Liverpool vs West Brom - Sun 27 December 2020, 16.30, Premier League

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

LIBPOOL TOP AT CHRISTMAS

f*** knows the team, still buzzing from double dipping Spurs & Palace

Happy Christmas reds & we can worry about letting Jurg know our team ideas till after Santa day

EDIT - this is not a game 18 years ago

Edited December 19, 2020 by Sir Tokyo Sexwale

[Big Red Machine]

Allison 

Trent

Matip

Fab

Robbo

Curtis

Hendo

Gini

Salah

Bobby

Mane 

 

Picks itself really 

[Swipe]

What about fans after Johnson’s latest change of mind? 

[Andy-oh-six]

6 minutes ago, Swipe said:

What about fans after Johnson’s latest change of mind? 

No change to tiers outside the south east so shouldn’t be affected.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

7 minutes ago, Swipe said:

What about fans after Johnson’s latest change of mind? 

Whats this about - just for the people not in the UK. I have news-fatigue about Covid in Ireland that I am not tuned in to the UKs developments.

[Earl Hafler]

2 minutes ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Whats this about - just for the people not in the UK. I have news-fatigue about Covid in Ireland that I am not tuned in to the UKs developments.

The Christmas five day free for all has been scrapped to just Christmas Day

[Rory Fitzgerald]

2 minutes ago, Earl Hafler said:

The Christmas five day free for all has been scrapped to just Christmas Day

Seems a few countries are talking to each other about this because there is a theme across Europe to start lockdowns again - but in terms of the regional impact in the UK, will it impact Liverpool and the ability to see fans in the ground ?

 

[Gethin]

2 minutes ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Seems a few countries are talking to each other about this because there is a theme across Europe to start lockdowns again - but in terms of the regional impact in the UK, will it impact Liverpool and the ability to see fans in the ground ?

 

Not whilst Liverpool remains in Tier 2. Given rates are currently low it might be OK for a bit unless a political decision gets made 

[Rory Fitzgerald]

3 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Not whilst Liverpool remains in Tier 2. Given rates are currently low it might be OK for a bit unless a political decision gets made 

Thanks, I'd heard a change in approach (nationally ?) but didnt know the impact on the regional areas and teams/grounds.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Rory Fitzgerald

[Ombudsam]

17 minutes ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Whats this about - just for the people not in the UK. I have news-fatigue about Covid in Ireland that I am not tuned in to the UKs developments.

You guys have it too?!?!

[Gethin]

5 minutes ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Thanks, I'd heard a change in approach (nationally ?) but didnt know the impact on the regional areas and teams/grounds.

4k fans if you're in Tier 1, 2k in Tier 2, none for Tier 3 and the newly-minted lockdown tier 4

[Cam]

£10 on Angry Mane for first goal. 

Instead of the usual bottle of wine for the post-match managers chat I hope Klopp takes one of Gregg's finest pasties. 

[Hightown Phil]

Think we’re now in the realms of not being able to go ‘well it’s these lads’ and that’s excellent news. Keita and Jones with Henderson behind for me I think. Maybe R Williams for Matip.

[Earl Hafler]

1 hour ago, Gethin said:

4k fans if you're in Tier 1, 2k in Tier 2, none for Tier 3 and the newly-minted lockdown tier 4

Move the ground down here. 

f*** Kop205

1 hour ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Seems a few countries are talking to each other about this because there is a theme across Europe to start lockdowns again - but in terms of the regional impact in the UK, will it impact Liverpool and the ability to see fans in the ground ?

 

I think areas going back up a tier is where we're at long term so Liverpool might be vulnerable in Jan / Feb. 

[Jarg Armani]

There will be a load of people vaccinated by the end of Feb though, and the pressure to open things up will grow you’d think. Mad as it may seem now.

[Swipe]

20 minutes ago, Jarg Armani said:

There will be a load of people vaccinated by the end of Feb though, and the pressure to open things up will grow you’d think. Mad as it may seem now.

Yeah in Ireland they’re talking summer before everyone is done but once it gets to 70% you’re basically at ‘back to normal’ levels. 
 

What a f***ing year. 

[Gethin]

2 hours ago, Hightown Phil said:

Think we’re now in the realms of not being able to go ‘well it’s these lads’ and that’s excellent news. Keita and Jones with Henderson behind for me I think. Maybe R Williams for Matip.

Yeah I reckon we go with 2-3 "fringe" players (from Keita, Mini, Ox, the Williams brothers) per game for WBA and Newcastle, before going full strength again at Southampton. Hopefully see Thiago, Milner and Shaq available for at least the bench soon enough too 

25 minutes ago, Jarg Armani said:

There will be a load of people vaccinated by the end of Feb though, and the pressure to open things up will grow you’d think. Mad as it may seem now.

Most people won't be vaccinated before the end of the season. Be surprised if it's more than vulnerable groups & health care staff by the end of Feb

[Jarg Armani]

Yes but once the vulnerable and care groups are done I reckon a lot of people will pressure the govt to get crowds back in and get things going again 

Edited December 19, 2020 by Jarg Armani

[Stanley Leisure]

I think we’ll get the last few games. Once the over 60’s are vaccinated. The rest of us are part of the big herd immunity experiment. 

[Gethin]

12 minutes ago, Jarg Armani said:

Yes but once the vulnerable and care groups are done I reckon a lot of people will pressure the govt to get crowds back in and get things going again 

That would be absolutely f***ing nuts.

[Nebraska Red]

1 minute ago, Gethin said:

That would be absolutely f***ing nuts.

Absolutely correct, but people will still demand it. People are still behaving like idiots.  My sister was in an ASDA today and there were loads without masks. Nobody said a word to them. 

I thought it was bad here...

[Jarg Armani]

12 minutes ago, Gethin said:

That would be absolutely f***ing nuts.

Why? I’d assume that it wouldn’t be killing or even hospitalising people at that stage.

[Gethin]

9 minutes ago, Jarg Armani said:

Why? I’d assume that it wouldn’t be killing or even hospitalising people at that stage.

Not really sure where to start with this. You're going to need probably 60-70% of the adult population vaccinated before it's safer to think about big crowds anywhere again. If we were to do it earlier people will die needlessly.

I get that people want to go to the match again, hell I'd love to be able to run my business properly again, but it's got to be safe to do that. You need to write off at least the rest of this season for any kind of normality

[Jarg Armani]

7 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Not really sure where to start with this. You're going to need probably 60-70% of the adult population vaccinated before it's safer to think about big crowds anywhere again. If we were to do it earlier people will die needlessly.

I get that people want to go to the match again, hell I'd love to be able to run my business properly again, but it's got to be safe to do that. You need to write off at least the rest of this season for any kind of normality

You might be right. I think a lot of things will opened by March, and maybe closed and locked down a couple more times after that if ICU’s start to get rammed.

[Gethin]

2 minutes ago, Jarg Armani said:

You might be right. I think a lot of things will opened by March, and maybe closed and locked down a couple more times after that if ICU’s start to get rammed.

I very much hope I'm wrong, sadly I don't think I will be.