Harry

I was more suggesting that the best defences in the league should be going for a goal every other game rather than a goal a game on average.

Anyone else find it surprising that conceding 14 from 18 games equates to being the tightest defence in the league...?

Your thoughts on the implications of that for January defensive signings...?

I'd prefer to see it done proactively given the importance of our campaign. Really I'd spend proper money on that going for a clear first choice partner to VVD now and move Lovren on once convenient. We need that consistency and a defender we can count on to stay fit. All three of the current support defenders have regular injury troubles and whilst I've hoped Joe G would be that I don't trust it enough now to say just bring in another 4th choice Ragnar klavan type squad filler. We would be so exposed if VVD gets injured or suspended.

Yes that's exactly what's playing out because the future of the party is at stake to correctly understand and correct it's failings when it rises from the ashes. Sadly opportunism and peoples preference to believe what suits them come together to taint the process potentially jeopardising it when the best thing for the country and the party is to be as correct as possible at really getting to the bottom of it before moving on... I.e. If Corbyn doesn't accept his policy stance is unpalatable to the centrists and he hands over to someone cut from the same cloth then they'll be doomed for another 5 years (example only since I have no idea if that was a factor or not).

This navel gazing is pretty common though isn't after an election defeat? Happened here recently when our Labor party lost the unloseable election with a leader only slightly more popular than Corbyn and a suite of fairly radical policy positions. The diagnosis of what most contributed to the collapse is fundamental to sharing the direction for the future.

Interesting. And for the next election, will Scotland still be in the picture? If not, how do labour position themselves to win a majority vote? Moving way back towards the centre?

Looking back do you think there was an opportunity to take a guaranteed soft brexit stance and frame the election as soft (labour) vs probable hard brexit (tory)? Would that have shifted anything?

I'm just gauging the extent to which your prioritising this tournament when you said your very r keen to see us win it... Personally I'd not swap it for a point, or even a single game injury to a key player.

How many league points would you swap for a club World cup victory? If you could choose between a cup win but a dropped 6 points in the league vs not winning the cup and taking full points?

Same. Enough minutes for the first 11 to maintain form but plenty of rotation and opportunity for younger players to thrive..

Don't underestimate the impact of a leaders unpopularity being capable of shifting undecideds on the final day of the campaign. Our Australian Labor government explained away their previous leaders trailing in preferred PM polls to the conservative party leader and having a -21 favorable rating (35% approved, 56% disapproved) then we were wondering why they underperformed relative to pre election polling... If people don't like you it makes them much more willing to vote elsewhere.

I suspect the true answer to this is quite an unpleasant one that the games been rigged to be such.

A strong swing to the Tories after the last few years...!? What positions did labour take to the election?

I officially have a crush on the prime minister of Finland.

I'm not sure it made sense to keep going this far post Ragnar...

Will be 30 degrees in Qatar. I hope we're preparing for that Leicester fixture but either way will be an adjustment to go from Qatar back to Liverpool in December.

Saw this graph doing the rounds on Twitter which was mind-blowing but immediately made me think of this fake Churchill quote.

Indubitably!

I've just seen this photo and decided I must go here immediately...

Honestly I respect the frankness of that interview. Interesting to see a bit of his perspective through that period. However given his affiliation for Trump I couldn't trust anything he'd say to be factual.

It's in reverse order mate. Most recent game at the front.

Was the premier league Twitter account mate. Think they're only looking at results in one competition

Yeah I agree with most of that but I feel he's not been as injury prone as your making out. They've been an issue for certain but for me the problem was more that you just can't start anyone ahead of Gini for more than 3 games in a row cos he's just been too damn good...

We don't have many situations of selling off an unwanted player who then went on to strike gold at another club. Normally those who go on to great success were prised from us against the will of those at the club. If we sell Keita despite him never getting that extended run in the side I wouldn't be surprised if he turns into a star somewhere else.