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Eh? Why didn't he retire 12 years ago, then?

Carragher knows his shit and talks a lot of sense. I'd much sooner they dubbed him, though. I sometimes wonder if old people are able to hear him.

One of his s**** signings was Andy Carroll. How did he fit into Liverpool's carpet football plan? That was the thing. Dalglish never seemed to actually have a long-term goal he was consistently working towards. Thought it was quite obvious what he was trying to do by buying Downing and Carroll (them 2 at least). Enrique was a good buy too. That's not a strategy, it's a tactic. Dalglish football was aimless and inconsistent but never roundly turgid. Get it down and play was the broad aim. Not carpet stuff but better than Pardew, Allardyce and Moyes imo. What a lovely sentence.

Er...dunno (genuinely). What did he do? Don't you sometimes have to give it a bit of a go? I'm saying this, i don't follow Liverpool at all and can't remember any of it. I guess my (only) point was in response to your suggestion that Dalgliesh didn't have a plan for his signings. With the 2 i mentioned, i could see a plan. If it doesn't work out that's a different problem, but he i think he had a clear idea when he bought them. Henderson was bit more of a conundrum (in my eyes). Although we made him look brilliant i haven't seen him much of his supposed talent otherwise. Well, there wasn't really a coherent plan B. We played well, we played not so well, we played badly, then well again etc. etc. There wasn't really any clear progression in the side. With Rafa (and Hodgson), it was pretty clear what they were working towards, even if the latter had his sights set on the bottom half.

Aye, but it didn't work out, and what did he do then?

One of his shite signings was Andy Carroll. How did he fit into Liverpool's carpet football plan? That was the thing. Dalglish never seemed to actually have a long-term goal he was consistently working towards.

Should I gloat here or in the match thread?

It's not all guff. This fella makes a good point:

Different kettle of fish, those two. They're just headcases that can't get it together on or off the pitch. Suarez is more like Cantona or Keane, with his on-field red mists. There's nary a problem with him off the pitch.

Me, too. Not the subsequent gloating, mind you.

Dammit 10/14. All mistakes attributing to Brent things I dearly hoped our manager hadn't said

Oh right. Don't really know, tbh.

Didn't Fergie win a cup and then a bunch of the best English players of the last 30 years dropped into his lap through no effort of his own?

I'd just like to see some progress. The summer transfer window will be critical. If he wastes all the money like Kenny did, I'll be livid. Also, I don't like the crap he comes out with in press conferences. "Winning the passing" and blaming the kids he picked. He gives me the creeps, too.

Of course he does, but whether he'll be good enough after 3 years …

No idea how likely that is: I don't know what the players personally think of Rodgers. I know they weren't overly keen on Rafa as a bloke, but they respected that he knew what he was doing.

these yanks don't have that link with rafa though, and i reckon they 100% made their bed with rogers - he'll get 3 years minimum come what may, they'd have to have a season as bad as ours to consider binning him imo No they don't, but they will be well aware of how he did at the club and how adored his is amongst the fans. I could even imagine the players dropping the Blobfish in it if they thought Rafa might come back.

Firefox is pure bloat on a Mac. Awful software. I can't decide between Chrome and Safari. I much prefer Chrome on the desktop (especially since Safari keeps crashing on one machine), but I really don't like the mobile versions (no bookmarks bar, bookmarklets are a pain to use). I think I'm just going to sack it off on my phone/tablet and do without Chrome Sync/iCloud sync.

Have you read the thread? Just this part of the introduction: Stopped there tbf. Understandable, I suppose, but the LFC/1st place implication was more yours than the author's/posters'. There's no talk in the thread of better than 4th, and that in conjunction with "extremely unlikely" or "mathematically possible". It would have been more realistic to leave out ManU, Citeh and Chelsea in favour in NUFC + ?, but it's Liverpool, so you can't leave out ManU. The shits.

Have you read the thread?

In what way? Other than The Battle for 7th thread being explained a lot more clearly, they look pretty damn similar in terms of the underlying concept: an alternative reading of performance that considers the strength of opposition in addition to just points.

As far as I can tell (it's not very clear), he's trying to "normalise" the season, so you can tell at a glance how well each team is performing without having to factor in the relative difficulty of each side's fixture list so far. Then he's comparing it to where he estimates a team would have to be to a) win the league or b) qualify for the CL. It looks to me like the choice of which are the "big games" is flawed (i.e. they were chosen at the start of the season, not based on current form/league position at the time of the match), but I don't think it's inherently biased towards LFC in any way. That is to say, all the weightings will even out for all the teams over the season, and he's still looking at points, not who won the passing or some such bollocks.

I, for one, would be happy to see him replaced with a manager who thinks the purpose of football is to win the game, not the bleeding passing.

Hahaha! Clenches fist, taps opponent on shoulder with wrist.