LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Sanguine » 06 Jan 2015 11:35

Hoop Blah Some interesting views in this BBC piece after last nights win over an average League Two side.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30691946

I've always been quite a Gerrard fan, and they will obviously miss him, but to say he dragged them through last night and that the goals were the only two moments of quality is overstating it quite a bit!

I think we're in for 5 months of this kind of thing.


My thoughts exactly. He has been a phenomenal player, but his form has dropped off considerably in the last 18 months, and I don't think they'll miss him. In fact were I Rodgers I'd be bedding Henderson in the Gerrard role now.

LFC forums were apoplectic when Rodgers dropped Manquillo for Gerrard against Leicester, shifting Henderson to right-back. Destroyed the dynamism they'd seen against Swansea.

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by Ian Royal » 06 Jan 2015 22:58

To be fair, he did produce the two goals that won it for them. The dribbling over him was pretty standard for such a big name player IMO.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Pepe the Horseman » 07 Jan 2015 09:11

Now he's saying he would have stayed if they'd offered him a contract sooner. What a baby.

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by Big Foot » 07 Jan 2015 10:38

Pepe the Horseman Now he's saying he would have stayed if they'd offered him a contract sooner. What a baby.

Yep, shit stirring at it's finest now

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by No Fixed Abode » 07 Jan 2015 14:31

The media machine behind Gerrard is still in full swing.

Quite surprising for a player, who mainly, is a specialist in failure.


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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Angry Shed Sex » 07 Jan 2015 16:23

No Fixed Abode The media machine behind Gerrard is still in full swing.

Quite surprising for a player, who mainly, is a specialist in failure.

And your yardstick for failure is just a couple of FA Cups and a Champions League win?

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by No Fixed Abode » 07 Jan 2015 16:36

Angry Shed Sex
No Fixed Abode The media machine behind Gerrard is still in full swing.

Quite surprising for a player, who mainly, is a specialist in failure.

And your yardstick for failure is just a couple of FA Cups and a Champions League win?


No Premier League title?

Yes. Especially when you play for a MASSIVE club like Liverpool. I'm sure Xavi or Iniesta or Lampard or Scholes would class that as failure.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Angry Shed Sex » 08 Jan 2015 00:58

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No Fixed Abode The media machine behind Gerrard is still in full swing.

Quite surprising for a player, who mainly, is a specialist in failure.

And your yardstick for failure is just a couple of FA Cups and a Champions League win?


No Premier League title?

Yes. Especially when you play for a MASSIVE club like Liverpool. I'm sure Xavi or Iniesta or Lampard or Scholes would class that as failure.

Neither Xavi or Iniesta have won a premiership. I'm sure none of those players consider Gerrard a failure at any level. But please don't let that worry you too much.

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by No Fixed Abode » 08 Jan 2015 12:15

But Xavi and Iniesta have won domestic titles, which Gerrard has never done and will never do.

And failure at any level? Didn't really shine in an England shirt did he?


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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Vision » 08 Jan 2015 12:44

Don't know whether it's true or not but someone said the other day that Gerrard is the only player to have scored in a League Cup Final, FA Cup Final, Uefa (Europa) Cup Final and a European (Champions League) Cup Final.

Whatever your opinion of him I think you'd have to have something of an agenda to describe his career as a failure just because he never won his domestic league.

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by No Fixed Abode » 08 Jan 2015 18:33

Vision Don't know whether it's true or not but someone said the other day that Gerrard is the only player to have scored in a League Cup Final, FA Cup Final, Uefa (Europa) Cup Final and a European (Champions League) Cup Final.

Whatever your opinion of him I think you'd have to have something of an agenda to describe his career as a failure just because he never won his domestic league.


It's a failure compared to the other midfielders I mentioned.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by sandman » 08 Jan 2015 18:55

No Fixed Abode But Xavi and Iniesta have won domestic titles, which Gerrard has never done and will never do.

And failure at any level? Didn't really shine in an England shirt did he?


Which puts him in good, or more accurately bad, company with everyone else who has played for England since 1996.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Angry Shed Sex » 09 Jan 2015 00:42

No Fixed Abode But Xavi and Iniesta have won domestic titles, which Gerrard has never done and will never do.

And failure at any level? Didn't really shine in an England shirt did he?

But that's not what you said Frimmers. To site Steven Gerrard as a failure in football is a bit like calling Richard Branson a failure because he's not made as much money as Bill Gates.


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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Ouroboros » 09 Jan 2015 08:16

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Vision Don't know whether it's true or not but someone said the other day that Gerrard is the only player to have scored in a League Cup Final, FA Cup Final, Uefa (Europa) Cup Final and a European (Champions League) Cup Final.

Whatever your opinion of him I think you'd have to have something of an agenda to describe his career as a failure just because he never won his domestic league.


It's a failure compared to the other midfielders I mentioned.


By which logic I suppose every player in the world is a failure compared to someone, making it a bit of a contentless assertion.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by genome » 09 Jan 2015 08:27

I would've thought you guys will have learned by now not to bite.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Ouroboros » 09 Jan 2015 08:41

Actually genome, my comment was a fishing attempt to try and get someone to say exactly what you said.

So I win.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Angry Shed Sex » 09 Jan 2015 09:06

As was mine.

RattLOLed!

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by genome » 09 Jan 2015 12:34

Ouroboros, my comment was actually a fishing attempt to get you to reply that your comment was a fishing attempt to try and get someone to say exactly what I said.

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by AthleticoSpizz » 09 Jan 2015 14:04

Sorry to butt into Kes's indulgence, but since when has one player ever won or lost any team silverware?

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Re: LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

by Sanguine » 09 Jan 2015 14:47

AthleticoSpizz Sorry to butt into Kes's indulgence, but since when has one player ever won or lost any team silverware?



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