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I think Mo's apparent lack of goals can be laid at him playing virtually non stop, the AFCON and getting to that final plus, the start of this season, the whole team hasnt played well. We also seemed to have adapted our style with Mo playing more out wide, especially in Darwin's early games. That isnt laying any blame for Mo's lesser goal return on Darwin. Obviously any striker not hitting the back of the net can quickly become an issue and like I said elsewhere, I dont expect Darwin to be scoring hattricks and worldies every other game. I do think he should be scoring more given the chances that have come his way in games though.

No not yet in my opinion. Mo has a track record of scoring for us that's second to none over the what, 5 seasons he's been here.

Must admit, Im a little concerned. All his lead up play is good and he might have been a bit unlucky with the shot that hit the post last night but, shouldnt he be scoring that? True, Mo's finishing last night was as bad. You cant fault the boy's effort and application but goals win games and that's what matters.

He's already told them he's happy to accept it, hence it being announced publically that he's been awarded it. Apparently, people get asked first if they're happy to accept it. If not, they dont and there's no announcement. If they accept, then it's publicised.

Very disappointing performance tonight. 3 goals scored, won 2-1 and we didnt even score! Finishing from both Mo and Darwin was disappointing and we'll need a big improvement if we are to get the win I hope we get at Brentford even if Toney is injured. Passes all over the field tonight not getting to a red shirt. Dont know if the groundsmen havent cut the grass as short as usual as loads of passes looked under hit? The players look short of self belief to string a sequence of 10 or so consecutive wins together. Andy Robbo had a dreadful first 25 minutes and his decision to rush out trying to play the offside put him out of position when the pass eventually came through to Drewsbury Hall. We could be playing all night on that performance and still wouldnt have scored. Well unless the Leicester lad Faes had stuck another past Ward! Of the games we've played since the re start, Im beginning to think nothing much has changed from the first part of the season. I still think we'll finish in the top 4 but it's going to be awfully close, not get distracted and likely depend on united and spurs dropping points unless Gakpo has a stunning effect. We're 5 points behind Newcastle and the game at SJP middle of February is looking like a virtual 6 pointer. Fail to win there could be disasterous come the end of season. They could implode but they have the look of a team that has confidence of the 'big mo' being with them, as wrighty says. The medical department's decision not to put Diaz under the knife as soon as he did his knee at arsenal looks to be a very, very poor decision. MoTM looks to be Thiago.

Fleet Auxillary Fort victoria departs the float dock at Lairds after completion of work on her. Didnt realise she's the last of her class still in service. These little tugs are powerful fuckers. One on the bow and one on the stern to edge her through the narrow dock entrance and into the river with the aid of a few shovers to keep her off the dock walls. They have steerable props so they can pull sideways when needed.

Ive already got the Gaugemaster Prodigy Express so will be DCC and digital. With old school DC, they say you drive the track because you just increase the voltage to make the trains move while DCC, you drive individual trains because the voltage stays constant. You can program what they call 'cv's' on the chip to make the trains pull away slower and take longer to stop like they're pulling a heavy load etc. With DCC you can do some really cool stuff like block detection and automation but I dont think I'll be going that far. But it will all be done in stages which is why the layout has been designed as basically 3 loops. Means I dont have to buy all the track and point motors all at once! Some locos are already DCC sound fitted with others are DCC ready so need a sound chip and speaker to be fitted to them. The old girl prefers kettles while Im more diesels. Point motors will either be DCC Concepts IP Digitals or IP Analogues. Both incorporate polarity switching on the point 'frogs' to avoid short circuits as the trains cross over the tracks.

Club confirm it. https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-reach-agreement-cody-gakpo-transfer Daily Wail confirming. Is it pronounced Hakpo or Gakpo? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11578923/Liverpool-confirm-signing-PSV-Eindhoven-star-Cody-Gakpo-44million.html

That be Rails (of Sheffield)? Yes, Id say them and Hattons are on a par. Bought some locos in preparation from them. Items as described, good price and delivery. Rails must have had a good Christmas because they've sold out of a lot of stock! This is plan v15 of the proposed layout. Im not happy with the 2 yellow lines below the station. I want to create some sort of container terminal but cant get it to work just yet! Layout is going to be just under 5m long by 2.6m wide. Havent decided whether to use scale bull head track or flat bottomed rail. Not all the points I intend to use are available in the bull head yet and Peco seem very slow releasing new items.

Half the baseboards frames built and installed for the OO scale railway in the garage. Built these early December before I caught the lurgy. Adjustable feet on the legs make getting everything level pretty easy. The legs will need braces for extra rigidity. Got to fit one maybe two double sockets which will be spurred off another socket on the other side of the wall. Need to order some more wood early in the New Year to build the framework for the other side. That's going to be a little more complicated as I have to build either a swing gate or lift up section as the old girl's knees cant take a crawl under. After that, it's getting some exterior grade plywood to go on top of the frames. The Metabo (Hitachi) mitre saw is a great bit of kit. Makes cutting the wood a piece of piss.

Good report Dave. Thought we were running on fumes for the first 15 or so minutes of the 2nd half. That's really strange as you'd expect energy levels to drop round the 70 minute mark especially as we had the city game and not much else to regain match fitness. Incredible Harvey getting slagged off within 6 minutes of coming on. Thought the ref, Tierney was shite. Again.

Lots of work to be done on the training ground. He probably doesnt know who Andy Carroll is or whether he was shit. But the best way to stop those chants is to convert the chances and not miss seemingly so often.

Anything fucking Tesla. Dont have a problem with EV technology at all, if I was still earning, Id probably have an EV now. The VW id5, Cupra Born and even the MG EV4 look interesting But Teslas are boring as fuck to look at and that fucking portrait tablet is, in my humble opinion, one of the most distracting things ever to be put in a car. Musk and his fanboys and girls are another reason not to like the product!

Fuck's sake lad, can you not work the keeper?

This ref is an absolute shithead.

Tierney upholding the cunts refs collective whenever we're playing.

Get in Virgil!

That's not even a booking for the foul on Robbo!?!

Great report Dave and pretty much how I saw it. As you say, the next 3 league games will really give us insight on how the performance over the rest of the season pans out. Im beginning to think the players arent just physically shattered, they are mentally shattered as well.

As much as I have little love for this competition, I detest losing to these absolute shites. There they go, singing 'Feed the scousers' and then one of our cunt fans hands them the moral high ground by supposedly lobbing a plastic bottle loaded with coins, into their crowd and it striking a 15 year old girl. There were other despicable incidents on the night which is hugely disappointing although not surprising. Considering the teams put out on the night, I thought the game was far greater entertainment than the 'greatest FIFA World Cup Final, ever' I had to sit through a few days before. The score could have been 1-1 inside the first 2 minutes. Milner was an accident waiting to happen all night before he went off injured. The fact city opened the scoring when they did was no surprise to me as we couldnt seem to find a way out of our half. Carvalho seemed to be struggling to get in the game all night but calmly stroked the ball into the net to equalise. I hoped it would give him confidence to get into the game more but I dont think it did and wasnt surprised when he didnt come out for the 2nd half. Speaking of which, yet again we got caught in the first 3 minutes of the restart. This conceeding early from the kick off in either half really grips my shit. In my view it shows the players arent focused. But this time we hit back when Ox played a great ball forward and Darwin squared the ball to Mo to finish off. Speaking of Darwin, fuck, ing hell. His finishing was abysmal all night. He had 3 maybe 4 great chances and skewed every one wide. The 3rd goal was just schoolboy defending. Great to see Nat get a game and a great block on the Trollenheim Terror. I love Andy Robbo and his never say die attitude but, I really wish he'd show more composure. I mean when did he last score with an angled 20 yarder outside the box especially when city's defence had been opened up? The ref was a proper shithouse. It's ok wanting the game to flow but he seemed signed up to the Antony Taylor school of reffing when he let too many challenges go and not award a free kick.

I should be up for this but, having a touch of flu for the last week, being starved of club footie since end of November due to the Qatar farce and my aversion to the LC means Im even less so. Think it will be a very tough game, hope we will.

Why would I do that? You're just a fucking hypocrite. Same as you are over CS pension. You pension contributions will be more than some lads on here earn in a month. Like I said Sean, you want to remember what you post. It enforces the view of the cunt your are.

My birthday is 16 December you 'daft cunt' and I never said I was 65. Check out the poll how old people are. I said I was giving you 15+ years. But hey, Rico's never 'wrong' is he? You posting since day 1 are very interesting reading. Lots of stuff there. Buying brand new Audi's. the Merc C220 your worst car then changed that for a 5 Series. Incredible considering you made an issue about me saying I got a good price selling my car instead of handing it back to the PCP company and getting fuck all. A lad born and bred in Bredbury, East Manc heartlands yet when an uncle told him to find a team to support, guess what? He didnt pick a Manchester one right on his doorstep, he picked one 50 miles away on Merseyside! Un-believ-able! Im only up to page 1130 working forwards but you seem to have had a personality change at sometime Rico. Either that or someone else has taken over your account which honestly wouldnt surprise me either. Happy Christmas, cunt.

67 actually mate.

A good thought provoking presentation by David Kipping on why, despite there being billions of stars and planets in the galaxy, we might be alone as the only intelligent civilisation.