05 Dec 2025 12:03:05
I got to see us in Anfield for the first time since 2005 (Crouchy scored his first against Wigan that day) so this is probably the reason I really enjoyed the game despite the performance.
I was very impressed with the stadium revamp. And as always the Liverpool people made us feel very welcome so thank you for that. Any time I fly into Liverpool I always feel like I'm home even though I live in Ireland.
As for the game itself, what I took away from it is the team are so frozen from the fear of losing that they aren't able to play with their normal freedom.
For me it explains why there is no creativity, pace is really really slow, passes are short, too long or given away. The players are overthinking everything they do. They are so afraid of making a mistake that they are making mistakes.
Starting with Leeds on saturday if we can string a few results together confidence will grow which in turn will lift this fear that is paralysing the squad at the moment.
We are playing at 50% of our best, only 14 games in and just 2 points off 4th. We could win the feckin thing yet (always the optimist lol) .
So that is my topence worth be it right or wrong.
Enjoy the Christmas everyone.
YNWA.
05 Dec 2025 12:38:12
You too mate.
05 Dec 2025 12:50:45
You too Verdo glad you enjoyed it ?.
05 Dec 2025 11:53:45
There’s an umbilical cord between Ireland and Liverpool and I have always felt welcome on my work travels in the Emerald Isle.
{Ed025's Note - i love the place BT..
05 Dec 2025 13:21:08
Glad you enjoyed it mate.
05 Dec 2025 14:10:54
What's not to love lad's ?.
05 Dec 2025 14:36:21
Verdo, happy you got to go to Anfield. Please, how are we supposed to string some results together when we play such a wretched system? We don't press, don't move teams around, don't move the ball quickly, take no risks etc.
Alos when you have oppo. managers/ players mocking us for being soft and easy to play agains, what does that tell you?
Mate, I hope you are right about however, I do not see any of that happening anytime soon. We may win a game here and there like WH but other teams don't sleep and have a way of playing us and it works. Others will do the same and if we don't have a solution nor change, PSV and Forrest and all other debacles will keep happening.
Oh and had it not been for "Fede", we would have been embarrassed yet again just like Blackpool did us when Roy was here and we all know how that felt.
Happy Holidays to you and yours, mate!
05 Dec 2025 16:14:28
Wait until they see the highlights on Clanbrassil Street Barry! ??.
05 Dec 2025 16:52:59
Very true SG. Where exactly are you mate?
05 Dec 2025 18:19:28
I'm in the Sunny South East now Barry. I lived in El Paso for years though! In the good places and the not so good ones! Loved every day of it. I'm assuming you're in the wee county yourself. obviously! ?.
05 Dec 2025 19:36:04
I am indeed brother between El Paso and Drogheda. Dundalk would be home local club.
05 Dec 2025 22:12:33
@Shankly, visited Dallas back in the day, man. Lovely city.
What's El Paso like, my friend?
05 Dec 2025 23:50:47
Sorry to disappoint Oli but it's a different El Paso! . a very, very different one indeed! . Our El Paso is actually in reality Dundalk. A large town in County Louth. It's very near the NI border and during the troubles it was a very hot, hot bed, hence the title! Different times. Regardless, for me it was full of great people, great memories!
06 Dec 2025 10:57:58
Still is SG. Full of genuine working class people with a great community spirit. Well mostly ?.