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Goldigger! 

[i think Kerry have one final push in them]

Cavan are coming side, last season extended run will be a good experience for their young players. They should get promoted to div two this spring which should bring them on further.

Mayo seem to play all their best football before All Ireland finals can they find a way to reach a final without peaking before it?

With retirements and others leaving it hard to see Cork making any impact in 2014 i think Kerry have one final push in them and Donegal are sure to better than 2013.

How many 'final pushes' does a team get?

With TOS gone, Brosan gone from the bench, Star up in the clouds and players like Galvin and O'Mahony likely to be pushed towards being impact subs if they continue we can definitely say this Kerry team will have plenty of pushes in them because the ones whose form will be deciding if Kerry are contenders will be the next generation, not the golden oldies.

Kerry are very lucky the Cork panel have apparently decided to take a knee for 2014 but it's difficult to see how they'll beat the teams they've failed to beat the last few years next year when those teams have less rebuilding to do. The league will be very important for this Kerry team if they're to make progress in the summer.

Well said! Kerry's next big push will be a new push with new players if they can find them.

Have a soft spot for Cavan. But they are still a bit (and i mean a fair bit) off of being a credible Championship side. They reached the AI Quarter finals by default this year. From seeing them in the flesh against Kerry last year they looked like an under 21 side, physically and to be honest they mentally played the same way. They are still in the building process and will be looking to beat the teams just below the top six.

Then there was David Healy. Who could do it against the big sides for Northern Ireland. But was no more than average for his clubs.

Why wasn't the title of the thread 'Suarez is not a big game player but Rooney is' ?

BDO world Championship starts on the weekend. Wonder how much life is left in this competition? Every year there are less and less of the familiar names.

And now for something completely different.......the best team on Merseyside over the past 5 years is back in pole position!

Glad to see you wrote this on the Liverpool thread. For a minute there I thought you were talking about Everton!

As most of us know 4th is what the reasonable Liverpool fan expects this season. Talk of winning the league is/was just fantasy fan stuff! There are three certainties for the top three places Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal. The last place is up for grabs between Man Utd, Everton, Liverpool and to a lesser extent Spurs and to an even lesser extent Newcastle. I fancy Man U for 4th. I even believe they will get there with games in hand. Which would leave Liverpool FC in no mans land again.

Big game today but we are playing well and are in a good position for turn of the year and 2nd half of the season. Despite the fact we are not top we have the following teams all to come to Anfield in 2014 - arsenal, city, spurs, Chelsea, Everton, Newcastle so plenty of opportunity to make inroads on the teams around us. We have hope and if we get few men in next month then we can certainly finish in top 4.

Yeah it's a bonus we will have played all the big teams and Everton away from home before the start of the new year.

You'd have to be happy with a draw today and a win would be huge.

Yeah, a result of some kind would be great! Jez though have you ever seen it so tight at the top of the Table?

Trevor Giles and Michael Donnellan would have been unlucky in the half forward line. Never saw larry tompkins play

But for Thompkins, there's a good chance Cork wouldn't have won those 2 in late 80s.

He was some player.

They would not have, no doubt! (Along with Shay Fahy) He was Kildares  Loss!

25 years is too long a period to look at a group of players. A decade is the most at best. Even then there are players just starting out on their career at the end of the decade or finishing at the beginning.

Anyone from west of the Shannon on Mickey's team or is it a Ulster/Kerry selection box?

Ulster teams are obsessed with two things beating the hell outta each other and beating Kerry. And in Fairness they succeed in doing both nearly all of the time!

Have not seen the list but I suppose the following were not good enough.Declan Browne, Kevin O'Brien, Ciaran McManus, Matty forde, Eamon O'Hara, Johnny Doyle, Ciaran McDonald, Glenn Ryan, Martin Daly, Colin Corkery, Dermott Earley (jnr). In reality you are not a truly a great player without the Celtic Cross?

[I think those top 5 teams will all take points off each other]

It is nice to be top at any time and especially for Christmas and the New Year but I think those top 5 teams will all take points off each other and you will see it remaining tight well into the New Year.

I've been saying the past number of weeks that Everton have beaten Stoke, Man Utd, drew with Arsenal, beaten Fulham & now beaten Swansea and the whole time we never moved above 5th. It's fierce tight up there with most of us wary of Man City & Chelsea getting their act together.

I'd make that a top 8 teams. You can add in Spurs, Newcastle and (especially) Man Utd as well.

LIVERPOOL, TOP OF THE LEAGUE, LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL, TOP OF THE LEAGUE.