Crystal Palace (H) - Sun 14th Apr 2024 (2:00pm)

[El Rojo]

20 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

What a tit this man is.

 

Good response in fairness.

[Red Shift]

4 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

So, we're winning the league again, yeah?

Fat lady aint sung yet. 

[Dapower]

7 minutes ago, Red Shift said:

Fat lady aint sung yet. 

If Arsenal are still in it so are fucking we 

[Reckoner]

55 minutes ago, Dapower said:

Think that scruffy cunt can’t remember how shit and irrelevant his band is for decades since they won the lottery 

Beatles tribute act.

[Dapower]

13 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Beatles tribute act.

Fucking poor man’s morrisey

[s(k)aturation]

7 hours ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

You get a good pint there, Ye Olde Miserable Bastard.

 

Or Ye Twat ?

[s(k)aturation]

5 hours ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

The defence is getting off lightly imo, given how badly the attack has been.

Virgil most of all. To be fair Robbo and Ali were very good today.

 

Their goal we were like witches hats.

[s(k)aturation]

2 hours ago, Dapower said:

Think that scruffy cunt can’t remember how shit and irrelevant his team were for  decades before they won the lottery 

 

Or how irrelevant he himself is nowadays.

 

 

[bizzle10]

6 hours ago, Red Shift said:

Fat lady aint sung yet. 

With the way we concede shite goals and miss loads of chances she is warming up her vocals 

[Barrington Womble]

11 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

Yep. First leg he had a couple of howlers and we lost 3-0 the second leg at home we won 2-0 and nearly scored to draw level. Ultimately all in vain. Lost at home to Coventry as well after beating Newcastle in the 4-3 game. 

 

We aren't mentality monsters anymore under Klopp unfortunately.

 

 

Come on mate, it's a fucking miracle we've got as far as we have this season. And it's been down to pure determination and mentality. We've come from behind so often and had a shit load of injuries and mostly to key players in the team. 

 

10 hours ago, gkmacca said:

There probably are, deep down, some factors that the farewell era has brought on us.

 

Klopp, for all his professionalism, has been doing some 'where next' media interviews; he's turned down loads but he's had to do some. If that doesn't affect someone, it would be weird.

 

Pep seems to have already moved on. He's nowhere near as engaged he used to be. It's as if he's already mulling over the chats with his agent.

 

Then there are the players. What is at the back of their mind these days if they don't push themselves on? 'The manager might drop me next season?' Nope. 'The manager might sell me next season?' Nope. 

 

So everything, now, is very much short term, no matter how much they fight ('fight,' hah!), against it. The end of the season, suddenly, cannot come soon enough. 

 

I don't think there's a doubt there's a change in klopp from what we can see. It started with his pre match press conferences being a bit lighter. But as time has gone on, you can see in his reaction to games, some of his intensity has gone. Which is natural I think. Is it possible then that's the same when he's with the players. Well I'd say so. Does it rub off on players? Well it's almost impossible to know. What we do know is klopp has been a wonderful motivator (amongst other things) during his time here. If that's diminished, well maybe what we're seeing now is just how good these players will be without klopp and a little window into next season.

 

There's more to it than all that for me though - in fact I'd say the injuries have played a bigger part, if these returning players had just been back a couple of weeks earlier, I think it might have made all the difference. We've seen since the international break a bit of a drop off in those players who'd done brilliantly for a couple of months, endo, Gomez, quansah, Bradley, kelleher and we just don't have these returning players back to match sharpness in time, with really only robbo looking that way and he's been back for 2 months. 

 

Now we're behind city and in this type of form, it's a story we've seen before where they just go off and win what's left in front of them. But hopefully we can dig in, get some sharpness back into the legs of Trent and Jota particularly but Dom too, and see if we can win that final 6 and at least force city to the line. 

[gkmacca]

11 hours ago, SasaS said:

 

You would think the players would at least be interested in winning the league, regardless what happens to the manager.

 

Didn't look like it, though.

[Mook]

7 hours ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

Or how irrelevant he himself is nowadays.

 

 

 

He had a number one album about a month ago.

[El Rojo]

4 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

He had a number one album about a month ago.

Not the achievement it once was given that the charts barely exist any more.

[Mook]

4 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Not the achievement it once was given that the charts barely exist any more.

 

True but he's been on the telly here and in the US promoting it, he's as irreverent as any other successful, chart topping artist.

 

[an tha]

31 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

True but he's been on the telly here and in the US promoting it, he's as irreverent as any other successful, chart topping artist.

 

He is deffo disrespectful aye

[Binomial]

10 hours ago, Reckoner said:

What a tit this man is.

 

 

Good to see after all these years he's finally recovered and turned his life around from being a good for nothing junkie.

[Reckoner]

45 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

He had a number one album about a month ago.

I bet that was good.

[Binomial]

11 hours ago, Arniepie said:

Did trent have a go at the crowd today.?

I thought he was yelling at robbo(I think)but someone mentioned he said the crowd was on edge?

Only thing he should be having a go at after yesterday was himself, horrific when he came on and gave away the ball more times than the entire midfield. 60% accuracy is absolutely embarrassing, especially when all you're intent on doing is looking for hollywood passes.

[gkmacca]

34 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

True but he's been on the telly here and in the US promoting it, he's as irreverent as any other successful, chart topping artist.

 

 

He's never recovered from George Harrison's evaluation of him:

 

[rubble-rouser]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

 

Come on mate, it's a fucking miracle we've got as far as we have this season. And it's been down to pure determination and mentality. We've come from behind so often and had a shit load of injuries and mostly to key players in the team. 

 

 

I don't think there's a doubt there's a change in klopp from what we can see. It started with his pre match press conferences being a bit lighter. But as time has gone on, you can see in his reaction to games, some of his intensity has gone. Which is natural I think. Is it possible then that's the same when he's with the players. Well I'd say so. Does it rub off on players? Well it's almost impossible to know. What we do know is klopp has been a wonderful motivator (amongst other things) during his time here. If that's diminished, well maybe what we're seeing now is just how good these players will be without klopp and a little window into next season.

 

There's more to it than all that for me though - in fact I'd say the injuries have played a bigger part, if these returning players had just been back a couple of weeks earlier, I think it might have made all the difference. We've seen since the international break a bit of a drop off in those players who'd done brilliantly for a couple of months, endo, Gomez, quansah, Bradley, kelleher and we just don't have these returning players back to match sharpness in time, with really only robbo looking that way and he's been back for 2 months. 

 

Now we're behind city and in this type of form, it's a story we've seen before where they just go off and win what's left in front of them. But hopefully we can dig in, get some sharpness back into the legs of Trent and Jota particularly but Dom too, and see if we can win that final 6 and at least force city to the line. 

 

Whether or not there has been a drop off in intensity from the manager (which certainly didn't look to be the case at OT last week when he was going mental) we've lost a lot of on-pitch leadership over the last couple of years and over the course of the season. Only Virgil looks like a leader now. Mo used to be someone who would try to win games single-handedly at times and really step up when the pressure was on. Earlier this year Dom did, and a few weeks ago Macca seemed to be the main man, but for whatever reason, none of them have looked capable of carrying the team.

 

The slow start thing is just weird. In all of our last 4 league matches we've given up at least one massive chance in the first couple of minutes (Brighton goal, Sheff Utd save, United offside goal, Alli save yesterday) - all seem to come down our right. There's a specific issue there that needs sorting. 

[Mook]

8 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

I bet that was good.

 

The guitar playing is very nice.

 

Unfortunately his singing is quite the opposite.

[Carra_is_legend]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

 

Come on mate, it's a fucking miracle we've got as far as we have this season. And it's been down to pure determination and mentality. We've come from behind so often and had a shit load of injuries and mostly to key players in the team. 

 

 

I don't think there's a doubt there's a change in klopp from what we can see. It started with his pre match press conferences being a bit lighter. But as time has gone on, you can see in his reaction to games, some of his intensity has gone. Which is natural I think. Is it possible then that's the same when he's with the players. Well I'd say so. Does it rub off on players? Well it's almost impossible to know. What we do know is klopp has been a wonderful motivator (amongst other things) during his time here. If that's diminished, well maybe what we're seeing now is just how good these players will be without klopp and a little window into next season.

 

There's more to it than all that for me though - in fact I'd say the injuries have played a bigger part, if these returning players had just been back a couple of weeks earlier, I think it might have made all the difference. We've seen since the international break a bit of a drop off in those players who'd done brilliantly for a couple of months, endo, Gomez, quansah, Bradley, kelleher and we just don't have these returning players back to match sharpness in time, with really only robbo looking that way and he's been back for 2 months. 

 

Now we're behind city and in this type of form, it's a story we've seen before where they just go off and win what's left in front of them. But hopefully we can dig in, get some sharpness back into the legs of Trent and Jota particularly but Dom too, and see if we can win that final 6 and at least force city to the line. 

 

Out of rep unfortunately, every word is spot on. I think there needs to be a little bit perspective here, especially considering where we were last season. I did not even dream of a title challenge but here we are, somehow, in a title challenge in mid April. The VAR decisions, injuries have all taken a toll on the team unfortunately. Less than 2 months ago, we were playing a bunch of kids in a major cup final FFS! 

 

Arsenal have been there or thereabouts for a couple of years and despite spending £100m on Rice, they are destined to end the season potless. Again. 

 

If Klopp is not leaving in the summer I think the perspective will be clearer but the emotions around that has sucked everyone in. 

 

Title is gone for me but I hope to fuck the players have some energy left for the next few games. Most of them look shattered, playing through tired, injured bodies and I have no idea how they are going to lift themselves. I hope they do. Somehow,

[Carra_is_legend]

9 minutes ago, rubble-rouser said:

The slow start thing is just weird. In all of our last 4 league matches we've given up at least one massive chance in the first couple of minutes (Brighton goal, Sheff Utd save, United offside goal, Alli save yesterday) - all seem to come down our right. There's a specific issue there that needs sorting. 

 

This is the biggest contributor for me, especially when we are dealing with so many injuries and knackered players. It is scandalous we could not sort this out and still look like conceding in the first few mins. The moment we do that, the midfielders and strikers are like, here we fucking go again! Sheer determination & steel have been getting us through, coming back from going behind time & time again, but when the players are fucking shattered they will misplace passes, miss chances, and make weird decisions - we are witnessing all of these right now. 

[Reckoner]

12 hours ago, Code said:

Ive not found those stats for the full season though, just game to game basis. 

Well get your calculator out lad. Where’s your passion? 

[Code]

26 minutes ago, Reckoner said:

Well get your calculator out lad. Where’s your passion? 

Just wait for it.