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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by filopastry on Today at 03:15:44 pm »

Imagine Klopp was coming back next season with all his coaching skills but had somehow lost all his knowledge of LFC, the Premier League and even living in the UK.  Same squad but never met them before in his life.  New country, new job and all that upheaval.  What would be your demands and expectations? 

I honestly have no idea, I don't know what this Jekyll and Hyde squad's level actually is!

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News and Current Affairs / Re: The British Rail Thread - Re-nationalisation incoming.

« Last post by redbyrdz on Today at 03:15:39 pm »

Christian Wolmar's recent history of BR is a very good read.

I've never understood the rationale of giving out 'competition' in natural monopolies. So many areas of life where we can just CTRL-C, CTRL-V what the Dutch, Germans, French, Scandis do into our policy and put things on a better path overnight.

Funnily the German railway now has different private companies operating some services. And guess what, its gone to shit. It was ok for the first years when it was just the odd company running the odd local service route. Now its lots of different ones and the whole network has huge problems with trains being delayed and getting cancelled left right and centre.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: New Kit thread

« Last post by Agent99 on Today at 03:15:02 pm »

I'm all for Adidas if they bring our 09/10 away back. Bring sexyback 

The 2011/12 black away kit was also a beauty.

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Liverpool Life / Re: Merseyrail - now with added 777

« Last post by gazzalfc on Today at 03:14:48 pm »

A thought just popped into my head. Labour has said its rail nationalisation plans won't include buying up existing rolling stock. But Merseyrail own the 777s outright, whereas the 507s and 508s were leased.

Does that mean when a Labour government takes control of the Merseyrail franchise, these will be the only trains owned by the government?

So as far as I know Merseytravel which is run by the council own the new trains and not Merseyrail. Merseyrail (owned by Serco-Abellio) run the service. Once under a labour government they will move to Great British Rail

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Samie on Today at 03:14:18 pm »

Arne Slot's appointment is close to being OFFICIALLY confirmed.

[@IanDoyleSport]

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The corruption fallacy - they’re all out to get us!

« Last post by JRed on Today at 03:13:43 pm »

And, of course, no one in the thread disagrees with that. There might be occasional disputes about whether this or that was a hand ball and should haver been a penalty or whether this or that was a genuine foul or a dive. But on the whole everyone in the thread thinks that refereeing standards are poor and that VAR has probably made them worse. (I would add that VAR and - obviously - multi-positioned high-speed cameras around the pitch, have also educated us, the fans, who are able to spot more 'batshit' decisions than before.)

Where we differ and sometimes fall apart are over why terrible decisions are being made and whether we, as a club, suffer more than others and have systematically suffered more than others over the years.

I don’t think it’s even debatable whether we suffer more at the hands of the corrupt officials than other clubs is it?

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by JRed on Today at 03:12:04 pm »

Yeah I saw this clip on YouTube it’s infuriating

That sue smith calls it a massive ‘error’ in which he corrects her to say it’s a ‘mess’ as opposed to an error

Unbelievable isn’t it. Why won’t any of them call it what it is? It is cheating!

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

« Last post by Coolie High on Today at 03:10:58 pm »

Same could be said the other way around though 

Not really at all, Salah has literally created the most big chances in the league this season, I have doubts about reliable that stat is, but just from watching us I can see Salah creates far more for Nunez and everyone else than the inverse.

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by bird_lfc on Today at 03:10:37 pm »

'the referee has done well to dig himself out of a hole', courtesy of Dermot Gallagher on Sky 🙄

Yeah I saw this clip on YouTube it’s infuriating

That sue smith calls it a massive ‘error’ in which he corrects her to say it’s a ‘mess’ as opposed to an error

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

« Last post by Coolie High on Today at 03:08:52 pm »

Like the pass against West Ham?

One of the big issues for me is that if you play a 9 then you want wide players or runners getting to the byeline and pulling the ball back. For that to happen you want wide players on their natural foot beating their man and pulling it back or midfield runners making third-man runs in between the centre backs and full backs like Szobo was earlier in the season.

We don't have that. We have Diaz and Salah as inverted wide players. Salah in particular tends to not take on his man but puts in passes with the outside of his foot. They look great when they come off but are much harder to finish than pullbacks.

Look at how many opportunities City create from pullbacks from the byeline.

I don’t get what you mean? What does one bad pass prove? I can remember 7-8 chances off the top of my head which Salah has created for Nunez this season which hasn’t been converted.

City play a similar way though they create cutbacks from their full backs and De Bruyne or Silva, Foden and Grealish play as inverted as wide players, Doku is the only out and out wide player they have and his delivery is wildly inconsistent.