Stoke Away match thread

[Megadrive Man]

Final game of the season.

 

Speculation that Sterling will be left out.

 

Team should be out in a few minutes. 

[thompsonsnose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLou_Ylzog

 

 

[Allan]

Confirmed #LFC team v @stokecity: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Allen, Henderson, Gerrard, Lallana, Coutinho

 

Confirmed #LFC subs v @stokecity: Ward, Toure, Lovren, Lambert, Sterling, Ibe, Markovic

[Faustus]

Thank fuck it's almost over.

[Lfc Verve]

Lovren and Sterling not playing. I'm content.

[stringvest]

Gerrard getting a run out up front

[stringvest]

Great to see Sakho getting back

[Megadrive Man]

No emotional good bye for Glen Johnson then?

[moof]

I don't think we've got enough midfielders on the park

[Hades]

Hope we get beat.

[Pan77]

7 midfielders in the team. Terrific. We'll

be lucky to scrape a draw here.

[LFC 6 Times]

Hope Sterling gets loads from the away fans the arrogant bastard.

[Grinch]

Can't be bothered streaming this shite.  A familiar feeling this season.

 

Hopefully Rodgers last game

[Mathewbet1]

the gster part of a front 3 sir thats worth the entrance fee sir

[billypilgrimnz]

That's a fucked team. Why not play Ibe, Markovic, Can in midfield, one of the young strikers (Sinclair?)?

 

What's the point of playing every single one of our central midfielders? So weird.

[an tha]

I don't think we've got enough midfielders on the park

It's exactly this kind of shite that makes me want Rodgers gone.

 

We are clueless and all this after spending a fortune, having an injury to Sturridge should never mean we haven't got a striker on the pitch.

[Strontium]

No emotional good bye for Glen Johnson then?

 

The medical team have already said their fond farewells privately, and his hospital bed is being retired in his honour.

[Jairzinho]

He's rubbing his fucking hands at every single one of us.

[stringvest]

Maybe he's been told his services are not being retained, so he's just decided to play those players who haven't had a go at him this season.

[billypilgrimnz]

Seriously though, I'm suddenly interested in watching the game now. Play all the midfielders!

 

It'll be like watching one of those videos of some wrinkled old geezer going off on a racist rant on a bus in Australia; undeniably cringeworthy and awful, but weirdly fascinating as a keyhole into a very real world of cringeworthy awfulness. And at the end we can just turn it off and go have a wank or something.

[Dr. J]

I think we're going to get a glimpse of the most secret, esoteric formation, the innermost, holiest of the holy.

 

After which Colin Pascoe will be ritually sacrificed on the pitch.

[stringvest]

Seriously though, I'm suddenly interested in watching the game now. Play all the midfielders!

 

It'll be like watching one of those videos of some wrinkled old geezer going off on a racist rant on a bus in Australia; undeniably cringeworthy and awful, but weirdly fascinating as a keyhole into a very real world of cringeworthy awfulness. And at the end we can just turn it off and go have a wank or something.

 

This caper is not unprecedented - managers who know they're on the way out will often pull stunts like this. 

[RoboRiise]

That's a fucked team. Why not play Ibe, Markovic, Can in midfield, one of the young strikers (Sinclair?)?

 

What's the point of playing every single one of our central midfielders? So weird.

 

If this was a safe game, four points clear of the next team and looking to give Stevie a send off OK, do whatever he wants.  He does realise we could theoretically at least finish seventh here though doesn't he?

 

Granted I can't see Southampton turning City over but Spurs are at the bitters, great chance for three points for them there, Sunderland did them at Goodison a couple of weeks ago.

 

We'd better not fuck this up. Fuck it, at least we're only 90 minutes away from the end of this awful season.  I'm not even sad there's no Euros or WC this summer, ready for a break.

[Ranxerox]

Maybe he's been told his services are not being retained, so he's just decided to play those players who haven't had a go at him this season.

 

More likely he is 150% sure he's staying and is not the least bit concerned about getting a result.

[J-V]

Maybe he's been told his services are not being retained, so he's just decided to play those players who haven't had a go at him this season.

 

Hopefully.