Chris

13 hours ago, Rushies tash said:

 

An axolotl is an amphibian. And Dave's monologues alone are worth paying for the podcasts.

Alright! Give me a break. I only heard of them like three days ago. They are cute, like. 

10 hours ago, Paul said:

You say that like it’s a bad thing…

You're right. My “but” was totally unnecessary there. 

2 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

@dave u @Chris Any chance you lads could have a go at doing a pod on this during the upcoming international break? I’m giving plenty of warning so you can all have a good think. I don’t mind if you pinch some of my favourite moments from this thread. 

Yeah, man! Great idea. 

The reptile and parrot stuff was great, but I feel like we're reaching new levels of lunacy every week. 

Just now, Carra_is_legend said:

 

Yep, biggest miss of the lot. He is going to be a monumental miss. 

20 days before the City game. We gotta pray he'll be back for that. But "for the foreseeable" doesn't sound hopeful. 

That Alisson news is fucking catastrophic. 

This was always foreseeable. The "I Drink Your Milkshake" from There Will Be Blood strategy. When there's a threat to their dominance they just slurp it up and take it for themselves. Strengthens their own position and decimates the only team that could live with them temporarily.

Hopefully we're far enough along with Alonso for it to be moot. But then again you'd hope he doesn't see himself as the guy who just steers the team that wins everything by default 90% of the time. Like Guardiola does. 

Bit of context on that 3rd choice thing. It was said in terms of people who you’d actually want playing that position at the moment. 

11 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Ha ha, you could well be right about him, I have no idea about his track record as an ‘expert’ to be honest.

 

Still he describes Henderson’s limitations or lack of contributions in exactly the same way as many on here have been doing for years. Make of it what you want.

 

For me, and this has been done before I know, I definately agree about a lot of it. Still I can’t completely ignore his contributions to our success while here. Most of all down to Klopp’s ability to build a functioning unit and getting the best out of every player I reckon.

Probably, but he's 33 and has played abar three games in a new team. What was the bloke expecting? Peak Davids?

7 hours ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Didnt take long for the Dutch to call him out. Interesting read actually, as it’s exactly the same things many on here has been pointing out for years. (Put it through Google translate)

https://voetbalflitsen.nl/nieuws/tfrbt5/opnieuw-kritiek-op-henderson-een-middelmatige-speler-meer-is-het-niet

 

Willem van Hanegem has spoken out about Jordan Henderson's services for Ajax so far. The Englishman made his debut for the Amsterdam team against PSV (1-1), but did not stand out very much at De Kromme, he says in the Willem & Wessel Podcast. - Advertisement - "Should I, like everyone else on television, say that he is so good before I have seen him play?" Van Hanegem wonders. "He's just a very mediocre player. That's all it is. What he showed against PSV wasn't that special, was it?" De Kromme hereby agrees with Valentijn Driessen, who was previously also critical of the veteran's actions. Driessen was extremely critical of the midfielder. "Yes, he ran his mouth, played the traffic policeman and clapped his hands, but for what or who actually? He showed no initiative on the ball, played to the right color, but more backward than forward and once over the halfway line the new number 6 did not see any options ahead. And that in the Eredivisie, although against PSV, but not at the level of the Premier League. What poverty.

 

With all due respect, Willem van Hanegem can fuck off, the curly headed old fuck. 

Nice work, Jason.

1 hour ago, halewood pete said:

The squirrel's joyous face really got me there.

23 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

Had this on VHS.

 

Wasn't it on one of those 'Never Walk Alone' magazine-style videos they came out with. They were about £7 and came out every couple of months. There was some good stuff in those. And some right bollocks, like Jason McAteer showing-off his underwear drawer.

1 minute ago, JohnnyH said:

 

 

Genuinely thought you said you were paddleboarding in Islamophobia for a minute and didn't know what to think?

Eye-la-mor-ah-da. 

One of my dearest friends has mild dyslexia and when he came to visit us, he read Islamorada as "Islamabad Mordor". 

4 hours ago, dave u said:

 

We deserve much more credit than that. All the other 5 year olds had fucked off and we were the only two responsible enough to stay in class.

Hang on! You better not be counting me in that.

a) "You wanna do the pod?" a full 45 minutes after full-time can't really be classed as me skipping class. 

b) I always like to defer to you boys who've actually been at the match anyway because it's better that way.

c) It was my frigging birthday and we were in Islamorada paddleboarding in the ocean. It's not like I was sitting around scratching my balls and watching Gladiators.

d) I was about to defend you two for a really brilliant and funny episode that I thought was well better for not having me wrangling and interjecting to move the chat along. But you can sod off now.  Nice job, Julian. 

1 hour ago, JohnnyH said:

The next time they lose I'm hopping off.

What do you mean next time? It has to happen once before there can be a next time.

He's our Jarell Quansah

Saved us big money

Defends with Joe and Ibou

He's our Jarell Quansah

Cost us no money

Plays a bit like Virgil too

That Fast Car song is fucking shit. 

10 hours ago, JohnnyH said:

 

So what you're saying is we need to start losing more to normalise listening to sad pods?

I said to the lads this week that this is the future when Klopp leaves us. 

No, I'm alright with that one actually, it just hits him in the face.  He got lucky.

Just now, Anubis said:

Oh Chris….

OH FOR FUUUUUCKSSAKE.

There is no worse player in top flight football than Nicolas Jackson. How the FUCK is he starting games for them practically every week.

3 hours ago, gkmacca said:

Motty was even weirder than he sounded:

 

Back in the days when John Motson was king, they never had to worry about what the talent was up to. It was only junior employees who did.

Such as the younger female colleague who accompanied Motty to lunch one time. Most of the meal passed without incident, but shortly before dessert he retrieved a blue pill from his pocket. He showed it to her and asked if she knew what it was. She did. It was Viagra.

He then swallowed it, with the charming line: "You have 20 minutes to make your decision."

The fuck is that from?

On 03/02/2024 at 17:14, Lee909 said:

I think they are quite determined for Roman to break Hogan's record and make him the longest reigning in modern history. Only behind Backland amd Samartino

 

That would mean he holds till Sep 11th. 

 

The bloodline thing and Romams constant push as longest champion  has been boring nearly a year. He's part time and you know what's going to happen with the only time you think he might lose bring wrestlemania. Anyone that believe Sami or LA Knight would be him were kidding themselves

I don't understand this fascination with Hogan's reign. It's only the third longest. Bruno and Backlund were both way longer.

Glad to have him gone from the NBC Sports coverage. That constant emoting was just too much. The theatrics are just about manageable when we're the subject of them, but when you concede a goal or lose a game and he's coming out with that insufferable pompous shite it just makes things way worse. Makes you want to throttle him. 

Plus that thing he does when a team is building up an attack... AND Mo Salah, AND Darwin Nunez, AND Cody Gakpo, AND DIOGO JOTA... 

Fuck off, Pete.