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 Aray  South London 25 Apr 18 12.05pm |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
We have every chance of being safe but I refuse to be properly optimistic until it is nigh on impossible for the other teams to catch us - sorry - been there before hence the needing more than probability! true
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| Lyons550 Shirley 25 Apr 18 2.21pm |
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Originally posted by balfmalark
Liverpool havent lost at Anfield all season, and Stoke only have one away win. Southampton have the second worst home record and Bournemouth have a fairly decent away record. Jesus; that was Willoesque!
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| ger20 London 25 Apr 18 2.33pm |
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Why are we worried about what team Klopp is going to put out against Stoke. Roy isn’t, he has made it clear he believes we can do the business ourselves. We basically meed two draws or a win from three games two of which are at home. Nobody can complain it we don’t achieve that, ee deserve to be relegated.
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| ItsCPFCforme 25 Apr 18 5.55pm |
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Originally posted by PZ Eagle
There used to be a time when the FA warned teams not to field a weakened side in matches involving promotion or relegation. Totally unfair to all the other teams who are still in the relegation mix if they do and Stoke win I suppose the whole ‘naming 25 man squads’ thing addresses that; if you name 25players in a squad it is churlish of the FA to then whinge when you select them for a game.
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| Direwolf Lincoln 25 Apr 18 6.22pm |
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Originally posted by ItsCPFCforme
I suppose the whole ‘naming 25 man squads’ thing addresses that; if you name 25players in a squad it is churlish of the FA to then whinge when you select them for a game. Exactly the point - either it is a squad that may be played or let's just name an 18 player squad that has to be at all matches. We'd have been pretty screwed this season though if that was the case given our injuries.
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 25 Apr 18 6.49pm |
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Wasn't it holloway and blackpool who were involved in something like that? I remember him having an opinion on it a while back. However, we are damn lucky roy was able to dot he business after the poor summer and start we had. Lessons to be learnt.
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VinceHilaire  London 25 Apr 18 7.58pm |
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Originally posted by ger20
Why are we worried about what team Klopp is going to put out against Stoke. Roy isn’t, he has made it clear he believes we can do the business ourselves. We basically meed two draws or a win from three games two of which are at home. Nobody can complain it we don’t achieve that, ee deserve to be relegated. This....our destiny is in our hands....let others do the worrying!
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 25 Apr 18 10.20pm |
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True, the bottom three are hoping the clubs above them screw up... it's ours to lose. In hindsight, the pre season under FDB was a joke, he wasn't backed, which tells you many things, but the losses and moral was just ridiculous.
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Wilbraham413  26 Apr 18 12.23pm |
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One thing in our favor regarding Liverpool-Stoke is that Klopp was in a rage following their draw to WBA. He was whining that he needed the points and WBA didn't, as if that matters. Based on that, he's not going to want drop points at Anfield to Stoke. That being said, Stoke isn't our main problem, if they catch us, it means we will have lost every match the rest of the way. We need to worry about Southampton and Swansea. Take care of business at home against a Leicester side with nothing to play for, and then we'll be almost guaranteed of staying up. If we lose to Leicester, then we will need points at Stoke, and things could get ugly fast. I seem to remember last year we couldn't get points at this stage of the season, and ended up having to get something off of Hull on the last day. Don't want to go through that again this year.
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| Stuk Top half 26 Apr 18 12.44pm |
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Originally posted by Wilbraham413
One thing in our favor regarding Liverpool-Stoke is that Klopp was in a rage following their draw to WBA. He was whining that he needed the points and WBA didn't, as if that matters. Based on that, he's not going to want drop points at Anfield to Stoke. That being said, Stoke isn't our main problem, if they catch us, it means we will have lost every match the rest of the way. We need to worry about Southampton and Swansea. Take care of business at home against a Leicester side with nothing to play for, and then we'll be almost guaranteed of staying up. If we lose to Leicester, then we will need points at Stoke, and things could get ugly fast. I seem to remember last year we couldn't get points at this stage of the season, and ended up having to get something off of Hull on the last day. Don't want to go through that again this year.
The penultimate game. Which meant we thankfully didn't need anything away to Man U, where we never seem to get points in the league.
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| YT Oxford 26 Apr 18 12.50pm |
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Originally posted by Wilbraham413
One thing in our favor regarding Liverpool-Stoke is that Klopp was in a rage following their draw to WBA. He was whining that he needed the points and WBA didn't, as if that matters. Based on that, he's not going to want drop points at Anfield to Stoke. That being said, Stoke isn't our main problem, if they catch us, it means we will have lost every match the rest of the way. We need to worry about Southampton and Swansea. Take care of business at home against a Leicester side with nothing to play for, and then we'll be almost guaranteed of staying up. If we lose to Leicester, then we will need points at Stoke, and things could get ugly fast. I seem to remember last year we couldn't get points at this stage of the season, and ended up having to get something off of Hull on the last day. Don't want to go through that again this year.
I fully appreciate your fears, but this year we ARE getting points at this stage of the season; unbeaten in 3.
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Adamoc123  Ennis 26 Apr 18 12.50pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
The penultimate game. Which meant we thankfully didn't need anything away to Man U, where we never seem to get points in the league. Indeed this was pretty much an all or nothing game, hopefully we won't be thrust into a similar situation against Stoke, although having West Brom as a last chance rather than Man Utd is a softer cushion than last years tribulations
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