Interpolic

Scored and played well in literally our last away game in the league.

Some prams will be running out of toys, aye.

Yeah imagine not wanting to sack one of our best ever managers.

Some really nice, thoughtful, eloquent posts. Maybe where not all thick.

Ironically stats such as xG can be used alongside opinions to form a fuller picture but discussion of them appears to be banned, so... This will be my first and last post on this cos it's the most tedious argument on the forum

Souness was the usual reactive Shepherd appointment - the old man has the young players running rings around him so let's bring a disciplinarian in to chin them instead. Swear it soothed his own ego to appoint formerly brilliant footballers like Dalglish, Gullit and Souness as well.

Shepherd made loads of errors with Robson - one was announcing it was his last season which is stupid at the best of times but even worse when there were discipline issues in the squad. He also started going over his head on transfers (Butt instead of Carrick who was available for less than half the money). I did think we were declining under Bobby but you back him or sack him, and Shepherd did neither.

Timing was often an issue with Shepherd, that and the appointments themselves. I don't think Dalglish would have ever got it right but to sack him after 2 games of the season (2 draws as well) was bizarre.

we are elite at this. Players too. Always works wonders.

Be as touchy as you like man, you consistently respond with contempt to anyone who has had the temerity to defend one of the best and most dignified individuals in the club's recent history. You appear to have signed up two months ago simply to slag him off. You're gonna get pushback. "Whopper" was extremely charitable.

one of the biggest whoppers we've ever had.

Your position on Howe (a club legend) as of a few days ago is we should effectively keep him on standby in case we can't get anyone better.

And won't admit he does

Yeah there's more to it than trophies. Stylistically his teams were iconic and there must be value placed on the transformation from almost-3rd tier to one of the top two sides in the country. And setting the foundations for Robson and Howe after him. These days he'd probably get plaudits for transforming us into one of the highest revenue clubs in Europe. Like Pochettino at Spurs but up another few levels, and from a far lower base.

He's remembered for orchestrating one of the most entertaining sides ever seen at the top level. One that's still talked about today. Tbh the only side I can recall that is still talked about so widely when they didn't win anything. We don't need to talk Keegan down to talk Howe up. That said I do think Howe has eclipsed him cos of what KI said. We can't outspend almost everyone in the league anymore. But Keegan was immense.

Seriously absolute mackem behaviour. Very, very strange. Well done for moaning earlier than the majority.

Class night for you. Can feel the glee. Congrats.

Elite jamminess.

Ffs

I just looked at your post and didn't understand it first time around, I thought it was something about the hard R

TRon Atkinson

Disrespectful, ungrateful, utterly predictable.

This means you want Howe to leave. Same to the other person who said it @Sir Joel Inton who also clutches his pearls when it's suggested he wants Howe to leave. Own it, lads.

We see teams overturn bigger deficits up and down the league pretty much every single season.