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#61

GAA Discussion / Re: Who will win 2024 All-Irel...

Last post by Captain Scarlet - April 25, 2024, 05:31:59 PM

I just can't see Dublin being caught when it comes to when it really matters. I'm also going to have a punt on Kilkenny as POTY. He is playing far more direct again.

The older stagers like McCarthy and Mick Fitz also add so much. Then if Jack McCaffrey gets right...

Hard to know where the others really are, and Kerry will be cagey too till they need to show their hand.

#62

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Norm-Peterson - April 25, 2024, 05:26:08 PM

I see that the Derry Journal journalist wrote an article complaining about Derry fans reaction to the defeat. He said that they aren't real supporters. That is rich for him to say, he probably gets free tickets to the games. It is his job to go to the games.

#63

GAA Discussion / Re: Connacht U20 and U17 champ...

Last post by galwayman - April 25, 2024, 05:08:26 PM

Yeah I think it's probably a good idea to reward the top team with home advantage.

#64

General discussion / Re: The DUP thread

Last post by general_lee - April 25, 2024, 05:04:51 PM

Seen some tosser making a dick of himself outside the courtroom when Donaldson came out. Some people do anything to post online.

Allegedly a TUV supporter, but that could be BS.

Although the same moron posts another video where he's approached by Ben Lowry who seems to know him going by the interaction.

That's a nyuck if ever I heard one. Doubt he's a TUV man.

#65

General discussion / Re: The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC ...

Last post by Armamike - April 25, 2024, 04:45:09 PM

I would easily have him above Dalglish.

Good point about Liverpool in 2019-2020.  They were the best team in the world, no argument about it.

#66

General discussion / Re: The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC ...

Last post by J70 - April 25, 2024, 04:32:00 PM

Maybe he will stand in the centre circle and tell the fans their job now is to support the new manager aka 'the chosen one'.

Klopp is leaving Liverpool far better than he found them. If he had would nothing else apart from the Premier League he would still be considered a legend imo. The fact he won everything there was to win (apart from the Europa League obvs) means he will go down as one of the greatest managers the club has ever had.

Certainly whomever comes in has big boots to fill but they should be given time because it's probably going to take next season at the least to find his feet at such a big club. 

Genuinely intrigued that Liverpool fans will hold him in such high esteem, or maybe is it recency bias? He delivered one league title in 9 years?

I get that he is an iconic figure and was box office and even fans of other teams will miss him from the EPL.

They hadn't won any league titles in the 30 years previous, 1 in 9 isn't bad considering!
I'm actually genuinely intrigued about how someone couldn't see him as anything other than a success at the club but sure each to their own I'm not here to change anyone's opinion on him.
Liverpool fans will hold him in the highest of esteems and probably won't care what any other fans think.

I was just curious, I know he is a bit of a cult figure. Just wondered if looking back it will be with a bit of regret that it was only one title.

That being said United would take a single title at the moment any season.

There is only so much you can do when your resources are limited and those of your opponent are limitless. For example, even if he'd wanted to come, was there a remote prospect that Liverpool could afford the financial package required to attract someone like Erling Haaland? Pep is arguably the greatest coach of the modern era, but would he have done any better at Liverpool than Klopp has done in the circumstances?

From where he started, Klopp resurrected Liverpool in a manner not seen since Shankly. They were arguably the best team in the world in 2019/20, five years after ending a season and Steven Gerrard's PL career with a 1-6 loss to Stoke.

Placed in the context of what he was up against, I'd think there's a good argument to be made that Klopp is Liverpool's second best ever manager after Shankly. Third after Shankly and Paisley is a no-brainer.

And yeah, his personality and charisma helped with the fans, but surely that's also part of why he is so successful as a coach in the first place?

#67

General discussion / Re: Holidays

Last post by RedHand88 - April 25, 2024, 04:23:30 PM

Staying in the north west end of Fuerteventura in a month. Anyone able to recommend any beaches or towns up that way?

#68

General discussion / Re: The far right

Last post by whitey - April 25, 2024, 04:16:36 PM

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/helen-mcentee-confirms-fewer-100-32663680.amp


So would calling for the deportation of 7200 people "whose asylum applications have been refused" be a far right
Position?

#69

GAA Discussion / Re: Who will win 2024 All-Irel...

Last post by seafoid - April 25, 2024, 04:15:34 PM

The All Ireland is like the grand national. Kerry , Galway and derry all performed below capacity. On the other hand, so what. The real deal starts in the quarter finals.

#70

General discussion / Re: The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC ...

Last post by thewobbler - April 25, 2024, 04:05:07 PM

Chelsea under Boehly has been bizarre.

The template for success is obvious if you look at City, Liverpool and even Arsenal. Get the manager in place. Allow him to place his stamp on the team in terms of playing style and application. Permit him to spend heavily on key areas. Support him in moving along players who don't fit the style or application. Don't try to have two established first choice players for every position, just for specialist positions for his playing style.

But Chelsea took the United route instead. Madness.