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13 hours ago, Gibbs Hog Heaven said:

https://www.football365.com/news/feature-premier-league-player-wage-cut-matt-han****

 

Brilliant read. I don't know who that is but he's a top bloke and my kind of socialist. 

 

Hail. 

tricky one this... while professional athletes are paid (generally) WAY more than they are due, it would be disastrous for the EPL to artificially pay less than the other big leagues.  i'm not sure how you reconcile it, but English football would drop massively in quality.

i do not disagree with the premise, though.  1) premier teams should be both paying their non-playing workers 100% from their coffers and 2) donating above and beyond for the good of the city and/or country.   players, through their union/association (they have one, right?) should be doing the same as best they're able.  there are players likely making 50k quid that shouldn't chip in, but the premier (league) players... absolutely.

my first read of the Liverpool situation was baffling... it seemed as though they were making their workers whole.  Then, i understood that Fenway was sucking at the national teet and taking money away from the more needy and more essential.  straight F that.  i hope the universal fan uproar makes them realize the weight of their decision and reverse it.  pennies now, pounds later.

liverpool has never failed to make me proud since i've been following.  i hope this isn't the first time.

hey guys,

i'm not totally up to speed on all things USSF, but i know a lot of you all are.  my daughter is doing some research into USSF/FIFA/equal pay and had some questions that I wasn't totally sure of.  most of this is just so that she can wrap her head around the issue and better understand it herself.  so, can anyone help out with the relationship between FIFA/USSF and who sets policy for the USMNT/USWNT.  are there any other "players" that she should be looking at in regards to the equal pay issue?

thanks for your help gents!  stay healthy...

So, I've downloaded FM2020.   Other than hiring a good divorce attorney, any tips/tricks I should know? 

I'll believe it when I see it.  I'm fully expecting to get the ol' gut punch here. 

on the plus side, our reign as the champions of europe will be extended.  lol

1.  The Reds had em.... just needed to see out 20 min against a team that had been all but toothless.  one man switched off for one moment (i wouldnt say the second goal was on him completely).  as GHH said, that's football.   Sucks, but what a freakin' run of European competition!  Three finals the past three years... and lifting the cup last year.

2.  It's going to be a weird spring.  With the league all but sorted, I guess it's only fitting that the games be played in empty stadiums.  It'll be interesting to see Klopp's and the team's approach to the post-clinched games... play the youngsters?  Just as intense?  I suspect there will be a lot of rotation, which will be good for the likes of Shaq, Naby, and Minamino to get some time competing in Klopp's system. 

well, it's been a while since a run of form this bad for liverpool.  i've lost my EPL callus and these losses are almost confusing these days.  Liverpool hasn't looked good for a while...  been seen southampton since a comfortable victory. 

that killer instinct, the intensity has vanished.  the snipers are missing sitters, the intricate interplay is gone, the squad looks downright listless.  something's gotta change vs. athleti or else we'll be easily bounced.

break out the sage, the cleansing breaths, and the animal sacrifices... the bad juju begone!

9 hours ago, Berggy9598 said:

The way they apply the offside rule is horrendous. Not sure if they can do this but they need to work out a system like they did with goal line technology that buzzes the referee if there's grass between the two offside lines. If there isnt it should be a good goal. 

something needs to be changed for sure.  i'd also add in the reminder that the offsides should give advantage to be called.  granted that adds in more grey areas, but some of these calls are howlers.

1 hour ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

I haven't watched that in many years.  I find a lot of old shows seem cheesy watching them today.  Has this series handled the test of time well?

this might be heresy, but Highlander was cheesy when it was running for real.  Still fun.  I think the sidekick died recently...

oof... matip, lovren, and fabino looked rusty as hell.

needed a first team player to step up and lead the kids, but no one did.  if divock wants to push for more PL playing time/starts, he needs to dominate a league 1 side.

adrian saved liverpool's tournament today.  some great saves.  shewsbury deserved to win that.

wow... big match there.  didn't watch and looking forward to the highlights

And now Milner?  Doubling down on the good news... Milly's such an important utility player for the Reds.

Great news to wake up to!  Klopp and LFC seem to be made for each other, and I’m beyond excited that he’s around through 2024. 

5 hours ago, Gibbs Hog Heaven said:

Normally good at these but I'm honestly running out of things to say about these historical, relentless Reds. 

Scouse Thursday's don't get ANY better than this! 

Up the 5-Star Mighty Reds!

 

Hail. 

 

 

was super bummed to not be able to watch yesterday, but couldn't believe my eyes as i kept updating the boxscore and had the score seemingly increase each time.  

Anyone watch Letterkenny on Hulu?  Loved it.  Took an episode to get on the "inside" of the jokes, but man it's funny.  The dialogue can be fast... watched some episodes with subtitles. 

what a ****ing day!

not the prettiest of wins, but pretty don't count for anything. 

six time champions

liverpool!!!

5 hours ago, Kosher Ham said:

Season four is great so far. I think I am on the fifth episode. I've loved this show since its inception. 

 

Speaking of Lucifer. 

it is one of my guilty pleasures, but i did have to adjust to the campiness for the first couple of episodes.  season 4 is great, though it ends in such a way that it could work either as a series finale or just a season finale.

22 hours ago, Berggy9598 said:

Good lord man don’t give yourself a stroke those were just the games that stood out to me as games that were there for the taking rather than a loss at the emptyhad. What does United’s point totals have to do with my comment btw? 1 point being closer to zero than three isn’t exactly a subjective statement. 

no stroke.  forums don't do a great job of picking up mood.  i'm more incredulously disappointed than frustrated or angry.  it's amazing how things went down this season, but it's a bummer that liverpool ended up on the wrong side of the point difference.

sure, a draw is closer to a loss than a win points-wise... never argued differently.  but to cherry pick two draws-- in derby matches-- to judge, isn't quite fair.  granted those were the only impactful roles everton or man united could have in this season against the top sides.  the leicester and west ham games were much more winable, especially with leicester at anfield, given the more pedestrian emotions of those games.  everton and man u are always going to play liverpool tough-- doesn't matter who's top of the league and who's mid-table/bottom.  that, to me, argues against your statement that they "were there for the taking."  also, timing-wise, that was still while ole was enjoying his run of good form.  would maybe have been a different game if liverpool had played them at the end of the season like city.

i threw man u's point totals in there because they've won the premier league more than any other team.  it just underlines how crazy this season was that 97 points-- a total that would have won 25 out of 27 PL seasons.  i also included them because you did... didn't make sense to include the ev, as they haven't won the league.

anyway, carry on.  i just didn't want you worried about me stroking out or crying in a corner. 

3 minutes ago, Berggy9598 said:

I think it’s more the draws at Everton and Old Trafford. Both games Liverpool should have walked. Ultimately a draw is closer to a loss than a win. 

what does that mean?  do you think those two draws are a better representation of how close the race was?   you think that's a better sign of how close the race was than a ball being 11mm away from drawing a game between the two front runners (that would have resulted in a 3 pt swing in liverpool's favor)?  or did you just want to rub salt in the wound that liverpool drew against their two biggest rivals?

okay, sure, have it your way.  yes, if liverpool had won any one of our 7 draws this year, liverpool would have won.  to me, drawing against leicester and west ham are less excusable than everton or united.  if city hadn't lost to chelsea or leicester, it wouldn't have been as close a race either. 

doesn't change the fact that liverpool scored more points this past season than manchester united did in any of it's league winning seasons.  that those efforts earned liverpool 2nd place is remarkable.  i'd say it's unlucky and unfortunate as a liverpool fan, and you can say that points don't matter only winning, and we'd both be right.  it was still a remarkable race that went to the wire, and i'm glad it was liverpool that was doing the pushing rather than any other team.

hell of a season.  proud of the way liverpool fought and pushed city to the very last moments. 

tip of the hat to city.  they had to go on a 14 game winning streak in the best and most balanced league in the world to score the second highest point total in premier league history to beat their challengers by a single point.  that's tough sledding and a ton of pressure to be perfect.  and perfect they were. 

that the january match at the etihad was 11mm away from being a tie is a perfect representation of how close this entire race was.  it sure was fun to be a part of, and as much as i would have love to see the trophy in red, there will be tons of great memories to be had from the 18-19 season. 

on to madrid, boys!  heads held high... there's a trophy to win!

Oh, to be in Liverpool tonight.  What a game.  What a night.  What a team.  

YNWA

it can't be dragon eggs... it took her three dragons a long time to grow up.  i bet there's some way that she can reanimate petrified/hibernating dragons that they find at Dragonstone or something.  a bunch of baby dragons ain't helping without a crazy (even by GOT standards) unrealistic time warp.

wow.  sweet... if i wasn't getting pummeled by college tuition, i would jump.

On 5/3/2019 at 9:03 PM, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

 

 

it was time

what's the wait time these days?

gotta tip your cap to both barca and liverpool.  liverpool played a hell of a game, and the score doesn't tell the tale of the game, which was much closer.  barca had two great goals (i just knew messi was going to hit that top left corner) and one lucky/unlucky bounce off the crossbar.    sadio, milner, and salah all missed goals that they'd hit 9 times out of 10.  just one of those nights on a soccer pitch.  tough sledding for the tie at anfield, but i trust the supporters to have that ol' place rockin and the players to give their all. 

on to newcastle.  an early red goal would do wonders for my blood pressure...

God bless those 96 souls that went out to watch some footie and didn’t come home.  May they always be remembered.