Kanj

The Dalglish era was so fucking weird, like. Keegan gone, so let's bring in a title winning giant of a football manager/man in football. Proceeds to just blow the whole thing up in his first fucking window.

Sometimes I wonder about this too, if they were all fit maybe Gordon eventually just starts getting the reps more and more on the right side. I always thought he was the perfect Miggy replacement....but then outta no where he broke out a LWF.

I dont think it's a conspiracy. And its really hard to look at anything we did pre-takeover because the club didn't give a single flying fuck about competing in anything else and barely existed to exist.

Shearer hitting post in FA cup final

Yeah, just seeing him out there and he's stronger and far more of a battler. I'd say its Bruno, Willock and Miley/Anderson.

Mike Magnon's save on Bruno's curler, Milan (h) Miggy not playing the ball to Maximin in the cup final in that early counter attack

nah. Just find it funny everyone hates every draw and then when someone brings up something about potential changes it’s just a nah, leave it the same. So that means we’re gonna spend the rest of eternity just bitching about something that just seems shite. “Just bad luck” doesn’t feel right to me. We’ve had the highest number of away draws this season in these domestic cups so it makes it harder for us. Is there not some way to pause and come up with a solution? Replays? Or a special bucket for teams that successfully make it through a few away ties get the benefit of a home match as reward. We’ve missed out on home match revenue. The local economy misses out on match day revenues. A small subset of fans who always go to away matches get to go to away matches. Our players have to travel more again. Etc etc.

Aye let’s just keep things “as is” and just accept it because that’s what we’re told to do. Give over. Please accept that Liverpool or City or etc will always win the cups then.

like if you have multiple away ties in a row in same competition you get an auto home or something.

I said this before and I'll say it again, there needs to be rules in the draws about this.

I highly doubt he makes that much either.

I never said Howe was our scout. But Howe had a heavy hand in telling Nickson/Staveley/Mehrdad/Reuben/Yasir who he wanted and pushing for the player or the cost etc. It all came to him and Tindall and his team. Howe green-lit our offers for all the players I mentioned BEFORE Ashworth was here. Yep, and just like Howe's interview about Tonali after the Villa game. "I fell in love with him" quote.

"And it is difficult to escape the feeling that the club misstepped by having one eye on the future when the present needed to be addressed last year." ^Re Ashworth and Howe's hope to have more influence long term.

Howe was our de facto sporting director that led to the signings of Trippier, Bruno, Burn, Wood, Targett. >> that window we would never have signed Burn had we gotten Botman AND (yes) Diego Carlos. And while the jury is out on Targett now and most would deem him excess to requirements -- he was fantastic in that loan spell and then has more or less been injured for 2 seasons whilst Burn created a brilliant partnership with Joelinton and WIllock. Presumably the leg work for Botman, Isak, Pope, were done under Howe before Ashworth came on.

While I appreciate that Klopp brought on a handful of youngsters...he had a pretty senior starting 11 all things considered and brought on the majority of the youngsters in minute 87. Diaz, Gakpo, Elliott, Gravenberch, Endo, Mac Allister, Robertson, VVD, Konate, Bradley, Kelleher >> Elliott has etablished himself as a PL player for more than a year now, Bradley is the legit newbie showing great potential. Klopp then brough on Gomez for injured Gravenberch in 28', Bobby Clark for Bradley in 72', Tsimikas for Robertson in 87', McConnell for Mac in 87', Danns for Gakpo in 87', and then Quansah for Konate in 106'. Yes, those young bloods came in late, held on to a 0-0 and then Virgil won it at the death. But this is hardly novel game changing stuff here. Credit to the young guys who came on and did the job though absolutely. But Miley and Anderson are our only comparable talents and a few of those above are far higher rated, no?

Missed him so damn much all season. That player who fucking destroyed spurs last season, and the one who paired with Joelinton were absolutely in Brighton’s faces the entire match, was something truly special brewing.

Go away.

The miss of the season, part of me wishes Fab didn’t have that clearance and Pope likely doesn’t make the save on that volley by Regulion (I think?) v Man United. I’m of the belief we’d be comfortably 6th and still in the CL.

I’ll sound like a broken record but I’d love to know how teams fare when they are missing their #1 GK and missing half a squad of starting players. I’m sure it’s not kind. And I’m sure those fans don’t have stupid and unrealistic expectations of their teams.

Makes me want to yell when I read or hear constant repeated expectations that Longstaff and Miley should be doing any better versus a midfield 3 of Odegaard, Rice and Jorginho. Do people really use their brain and have any levels of critical thinking? I didn’t think it needed much thought.

Id love for the genius know it Alls here who run a business to explain what they’d do to keep up with their business plan when their top 4-5 people are not able to work. But no no no it’s Howe ball and ashworth and all this other fucking utter stupid nonsense.

He’s our third choice keeper guys.

Not the time to be sarcastic. But I know you’re one who supports Howe mate. My comment wasn’t meant for you bro.

Fuck off. Stop calling for change any minute we do not do well always. Maybe Arsenal should have sacked Arteta for missing champions league?

What’s the record of a club who’ve lost their #1 keeper? And what’s that record when that team loses 10+ first team players? What’s also that team’s record when they lose the actual engine to their game plan?