The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[slow corner back]

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3407555,00.html

Can we please get this arsehole out?

Which one, Parry or Hicks?

[myball22]

Both,

one's an idiot (albeit a rich idiot) the other sold the club to an idiot

[Norf Tyrone]

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/516204-dic-pulls-out-of-liverpool-deal-while-owners-feud?ln=en

[Doogie Browser]

From the Beeb just now, more trouble ahead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/7341190.stm

[Mentalman]

From the Beeb just now, more trouble ahead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/7341190.stm

Read that earlier, unreal. I wish these two would just go forth and multiply, at least then DIC, or maybe even ShareLiverpoolFC, could step in, and let the staff run the club as it should be, not as some plaything of billionaires. These two are everything I thought the Glasers might be, but have proved to be the opposite of, at Utd.

[slow corner back]

I wouldnt set the glaziers up as an example of how to run a club just yet. The first couple of years were dodgy and relied on selling players. It is only since the new TV deal was signed the the checkbook has really come out at OT.

[Minder]

In fairness i dont think Parry is the most dynamic of figures and perhaps Hicks thinks he is not fit for the job, regardless of what people think this isnt the move of a man who is getting ready to sell. One point that was mentioned yesterday was Hicks is unhappy with the merchandising aspect and that the shop was never properly stocked, i will say that i have looked on the official online shop for things and so many items are not available or sold out.

[magpie seanie]

I wouldnt set the glaziers up as an example of how to run a club just yet. The first couple of years were dodgy and relied on selling players. It is only since the new TV deal was signed the the checkbook has really come out at OT.

Not to mention the scandalous increases in ticket prices and the highly controversial mandatory cup ticket purchase scheme for season ticket holders. For the first time in many years United season tickets were on general sale I believe before last season (i.e. no waiting list) as the ordinary fan is increasingly being forced out of OT by price increases. The Glazers are not good. Like Hicks/Gilett they are taking huge sums out of the club to pay interest on their loans. This money should be re-invested in players, facilities and keeping ticket prices down. The Barcelona model is probably the correct way to run a sports club. These rich businessmen didn't get rich by works of charity.

[Mentalman]

I definitely wasn't canonising the Glasers, but Bill and Ben the flowerpot men seem to think they are back in the states, where you can fire and hire as you please - basically they are clueless.

Totally unrelated, I saw this on BBC this morning:

Fixer 'kept gangster off Gerrard' 

Steven Gerrard respected 'fixer' Kinsella, his father said
Steven Gerrard's father has said he turned to an underworld "fixer" to stop a gangster from terrorising his son and threatening to shoot him in the legs.

The information was in a letter Mr Gerrard wrote to a court where the fixer, John Kinsella, denies being part of a gang involved in a robbery.

Paul Gerrard said the Liverpool captain's car had been smashed up and he was chased home from training.

He said it was after he asked Kinsella for help that the trouble stopped.

Paul Gerrard said that Liverpool Football Club had provided extra security, and he had also contacted police but claims it was only after he contacted Kinsella that the threats ended.

Mr Gerrard's letter read: "I would like to say that in 2001 my son Steven was being terrorised by a notorious Liverpool gangster known as The Psycho, who was threatening to maim my son by shooting him in the legs.

"Also, he was trying to extort a large amount of money from Steven. We immediately contacted the police and asked for protection."

"This went on for a long time, during which Steven's car was smashed up and the gangster chased him while he was driving home from training.

"We were introduced by a friend to John Kinsella. John then reassured me and my family he would resolve our nightmare.

"We have never had any more problems from the Liverpool underworld. Steven and I have total respect for John."

Kinsella is on trial with two other men accused of stealing £41,000 of goods from a lorry depot in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on 19 March 2006.

Their alleged haul included £8,000 of Easter eggs and another £33,000 of crisps and detergents.

But the jury was told on Thursday that Kinsella had been "hoodwinked" in to taking part in the robbery.

Gordon Aspden, representing Kinsella, said: "He (Kinsella) said he was hoodwinked and there's a lot of evidence to back up his case that in advance of this robbery he did not know what was going to go off."

Kinsella, of Liverpool, denies robbery and a charge of dangerous driving. Two other men - James Muldoon, 28, and 49-year-old Stephen McMullen, both of Liverpool - deny robbery.

A fourth man, Thomas Hodgson, 29, of Liverpool, has admitted one charge of robbery.

The trial continues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7341485.stm

Murky

[GalwayBayBoy]

In fairness i dont think Parry is the most dynamic of figures and perhaps Hicks thinks he is not fit for the job, regardless of what people think this isnt the move of a man who is getting ready to sell. One point that was mentioned yesterday was Hicks is unhappy with the merchandising aspect and that the shop was never properly stocked, i will say that i have looked on the official online shop for things and so many items are not available or sold out.

That much is definitely true. We fell so far behind Man U as regards to self-promotion and merchandising in the 1990's that we are still playing catch-up. An example of which being the day after the CL win against Milan the club shop was closed because all the staff were still in Istanbul. Now it was a nice touch to bring them to the game but to have left nobody back in Liverpool to run the shop when people were ready to clean the place out was amateur. Parry has not done a good job in this regard but as he is an enemy of Hicks the fans are generally behind him.

[AZOffaly]

Good result today for Liverpool with Everton being held away at Brum. I'd say Rafa will definitely rest a couple of bucks tomorrow now.

[deiseach]

Good result today for Liverpool with Everton being held away at Brum. I'd say Rafa will definitely rest a couple of bucks tomorrow now.

By 'bucks', I presume you mean 'buck'. I'd say the chances of Torres starting would be slim.

[johnpower]

What is the ticket situation for the blackburn game ?.I know some one who is looking for 2 for tomorrows game .What is the best place in Liverpool to get tickets for a game ?

[Minus15]

don't really think rafa has a need to rest too many tomorrow. i think with a week until the next game he will field a strong side looking to put 5 points between ourselves and everton. then rest a half dozen against fulham next week ahead of chelsea game. i think dropped points tomorrow could give everton a glimmer of hope again but a win and that will most likely put their ideas of catching lpool to bed. so i think rafa will go for strong team.

Possibly:
reina finnan carragher skrtel aurelio benayoun gerrard alonso babbel crouch torres

[deiseach]

What is the ticket situation for the blackburn game ?.I know some one who is looking for 2 for tomorrows game .What is the best place in Liverpool to get tickets for a game ?

Sad to say it, but if you don't know anyone then you are stuck with going to touts. If you have nerves of steel, wait until five minutes before kick off and offer face value - they'll be desperate to make any money at that stage (and they've probably paid below face value anyway). Always worked for me when I was living in Liverpool - well, on the two occasions I did it - but that was because I knew I could go to the comforts of home rather than slumming it in an empty Albert while the match took place a hundred yards away