Lord Duckhunter

From what I’ve seen the past 2 games it’s pretty clear, substitute.

Two horrendous goals to give away. An horrendous miss & an horrendous pass which should have led to a great chance. That, together with some poor crossing & a passive first half cost us. You’re going to have 4 or 5 performances like that every season, but we’ve only got room for 2 or 3 this season and we’ve used up one already. Probably the first time Tonda tactics can be questioned since Bree returned & he could revert to a 4. His tactics contributed to that poor first half imo. The spygate stuff obscured the fact we were dreadful most of the away leg in the semi & were pretty average against Bristol City & Ipswich, even the home leg of the semi was level at 90 mins. Last week & this week were also disappointing performances,so whilst it’s premature and way too early to start worrying, decent emphatic performances seem quite a few games ago. I’m not saying sides have worked Tonda out, but we were flying when we were balls out, shit or bust, win every game, once there became a bit nuance around results we weren’t so good. I like the mix of long ball & possession, but there’s been too much possession, particularly sideways and back, for my liking. Some poor performances today, Stephens, Bragg, Dobbin. Matski also average, and I’d look at the keeper. We’re not judging him against Baz anymore, but Ramsdale who is available. Could he have done better, maybe, particularly the first one when he looked like he may have borrowed Baz’s gloves. Perhaps too harsh, but he was quite magnificent last season & personally I think he may have saved that in April. Downes good, THB was, until his horrible miss. Azaz different class in his short cameo , but Leo flattered to deceive again. Unlike others, I thought the lad who came on looked ok, not great, but not as bad as some have posted. I thought he looked lively and had decent movement.

Perhaps because they’re different players.

They’re getting acres in midfield, Bragg has been woeful in there, doing an invisible man impression. I’m all for flexibility, but playing Leo differently clearly hasn’t worked & Dobbin has been bang average in Leo’s proper position. Should have switched it over after 20 mins. Matski hasn’t been much better. Terrible defensively & too passive and safe in possession. Next goal is the winner imo, if we get it early I fancy a 3-2, but if we continue in 2nd gear we’ll get beat 3-1

Well said. I worked there for a few years in the 80’s and it was bastard hot & humid in July….

Load of old pony

Yeah, the top 2 in the FIFA rankings, nobody would predict that, must have inside knowledge. I reckon the Premier league was fixed last season as well, loads predicted Arsenal & Man C would finish as the top 2, low and behold, that’s what happened…

WTF has that got to do with The World Cup. 🤡🤡

We’ve defo got the easiest draw, Spain & France look the best sides in the competition imo, Argentina aren’t at that level. Probably sacrilege, but 39 year old Messi doesn’t get in that French team, I’m not even sure he’d get in ours if Saka was reproducing his Arsenal form. They’re going to run out of road eventually, they’ve had a pretty easy knock out draw, and have made a right meal of getting through. TT’s substitutions have been superb the last 2 games. Djed Spence who loads didn’t want to see in an English shirt again, has been excellent off the bench, and Dan Burn the ultimate cult hero. Rice a concern as he has been off pretty much all competition & the right wide position defo a problem, we need Saka to stand up and be counted as Gordon has the other side.

It’s been ok, the refereeing has on the whole been excellent, and I like the new innovation of VAR getting involved with corners/goal kicks. They also seem to have clamped down on theatrics and diving. Too many meaningless group games though and there is some right noddyness going on. Counting down the kick offs, WTF is that all about? The hydration breaks are pony, and the stadium announcements and music sound a right load of old shite. And I’m sick of the TV cameras constantly point at nods or kids in the crowd. I don’t mind panning in on the odd fit bird, but it’s getting ridiculous now. The crowds are so fucking vanilla, mainly nods & blokes with their other halves, like they’re on some sort of date night. The other thing is fucking mobiles, watch the penalty, free kick or corner, don’t film it on your fucking phone. There’s probably a few lads & the odd bird who are proper die hard supporters, but it’s getting less and less. It’s becoming a sporting Glastonbury….

Yeah it was great the way he brought 2 subs on specifically to take penalties….and then both missed. There’s a reason he hasn’t got a job since leaving the England job. I doubt there’s one set of premier league supporters who would want him as manager.

He had a home game against Italy, a piss poor Italian side who haven’t qualified for the WC since, went 1-0 up and Wokegate totally blew it. Even making ridiculous substitutions to take the penalties. The woke twat deserved the sack for that alone. TT would have won us that game, no bother… That’s the problem with the national side & too many of its supporters. They accept mediocre results and elevate average managerial performances. 1990 sums it up. Who did we beat, Egypt in 90 mins, & the mighty Belgium (not a patch on this generation of Belgian players) & Cameroon, both in extra time. Yet nods were lining the streets cheering us home, and still bang on about it even now.

But its supporters don’t want that. They want to piggy back on the blokes game, whilst pretending it’s empowering birds. It’s actually the complete opposite.

Better analysis than Lee Dixon or that gimp Clinton Morrison. I’d get him on ITV helping Em with her kitchen tactic board.

UEFA giving FIFA some clog. Yesterday’s decision to suspend for a probationary period of a year the implementation of the one-match automatic suspension following the red card issued to the player Folarin Balogun crossed a red line. Football, like any other sports, relies on rules, which are the basis for fair, honest and transparent competition. Sometimes rules are open to interpretation. In this case not. A minimum automatic suspension of one match following a red card is not a discretionary option and does not require the decision of a competent body to be enacted. It is a principle embedded in regulations, which cannot be made subject to exceptions, let alone in the middle of a tournament where several other players have been in the same situation and regularly served their suspension. When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake and the credibility of a competition is undermined. Equally, such decision creates a precedent in the ongoing tournament, where similar situations will now require an equal treatment, to the detriment of the competition. Football is the most loved sport in the world because it is a beautiful game and is trusted because it is played everywhere with the same laws. A tournament is never a pure standalone and, if the tournament in question is the World Cup, it has the power to drive positive or negative consequences on the game as a whole. We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision.