Good morning.
Two bits of footage for you this morning. The first is of a man that many fancied to manage Tottenham when Arry was binned. Ladies and gentlefolk I give you Brendan Rodgers. A man who makes David Brent look like Albert Einstein.
Being: Liverpool episode 4 airs tomorrow night on Channel 5 but I have the full show for you clicky and at 43.21 is the bit where Brent Brendan produces 3 envelopes and tells the entire Liverpool squad and staff that each envelope contains a name. The three names are those individuals that he believes will ‘let us down this season.’
The stupefied response of the room says it all. But hey, as Brentdan profoundly states: You have to believe it, to achieve it. What a pillock. Bullet dodged? Nuclear bomb dodged, more like.
The second clip is our boy Hugo training with the French squad. Butcher’s. Dog. Fit as. The footage courtesy of 101 Great Goals.com. Good to see him baring up despite the internal goalkeeping feud at The Lane. Maybe if this football managing thing doesn’t pan out, there might be a vacancy on the Daily Mail sports desk.
Sportsmail understands Villas-Boas is planning to recall Friedel for his revenge mission against Chelsea, who sacked him last season.
Lloris pleaded with Villas-Boas to keep faith in him but looks set to be disappointed. Friedel was frustrated by the decision to axe him for the Villa game, while it is believed a clutch of Spurs players were also stunned by the choice.
He seems to be following in Kenny’s footsteps, at least in his mindless backing of misbehaving players.
How stupid does he look after Suarez throws in one of his most blatant dives yet, in the very first game after Rodgers claims the refs are “out to get” the Uruguayan for no good reason?
I don’t know, maybe the message resonates better among the ever hard done by, oppressed, victimised, self pitying Scousers. To me it just sounds like a man trying to deflect from the fact that he’s not doing a very good job.
A slightly different take on Suarez’ Stoke dive:
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Very amusing Kev – well done sir!
Who roped you into that?
Isn’t that a clip from Brokeback Mountain?……….just asking……….haven’t seen it…………obviously…………no, seroiusly………..i haven’t…………
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What is brokeback mountain? It sounds gay.
I have no idea :ninja:
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To use your own words ‘a clutch of players were also stunned’ Sums up my feelings in a nutshell. Earning a place and losing one for no good reason is a certain way to cause ill feeling and lose creditability in an instant. There’s absolutely no logic behind Freidel’s omission. Furthermore what message does it send out to the rest of the players, goalkeepers are players, not another species. Brads been the ever consistent in an inconsistent start to the season. He alone has kept the wolf from the door. His organisation of the defence is first class and his form exemplary-and to what end? Sure, Lloris is the future, I’ve no problems with that, but I do have with AVB’s lack of reasoning behind this decision, because it sends out a clear message to the rest of the team-which is-regardless of how well you’re playing, I’ll drop you at a moments notice directly my preferred choice is fit and able.
That argument is a good one if you are a 70s or 80s player where rotation was unheard of.
Modern day players are brought up with the culture of rotation. If they don’t like it they can always move to another club to be rotated.
Brad needs replacing and Lloris is the man to do it. Brad for the Europa and Capital One & FA cups.
I honestly don’t understand your concerns Essex.
Brad knows he’s stepping down for Lloris this season. Brads at the end of his career and Lloris is starting his. It’s important that he’s gradually phased in and learns to communicate with his defence and gain confidence. The home game to Villa was a low risk game and allows him to slowly graduate to the first team which is exactly what you’re suppose to do with new players.
It’s about team harmony-if you deserve it,that’s fine-but once again-he didn’t deserve being left out, why create a problem where non existed?
If say Harry Kane came into the side and bagged 4 in 3, then the moment Ade was fit-he was dropped-would you be saying the same thing? would you heck as like. How would Kane then feel?-happy-ditto. that’s the point-all this cods about rotation is a smokescreen-Lloris played in the EL,and said himself he was content to wait his chance-so why make a problem out of it? poor management in my book
Essex that’s not the same thing mate.
Look, no matter how good or bad Brad plays, he’s on the way out.
He’s 40 and Spurs must have players who are ready to step into the older players shoes sooner or later.
Lloris hasn’t even had a propper chance to show what he’s got either.
We can’t wait until Brad is literally falling apart before we introduce fresh blood. Brad’s cool with the whole thing too! Everything is fine!
That’s an irrelevance in my book, he had the position and did nothing wrong to lose it-Lloris played based on a pretty average EL performance-and he was pretty average again against the Villa-so, now do we reinstate Brad and scrutinise every minute of his play or play Hugo and put him under enormous pressure because he’s jumped the queue? All unnecessary- and can only lead to player disenchantment , that’s me done now on this subject-peace and let’s move on please
I think AVB is planning ahead for the Blue scum match,and has studied the goals that Brad has let in..Most of which have not been due to positioning but more to the fact that his reflexes have been too slow in getting down to close in shots, those young blue scummers are fast and tricky in front of goal. I think we will do em . we are not the capitulating unprepared team we had under the trout when we played them last when trout was studying the gee gees form in the sporting life that he couldnt read.
yes brad knows hes stepping down, but not yet, hes clearly shown he has got at least 1 more season left in him. Hes been our best player, and weve been damn lucky so far. Big thanks to paul lambert at the weekend, hes obviously gone mental leaving bent out, if bent had started against us we’d have been 2 down before our fortuatous opener. Despite results, i’m very concerned.
Instead of using the word “drop”, try “rotation”. Not the same thing at all. Outfield players are subject to rotation, why shouldn’t goalkeepers be? There is no evidence that Brad will not play any more PL games, I suspect he will. Very fitting that Brad’s unbroken PL run should end on such a high as winning at OT.
I think he’s going to need more envelopes.
I hope he’s got his own name in at least one of them.
:daumen: nice
The next envelope Brendan receives will have his P45 in it.
I think I may have overestimated Rogers.
That kind of shit might work in the US, but it’s just plain embarrassing. I’m surprised a couple of them didn’t break out in laughter.
Doesn’t seem much fun there, does it?
Spot on. Would have been great if some random scrunched up paper cup was anonymously lobbed from the back of the room.
Our old PE teacher used to have a similar ‘philosophy’ to Brendan. PE was the last lesson on friday afternoons and when we returned to the changing rooms at the end of the lesson, there would be three names on the tactics board which always hung behind the changing room door- those three names always had to stay behind for extra ‘coaching’.
The name of our PE teacher?………Mr J.Saville.
Now then-now then
If i were Raheem Sterling i’d be scared, very scared!
I think Ol’ Jimmy missed a trick by staying in the music business and not going into football as those young players seem to be attracted to bling more than magpies
Nowadays maybe, but back in the 70’s?
Can you imagine Saville trying to ‘coax’ a young Graham Roberts, John Fashanu or Souness……..he’d never run another marathon ever again!
Justin Fashanu on the other hand :whistle: ………
It’ll have taken me an Hour just to unlace my Doc’S Billy
‘Goodness gracious me’ :sick:
Sad but true- completely ‘legit’! :shifty: