Stifler

Who the fuck thought that this would be a good game to pick for TV?

£7 to watch North Shields now. £5 for concessions, and free for under 16’s attending with an adult. Half price season tickets on offer for £60 for adults, and £40 for concessions.

PSG have just opened up a club store in Toronto, they opened up one in London last year, as well as ones in New York, Miami etc. They also have a dozen dotted about in Japan, and South Korea. I wonder how long it will be until we get to be like that.

What, you mean like Miley 2 months ago?

This. Contact doesn’t = a foul. If you say it does and use it to justify Liverpools penalty, then Longstaff’s is a penalty. You can’t have it both ways. I’m sick of football fans believing contact alway means a penalty or a foul, especially those one social media who come from non-footballing countries and have spent 20-30 years watching the top 6 clubs get those decisions and automatically think that’s the way it is.

This season the minimum target would have been European football, that would have been without what we did last season or not. The club and owners have a 5 year plan, this would have been where the club needed to be this year. If we had won a cup then you maybe forgiven for not achieving it. Right now we are below that target and in the backpeddle in the fight for the European slots. If we lose on Saturday then bang goes any half chance of a cup victory, and another route to Europe. We also lose a game against our rivals who when we were taken over, were 2 divisions apart from. It was alright losing that game for Ashley, this ownership group will not accept it. There is no leeway for Howe in losing the derby if we are not achieving what we need too elsewhere. For us now, that’s European football, under Ashley that was 17th, hence why losing the derby was no big deal for Pardew, Carver, and McClaren. As others have said, we are not going through just a bad spell. We have only won 1 away league game all season. We have lost 2 recent games to relegation candidates, and face a month playing against teams going for the title. Out it down to injuries/fatigue all you like, but our performances have been way off, even in games that we have won. Also when you are manager and come out in press conferences and say playing so many games isn’t an excuse, then all you are doing is taking that off the table, be it you agree with him or not. I still think injuries are a big factor in our situation, but the press and possibly the ownership group are not going to take what Howe says and allow him the leeway he’s talking himself out of. At the end of the day, if we lose on Saturday then our season is effectively over in the first week of January, and I don’t see that sitting well with the owners, and with fans. No one is expecting a top 4 finish, but I think everyone is expecting to finish in the European places.

Maybe you could actually create a constructive post?

Not really. I expected a drop off, we got fucked with the Champions League draw, and if we got any of the other groups any other 4th seed got, then we would have qualified. That’s without mentioning the PSG penalty. I expect and can handle a drop off in position, I can’t accept the manner of losses we have had in recent games, and I can’t accept not doing the basics and players out of form being played when there is options for them.

Sorry to say, and as much as Howe has done a job that went beyond any sort of wild expectations, he’s still making massive mistakes right now which are costing us. We have no one at LB because in 6 months he hasn’t bothered to ease Hall into the team. So now we have Burn playing against the likes of Salah, and Mbappe, when he struggles with anyone with any sort of pace. We have Schar going upfront and leaving gaps, which has cost us so many games this season and he obviously hasn’t been told to stop it. We have Trippier who is fucked, absolutely fucked when we have Livramento who’s performing well in that position who can cover him for a few games. some of the games have been awful. Look at Luton, and Forest. Simple passing and doing the simple things is enough to beat those teams. We aren’t doing that, no simple passing, nothing, literally passing to opposition players, or running into them instead of making the simple available passes. It’s more than just fatigue, and you can see right from KO if we are going to win the game. It’s not even like we can start slowly and come into games, we start slowly, that’s it. I’ve always feared that Howe is defensively naïve, and he’s showing that again. If we are going to write off this January because of the fixtures, then he has to win the derby, has too. Under Ashley it was another game, and so long as we had enough points at the end of the season, the manager could get away with that. I don’t think our owners, or are fans are going to accept it. This season is fast running away from us, and if we lose that as well, it’s a complete and utter waste of a season, and would go nowhere towards building for the future.

We don’t, but also we were losing in anyway, no need to be robbed of it.

2 minutes before the end, they are winning, and Anfield finally comes alive, with additional support by the loud speaker.

Howe will be diplomatic about it as well when he needs to blast them for that. Might as well have shown the fucking bank transaction instead of the dive there.

Should walk off, our players should walk off.

Why do these cunts want the ESL when they have bought this league?

Nah fuck off. Might as well be showing the money handover there.

Piss off.

Not happening, but I’d laugh if we got something here.

If he doesn’t win the derby, then he’s lost it for me. Only so much you can blame injuries and fatigue when you have players like Hall not getting in ahead of Burn, and Trippier needing to sit out and not being so when Livramento is available.

Fucking clearly off as well.

So Isak’s wasn’t allowed for leaning but theirs is?

Fuck off man, what the fuck man?

Never looked up for it. It seems like the players and coaching staff were dreading this game just as much as the fans.

That’s what I thought, no chance it’s coming back.

Fuck sake.

Penalty surely?