Frosty Jack

That can supercede #ThisMeansMore and #WeComeNotToPlay

Long may his heroic spirit live on in the public imagination, just like his protégé, Fyds.

Gakpo being played when he couldn’t even run, although half the team were arguably displaying Bader-like characteristics by that point.

Walked out the ground saying more or less that but I do believe we could’ve gone through with different use of subs, resting Douglas Bader in particular.

WhatsApp him now. Ask if he knew Fyds.

Which is preposterous. Of course we can question that ridiculous bald man.

I think plenty questioned his decisions after PSG and for some this has dovetailed with the narrative that he has underused the squad. Neither are wrong, I don’t get the “but we’re top of the league” argument against the idea that we might still be in the CL had different choices been made. If we can’t have opinions about what we see, what’s the point of this forum at all.

Prohibition of questioning managerial decisions is weird. It’s not new, for example, last year suggesting that the timing of Klopp’s announcement damaged the title challenge was dismissed as heresy. It had absolutely no effect, it was claimed, because we won a game immediately after. I don’t remember pre-JK managers being afforded such protection, perhaps because they weren’t as good, but even at the heights of Benitez’s teams I remember him getting stick on here for one thing or another. Maybe it’s the radicalised, cult-like nature of modern network fandom, encroaching on this mildewy old place, with its ageing, balding clientele ill equipped to deal with the collapse of dialectic reasoning. This new McCarthyism is reminiscent of forumites being suspended for “disrespecting the office of Manager of Liverpool Football Club” during the period between Benitez and Dalglish tenures, for talking about echinoderms. Dark days indeed.

“Which was the style at the time…”

Which I said in the post. Hello by the way.

I bet those who criticised Richard Hughes are thinking again after these sensational contract swoops.

Now he can be sold.

I’d have been happy to see us play PSG without bringing on Douglas Bader. Slot made his bed with the “3 finals” remark, for which he should’ve been sacked.

His baldness doesn’t make him Gandhi or the Dalai Lama or something. He’s just a regular guy.

Isn’t the point that, if we were serious about challenging for four competions, the squad needed to have been used more? Because we are in one, look knackered, and I don’t see what is controversial in the slightest about that.

Managers do get it wrong sometimes. Not sure why that’s controversial. We were top of the league last season and the manager f***ed it. We ought to be alright this time but we have dropped off and the coach has underused the squad, for whatever reason.

What the f*** has it got to do with him?

More conspiracy theories from Joyce

We didn’t start the fire

Inter or PSG for me. Although I agree with accusations of sportswashing in general, its selective use is tiring. There’s a difference between state and corporate ownership but it’s often narrower than it looks, and sometimes non existent. John W Henry has been a substantial donor to US politics for decades. If the question is human rights and the environment, can we really be comfortable with US ownership whilst attacking other teams over theirs? The lack of self awareness seems predicated on that old subconscious faith that “we” are the good guys. Putting aside what the US has been doing to the world and its own populations for the majority of its existence, John W Henry made his fortune trading on staple food commodities and futures, the effects of such has exacerbated hunger globally and caused misery for millions. But whatever.

Director of football what?

Jury is still out on this slaphead

Notice it’s the players with a full head of hair that he sidelines. Makes you think.

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Yeah that came after the staged sulk antic