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Scouseinthehouse said:
God, Burton LOL. Only went last year to see them against Colchester United. **** of a drinking town like and one of the friendliest places I've ever been.

Plus there's the Nigel Clough factor. Good lad him unlike his **** flap gobshite father!

*Edit* Should be the Tuesday as Burton have a game Friday.
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Grew up about 15miles from Burton and if there is one thing that sticks out it's the ****** speed cameras. haha!

Absolutely everywhere!
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
*Edit* Should be the Tuesday as Burton have a game Friday.
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Possibly not as they apparently share stewards with Derby (never knew that was a thing) so they can't play on the same night. Derby also got a home tie and Derby are also the side that Burton are facing on Friday so the match may still be on a Wednesday
 
Just wondering what line up we will play on sunday 4-3-3? mig clyne kalvan lovern monero/milner can henderson wijnaldum coutinho mane firmino/origi
 
Dannybell2011 said:
Just wondering what line up we will play on sunday 4-3-3? mig clyne kalvan lovern monero/milner can henderson wijnaldum coutinho mane firmino/origi
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God, more chance trying to pick the loto numbers than predicting what the XI will be haha.

I'd go with exactly that with Firmino defo the 9 and probably, sadly, Moreno at LB. I'd personally start Origi given the mess Arsenal have the middle, but I think it'll be Firmino. Wouldn't be surprised to see Lallana in there either.

The great thing about all the options, is if we don't have a clue most games what the XI and formation will be, what chance do opposition managers trying to game plan for us?
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
God, more chance trying to pick the loto numbers than predicting what the XI will be haha.

I'd go with exactly that with Firmino defo the 9 and probably, sadly, Moreno at LB. I'd personally start Origi given the mess Arsenal have the middle, but I think it'll be Firmino. Wouldn't be surprised to see Lallana in there either.

The great thing about all the options, is if we don't have a clue most games what the XI and formation will be, what chance do opposition managers trying to game plan for us?
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yeah fair point, will be interesting to see what hendo and wijnaldum will be like together in the middle if is it that
 
Dannybell2011 said:
yeah fair point, will be interesting to see what hendo and wijnaldum will be like together in the middle if is it that
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Can't wait mate. There's just so many options. Particularly the attacking positions.

Sunday can't come soon enough to get this started. Not looked forward to a season this much in years.
 
Apparently Liverpool are top of the table with regards to number of injuries during pre-season. Something to do with the double and triple training sessions every day perhaps?
 
Alcaraz said:
Apparently Liverpool are top of the table with regards to number of injuries during pre-season. Something to do with the double and triple training sessions every day perhaps?
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Nope. Grujic and Karius had a concussion and broken hand respectively sustained during a match. Matip was out after he was suffering with pain in his foot from having screws removed after a previous op in Germany. Gomez and Sakho got the Achilles from being out for nearly a year and doing nottin' down to the B/S suspension the last month or so the season and summer. And Lucas tweaked his hammy in a match. Sturridge is Sturridge.

The new fitness coach, Andreas Kornmayer, was Munichs top guy for the past 15 years and a guy Guardiola tried real hard to take with him to City. He won't be having any individuals do any more than he and the sports science guys have tailored for them. Whilst still ensuring we're one of the fittest teams around. Which given Contes the exact same as Klopp in putting a major emphasis on peak fitness, should be another bonus for both L'pool and Chelsea to hit the ground running the early weeks of the season over everyone else.
 
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29 years ago this Monday, August 15, I was a wide eyed teenager among a crowd of 54K plus at Highbury on a baking hot opening day of the new First Division season to see Liverpool beat Arsenal 2-1 in a monumental opener against George Grahams fast developing first great Arsenal side that had beaten us in the League Cup final the previous April and who were tipped to challenge Merseysides big 2 for the title.

[video=youtube;0IDieh1yWv8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDieh1yWv8[/video]

The start of what turned out to be one of the greatest sides this Country has ever seen, and for my money the best side Liverpool Football Club has ever had. The additions of John Aldridge, the little magic man Peter Beardsley, and the imperiously World class brilliant John Barnes completely offsetting the loss of Ian Rush to Juventus to take the side on another level with a brand of attacking football that had the late, great Sir Tom Finney describing the 5-0 rout of arch rivals Nottingham Forest later that season as one of the finest exhibitions of football he'd ever seen in his life.

[video=youtube;jy-uQT3AqyI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-uQT3AqyI[/video]

Sunday, nearly 29 years to the day of that opener at Highbury, we open up against Arsenal again in another monumental clash of fancied sides. This time over the road at the Emirates. With eerie similarities to that '87/'88 opener. For a collapsed sewer under the Kop causing the first three games to be away from Anfield; read the new main stand build causing the first three games to be away from home this year. Back in '87, when we finally hosted a home game against Oxford on September 12th, the gates were locked by 1 PM and the old place was absolutely heaving as tales had grown about the spell binding football being played. If we hit the ground running this term as well, by the time we finally host a home game against Leicester on September 10th the old place could well be bouncing just as fervently for a welcome home to the heroes in red we do better than anyone else.

Will we ultimately end up with a 19th title like we did number 17 the end of that glorious season 29 years ago? Everything's in place and aligning to give us arguably our best chance the Premiership era of doing that. No European football, allowing us to concentrate on the training field week-to-week the majority of the season for the next opposition. The strongest squad we've had across the board since Houllier's 2000-01 vintage second treble winning side. A plethora of attacking options we've not had in years that has the prospect of a goal laden season exciting the **** out of all Liverpudlians. All coming off the back of the first, vitally important pre-season the managers had where we're finally starting to see a true Jurgen Klopp side. One that trusts each other, and works off fluid, fast instinct as a team rather than last years waiting to react individualism. All with a good 8 months jump on new arrivals at City and Chelsea to the unique demands of the English game. And to a lesser extent one at the major rival trying to get his ideas across to a side entrenched in the previous Dutch tedium.

For 1987/88 read 2016/17. If we hit the ground running, just wait until we come back home. One of the key things our crazy German leader reinvigorated last year was the unique bond between team and fans. Rightly or wrongly, he receives adulation like nobody since Shankly down to understanding just what makes this City and this club so special. And if Liverpool get off to a good start, and are up the top the league come the Autumn/ Chrimbo time, the momentum from that '12th man' for manager and team is one **** of a powerful thing to stop. Just ask the Dortmund players who openly admit they were shell shocked by the ferocity of the crowd the last half hour at Anfield last year. Which is quite something given what they play in front of every other week

Evertonian friends, as they have done the past week as things have rampend up here, can call us deluded and laugh all they like. But our time is coming again with everything primed to end that LONG 26 year wait.

Roll on Sunday to get this up and running. Hope is as high as it's been at ANY time the past 26 years. I've laid money on us for the first time in my life. Like he said when he arrived, now is the time to BELIEVE!

Up the Pool. Mighty Reds. This is our year!
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
29 years ago this Monday, August 15, I was a wide eyed teenager among a crowd of 54K plus at Highbury on a baking hot opening day of the new First Division season to see Liverpool beat Arsenal 2-1 in a monumental opener against George Grahams fast developing first great Arsenal side that had beaten us in the League Cup final the previous April and who were tipped to challenge Merseysides big 2 for the title.

[video=youtube;0IDieh1yWv8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDieh1yWv8[/video]

The start of what turned out to be one of the greatest sides this Country has ever seen, and for my money the best side Liverpool Football Club has ever had. The additions of John Aldridge, the little magic man Peter Beardsley, and the imperiously World class brilliant John Barnes completely offsetting the loss of Ian Rush to Juventus to take the side on another level with a brand of attacking football that had the late, great Sir Tom Finney describing the 5-0 rout of arch rivals Nottingham Forest later that season as one of the finest exhibitions of football he'd ever seen in his life.

[video=youtube;jy-uQT3AqyI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-uQT3AqyI[/video]

Sunday, nearly 29 years to the day of that opener at Highbury, we open up against Arsenal again in another monumental clash of fancied sides. This time over the road at the Emirates. With eerie similarities to that '87/'88 opener. For a collapsed sewer under the Kop causing the first three games to be away from Anfield; read the new main stand build causing the first three games to be away from home this year. Back in '87, when we finally hosted a home game against Oxford on September 12th, the gates were locked by 1 PM and the old place was absolutely heaving as tales had grown about the spell binding football being played. If we hit the ground running this term as well, by the time we finally host a home game against Leicester on September 10th the old place could well be bouncing just as fervently for a welcome home to the heroes in red we do better than anyone else.

Will we ultimately end up with a 19th title like we did number 17 the end of that glorious season 29 years ago? Everything's in place and aligning to give us arguably our best chance the Premiership era of doing that. No European football, allowing us to concentrate on the training field week-to-week the majority of the season for the next opposition. The strongest squad we've had across the board since Houllier's 2000-01 vintage second treble winning side. A plethora of attacking options we've not had in years that has the prospect of a goal laden season exciting the **** out of all Liverpudlians. All coming off the back of the first, vitally important pre-season the managers had where we're finally starting to see a true Jurgen Klopp side. One that trusts each other, and works off fluid, fast instinct as a team rather than last years waiting to react individualism. All with a good 8 months jump on new arrivals at City and Chelsea to the unique demands of the English game. And to a lesser extent one at the major rival trying to get his ideas across to a side entrenched in the previous Dutch tedium.

For 1987/88 read 2016/17. If we hit the ground running, just wait until we come back home. One of the key things our crazy German leader reinvigorated last year was the unique bond between team and fans. Rightly or wrongly, he receives adulation like nobody since Shankly down to understanding just what makes this City and this club so special. And if Liverpool get off to a good start, and are up the top the league come the Autumn/ Chrimbo time, the momentum from that '12th man' for manager and team is one **** of a powerful thing to stop. Just ask the Dortmund players who openly admit they were shell shocked by the ferocity of the crowd the last half hour at Anfield last year. Which is quite something given what they play in front of every other week

Evertonian friends, as they have done the past week as things have rampend up here, can call us deluded and laugh all they like. But our time is coming again with everything primed to end that LONG 26 year wait.

Roll on Sunday to get this up and running. Hope is as high as it's been at ANY time the past 26 years. I've laid money on us for the first time in my life. Like he said when he arrived, now is the time to BELIEVE!

Up the Pool. Mighty Reds. This is our year!
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really love your passion
 
ninjaskill said:
Possibly not as they apparently share stewards with Derby (never knew that was a thing) so they can't play on the same night. Derby also got a home tie and Derby are also the side that Burton are facing on Friday so the match may still be on a Wednesday
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Confirmed the Tuesday at 7:45 PM. Live on Sky.
 
What a difference a year makes.

This time last year, we were all absolutely dreading going to Stoke with the 6-1 last day disgrace there still fresh in the memory, all expecting more of the same and a disastrous season. The toxic atmosphere in the crowd, among the players and running through the whole club was at it's lowest since The Hodge days.

Now, I'm sat here chilled counting down the hours 'till the 8:38 down to Euston tomorrow morning filled with a childlike excitement for the season ahead.

It's so great to have our football club back!
 
Pretty confident with the lineups today. Going for a 3-0 win to us
 
Aaaand there was me defending Moreno when it shouldnt have been a peno, and he does that.
 
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