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Why is Adam Blackmore/Solent not allowed to speak to Ralph after matches now ? Is it a Covid safeguarding thing ? Listening to Solent on the way home even they openly admitted the Walcott selection was baffling as was the fact he lasted over 70 minutes.

Yeah probably, his natural reaction whenever he fucks up is that big stupid grin on his face, it winds me up no end. Ok he shouldnt be slitting his wrists at it but fuck me show some remorse for not tapping the ball into the net from a yard. Hide your head in your shirt, stand their with a look of disbelief, but dont fuckin grin like an idiot !

Djenepo was ok last week, played that great pass to Redmond which led to the goal. His reward for that was to get dropped for Theo. I don’t understand Ralph I’m afraid.

When they start taking action against Klopp. Pep, Touchel, OGS etc they may start to get some respect. Klippity Klopp can say whatever he likes but as long as he sticks one of those big toothy grins in he gets away with it......or as long as he keeps managing Liverpool of course.

I think it’s great, like the way it starts slow and gets faster as they get to the halfway line. Makes me think of the James Bond New Orleans funeral clips too 🤣

🙄 as is the case with most of your pedantic posts you know exactly what I meant and what point I was making.

He's the best central defender we have had since VVD left. I think he will go for big money in a couple of years time.

Looks a proper striker to me, we haven’t got any others given we don’t play to Armstrong’s strengths. Christ knows why it’s taken Ralph so long to start him but I’ve stopped trying to work out his decisions long ago.

I know criticism of JWP is frowned on but I thought the midfield was more fluid today and moved the ball quicker without him slowing things down.

No

for me, yes 😂

The lad is basically another Gareth Bale whereby its obvious he has far more about him than just playing full back. I bet he doesnt play right back for England U21s. But as you say Ralph is stubborn so we can forget anything other than right back for Tino for the forseeable future.

Ok, so lets say Armstrong comes back into the team as soon as fit enough and Ralph continues to ignore the possibilty of playing Tino further forward and insists Tella must be played as a striker. That means you can only pick one of the following four - who do you go for ? Which one is the best, ranked in order 1-4 The choices of course are Elyounoussi Walcott Redmond Djenepo

Problem is, if you look at the last couple of years especially, we tend to collapse, as you put it, late on in games with 11 men so going down to 10 doesnt make a great deal of difference.

With the exception of Ralph we would all pretty much like to see that.

Got your wish

There’s no knives, it’s a forum, people are entitled to their opinion, right or wrong, it is what it is. If you can hand on heart say you’ve been satisfied with the form in 2021 then good for you. The negative comments, as you would call it, are only because people are pissed off with the same old same old week after week.

I wonder if he's sick, he wouldnt still be on holiday. If he is ill and they arent saying to give him and his family some privacy thats fair enough. Obviously I hope he is fighting fit but it all seems very odd if he is.

I feel exactly the same way. Absolutely loved Ralph when he arrived, was so pleased when he signed a four year deal to commit to the club but yeah since the turn of the year the decisions have got more confusing, the football has often been too laboured and when we do play well its only for an hour tops in a game and the opposition make hay when we go off the boil. I understand the restrictions hes under with no money being pumped into the club from the owner BUT the issue I have is that he has the players to make this a half decent team but he either ignores them for his favourites or he plays them out of position or sticks to his rigid formation even when its blatantly not working in a match. He must be one of the very few, if not only Prem League managers to survive with a the record of W4, D6, L17 under his belt.......and thats ignoring the 2 x 0-9's

I cant even begin to guess what he puts out tomorrow.....aside from Redmond, thats the easy bit.

Some of the shite that’s poured out of Ralph’s mouth this week is unbelievable, he’s quick to highlight what Tella’s weakness is (over keen from what I can make of it) and where Tino needs to improve yet ignores the very same faults and worse in other more favoured players shall we say.

We had two stand out players last year, Armstrong and KWP. Ok one is injured but what of the other one ? Hes dropped him for an 18 year old, albeit a very very good one, and when he does play him he sticks him over on the left. Its not fair on the player. Now anyone worth their salt would surely look at Tino and immediately think, umm, rampaging forward, comfortable on the ball, decent cross.....lets try him right side of midfield with KWP behind him and offering the overlap......umm, that could be a real threat. But no, lets go with Redmond, Moi or Djenepo instead and let the kid run himself into the ground both attacking and defending while the guy in front of him - Redmond, Djenepo or Moi carry on being totally ineffective. Its fkin crazy he heasnt tried it yet !!!

Yeah but that was only after they had reached the Premier League wasnt it ? Either way it was only when Howe had money to spend it went tits up for him, he/they bought a load of rubbish and never addressed their main issue which was they couldnt defend to save their lives. He wouldnt have any problem with spending a lot of money here ! Having said that I dont want him at Southampton thankyou very much.

didnt look like that against West Ham a fortnight ago

Yes he has and no I don’t think it will. Ralph has a total blind spot when it comes to him.