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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

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  • #5012
    Connavar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Connavar


    djPSB wrote: »
    Does that say he's the Norwegian Joe Allen?
    Hes the norwegian welsh Xavi


  • #5013
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,695 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Dickerty wrote: »
    So if we make a compelling story, show how we promote kids to the first team (unlike a lot of our competitors), play up the history of the club and globality of our appeal. We are in with a shout.


    How true is this though?

    Gerrard, Carra and now Sterling.

    Kelly didn't really make it and we have hope Flanno will come back in at some stage but thats a monumentally poor return over a roughlty 15 year period.


  • #5014
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    noodler wrote: »
    How true is this though?

    Gerrard, Carra and now Sterling.

    Kelly didn't really make it and we have hope Flanno will come back in at some stage but thats a monumentally poor return over a roughlty 15 year period.

    It was 'globality' that caught my eye tbh


  • #5015
    Pilsbury Doughboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Pilsbury Doughboy


    garra wrote: »
    Pearson giving back abuse on Tues night, you would have sympathy for managers of clubs with limited players, he is doing a good job I reckon and its not for a lack of spirit that they are lagging behind

    https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/47C6D8E1F71152325828437266432_365f570a529.1.1.16544207488049909789.mp4?versionId=lsQgQ5jk0DZH5DorgggbzTpzoV_cD5SR


    I can make out twat that's about it.


  • #5016
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    Hidalgo wrote: »
    It was 'globality' that caught my eye tbh

    It's a buzz word where I work!

    But we do have a Global support base that City, Chelsea and Bayern don't really have. It's a selling point...


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  • #5017
    Dickerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭Dickerty


    noodler wrote: »
    How true is this though?

    Gerrard, Carra and now Sterling.

    Kelly didn't really make it and we have hope Flanno will come back in at some stage but thats a monumentally poor return over a roughlty 15 year period.

    Not about developing players who make it, just about our recent willingness to play young players in the first team. Wisdom, Ibe, Rossiter, Williams on top of the obvious ones. And them training with the first team on a regular basis...


  • #5018
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,695 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Dickerty wrote: »
    Not about developing players who make it, just about our recent willingness to play young players in the first team. Wisdom, Ibe, Rossiter, Williams on top of the obvious ones. And them training with the first team on a regular basis...

    We can't really say we have shown a willigness to play any of those players bar Wisdom (even then only when we were desperate).

    The rest have made the odd Carling Cup game or friendly.

    If you come up through the ranks at Liverpool, the recent evidence seems to suggest you won't be good enough.

    Anyway, didn't mean to bleat on but the number of Nemeths and Susos who never end up making it has always disappointed me.


  • #5019
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    The Mig wrote: »
    Would loved if Bren dropped Mignolet tomorrow. Jones can hardly be any worse than Mig at the moment. Team I'd like to see

    ................Jones
    Manquillo Skrtel Kolo Moreno
    .................Lucas
    .....Hendo...............Coutinho
    ...............Lallana
    ..........Lambert Sterling

    What we're probably gonna see is
    .................Mig
    Manquillo Skrtel Kolo Johnson
    .........Hendo.....Lucas
    Sterling....Gerrard....Lallana
    ..............Lambert



    He can and he is. He's basically Mignolet with the agility of a 70 year granny.


  • #5020
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Jones is fine for one off games. Play him 5+ games in a row, and it is asking for an absolute calamity, in all honesty.

    There's a reason he spent nearly a decade on the bench for Middlesborough.


  • #5021
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,452 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Knex. wrote: »
    Jones is fine for one off games. Play him 5+ games in a row, and it is asking for an absolute calamity, in all honesty.

    Wouldn't mind one absolute calamity every 5 or so games, compared to what Mignolet has been serving up.


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  • #5022
    Milkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Milkers


    Whenever Jones is mentioned people keep saying how brutal he is. Which is a bit weird because he's done ok whenever he's actually played, not great mind but ok.


  • #5023
    Kharrell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 359 ✭✭Kharrell


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    Good post. Experience should tell us that 'only six points off it' is meaningless. It didn't matter in 2009 / 10; it didn't matter for Spurs last year. At a certain point you probably are who your results and performances say you are. Sides generally don't shake off their first half of the season and become a completely different animal with a significantly more positive ppg average down the stretch.

    Utd have quality across their squad and in the dugout. I expect they will invest heavily in their defense over the coming two windows too. They are positioning themselves where they need to be - they lost a couple of years due to Ferguson's folly but they're on the long march back to the top table.

    I'd like this to be the case for Liverpool, but I'm not sure that'll come to fruition. A lot can happen over the next month or two. I'm sure many a fellow United fan won't admit this, but I'm a touch concerned you lot, despite being beyond terrible this season are not far off from us in the league. It feels like Liverpool should be 10 points off from us in fourth, not the current 5 points, or 6 points from Southampton in third.

    Also, didn't Benitez' Liverpool teams, one season aside generally improve in the second half of the season? I certainly remember my Liverpool supporting mates mentioning that many a time before, and in fairness to them, they were usually spot on.

    Dalglish took over and Liverpool's form improved tenfold too, but circumstances were quite different considering his predecessor. On the other side of the coin, his team seemed to fall apart in his full season back.

    Everton are another club over the last decade who really kicked on in the second half of the season.

    Many a time, people ruled out United from winning the league under Fergie, or Arsenal from getting into the 'Top 4' by around January, but both clubs far more often than not produced the goods.

    I still think 3rd and 4th are very much up for grabs.


  • #5024
    Strongbow10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Strongbow10


    Kharrell wrote: »
    I'd like this to be the case for Liverpool, but I'm not sure that'll come to fruition. A lot can happen over the next month or two. I'm sure many a fellow United fan won't admit this, but I'm a touch concerned you lot, despite being beyond terrible this season are not far off from us in the league. It feels like Liverpool should be 10 points off from us in fourth, not the current 5 points, or 6 points from Southampton in third.

    Also, didn't Benitez' Liverpool teams, one season aside generally improve in the second half of the season? I certainly remember my Liverpool supporting mates mentioning that many a time before, and in fairness to them, they were usually spot on.

    Dalglish took over and Liverpool's form improved tenfold too, but circumstances were quite different considering his predecessor. On the other side of the coin, his team seemed to fall apart in his full season back.

    Everton are another club over the last decade who really kicked on in the second half of the season.

    Many a time, people ruled out United from winning the league under Fergie, or Arsenal from getting into the 'Top 4' by around January, but both clubs far more often than not produced the goods.

    I still think 3rd and 4th are very much up for grabs.

    Praising us to jinx us :o

    I see what your at :P


  • #5025
    The Mig
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    Chucky the tree wrote: »
    He can and he is. He's basically Mignolet with the agility of a 70 year granny.
    At this moment I'd give him a chance. Migs pass to Cambiasso the other night was the last straw for me. Total braindead stuff!


  • #5026
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    willowthewisp wrote: »
    My thought is that it is in order of their last appearance for the club, but that doesn't stack up with Rossiter, funnily enough Kenny played his last game for the club after Hansen.

    Might be really dumb here, but number of appearances


  • #5027
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,872 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    The Mig wrote: »
    At this moment I'd give him a chance. Migs pass to Cambiasso the other night was the last straw for me. Total braindead stuff!

    Self abuse?


  • #5028
    willowthewisp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭willowthewisp


    naughtb4 wrote: »
    Might be really dumb here, but number of appearances

    But that doesn't stack up with the order of the way others are sitting e.g. Kennedy.


  • #5029
    The Mig
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    5starpool wrote: »
    Self abuse?
    Worse. Name change request!


  • #5030
    Knex*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Some say he can kick a ball 47 yards out of play. Others say he sees only in two dimensions, and has an irrational fear of circular objects.

    All we know is, he's The Mig.


  • #5031
    Pilsbury Doughboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Pilsbury Doughboy


    Lads, I'd steer clear of that Utd V Liverpool thread for your own sanity, absolute drivel.


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  • #5032
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    willowthewisp wrote: »
    But that doesn't stack up with the order of the way others are sitting e.g. Kennedy.

    Ah right, thought it was just shirt numbers


  • #5033
    The Mig
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 2,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Mig


    Balotelli charged for his Instagram post


  • #5034
    mosstin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,379 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Balotelli charged then. Until Dec 15th to reply. His long did Dave Whelan get to sort out his response?


  • #5035
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,872 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I'm shocked that Balotelli has been charged by the FA. Yep, shocked is the word.


  • #5036
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,872 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Pilsbury Doughboy wrote: »
    Lads, I'd steer clear of that Utd V Liverpool thread for your own sanity, absolute drivel.

    Leave it there. Good to have a home for it.


  • #5037
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 45,738 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If it speeds up his exit from the club it's a good thing. Providing better players are coming in of course


  • #5038
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Pilsbury Doughboy wrote: »
    Lads, I'd steer clear of that Utd V Liverpool thread for your own sanity, absolute drivel.

    It's priceless. Have saved quite a few posts for future use.

    So what's the story with the Irish and Norwegian lads?


  • #5039
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,983 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Pilsbury Doughboy wrote: »
    Lads, I'd steer clear of that Utd V Liverpool thread for your own sanity, absolute drivel.

    I tried to not post then someone said Rooney would have started over Suarez who would have sat on the bench at United :eek:


  • #5040
    gafferino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭gafferino


    Match Thread

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=93323934#post93323934

    I am 1 for 1 so far :o


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  • #5041
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I thought that thread was a Stupid Test.


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