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Okay, it's still a party. So could you maybe get the ball rolling on what we wanted to chat about here a little bit today which is the build up to this thing which is why most of us are also here. How do you feel in comparison with the way the season's gone so far in comparison to the last season? We're all upbeat. It's also happy and exciting and now thank you not so much. I think it's there's two parts of the three parts of the season I'd say. There's what was sort of what was the opening. What happened when Suarez went bananas and then what happened from sort of Arsenal at home onwards when everybody went bananas. Maybe before then everyone forget the four nil against Devon went Daniel's storage log to 35 million evertonians. But I think that at the moment we're still in that sort of first phase and the concern thing isn't for me entirely what we're doing because we started a little bit last season in terms of the style of playing all that sort of stuff Trev. It's actually what Chelsea to a certain extent City are doing is a greater concern because last season I had this thing which I'd say to anyone who asked me we can break 80 we can't break 90 and that's what I was going around saying even in September I was saying we can break 80 we can't break 90 and I still think we can break 80 we can't break 90 whereas Chelsea and City can both break 90 and Arsenal can't break 90 United can't break 90 ever and can't break 90 Southampton can get 140 but but my worry Trev is that at the minute Chelsea and City both look as though they've got 90 in them whereas as I say I wouldn't surprise me if we broke 80 got 82 84 86 but because we can get on a run we can get playing but it's that that's what worries me. John is that enough it will that be enough for people everyone here today 80 plus which you've safely made us talk for. I mean I want to be kind of you know more bullshit than that but I think I think it has to really I think you know I think you know what do you don't want to talk about transition seasons because we've had a million off the moment all six are deaf of them we want seasons with big cups and and parades and you know shiny things which you still might have you can still get 82 points and when the European Cup it is you know we're the kind of football club we can do that with a kind of football club we can do that but I think I think maybe I spent a bit of a reality check so far this season to see us start to win and then you know we're talking about you know breaking in new players and giving people time and I think I want to see his kick I want I want to see it's like when the league ties along I think we can do it in the next three years it just unfortunately might not be this year. Dave a very positive man tell me boy we can't win this year go on I'm putting you in the spotlight. Well reality is got to switch it on Dave. Well reality is what you're making it and you know I'm one of those hands that believes that we'll win every game we play so Chelsea aside I think everyone looks very shit. Dave alder like that how does that pull? So I think that Chelsea aside everyone looks very in degrees of luck including ourselves so really the question is do Chelsea fall away and they've had they've had starts like this before not just in the marine you know I mean they started in the D material like this and they started in the actual idea like this so you know I'm not bought into the give them the title now I think there's loads of potential in our squad we haven't quite realized it yet I think a win today puts us you know top four there or there about and we haven't played well but we'd be above Arsenal Spurs and Everton by the end of today you know I think there's loads of reasons to be optimistic I don't see any reasons not to be optimistic apart from Chelsea's start and they've had them before and fallen away so you know nothing's done yet. Phil Casey you look a bit grey have you had a point or 20? So wait you're very very gloomy head on it. How are you feeling in comparison to all these happy optimistic chaps? I'd be happy enough to finish plus 80 points and in wherever that lands us great because I think the most important thing is to consolidate in the Champions League so that when we go back into the transfer market next next year we're again challenging for the best players around the issue is haven't got to the Champions League you're bringing in a lot more games and we didn't have a squad deep enough last year to take on the Champions League at that point so it's all about a learning curve in my opinion for Brendan Rodgers can we win the league who knows what's going to happen in the second half of the season maybe we get a couple of players in in January and that kicks us on again and we know that since Rodgers has been there he's been a very strong second half of the season manager so anything's possible if we're there thereabouts come around December time similar to last year but the key now with this will be a points grab up until Christmas and it was very much similar to the same point last season because we had to run a tree dodgy games after the forced international break last year when we went to Swansea then we had Newcastle and I can't remember what the tour of South London, I hope we won't beat one mill book terrible. Exactly exactly so you know the this season is very much mirror in last season the only difference is we have a runaway leader in Chelsea where we didn't have it last year and but there's no there's nothing there saying that maybe Chelsea goes and picks up a couple of injuries loses cost there maybe loses Fabregas and then all of a sudden they get into a sticky spell and then we're ready to come at them like a like a train as we normally do after Christmas so can we win the league maybe but I'd be more concerned with making sure that we finish in the top tree to consolidate our position of the Champions League. Neil Champions League consolidation let's just talk about the Champions League before you focus and keep your for a second we've all got that game that we're all looking forward to coming up what's your take on the way we're set up our current available personnel and whether or not we can do we can beat Madrid I mean that's Madrid have lost that game this season in their own domestic league we can beat Madrid if you know if both sides played played at their very best then we'd probably draw with them at home and loosen them away but there's no guarantees that both sides will play at their very best and it's a real shame not to have storage for Madrid I think we'll be fine today but storage for Madrid it's a shame for him and that's important because it would you know you've got to remember that whilst he's being the Champions League clubs in the past he was never getting to play for them in the big games so it was a chance for him to go up against Real Madrid and be the main man and I think that that's a shame but the reason why it's a shame for us is because what are you doing was you giving them loads to worry about in terms of not being able to push that high up the pitch and compress the game and win it in midfield and now that's a little easier for them but that said you know they missed Deemeria a great deal whenever I've seen them a couple times this season and Deemeria was their best player last season apart from Ronaldo and that speed that you know that's too easily forgotten he really loved the part for them he was crucial for them in Europe full stop he was very good for them domestically and they got rid of him for whatever reason and you know they've got obviously really good players everywhere but so have we I mean you know you look at that side today and Henderson is I think a player just about to explode I think you know he's about to explode in a European sense in a league sense I think he's about to go mega and then you know off that you've still got sterling there the question is how you get the best out of Balotelli and that's I think that's whilst this this issue around storage is fitness that's the key question John how do you get the best out of Balotelli? Well I think he's got to do more so I mean there's two ways of looking at it really is how we how we play with him and I think we need to get players closer to them I'm not sure that that the 4-2-3-1 is working too much so Balotelli seems very isolated I think we need to get our wide the forwards much needed to him so we can link up with them so we can so we can look to hold the ball up and pop things off he looks well capable of doing that he doesn't he doesn't give it away he can you know hold up anything that he hits in with but then he's looking for you know little layoffs and there he seems to be very on his own I think it'd be interesting to see today with Emre Scharn starting that whether he pushes Jed off it or towards the end of that westbound game Jed off there the forward linking up with Balotelli look really good he's had good success with that people think about his um his link up play with guitar is and and how great that was and of course it was but he used to he used to play really well with Peter crouch Jed off and he used to used to look into balls into him all the time I've got the hatchet at home to Arsenal Jed out of probably man of the match yeah but but yeah and there was a good game and get a new castle at home as well where the two we're we're probably together so I think and they seem to enjoy that so I think I think that could be a way and moving Jed off further forward we'll possibly get more awesome but also he's got to do he's got to do a bit more of himself and he's got to kind of you know learn I'll learn if you like how to play on his own and and and I think he's doing alright and I think he's I think he's trying hard and I think you know he's doing a lot more off the ball than what than what I think people were expecting of him but I think in terms of his movements when we've got the ball I think he needs to be a much more of a threat I think he's got to be thinking much more between the posts for virtues cause it doesn't even put it right and getting more in much more dangerous positions because it's a little bit too easy at the moment to defend against him yeah he's not giving you any you're not giving the ball away but he's just a little bit too predictable and he needs to be he needs to be thinking more you know having to go playing on the on the defender shoulder for a little bit and things like that because it's all in front of the defenders at the moment and they can kind of contain it really so he needs to he needs to vary his game up a bit but I think you'll do alright Phil John mentioned Emory Chan yes you like Emory Chan yes he's a very attractive man I don't have no cams anyway yeah what's what's what's his impact gonna be today are you happy to see him in there it'll be interesting I'm hoping to see that we see the Emory Chan that played for labor crews and last year because we haven't seen that player yet we've only seen it in glimpses because he did appear to have some fitness issues after the preseason and he seemed to not be able to find a second wind when he was on the pitch and he's had to struggle as he went along but hopefully with him and Henderson in the mid field today which are out even if Gerard has pushed forward or whatever you have a lot of legs around there and one of the things going back to what the that's we're saying around storage and the loss of storage and out of the loss of some of our attack and verify that we have when we're without them the pace you know the pace true counter attacks and true transition we've been missing that a bit because that was one of our key attack and forces last year and and that's been really missing this year like with Baloteti he is much more of a static front man than say Suarez our storage would be and what we need to do is make have the legs of the land and staring provided that pace in counter attack which will again bring our gold trep back into the side Emory Chan allows that because he's able to force from mid field take on players and get through the mid field fairly quickly with that lovely hair face and Neil do you want to talk a little bit about Baloteti? Do you have the Baloteti thing you're on about it there and he's right to say you should do a little bit more hello one of the issues around around Baloteti is good play really good players as much defined by the way in which they use the strengths as by the strengths so one of the issues that I'm about to tell you for instance what John's talking about about being between the posts he's fancy's himself scored in 25 yards us in the same way that when Suarez first arrived in the first half season on the Rogers and the season on the Dalglish Suarez would think I'm fucking brilliant to dribble and you know what so just get me the ball and I'll go past all them and I'll put it in the bottom corner and he'll try and do it all the time and Baloteti you're watching him at the moment and he's going I can bang a 25 yards I strike the ball beautifully I'll just do that because I can't see what the other options are and I think that you know he's got to be shown what the other options are the other options have got to be there but as John was saying one of those other options has got to be you might strike him brilliantly for 25 yards but you'll strike it better from 15 go and do that and that's that's where you know the Rogers line about educating rather than rather than coaching educating this footballers that's what with Baloteti that's what needs to happen and he's made the right noises this week very intends to be educators Dave how do you feel that Balot is responding to that education by Brendan? well I think he gets a raw deer Baloteti honest I think we have to he's seven games into a career with the side that has a really well defined way of playing and we all think it's mad and crazy and no we score six or seven goals but like it's something that's been really well designed and I think the Rogers is caught between two stools whether does he change the system to suit his new striker or does he ask for a little bit more out of his striker to fit into that system and I think to be fair up until now what he's tried to do is to ask a little bit more of Baloteti you know what's interesting is I watched the documentary on Messi and while not comparing the players when Messi was really young he scored loads of goals by driven and past six or seven men and then Guardiola pulled him to one side after he scored a goal against Valencia and said you will never score goal like that again because you are never going to pick up the ball 30 yards away from goal anymore so to Neil's point about getting Baloteti to understand where he could be more effective even the best players in the world have to be told you might be able to beat six or seven players but actually just be two and then score and I think for Baloteti he has this unbelievable physical presence and the challenge for him is going to be listening to someone like Rogers in where he can be more devastated than doing that personally I've seen signs of it I think he's had actually had a pretty decent stock goals aside if he scores against Everton I think actually we're talking about a different player so I actually think he's very open to it I think it'll be interesting to see how he does today with more players around him I think it would be very interesting to see how he does today because because hopefully the management of coaches have had a little bit of time to work with him I think one of the things about having these extra games that we wanted the extra games we wanted to be in the Champions League it's brilliant we're playing Ray on Madrid on Wednesday and it's going to be great but the games are just really really thick and fast and we're not used to it and last year you could tell that the Brendan Rodgers is having a full week with his players because the players and the team were developing week on week and we could all see it you know they were getting better and then someone's getting better every week you know Sterling was getting better every week and you know the team were understanding each other more and then they were working together all week on the training and working on things this time you haven't got it you play Saturday you know your day off Sunday you know Monday's the second day rest that that everyone's talking about now it's big that job it's big yeah they're all still all swimming or something after I've got Tuesday booked off after this I can't get any of our nails two days after I tell you he's such a diva so so yes and Monday the swimming or whatever or in the steam noon and then Tuesday you know you've got a game on Wednesday so you're doing tactical stuff around that so it's all about who's playing you know how we're going to play what the things have got all caffo so there's very little time to actually work with players now you know in this it's all about you know just preparing for the next game and recovering from the last one with two weeks off Bala Tally didn't get in the Italy squad and he's actually there's been quite a few of them he's been able to work within this time and I'm hoping that we'll see the route there again at the current rewards so I'm not today Phil from some of the best players in the world talk to me a little bit about naked selfie guru Josie Enricke who starts today yeah genuinely I absolutely adore Jose Enricke not for football but just what he brings to the team because I'm sure when he's in the dressing room do you bring to the team fun that uh do boy picture the one where he was in the reflection and he strategically plays himself he that wasn't just a spontaneous shot that I'd say there's about 19 shots that will come out in the next yeah in the next in the next league from the the iCloud we'll see all the real shots that went on and we get a measured amount as well but um but you know I really love his intudes as I'm even this morning he's tweeting pictures of Moreno a mankyo playing FIFA no it's clear that he locked them in the room ran off to get a game today you know there's a there's a dastardly streak in Enricke but the one thing about Enricke is he's like a broken watch like he will be right twice in the game and then the rest of the time you just don't know what's going to happen with him he's just completely nuts and but he's not about like if we're looking at Moreno we've looked at such an improvement in our left back that we haven't had for years that he's actually a very good backup in real terms he's a good solid apprenticeship player like you know he does have his mad spirits but every player has a mad spirit he's used to what we want to do as well which Moreno's getting more used to what we want to do but he's still not even obviously Moreno is a better player now and will be a better a much better player in six months but Enricke does lots of little bits and pieces that Rogers wants to do and basically we need to stop crossing just stop the crossing get to the byline get into the box look for a pullback then put it in the air if you want to you got ballo there would just stop with an aimless balls him from 35 yards Moreno had started to stop that my kale hadn't and but what Enricke gives gives you the areas he'll look to come and join in the midfield he'll look to do something mad like Phil's saying he'll then look to do a little layoff he might try a back hail but it'll all happen in an area where Liverpool want to be playing they want to be probing around in a penalty area. Neo leading straight from that to the far side it's interesting you mentioned about stop crossing it's interesting you mentioned my kale Glenn Johnson starts which is going to be controversial for an awful lot of people but I know you'd be a little bit more in favor than most yet because he does what we want to do other than in key moments where he does the absence opposite of what we want to do and that's the problem with Glenn Johnson at the moment you know is that you know it's you know you're worried about you're worried about bits and pieces of his game but he gets a little pull up the pitch he doesn't just lash the ball and he can't cut inside but the major thing about Glenn Johnson is no matter how good you think he is Queen's Park Rangers think he's boss and what they'll do is when Glenn Johnson's got the ball they'll send someone to go and deal with Glenn Johnson they'll have a plan already for Glenn Johnson they're not worrying about what are we going to do about Glenn Johnson now those of you who've decided Glenn Johnson's shite would therefore say would therefore say why would he bother with that just let Glenn Johnson have the ball and eventually he'll forget he's put his shoes on and kick it into touch and you might be right but what will happen is one maybe two players will have to come and close Glenn Johnson down because when he has it in that final third he can do anything with the ball he could go outside you could come inside you'd love to shoot he could play a through ball so you've got to send two men to deal with them and when you send two men to deal with Glenn Johnson you create a space elsewhere whereas when we've been playing manchayo we've been coming off against sides and I thought Paul Lambert Villa was the best example of it where what they did was they just went make them pass to manchayo and then let him have the ball just let him have the ball just he's got the ball let him have it it's his ball and then he'll do something that will almost certainly result in possession coming back to us and what you can't do if you're trying to stretch sides and you're trying to do it in wide areas and Jon's talking about get people closer to Balotelli if you've got Glenn Johnson and he's a threat and he comes down on the overlap then it allows someone to cut in they all get closer and hopefully more space opens up but fundamentally there's low detraction in the Phil Casey Glenn Johnson is shit arguments there's low detraction in it but while Harry Redknap doesn't think so then Glenn Johnson's worth playing ahead of manchayo Dave do you want to give the watered down Phil Casey Glenn Johnson is shit agulant? I'm not sure I can do Phil justice on this now but what I would say is that Johnson's playing against his future employers today so I think he's guaranteed a good game hence I think if anyone's going to give him a 5b8 day a little underground let's keep your eye on him look at that smiling bastard right there he's going to take he's going to take Glenn Johnson off our hands he doesn't know only the chairman knows that one I think the watered down version of Phil's objection to Johnson goes something like he's terrible going forward terrible going backwards something something like that and and it's to be fair it's something I kind of subscribe to myself my argument on Johnson is that I can't remember the last good game he had like I can't remember the last time that he played it's playing for his future now there is in utopia there'll be a bit of a lot of difficulty away it was actually a part of the goal that gets carved off away and he was genuine the actual total game it was his last Rolls Royce performance but he was also great last autumn we forget that he was great last autumn he put a series of really good games I actually don't disagree with you because it was the full he got injured after the full game and from then on he's been an abjecti poor player right and even buried a car like the car of city I can remember I think it was good for one half the second half he was he started going AWOL again my issue with Johnson is that we remember him as the player we're gonna do it no no no no no I don't know how false he's been picked no but I'm going to the here part sorry I won't go into the full argument but anyway the the issue with Johnson for me is that we remember the player that we signed and he was exceptional in terms of the attack and threat that you're talking about and I think the conversely teams have stopped paying attention to Glenn Johnson and that's become the issue well he used to get himself out of not a lot of poor positioning by his pace and his pace isn't there anymore so that's how he seems to get cut out of position a lot more and for me given that we aren't scoring as many goals as we did to weaken our defense by putting them in is a bigger issue for me than necessarily what he's going to provide in the other end of the page it's an options thing as well though isn't if John Flanagan's injured maybe he just started right back this season I don't know he can't play mine quit mine quit is a funny one if you if you watch him if you if you've been this season the players kind of talking through it he hasn't played many games a football man kill out people kind of you within 20 league starts for anyone so people people kind of I think people kind of assumed that like you know he's played the year or something in Spain and then we bought him he hasn't he wasn't getting in the team and so he so he's coming in as a as a reserve from someone else and he's played and he's done all right don't get me wrong I think he's done okay but the players talk are talking him through it and Jedard's dead and he said he's saying push up and they're always telling where he should be and not from a defensive point of view but more where we've got the ball you know you need to be pushing up there he's he's taken up other people's time and focus as well whereas when Clint Johnson came on for him last game he had to respond everyone's just kind of relaxed more and just just by him knowing where he should be on a football pitch it kind of improved us fairly so I think in terms of options what we have at the moment he is our best bet but it would be interesting to see how he does with his future uncertain and it would just see what happens where we do get flannig and back first goal scorer nailed on yeah aug uh male could you could you maybe try and rescue the mood and maybe make a stream bro i was i was just thinking i was dreaming of jackets and i was i was i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i was i opened up i was i opened up this job but seeing trans jackets i think i've done all right and it's fucking twig mate it is no splendid you always look you always look terrific Jeff he's always very well turned out it's got it's got a lovely lovely uh delicate sort of pinstripe in there going down there you can just see at the edge of your colour palace i've just got i've got orange and black i've not got trapped down he's subtlety um i think what what makes me really optimistic still about the season to come is what's going to happen as the as the gel with one another and i think that we still haven't given that uh and young children sing songs pre-maxed that also but they're giving up domestic uh we haven't really given you know they're gonna come together as a unit and i agree with job which is that it's hard at the moment for them to coalesce given there's been injuries given the fact that the game has come thick and fast but fundamentally they're still coached by the same manager who got them playing that way last season and i think we're about hopefully to hit a sort of a run where the league games are a little bit more straightforward obviously you know you can't take anyone for granted certainly not whole when you see what they did at Arsenal just this weekend but they are a little bit more straightforward they're going to ask a couple a few less questions and i think that if we can just begin to hit our groove a little bit get going in there the west brown result was huge for the football club i think because it would have meant that those patches of games and that's the way you do it they don't look like for instance they'll be they'll be looking at the next run of games between now and the next international break they'll be saying this is the number of points we expect it'll probably be ten they'll probably have set the players a target at ten and the reason why they do that supposedly is so that what you don't do is say you know if you've lost against QPR or drawn against QPR everything's lost that's what they don't do what happens with the last patch of games was we weren't making that minimum point requirement we nailed it on for ourselves after those first two results against villa and westam and it was massive that we got the win against west brown because it made it not quite as bad as it could have been and i think from this stage onwards if we can get a win today and i think we will and i think the additional energy that janoff is here alongside headderson in there as well as massive for high intensity game and get about the opposition and that's what we're about and we're still better capable you much city and city give you a chance city in every single game against everyone they face the brilliance for approximately 15 minutes in each half and that's where the winning games whereas we can be that high intensity force you saw last season that's not changed all of those players who can do that are still there with the exception of swarez but they're all still there they're all those players sterling still that player henderson still that player allen still that player jan still that player and lalana can be that player and other lads in there can come in and come on from there so i basically think that you know obviously if you're gonna if we're talking about this book or after i'm aware to know that you're all gonna want me to answer but i think that this is today's big west Brom was big and i think that i've been two on the bounce and i think two on the bounce would become three i think three have become four and then what will be will be against chelsea uh before we actually start maybe take a couple of questions from you guys and get predictions day thomas let's talk about just from you guys about the um about the uh forward the forward setup in the team and the way we're lining up today how do you expect that to work well i think i think there's a lot of rumors that jared is going to play further forward i think the inclusion of jan kind of suggests that whether that's in the number ten or whether that's just further forward than he's been playing as in not the deepest which for me the ten makes more sense than the middle um it means the players are going to be closer to palatelian i think that's what we've i think a lot of people have watched him but that's what we've been pushing for i really like lalana i you know i think lalana has looked better in every game and i said that actually on our last part but you got to remember this is lalana's fifth game so he's still in pre-season katina played seven games in pre-season you know lalana's played five games so he's still in pre-season it turns his own fitness his own ability to you know perform at the peak of his level so i still think he's got a bit of a way to go but i think he's being exceptional i think his relationship with henderson is really important i think jared if he is playing further forward he's naturally gonna have a little bit more energy to his game because he he'll be more excited being closer to the goal jared can finish palatelian can finish and i you know just to piss all the english media off i think sternum will have a great game today there's a role for agnic line which is that players wrote faster running forward than running backwards and i wondered if that's the next thing that jared needs he needs and i just keep playing well in the holder role the day of the last season but one of the reasons why was the whole team was playing really well and also he was doing so much of what he was doing looking forward they haven't been quite as good so far this season so he's had more to do but he's had it running backwards and it might be that for a few games it might be that he had to revert back again but that jared running forwards will find more energy it's simply better you've all played the game you know any sort of level you know yourself when you're running forwards when you're aggressive when you want to make it happen you're enjoying it for all or more and it might be that that's what jared needs. Phil before i ask john gibbons to go around and talk to a few people here if they have any questions do you want to finish off on an uncharacteristically upgrade not yes um yeah great solid advice yeah he's talking about that for you thanks for that man we're in no seriously looking at staring there just as the lads were talking and looking at what he does when he's in full flow and he's more or less had a full week's rest as well like i know we're joking about the tiredness earlier on but like he's had a full week's rest which is the fourth one he's had for a while he's you know the coming in the same with Henderson with England playing so early last week those players affected we had a week off in in real terms to what they normally would have had and um like i i can see us going out today we've had a lot of players who've had the rest in time as well because they weren't with the national teams because they're coming back from injury and i think this probably potentially one of our most energetic performances that we have in front of us and if that goes horribly wrong then i'm gonna have to i think that's why i think that's why uh right i suppose we should just open it up then if anyone has any questions is there anyone wants to put a question to the lads here before we move on or we can go straight to predictions did never have questions true never have questions did never have one on this before yeah okay yeah it doesn't have to be about football is jack it if you want yeah okay well why don't why don't we start wrapping this up there we're getting a bit of a prediction of how you think it's going to go neo where do you start uh would you accept peace goal um we haven't had one this season really a proper one what might you know first or second goal in a game qpr luck dreadful at the back they're playing uh Richard done today and that's an improvement so i think that sorry yeah i think that that's that's telling you something i personally think they should be contractually obliged to play Ferdinand you bought a blast you should have to pick him um but i think that Liverpool today should be able to make a bit of joy sorry get a bit of joy from qpr i've been looking at i fancy i actually did a better thing which i've never done before in my life and uh i said uh lovering to score anytime uh Henderson maybe to get the first but i think crucially Liverpool are when they're gained by two goals uh maybe more but i'd say uh Liverpool 3-1 John get i said 3-1 on the radio on Friday so i'll stick with it it's all right it's all right it's all right it's quite okay you know we're we're we're we're often as one Neil i was this is a random story but i went to a game on Friday and i was on the guest list and then they pointed to Neil and said is that your plus one and i was like in every possible way um but yeah 3-3-1 to to the birds i think we'll play well and i think steering goes go this is all very good dave uh we'll win four no do you want to yes dave look i'll tell you what where are we going after yeah pointless turning up expecting to lose lads dave this fellow does karaoke you know behind i'm just watching it out there do you have forever in blue jeans because i hear that's me oh i'll tell you what all right and we need to remind everyone that half time the lads are going to be chatting about makers straight we'll do five minutes and half time what's really put we want to get off now because basically we shouldn't just be honest talking to you you want to talk about the game as well and and all that sort of stuff we'll just do five minutes and half time just talk briefly about the book we're selling it for 15 euros and signing it be great if you've got any five euro notes uh we're selling it we're selling it from now so anytime you want to go we're just going to come and grab us and we'll we'll sort it out we'll be reaching about the place albeit the bar and then we will be selling it out but also yeah we'll just do five minutes and half time no more than that and then yeah we'll get back on it and we'll be downstairs after we're still selling a few as well basically there's loads of opportunities to buy the book just uh just just just come and speak to us and make sure you've got a five euro note it's all the best all right before we finish then i'll hand it over to side because i know you're gonna say some prediction for foreign ill to keep your thank you can i say can i just say very quickly i'm asking thank you to say and also for uh the artist let's for Adventist John said before and i'll probably say it again or half time but things like this are really really important you're all doing it anyway so you know that it's important but everywhere we go in the world everyone there's a fellow called Hunter and Hunter came to see us in part of the first time he's in New York and Hunter got a train for two hours this is in America got a train for two hours and he got two planes to come and watch the game with us in New York and be around Liverpool supporters and he literally never done it before because he lives in the remotest place in the United States from the way which he describes it having people to watch football with having people to get to know through football John said it it's absolutely huge and the work that you're doing here that's size doing here that everyone is doing to get this venue to get the bar open for you to get it moving forward it's worth more of a round of applause than all the words we've just said in our box so give us a round of applause for the side so let's say you're in Tioga or Pilates or maybe you dabble in gymnastics like me either way you know being flexible is key to doing what you love that's why smoothie king created this stretch and flex movie for people like us with whole fruits and organic veggies plus type 2 collagen make it part of your daily fitness routine to support flexibility and joint health so try the stretch and flex movie in tart 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