Union SG (A) - EL Group E, Thu 14th Dec 2023 (5:45pm)

[Liverpool lad]

6 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

I don't see any of our kids making it. And I said so before that game. 

 

Your own children or the youth playing for Liverpool?

[Liverpool lad]

19 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Excellent use of all three text formatting options there.
 

The perfect hat-trick.

 

 

Got to make sure people know I have been

[dylstar]

1 hour ago, Captain Howdy said:

Long story but had a pint with him in the Black Horse on County Road in something like 92. It was amazING. In fairness he was a nice fella but sounded absolutely nothing like he does now.

Neigh way !!

[Josef Svejk]

5 minutes ago, Liverpool lad said:

 

Your own children or the youth playing for Liverpool?

 

Both.

 

Neither. 

[Liverpool lad]

Just now, Josef Svejk said:

 

Both. 

 

Hahaha 

[KMD7]

1 hour ago, Mudface said:

 

It's a damning indictment of this site that there isn't one already.

 

It's poor form alright, like Rawk and Rafa. 

[KMD7]

59 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

I don't see any of our kids making it. And I said so before that game. 

 

I read that in the voice of Éamon Dunphy 

[Tarwater]

Gakpo. Well... to call that performance abysmal, is an insult to any self respecting abyss.

[Jairzinho]

11 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

 

I read that in the voice of Éamon Dunphy 

 

I don't see any of our kids making it, Bill. They're fat and they're clowns. 

[Mudface]

14 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

 

It's poor form alright, like Rawk and Rafa. 

 

Yep, insane moderation and enforced groupthink. People are terrified of calling time on this disastrous Klopp experiment.

[Joso]

These kids aren’t serious people. 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

I like Connor Bradley, good physicality and can carry the ball, but I noticed he was being asked to do Trent's inverted role tonight. 

Unless he wasn't asked to do it, but I just don't believe he'd come that far inside without instruction to do so. 

[Pungkoq Hang]

6 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'm surprised at how un-arsed I am.  It all feels very pre-season.

This, this and many times this.

 

No new additions to the sick bay, badly needed minutes for the youngins and a nicely taken goal by young Jarrell. Virgil-esque I'd say. Sort of a baptism of fire too for Doak, Gordon, Chambers et al. Union clearly are no mugs, sitting top of table in the Belgian league. The home crowd could sense the possibility of their team claiming a famous scalp was very much on the cards and their players fed off that energy. How the fuck was that not a foul on Curtis for their opener? Methinks all the (largely unpunished) waist-grabbing and wrestle-to-the-floor moves Wilf Hughes did on our midfielders last weekend clearly influenced the officials. Also, no drawing of the offside lines in the VAR review for the Europa?

[coachpotato]

In terms of the result, the game didn’t matter as we knew because we were already qualified. Because of that, the only benefit was to see what the youngsters could show they could do against a team who would be taking proceedings seriously.

In that respect, few covered themselves in glory unfortunately, although, to be fair, if everyone isn’t giving 100% concentration and application, the overall performance will suffer anyway.

Not easy to get concerned about what happened, although technically, some of the passing was poor (under hit, wayward, behind players instead of in front of them etc.) and tackling was powder puff, but those things can be improved with training, experience and greater physicality.

Perhaps we can meet USG in the future and give them a good whupping just to set the record a bit straighter.

Now for Sunday.

 

[Mook]

7 hours ago, Pungkoq Hang said:

This, this and many times this.

 

No new additions to the sick bay, badly needed minutes for the youngins and a nicely taken goal by young Jarrell. Virgil-esque I'd say. Sort of a baptism of fire too for Doak, Gordon, Chambers et al. Union clearly are no mugs, sitting top of table in the Belgian league. The home crowd could sense the possibility of their team claiming a famous scalp was very much on the cards and their players fed off that energy. How the fuck was that not a foul on Curtis for their opener? Methinks all the (largely unpunished) waist-grabbing and wrestle-to-the-floor moves Wilf Hughes did on our midfielders last weekend clearly influenced the officials. Also, no drawing of the offside lines in the VAR review for the Europa?

 

I thought their first goal looked offside but we only seemed to get one look at it.

 

They deserved their win regardless.

[gkmacca]

The main thing I dread when we field sides like that is the inevitable 'definitive' judgements that will follow. We've got some very promising kids, but they're not yet strong enough or experienced enough to link together in an unfamiliar line-up, against very powerful and experienced senior players, and shine. That's the norm, not the  once-in-a-generation figure who gets a chance, in a fairly settled team, and has an instant impact. But that character seems so embedded in some people's minds that if they see anything less it's the thumbs down and the execution called. Those fans need to grow the feck up even faster than their targets do. Look at what happens when under 21 teams play lower division senior teams - they almost always get brushed aside. Bradford beat us 4-0 recently, and Barrow beat us. And that's with a 'normal' line-up. So why some fans expected them to turn on the style last night is a mystery. Give them some time, show them some patience, and watch them at their level against other teams of their age group and you'll see the potential is there. 

[No2]

I'm glad we lost, also glad we lost in Toulose. We aren't good enough to lose less than 6 games from a 60 game season, getting 2 of them out of the way in dead rubbers is the way to do it.

[Pidge]

Still fuming about this.

[Carra_is_legend]

Has Klopp gone yet?

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Regarding the younger players Bradley has something about him Chambers not so much, Gordon needs to get fit as you can see a player and Doak seemed unhappy to be on the left. I think he needs a loan.

[Pidge]

I think Doak is desperate to get a goal under his belt, but needs to focus on working for his teammates. The goals will come if he manages to integrate into a side.

[Anubis]

10 minutes ago, Pidge said:

I think Doak is desperate to get a goal under his belt, but needs to focus on working for his teammates. The goals will come if he manages to integrate into a side.

He might want to cut out the amateur wrestling as well.

[aws]

2 hours ago, Mook said:

 

I thought their first goal looked offside but we only seemed to get one look at it.

 

We got at least three looks at that header that went wide though. 

[Pidge]

39 minutes ago, Anubis said:

He might want to cut out the amateur wrestling as well.

 

Pfft, you won't be saying that when he drops a stunner on Ten Hag on the weekend.

[gkmacca]

2 hours ago, Anubis said:

He might want to cut out the amateur wrestling as well.

The stronger they get, the less that happens. Unless you play for Newcastle, Everton or Crystal Palace, when it becomes a way of life. No one's mentioned acne, yet, I'm quite surprised, while people are at it, they haven't moaned about that, as well.