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All this week on NBC4, new products to new technology, Susan Hogan is showing you how local restaurants are changing the way we dine in and take out in this new world tonight at 6. A new twist on outdoor eating. A lot of it is creating flexibility. How one local restaurant is making their outdoor space mobile giving you plenty of sunshine and social distance for a stress free meal. It's all part of restaurant revitalization. Tonight at 6 on NBC4, working for you. I like to do a song of great social and political import. It goes like this. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. My friends all drive Porsche's. I must make a man's work hard all my lifetime. No help from my friends. So, oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. We're all a bit tired of substandard vehicles at LFC. Let's hope the summer brings more German quality. It's a day trippers. The season may be lurking to a halt in disappointing fashion, but it's time for a long ovation for Stevie. So, we'll focus on the captain for tonight's show. I'm Trev Dany and I'm joined by the man who knows players, Desmo Flood, Bathroom, Terrors and victim Paul Brennan. The amazing, actually not an old man when you see him on video Dave Thomas, a knob twiddling megalomaniac, Phil Casey. Ready? Okay. So, let's sort of wrap in our review of the chassis match and our preview of the Crystal Palace match to come with a weekend into one discussion here because there is a lot of crossover. Let's be honest and it appears that there'll be things in common with both games. So, Dave, as a match, the chassis won over the prolonged game, kind of representative of a lot of the season, kind of nerdy, but not quite. One shitty stuff, some good stuff, not enough goals, nerdy man, basically. Yeah, good when it kind of doesn't matter, do you know what I mean? I mean, I think that when we're... Fifth, basically. Yeah, when we're looking to impose ourselves on the game, which we needed to do first half and, you know, take the game with a scruff of the neck, know where to be found, really. Lack of movement, lack of quality, just, you know, I think chassis just found it all too easy. Took the lead, sat back, okay, we scored, you know, an unusual goal. So, because to score against Chelsea, to be fair, because they're very good from set pieces. So, you know, first to score a head up from a corner, I was pretty surprised at it. And then second half, when Chelsea basically retires, we played a little bit better. But the same problem was that we got no penetration, we got no one in the final third who's, you know, moving, you know, Lambert, you know, he's, like, walking through jelly. I mean, it's just no pace there, no movement there, like that. It was just frustrating to watch because we have good players, you know, we have promising players, good technical players, and it's frustrating to watch a game when the outball is Ricky Lambert, you know, I mean, I just don't understand that I didn't understand it against West Brom, I didn't understand it against Hal, didn't understand it against Chelsea. Look, in isolation, one understand for Bridge Lock, it's a reasonable result in a season. But it's a game we have to win. It's another game we have to win, it's another game that we didn't win. Never look like win. Never look like win. For me, you were looking for something from the manager of the players, and you saw the team sheet, Johnson's in the back for again, Chan's shunted out to right back. I got Jared sitting in front of the defence again where he's done nothing all season, Ricky Lambert up front on his own. Like it was grim from the start, and then the game kicked off, and I mean, if you pulled someone, like, you know, a fan of a different sport in, and you said, one of those teams has just won the league, and they've had the week off training, and they don't give a shit about this. The other team, like, needs to win this to keep alive there in the top four. They just go, well, that team in the blue is able to fucking kill people, and the team in the red doesn't know what's hit them. I mean, it's worth remembering, because it's kind of been forgotten, because we didn't win the game, or the championship is over, but, like, we win that game. You know, they suddenly got two tough games. Do you know what I mean? Suddenly they got... It's back in the round, what's the slim possibility? Well, it's on, right? I mean, you're putting pressure on, but yet again, yet again, you know, the must-win game, we don't win it. The only thing that's happened so often, you know, it had been dying for someone to fucking come and take, like, they've needed people to fuck off away from them, and let them crawl off the line to top four, and we've let them do it. For the last three months, they've looked like a team that if they were put under any serious pressure, they crack. Yeah, and the Van Hal interviews have been so bloody, so bloody amusing after every match, and yeah, we've fucked up the opportunity to see him really melt down. So that's the frustrating bit about the Chelsea game, it's just like, it's not a point of Chelsea's a bad result, it's a point against this Chelsea, at this point of the season, when we have to win, you know, that's what was frustrated. What about that point, Phil, that they've raised there, but, you know, sorry, Paul raised there, but, you know, which team looked moral for us. We had that marker, shall we say, laid down very early on by Fabrice, and there was no response from Liverpool in terms of aggression at all. Standard, isn't it? Yes. It's sad, but last year there was more fightiness, it's more everything, but not only, like, you've got the standard for this year, which is just slow starts, people not really giving a shit about it, you know, since that, you know, it defeats, yeah, the team's been awful, awful, from manager to players, it's just, it's just awful, and then when there's a hint of getting back and putting pressure on you, looking for the Champions League, and it goes back to not just the Chelsea game. We blew chances against West Blanc and Horner as well. You know what I mean? You win those two games, and the conversation you're having against Chelsea is not the most win against Chelsea. If we don't lose here, we're still in with a show going into the last two games, if we had it on our business, going back to being able to see the bigger picture. This team, this collective, from management coaches the whole lot, have failed to grasp the bigger picture over the course of the season. When it's always been down to the next game, and I have no issue with approaching the game as just approaching games on the next game basis, right? But when you hit a brick wall or you have a setback, you need to step back, look at what you have to do over the next common set of games, and say, right, to get, to retain the, any chance of achieving the goal that we set out for us. This is what we have to do, and when we approach those games, we do it and we make the right decisions. Now, you're going to get some things wrong, everyone gets some things wrong, and I don't think there won't even be any criticisms if you're getting the occasional thing wrong, like we did last season, even a finishing second last year, it was a poor decision-making that resulted in us not winning the league, right? Be it from the players in the Crystal Palace going chasing goals, be it from the way we set up against Chelsea in the match against Anfield, which is down to the manager. You come back to this and you say, the lack of passion and hurt shown since the United Game is symptomatic of something bigger, and it's like, I just want this season to be over, to get on to the next season, to see, is this something that can be taken out of the team in terms of, you know, can we just dump this mentality that's going on, right? And get back to just, you know, trying to win, trying to attack teams, because fundamentally, what we're not doing anymore is we're not going at teams, we're not going at teams from the off, where everything is reactive, there is no pro activity in our play anymore, none. But a huge part of that is the selection and the selection of guys who are. Of course, of course. And that's the thing that's the common thread. And look, I've criticized Rogers, I'm trying to avoid just repeating what I've said about Rogers beforehand, there is an illness as well on the players that if you don't think the manager is up to it, right, or if you have a feeling that we're doing something wrong, you can do something about it on the pitch. Like when I look at, look at a channel, whatever, and he steps into midfield, he's trying to drive things on, right? When I look at Cuteño, he's trying to drive things on in the match. But if the other nine players around them haven't got the same inkling or the same drive in them, you can't turn 11 and, you know, it's down to the play, the players need to also look at themselves as much as Rogers has to do and say, did I do enough this season? Have I done enough over the course of the season, you know, to warrant, you know, call them yourself a Liverpool player? And if you think you have, then you aren't a Liverpool player because you haven't. You've been far from what's expected from the fans of a Liverpool player. There's a lot of good points raised there that my wife failed, but in terms of the people who were there, it's quite sad, isn't it, to see a player of such patent ability as Hermes Chan struggling in a position that just doesn't seem to suit him and really not being given much help there either when it's clear that he is struggling because nobody wants to see that. Everyone's been absolutely impressed by this kid. I want to see him doing what he does, whether it's a central midfield or as part of the tree in the back, whatever happens to be. But Jesus, you know, he's under pressure there, isn't he, and it's horrible to watch. Well, at the moment, he's found resource that's resources have to have and you've got Johnson Azure. He's trying right back. Well, even now, right back. But he's been thrown around that back for a resource, and he has never been played in the one position that he'll truly excel. The game, I mean, he was putting it fairly, he was putting it in the box, the box. I don't know if this looks so easy to kid, he's not going to do that, you know. But where you want them on the ball, you want them driving on teams, you know, just what failed hit on there about us not attacking teams anymore and not being aggressive front folded front tanking anymore. Well, I was talking to somebody to drive up this and we were just ghosting it. And when did we ever run a roger's bare that four months, bare that four months where we actually did we have a team that actively attacked teams and went down for wins aggressively. Everything for four months, we don't know for the rest of his whole tenure. It's all been slow. It's a good portion of the self-patient ball strategy for a good, for a good portion of those 13 matches. Maybe it started to tail off a bit towards the end. It was that tempo back and it was that high pressing and it was that energy, you know, in this season. Well, I've been honest, we went on a run of winning games and now everyone talked, we're back to ourselves and I'm like, "Oh, he didn't." And that whole run, I remember saying, "You couldn't have to go up, you feel it, we were having a pop up, you should have a back." Well, he says, "Four school manager comes up fucking stagnating system because rogers is just so set in the way." So, four school manager points it out, four school manager comes up against Van Hal, makes a fucking film. And then everyone else reads into it then as well. And I'll show that run of games, or you never felt we actually play particularly well. But it's probably the city game, which I thought we were exceptional in. I don't remember. It's like many stand-out performances this season that you can actually say, "Yeah, we boss that game and we deserve to win it." There's not many of them, there's games okay, we won because we're just a better squad. How many games do we actually look and say, "Yeah, fucking hell." That was good. What we're talking about, we improved the second half, and there's obviously the element that you're looking at and saying, "The Chelsea sit-off is a lettuce cut, go at them." But so many times this season, we haven't played well in the fourth half, and we've cuffed up leads, and we've looked better in the second half because we've had to do exactly that. We've had to go and press back on teams, we've had to go and chase games and really push teams back. And go back to, when he came in, it was about the idea of this high press, this rootless aggression, no pressing and zones, pressing and things, whereas all this has been very static. It's just a very static in terms of, and I think an awful lot of the combs, we're going back to the idea of if you have a very static front man, a very static front man, right? An almost statue-like front man, up front, right, who isn't getting around, and we had the same criticism as well when storage came back from injury and didn't look fully up to abuse. How many times did we sit in here and say, "If storage wasn't scoring goals," and he still scored a few, and he was there, but if he wasn't scoring goals, we'd be having a pop at them for not breaking his bollocks, getting around and pressing players. Because we don't continue on to press. Sterling is very effective when he goes on pressing, and even Lelana, when he's playing against mid-table and lower-table teams, is very good at going and doing that pressing as well. So it's just, Henderson is bringing that in, one of Joe Allen's best facets of his game is pressing teams, shoving on and pressing teams and pressing teams and pressing teams. So it doesn't make any sense if we aren't playing in that manner for the good players, the really good players that we have, but we all don't think Phil, that's what Rogers wants overall, his vision, his philosophy, we don't think that's what he wants, that's what we look at and say we're good at, because we've got them players that are capable of playing that way, but we actually don't think that's the way Rogers wants us playing. Because for season, we don't remember us pressing, it was all about possession, possession, possession. When we went into a counter-tack and soy, which more or less leads us into what the second half of our season was like as well, and we went on that run after we saw in storage and continue, we were playing that style of football. So every time we flipped and tried to use pace and then aggressive pressing and to cause torn overs of balls and pressed teams on halfway lines and really pushed them back, that's when we've looked a really good attacking team. Don't you agree? In the fourth half of all the seasons he's been there and now even tailing off the last 10 games that we've been here, that pressing has dropped out of the soil again, but Rogers himself, and Dave, you can remember this, in his interviews, he talked about pressing, he talked about resting with the ball in terms of when we have possession. You mean the early ones? I actually think that for the second half of his first season, for most of last season, and for a bit of this season, he sets his team up to do that, but they all coincided the same thing, which is having a fluid front three or fluid front two. You can't press if you strike because don't press, because it's too much space. Because your midfielders then have to go and do it and lose too much space behind you. So I actually think it's preference, only a bit that I can't get my head around in most of this season. I thought the first half of the season was poor, but I put that down to him trying to work things out. The only thing I am able to get my head around is how he's moved away from Sterling, Coutinho, Lelana, as that front three, at least put Lambert and Ballotelli back in. That's the only decision. All the other decisions I can kind of logically count on us in my head, but that one I can't, because he does like to press. So if you're playing Lambert, or Ballotelli, they don't press. So I don't understand. That's the only bet I don't get. Well, what about the vision of the future we had there towards the end of that match, then? For God of for Bad, where we saw Jerome Sinclair on and we saw Sterling there. Seriously? That is the best thing Rogers has done in about four months. Yeah, and he did give him a chunk of time. Yeah. And they were brilliant. They didn't change the game. They're playing against the best defence in the league, right? So you can't put three teenagers on who've never played together and expect them to turn her around. But they should all start against Palace. I mean, Lelana and Lambert shouldn't start against Palace. I wouldn't be devastated if Lelana started, but I mean, Lambert certainly shouldn't start. Sinclair should start. I wouldn't have minded if Sinclair started against Chelsea. Yeah. I just, I would have loved to have seen something when I saw Lambert, up front of his own. It's the Lambert decision, it just sucks everything out of that side when you, when you play in Lambert. Yeah, because all the logic falls away after. Like we talk about even that the performance ever went up in the second half, which it did. Well, in the first half, there were like, there were actually more opportunities for us to put the ball in behind Chelsea's defence and Lambert was just absolutely hopeless. And then the second half, you're thinking like, you're playing for your Liverpool career here. At least do something that you're able to here. Hold the ball up and like link in with the other, the kind of players that were zipping around you. I mean, like there was just nothing from them. So like, yeah, I wouldn't play them again. I definitely put Sinclair in. Even though like that, I think Sinclair was fairly starved of service. And we had this thing at the moment where, you know, going from the middle into the final tour, we're really quick. The likes of Coutinho and Sterling, like they really, they, they have teams on the back foot. And then the final ball. And like, we never really got much into Sinclair, which was like, which I thought was a big problem. It's, I think it has been a factor, even that, that big run that we went on towards the, the second, third of the season, that was all built on kind of, you know, getting, getting turned at teams and the likes of Sterling and Coutinho kind of running at the defence. But it's also supporting pace from the flank. So I was looking, I was trying to write, write a piece about Coutinho and I was looking at how much Moreno was involved and some of the great stuff that he's done this year. Moreno was being involved in the build-up with him, they won't choose round passes around the corner and stuff like that. And if we had a similar player in the other flank as well, then you start seeing what you're talking about there and you start seeing these guys becoming more effective, you know, in, in the interpret. But nobody's beaten a man. I mean, you know, we have played, they all want, I think I said this and what I wanted to go and I was talking about, we have too many number 10s. We've got too many players and want to play in the middle of the park and be the person that passes the ball to the striker. Whereas you only need one of those players, maybe two. The likes of, so if it's the Atlanta, Coutinho's got to break forward and Sterling's got to break forward and then Sinclair and I will all got to be in there. If it's Coutinho, then Atlanta's got to get into the box, but they don't do that. They stand four yards away from each other, going, we'll give me the ball now and then they pass in sideways. And when you play it against the team like Chelsea, what I said last week is no way we're scoring against them because they're the best defense in the league. They're just going to sit back, block defense. It's so hard then to put an 18-year-old on the pitch and say, we're not going to give you anything. You might get the ball once in the next 40 minutes. But hey, hey, good luck. The one thing I didn't know was about the Chelsea game was that when we did get into the box a couple of times, especially in the second half, when the three lads were up top, Sterling and Sinclair, our quality of final ball in the box is still not good enough. So all you've ghosted past three or four players, but didn't have the ability to look up and pull it back to the player that was free, Sterling went in and crossed it up high. No, he went past the particular three or four and instead of like, if it takes a little look up, Coutinho had actually drifted to the penalty spot and was unmarked. Square's that thing and Coutinho has a clear shot on goal at this stage because two players have gone to close them down and a couple of times we've gone back to your point, across us. You know, there's that element of noises you've knitted with across at the moment where they're floaty fucking steward down and cross, they're not, they're not, you know, just whatever. No, I know they're trying to float into Jelly Man's head, but like they just, it was just, it was just a, you know, it, it just reminded, it just reminded so much of when Kenny was there and we had down and down used to just float these floaty things in and Carol would be just wandering around the back hoping that eventually something to come to his head. Yeah. You know, and it was like that despondency that when you were looking at a sit-hacking, you never felt once where it went out that we're going to threaten from the fight. And then the good things were doing was when we did get past Chelsea and it was the first time in the long, I remember in games against Chelsea that we were getting behind the looks of Ivanovich, we're getting behind Luis Felipe or Felipe Luis or whatever his name is on the other side, right? And then when we got there, the next pass was never the right pass. You know, that's because, I mean, the two kids, that's why they should have been playing the last five games, you know what I mean? They should have had more game time this season instead of Lambert, you know, this is the argument is that these are the future of the club, you know, play Jordan, I, but right back and, you know, move him or Janet to the middle and get Johnson out of that. Like, you know, why are we playing players that are not going to be here eventually? Because while Hope survived, he went to his go-to man. That's what he's done. Yeah. That we know this. I mean, so we're going to come out to Palace, right? Yeah, let's do that. But the team sheet for Palace should be the team to finish the game against Chelsea, right? Okay. Well, one other thing we should learn from Laffloli Dan might take in this one from the Chelsea. The only thing I learned from it is Stevie's going to play, right? So... Except Stevie, don't have Stevie, so don't have Stevie taking corners, have Stevie in the box where he should have been for the last 15 frickin' years and not taking the corners because he mostly doesn't beat the first man because look at him, he's our best header of a ball. Yeah. He's got this season as well. Yeah. Twelve goals, isn't it? I think at this stage, so I mean, you know, it's hard to believe. Four Palace. Would you agree with David? You'd like to see that? Without a doubt. See the kids start. Without a doubt. Without a doubt. And I didn't go as far as saying that he's going to play and he deserves to play and he deserves to be fucking wet off. Well, you need to go as far as saying, well, you know, I need to throw in all the kids. And I said it during the week to us, put them all in. I mean, this game is going to be an absolute circus because it's going to be a circus. Like, they're fucking smiling dolphin. He's smoked dolphin. He's bringing his fucking, what's your man's purged you. He's going to be standing on the solo and they're being smoily heading him. That one's back slapping your ass. He's going to think that the game is about him. Yeah. Get out of here. Everything's about all of them. It's going to be a big send-off. Like, your man playing his last game in front of the cup, Lambert, you know? He's going down current, you know? He's going to have it here as though the whole game, Johnson's gone. Johnson's gone. He'll be running around. He's always been. He's gone. He'll just be trotting around. Exactly. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. I will prefer to see all that I mean, that's put in now. Okay. Put Stevie in and let me get the adulation. He fully deserves, you know, his player regeneration, you know. The rest of them, who can give you a shot, never seen it again, I don't even... That's brutal, honestly, but they don't deserve a fucking send-off. The quality done for us. Seriously, we don't want to give up Johnson for the last two or three years. What's Lambert done? Oh, call. You know? The future's there. Like, put the kids in. It's right. But okay, Gerard, for everyone in the world, is partially sentimental and there's no way that he shouldn't start the game, right? I'm talking for everyone out in the world, not myself, right? So if you're playing them, you just say Stevie, you do whatever fuck you want. Just do whatever you want, right? You're not playing any position. You go wherever you want. The only place you can't play in the pitch today is in goal. Now if you want to do that in the second half, we'll start that for you as well, right? But, and we'll play him in your layup front, because, look, let's be honest about it. He can't be any worse, right? That's fucking lamb. He'll be fucking good. Yeah. Yeah. So you just say, you go, enjoy yourself, fucking do whatever you want to do. You want to run around, and Troy Scar, 27 goals, you do that, right? We're not, this is, you know, it's your day, and it is your day, ultimately this match, right? Because there's nothing left, there's no chance we need to go for. No. Let's be straight away. There's no chance we need to go for it. I can't blow first, unless I'm totally mistaken. It'd be tough, but, of course. [LAUGHTER] We can give it a go, but you know, just go and enjoy it. Do whatever you want to do. Enjoy the last competitive game here, and fucking whatever, right? And around that, you say, okay. Yeah. So what do you want to do around that? Around that, you put, you put Chan in the midfield, you put Henderson in the midfield. Yes. Right? You say, listen, that's, you're going to be a midfield next season. You're playing there. So Emory, fucking, you two just cover whatever spaces that Steve is going to leave, as he does whatever he does, you cover it, right? You give, see, it starts in clear up front. Yeah. You say, this is what I'm doing. You know, I don't have storage, so I'm starting to clear up front, and I play Eib at right back, or right wing back, whatever the fuck you want to do. If you want to play Chan in a tree at the back, and give Jordan Williams a goal in Henderson along, so I don't know. You do this. You play Markovitch as a wing back, you play fucking Eib as a wing back. You play Sterling down up front, or play Sterling in a two with Sinclair, and you play continue off, and you just tell Gerard to go and do whatever he wants on the pitch. And that way, at least the players that are on the pitch, are going to be, you know, their next season, they're going to feel like, this is the team, this is going to go around. You know, if you play Moraine, or you play fucking great, this is generally what I don't want to see. I don't want to see Jones on the bench. I don't want to see Glenson anywhere near the squad. I don't even want him to stay in. I don't want the Mount Millwood this week. I don't see him ever again in Liverpool gear, right? And if Carlos had enough, Carlos being great crack, maybe give him five minutes at the end to give us, you know, to say goodbye to everyone. I don't want to see Lambert in the squad. I don't want to see him near the pitch. I don't see Manny. I don't even see him getting VIP passes to the game. I don't want him anywhere near it, right? Seriously, I do not want to be... He's a family turn away. Sorry. I don't want to see players who are not going to be part of this squad, or should not be part of this team next season in the squad. This should be a... But it's the only dose two on Jared, who we're going to be. Oh look, when you look at Ballotelli, he's not going to be part of the squad next season. He wasn't there this week, don't have him there, right? Put the players that are going to be there, and say to yourself, "Right, lads, get used to this, because this is what you're going to be part of next season." Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think... Not as vehemently in terms of not allowing certain players into the stadium, but... The city! Not just the stadium! I mean, at the very least, Sinclair has to start up front. And I... And I just... Well, I will mark, which I'd be happy with either, and Mario not should start a fullback, and Carlos shouldn't get a game. At the very least, if he plays Lambbud, I genuinely... I won't watch that. I don't think I'll watch that. I just don't see the point. What am I going to see us at? It's going to be new. Apart from Stephen Jarrad's last game, which obviously I'll watch it, you know, at the Demos Point, you know, of course he has to play, he should start the entire fucking stadium, which will crap in for 90 minutes, you know, that's what I'm going to play, and he's being like, you know? And sing a song for 90 minutes, because at least that will be a song sang for 90 minutes. That's a mad noisy fucking ground. But play in Lambbud and play in Johnson. I think it'd be best for you. I just don't get it. And play in Michigan in the middle, I agree. If he is Jarrad's heir apparent, if he is the player that they've identified, which is all the room I can run out of the club, he is going to play in midfield next year, then play in midfield. And let's actually see what he's all about, because all I've seen so far is he's a pretty pretty good third centre back. He's not a very good right back, and people tell me he's a phenomenal midfielder. Well, I haven't seen it. So let's see it. But just the way I look at it, my god, but I don't know who's just there and who shouldn't. What we're feeling under this, this shouldn't be a game that closes a book on certain players. This should be a written of a new chapter for Liverpool. That's fucking beautiful. That is fucking beautiful now. It's the whole end. Did I seriously? Yes. I knew it. I knew it. It's the whole end. It's the whole end. Did I seriously? Yes. I knew it. It's the whole end. It's the whole end. It's the whole end. That's fucking brilliant. I know it. I know it. I know it. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. That's it. Let's just close the book on your head and say, "Thank you, clap on the back. Away with you." I put all the nippers around him. What do you do? What do you do? Travel for you? Go on. Because we never get to ask Trevor question. Book on your... Do you want Rogers to take him off so he can get the adulation of the crowd? I'd say, "No, no, no, no." Of course he'd be taking off work. What the fuck was that about? There's a lot of confusion about this. He fucked up royally with what he said, but you know he's just in Brendan mode and he's talking shit. I don't think that's actually why he's talking off. No, it's not what he's talking about. But don't say that. He took him off. If he's going to take him off for that reason, he'll take him off with a minute to go. Yeah, I agree. That's it. But don't say it. No. It's a nonsense thing to say because he got caught in the fucking rabbits, you know, like a rabbit in the headlights again in front of the cameras. Like he always does. So yeah, he'll come off when a minute to go. I'm going to play to the round end of the interview, spot on. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Fair play. And you know what, right? Did you hear Pat in heaven? I thought Pat in heaven. Remember, I didn't want to get him into the room. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Don't tell us. I missed it. He reckons that the only reason Jerry came out and said that was because he clapped the fans as he left the pitch. He reckons the only reason Jerry came out and said what he said afterwards in the media afterwards. He went in and checked his Twitter. So he was getting a lot of abuse from the Liverpool fans and decided to change his mind. I mean, for the love of. He's not on Twitter. Is he Jared? Well, he's not going to be on Twitter immediately when he goes in after a mash and check. Maybe he has Keras Logan. No, that's what Enrique has been doing. He checks Twitter for all the lads as they come off. All lads, you're going to fucking slaughter, dude. I don't know if he's going to kill me or not, but I'm not going to threaten him. At the log order. But seriously, Jared's always great in his interviews, though. He's a very, you know, you know, all these pointless interviews. You know, I prefer to hear that, which is honesty. At least it's honest. I can get on board. Pure gopher. You know what I mean? And fair play to it. Gerard coming out and saying what he did because this is a share of fans who, like, were boomed for the Hildra thing in the semi-final. They're fucking spent the time holding up, laminated, laminated, slip hazard, fucking, what? What? Imagine somebody organized that in the Chelsea fan base, because it was like there was just one fellow with him. Do you know the line with the iPad? He was looking down his nose at them. The line with the iPad taught they were shit fans. That's just basically the iPad. They sang more about Jared's slip than the fact that they just won the fucking game. I love him. I love him. If we were the league, would you ever sing about another player? You wouldn't know. We would never power a player. Who would you give a fuck? Who the fuck was that? Most of them were city fans last year. I'm winning the league every year. I am delighted for Jared. I think between that interview, the last couple of interviews he's done, getting a couple of goals, I am delighted for him. Let's finish this up because it's... We do a palace. Yeah. Predictions for Palace. Paul. Oh. It's 3-1. We're winning. Very nice. Very nice. Damn it. 2-0. 2-0 to us. Yeah, 3-0. The show will turn on the style, though. Bloody hell. I don't know. I think Alan Parto might put it up to us. I think it'll be tight. I think it'll be a draw, though. We have your man, Dwight Gail coming to Anfield, trying to put on the show, and Yannick Balassie's party. You're not as... You're not as I didn't go for the clean shit. Balassie might be taking myself, if Darian for Benteca and Milner and Inks, there's a chance for me. Yeah. Yep. Look, we have to win. It's Jared's last game, and let's be honest about it. It'd be great to see him score and go off for the score, though. No, no. Genuinely. It'll be a great way for him to cap it off, and a blunder post from 24 yards. One of that old-fashioned, coming to him on a half-body and just bang. Oh, it's not just... This will be get sent off, I think, but it's like... That's a smart game part, dude. Yeah, for taking out Parto. So, hopefully, it's Jared to Palace Nail. Alan, I'll stretch her at the end. Yeah. I love you stuff, OK. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. You should be able to do it. Yeah, it's definitely the ball sweat. Oh, we're off as fucker. OK, let's have a look at some of your trippers. There are a lot of them. So, we're going to go around in quick, fire fashion, and Dave, you're up first in the question of Greg Hill's, and Greg wants to know, what happened to the age policy that we're supposed to have when they bought La La La La? I'd say that it was after Rogers came second in the league, I would imagine that the committee lacks a little bit in terms of giving the manager what he wanted. And I would imagine La Lana was a pick of the manager, and he wanted someone that would come straight into his first team. And that's what happened. I actually think La Lana is at an OK season. I don't think he's been a disaster, but I think there's an argument we paid too much for him in terms of the impact he had in the first season. So, I don't imagine we're going to make that kind of sign in again this season. But you wouldn't have them as a go-off-discape variety, you think? It makes sense. OK. Flow of Europe next is a question from Karina, and she wants to know, what's the difference between Hodgson's talking and Brendan's talking, apart from maybe their voice and the pronunciation? Hodgson was a lot more defeat as the fucker. He really was. He was completely the greatest, where Rogers was the opposite end of the fucking spectrum, where he was completely ridiculously positive. No, he said that he used to be. I don't know if you broke hearts in there. I mean, that's just me in the middle. It's so funny. It is so funny. That was one of the ridiculously positive ones, ridiculously negative. Karina, let's just open a new book. Open a new screen. That was beautiful, beautiful again. They was happy with that. Look at them! They spent on big rings. Beautiful. Paul, you're up next. Simon Brondish wants to know, would you want Jared back on loan in January? God, no. Jesus fucking Christ, no. You're up next there. John Darcy wants to know, if Rogers does go at the end of the season, do you think Jared will regret leaving? Would that be contrary to what we've been told? Oh, I don't think Rogers has... I don't think it's Rogers that's forcing him to leave. I don't think of any decent managers in there. Gerard's not playing. I think he would have played less this year with any other manager than Rogers. Yeah, I completely agree with that. So, look, I don't think it has any... Look, if Rogers is given the heave-how, I think there's a... Gerard probably would have played less. Because if we go out and saw in a bigger night... Invert to come, a bigger night manager, he's going to be ruthless. And I mean, you know, the top managers are not sentimental. And there's a layer of sentimentality in Rogers thinking. And, you know, I would go back two seasons if we had had somebody else in. Say if one had had taken over instead of Rogers. I don't think Gerard would have been there come the end of last season. I think he would have been off at the end of last season. Fair enough. Can you say what Van Hal did with Vampirci as well? Yeah, but I thought Rooney was gone. It's captain in the Dutch name. And like, "Bint, now you're not cool enough, Bint." I thought Rooney was gone for me now. I thought Van Pirci was going to walk into the team every week. Van Hal's had none of them, so... You look next all up, Dave, you're back on again. This is from George Berman. George wonders, "Why has Joe Allen, who was our best player vs. Hall according to George, not gotten on the page again since?" He's injured, Lee. Allen. That would be the short answer. Yeah, so that's my answer. Even if he's not, that's my answer. Well, how can you have a best player against Hall that wasn't in your life? Did Allen even play this Hall? I don't even know. Did any of our team play against Hall? Didn't Jared and Anderson play in the field against Hall? I don't know. Anyways... It was the one they both had. Sorry, George. The player's both had. Hall was just a nightmare for us. But I mean, I think Joe Allen, Joel is not going to start in 11. He's not good enough to be on our starting in 11. He's not going to be on our starting in 11 next season. I think he's a good alternate to come in and play in certain games in the Cup, in Europa League. He thinks a good squad player, no problem with him being there. But if he's in your starting in 11, it means we haven't strengthened enough in the midfield this summer. Fair play. Next one up. Bloody Europe. Next one is from Nate. Nate's wandering in your opinion. So, what's going to get ahead of you? In your opinion, how can Johnson keep getting his start? How long before Lelana is dropped? Our Sinclair and Ojo are future. Another stuff we've touched on. You can pick any of them things to talk about if you wish. Johnson's getting selected just for his wages. Lelana fucking should be dropped out of an airplane. Sinclair? He's a kid. I don't think he's the long-term player at Liverpool. I've said it during that year. I honestly don't think he is. I don't think he's at the moment of the top striker. Give him a few guys so he can see how he goes on. Ojo, I think he's a totally player in the future. Wow. Okay. Those players. Paul, this is from Forever LFC. He's wondering will Ian Air be at the helm in this position where he's in next year? What about all the reports that he's out in the summer? If so, what new candidate would you like to see in that institute? I don't know. I've got next to no interest in lovers behind the scenes. I've been on Twitter slagging. The fact that the committee gets lower now is more than the players these days. People getting committee on the back of their journey. I've no idea really. I suppose it depends how much they... There was rumors earlier in the season that FSG weren't happy with how their accruement went. As far as it just depends on how much they see what they think he's fucking up deals. I've no idea where he is. I'm not too interested. I'm not too interested in who's in the background, really, to be honest. Okay. Next one up is from Luke. What about the possibility that we've offered her Florida for director of football being brought in? If so, what sort of overhaul would you like to see in the backroom staff? He's suggested some people there. After that then, it's up to the sport director to put the structure he wants in place. Be it the manager, be it the coaches, the holder. That's his responsibility. Once you put the sport director in place, it stops being a manager, it becomes the head coach. In any way, shape or form, because he will be fully responsible then for the direction and the style. Maybe not the formations and the tactics, because that's down to the head coach, where he will be responsible for the direction and the style of the club into the future. Now, the sport director is the things that fans have to get their heads around. They are there not for two years or three years or four years. When you put the sport director in place, you're investing in 10 years. You're investing in 15 years. You look at most of them, and this is all the vogue and people are starting to look at it now. You look at the Lakers of Zorka at Dortmund. He's been there since the '90s. He's gone through them going and winning the Champions League, then falling off to oblivion. It's a massive appointment then, if you do that. You were putting in somebody to put a vision in place for 10 to 20 years. That's what you need to be looking at when you're a point in the sport director. Someone that's going to be embedded in the club and wants to be there a long term as well. Once he's in there, then it's his vision that needs to be enacted across the club. You think about that, you put that in place then. It's going to be a big step back for Rodgers in terms of what it is, because Rodgers was very certain that he wants to put in structure in place and all for the club, that even when he goes will still be there in the whole lot. The sport director puts his structure in place. For me, that's what I want, because if Brendan was to go, the amount of the coach and staff and all the other staff that would likely go with him means you have a big overhaul in terms of who goes. Whereas if you look at say Dortmund and you look at Hugo coming in, the upheaval is going to be fairly minimal in terms of replacing crap with a different manager. That's going to go in there. It's a huge appointment if you go to make it. I think it's the right appointment, because even looking at City, they have the gears down there. He's putting the vision in place for City. If Pellegrini goes, and also the change in other culture, the change in a manager becomes less an issue once you've a sport director in place. Because as I said, it's a long term vision over this. The thing is then, what type of candidate and who do you want in place at the club? Do you go out for somebody who has experience on the whole lot? Or do you bring somebody in that's embedded in the club in the way of the club and the history and everything of the club and the vision of the way we sell Liverpool? And remember, the vision that Rogers has put out there is the one that's always been Liverpool, passing, pressing, attacking football. That type of thing. And that's why most fans were delighted to hear that when he came in and seeing him as being in terms of a visionary. So if you're going to put somebody in, they can't come in with the idea of say, being a purelous or analogist in terms of that. We're going to play hoop ball for the next 20 years because straight away, the fans are going to be on their backs. So it's a big appointment and it's one that needs to be made in my view and it's also one that needs to be proper thinking about it. And it's not one that you can just suddenly appoint and join and hope that this is going to go right and it's going to sort everything out over the summer. This is a long term thing. Well, it happens if you get around and they're shy. That's a worry. But that's the worry. Like, sport directors do get replaced, but don't get replaced after six months unless you're calmly. Do you know what I mean? But even then, there's an argument that says that was the wrong thing to do. To go after him. In reality, you know, Doug Lee should have been replaced forced and you should be given commonly longer term to do what he was meant to do. And look, I'm not trying to change history in terms of what was going on. It was obviously other issues that were going on in the background than the whole lot around that. But if you're going to do it, you have to stick with it. And you can't be constantly thrown at the bar all around. But if you're sold into Rogers, if FSG believe in Rogers, then this summer should be about Rogers and not about a committee and not about the director of football. And it should be him and his vision. Whether we like it as fans, I'm not like the idea. And it goes back to the idea of targets and transparency and all this. And it's like, oh, you know, what's going on? We're saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, we can't influence the science that are going to happen at the club. So we have to just analyze them as they happen. As opposed to, you can't change anything. Those targets have already been identified 90% of them. And if they haven't, then there's a serious issue in terms of what's going on in terms of recruitment at the club. Fair enough. Dave, I'm going to wrap two in together for you. One from Phillip Murray. And one from Sean. Phillip asks, who are you going to sign that can take a pen and a directory kick? And he says, I love Hendo as much as the next man, but come on. And Sean asks, is Henderson technically good enough to be our captain? Or is that irrelevant because he has got leadership qualities? So it's a Hendo-based question, I guess. And do you trust him with an awful lot of responsibilities that Jared has had in the season to come? See, I'd flip his question around a little bit. I think he's got the technical ability to be our captain. It's whether he's got the leadership skills to be the captain. It's actually, I think, a bigger question. Like, I think he's technically good enough to start in our midfield. Definitely, you know, he's a good enough player. If you look, if you're captain to play every week, he's going to play every week. I think that what's been difficult to gauge, I think, since this season in particular is how he's responded when Jared's on the pitch. And I think that's where he's probably struggled a little bit more. So, obviously, that gets taken away in XE. So, look, I got a problem with Henderson being captain. I think it's a bit of continuity, I think it makes sense. I think he's clearly a good in front of the dressing room, clearly trusted by the manager. But, you don't know who we're going to buy, you know? So, if we go and buy, this ain't going to happen, obviously. But, you know, if you go and buy 10 days, or you go and buy Pogba, you know what I mean? You go and buy one of these players. And, suddenly, they're starting in your side. There's an argument that they're winners and you say, okay, well, actually, clean sweep, we're going to make this guy captain. Final point is, we don't know who's going to be the manager. I mean, for now, it looks like it's going to be Brendan Rodgers. It might well be, because I think there's a lot of conversations to happen before that's confirmed. So, maybe we might have a new manager who might say to someone else who needs to be captain. Okay, fair enough. Next one, a demo from Obad Boss, and he's wondering, how much transfer kitty do you think we need to get into the top four next season? So, I suppose that you can wrap that into who you think should be the targets at what show cost. Aw, cheers. How long have we got? Give us yours. Six yards. We definitely, we need to spend about 60, 70 million, I'm being honest. And I don't think it's quantity, I think it's more quality. I think the additional three top quality players to that so it makes a huge difference. Okay. I think the addition of seven and eight mid-table players to this quad makes fucking no difference to us whatsoever, which what we don't last year was. So, we went with quantity, our quality last year. I think, me seven stable would set it all last summer. It's all about the quality. And I think this summer, it should be all about quality. And we've got to stop buying fucking players to sit in the bench. We've got to just start buying players that are going to make a difference here starting at 11. That's my opinion. So, I think if we're going to spend, I think we need to spend 60, 70 million to make us at least competitive to be knocking on the door for the top four again. Because, let's face it, the other four teams are going to spend big months on it. So, Paul, next one up is from Colin. He mentions a couple of players, you can agree with this. He says, apart from Catenio, Sacco, and Challenge Sterling, how many of our current squad are good enough for us to push on next year, basically? I'd say Henderson's good enough to start. I do think, after that, you're struggling. A lot of it is just potential and kind of filler. I know Dave likes Atlanta. I think he's a guest. Mindy Lay is a kind of strange one because he's had a brilliant turnaround in form. It's one of the only positives of the season where you can look and say, "That's something someone in our team has done that took character." I know Brendan's buzzword character that he was like, "When we show no character whatsoever." It's not a goal, it's not a goal. But, yeah, that is one of the kind of good things of the season. Many of those turn around, but I still think he's kind of, he's doing it because it was last chance alone and he had to, and I just feel like the wheels could come off. He's obviously, he's goalkeeping in a way that he's not used to. So, it's not his kind of default setting. So, he has a couple of bad games that could go to shit. But, yeah, I definitely think, I'd keep Mindy Lay, I'd prioritize other positions over him because of how well he's playing anyway. I don't think overall, 14, 15 players that are good enough. You need 20, 21. Going back to the demos point, you saw in three or four quality ones, you've got then, you can pick 11 from 19 players there and then you bring in two of your good kids through the likes of Sinclair or whoever it is, you know what I mean? I'm not a huge fan of Scarlet, but he's a good center-back option to have. I'm not saying he should be your go-to center-back. You would re-op his contract, wouldn't you? No. The center of where he is. Depends on what the options are. You know what I mean? It all goes back to if you're going to let him go, right? Your replacement has to be identified now. Now, the fact is that every time we've come around to a summer transfer window, we've talked about getting a new right center-back in and inevitably we've signed another left center-back. I mean, we're linked at the weekend with another left center-back. So I don't know. Maybe we're going to play a new formation, which only has been left. I wouldn't spend any money on a single person who isn't someone who scores goals until we have got one striker. But that's the problem we've left ourselves and spent so much money. Even if we go 60 million, which I'd be surprised if we do, but even if we did have 60 million, 30 million of that is going to be a striker. Right? We have to buy a right back because we don't have one on the box when Johnson goes. So that's going to be safe. Well, Manquill, if you're saying he was good enough on the squad, Manquill is good enough. Moreno is good enough. Storage is good enough. He hasn't mentioned storage there. And the stick that storage has gotten this year, because he's been out injured for most of the season. Listen, I'm hearing his stuff on Twitter about storage. It's just like... When he's... When he's fake. He's fucking brilliant. Go back to the previous season. He's brilliant with it. The problem is getting him fit. Now, that's a different issue altogether. But he's good enough, right? We've said Sacco, "Minuli is good enough to be in your squad." I'm not saying that if you got a chance to sign a top-class goalkeeper, you wouldn't, right? You've got then, "Oib is good enough." Markovich will be good enough, right? So we're already up, we'll go a few players that are there. You've got Flanagan, who's a good enough as a squad option. Emma Jones is good enough as a squad player. Alan is good enough as a squad player. We don't have an awful lot of players who are just nailed on. That's what I'm saying. That's where we need to add in this. It's not that you went and saw it, you need to sign 10 players. You need to sign four or five top-quality players for your force team. And then all those players who are forced into the positions that were in the moment become good squad options and you have 19, 20 players of a squad. And that's what you need to get out for. Yeah. Four starters. You know, two forwards, one in midfield and the right back. As in start, as in whatever else you pick up, you pick up for free. Okay. Okay. Look, there's a tremendous amount of repetition in the ones that are left. So apologies if we didn't get to your question, but primarily because it's almost identical to the one we've already. There is one, Phil, I'm going to throw you to finish off with because it crosses over the topic we did earlier on, on the video section that people won't be listening to now in the pod. And it's basically this from Karen Jones. You're just going to watch on YouTube, Jim. Yeah. You should watch on YouTube. Kerry says, look, realistically, we'll be only attract top players this summer if Rogers is sacked. And another question then, yeah, from Nick Galakis, is it the club or the coach, which is the reason for attracting or not attracting big name players? Like we've seen with Sanchez and Willie and then so on. Because we had this debate about the Europa League. So just curious to get your take on that. I think if you have a big name coach, it's easier to sell to big players. Big name players, because they can believe that you're going to achieve champions, that you can get into the Champions League easier. Like if you have, again, if Anshaladi took over in the morning, I think it would be easier for him to go out and sign top nine players, because they want to play for Carlo Anshaladi. If, you know, Grady Alda took over tomorrow. Do you think we'd have an issue on going out and signing whoever we wanted? Straight up, right? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, we would. Huh? We'd have an issue on signing whoever we wanted. Well, it's a bit not what I'm saying is if he was going after a player, if Grady Alda was here, and going after a player, right, and operating within our air finance constraints, there is a bigger pool to play for Pep Grady Alda than to raise for Brendan Rodgers. And players want to play for him. I think it's a factor. I don't think it's anywhere near as big a factor as the money we would pay the player, or whether we are in the Champions League or look like getting into the Champions League. Well, I just think the caliber of player that you can sign with a top manager. Now, the problem is attracting the top managers. You can't just say, "Well, let's go on a point of top manager." They're not necessarily will want to come because going back, then you bring in the issue around the club because he wants to know how much money is he going to spend. Is he going to be able to compete with City, Chelsea, and the whole lot? I can't reverse your shout. We could maybe wait to see Brendan. I should become a top manager. I know that hurts you inside, but we could see that. No, no, no. Look, I've never sat here and said, you know, Rodgers is out. You know, that's the only way. That's my way. I'm not saying that there's a valid argument. We haven't had this discussion many times over the course of the season. And I recognize the valid argument that you let him continue in the role. If you have a long-term vision for the club, again, there's too many variables in the club at the moment. And you need to start changing the variables. Yeah, I think that the whole of Rodgers debate. For me, we're all in the same spectrum. Something's going to change, right? So you can't look at the season we've had and say, well, nothing needs to change in the management of the club. That either needs to be at an executive level, it needs to be at a recruitment level, or it needs to be at a football management level. But I don't think anyone can look at all those guys, you know, the ten guys that do all of those jobs and say, well, they've all done a great job. You know, nobody can be improved on that team. So either the chief executive needs to be better, or the people at the executive level, or the recruitment, which is a sporting director, or the committee, or whatever we want to call it, or the manager, which could be a sporting director or the manager. All of that should be in review. So it isn't all Rodgers' fault. And he doesn't deserve to be sacked. I don't agree with that. But he does deserve to be part of that bigger review. And things like, could another manager attract better players or identify better players or get more out of better players? They're all legitimate questions to that. Okay. Right. Let's move away from the sublime football stuff to the more ridiculous. And we cannot rely on Nick for a question here. Paul, Nick is wondering, for Stephen Jared's last home game, what would you organize for a halftime show if you had an unlimited budget? He suggests maybe sending Glenn Johnson into space, which I thought was good. What would you do as a tribute to the captain if you had an unlimited budget at halftime in Anfield? Let him shoot them, Baba. Literally with a rifle. Yeah, hold season with that song. Just shoot them, Baba. You could, you could, like, you know, ceremonially, like, there could be a big volcano put in the picture or something. And we could kind of tap Glenn Johnson into it. You know what I mean? You know, like John Terry, where John Terry takes his jersey off, he keeps the iron band on. That's what Steve, he could do with throwing up topless and glancing, you know, hog to it and playing over a volcano just tips him in. He could even do a little slip and headbutt him in. Something to do with Glenn Johnson, definitely though. Something along that way. Here's a man that did the opening ceremony to the London Olympics. Oh, Danny Boyle? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get him in. Get Danny Boyle in. You know what, he did, like, the, from the start, the history of England, right away, true to the present day. And he would drive his career. And it would be like dancing and stuff. Like, "Oh, mad things." Yeah. And it would be a bit of a bit of a stamp board. It would be like the FA Cup finals. It would basically be a stamp board, the FA Cup final, and then Jerry Crying for the rest of the day. I'd like to see what you do with Hodgson. No, no, no, no, no. All the things like Torres. And with, with, with, with, with, with dance. They could get actors. Yeah. And he would dance. And then he would dance. I'd like to play Jerry's as an all-man. Sarah's the music. Sarah's the music. And it'd be cool. Yeah, we had to get the boys scared. You know, we were just boys boys. Yeah. Well, no, he wasn't the boys boys. But just bring it in anyway. And have a boss going around and it'd be like when they came back with the Champions League final and have a boss going around the pitch. So, they're just, just creative. There's no reason why you still couldn't have a volcano. Let's be honest. I don't know. I'm a hard, hard, bad guy. I'm a hard, bad guy. The horrible, dark winter effects for like Hodgson's reign. They could make it rain, like, you know, like, you know. Yeah. There's to put them on the roof and just make it rain. Oh, no. Forget about that. We're thinking bigger than this. You get those planes that drop something. Oh, yeah. That's not sparing me. That's not sparing me. That's not sparing me. Make it a lightning rod. I'm not. There's thunder and lightning for Hodgson's reign. And Johnson's getting fucking a lot. Hodgson's reign. That's the section. Oh, look. This is brilliant. Look, you could think about it. Sorry. You could have loads of shit that goes on in there. You're not on the club. We can contact it. I'd take him to go on to Danny Boyle now. He'd be well up for it. And now there's only a couple of days to go. But it wouldn't be, I'll tell you what, right? It would be the biggest thing in football. That would be shown all over the world. Yeah, he's going to be pulling in a few Hollywood points. And answer to an earlier question. If Ian air pulls this off, he can keep his fucking job. Ian air needs to get on the phone to Danny Boyle to have the career of Stephen Gerard on the pitch a half time in the sort of London Olympics doily. Make it rain. And Johnson needs to get hurt. Right, so we should probably skip the next question. This is from sweets. Sweet says, some say fish tanks. Some say planting flowers. But what is the best activity or proper hobby to help you relax? Because he says this season has fucked him up entirely. What can you suggest to poor sweets there? What were his suggestions? Fish tanks. Fish tanks. You know, looking at fish. I'm looking at flowers and doing a bit of gardening. He's a fucking retard. [LAUGHTER] I guess he won. He's a sea sweets 21. He's a metal cloud of a chap. Fish tanks. [LAUGHTER] I don't think when you relax, we're drinking a wine. [LAUGHTER] Seriously. Maybe he's got a red stick. [LAUGHTER] Do you remember he had a red stick? Oh yeah. Fish tanks. Fish tanks, though. Fish tanks, though. Maybe not, maybe not focused on what he's suggesting and come up with a suggestion for it. Planting flowers in the fish tank. [LAUGHTER] This collection has gone well. I think they more kind of nailed it on the head to be honest with you. [LAUGHTER] You're making me drunk and nasty. [LAUGHTER] That's not relaxation. That's stress. That is the reason. You're just doing the wrong thing. [LAUGHTER] If you've had a drink, I'd add a wank and you're still stressed. You've got a problem. [LAUGHTER] Next ones from Graham. Graham is wondering, does Andre Mariner wear fake tan? We never talked about Andre Mariner. Based on the evidence that we can. What do you think? Do you know he's linked to fish tanks? It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [INTERPOSING VOICES] You're always thinking, man. You're always thinking. So, what do you think? I don't know. I didn't know it. I didn't know it. He was. There was. There was a hint of Cafe Sarov Mariner. [LAUGHTER] Can't be just jaundice. I heard his name. I heard his name is Andrew Mariner. And he took the W off. You off. You off. [LAUGHTER] I don't know. Sam shall pay. That's a fake tan, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Would you ever consider wearing a fake tan? Anyone in the room here? This is what I'm asking. Because I want to know. I want to know. [LAUGHTER] I did once get. There's a L'Oreal. Be careful. This is. Men's moisturizer, right? Yeah. And I didn't notice it. Maybe I was just attempting it. I was like, all right. I thought it very quickly. Because the smell of fake tan is one of those things that you can smell from a oil off, right? And as soon as you put that tint on, there's a fucking tint to fade. You're walking around there. For fuck's sake. Yeah. And of course, if you don't do it properly, obviously you have the loin. Oh, Jesus Christ. I think the smell of fake tan is a bit of an aphrodisiac. It works for my younger days. [LAUGHTER] Thank you. You've been going out tonight. You know, if you smell a fake tan, you're doing all right, like, did all right of me? Swansea and a Saturday. [LAUGHTER] Jesus. Fake tan central. And you can't. Swipping it in on Wayne Street. [LAUGHTER] All right. Who is this Matt is asking us? Matt Haynes wants to know, who is your day trippers manager of the year? Is it John Carver and Nigel Pearson or Tim Sherwood? It's got to be Sherwood, doesn't it? Yeah. The mixture of kind of cringe-worthy bollocks and like, actually doing well with Aston Villa. Yeah. That seals it. Yeah. No either Pearson's just a conflict. There's no redeeming feature about him. John Carver looks like an asshole, but he has, he came out with the, you know, eight games and the bounce lose, and I'm the best coach in the Premier League. That's brilliant. Kieran says they're acting more relaxing than a sit down wee, and there's a kind of a counterpoint to it. Is there anything more tiring than a stand up or squatting poo? Who the fuck? What the fuck? I know you told me I'm not a type of guy. [LAUGHTER] What the fuck is that question? I got you. Kieran got you. Who does a sit down wee if you're a man? I suppose it happens. The fuck is wrong with it. Can it happen? There must be some context. Well, Kieran just has a question that must happen a little bit. And he finds that relaxing. [LAUGHTER] And you don't have to stand over. He wouldn't say it's relaxing, sort of necessary. [LAUGHTER] I don't know. But the stand up poo is... Hang on a minute. He's got a stand up poo and a sit down poo. Well, actually, often enough to assign an emotion to it. [LAUGHTER] Maybe I'm out with the fish tank and interest to a sit down wee. Yeah, that's what it is. Oh, I see where you're going. What happens to me? OK, another one that's from Sam McGuire. Sam says, "If Earth was going to be destroyed, and we have to move into space, what would your last meal on Earth be?" A lot of feedback to this question on the line people saying, "This will tell a lot about you." It's sausage dinner. I don't know what the focus sausage dinner is. In my word, a sausage dinner is something completely different. How many people are surviving here now? How many people are surviving? Does that have a bearing on how much you're going to eat or what you're going to eat? [LAUGHTER] You could be going off into space and be grand. You could be eating spacefield for a while. Well, that's what I mean. Is anything going with your animals? Is anything going with you? No, this isn't Noah's space act. So, what would I be doing in space? Dave, can I clarify? Spacefield. It's in fact. What would you last? No, I'll pass through it. What would your last Earth meal be? That's what's your favourite meal? Basically, right? [LAUGHTER] Yes, Dave. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Who just changed? [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] I was just wondering with the parameters. Like, you know, you couldn't, you know, you couldn't have been eating spacefield, because it's not a pass through here and... No, pass through. What the fuck is Noah pass through here? How much have I ever been in there? [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] So, what do you want to eat for your last meal? Pizza. Pizza. No. That was an awful lot of fucking preamble for pizza. Well, I wanted it. Oh, what did the pizza on? [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Maybe it's only an animal to do kind of. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] I was going to wardbourner into the spaceship. It's one of those little crackbaas. It's not chimney's ship from Prometheus, which is like the size of a cathedral. No chimney's stuff. Any other shirts about any... Salt and chili chicken from Mr. Lambs in Tindarken Village. Nice. That's the life of least Pacific. Yeah, Dave. Doesn't look nice, but... Tastes nice to you. [LAUGHTER] It's all right. Gets the job done. Dad robbed Dave's pizza as well. [LAUGHTER] Why don't you know what I was complaining of us up there up there? [LAUGHTER] My God, that's me and Mr. Lambs. [LAUGHTER] Flurry, I've got one last question to finish off with. My name is Papadale Ragu from a restaurant. Wasn't that a burrito, huh? [LAUGHTER] A burrito. Because you've been having a burrito for the last four hours. [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] I'll probably be able to get a burrito in the spaceship anyway. That's the type of field that you're eating in space. No, you're having fucking a burrito in the spaceship anyway. No, you're having fucking a burrito in the spaceship anyway. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah. [INTERPOSING VOICES] How do you guess burrito in the spaceship? [LAUGHTER] Burrito's in space, seriously. Do you die in your old space suit? [LAUGHTER] There's absolutely gravity in the spaceship. Come on. We're going into space. You're not going in under fucking spaceship. What was the rare thing you said there? It was Papadale Ragu in a restaurant fucking hipster. [LAUGHTER] You don't have fucking eight years ago. What is it? [INTERPOSING VOICES] It's a wild pasta with a Tuscan ragu sauce that's made by a bar. So it's lovely. Is this not over in Italy? Yep. The spaceship's gone from out. [LAUGHTER] He didn't say there was restrictions to getting it in. He's only got the con dark. Come on. [INTERPOSING VOICES] The spaceship's dropping people off. [LAUGHTER] Unless you're Mr. Lam. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [LAUGHTER] You might have been selling pepper chicken and-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] That could be space food. [LAUGHTER] Space food. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Martin Steinberg wants to know, did you ever bet in Liverpool matches? And did you ever go, we're getting beat here before again. Here we go. [LAUGHTER] I'm not making betting fucking everything. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [LAUGHTER] I want to have people join the wake up. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [LAUGHTER] [INTERPOSING VOICES] [INTERPOSING VOICES] Yeah, so-- to put that to the side. [LAUGHTER] I'd be one of these people that always say, yeah, yeah, we're going to beat this. And then, chemistry, I'll go on bollocks boys. We're going to bet here. I thought I wanted to do this. You are-- yeah. Only one game in the entire season, I have heard you say, we'll win this game. And we lost. And that was related. [LAUGHTER] We're fucking-- we're going to bat that east. Every other game you go, we're losing this lads. No way. [INTERPOSING VOICES] [LAUGHTER] I think you said it all in last season as well. No, you're actually betting Liverpool. I would never bet Liverpool. Three times this. I need it last time. Every time. Yeah. I used to have a jinx that if I bet on us to win, we'd lose. So I used to bet on the opposite team and the draw. And I did it all last season. I think myself, I've started this then try-- Well, maybe you do not, yeah? I tried it this end in war. A couple of years ago, I texted you all during the day. I gave him three teams. I said, betting them three teams. And he texted me back that round. I know you always let it go Madrid. It was Bill Bell. You didn't bet them to Bill Bell results? Yeah, I bet him to let it go Madrid instead of Bill Bell. I'd get told him to bet in Bill Bell. He texted me. Fucking noise for one three hundred quid. I said, "No, we lost." He said, "Look at that hex again." Oh, bollocks. What about two or three hundred, I know? But there you go. All right. Let's just leave it there. OK, let's finish with some admin. And we begin as per usual with a mention for Astro Park, who hosts our weekly nonsense here. You can check them out at Astro Park.ie. You should get on to We Are Liverpool. The last one in the season is available on Saturday outside the Grand in home baked as well. I believe in online. We are LiverpoolFansing.com for only £1.50. I want to mention a couple of events. First of all, the Brendan N'Venny Charity Matching Gala Dinner on Sunday 31st of May, from 2 p.m. in Mullingar Athletic in Gaines 10. It will feature the likes of Steve Stone and Phil Bob, Alan Kendi and Paul McGraw. Tickets are 10 euros for adults, three for children. And they're available at the Gravel Arms Reception or on 0449348563. And there's one other event I want to mention as well. And that is a five times event. It's an evening with Robbie Fowler. And I can't finish it now because Phil's got the... I was trying to think that I didn't write that. Oh, yes. I was like... Just continue on. Jesus Christ. He just took it away from me. OK. With apologies for Phil there because he's not... Oh, for my fault. Yeah, you're not the best when it comes to this stuff. It is a five times event, an evening Robbie Fowler. It's on in the Pokémon Bar in Galway on the 19th of June. Tickets are 35 euros. There'll be raffles, auctions, photos, chance to meet Robbie on the night. And you can pre-register for your tickets with www.fivetimes.co/galway. Your day trippers tonight were Paul Brennan. Dave Thomas, Phil Casey, and myself, Trevor Downey. OK. And I might be proud to say, and I'm not answering that shit. Oh, yeah. Can we not do that thing that you've started doing again? You aggressive fucker. I'm fucking answering that question. Fuckin' listeners. What? It's a stupid question, I'm saying it. And I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fucker. It's a stupid question. If one more person asked me what I'd rather lick some alla-dacing bars and fucker. I'd give him some of your job. I would have fucking gone mad. You've still ever answered that question. We don't know where he's from. Which one is it? Which one is it? I thought it's a day drink fucking bike. I don't remember that. I don't remember that. I don't remember that. OK. I think it's awesome. Good luck. Dave Thomas! Dave Thomas wants to join in. Look, he's getting straight out of there. Hang on a second. We're getting in here. Showing a lot of suggestions. Right, that's right. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. We have to turn it off down. It's the same as the one. They have to turn your parents off. I just feel like if he knew looking at the camera and the face and your face. They're like six and a half minutes of, you know, everything's grand before, you know, reality comes crashing back in and life's horrible and all again. It makes that incredible. Eight cans of Bavaria or something. He's laughing. He's been the fish tank as well. That's an old one. Jesus. He's like, you got to... Two starters, huh? Yeah, he goes. Obviously Chelsea finished her. Then we finished second. And what happened then is they've brought in three nail-down starters. And we've lost three in Suarez. And I was like, yeah. And Sturridge is like, yeah. I was like, where's he coming? Where's he coming? Where's number two? And young John Flanagan. That surprised us. He's like, you know, at the TV. He's like, I'm a teeny guy. Aww! I'm a teeny guy! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Aww! Turn off your laptop. It's, uh, actually Geico. 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This weeks pod sees a welcome return for the darkest tripper of them all Damo Flood. The lads pick the bones on the chelsea game and look ahead at what they’d like to see from Stevies last match Anfield. They then answer loads of your questions in what is essentially a Trippers Chats special. Get on the admin where there is a new 5Times even in Galway on June 19th which you can preregister for tickets now. There is also the Brendan Devenney Tribute match involving a myriad of ex LFC players such as Alan Kennedy, Phil Babb and Steve Staunton. Details are in the show.
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