Novocastrian

All of our issues today; failure to create chances and allowing Liverpool to carve their own chances, were largely self generated. I didn’t see a world class performance from Liverpool. Just a very good team rotating 4 or 5 first teamers keeping possession and controlling the game.

About time…

Not denying how difficult it is to play against a team like Liverpool but every time we’ve had the ball we’ve made bad decisions and given it away. We’ve not even posed them a problem yet which is disappointing.

Poor first half, we’ve been awful on the ball and we’ve not had if too often. ASM up front not working, we don’t seem to know how to put an attack together. This is Liverpool in first gear, we need to ramp up the intensity.

Wasn’t a foul unfortunately.

They’ve only won 2 league titles without Busby or Ferguson, the last one about 110 years ago.

I favoured trying Joelinton up top to allow Shelvey/Willock/Bruno a go as a midfield three but thought he looked knackered the other night. Thought he was a due a rest.

Mark McGhee against Bradford City circa 1989/1990.

Bit of a theme with us being the better team in first half and abject in the second.

I’ve never wanted or agree with VAR fullstop. Adds a bit of drama for the neutral though.

Fair do’s.

Honestly, the decisions where a line has to be drawn through several players looking for an errant toe or knee I’d consider onside. The offside VAR fundamentalists can fuck off.

Yeah it’s offside in VAR land, I think people get pissed off with its employment on marginal decisions where the human eye doesn’t pick it up and even several slo-mo replays and lines drawn are barely conclusive. It’s not what VAR was intended for.

Jesus fuck drinking out the bottle? Surely not.

Swap him out with Joelinton, at least he can hold the ball up and bring others into play. Bruno/Shelvey/Willock in midfield.

Must admit I’m getting a little bored of watching him run around and challenge for headers. Yes he works hard but it’s quite excruciating.

The badge changes are so minimal they’re barely noticeable although after comparing the before and after several times the new design looks a bit ‘fresher’ in my opinion. Either way, I prefer this to a radical redesign into some generic ‘circle crest’.

Just buy everything on Barrack Rd, student flats, business school etc. and promise to build them replacement state of the art facilities elsewhere in the city. Move the pitch across and free up space to develop the East Stand. Re-route traffic etc.

A plank of wood would have done better.

This is fucking gash so far, wish someone could get a grip of these games and show some leadership.

Porto Porto de Galinhas is lovely, went there a few years ago. I’m jealous.

If we stay up we’ll be fishing for similar targets next season. We might not be a match on the pitch yet but we will be competing for players.

We need to forget about pulling £40/50m CBs out of CL clubs in this window. Surely there is obtainable players that would improve us for a lot less. Leave the long pursuits until the summer and we know which league we are in.

It’s a risk, but all of these mooted January transfers are risks. He knows the PL and can score goals. I’ve always thought he’s a decent player. The risk is Burnley bring in Brereton-Diaz for £24m and he sets the PL alight whilst Wood scores 1 goal and we are relegated.

Took the £1bn takeover ‘war chest’ and spent £950m before season started. After 10 games in 17th place!!