sums up the feeling on here !!

[dww]

Well I'm glad I never said that you can only know things by watching live as that would be a really stupid thing to say.

I was trying to make the point that learning about football for me was a more gradual process and it took the form of listening and learning from others and then trying to form a balanced judgement of my own.

Fair play. I admit I took your comment in slightly the wrong way. Plenty of people on here and elsewhere on the web will attack your opinion if you haven't seen the team live, glad to hear you are not one of them.

[dww]

but there are only so many times you can read a thread and think 'do i tell this person that being realistic - we arent going to sign eto or henry' Its not even worth discussing in the first place - never mind for the 300th time.

In general I either laugh at or avoid getting to involved in those sort of threads. Since the silly season forum has been created it is much easier to dip in and out of those debates.

[BrooklynRed]

TBH, I haven't been posting much as I have been drafting my "ALL OF YOU WHINGERS OWE US AN APOLOGY" thread on MS Word. Not much to say, really, so I stay out of it, but it IS entertaining reading because I am simply hoarding quotes to post when we make a quality transfer or are in competition for the title this year. Nice post...

[Nicey]

I have to say that it irritates me when people assume you can only know things by watching games live. There are advantages to both live watching and videos (why else would top coaches make videos of matches if there was nothing to learn from them which they hadn't seen live). Also there is a much wider opportunity to gain knowledge of football by playing, watching other teams etc.

However I find that it is rarely helpful to cast names about and the best thing to do is attempt to conduct a decent discussion with people about points. You can fairly easily stay away from a lot of the more ludicrous speculation by choosing which forums/threads to read.

Yeah you are right I am a tad snappy my name is ironic

[Nicey]

Ill buy you a pint next time im in hong kong.

Will have to be a Diet Coke I am off the sauce two days and vowed never to touch a drop again ... oh the misery

I'll share a Cuban cigar or two with you at my weekly poker game

[AFII]

Lucas is a big name signing in the class of Anderson or Nani so we have made one quality signing and for a lot less than what Anderson or Nani costed Scum.

I think people forget him when they talk about that we have not made any quality signings yet.

[BrooklynRed]

Lucas is a big name signing in the class of Anderson or Nani so we have made one quality signing and for a lot less than what Anderson or Nani costed Scum.

I think people forget him when they talk about that we have not made any quality signings yet.

Agree. I didn't mean that Lucas and Voronin were not quality signings, more that they are not the 'big names' that the whiners desire.

[Jazzmaster]

The internet is a wonderful creation: how else would you have ever ended up reading my wise words? But, nevertheless, there are times when I wish no one had ever thought of it. And this is one of those them.

For there is nothing more depressing these days than chancing upon a Liverpool forum. Should you have the misfortune to do so you would find post after post complaining about the lack of transfer activity and how this has already killed off Liverpool’s hopes for next season.

Given this situation, you would have thought that the news of a bid for West Ham’s Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun would have brought some relief. Instead it has done the opposite. For, the masses seem to have decided, Benayoun is not good enough. Or, rather, he doesn’t cost enough because that is apparently the way you judge players these days.

It all stems from Rafael Benitez’s comments in the aftermath of the Champions League final defeat, where he urged the club to act fast in order to secure the players that he had in mind rather then end up with the second or third choices later on during the summer. That he had already identified two players costing in the region of £10 million sparked frenetic speculation as to who these two must be. No one costing less will do.

Which is why the Benayoun transfer rumours have been met with skepticism at best. It is symptomatic of a generation of fans who value players by hype, rating in football management games and youtube clips.

None of those needs to be checked to establish that Benayoun is an excellent player: that is something for which you have to see him play. Surprisingly few seem to remember last year’s the FA Cup final when Benayoun literally ran rings round the Livepool defence.

His flair and technique would come in pretty useful in a Liverpool squad that last season lacked a creative outlet once Luis Garcia was ruled out injured. He might not fall in the £10 million bracket that Benitez mentioned last May – probably because his contract is running out - but he remains a player who the Spanish manager values very highly since his time in Spain. And that should be all that really matters

Yes. Strongly Agree

[Mr Tourette]

Will have to be a Diet Coke I am off the sauce two days and vowed never to touch a drop again ... oh the misery

I'll share a Cuban cigar or two with you at my weekly poker game

Fooking hell nicey, ive just given up smoking. What a pair we are....

[Nicey]

Mate stick with it, it take about 2 weeks to get it out of your system. Just say I am not going to smoke again, its not going to kill me not to smoke and eventually I will stop thinking about it, I gave up 2 years ago. Best thing I ever did

[Mr Tourette]

Mate stick with it, it take about 2 weeks to get it out of your system. Just say I am not going to smoke again, its not going to kill me not to smoke and eventually I will stop thinking about it, I gave up 2 years ago. Best thing I ever did

Cheers mate, ive broiken its back, its been a few months now. Pat myself on the back after every booze fueled night out when i would have had 40 Camal lights.

[Parm]

The trick is not to believe a ****ing word of anything from anyone until you see a player next to Rafa wearing or holding up his shirt, especially from some of the 'insiders' - 99% of the rest is bull****e.

yup, that is ti, until they are in the P.C saying ho they were lifelong reds and couldnt turn down this opp then it's all bollox.

[Joe Le Toff]

Well sad lad and sentiments I echo.

Players dont have to cost the earth to be decent or quality. Owen for 9mil v bent for 17mil..no contest but then again there are those who think that the more you pay the better you get. Really?

Daniel Agger for 5mil to Liverpool
Walter Samuel for over 15mil to Real Madrid.

I want at Liverpool who Rafa wants.

Diego Forlan?

[nobbylad]

If I want to discuss footy and Liverpool FC in general, I'll generally speak to my mates, most of whom go to games or follow football in general (not all Liverpool fans either) and sometimes discuss on here etc.

I mostly come on here for a laugh/kill time and the day I start believing every thread about Rafa leaving, Henry/Eto'o/Raul signing, the new stadium looking like a toilet seat/gas works or starship enterprise, or hanging on every word that someone who's heard a snippet about something (however valid or not) will be the day I've retired on mental health grounds.

Now then, where's Kendiddy's last post?......