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So joining me tonight in the bunker for a cathartic rant are a newly converted selfie wanker, Paul Brennan, former PR spokesman Andy Young, inverted Irish Welsh patriot Davis Thomas, perpetually angry Chevy Bullock's Phil Casey, and on the line making his pod debut is Ali aka @anfieldHQ96. Right, let's begin our review of Liverpool 1 Everton 1. On Friday on the Anfield FM radio show we talked about how in 1997 Liverpool finished 4th and 2 horse race. Saturday's Derby was a 1 horse race and yet ended up in a photo finish. Regardless of all the negativity over the followed, it was arguably our best performance in Spurs. So let's start with some of the positives and pick up on some of those. Adam Lallana I suppose is one. He backed up and he did what he did with a pretty excellent performance. He's still pressing in the 90th minute which gives the likely idea that he's maybe struggling a little bit with fitness. What were your thoughts Ali on Lallana? Well, no, I agree with you. I thought it was absolutely brilliant. He's come in and he's been criticized by some fans for his slow start. But I thought he answered his critics well. He worked his socks off for 90 minutes. He got into good spaces. He's brilliantly technically gifted. And I thought it was one of our real positive shining lights against Everton. And I think if you continue that level of performance and that consistency, it can be a very, very important player for us to see them. It was particularly impressive, wasn't it? To see the guy still going flat out and closing down the founders right at the death. Yeah, it was, yeah. It was exactly the kind of example that Brendan Rodgers will want to set to the players. That's kind of an example. It wouldn't set. Yeah, it was very, very good. He's obviously still trying to find fitness. He's not quite there yet, but he's only going to get better. And I thought he's for his price tag as well. He could be up with every penny. Dave Thomas is a man who was actively looking forward to seeing Atlanta as I was myself. Having pressed you, you know, to see him actually coming good. Yeah, really impressed. I think that obviously you've got to remember still early into his fitness levels. I mean, he didn't have a preseason with us. So I think this is his fourth appearance, third or fourth appearance, whatever it is. And I think he played, you know, the fact that he played 120 minutes on Tuesday and then came in and played 90 minutes on Saturday, you know, you know, was good, you know, in terms of some of the other leggy performances we saw on Saturday. I thought it was great. I thought he's always looking to move the ball. I thought that he, full of energy, I thought he added legs to the midfield. I think he lacked a little bit from still not really knowing, you know, what everyone's doing around him. But that will come as he plays more games. But I thought he was positive, two-footed, probably held on to the ball a little bit too long sometimes, but the past wasn't always obvious. But I thought he was, along with Ballotalia, I thought he was our best player. I thought he was very, very good. And he wasn't going, he can't truly opinions or not. Or only if you guys who weren't maybe just quite as enthusiastic about him. No, no, I don't think it was priced out by. I thought he was brilliant and certainly. And you could see him kind of building up to that a bit. Like, you know, he kind of came on in the last couple of games. Not pulling up trees around him, but he wasn't proven from his first couple of appearances, right? It was really kind of stodgy. And I thought, yeah, he was brilliant at finding space, brilliant ball-carrying. And yeah, the only thing that is real cutting edge wasn't really there on Saturday. But that would come with more games. But I was really surprised by his energy levels. Yeah, and I don't think Andy's probably fair to say that what Paul's chatting about there is, you're never going to see that real turn of pace from Lelana. And he's going to go who gets past people like Coutinho does, what Guilemore would just sheer force. Yeah, he's a very technical player and for the British players, unusual to see that kind of thing. And as, you know, the lads are saying, he's improved every game. And, you know, we can only help. He keeps improving. And then maybe a couple of goals start coming, like he did for a self-harm. He was unlucky with a header. Yeah. He got full contact and made to keep our work. So I'm happy with him so far. I haven't done any complaints about the fella and for a fella who's supposed to have broken hearts. Only 20 minutes. [laughter] She was staying. Broken. [laughter] Oh, man. She's still there. That's not romantic. Yeah. No. P.S. I love you to see you. [laughter] I've heard somewhere there. I've heard a broken heart. Apparently it was the lung capacity of a 70-year-old. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, it's not bad for someone who's, who's a... He's overcome a little bit. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. She fell moving on to Mario Balletale. I don't know if you want to talk about that, do you? Well, I can lead into him that way because I think there was... There was signs definitely on Saturday of them building up an understanding between them. Even when we were at the villa game, you could see of all the players that were starting to discover a link up, since storage was out because I actually think Balletale and Storage showed in that forest game against spores. They had a natural link up in times of the way they were playing together. But of all the players since then, Lelana seems to be one that understands where Balletale is going. And Balletale seems to understand where Lelana is going to be on the pitch now. And that's a good thing. Hopefully, we can get a few more players to come along and start to join in with that as well because, you know, he's not storage. Balletale isn't storage. And I suppose this takes us on to the main part. And our team is still very much focused in the way it attacks. You know, replicating what storage is going to do well in terms of running off people's shoulders and playing those little true balls in the whole lot. Because we don't have that, we're still struggling to maybe break open teams and create the spaces and create the chances that we have. And lumpen crosses into the box isn't the way for creating chances either for Balletale, because he's not your traditional big man that will be playing in front. From what I've seen though, you know, I talk for Balletale again, similar to Lelana. His work rate was outstanding for a player who's criticized before he came that his work rate wasn't great on the whole lot. He broke his arse across that pitch. You know, I was so disappointed to see him coming off for Lambert in 84 minutes, because up until then, from about the 70 minutes out, after he misses his chance, he increases work rate again and he got around the pitch and said, "Right, if I missed the big chance, I'm going to make sure that, you know, that I'll become the fourth line of defense for us." He was brilliant to hold on to Balletale, he was winning tackles, he was getting back. When we needed an outlet to, you know, take the pressure off, as everyone started to show everything at us, he was that outlet. Remember, at one stage, there was three evident players over on the sideline, just inside around half. And a look like they were going to crowd him out. And he just, he pulled the ball back and then started a little put back to him, pulled through. The next minute, the three boys were still standing on the sideline, and Balletale had pulled away into two yards of space, you know, and we kept the ball and were able to retain it. And interestingly, when he goes off, we didn't have anyone to do it. Lambert comes on and I'll talk about him later, but you know, that outlet is suddenly gone and it just allows everyone to have all the ball down in the final toward a very pitch. And it was like, it was like that head of steam that we always want to see ourselves applying if we're chasing a game, you know, one R or something like that. They were able to build it up and they get their goal ultimately from that, because we didn't have the work around in the front row together. When it comes down to his goals going, yeah, it's disappointing. He didn't get that goal. I thought Harold got lucky with the save because it's not one that, you know, he just stands up big and tall. He makes himself big in the goal. He does all he can. He gets the touch and it goes off the crossbar. My only complaint in that instance is that Balletale, I'm looking at saying, if he sees a kick, he can get over the ball and put player back down into the ground and Harold isn't saving a few players back down into the ground there. But at the same time, he misses a chance in the fourth half and it goes between the two. He's not making the front post runs. But that's the story to follow. If you have storage there, storage is the one that's attacking the front post and he's ready to jump in at it. Well, actually on that, it's interesting to go there to the runs next. Ollie, I heard him. She's the studio's fallen apart here. I heard Michael Owen on his commentary talking about Balletale's runs. And he was quite critical after him and saying that he's not basically getting between the posts and that was something that was picked up by Brendan Rodgers later on then as well. He actually made that point very clearly. He said he spoke to him at half time and that things changed slightly then. What was your take on Balletale's positioning and his runs off the ball? Well, I think Mary Balletale is obviously a player where he's not the movement that storage has but I think he's got to do everything he can to get in the box because that's ultimately, you know, that there were parts of the game where we had no one in front of Balletale. So I think, yeah, everyone just would have had a word with him. And he obviously was a lot better in the second half of getting into the box. And he was very unlucky not to score. And I thought to be honest, the goal would have topped with his performance. But I agree with you about, you know, it's not fair to suggest that he was lazy at all. I think he's a very different type of player to storage. And it's all about fitting Balletale into a system that will work for both him and Liverpool. So yeah, I just think, you know, it worked very well with storage. You know, it's just a problem we have is when we don't have storage. We don't have a replacement for storage. So we just need someone to get up with with Balletale. And yeah, I don't think that really cuts that in order to tricky Lambert. And also I agree. I think Roger was probably a bit naive in bringing Balletale off because I think he wanted him to get, you know, a very good reception from the Anfield crowd, which he did. But bringing Lambert on, we just lost that outlet. I agree with that. And it would be very good to get storage back when he's, when he's fitting ready to go. What about that suggestion, Paul, that maybe that's shown one glaring omission in the squad, building a preparation for the summer, is that Balletale is not a storage replacement. Balletale is someone who'd be playing alongside, which is a point made by some of the lads very long. And they've never chatted about it. Yeah, when you think about the money that we got for Suarez, like, if you look at the forwards that we have, we didn't fully replace our, like, even kind of attempt to replace the kind of gap. Because, like, obviously, Balletale and storage are always going to stay together. And then, like I said before, the quality just falls off a cliff then there's nothing like that. There's nothing like either of them after that. I got on ripering and we've seen, we'll talk about Lambert later, but it really is, like, when you know storage is going to miss that amount of games, it is something that we kind of, you do look back and wish we'd done more around. Yeah, and you've been critical of Balletale from pretty much from the off and fair enough. What was your take on his performance and what do you make him as he's evolving? Yeah, well, okay, like, one thing he has really surprised me is his work, right? It's brilliant. Fairness. Like, he runs back. He's one of our best offenders. And, but, you know, when you're pulling a Stroicard to come in and know how storage, how often storage is injured, it should be bringing in a player that's going to score more goals. And his output hasn't been good enough so far. And boy, boy, our standards has been about the goals he scored last year. There's a couple of things. He goes to the back post after Henderson picks out a world he ever passed. Crilla whips a perfect ball in that any Stroicard in the world calls the front post and just gets up and out of it. Couldn't believe that nobody attacked the front post and Balletale evolved people. Miss Chanti missed. Ty Held was just brilliant. You know, Balletale don't brilliant to get good contact on that because it got a little deflection as well, didn't it? Yeah, so it's going to put him off. But, yeah, I just think Margol's, in my opinion, he was a bit of a panic boy and he was sprouting there to kind of keep the fans alive. Get them excited over the name. But so far the output hasn't been good enough. Would you not find yourself rolling behind maybe what Phil was saying earlier on that when you see him alongside Stroicard, then that's going to be a different choice. Yeah, but all the strikers in the world are going to love someone up front with them. Storage is going to love him. It's going to prove him. And Balletale is obviously going to love him because I think he will feed off storage and they do connect and they bounce off his shoulder. And they're not ready. They seem to get on very well, a lot better than Suarez and storage did. So that'll help them. But that's relying on storage being in the team. And we know the storage is going to be able to team for maybe 30% of the games. Yeah, it's really depressing these ever five already. Unfortunately, yeah, we haven't replaced goals there. Yeah. And that's what Stroicard has a Georgetown. Yeah. So I want to see at least a goal every two games out. I think the thing I say, and Balletale, I think I'm probably going to say this a lot tonight, is that he's really only played five games. You know, he didn't have a preseason with us, right? So I think it's fair to say that he's got better with every game. I think most people would say that. So imagine what he might look like if he continues that progression for another five games. And maybe then his goal rate gets better, his finishing gets better, he understands more what's happening around him. So I'd be a little bit less reluctant to say that he won't be able to play if storage is injured. I just think he's got to play into that. And I think that he hasn't been able to do that because he hasn't played enough games. So I think you look better with storage. I don't have the same concerns or a stronger concern about if storage can injure it again, would Balletale be able to replicate the goals? Because I don't think that's just out to him. I think other people have to contribute. Let's be honest, take Sterling out of our side right now when there's no goals, right? No one's scoring. So I think everyone has to kick on a little bit. And I think, you know, if you give him another five games, one of the ten games, with the coaching and the system getting better, who knows what he'd be able to produce? So I think that's what's exciting a little bit about him. That's why, you know, I'm not quite as nervous about it, you know, if storage was to get injured again. And just going to the system, right, in terms of what it is, and he is playing, it is predominantly a 4-2-3-1 that we've been playing without storage. And the best form of 4-2-3-1 we've ever played was under Rafa. And if you remember, the big thing there was the count was a master at arriving from the wide position in to become a second man in the box. And whoever has played there has not replicated those runs, even Sterling doesn't replicate those runs. What count used to do is he basically bores to go from the right side across to the front post and it would allow the striker to bail off to the back post. Even if it was a save, it used to be, or as we were peeling off to the back post, you know, to tap one in. And when you look at some of the bars that comes in, I do agree, like you'd imagine Ballotelli's going to go and attack the front post there, right, but he doesn't. But at the same time, he's still only the only person that we had in the box. If you look around and you'd imagine what we need in that system, if we're breaking in, one of those three has to also become a second man in the box. And that's not happening in the system. It's better than needing to learn how to develop and play in that system on a regular basis. But if we're going to revert away from that system and storage comes back in, then that's where the training ground has to come in. Sterling and whoever's playing there has to learn to make those additional runs that when it goes wide on one side, they must bores to get into the box and become a second striker in there. I think what happens is they get into the in the ad box, but then they pull back. So they don't go into the six-yard box. I like if they were playing with the two upfront because normally they'd be storage and that's where I lock your pain. So a few times we'd have six players run the 18-yard box, because everyone would break to get there and then everyone's waiting for the pullback. And so many times, Sterling or Moreno or Manquio got to the byline and looked to pull it across the six-yard box. And there's no one there because everyone's waiting for the pullback. But again, because I'm an optimist, I think that can be coached. I think that's something that you say, you know, Rogers would be observing that and saying, well, you know, Markovich or Sterling or Lana. But I said, you've got to attack that. You've got to be a six-yard box. I think it can be coached. But I also think there's a level of instinct needed in certain players. And as much as people used to criticize Dork Houghton, I'd criticize him as well. What he was brilliant was that late run or that additional run into the box. And that's where he'd get his 12-15 gold from so many times. Even when you think about some of the big ulti score, he was always just arriving there as the ball gets pulled in as opposed to waiting there for when it actually happens. It should be talking about formations again. And I think what Rogers is, it should be just the idea and the philosophy that he has bet into the players now. When you play a far-to-tree one, it should be a far-tree-tree going forward. You know, he should have tree players in the box and he should have the wide men. You know, you've got to attack and fall back in Manquio and Moreno. They're going to go forward. So, you know, you want your workplace getting out there and getting in and giving the strike, or a dig out. And I thought you were not crowding the box and your number 10 should be in the box as well. So, Balotelli, he's big, he holds the ball up well and he's plenty of scale. He can boy a player a bit of time to run off and they're not the owner. So, it's not all of his fault. I mean, I couldn't recognize that. I'm not going to bash Balotelli just because he's not going to score a goal. You know, you can see there's other things going on. That will, it could be only a few favourites. Depends on hopefully getting an improved line up. Ollie to focus on a couple more positives just before we start getting a bit more gloomy. You'd have to say the two guys are two new full backs. And Manquio and Moreno were pretty phenomenal. For a pair of kids, you know, starting on a new club, they've just blended in seamlessly, haven't they? No, yeah, no, I completely agree. And, you know, they look to be the answer to our full back problems. You know, Moreno's obviously come in and for his price as well. He's done very, very well in the same, Manquio. And, you know, looking at their age, it was a most bizarre derby. Their first one, they've come in and they've, they did very, very well indeed. And, you know, it's credited Brendan Rodgers and credit to players themselves with their work rate. And, you know, they've been brought in, they're very young and they've just slotted in seamlessly. And, you know, they're pushing out, you know, players like Glenn Johnson, who have, dare I say, experienced the pros. So, then they do it very, very good. And, hopefully, you know, they can push on for the rest of the season. You can't really see, Dave, can you? You can't really see Glenn Josh. That's me. Yeah. For our listeners, Andy has discovered a can of helium. And not just a can of helium. No, literally a colour of coz and gas sized can of helium. Which is now opening. So, we've got to tell you here. But, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you about me. Which is now pointing out me. Holy shit. You're putting stuff on! What's up? That was good. Dave, we need to get cameras. A poor old man, Jose Enrique and Glenn. They've got no chance of getting back in if these guys stay fit, have they? No, I mean, Johnson specifically has absolutely no chance. You know how much we love Johnson and his show now. But, I thought my key was excellent. I mean, I prefer to talk about Moreno a little bit because they targeted Moreno. Which actually was, you know, people talk about how smart Martinez is from a tactical perspective. And I can understand why he puts Lekaku on Moreno because there's a big height advantage. But after 10 minutes, Moreno's worked him out. Absolutely, he got him in his pocket, wins everything. So, if Martinez is smart, what he does then is he moves Lekaku either onto Skirtle, because Skirtle can't win the battle. Or onto Mankio. But he doesn't do that. So, Moreno was just phenomenal. Totally worked with Lekaku out. But not just because he was quicker than Lekaku, which he was, or he wasn't just nicking the ball off him. He was winning physical battles with him. I mean, he put Lekaku on his ass a few times. I mean, once was penalty, but we'll skip on that. That would be a lot. So, I thought Moreno was phenomenal. I actually think Enrique did well against Middlesbrough to be fair to him. I thought you meant just in a support and capacity. He does a good job. He's definitely the king of the social media element of our playing staff. But, I mean, I thought he did well against Middlesbrough. I would have, I wouldn't have a hard to talk if Enrique came back in now, to say, against Basel. On Wednesday, I think he'd be fine. I'd have serious issues if we played John Glenson instead of Mikey O, though. Because I think Mikey O was really strong at right back in the Derby. Phil, do you think there's any danger of your favourite John Glenson's game? To be honest with John, I don't care. What I want to talk about is basically how well Mikey O fits into her. Because, you know, there's been talk about, you know, he doesn't offer much in an attack and capacity. It was brilliant, I'm sorry. Brilliant. Like, we just talked about the ball that he puts in that, you know, that boy sexy defence. And, you know, if storage is there, it's probably a goal. Are we happy to play him every game in the season then? No, no, but like, he doesn't care. He doesn't care. He doesn't want to talk about it. He wants to talk about it. No, well, I'm genuinely, I think we should. Because, you know, there wasn't, okay, the result isn't great, but there was some great performances there on Saturday. Given how poor the performance have been up until the Derby since Tottenham Hotspur, right? And we should be, you know, delighting in the fact that we've got two phenomenal fullbacks. And, you know, I'd be saying more, you know, Flanagan is the option, once he's fit, to come back in to cover for when Manchayo is there. And I'd have no issues with Flanagan going into the side if we need to give Manchayo rest. At the end of it, he's a 19-year-old kid, but that's phenomenal stuff from him. You know, we talked about his rations 24/7, he was picking up yellow cards at the start. That's gone out of his game. The amount of crosses he blocks is just, like, Baines was called, Baines and Morales was riding down the side initially. And then it was so terrible to see Morales going off. And then... Morales was already in his pocket. But he was in his pocket. And, like, he was more than able to deal with Baines, surely actual game as well. And that's a 19-year-old kid who's never played in a Merseyside Derby before. Yeah. You know, and that's, you know, he's, if, if we can sign him, well, he's on a two-year loan. If we assume when we sign him, he could nail down that right-back position for the next five, six, seven years. And for as long as he wants, wants his performance level to that, we have not seen as a complete right-back in our side since our blow-ups in the team. But we've got four full-backs now that like a battle. 'Cause Enrique likes a battle. Flanagan likes a battle. And the two kids we played on Saturday, they love a battle. So, and I think that's exciting. I can't remember that last time we had a full-backs on like the battle. And he helped out the centre-backs. Because there isn't as many crosses coming into the box. They don't have to deal with that stuff. You know, the good thing is you can't bring Flanagan or you can't bring Enrique and you won't weaken the team in half a lot. Like you see City rotating their full-backs a lot. Like you'll see Chelsea tinkering around their full-backs. You want to keep his partnership in the middle and then your goalkeeper and get down to know each other very well. And you can bring in and out your full-backs if you want and give them a little rest. 'Cause it is a tough job getting up and down the way Rodgers says with him playing. But I'm delighted with them now. Marina was the one to focus on 'cause he was Cosmo. And he's more polished, playable. Jeez, my career was just being unbelievable. Yeah, it's being a lovely surprise. Just to finish out with the positives, we should mention Jared. We could mention Henderson, but to be perfectly honest, the kids just wonderful every game. Well, I think you can't mention Gerard without mentioning Henderson. Because again, Henderson was colossal for us. You know what I mean? The rest now haven't played in a midweek. Definitely played, won't you? Because he was fresh, he was alive, and he was alert. And you know, Lelana, it was a toss-up between Lelana and Henderson from And the Match for Me. But I thought Henderson, over 90 minutes, probably just shaded a little bit because he didn't have a dip at all. Some of the present was just phenomenal. He was just everywhere. But the passing followed on the back of the pressing in several occasions, which is just wonderful. I know, and again, just for example, you know, Lelana, we talked about what he was doing, right? But Lelana was doing something that we've seen that Henderson and Allyn did towards the back end of last season, where Lelana was getting on and offering so much an attack, but he had the legs as well, alongside Henderson to get back and add another body in mid-field when he needed to be. And that frees Gerard, because he couldn't just landmarked, right? Because there was always two bodies there in front of the defense at any one stage. That's the difference, isn't it? So how did he trade Detroit? The man I can Detroit, he can ace me, ran out in a few times, and Gerard, no problem. There was one time where Henderson took a shot, I think Howard caught, and then they tried to break, and Henderson kind of broke up the same attack twice. I mean, it spanned about 60 yards. It was ridiculous, like the ground that he covered in, like to look, he said as well as passing the one to mine keel, then they caught the balance. But there was a pass to Sterling out on the left in the first half, where I thought he hit it too early. But it just was one of them where the defender thinks he's getting at it. It's like, "Oh, bollocks, no, I'm not." No, it's like, just brilliant, I just thought he was colossal all around. I mean, I'm going to be controversial and say, "I didn't think Jero was great." Oh? I think goal aside, he was out of the game, he was just anonymous. And I think what happened is, I agree with Andy that they tried to man-mark him. But I think what he did is he just walked away, Henderson dropped between the center backs and picked the ball up, but Henderson ran the game. So I thought Henderson was immense. And I think the reason we think that Jero, well, the reason I think people think Jero had a good game is that he scored, and he wasn't as impacted by the pressing as he was in the previous two games. But I think that's because Henderson drops and says, "Okay, well, press me then. You know, if you're going to press, try and press me." You know, "Can I catch me?" So I didn't actually think Jero was that great. I thought, you know, he scored a great goal. And he wasn't a liability or an internal doubt, and, you know, he had an okay game. But I think he was made to look much, much better because of how good Henderson was. Controversial for me. Well, he got a bit of an easy ride. Like, everything did not fall much. You know, he got a bit of an easy game. And it's not often, like, in a marriage therapy, it's going to be that easy for a Jero. So... Yeah, I just don't think that, I guess my point is rather that I don't think people should think the Jero issue is solved, because I don't think it is. I think that... Well, the issue is going to be about the games played. Well, I also think it's a system thing. I think we can play 4-2-3-1, but I don't think we can play with Jero. Unless Henderson has that game every week. And I don't think he's going to have that game every week. So I still think it's an issue there. I think Jero is better in these games. I think these games kind of focus on, like, the games like these and Spurs. And I remember being impressed with them at all. Yeah, that was a real kind of mature midfield performance when he was still kind of learning that role. I think it's in other games where we're kind of expecting to be on top that he gets kind of complacent. Like, we saw against Ludo Garretz, you know, for their goal. He's jogging up the field for some reason, like, you're past the halfway line. I think it's games like this where he's real focused, like, and he kind of really has his head screwed on. I think that he doesn't struggle as badly. Yeah, well, I suppose that kind of leads us in because it's a bit shady. Which is just before, because we haven't mentioned it, the free kick for the goal. Oh, no, yeah. Let's be honest about it. You can't talk about that much without the free kick. Now, whatever about, no matter how poor Herod was on the actual free kick, because, like, he should save it. He gets a full hand behind it, right? And he's more concerned with diving into the bar than he is about saving the actual goal itself. But listen, the technique to get it up over the wall and back down. And when you look where it drops in, it's not dropping in, you know, under the bar. It's dropping in at a lovely spot in the actual goal. It's about two yards below the actual bar itself. He's gotten so much dip on the actual free kick. It's a phenomenal strike. You know what I mean? And it's really worth celebrating it in terms of how good that strike was. And, you know, and rightfully so, his set pieces have been criticized, because they haven't been great this season so far. And that was such a good moment. And it was a typical dramatic moment in the derby to step up and find your farm hitting it again. Best celebration of his since... Crazy old tripper the years ago. I mean, he's just smokin' as he's sliding. I mean, just want to go keep it though. I think Kourtwa heads that away. Don't know what I mean. I think it's that type of height that I think he heads that out of the goal. And then my saves, I thought it was a terrible save. You couldn't see a lot of relief in the celebration there. He reads and he fails that pressure. And he knows people are talkin' about him. And you're seeing them with their fucking ears out. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, the free, like his delivery hasn't been great from, you know, them crossy free kicks. But he just hit that like one of them crossers, didn't he? The whip on it was class. And we hadn't seen a lot of Jared's phrase over the last couple of years, because Suarez was like takin' free. He's like penalties. But it's nice to see him back down again. The Lana's corners were crap. But away. That's a lot of tryin'. Well, Ron sent these. They were awful. He's definitely got the Liverpool corner broke. Yeah. They were not beatin' the force, man. What was your take in the captain on the day? Well, I think it was obviously, you know, it was a big game from Step Up at the most, so Darby's obviously, you know, it's a massive game for him personally as it is. I agree with the fact that, you know, Henderson probably did help. You know, he did a system a little bit and, you know, he wasn't, I wouldn't say end up performed, but he wasn't, other than the goal itself, he wasn't, you know, a shining light. And, but, you know, there's a lot of Christians been given to Steven Jarrod. And I think he's, you know, he's still a very, very important player for us on and off the pitch. At the end of the day, he's our captain. And, you know, there aren't too many players that could have done what he did against Devison. That's ten goals now, Ollie. And Murphy said Darby's, I believe, which is pretty impressive. Yeah. No, exactly. Very, very impressive. And it's also, you know, as Steven Jarrod said himself, it's about options. And, and Steven Jarrod is a different option from three, from set pieces. And I think it's very good for himself as well, because, you know, he said after the game, you know, you had a couple of bad games and everyone's written him off. So, for him personally, it was very important he answered his critics and, you know, that free kick would have done him some justice. Absolutely. Phil, to change tone and type completely, it seems like I'm setting you up a bit here. But, you know, like you said earlier, I don't care. Markovich talked to me about Markovich. Now, you said things to me about Markovich that you probably, you probably might want to sort of fill her. Well, give me, give me a tell to Markovich. It's about time it's about getting mine and it's like that. It's about pulling back, though, Ollie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Frustrated. Frustrated to hell out me. Absolutely frustrated to hell out me. I was really looking forward to seeing Markovich, the player we were told, we were told about. And when I saw him against Man City, I was a bit critical of the one performance he put in a pre-season. People said, "Look, you can't judge him on one performance now, and then he gets injured." I said, "Right, fair enough." He comes down against Man City and he looked, he had a bit of balls about him, was prepared for the fight. You know, people have been talking about, he needed a ball, he came on and he was bashing the city defenders when he comes on. They've obviously substituted him down for his windy twin butter because since then, I've never seen a fan like I pushed off the ball as easy since Jordan was at the club, right? And, you know, I'm not writing him off, far from it. But I'm just saying, in the performances... That's how you are. You picked them off five years ago. No, I'm not writing them off. What I want to see is I want to see the same player that came on against Manchester City. Now Andy made a point out of the city game that, you know, with coming on against City when you're three, one down, it's a different story to come on on when it's one other, one earlier, one earlier, and you need somebody to make an influence on the game. And I'm just worried about the mentality here because he has to not be afraid to make a mistake. And at this moment in time, he's afraid to make a mistake. And a lot of the things in the fear of him playing reminds me of the way downing played for us. The way he runs in straight lines, the way he doesn't seem to, you know, take on defenders. He goes up to the defender at Torrance, plays the ball back, and plays it safe. I want him being aggressive in the way he plays. The one thing I say about Jordan Oipu we've sent out on loan is that even when he came on, no matter what it was, he was prepared to take a player on and was fearless in this game. Like he had a point to prove every time he went on to the pitch. But the one thing about Raheem Sterling, even when he was being poor, he went down fearless and tried to take on the opposition in terms of what he was doing. And that's what I want to see from Markovitch. I don't mind if he goes on, takes a lad on, and loses the ball. At least he's trying to do it. The one on one in the second half when the ball goes over the top and he's straight clear. And you know, he has bags of pace, which we've seen. He's just born, your man, for a rubber. But instead he gets caught up and closer and it's just shrugged off the ball. And your man doesn't even do anything overtly physical with him. He just gives him a little shrug and Markovitch is all over the place. He was like Bambian. He's when he went through it like, you know what I mean? And a couple of times he tried to turn a place and he just pushed him up. He went and even pushed him. They just brushed him a second. He got a bit unlucky at that bar come up and hit his knee. You know, and this is his knee, he hasn't owned a control. I don't know, look, all in all is that every time he seemed to get on the ball, he was just shrugged aside by Everton. Now, you know, I can admire Roger as well, putting him in, and not being afraid to put him in because he's obviously seen the kid in training and seeing what he's capable of doing. But we used to hear the same thing about down in that he would be wonderful in training and then he'd go out into the pitch and he'd be scared. Right? He'd basically be just a fearful player when he's on the pitch. All I want to see is Markovitch come out with the same fearless mentality as he had in the Manchester City game. And just believe in himself because he looks like a player who has no belief in what he's going to do. And unfortunately, when you come with a price tag of over 20 million quid, which he has, he has to hit the ground running because we don't, we are at a team like Charity who can spend 20 million quid, 20 million quid. Yeah. We're 20 million quid on a player and then loan him out to another soy for two or three years. We need him to come in and be in a major part of the squad. I'm not saying a force team player, but we need him to be in a... But what about, what about to shout out, like, it is really early days. He's played bit in pieces in games. That was his first start. And maybe he just had a bad day. Well, he's had a bad day every time he's come on the pitch then. He played against Middlesbrough and he didn't even stand out. He started against Villa. And he started against Villa. So... I think he's got more timid as he's played. But you've got to remember, right? Against Villa he tries a volley from 25 yards out from across. Like he's never scored, you know, that's balls to take, you know, in terms of trying things. You're saying he doesn't try things. I'm saying he does. Look, I'm totally on the fence with him. I'm not saying he's going to be a world beater. The club clearly really is. Rogers clearly has faith in him because he's playing him. Well, he has other options not to play him. I think he lacks a bit of physicality, but I think that comes. I think, again, I'm repeating myself. I said same about Balletelli. It's five games in. He didn't have preseason. He had an injury. It's a brand new league. He's 20 years old. I think it could take six months. Who knows? The question of whether we can afford that or not is a different thing. That's not necessarily about him as a player. That's more about our strategy as a club as to whether, you know, we could have afforded to take a risk on a player who could take six months to develop. But for me, the parallel is LaMella at Spurs. You know, comes in with a big reputation, young player, quick and struggles to adapt to the physicality of the league. And now you look at LaMella playing for Spurs against, you know, I watched him against Arsenal Saturday. He was very good. He was, you know, running their attack in play, him and Erickson. So I think that I hope it doesn't take as long. I don't think it will. And I think that, again, Rogers has shown that he can coach and develop and improve players pretty rapidly, pretty quickly when he gets the time with them. And he clearly believes in the kids. So I know you're not right. I know you're not writing them off. But there are a lot of people writing them off. And there's a lot of people saying that it's a waste of money and it's this and it's that. And he's, and I don't agree with the downer shout for loads of reasons. But... That's fine. That's fine. But that's fine. I'm not wrong. There we go. Stu downer was so 26 year old England. They have no balls in their balls. Yeah, but I don't agree with the marketers doesn't have balls. I think we've got to give him time. I think any judgment can be made on whether he's had a good performance or not. Because he hasn't. That's fair to say. But anything more definitive than that is true. As I said, look, I don't want them to fail. I want them to succeed. My only worry is, again, it comes back to time. Do we have time? For me, it's all wrapped into the same thing. We spent a lot of money. We've just talked about the fact that we needed another player like storage to play for when storage inevitably missed. Like you think maybe that money could have been spent on that. That's not to take away from Markovitch. That's not to say, but that comes back, as you said, to the strategy of terms of what we were selling and who were selling. And can we afford to bed in a young player like that when we've already gotten there? I suppose what sort of gets me a bit is the fact that we have got Jordan Oiby, who's been brilliant for us when he's played. And we do have Susso after coming back on a loan spell, who when he came on against Middlesbrough, looked twice the player that Markovitch has performed. And that's not to say Markovitch can be better than Susso. I'm just saying in terms of where they are in their development stage. And that was one of the things when I said it to start. We need the players that when we were selling players, we need the players for now because they have to go in and be part of a squad that's in Champions League and has gone to play a lot of games. And I'm just not sure. Can we afford to loan him? And I'm just taking it say he struggles up to Christmas, right? Then inevitably because we will, he needs to get a loan spell or something like that so he gets used to the physicality and the pace in the league. Can we afford then to loan out a 20 million pound player to let him adjust to the league? There's going to be immense pressure down on the shoulders. What about that? I think a lot of the, sorry, just one point, I think a lot of the, no, this isn't even about Markovitch, but a lot of the assessment of our transfer business is obviously coloured by what happened in the first six, six to seven games, right? You know, if Coutinho's own form, a storage doesn't get injured, Markovitch doesn't play. Do you know what I mean? So now it looks like it's a, it's a risk or it's a high risk transfer because storage hasn't, you know, been fit and Alan isn't fit and Jan isn't fit and, you know, palletally hasn't fired and Coutinho's our form. So all of these things have come together, which have exposed us, but it could have quite easily gone the other way, which is Coutinho carries through his pre-season form. Markovitch doesn't start. He's having little cameos here and there. He's coming into a winning side. Do you know what I mean? It could go completely. That's, that's pretty much. Ollie, give us your thoughts on, on Markovitch and then maybe lead us into a little bit of a chat about Ricky Lambert and his contribution as well. Oh, well, you know, Mark, he's obviously, I think he's just a little bit lost to be honest with you. You know, he's not positive in his play. He doesn't look like he's imposing himself on the game. And you're right. You know, when he came on against Manchester City, you know, that, that five or ten minutes, he did look very, very impressive. But he's just kind of gone off the pace. But I think to some extent, you know, we can't really get stuck into that much, you know, he is only 20 years old at the end of the day. He's adapting to a new league, which, which is a very, very difficult league to adapt to the, the Premier League. And, you know, not just that, a new culture and a new team and it will take time. But I don't personally think we can afford to, to let a 20 million pound man go out on loan. I just don't think that's, I think that's too big of a risk and it's not what we, we've brought him in for. But to me, I'd probably take him out of the firing line for a couple of weeks and just let him feel his way in from the bench. I think there's plenty of time for him to, to make his mark. And, you know, we've got a hell of a lot of squad depth, so we've got players to, to play his position. But, you know, you know, the only problem with that is his price tag. But I think, you know, when you buy a player like that young, you're always going to have to give him time to settle in. And, and we're just going to have to see how that one goes. And in terms of Ricky Lambert, you know, everyone obviously thought when he came to the club, it was, it was a great signing. And it was a, it was a really, you know, personally for him, it was fantastic. But it just doesn't seem to offer anything. It doesn't seem to be very effective when he comes off the bench. He seems to be trying too hard. I went to the Middlesbrough game the other week and he obviously got his first start in that. And for me, he didn't, he didn't do anything. He doesn't offer us anything. And it's a shame because, you know, he's, he's a kind of player. You want to see you do well because he's obviously a scout, so he's a local lab and all that. But for me, he just, he's just, he's ineffective and he doesn't offer anything for us. And, you know, going back to what we were saying earlier, when he took by the telly off, you know, bringing Lambert on, that there just was no outlet. And, you know, he's obviously asked, you know, Liverpool to step up his training regime and to get his fitness back. But it might just be one of those occasions whereby, you know, the occasion is just purely getting the better of him. Yeah. Paul, that's fair, isn't it? He did seem like it's ridiculous, really. But he did seem almost, you know, intimidating or overall in the couple of minutes that he did have to contribute. Like he did when he got the start there in the week against Middlesbrough. Yeah, the thing that really strikes me is that, like, we're half a dozen games into the season and we played in some other competitions. And he still doesn't look kind of fit enough to play. Like, when you saw him for a set-up, we knew he wasn't, like, he's not storage. Like, he's not going to be running around everywhere. But he wasn't this him all well for a set-down to me. Like, he could get around the pitch. And, like, when you see him now, he's, like, he's really struggling. Like, if I'm to play devil's advocate, I think it's been over-egged this impact on Saturday, I think. Like, because I think at that stage, I think Balletelli was kind of flagging for the kind of about the five minutes before he came off. I don't think Lambert coming on had this huge impact where we were suddenly falling back. I think there was a few times where Balletelli was only 40 yards from his own goal. And he was kind of trotting around. I thought he looked tired. But, yeah, Lambert, like, is this fitting, like, to be saying, you know, like, a fair bit into the season that he needs more training. Like, this is the stuff that I used to slag away and runey over. You know, when he came, when he used to come back from preseason. And Ferg's going to be eight games in the season, saying we need to give him games to get him fit. Like, this is the thing that's really bothering me. Like, because, like, when you, Lambert's not a world, but we thought he'd, like, come in and do a job for us. But, and, like, the one thing you were expecting was, oh, well, he's going to grasp this with both hands. And he just looks kind of unfit to me. Rather, rather than being, like, rather than bottling, I think he just looks really unfair and really clunky and, like, really, not sharp at all. Okay. That's pretty much a natural answer, that then. Okay, well, what we're going to try to do here is preview both the Basel and West Brom games together. So, just have a look forward at what we think we're going to look like in those two games. We'll start off with, I suppose, a fairly relevant question, which is Stephen Jared and his selection. Whether he's going to be selected for both games should be selected for both games. Andy, where do you stand on that? Given that he's played the weekend. I think he'll start both games 100%. We might try and take him off. And we'll not do it. So, you think he's going to do a Brendan and just start him in both games? Yeah. And, like, where do you stand on that personally? What's your takeaway? Like, do you think that's stopped? I think it's up to a manager and the team, coaching team around them and the medical staff and all to assess whether Jared is capable of playing. Have we not seen already that he's maybe not? No, we have, yeah. But, I mean, I can't say Jared is going to be fit to play both games. Depending on how you feel in this week or what way. But, personally, I think he'll start both games. How we feel about it? I don't know. I need to see Liverpool start to take him in and out of teams to decide how we do so. Exactly. You know what I mean? I think as bad as he can be and how the things we've criticized them all over, let's see Liverpool without him. Yeah. Dave, that's a possibility now with some people back in training. Well, yeah, I think Alan and Jan came back today, albeit in light training. So, they won't play against Basel. But, I think Jared will start against Basel. I would drop him for, well, not drop him, rest him as a better way to pull it. I'd rest him against West Brom if either of those players are fit that I would bring him back. I mean, I'd even be tempted to play if we're going to go 4-2-3-1, play Lucas in Henderson as a 2. Because I think Lucas showed against Middlesbrough with Ross at up beside him that he's okay in a 2. He's just not okay in a 2 with Jared. But I think I'm kind of with Andy. I think sooner or later we've got to see what does Liverpool look like with Jared not in the team, but not injured as in on the bench? Knowing the nation so far that Brandon agrees with you in any way. No, and look, you know, I can totally see why he's dogmatic about it. We won so many games last season with Jared playing at the base of the midfield. He had a slow start the last two seasons. You know, Rodgers probably figures he's having a slow start again. You play him through it. He's Steven fucking Jared. I totally get why he starts. But I think that, you know, we have to, he has to pick and choose games that he doesn't have to play Jared in. So, personally, I would drop him for West Brom. And I think there's a chance Rodgers does that. I think there's a chance he rests. Is that a strategy you agree with Phil? No. I think the West Brom game is too important for us. I think we need to win. It's another home match. We've only won one home match all season in the self hunting game, the opening game of the season. And if we want to be in Champions League next year, we have to win our home matches. And we need to start picking the points. And if it was to prioritize either of the games, West Brom would be the priority for me. Going away to Basel, you know, I'm looking at who's available because that's obviously key to what's going on. And as much as I'm not a fan of the current player as he is at the moment, I'd be happy enough to start Lucas in the match out in Basel in terms of what's there. And then have Henderson along so on because Henderson, I think, is capable of playing the two games. And then whatever way we want to go from there with the rest of the actual midfield. But I think, again, more focus anyway will be getting the three points against West Brom and starting to build. We drew the derby. You know, we've, let's go and win our next league match and put three points on the board and get into double figures for the season because we're seven games in. We've, you know, we're six games in. We've only got seven points on the board. We need to get, we need to start putting points on the board very quickly to get back to Andy's favor. It's two points a game target. And we always said, like, you'll judge them after 10 games. If we can win the next four games, we're on 19 points at the 10 game mark, which would put us just below the two points a game mark. Would you have us back more or less on track? Yeah, but look at our three points behind top four. I think there's two teams on toward and for that are three points ahead of us. I have to look at the table and boy, it's the way it was anyway. I mean, if we had two points per game, we'd be, we'd be well in the mix there. So we're not too far behind. Well, what about this notion? I think it was that yourself, the floaters, um, felt about the idea that a defeat against West Brom and, you know, people can start using words like crisis. Uh, like, yeah, I feel as if it was a crisis a lot. You seem to be having a bad weekend. I don't think it's quite a crisis at all. Uh, it's, it's a bad run. It's a bad patch. It's what we need to walk and get through. Uh, we draw a real loss against West Brom. Yeah, I mean, it's going to start getting sour in the media. If you interest to see what way Rogers responded to that and the team responded. So we already had a player walk out. Um, you know, stuff like that. It's just about the time and the things like that. It's just you just don't want them things. You don't want Liverpool all of a sudden, uh, when the media heavily focus on how, how it's gone at the moment. I think most people believe Liverpool are going to come through this. Like, we can afford to draw against as a big old result. But the main three points the weekend agree with Fearless is absolutely essential now. Do you think of the draw as attainable out there in Basel against, uh, against that lot without Stephen Jerrod Paul? It should be. Yeah. I don't want to see him play the whole game against Basel. I want to see him. I want to see Rogers kind of coming with Alan coming back as well. I want to see him going into this on next weekend, which is the more important game. I'd say I want them to go in there with as many options as possible rather than kind of thinking, well, Jerrod's played 90 minutes against Basel. And now I don't know if Alan's fully fit. So, um, girls, like you, I'd rather kind of give Lucas the goal during the week against Basel than have to put him in and see how he does on the weekend. So, so can I ask a question, right? Just generally is Jerrod and Henderson are better midfield against West Brom than Henderson and Alan in the two. Let's say Alan's fit because you're saying the West Brom game is the most important game. Are you saying that because it's the most important game, we need our best side and Jerrod's in our best side with everyone fit? No, but Alan won't be 100% fit come to the weekend. So that's my logic on it. If Alan was fit enough to play 60 minutes tomorrow night, let's say, right? If Alan was fit one game earlier, then, yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, that makes sense. Because in my head, I'm perhaps assuming that someone else can play that game, you know, and maybe that's wrong. I'm assuming that Alan will be ready for 30 minutes, I'm certainly going to say, right? And then you're looking at potentially how Henderson reacts after playing game, game, game after the week's rest. And also then like we are still quite limited in terms of sentiment fielders because of the injuries in the channel as well. And potentially you could worst-case scenario. I don't know how Coutinho gets on or, you know, you're looking at Atlanta as well. Atlanta will be coming off, you know, playing the League Cup game, the previous league game, the Derby at the weekend. Atlanta has to start for me against Basel because of where we are at the moment in terms of squad. Then he's gone into his fourth game in the space of two weeks at the weekend. And that's when you might need, you know, somebody like Alan tend to be able to come in and do the last 30 minutes as part of his drive back to fitness as well. So when I'm just looking at it, I'm stacking up as to who's likely to play and who's fit and available to play. So that's what I'd play Lucas in the Basel match. And then I'd have Gerard fit and ready to go at the weekend because I think getting that those three points, everyone would take a draw because it's a good way of running your European campaign. When your home matches, you know, take something from your way matches and you get out of the group. Speaking of lads who are fit and available to play, I know we had kind of contrast and opinions on how Coutinho did when he came on at the weekend. He would be issuing what we're starting now against Basel and hopefully then a little bit of form to take him into the weekend. And this, that to me depends on what way we go again. It's all about, you know, what you're looking at. You weren't too impressed with his contribution to weekend. No, I didn't think he played particularly great, but then he's coming off a spell of not playing at all. And there's a lack of match sharpness and articles on there, so that's part of it as well, you know. All I'm seeing is that, yeah, for me, I'm a fan of Sue, so I'd like to see him get a run against Basel. I think when he came on, he was a difference against Middles, but I wouldn't have an issue with him going in, the likelihood as we'll see Coutinho come back into that midfield. And again, a Coutinho Henderson, Lucas midfield, will allow it in there as well. He's a very strong midfield as we go on, you know what I mean? Yeah. Paul, looking ahead into this Champions League match, what's the likely 11? Well, I'd go for probably more or less the same defence, maybe give Jose a game and Moreno a rest. Moreno would get either kind of a big game against Lukaku. In midfield, I would probably go for Lucas. I'd probably play Henderson again and maybe drop Coutinho in there. Or maybe play the LAN in front of him and drop Coutinho out left and rest Stirling for Sunday. Because for Sunday, I want the biggest possibility of him and Sturridge and Balotelli playing together. Stirling, Sturridge and Balotelli. Have you seen signs in Stirling of maybe needing a rest? Is that what you're suggesting? I don't know. Well, we don't know, obviously in Rodgers' first season, he was protecting him a lot. Yeah. I don't know. We don't know physically what he needs, because he's 19 as hard to tell. And mentally, I don't think we need to worry about that anymore. I think he's one of our top players now. Like I said, for West Brom, I want our best midfield available and I want Rodgers to be able to pick from Gerard. That's why I want him rested and I want the biggest possibility of playing Sturridge, Balotelli and Stirling together. That's why I want Stirling rested and Balotelli will probably have to play against Basil unless you want to go for Lambert. We've just absolutely came. I don't see the point in playing Lambert at the moment, so you probably would have to. Would you tend to roll in behind that in terms of prioritization? Yeah, I think Rodgers is going to, just like we were talking there, I think Rodgers will see the West Brom game as the bigger game. In his own mind, his kind of predictive storage is going to be fit and he's going to be fit. Is Alan going to be fit? And he picks Basil team from there. I think there's a few absolutes going to probably be in the team. I think Coutinho definitely plays after that then. It's like the Borregame, he would have had the Derby in mind. I'm pretty much, and he could get away with not playing that he was going to play in the Derby. He played against Middlesbore. He'd be looking at the Basil game as a more difficult game. We'll also know that he can play for the play Lucas. I'm not taking anything away from the Champions League, but I think Lucas is going to struggle more on the Premier League than the Champions League. It's a bit slower on the Champions League. Would you look at the defense intact for the two games? You know, with the idea of them. I don't want to fucking deal now because of the soccer problem. I don't know what it is away back for him now, especially this week. But I would have probably played. I mean, that is his preferred choice to centre halves. Would you be inclined to play them across the two games you would? Yeah, I mean, Skirtle is only coming back and over needs to stay in the team. I think just to find his feet more. But if he wanted to leave a player out, he would look in the see-sack or come back in. But realistically, he'd probably stick with Skirtle and over and help they don't have too much to do. Yeah. Dave, maybe let's think a little bit about the opposition then. That we're going to be facing in the Champions League much. What do you know about Apollo Suisse's Basel team? Well, to be fair, they're obviously in the Champions League regularly. They're the most successful sides. They've scared a couple of teams over the last couple of years. I've been remembering going to Chelsea. I came over with us last year or the year before and giving them a bit of a scare. I remember back when they knocked us out of the Champions League about 10 years ago. They dumped your night out a few years ago, didn't they? They dropped it out of there. So they got paid a degree. I mean, we should qualify ahead in the moment. I almost said we should win. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think going away in Europe is always a tough game. We found the tough against the regrets at home. I don't think this game is a must win, even a must draw. I don't think a loss is an absolute disaster. So I think we can probably go quite conservative. I don't think Rodgers will ever go totally conservative. But I think he might play Henderson, Gerada and Lucas in the midfield. I'm playing Coutinho left, Mark of which right and Balotelli through the middle. A little bit more solid. A bit more experience in the midfield. I don't see him not playing Jared. I think Jared's going to play. But it'll be interesting to see what he does. Basel is going to be tough. If the regrets were the weapon boys, then we struggled against them. Basel is going to be no fools. They used to win at home. They well set up. Seuss is a very good defensive coach. He knows the English game. He's played here. He's managed here. So they're not going to be any mugs. I think it's going to be a tough game. For observations? Yeah, much change from the team that played against Chelsea and did so well against them last year. We're more yacking the manager going off to Spartak Moscow. They've got decent defenders. They've got Granite Shackers' brother playing alongside Fabian Sharon. They've often played with the three of the back. The world is there. They've got quality. They lost their goalkeeper Jorgen Summer to a bunch of mulling and grabback this year. They've brought in a Czech guy who's the number two to powder check. He was meant to be decent enough, if not at the same level as Summer is at this moment in time. And then, I suppose, the only thing is up front. There's a lot of goals that are in their own domestic league. So you'd probably expect them to put something up against us, you know, and test their defence. And that would be me key concern in terms of what's there. Apart from that, again, you're looking at a team that you would see as possibly mid-table premiership team in terms of what they are. And your worry there is that we've struggled against mid-table premiership teams this year. And again, we've got a mid-table premiership team to play at the weekend. Well, they're above us at the moment. But like, you know, we should be seeing that they'll probably, they'll come at us. What we need to do then is revert to, you know, maybe be a bit conservative and try to play them on the break. The only issues we said, if we leave Sterling out, you lose the pace that we have on the side. And then we don't have storage to play off the shoulder if you're playing that way. So you'll need whoever's supporting Balotelli to be able to get up and get past them, because he'd be looking for boards around the corner to play on it from there as well. So they allow for a threat. It's up to us to show that we've got to do a class again and take on from Everton, even if it's a change. So if it is Markovich, especially in the wake of the conversation we've had here, as Dave suggested, it might be another star for him. It is an opportunity, right? It's an opportunity, like I was saying, it's an opportunity for him to, you know, be fearless in this game. And, you know, use his talents, not be pushed off the ball. He'll probably find it less physical than, say, if he was playing in the premiership, which would probably suit his skillset a lot more. And we should hopefully see a performance out of him, should he start again, and give us that bit of pace. I said, if he attacks the way we're talking about, if we're in a 4-2-3-1 or something, and he's attacking off the flank, get in, and don't be afraid to pull the trigger and get the shot. I'd switch Frank, so I'd move him to the left. Yeah, because he did play left so he brings up. I think keeping him right, Frank, it's just, I don't think that's getting the best out of him. I understand why we did it on Saturday, because we wanted Sterling to go up against him. But, you know, I'd have a look at him on the left-hand side. Cool. Yeah, but... Andy, maybe... I think Philip Dagen is injured, I was trying to do it. Izzy. Yeah, that's a shame. And he told us... He got injured like, told us... Oh, over a leaf hit him in the toe. He told us about our next opponents after that, which is West Brom. We've taken him. Also known as Sunderland 2. Mark. Give us an idea. He gave us an idea. Well, they're fucking at the good results yesterday, didn't they? Yeah. And... Burdaino, how do you say that? Burdaino, he knew. He caused us problems too far, and he seems to be scoring goals this season, so... It's fucking one of the holes, like they come down and fit in the scar early, and it's just going to be a nightmare. Look, I have nightmares of West Brom. Yeah. I was at the West Brom, as I told you before, I was at the West Brom game and had someone's in charge. Every time I see you, I can't wait for them to get relegated. I don't want to see West Brom in the league. Really? Yeah, I'm sure it wasn't about opening day of the season as well, it was... Train Hill. Steve Kirk was just taking over at West Brom. As far as I saw last season, it was just brilliant. Like, that's not my good memories. Yeah, yeah. How much? My storage is chipping all that malarkey, lovely stuff, you know. And then faster, I always seems to put in a performance against us. You can't put in a performance against anybody else, but he obviously seems to put in a performance against us. He's a fucking rat. All right. Let's save against Suarez last season at the Hawthorne's. Oh. That's the end. Nah. And then they've got fucking Jonas Alton. Yeah, the original Yard Dog, which we were talking about last year. You don't know what Suarez is now to give him a nightmare. That's true. Yeah. Well, I hate Jonas Alton. Hate. Well, the thing is he speaks well indeed. Well, the thing is he speaks well indeed. Ballotelli could get on his fucking wick, like, and Ballotelli, he's kept him so that, like, he's gotten involved in a few arguments. But he keeps control over, like... And Paul, we'd be hoping to see storage for a little while, alongside Ballotelli. So between the two of them, they might give him a bit of a tower of time. You'd hope so, yeah. But, like, Ballotelli can wind them up while storage runs in behind them. It's so crucial we win this game. But, but it is... I know we've drifted after the Champions League match, but look, the West Brown game is so important at this moment in time in terms of what's gone on before. No, we moved on to West Brown. I know, but I'm just saying... No, but we haven't behaved much attention to the buzz again, but it's just because West Brown... Because we don't fuck all about it. We want us to do. We can't make shit up. No, but, like, the West Brown game is so important to us at this stage. Yeah. Given results that have gone on, given the home form that we've had at this stage, it's just so important for us together. Well, that is because there's another bloody break afterwards. Yeah. But I think that's why it's even more important. We've got to get through the West Brown game, right? Because, by the time we come back from the internet, assuming... And it's a big assumption, but assuming players don't get injured on international duty, suddenly we come back. We've got four winnable games, and we've got Starridge Fit, Jan Fit, Alan Fit, everyone fit. All of a sudden, squad looks fuller, looks a bit meatier. You know, Rogers is at a time where the players don't go on international duty. They like some market, they like some volatility to stay, to work on them. Lalana might not go. Maybe Starridge doesn't go. Maybe Stern doesn't go. Do you know what I mean? No, maybe you better. You should not go. Yeah, sure. He's got that. Another international break as well. Fuck off, Lee. Do you know what I mean? That's just the truth. Maybe you get to keep the defender. You know, I just think we've just... I agree with you. We've got to win against West Brown because we've got two weeks then to just sort our shit out, come back, win the... You know, put a bit of a run together. And Rogers, whatever else you say about him, we can argue about his transfer rate, we can argue about loads of things. Give him a group of players on a field, on a coaching field, and he makes them better. And that's what we need to do right now. Yeah. Well, do you... [laughter] We just push it towards predictions then for the two games because at this stage... And I agree with George. [laughter] How many goals were we can see to start with that? Paul, what do you think, Basil? I'll be optimistic and say, too well. That's optimistic. Shit. Andy. One more. One more. Yeah. Geez, we're rolling them out here. What do you think? Geez, we were a bit mad at the moment in the cup sign. We were a bit mad. I think we might win 3-2. You do? Okay. Because we've no idea who's playing, I just think we might get through, but I don't know why. There's no logic behind it. Phil, what's your thoughts? I think we win. I do. I genuinely think we win. That's a loss. [laughter] That's that sort. Not only... I think the team seems to be enjoying... Sorry. I know we see what happened, but I think it's a break from the Premier League. There's a bit of pressure off. It's probably the first game that they go in where the pressure isn't on them to win after what's gone on before. And they're going in off the back of a really decent performance, gets everything into Derby. It's also our first win match in the Champions League. They're going to go into a really hostile atmosphere. And I think the team really reacts well to the game. Could be our competition, yes, sir. Yeah. I think we win. 11-4. 11-4. Excellent. Yeah, what about yourself, Paul, for the West Brom game, then? 3-1 to us. 3-1, Liverpool, Andy. Yeah, it's going to go with 3-1 as well. Good for you. Yeah, with us, like we are. [laughter] Generally, we can see the goal. And there might be the game we score a few. Might be the game we kick on with the goals. OK, Dave. Uh... 2-0. 2-0. You seem to be seeing scoreers there, are you? Sturridge, you'll score. Oh, excellent. Go on. Let's go. [laughter] But that's never going to happen. [laughter] I think Mario wins that game for us, Phil. [sighs] Um... I don't see us winning that game. I just don't see us winning that game. Thank Christ. Yeah, so 4-0 to West Brom, thank God for that. Hang on a second. Trev, get some fucking scores out here. So fucking, you know, all we might win that, we might draw that. Yeah. Get some scores out here. Do you want me to give you exact scores? Yeah, I'll just score it first. Basil first. Basil. Basil, I think, I think 2-1. To us? Yeah. I think we win, and I think we win West Brom. I said we win 2-1 as well. And I think Basil tell you the difference. And in the primary league anyway. All right. So there. Hey, Steve. Hey, Steve. Hey, Steve. Hey, Steve. I'm happy with that. I am Lujware. You all listen to Trippin's Chat. Right, some Trippin's Chat, then. First topic we want to cover is Mamadou Sacco. And Brennan Rogers. And hell, they don't love each other anymore. And anyone's going to start the ball rolling this? Erm, I think fair play to Sacco. That's just fuckin' great, isn't it? [laughter] I don't know when it's fresh. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. No, I think when there's pressure on the team and the results aren't going your way. All you need then is some fuckin' asshole to walk out the dress right now. Look, none of us know exactly what happened. Erm, obviously only he was trapped in the squad. Mm-hmm. Because he wouldn't know he wasn't going to play. We do know he'd apologize almost immediately afterwards. What, on Twitter or...? Yeah, on Twitter, yeah. Okay, so we don't know what he said to Rogers. No. I mean, that's the main thing, how he's patched things up. Like, going on to Twitter is kind of maybe getting fans to soid. You know, softening the thing with the fans. And he's done it on his own back. It's not an official thing. I'd say when I see something on the club website. Yeah. You know, because he's engaged with it. If there was a number of tweets back and forward, then he's engaged with the fans. And he's probably like just trying to, you know, come out gold eldest. Like, there's no real coming out gold. Like, if what we're led to believe is true and, you know, there's no coming out gold. You just don't get up on Mark Elderground. But they're not paying the player a hundred grand a week to piss off and deal with his own thing. Yeah. Okay, we're not paying them a hundred grand to not play either. But maybe this is in team with what Rogers, you know, why he's getting dropped. You know, this is part of his personality that Rogers doesn't like. He's open. He's left. So he fails. He can't trust him on the page. How is it, you know, he can't trust him to stay in the ground and watch the game. If he's being banned or whatever. Yeah. Well, look, what I wanted to say to you there, and I'll throw this on there. And it's not just to put any on spot. But look, apparently, like, you know, he is one of these guys who gets involved in community. Like he has been out and about doing the things. He's not a guy who's on his own, completely on his own boards. Sorry. This is a man who goes to visit six children during his spare time. Well, it doesn't fucking matter what he does during his spare time. He's a professional footballer. Right. And the club runs on one fundamental principle, which is the man who picks the team. Right. And, you know, people are saying that he's been treated unfairly and terribly. It's bollocks-like, you know. Dave, you don't know that. It is bollocks. How does anyone else know that? Nobody knows that. That's my point. So why comment? No, no, no, no, no. Sorry. Give me a hypothesis here that he's been treated badly. I don't understand what, give me a example. I'm not taking a point. I'm just saying that he can't say what I'm working with. But there's no one going on to Twitter and saying, oh, he's treated very well. He's really treated well. Whereas, like, people are saying he's treated poorly. Exactly. So don't we bring that into it? What they mean is he's not being selected. Right. But a manager, I think, is someone not by treatment? No, no, no, no, no. You have to accept that you need to deal a bit more to get into the team. You need to do a lot more. Yeah. And at the end of the day, right, a manager thinking that a manager, you get dropped out of a football team for loads of reasons, right? Sometimes it's because there is a better player than you available. Sometimes it's because you don't look fit enough to play, because you played 120 minutes four days ago and in training, your numbers don't look good. Sometimes it's a kick-up they ask to say, you know what, actually, I've given you opportunity. Soccer has had loads of opportunities, and I think he should be starting. I think he's one of our best central defenders. But I have absolutely no problem with the manager thinking differently. I've got no problem. And he has to have that right to say, do you know what, maybe he's disappointed in soccer. The soccer should be as good as he is for Liverpool, as he is for fans for those four games that everyone seems to think he was fucking bad about it. Maybe he is our best centre back, but that's not hard at the moment. No. Like, there's still lots of really bad mistakes. He headed a ball right into the middle of the park against West Ham. That was stupid. And, like, I know a lot of people think it was Lovren, that should have got out a header when he shouted his name, but Lovren was committed and he could see a whole thing, and he still jumps up and heads him in the side of the face. Like, you know, there are mistakes on the picture. Can we just take away from the mistakes, right? The bit that got to me about this is that he came out to Twitter before any news broke from the club. Whether anything is hard, right? Had he come out after the story had broken and then offered his apology? Fine. Yeah. Right? Yeah. The fact is he broke the story. And that to me signals a player who's unhappy with his lot at the club at the moment, and has now created a back story that if he wants to get out in January, he's already got his back story to say he wasn't being treated fairly, he was being left out of squads, etc, etc. And that's what annoyed me. It wasn't. If he wanted to walk, that's not good. And I'm not defending the actor walking out of the thing, but he didn't have to go and put it out there before any story came out. Any official line from the club came out with the official line comes out and he apologizes. There's no, there's no story. That theory then just adds further fuel to this mischief making that's going on at the moment around the whole idea that Brendan Rogers, Marvelous Man Manager, are easy. I don't see again this then, but you know, this adds further flames to the fire. It's like Andy's talked about this before, you know, the media will look for stories. If there's a quiet story where you can, there's something going on and club isn't playing well and team isn't playing well, they will look to find the reason why things are going wrong, right? They look at this now and potentially have a story where he didn't have a story before. You know, it's always been about how good of a man manager Brendan Rogers is, right? Listen, at the end of it all, Agres also come out when he left and he said he, look, he had total respect for Rogers, he thinks he's a great manager and a whole lot, right? Ignore what down and says, he's a muppa, right? Yeah, yeah. He's an absolute muppa and he has no right to comment on Liverpool. He should never have worn a jersey in the forced instance, right? But you can't have as many players come out about Brendan Rogers, commend them for even after they've left the club and gone to order clubs and the whole lot about how good of a man manager is and the whole lot, managers have always been too faced. They have to be. They can't turn around and say to a player he's shit when he's parrotive a squad and you can't get rid of him, right? Yeah, the only thing in his defence and the whole thing about Rogers and his man management, Rogers seems to have had clashes with every cent I have that's played for him since he's been there. Like the Zagres come out and meet in his own country, scare at the stone the same, carry kind of forces way back into the team where he's talking as well. Now it seems like it seems that the centre backs like Rogers isn't prepared to get this partnership gone. Let other players know where they stand. It's like, you know, it over the years they had these two players that were played together and they go the young, couple of young players that could come in and do a job no problem but they knew where they stood and they knew eventually that the other player's going to get too old and he's going to come into the team and that's where it's going to be. The Liverpool, they've got a lot of players in that prime, you know, that are expected to play every week and he hasn't got the, I'd say going to say balls but he maybe just a respect to just say to the players, listen, you're not my forest choice at the moment. You're going to have to play away, you're going to have to play bloody gold when you come on. So what you're saying is it's only a matter of time before we see Ashley Williams? I don't think it's done it again. Roger's on centre backs though, our defenders in general, I think he asks so much of defenders that he is going to piss off defenders who are used to playing a particular way. So he pisses Skirtland and Agorov because they used to play in Ancarraga, they used to play in Rafa but he does try defending and he doesn't want that. Even Julio took defending because it wasn't a change in terms of what he was doing. My thing on defenders is he's bought five defenders since he's been Liverpool manager, a four of them start regularly, right? Lovern starts regularly, Moreno starts regularly, Manquier starts regularly, Asakor does start regularly. You know, he started a lot of games for Liverpool. So it's not like, so maybe some of the defenders he's inherited have found the transition difficult but you could say that about a lot of players they inherited. He told Ancarraga after one week, basically fuck off, like the most expensive player in the club's history. So I think he's got a really clear idea as to what he wants the players to do and I think if they can't do it, I think he does say to them, you can't do what I'm asking you to do, so I'm going to give you these options. You can try and improve and Skirtland, for example, has tried to improve and done more of what Roger's likes or you're going to improve and if you don't improve, I don't care how much you cost, I don't care what your reputation is, if you don't improve, you don't play. That's a major cycle to go. Paul, speaking of fellas who don't improve in terms of their behaviour, we saw some wonderful behaviour from Wayne Rooney at the weekend, what is tackle, in fact, the comments. There's a question in from why always me here on Twitter and he's wondering if you could kick one Premier League player, Rooney-style, who would it be? Probably Stuart Downin to be fair. If not him then there's obviously the obligatory show for real for him, Downin's definitely won, especially after what he was saying during the week that he reckons he'd still get in the Liverpool team. Fuck off, he does deserve a move up the hole, so yeah, I'd say Rooney got that fairly spot. That's not a bad decision-making for him, Andy, any shares from yourself who Chuck? Yeah, Falco. Falco? Yeah. You just don't like to go over him. Just think of your deadly crack. You know, I think he's had problems with his knees, so he's just kicking as hard as possible in the knee. And he's only got legacies and they're like, "I don't know," like if he's fucking brilliant and he had to pay him stupid money, he had to sit there with broken knee. Broken knee. Jesus Christ. That's right, Derek. Really, Derek. I mean, that's Dave. Yeah, he'd probably be Rooney himself. I mean, he's a cunt to a broken guy, you know, he really is. He is the boldest man with air I've ever seen. Seriously. So I would just kick him all over the field. Just relax. But no, I just generally had kick him all over the field. I'd say even his wife thinks he's a cunt, you know. She puts up her money. That's the only thing that he's just ridiculous. I'd say he's fucking smelly as well. He's one of those guys, no matter how many times he showers, he's never clean. It's just never clean. He's not even long enough to roll. That's me for the bike, you know. Phil's pick is out of the Rooney assassination. My one will be Jack Wilcher. Right. And preferably when he's on the ground moaning in a Bishop Len Brennan pose. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I take a run at the 20-yard run and give it an arm. Seriously, we'll boot up the hole. Fucking Jack Wilcher up the ice. Yeah. Oh, it takes an immense pleasure on his face and everything. He's just everything that makes me want to kick somebody up the ice. He'd be off for nine months if he did that, so he's made a fucking glass. He's just one of those players when you look at him, I want to hit him so much. Down and yeah, you got into the down and shell force, but definitely Jack Wilcher will be high end the list. He didn't kick down and hard enough to be fair. No. Like, if you're going to kick down and make a kick, make it count. Make a count. Make an absolute count. Yeah. It was just funny. It was just a shit kick that he got sent off for. After the record, I want to go and kick them again. Shit. If I've got to get done, I'm going to get to go. Yeah, I've got to do it. Right. We have a question in from Sam, primarily in the EU poll, because you knew you were in tonight, and it's what's the best sopranos season you've ever witnessed, or if you want to talk football, what's the best Liverpool season you've ever witnessed and why? The best Liverpool season would be, well, if you're taking out Istanbul and just going domestically, probably last season, like, if you've taken out the cause of league, why it's definitely last season, so it was a complete rollercoaster, like sopranos, I would go season two or season three. I'm on season two. I'm watching it now for the second time, and I'm on season two at the moment, and it's just brilliant. But season three has Ralph Ciferro, who's just like a complete arsehole, and he's hilarious in there. He's winning, and it's got the "Plain Barrens" episode, which is... Which is... Yeah, you've seen that episode. I've seen that episode. Yeah, that's just ridiculous. Like, probably edge towards season two, maybe it's a close one, though. Very good. Favorite Liverpool season? You don't have to do sopranos, but you don't know the show. Okay, season one is pronounced, so you have a maze, man. What was your favorite there? The acting and all. The acting and all. Are people connected with their characters, Mar? Yeah. Yeah. It was wonderful writing, wasn't it? It was wonderful. If you look at... And it was novel as well. I was not. It's beautiful. It was beautiful. Should we just left it there? They should have. They killed you on half den. They went on for it. Yeah. You're the best. You have the best Liverpool season? Yeah. Well, last season. I think it's probably going to take a few years for last season to properly sink in. But, you know, you're going to look back at last season. It's such a big opportunity to win the league, so I don't know what I can sort of say. Definitely last season is double, you know, and that season I went on half a lot of games and I went away in Europe for about a year as well, so that, that, that for me, like... You don't, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you don't remember league Wednesday? Uh, don't remember league Wednesday. Yeah. It was the first time ever in the Republic of our Champions, so... Right. But that doesn't stand out as more champions. That was the main champions. I was like, it was in my house that we were just... Just to think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of need to see the Republic of that as a grown up win the league. Yeah. You're coming from me to appreciate. Dave, what about yourself? I don't know. I don't know. [laughter] That's a big point. [laughter] Just sort of the most, the most arguable statements I've been like. Dave, your favorite Liverpool season and it's a promise as well if you want. Well as you know, I have very far memories of '96, '97. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your weather reports were a start. [laughter] That's great. Oh, it's a beautiful game. Beautiful day. It was a... [laughter] The most I've enjoyed and invested in a season was last season. It was, I mean, even though it, you know, even though we didn't win the league and I know loads of it, I wasn't like, I mean, I was gutting me wrong, but as I look back on the season, I don't have this sense of, oh my God, I can't even look at it again. It was so devastating. You know, the part, I haven't rewatched the Palace game, but apart from that game, it was just a great season. So last season was... Jesus. The three lads gone for them. Yeah. But season two is the best season on the Sparras. Season two. Yeah, I disagree with Andy. No, no, no, no. Didn't you think the third episode of season one was a bit weak though? [laughter] They didn't really connect to the characters at all when he saw that thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. [laughter] Well, after that, it's all over. For me, Liverpool season eight, seven, 88, when I was in my 40s, it was one of the wonderful time in my life. And the final season, the wire, Phil. Yeah. Oh. [laughter] Well, yeah. Slow down. Yeah. [laughter] I was too gumpy, man. [laughter] I'll say. Like now, Quinn. [laughter] I suppose you have... Look, for... I can remember the '80s, because as I said, the '84, '86 is the forced real memory of following a season right away, too. But it's not like now because the games weren't on the television all the time. So, you know, you weren't seeing the games week in, week out, so you were getting games when they were important games, when you were getting games at different points through the season. I suppose, yeah, '87, '88, every time we've seen us play, like, it was on television that you could see is playing. It would be only 10 at the time. It was 4-0 every month. Oh, look, it was crazy. And you had burns in his pump. You had orders. You had Peter Bird in the pump. Look, it was just an immense team to watch. They were truly, truly a brilliant team to watch. And I love... Like, even now, we're looking back at the games from that season and the whole lot. Modern day, I think, oh, wait, online. I still... I love last season the way the running happened, but oh, wait, online was, you know, we got so close and I went online as well, and, you know, you had Taurus in the full flow, that season. Gerard missed so much of that season. When you look, when you actually remember back to that season as well, Gerard missed the so much of the season. Taurus missed it. They played very few games together. Taurus was just in full flow. It was a magnificent... Magnificent... Magnificent. Well, it's a magnificent... Watch, but that was the first time that I felt really close to a title since the '90s. You know, since we said '94, '96, '96, '97. And that was the first one that I thought, yeah, you know, we're going to deal with this and we didn't do it and in the end, and, you know, it's always that sense that we don't make it, and, like, it reminds me so much of '89, '90 when we told, '88, '89 when we told the League away, you know, that's the feeling that I always comes back to when we think about '89, even last year, even '96, '97, I'm always getting that feeling back to losing in Arsenal in that last game, and it's just... That kills me. Like, that's what ruins those seasons for me. It's just... You get so close, you can touch it, and then it's just taken away from... So, not your favourite season, at all? No, but I'm talking about modern day seasons, like, you know what I mean, in terms of what... When I really, really enjoyed watching it, and that's when you've seen so much football, the more modern day seasons you've seen more of the games than ever before in any of the other seasons that we would have seen, unless you were actually going to the games itself. If only there was some where we could listen to more of your thoughts about the '90s... (LAUGHTER) Strangely, you know... And finish the time. People tuning in to Anfield FM, yeah, yeah, the favourite season of 'Surprance'. Yeah, about the second lecture. Good lads. (LAUGHTER) So, to finish, as usual, now with some admin. Irish listeners who like to play football should come down and do so here at Astro Park, book your game on Astro Park.ie. On our website, LFCDayTripers.com, we've lost a cost over the moment, some fantastic articles as per usual, from some of our great writers, and an excellent competition there to win some very, very nice, Liverpool t-shirts. Our day trip on November 1st, we'll see LFC fans from all over the country heading to Waterford for an overnighter in the Dooley Hotel. We're going to be involved and part of it, and we'll be recording something on the day, so if you want to get involved, you need to contact YNWA Irish Reds. On Friday last, our first show was broadcast on Anfield FM and featured our interview with a legend that is John Barnes. Very different to this show, and you can tune in via AnfieldFM.org, or we've handled a fairly embedded radio player onto the website, so you can use any web radio app for your mobile device. We think it's something you'll enjoy. Your day trip is a night where Dave Thomas, Paul Brennan, and the young Phil Casey, are myself Trev Denny. It's brilliant to just, and then you get to see what he did against Fulham, but he's coming up with us. What's happened? What's happened? The lack of God. You know what it is. You'd like possibly have done to prevent that? Oh, there's no premise, and I just went wag the finger and just looked at him and said, "No." You just thought about the way he runs, right? The reason... It doesn't bend his knees. That... Shame. It's a reason. I don't know. He can't call downstairs. It's a reason, Dave. But he's gone. So... 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 smoothie 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 this stretch and flex smoothie in Tarte Cherry or Pineapple Kale. Order online today for pickup or delivery. Smoothie King, rule the day. This podcast is brought to you by Progressive. Have you tried the name your price tool yet? It works just the way it sounds. 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This weeks episode looks back at a game that was so close yet so far away in the end from what would have been a sweet sweet derby day victory. We look at ahead at 2 crucial matches in the week ahead and try to figure out which takes priority. We close out the pod discussing this weeks non match headlines including the Sakho incident, Bren’s man management skills, who we want to kick and our favourite sorprano’s season. Get on it.
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