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HilRious goal

It’s an entitled view in my opinion. Of course we’d all love full details, we’d also like things to move as quickly as possible. However, they have no obligation to give us the full details nor to move things along as quickly as possible. I think you’re setting yourself up for disappointment if you’re hanging on this news dropping all the time. Just get on with your lives as usual and then react when the news actually comes out

Dropped a D

I watch a lot of football but you’re on another level @Paullow

That’s a damning stat

The match going experience is coloured half by what happens on the pitch and half by who you’re surrounded by. It’s almost impossible not to have multiple cretins near you chatting shit. I’m a positive fan in the ground and only emit the odd momentary grumble, apart from that I mostly sing to back the team or shout shit at the ref / other team. If someone told me to be quieter or clap less I’d honestly just ask them what the fuck they’re doing at a live football match

I hope so, I think what makes me more concerned is that the original ACL was an unusual one where they weren’t even sure what impact had caused it and then he played on for several matches while it was an issue. Just made me wonder whether he has more of a natural susceptibility. I really hope not as he’s an outstanding defender. I’d much prefer that they take their time with him and protect him so that he doesn’t have major injury recurrences

Does Keith Gillespie come to many of our games?

Thirteen seasons for us in the premier league, 294 games, 43 PL goals. Amazing stats if he’d been a playing any other position than striker. Wonder what his average minutes played was across that 294 games

There was real beauty to the way he palmed the penalty into the roof of the net

He was, but was such a limited player compared to Hall. Hall is by some distance the best LB we’ve had in my lifetime

Wouldn’t call him shit, he’s fast, he can kick a football hard and keep it down and he can cross a ball very well. He is not technically gifted at all, he can’t shield the ball against a press and he has a limited range of passing, he has no particular dribbling skill. So, it comes down to the fact he has his uses in the final third and he’s maximised these. He deserves a lot of credit for that but he’s not good in the other areas of the pitch

He’s a one-way player. He’s more than just an exceptional striker of a football. He can drive with the ball and can cross a ball but he’s almost entirely useless out of possession compared to you average winger these days

Wat?

How on Earth is that a red

Not having this, he was not that player today. He went on a couple of quality runs where he outfought his man, left Chris Wood in the dust for one of our goals. He had a good game today

I could look this up but I’m sure someone knows the actual rules. Can you score directly from a throw in as the attacking side or does it need to take a touch beforehand?

What I don’t get with Schar is that his long-range switch passing has massively dropped off. Why is that? That’s not something that should go with age, his legs may go in terms of pace but he should still be able to spray passes about like he used to. I watched him today and he just wasn’t hitting it cleanly when he launched it out to the left and he’s done that a lot this season

Might give it a watch, hope he does well there

This does deserve more attention, he has a class throw on him

Hear hear

Can someone provide a theory for why we’ve played so poorly in so many second halves this season? That one was a carbon copy of others where we’ve not held onto the ball for more than three passes at a time countless times. It also mirrored other games where we’ve just been camped in our own half and looked incredibly terrified of the ball

Rest for me, even though I hate the approach. Just think it could be good to give players like Barnes and Osula more minutes and definitely Miley. Anfield is a graveyard for us and we could win with a full strength squad and if we were carrying momentum into the match but i can’t see it

I’ve said before that I think he’s second to Bruno in passing, although I think Hall is probably that nowadays. However, he’s still not on the level of Bruno. Clearly a fantastic player though and still got years of development to go