Dirk Kuyt - player of the year?

[Redspin]

*you're*

Quite so. Poor editing by me. Inexcusable

[Redspin]

Oh great. Last season counts does it! Yippee we're runners up then and not really seventh. This pathetic specimen's off to get pissed. Cheers, mate. What the mancs say is true after all. We do live in the past.

As the point seems to be lost on you, I'll explain it slowly.

The point is that he's a highly consistent player who weighs in with his fair share of goals - as many last season as an alleged "world-class" striker - whilst playing in a wide position in the main.

The fact that he's done it for consecutive years, outperforming a so-called "world-class" player in goals and assists only one year ago (I suppose it is the past but we're hardly talking decades here) and has managed to score as many goals from that wide position this season as our much-vaunted skipper, who is routinely valued at £30m, would show to any normal person that he makes an invaluable contribution to the team and deserves better than the sniping he gets on here from the odd dickhead with an IQ marginally higher than their shoe size.

[Neil Young]

Because on single match based performances keepers always get screwed unless they make a string of wonder saves. Mascherano has been one of the few players who (at least post January) has obviously been doing their job to the expected standard and because his role doesn't depend much on anyone else to make him look good he will do well in these things when we are struggling as a team.

To back up your analysis, I have prepared a series of scatter charts using seasonally adjusted Duckworth-Lewis data going back to 1945, cross-indexed with both recent sunspot activity and crop yields in medieval Hampshire (pre-Black Death).

And very illuminating they are too.

[Angryred]

Sums up our season really if Kuyt was our player of the season. IMO (for what it's worth which probably is a lot) he is not good enough for LFC first team but ok for the bench

Well said!...

[gaz01]

Reina has been our best player for the last 3-4 years really. Most consistent and never injured and always one of the top ~2 keepers in the league if not the best.

[dww]

To back up your analysis, I have prepared a series of scatter charts using seasonally adjusted Duckworth-Lewis data going back to 1945, cross-indexed with both recent sunspot activity and crop yields in medieval Hampshire (pre-Black Death).

And very illuminating they are too.

I would question your use of the scatter plot for this sort of data and hope that you have applied the appropriate normalisation to the notoriously unreliable crop yield data.