RAWK Goes Into Meltdown 20-18/19 Edition

[fergosaurus]

Next year™

It is what it is folks, two really good teams, one has to miss out, unfortunately it looks like being us, just be pleased with the massive improvement this season, and look forward to having another crack next season.

I honestly think that with Ox we could have won the title, shame

Man City 3-0 up at half time v Brighton. Celebrations start early, especially as they hear Liverpool are losing 2-0 at home to Wolves.

60 Minutes gone and Liverpool pull one back (1-2). 75 minutes gone and having had chances to add to their lead City finally concede one 3-1 to them. 80 odd mins on the clock and Liverpool piling on the pressure finally are level 2-2, few minutes later Brighton pull another goal back and Man City start to get a bit nervous.

Into injury time and Liverpool pull out another late winner in a hard fought win over Wolves 3-2 final score. The game in Brighton is moving onto its final minutes and Brighton earn a penalty right at the death. 3-3 with the last kick of the season and Anfield start to celebrate.

Not ideal, but I'll take that scenario now.

My honest predictions for Sunday...3-0 to us. A nervy City can't hit a barn door at Brighton 0-0!

Picture this scenario, 4.50pm on sunday and we are coasting 3-0 against wolves and a massive roar goes up all over anfield with Brighton grabbing an injury time equaliser..would be the stuff of dreams. Unlikely i know but you gotta have some faith.

Knock out Barca.

Beat Wolves.

Brighton will get us a point.

We celebrate the title win before doing the double.

What's sport without a dream? In a world of negativity and bitterness in echo chambers, we've believed. We've done it before and we'll do it again.

It's never over until the end. Two big matches left at Anfield. Let's make it happen.

 

[GaryLifo]

Ah the fantasy scenarios have started.

The world is back to normal for a few days at least.

 

[Fener1907]

Man City 3-0 up at half time v Brighton. Celebrations start early, especially as they hear Liverpool are losing 2-0 at home to Wolves.

60 Minutes gone and Liverpool pull one back (1-2). 75 minutes gone and having had chances to add to their lead City finally concede one 3-1 to them. 80 odd mins on the clock and Liverpool piling on the pressure finally are level 2-2, few minutes later Brighton pull another goal back and Man City start to get a bit nervous.

Into injury time and Liverpool pull out another late winner in a hard fought win over Wolves 3-2 final score. The game in Brighton is moving onto its final minutes and Brighton earn a penalty right at the death. 3-3 with the last kick of the season and Anfield start to celebrate.

Not ideal, but I'll take that scenario now.

Goes for the most unrealistic scenario and says "I'll take that scenario." Bollocks to the real world where there is a 0-0 in Brighton and a 1-0 in Liverpool. Need some Avengers type shit.

 

[horsechoker]

My prediction for Sunday.

Sunday 5pm, Liverpool have just won 3-1 against Wolves, they anxiously wait for the outcome of the City match. The result comes in, City have held on and won 2-1. Liverpool fans weep as the players do a lap of honour to We Are The Champions by Queen, they get a rousing applause from the fans. Stevie G and Kenny Dalgliesh are on the pitch to award a specially made trophy to Liverpool.

Sky Sports' Liverpool pundits comment that "Liverpool are the real champions".

City's title celebrations are given about 5 minutes of coverage

 

[Fener1907]

My prediction for Sunday.

Sunday 5pm, Liverpool have just won 3-1 against Wolves, they anxiously wait for the outcome of the City match. The result comes in, City have held on and won 2-1. Liverpool fans weep as the players do a lap of honour to We Are The Champions by Queen, they get a rousing applause from the fans. Stevie G and Kenny Dalgliesh are on the pitch to award a specially made trophy to Liverpool.

Sky Sports' Liverpool pundits comment that "Liverpool are the real champions".

City's title celebrations are given about 5 minutes of coverage

Rafa and Brendan come out on the pitch and give a congratulatory talk, finishing with them saying Leicester and Newcastle will be competing with Liverpool for the Co-Premier League champions trophy next year because it's so prestigious.

It's also announced that, should they win the final, Barcelona will donate half of their Champions League trophy to Liverpool because their atmosphere in the second leg was boss, causing Liverpool fans far and wide to start giving it the big one with five and a half fingers.

Salah is given a ceremonial key to the city, but one cheeky fan makes off with it within 2 minutes thinking that it can literally open any door in Liverpool.

Fans finish with the loudest rendition of that song all year, and Klopp appears to be checking the weather as it comes to a close, although real fans know he's actually just asking "How am I doing, boss?"

Manchester implodes due to envy.

 

[Grylte]

I predict standing ovations from their fans even if They dont win the league after the last match. And poems on RAWK, a lot of poems.

When i think about scousers and poems:

 

[Alex99]

Liverpool fans far and wide to start giving it the big one with five and a half fingers.

On the one hand, yes?

 

[christinaa]

A trophy for finishing in second place!
Couldn't stop laughing - Unbelievable!

 

[calodo2003]

This is fecking priceless.

And many of them honestly don’t understand why sane people can’t stand their club. That clip offers up a strong example of why dislike for Liverpool is a real thing.

 

[calodo2003]

I go from watching ‘Chernobyl’ on HBO to reading this thread.

Each showcase meltdowns, both impressive in their own right!

 

[montpelier]

I predict standing ovations from their fans even if They dont win the league after the last match. And poems on RAWK, a lot of poems.

They was nearly engraving the L I & V
When the ball broke to Vincent Kompany

 

[Judge Red]

It’s not RAWK and it’s not recent but it’s beginning to feel apt.

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[montpelier]

this guy only has 360 posts - he calls himself ''the red symphony''
we need more I think

I am a worrier. Cynical, negative, cold bath, Markovic. Should have watched the full game last night. Watched till about the half hour mark and wanted to save myself from the inevitable disappointment. City have been creaking past the last few matches. The billionaire's yacht has more than a few holes. It is a race against time. Will they reach safely ashore, or will they sink and fall prey to the relentless beast that has followed them all the way?

The former looks far more likely now. In football as in life, the wealthy and the corrupt find a way to screw us. They divide us - pose as allies in the face of our fears- and pull the rug away once their interests are met. The rug does tie the room together rather well. A room full of ABLs shouting City save football. A room where our own legends speak in forked tongue (Murdoch's cheques are not going to write themselves). A room where Neville has Kompany and knows where to put the statue. A room for Colin W. A bus for Jose. A bus for Olé. Yet, none of these worried me.

Like most of us, I was banking on Spurs and the Red mancs to do us a solid, which we would appreciate for the time being and forget once next season rolls round. I did not expect City to get full points out of those two games. But they did, like Cameron out of Brexit, smooth, not a hair out of place, posting staycation pics on insta, not a single feck given. Yes, Spurs was 1-0, yes United gallantly held on for an entire half. But no panic, no high drama, just the ruthless efficiency of a despotic regime. Yet none of these worried me.

What worries me is our history. This is our fourth title tilt this century. None of our previous incumbents survived coming second. None. Not Houllier, not Rafa, nor Rodgers. Their teams imploded in the season that followed. Failing health, failed owners, failed transfers - the reasons are varied. What is common is the shared sense of disappointment in the trinity. Like Sisyphus, we are asked to carry the rock uphill to the top, again. I have seen that break me, break our supporters, break our players. Does a similar fate await? Where do we go from here? How do you improve on 94, possibly 97 points?

The biggest difference between the last three and this title charge under him of sparkling Teutonic teeth, is that this is a team on the rise. Add a fully fit Oxlade, a more integrated and confident Keita, a new no.10, a new striker - players who can carry the ball, make runs behind the line and play through the lines - will improve us immediately. City, on the other hand, is a squad that is rotating out. Their current squad has been built on the back of their first great team. Their first great team has aged. KDB is injury prone. Fernandinho is 33. They will have them together next season. Beyond that, they will have Sterling, Sane and a very good team. They will obviously go out and buy several more. But it will take them a season to integrate new players for those that are transitioning out. (The man who invented football after a steamy session with the mirror may want to stare into another river in a year or two - depending upon how soon he can get a semi - but let's hope we beat them to the post with him at the helm.)

We, on the other hand, have taken a beautiful approach to systematic squad building. It is as if, apart from VVD and Alisson, we have been building the squad for the next season. A cycle where a new player has half a season to integrate. Happened last season, happened this season. I sense a pattern, a plan, and people who know what they are doing.

But still I worry. I worry about us, the fans. Whether there will be moans loud enough to drown the team once we draw a match or two. Whether carrying the rock once more to the top will break us again. Whether we will take this astounding season for granted and break ranks the moment we fall from these otherworldly standards. There will be enough rope to hang ourselves. Sky, Neville, Carra, will make sure of that. There will be articles about Klopp feeling the pressure to deliver silverware, followed up with articles about Klopp under pressure, followed up with Salah diving - shared 200 million times on twatter. This time next week, we will, quite possibly, be emptied and squashed. Yet another 38 games far from promised land. Another long journey. Will we close or break ranks? I do not know. Yet, 'one must imagine Sisyphus happy'.

Ramble over :-)

 

[montpelier]

City are like...

the supercomputers they’ve built that have ‘solved’ Chess, or Go. The top players have sunk their lives into achieving 99% mastery of these incredibly difficult tasks with hundreds of years of history, and now it’s immediately all pointless because some Silicon Valley nerds saw it as an opportunity to showcase their coding skills so as to attract venture capital.

The billionaire's yacht has more than a few holes. It is a race against time. Will they reach safely ashore, or will they sink and fall prey to the relentless beast that has followed them all the way?

the lance armstrong of football

 

[horsechoker]

Rafa and Brendan come out on the pitch and give a congratulatory talk, finishing with them saying Leicester and Newcastle will be competing with Liverpool for the Co-Premier League champions trophy next year because it's so prestigious.

It's also announced that, should they win the final, Barcelona will donate half of their Champions League trophy to Liverpool because their atmosphere in the second leg was boss, causing Liverpool fans far and wide to start giving it the big one with five and a half fingers.

Salah is given a ceremonial key to the city, but one cheeky fan makes off with it within 2 minutes thinking that it can literally open any door in Liverpool.

Fans finish with the loudest rendition of that song all year, and Klopp appears to be checking the weather as it comes to a close, although real fans know he's actually just asking "How am I doing, boss?"

Manchester implodes due to envy.

5 and a half times, la!

A lot of them probably have half fingers too

 

[Who's Kissing Cameras?]

This is fecking priceless.

“Well we’ve won it five times la’”

“We got there in the end!”

 

[christinaa]

29 years have taken there toll on them!!

 

[tenpoless]

Don't forget the commemorative books.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22851818-they-dared-to-dream

When i think about scousers and poems:

They was nearly engraving the L I & V
When the ball broke to Vincent Kompany

 

[Slevs]

Any open letters to the Brighton team?

 

[Bubz27]

"Fergie never got 97 points" is a hilarious argument.

I'll tell you what Fergie did have. 13 Premiership titles.

 

[Beachryan]

I mean, I do still have flashbacks to us winning the league til Agurrooooooo moment. Give City a chance to bottle it and they very well might.

 

[Buchan]

We scored 20 goals in last 6 homes games. I think we can thrash them easily, should have had 4 over there.

They are far weaker at the back than the 3-0 lead suggests. Could embarrass them tonight.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

5 and a half times, la!

A lot of them probably have half fingers too

 

[Eriku]

Next year™

The one that ends with «not ideal, but I’d take that now»

No shit, the scenario you just outlined would make you league champions, anyfeckingbody would take that!

 

[Casanova85]

Anyone lurking in there?

Do they still believe in a 4-0 or 5-1?

 

[Ian Reus]

Would be happy for them to lift this on Sunday. Henderson's mother could even present it to them.

 

[Grylte]

Wondering what will be best for this thread, if they win 4-1 and get one goal wrongly disallowed by VAR, or get trashed 5-0.
Think i'm hoping for a 4-1 to Liverpool

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Would be happy for them to lift this on Sunday. Henderson's mother could even present it to them.

My God, can't stop laughing

Bloody hell Ian

 

[klayton88]

 

[The Firestarter]

Would be happy for them to lift this on Sunday. Henderson's mother could even present it to them.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Wishlist for tonight:

- A quick goal
- 2-0 up at half time
- Milner to clatter Messi and Suarez early doors in a fair challenge and hope they both do a vanishing act after that..

Looking for a 3-0 win then extra time and pens, that would have them worried.

C'mon Redmen!
I believe!

Brewster and Woodburn to fill the Sinima-Pongolle and Mellor roles. Hendo to nail a 30 yard screamer to make it 5-1. It's written in the stars.

Suarez bites Robertson, gets a red after VAR review

That Vidal fella is shit and a nutcase. Could do with getting him sent off.

Robbie laying into Luis

Wow Robbie doesn't like Suarez does he ?

Your not watching BT? He's really having a go at Suarez and his antics last week, and also the way he left the Club. Brought up Arsenal and everything.

Shitting bricks here.
feck Messi. feck pique. feck Suarez. feck Coutinho.

Into these from the first second. Show them how fecked off we are that they dared to score past us. That they had the audacity to beat us in OUR cup.

The whole world is watching, let’s stick 2 fingers up at everyone who is hoping we fail.

We are Liverpool!

Martin Tyler on commentary, great.

Also known as ‘mute’

OK, somewhat surprising for myself, I haven't changed since last week. I see no real chance for us to get through, mainly because Keita, Firmino and Salah are out. I give us about 1% chance. I hope we give it a real go, I hope we make a real memorable night, I hope we win. Because 1% is more of a chance than all but 4 teams have this season to get to the CL Final.

TNT USA gone full LiverpoolTV

Cmon on boys. Yo can do this

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

“Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Scousers.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in Liverpool, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Klopp, Liverpool, and Saint John!'

Apologies to Billy Shakespeare from Bootle

 

[Grylte]

Hopefully this will be a busy night for you, @No Idea For Nickname

 

[MarylandMUFan]

Don't forget the commemorative books.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22851818-they-dared-to-dream

Oh my, that's really a thing? Almost as good as a trophy for getting so many points but coming in 2nd.

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Start shitting yourselves you catalan Twats

Big D

Oooh good one by Fabinho on Suarez there

He won the ball, Suarez as ever made the most of it.

Suarez buying that free kick.

There was nowt wrong with the challenge.

Diving snide

He was in the air before Milner touched him...

The ref is being geraniums to them

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Hopefully this will be a busy night for you, @No Idea For Nickname

Yep, me too

 

[Kasper]

I need some halftime entertainment, who can deliver some quotes about Suarez?

 

[Minimalist]

 

[No Idea For Nickname]

Seems that the lads have decided that 'feck this, if we could be kicked at your gaff, we'll fecking kick you at ours '

Barca have done well to contain our fullbacks. Origi has tried hard and has been both effective and rubbish at the same time.

Henderson in the refs ear for ignoring Coutinho body block that saw Fabinho end up on the ground.

This ref can suck my plums.

He’s certainly bought every dive.

Ok, the ref has decided that he's not giving Mane anything. That was as a clear a foul as you'll ever see.

IS THIS REF feckING BLIND!!?!!?!?!?!

All going one way right now.

Face to arse... dangerous head injury that,,

Robbo is back on, Messi has control of the ball at the moment, everyone terrified of touching him.

feck this ref, that's a card for any other team.

As the clock ticks towards HT Barca weather two mini onslaughts and recover their shape

This ref is a twat - Busquets gets a Yellow for something he's let other Barca players get away with all evening

Should be grateful I suppose but I'm fuming

Can’t remember over 2 legs the run of the ball falling so much in favour of 1 team
On another day between last week and tonight we could be cruising

I swear this barc team are above average , 7/8 - 10

 

[SteveJ]

“Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Scousers.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in Liverpool, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Klopp, Liverpool, and Saint John!'

Apologies to Billy Shakespeare from Bootle

Oh ffs...