clown who currently masquerades as our number 1 more like.

Goal a game so far this season….

It’s “umpires call” because ball tracking is used, nobody knows for sure whether the ball would have hit the stumps. They don’t use umpires call on line decisions, you’re either in or you’re out. Just as you’re either offside or onside.

I agree. Was pretty anonymous for long periods of the second half when the full back defended a bit more aggressively & had some help. I’m sure sides will double up on him, give him some clog and generally get in his face. If he can overcome that, then maybe he may turn out to be as good as people hope. But I’m not convinced yet.

You don’t tend to have 4th officials at grass roots level. My lad plays in the Wessex league and I’ve never seen one (mind you they probably don’t officiate from the bar, so I could have missed it)& I dread to think who’d want the gig when The dog & duck meet The Farmers Arms on Sunday morning. I’d be amazed if they fundamentally changed the length of professional game & leave the semi pro & amateur game at 90 mins (I’m not saying they shouldn’t, just that they won’t).

There’s only one way to stop time wasting and that’s to change the time from 90mins to a ball in play figure. I’ve no idea what it is, but I imagine about 60 mins is probably about right. 2 X 30 min halves and clock stops when balls not in play. I imagine it’s harder to do so at grass roots & lower level, so probably the reason it’s not done. But with all the will in the world you won’t stop time wasting until it becomes pointless.

Pound to a penny it’ll be in the championship next season anyway.

Wait until we have a perfectly good winner ruled out but a useless Lino & then see the reaction. I doubt there will be many “football is back” posts then. I never wanted VAR, but you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

Played some really good passes from the back and looked comfortable on the ball, but he’s paid to defend and his defending was just about adequate. It’s really just a trade off between this possession from the back style & defending robustly, because I doubt they’ll be any big ugly pirates who can play out from the back wanting to play for us in the championship.

Comes across as a decent intelligent guy, very sure of himself and committed to his football beliefs. I don’t think anyone could accuse him of being a patsy or being told which system or players to play. I thought sky went a bit overboard on the “transformation” of our playing style, it’s not like we’ve gone from knocking long balls or playing like Brentford to a possession game. We’ve pretty much tried to keep the ball and pass it to death most of the past 3 or 4 years, we just weren’t very good at it and we were playing against far far superior opposition than Sheff Weds. Personally, I think he’ll end up dividing opinion, especially if we start losing games in which we have 70% of possession but only 2 shots on target. It will be interesting to see how we go about chasing games under this style, because it’s going to get frustrating if we’re still mincing around with it. That football played with zip and a bit of sharp passing is great, but even City & Arsenal sometimes play it too slow and it gets fucking tedious and extremely frustrating.

Good win against a fucking awful side. We’re going to have to be more ruthless than that against decent opponents, but a win is a win. Second half we were the wrong side of the mincing line, until Stu came on and injected some urgency. It’s going to be a fine balancing act and at times it’s going to be fucking frustrating watching that week in week out. Ive a feeling my blood pressure is going to shoot up regularly this season, particularly when we’re chasing the game.

I think Whitey is on to something, he’s ahead of the game here. As it doesn’t matter who tries to save the shots, we could put Prowse in nets. But (here’s the genius bit), if we get a corner or free kick around the box, he could swap position & a full back could go in nets. We’d end up with 11 outfield players, and wouldn’t suffer for it.

I turned off at “would you fight a duck sized horse, or a horse sized duck”. What a bunch of fucking twats, imagine asked Bestie or chopper Harris that.

Doesn’t that just defeat the object. Although I guess it means you can pretend you’re not interested in what someone’s writing, but actually hang on their every word.

What the fuck is this fucking pony build up on sky. It’s for fucking 12 year olds.

You claimed you had me on ignore, yet within 5 mins of an avatar change you’re posting about it. You’re losing track of the shite you make up.

We need to get rid of this “we march on” pony….

Be realistic FFS.

Well said. I don’t know why it’s on the main board either. If I started a thread about pub football it wouldn’t be.