Dman

Today is the best ive seen him play in a long time. Goal aside (what a great finish that was, btw.) he was everywhere. more of the same please.

100% agree, once again we move away from the ridiculously, over attacking, formation and look a better side as a result. It’s shame it’s taken so long but we seem to this season be much more tactically fluid. Credit where it’s due, Ralph got it spot on today after the sending off and on another day we could have nicked it. Personally I’m not a huge fan, but continue with the current form from the last 2 and you can’t argue with results. A huge game on Sunday (if on), however, lose that and the 4 points gained is almost irrelevant.

None of those listed that we have out, other than arguably S Armstrong (who did come on) would get anywhere near the West Ham side, so it’s irrelevant if they we’re out or not. As previously explained and I can’t be arsed to go In to details around why I think Pompey are arguably more attractive to an investor than us (however, if the figure of £125m is true, I take that back as that’s a bargain) and I was merely pointing out that the San Marino manager, at the time, was able to set a side up to defend better than us highlighting how poor it was to lose 9-0. No one said he was a better manager. The last I’ll say on the matter; but keep deflecting your utter nonsense 🤡 As for Perrud, I’d argue he wasn’t a good signing at all if we’re playing a player out of position instead of him. Funds could have been used elsewhere. That being said, I’m reluctant to judge him just yet as I haven’t seen enough of him. personally, I’d play KWP over Tino, he’s a more rounded player for my liking. Tino will get there, KWP just marginally better at the moment.

Yawn…. Called out for his utter bullshit again, so tries to deflect with taking snippets of statements out of context and using the skate / troll card 🤡🤡🤡 Was a great 3 points against a team we usually struggle to get anything from. That being said, they weren’t at the races with a few injures, but you can only beat what’s in front of you. We didn’t completely nullify a team that managed to score 2 though, that much is clearly very obvious. On to thread topic, I find it amazing KWP is getting a game ahead of the next coming of Roberto Carlos. You were wetting your pants over the signing of perraud… another error of judgement, just like that when you said Broja had less potential than Armstrong and Adams, it seems…

Completely nullify!? They scored 2 goals ffs As for the 4222 formation, it’s garbage. We’re not suited to play that style, far to open and defensively not strong enough to cover for AM’s pressing high and full backs being out of position. I’m reluctant to give the manager credit for changing formation as he’s served up the same shite for the whole year. Let’s hope this time he learns.

Mitchell is at Monaco now, not RB. We did actually try getting him back a few years ago, I think. But agree I think it’ll be that DaGrosa mob.

We’re clearly not going to sign Dele Alli

That’s a very fair point, probably slightly OTT to say we should be beating. I should rephrase to: realistically we shouldn’t be celebrating a draw against palace.

I’m no Howe lover, far from it, however, points since Howe took over Newcastle (8th November) Newcastle: 5 (1 win) Southampton: 3 (0 wins) 🥴

Unfortunately I only get 3 posts, so I need to make the most of them (debating with the posts I disagree with). The majority of my wisdom is left un typed and/or ranted to my partner about 😔

Nope, a decent enough point given how poor we are. Realistically, we should be beating palace, but under this manager I don’t feel like we’ll win any games. I’m Just calling out more of your absolute nonsense which has once again proven to be wrong.

But Twar has confirmed, that according to his spreadsheet, Armstrong has a higher ceiling than Broja. Hopefully “like minded people”, just like those who according to him run our club, work at Chelsea as well, so we can do a swap deal for the 2. Ps. I’m obviously joking. Absolutely no one on this planet (other than morons that think they know it all, like TWar) would swap Armstrong for Broja.

I get what you’re saying, however I’d suggest 99% of those who are in the Ralph Out camp haven’t made their mind up based on those couple of results. Results have been diabolical for a significant amount of time now, coming up to a calendar year and time and time again we make the same mistakes. You can lose a game on individual mistakes and I’d say the Norwich and Brighton games show that, just as much as you can win on individual brilliance (I.e Ings run of form and JWP’s free kicks in 2020), however, he’s had 3 years in the job and we still see the same individual mistakes… he’s had more than enough time to coach it out of, or replace them. My biggest gripe is his lack of tactical flexibility in game. It’s a big factor in our lack of game management. for me, Ralph seems to be a decent manager during the week and sets us up to start well, however in game, he’s way to slow to react and it costs us.

LOOOL. Been made to look an idiot…. Again, so has had to resort to throwing out the skate / troll card 😂😂 FWIW; you can still be a fan but be against the manager, owner, think the players are shit.. etc.

A battering, given up, yet still managed to avoid shipping 9 😬😬 It takes a special kind of shitness to ship 9, that’s why it’s only happened in this league 3 times. Twice for the same club, under the same manager.

Go on then, I’ll take the bait. That’s not true, what was said was that their manager was better at organising them defensively than Ralph is us. Given the gulf in quality when they play the likes of England etc. Yet still (until recently, which was after said post), they don’t get turned over by 9, which demonstrates how bad that result is for a premier league club. As for the Pompey comparison, that was in terms of attraction / ROI to a potential investor. Naturally, a club which will cost less and have more room to grow, will be a more attractive proposition. I don’t think we, which is probably why we’re yet to be taken over, are all that attractive to a potential buyer. Much better value in the championship for similar, if not better, infrastructure. If you think questioning the manager after a full year of total shite, is overracting, then I guess you would still be happy with Pellegrino and Hughes in charge.. no? Your head is so far up Ralph’s arse you can probably taste what he had for dinner last night. But your blokes a dud and is on borrowed time.

Overreacting…. LOL

Hammered for this post at the time, but as time has gone on, it’s proven to be absolutely correct. Who’d have thought it, aye.

Could anyone do better? Based on the last year, absolutely they could. We had people genuinely arguing that our squad was better than villa, as an example (it’s was nonsense then as much as it is now). And when people have pointed out our 2 strikers are of championship quality; they get called a troll, Yet when we lose, we have a ‘terrible, terrible collection of players’. It feels like any excuse is made to deflect from the manager who continually puts out the same team, in the same formation using the same tactics, which just aren’t working. Many managers, just like Ralph did, would see us a good stepping stone to bigger things in the PL, so I don’t buy this ‘we couldn’t do better’ nonsense. It’s a weak argument. Imo, we need to go back to basics. Defend we’ll hit teams on the counter attack. If we don’t win, at least we don’t lose mentality. Sack this high press bollox off, it doesn’t work for the squad we have, continuing with it is absolute madness. here’s a list of available managers: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/trainer/verfuegbaretrainer/statistik Farve or valverde would be my choice, but unfortunately we’d likely end up with someone like Lampard who’d be absolutely no better at organising our weak defensive shape.

Get this weeks excuses in early then chaps…. Time for this clown to go.

He’s been pretty average for a few games now. Since the international Break where he has to withdraw due to injury. Ralph still continues to pick him though, despite having someone of KWP’s quality who’s being forced to play out of position.

Agreed. This whole Improving players stuff is a bit of a myth.

Exactly the sort of thing a cultist would say….

More than likely that American chancer. RedBull Is a non starter. I don’t know why people continue to bring this up when there has never even been a sniff of them being interested in us or any other premier league teams. If RedBull did take over, most would soon see past the franchise element once we start competing towards the top end of the league anyway. Look at Newcastle, you have full grown blokes walking round in headscarf’s etc. Personally, football is dead, completely dead. We’ve got states & some very questionable people owning clubs. The reality is, if you want to compete in this league, you’re gonna have to have an owner / business model which probably isn’t ideal. I.e a dodgy Russian, a state owned club or a franchise, like RB. Basically, after years of modern Premier Leauge football I’ve never felt more detached from the club, so I’d be happy for us to sell our soul if it brought success.

Wasn’t that because he was ‘injured’? For me, his performances have dropped also since? Naturally It’d have been very, very hard for him to maintain those levels we saw early season at his age. I think Duck is pretty much spot on in his assessment.