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Something I've been meaning to ask... That dressing room looked to be decorated in NUFC colours. Is that just the default colour scheme or do they modify it to suit who's in there?

Any reason given? Following his performance in the final and the fact Walker was seemingly the best we could come up with it seems a really odd decision. As 54 says though good for us so no complaints on that front.

I can see Liverpool being more in the pack next season. If we make CL and are able to improve this summer then in terms of English teams I'd say only City would be measurably ahead of us in "chances to win trophies" and they've got Haaland. So apart from your Real Madrid's and the like I don't think we've got much to worry about at all.

Eddie Howe quite rightly scores an A leaving us with grades of: A Howe Isak A- Tonali Guimaraes B+ Burn B Botman Gordon Hall C+ Joelinton C Barnes Livramento Miley C- Trippier Schar Pope D+ Dubravka Murphy Willock D Targett Krafth Longstaff D- Osula E+ Lascelle E Wilson Thank you all for taking part. The purpose of the exercise was to gain overall consensus on quantifying where our squad is at. My takeaway is that we have a good, albeit somewhat inbalanced, spine to the team but the drop off when it comes to strength in depth is quite noticeable. Something I think we mostly all would have agreed on before hand but nice to see it Scientifically Proven. Still not sure about Burn at B+ mind

Lewis Miley is the last of our player rankings and scores a solid C. But we ain't done quite yet! We will finish with the one and only Eddie Howe. In terms of the grades themselves they translate nicely enough to management: A - World Class B - One of the best but not quite at the elite level C - Have a word with yourself D - Forum ban E - Lifetime forum ban for you and any relations

Him and Osula I decided are in and around the first team enough to be included compared to others. Any grades will have an asterix next to them and aren't set in stone for the future of course

Our captain scores an A-! And so we come to the last player we are going to grade: Lewis Miley!

Imagine if I ran the Traitors game starting midweek last week and ending this week

One of my main criticisms of Gordon is how rarely he uses Hall on the overlap. I know Tino is rightly getting plaudits for his performances at LB but I'm wondering how much that is down to having Barnes in front of him rather than Gordon. (Though clearly both are a clear upgrade on Murphy)

A D for Longstaff. We're coming to the end of our little exercise here but up next is our captain Bruno Guimaraes!

I suspect it might be a tad inflated but fuck it, let BDB enjoy his B+ Sean Longstaff next.

Maybe I should have given this thread a few days

Thought the Tonali booking was bullshit. That corner took no longer to take than others in the game. Just because Liverpool are losing doesn't mean we're under any obligation to suddenly speed up how quickly we take our set pieces.

And we're back! Today we have England's and LC Winner Big Dan Burn!

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