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re: Liverpool FC 2013/2014 - Season Long Thread
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:35 pm to BleedPurpleGold
Posted on 2/26/14 at 11:35 pm to BleedPurpleGold
Keeping it on the first page
Posted on 2/27/14 at 1:27 am to tsmi136
I feel like we don't have as much conversation this season.
Posted on 2/27/14 at 8:28 am to BleedPurpleGold
Not as much to bitch about this year!
I know I haven't been posting much. I'll start putting in more effort. BEAST is in SoKo now, right? Do we know if he will be posting from abroad?
I know I haven't been posting much. I'll start putting in more effort. BEAST is in SoKo now, right? Do we know if he will be posting from abroad?
Posted on 2/27/14 at 9:02 am to Meursault
quote:
Not as much to bitch about this year!
Set pieces! Ah thats something we can
Posted on 2/27/14 at 9:09 am to tsmi136
I've been so busy with class that I haven't posted as much
Posted on 2/27/14 at 10:34 am to BleedPurpleGold
quote:
I feel like we don't have as much conversation this season.
I agree with others that there is less to complain about. I also think people are a bit wary of our current success given our recent fall from European competition. I expect if (hopefully when) our place in CL is confirmed, you will see a huge explosion of posts in this thread discussing favorite moments of the year, targets etc.
Until then, I came across this post when it was linked to the LFC reddit page and thought it was fantastic and wanted to share. Looks like the author is a writer for RAWK.
quote:
United and Spurs fans are now doing the sort of thing people on here have been doing the past X years. Looking 5 fixtures down the line and building up these ideas of "well if they only get 2 points from the next 12..." or "if we get 13 from 15...".
Let's get this right kids - statistically we've been closer to the three sides above us than we have the teams 'competing for 4th'. "Oh, but stats don't tell you the whole picture, you can twist them however you want". Well, "the league table doesn't lie" and all that nonsense. We're 6 points ahead of anyone else competing for 4th. That's 6 points with a +32 goal difference on Spurs. That's a three game swing over eleven games. Spurs, the closest challenger for 4th, need us to drop points in 3 more games than them between now and the end of the season. Everton need us to drop points in 3 more games than them between now and the end of the season. Manchester United need us to lose four more games than them. Over the next 11. Not draw. Lose. Do you know how many we've lost this season? 5. Do you know how many league games we've lost since the start of 2013? 8 in 45. I'll go back even further. Since United won at Anfield last season on the 23rd of September 2012, we've lost 10 games. Out of 60 in the league. That's not with Sturridge or Coutinho. That's Rodgers record besides the first 5 games. We aren't an easy team to beat. Haven't been in a long fricking time. More than long enough to say it's part of the Brendan Rodgers Liverpool DNA, not a streak. We've lost one set of back-to-back fixtures under Rodgers, and they were away to City and Chelsea. But hey, we must be fricking due a collapse, because that's what piss-pants logic dictates, right?
There is literally fricking nothing suggesting we're in a race for 4th instead of a title. I'm not even attempting to be an arrogant dickhead about it. It's just the only thing saying that is fricking cowards logic.
Practically every decent statistical model has us nailed on for top four. Our goal difference (usually a decent indicator) is 2nd best in the league. We're the only team to have kept even remotely within touching distance of City's goalscoring. This Liverpool team had scored more goals after 25 games than any of Arsene Wenger's Arsenal teams had. More than any of Ferguson's league winning teams had. More than any of Chelsea's teams. More than Keegan's Newcastle, more than fricking London club or Keegan's Newcastle. More than the 87-88 team. We're not lucky to be where we are. We're closer to the top than we are to anyone who thinks they're in a 'race for 4th'. We've been picking up 2 points a game steady enough for long over a year now. With Suarez, without Suarez. With Sturridge, without Sturridge. The only thing that doesn't look 'title contenders' about us is our defensive record. And y'know what? It's roughly in the same ball park as United's and Spurs' ones. Not that it fricking matters, because no team below us in the league has scored more than our front 3, never mind the rest of the team.
I'll just say this to end:
If the league had started January 1st 2014, we'd be top.
On December 25 2013, we were top.
Here's a fricking thought for you - maybe we are in a false position. But maybe it's not because we're 'due' to slip up or United or Spurs are ready to pounce and hanging in there. Maybe it's because we were unlucky having the two toughest fixtures in the calender back-to-back, over 3 days, during the most congested period in the calender? Maybe that's it. Because we were top of the league before those two games to the bankrolled pair. We're top of the form league since those two games. Maybe we are in a false position after all...
Or fricking maybe, just maybe I should be scared of the name of other clubs, or guard against optimism lest I look foolish for actually being bullish about what is one of the best teams in the country, whether you want to measure by form, underlining statistics, the league table, basic common sense gleaned from watching matches or anything else that isn't piss-pants cowards logic because you're scared to fail and think your posts on here matter a jot about what will happen between now and the end of the season.
Posted on 2/27/14 at 10:56 am to Waffle House
That guy definitely has a point, but I think the best thing Rodgers has brought to Pool is his mentality of focusing on the here and now, not worrying about who is above or below us.
Because dammit if we start getting complacent because of the disparity between 4th and 5th
Because dammit if we start getting complacent because of the disparity between 4th and 5th
Posted on 2/27/14 at 11:03 am to Waffle House
I was just about to say winning the match against So'ton this weekend will be a healthy start for us to make a race as the dark horse for the title but this
quote:just about sums it up
Here's a fricking thought for you - maybe we are in a false position. But maybe it's not because we're 'due' to slip up or United or Spurs are ready to pounce and hanging in there. Maybe it's because we were unlucky having the two toughest fixtures in the calender back-to-back, over 3 days, during the most congested period in the calender? Maybe that's it. Because we were top of the league before those two games to the bankrolled pair. We're top of the form league since those two games. Maybe we are in a false position after all...
Posted on 2/27/14 at 9:47 pm to TheZaba
Glad to see Spurs advanced in the Europa League!
Posted on 3/1/14 at 9:05 am to TheOcean
I have to ref high school soccer games at 10 and noon today. I'll have to watch the game later this afternoon.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 9:31 am to pvilleguru
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I have to ref high school soccer games
Prayers sent
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:35 am to TheOcean
Starting XI : Mignolet, Johnson, Flanagan, Agger, Skrtel, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Coutinho, Sturridge, Suarez
Subs : Jones, Toure, Cissokho, Moses, Aspas, Sterling, Teixeira
Subs : Jones, Toure, Cissokho, Moses, Aspas, Sterling, Teixeira
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:40 am to TFTC
2:30am here. Left the clubs where I was close to getting some action to come home and watch LFC. They better win.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:54 am to LSUSOBEAST1
Damn, thats commitment!
Im nervous about this one...
Im nervous about this one...
Posted on 3/1/14 at 11:10 am to LSUSOBEAST1
beastie, are you in Australia or China?
Posted on 3/1/14 at 11:59 am to LSUSOBEAST1
Would you be so kind as to tell Al Ghandour to frick off? Thanks.
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