Football Banter

(13-07-2011 16:25 )Charlemagne Wrote:  

(13-07-2011 08:58 )William H Bonney Wrote:  England wouldn't be able to appeal to FIFA to get the match postponed and possibly rescheduled for a neutral venue, so England would simply have to make their own decision.

But if it wasn't a friendly but a World Cup qualifier...

England could appeal to FIFA. There is a precedent for this in which the New Zealand government wouldn't give a visa to a Fiji player (their goalkeeper I think) and FIFA ordered the match to be postponed. Eventually the visa was granted and the match went ahead in New Zealand, but if it hadn't of been the match would have been played at a neutral venue.

(15-07-2011 00:48 )mitchell Wrote:  Why do fans of other teams keep coming out with...

Was that post meant to be sarcastic? Or were you just tired?

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  Well the majority of Liverpool fans feel it is there divine right to be spoken about in the same breath as the top teams in the league because of what you did in the 70s and 80s, and if its not that, you are getting all excited about 'King Kenny' - a king for doing well when? Back in the good old days when Anfield was a fortress.

In complete truth, other than a few players (Reina, Gerrard, Suarez) you have a distinctly average team (Carroll, Adam & Henderson have a lot to prove) and yet you think you are gonna push up the league? If you do, its because of Arsenal regressing rather than you improving that much.

You now say Carragher couldn't get past Ferdinand and Terry, but before you said he was in the top 2 defensive defenders - so how does that work?

I'm surprised about what you say about Stevie G, I honestly feel like he gets a lot credit (justifiable credit at that) for carrying your team whenever they need the push, and the fact he plays on the left is more a testament to Lampard lack of versitility and the fact that Gerrard is much much better than Fat Frank.

Theres no need to go into an Agger vs Rio debate, there's a clear win, and he lives in Manchester. Fair play, Vidic isn't perfect, but he gets into a lot of peoples' team of the season for the last few years, or at least mentioned in its discussion, Skrtel will never be...ever. Nor will any of your defence, so again if you wanna compare the 2, Vidic will win every single time!

As I have said in this same post, fair enough, you have youth that can come in, but if you have hopes of breaking into the top 4, your defence will be the part now that holds you back (that and Arsenal regressing if they sell will help your cause!)

This is getting me so riled up for the season! Bring on August!

I'm not in the majority of Liverpool fans when the season gets underway & you get to know my posts a little more you'll see I have my own opinions, check the LFC thread I was the only sceptical one about Kenny's return, & even made an off the cuff comment about not being too fussed about our history when talking about the next game/season.

Liverpool fans will always support Kenny no matter what given what he's done for the club & it's families.

I'll carry on the debate till the world ends but the Arsenal comment just makes me think you just hate Liverpool so will talk all day even if it's total nonsense, Roy Hodgson wasn't good enough at the time he came to us for a few reasons the main being his tactics of having no positive influence on our midfield. He gave you one of your greatest periods in your history & left for what looked like/should've been a better opportunity. That was his choice so if you wanna hold it against someone that someone should be Roy Hodgson!!!

Jamie Carragher & John Terry are in my & maybe a few others opinion the best two defensive defenders in the Premier League .

I can't be arsed with the Gerrard/Lampard debate, you don't play your most influential player out of position just to suit a player who some feel isn't as good.

I think that you've probably not seen too much of Daniel Agger to judge him so just pushing it aside with Rio is better is a bit silly.
Martin Škrtel might not get talked about by other fans but that don't mean he's not a good player like I said most will only give Gerrard & maybe Pepe the credit due to the fact we don't challenge for the league so will always talk about players that do, The more Škrtel plays the better he'll become, yes we may well be able to find better but you could say that about a few players in most teams.

(15-07-2011 10:39 )Phoenix Wrote:  

(15-07-2011 00:48 )mitchell Wrote:  Why do fans of other teams keep coming out with...

Was that post meant to be sarcastic? Or were you just tired?

Tired I was knackerd but I meant as it sounded, I wouldn't expect you to understand given the mass majority of your success has come under the rubles era.

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  Sounds like thats pretty decent football, especially when you can watch European football at the same time! Are tickets cheap for games? What about European ones?

Tickets for Shamrock Rovers are €15 (£13) for league matches and about €20 (£17.50) for European ones

Honestly iamthatjack the last time i heard this calibre of nonesense on here was when the manc lads were about.

This whole banter thing is all about opinions.If you don't rate certain players then fair play but you CLEARLY don't like Liverpool for whatever reason.Why even come on here banging on about us in the first place?

Don't know about any of the other lads on here but i really couldn't care less about any other football team in the world except my own.So it's hard for me to understand why people come on getting stuck into other teams (mainly Liverpool on here) Just don't get it.

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  Well the majority of Liverpool fans feel it is there divine right to be spoken about in the same breath as the top teams in the league because of what you did in the 70s and 80s, and if its not that, you are getting all excited about 'King Kenny' - a king for doing well when? Back in the good old days when Anfield was a fortress.

"For doing well when?" Was that a joke?Tell us what your problem with Liverpool is mate?

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  If you do, its because of Arsenal regressing rather than you improving that much.

How do you know how the season's gonna pan out?How do you know how much we'll improve and how Arsenal will decline?Are u psychic?

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  Theres no need to go into an Agger vs Rio debate, there's a clear win, and he lives in Manchester. Fair play, Vidic isn't perfect, but he gets into a lot of peoples' team of the season for the last few years, or at least mentioned in its discussion, Skrtel will never be...ever. Nor will any of your defence, so again if you wanna compare the 2, Vidic will win every single time!

Are you Gary Neville in disguise?Coz it's kinda looking that way from here.Come on mate.Admit your love for Manchester.

(15-07-2011 11:00 )mitchell Wrote:  I'm not in the majority of Liverpool fans...

Fair play mitchell, I'm new here so I don't know about the way you post, but I like that fact you haven't got tunnel vision in your thoughts about Liverpool, so I look forward to discussing things as the season goes on.

As things stand, United, City, Chelsea and Arsenal are better than you (and at a stretch, Tottenham are the same as you, but you are probably better) so with that in mind, you either need to improve the defence to push beyond Arsenal or they need to regress, by selling Cesc, Nasri etc.

Roy was our greatest manager of recent times, he did so much, but if you didn't offer him the job and the money, he wouldn't have left, that's why I blame Liverpool. Yes he chose to leave, but he wouldn't have left had there been no job offered to him!

Kompany, Vidic & Hangeland (not Ferdinand any more) are players in the Premier League that instantly spring to mind who are better than Carragher currently.

I was actually complimenting Gerrard! I think they were seen as the best 2 midfielders and they had to be squeezed as they were because the manager was dumb enough to think Barry should have been in the team. But of course you would player the better player out of position because he is the better player so can adapt there more easily than the worse player who has zero versatility.

Come on, let's be real, Ferdinand is better than Agger, how can that even be debated! You say the more Skrtel plays the better he'll become, he's been in the Premier League for 3/4 years now and still needs to improve? That can't be a good sign surely.

(15-07-2011 11:17 )Stillroom Rock Wrote:  Tickets for Shamrock Rovers are €15 (£13) for league matches and about €20 (£17.50) for European ones

Damn that is good value!

(15-07-2011 12:25 )groundnpound Wrote:  Honestly iamthatjack the last time i heard this calibre of nonesense on here was when the manc lads were about...

If you look at my very first post on here or the Liverpool thread (can't remember which it was) I was actually complimenting you on the signings and that once you sorted your defence you'd be up there again! I didn't come to bash you guys, it just looks like I have!

You've bolded 'For doing well when?'...look at the next sentence in that post!

By Arsenal regressing, I mean them selling players like Cesc and Nasri which will make them a worse team and give you a better chance of breaking the top 4. If they keep them both, you won't finish higher than them

Come on my dude, I haven't insulted you and you're calling me Gary 'the rat' Neville? I'm being real, Agger is not at Rio's level, just like Skrtel isn't near Vidic in terms of ability, surely you can see that! Any football fan could tell you that!

Once again, no I am not from Manchester, I don't support them or anything of that nature. I am a Fulham fan

Who cares if Agger and Skrtel are as good as the united lads! Have i said anything about it?

And u did insult me when u spoke about the majority of Liverpool fans when u probably dont know a single Red.



I asked if u were Neville because u posted this.

(15-07-2011 03:15 )iamthatjack Wrote:  Theres no need to go into an Agger vs Rio debate, there's a clear win, and he lives in Manchester. Fair play, Vidic isn't perfect, but he gets into a lot of peoples' team of the season for the last few years, or at least mentioned in its discussion, Skrtel will never be...ever. Nor will any of your defence, so again if you wanna compare the 2, Vidic will win every single time!

You sound like a manc lad It's like the posts on here from lindor (utd) and hitmeuptop (utd) You're comparing our lads with the utd players and you're a Fulham fan!

I don't get it.

(15-07-2011 11:10 )mitchell Wrote:  Tired I was knackerd but I meant as it sounded, I wouldn't expect you to understand given the mass majority of your success has come under the rubles era.

Anyway, very original

But you honestly believe that Gerrard doesn't get credit, Carragher never played for England as much because he didn't play for Chelsea or Utd, and that it's other fans that keep on bringing up the past? And comparing yourself to Birmingham! I don't get it aren't you meant to be "the biggest club in the country"?

I know Liverpool fans are renowned for being delusional but your starting to take the biscuit

But anyway I wouldn't expect you to understand given the fact that your kit's red*

Oh, and just to chip into the debate about your defence. All I'll say is it helps when you've got (IMO) the best keeper in the world behind the back four. Although I think Carragher's still a class defender to be fair

*or something else that's completely irrelevant

Firstly, thanks to skateguy for shortening my quotes (wasn't sure how to do that, still getting used to this all!)

I only compare with United players because they won the title, and that's where you should be aiming, if you aren't gonna compare your players with the best, what's the point?

Seriously? That constitutes an insult? Well maybe I took offense to the 'you're a Manc' stuff . The majority doesn't have to include you.