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  1. 30 minutes ago, RondónEFC said:

    Potter would be mad to come here. We should have gone for him in the summer and let him and Brands get on with things while Moshiri fucked off and destroyed another train set somewhere far far away.

    I'm still not sure about this. Even Benitez managed to win a quarter of our league games with a massive injury crisis. Even a bang average manager should be able to do at least that well in the second half of the season which is all you need to avoid relegation.

    People have been using the same phrase "make or break" every single time we find ourselves here. It's a bit sensationalist. I can't remember the last season people weren't bricking it and saying "there's no such thing as too good to go down". If Ferguson can get us 4 points in two games again ot something and the permanent replacement can win 4-5 more games in the remainder of the season we're safe and despite people's exaggerations about our squad, we still have the quality to do that quite comfortably.

    I've heard this all before. Everton could be in real trouble this time. Ooh Everton haven't done very good business in the transfer market, that squad doesn't look much better than the teams below them. You're never too good to go down. They need someone like Allardyce to come in and steady the ship. As much as I loathe most of them, this squad has finished 7th, 8th, 8th, 12th, 10th in the last five seasons. It would take a staggeringly bad second half of the season for us to go down.

    I maybe worded it wrong but I think it’s make or break with the fans, the threat of relegation is an aside to that right now and while unlikely, you look appalling at times and there’s a chance, however, slim that you get sucked into it if Newcastle can manage to throw enough blood money around and some shit sticks between now and whenever the season eventually ends.

    I think another appointment like this, a short-term appointment with no real plan to it and more ambling along and finishing in positions that the fans think is beneath the squad they have and I think the pressure on Moshiri really ramps up, new stadium or not. The bloke comes across to me, a complete neutral, as that stereotypical “rich man with a toy to play with till he gets bored”. The constant changes and flitting between working with DoF’s and working with different DoF’s every year and the contrast in the appointments made at managerial level (Silva who’d had a good month at Watford, Ancelotti who’s a massive name, Allardyce to keep you up, Koeman who looked to be up and coming and Benitez, a fella championed for Newcastle not being complete shit but still being pretty shit) and their styles and philosophies just looks like the workings of an irrational, knee jerk buffoon without any discernible plan. More of the same and I don’t see how your fans don’t really turn on him, if many haven’t already. 

    I like Dyche but he doesn’t suit the “Everton way” and the style that Everton fans want to see as the very basis of the club. Not many names on the SkyBet list scream that to me, either. An untested foreign manager is a risk but that doesn’t mean it can’t work. Those who’ve worked in the Premier League in recent years don’t really scream that sort of thing either. 

  2. It’s a real make or break appointment for Everton, this one. If Newcastle can sign some players and actually pretend to be a semi-competent football team for long enough and Moshiri does a Moshiri again, they’re in genuine trouble this season, let alone next season. 

    They need an appointment to get fans back on their side but appointing and inexperienced former player in Ferguson or Rooney isn’t the way to go to do that. 

  3. The names in the bookies list are pretty shit. 

    Rooney makes sense for Rooney but not for Everton. He gets out of Derby with his credibility sky high and no relegation on his CV but he shouldn’t be getting a Premier League job, even till the end of the end of the season, this quickly. Nuno’s more of the same as Benitez, then you’ve got the Martinez’s and Bilic’s who are only there because of their links to Everton. 

  4. Said it countless times, how is he still in a job? I’m just surprised there isn’t massive protests about this. If we were French, London would be burnt to the ground. 

    I couldn’t imagine how angry I’d feel had we not continued visiting my Mrs’ Dad in his final months. As a caveat to that, we weren’t even going outside for months on end so we felt safe to see him. 

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  5. 5 hours ago, LFCMike said:

    If people think this was deliberate, what was the benefit of Liverpool getting the Arsenal game postponed ? They've given up home advantage in the second leg. Out of the three that missed Chelsea through Covid, there's probably only Firmino that will be involved in the semi final.

    They cynic in me says twelve games in forty three days (up to 2nd January), of which eight were in December and you were due to play three games in a week, starting with Chelsea, then Arsenal and Shrewsbury. That’s not to say twelve games in forty three days won’t cause a certain amount of fatigue and injuries, mind. Enough to get a game called off though, I’m not sure.

    Liverpool now have four games before the “winter break” then five games before a gap (currently) between 19th Feb and 5th March (you’d think the Leeds game will go in here somewhere). 

  6. 9 hours ago, LFCMike said:

    If the training ground ends up closing, which seems possible given they stopped training yesterday, then Liverpool won't be able to field anyone. The first team, under 23s and Academy all train at the same place.

    Funny how it's only such an issue now Liverpool have dared to ask for a game to be postponed though.

    It’s nothing to do with Liverpool, they’re just the current ones using this to get games canned. It’s also that your manager is a proper whinging dickhead and I’m fed up of him complaining about the treatment of multimillionaires being asked to play two games of football in four days, Burnley having an advantage because they don’t have as many internationals as Liverpool (I mean, he’s free to take a job in League Two, they have none), shouting about clouds and whatever nonsense he decides to come out with that particular week. 

    The whole “injury crisis” that seems to have suddenly hit every club sets the cynic in me off, too. Now the precedent has been set, do we now postpone games when clubs have genuine injuries to a number of players, a bit like when Liverpool were making footballers up to play in defence last year or whenever that was? 

    The irony isn’t lost on me. Whinging Jurgen is still pocketing coin every month from John Henry (as is Tuchel and Pep from their chairmen, I must add), one of the blokes behind the comical Super League and he’s the one who’s made and continues to make his name in a competition that’s going to a Swiss chess style format in two years, where Champions League group games will be increased from six to ten. Where’s the bed wetting for that, like there is with the weekly Jurgen rants? 

    Managers coming to England and then going off about the Christmas schedule is beyond tiresome now. It’s been that way since people were shitting in a hole in their back garden, it’s not a shock anymore and it’s beyond boring that managers of clubs are coming here and booting off about one of the few footballing traditions we have in this country that aren’t to do with beer or lukewarm pies. People don’t tend to moan as much when they play Wednesday-Saturday, I don’t get why we can’t do similar at Christmas without the theatrics we get. 

    If we can’t ask and expect footballers to play football twice in a few days a couple of times a year and can’t ask Premier League clubs, those who have incredible facilities (James Maddison’s TikTok made Leicester’s training ground look like a five star spa to mere peasants like us) and the best in the business surrounding them, to field squads based on having ridiculous amounts of professionals to their advantage, what’s the point, anyway?

    Its nothing to do with Liverpool as a club but they’re the ones making the biggest fuss (at present) and it’s in the news, so they’re getting it. Just as Tuchel should have prior and whenever Pep brings up wanking himself silly about Spain allowing B teams into their league structure, it needs calling out for bullshit. 

    Ultimately, I struggle to believe Liverpool cannot name 14 players. It’s not ideal, it’s not a particular good look for them and the League Cup takes a bit more of a battering than it already gets but there needs to be some common sense somewhere. 

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  7. 20 minutes ago, Rick said:

    You can’t count academy players in the 14 and you know it. No other team has been expected to field a team of teenagers. 

    Liverpool have the best part of 50 professional players on their books, with at least 5 currently out on loan. No one has mentioned the plethora of academy kids they have too. 

    12 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

    People go on about the League Cup being devalued but they now want Liverpool to play a team of kids in the semi final 

    That’s straw clutching and you’re well aware of it. 

  8. 58 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

    This competition won't finish any later and there's two midweeks in January where the two legs can be played. I don't see the issue?

    Teams dictating when they’ll play despite having 50+ professional players who have access to the best facilities and staff, is a precedent that’s been set already and frankly, it’s pathetic that we’re here. The rules above state Liverpool need 14 players, they’ll have that, make ‘em play. 

     

  9. 43 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

    You didn't look hard enough

    5 NON-FULFILMENT OF FIXTURES

    5.1 If, a Club is unable to fulfil its obligation to complete a Competition Match due to either:

    1. 5.1.1  the Club’s Player(s) having returned either a positive lateral flow or PCR test result or are self-isolating in accordance with the action plan set out in the Return to Play/ Return to Training Protocols resulting in the Club not having a sufficient number of Players to fulfil the fixture; or

    2. 5.1.2  the requirements of the UK Government or any public authority result in the Club not having a sufficient number of Players to fulfil the fixture; or

    3. 5.1.3  any other requirements or directions of the UK Government and/or by any public authority,

    then the Management Committee shall use its reasonable endeavours to rearrange the fixture for the earliest reasonable opportunity (including but not limited to arranging for the Competition Match to be played at a neutral venue) which will not be later than the date of the first Competition Match scheduled to take place in the immediately following round. Where the Management Committee determine that the Competition Match cannot be rearranged the Management Committee shall have the power to declare that the Competition Match shall be abandoned. Where the Management Committee declare that the Competition Match shall be abandoned, the Club shall forfeit the Competition Match, pay the opposing Club’s expenses in accordance with Rule 5.8 and the opposing Club shall receive a bye into the next round of the Competition.

    Guidance – Sufficient Number of Players

    The EFL’s general position is that if a Club has enough registered players eligible to participate in the fixture, i.e. they have 14 Players (11 starting and 3 subs) then the Club will have a sufficient number of Players in order to fulfil the fixture. However the EFL will review each circumstance on its own merits.

    Guidance – Rearrangement

    For example the Second Round of the Competition is scheduled to take place on 24 August 2021, in the event that a First Round Competition Match was postponed, the rearranged a match must take place by 23 August 2021. In the event that the match cannot be rearranged for a suitable date before 23 August 2021 then the Management Committee will award a bye in accordance with Rule 5.1.

    Genuinely, if Liverpool don’t have 14 professionals out of the 50 odd they have, I’m not buying it at all. 

  10. 2 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

    There was a week between the third and fourth round last season so no time to rearrange? There's ample time to sort something for the two legs of the semi final.

    There’s a week between the First Leg and Second. Liverpool play Shrewsbury on Sunday and are due to play Arsenal on Thursday so there’s not really time at all. 

  11. 1 hour ago, LFCMike said:

    EFL rules state that the tie must be rearranged before the next round is due to take place so they've got into the end of February to do that.

    Yeah they fucked Leyton Orient off when they had Covid vs Spurs last year so it’s a final appearance for Arsenal, for me but the precedent has been set so just let the 2021/22 season end in 2045 and let teams decide when they want to play. 

  12. 5 hours ago, Smiley Culture said:

    That’s Christmas up the shitter, with the girlfriend getting a positive covid test. Wonderful. Just the thing we needed to top this year off. 

    Now me, wonderful. 

  13. Leadership is an action not a position. To then have the gall to address the public and lay down “rules” is astonishing. I can’t believe anyone with any sort of common sense thought that out of this shitstorm, now was the time to start telling the general public what they can and can’t do. It astounds me that Johnson is a shit that won’t flush. How he’s still in a job is beyond me.

  14. 6 minutes ago, Bluewolf said:

    Allegra Stratton has quit her role in the aftermath of the leaked footage over the Christmas Party.. 

    This is probably the most honest I have seen someone be about making a mistake.. Shame the real culprits are probably going to get away with it.. 

     

    Crocodile tears. Fuck her. 

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  15. If you’re trusting this lot, or politicians in general, to lead by example then you’re asking to be let down, personally. Johnson should have been gone long ago, he wasn’t even at these parties so he’s got off of all the flak for this but the precedents was set a long time ago for his party and their handling of Covid.  
     

     

     

  16. I find it a bit hypocritical, all this. At Christmas last year, a fair chunk of people in this country were flouting the rules put in place by the government. Some obviously continued to abide by the laws but, when the majority of people I know (myself included but we had our reasons) were doing whatever they wanted and are know having a go at the government for the same, I can’t really get behind it. By all means, I get the dislike of Johnson and his rein. 

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