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I'm wondering how long it'll be before the ground staff at Melwood surreptitiously make the goals 6" smaller.

Liverpool players obviously not talented enough to find the actual goal

I'm sure Liverpool fans would argue it requires more talent to hit the woodwork so consistently.

anyone can get the ball in a gap 10ft by 7 foot
it takes skill to hit something three inches wide

so they're trying to hit the woodwork on purpose?

'verpool

You both sound like Pisti moaning about injuries. Just listen to yourselves! Listen!!! FFS. You've gone from banging on about history to banging on about alternative history in parallel universes.

I am disappoint.

in a parallel universe alex ferguson never existed and liverpool have won every premiershit title since inception ( of the league not the movie )

I think you'll find, Roy Keane moved to Derby. And Gazza went to United.

TEH RULEZ

anyone can get the ball in a gap 10ft by 7 foot

You guys using hockey goals?

Those are the dimensions of Andy Carroll, aren't they?

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/paul-tomkins-best-squad-for-years

Next season...

lol I just read that and was going to post it :)

even mottie on radio 5 was saying he expects big things from us next year

If you are aiming to be top four you need to be producing the worlds best young players. Arsenal are clearly struggling in their reliance on youth policy over spending on wages. Likewise albion need to be churning out prem quality and they arent. No point in running a youth policy for marginal profit at best

Imagine if all clubs did this.

Surely it's worth for clubs looking at their youth set ups. What do you think is the anticipated savings that say, Dortmund, Bayern, Ajax, Lyon, Barcelona etc have made from having such a good set up?

If a youth set up pays for for itself than its worth having one.

If only the FA would mandate youth set ups like they do in Germany than English football would be in rudimentary health. Germany have overhauled their set up in the space of 12 years and is already paying dividends. Not sure why it couldn't do the same in England.

You lot will love this.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/woodwork-denies-liverpool-champions-league-place-210016128.html

If they make the goals bigger then next year.............

Most pointless stat of the season, can you start looking into denied penalties, saved penalties and off side goals as well please?

we'd probably be right at the top if you counted those ^ and goals caused by beachballs

how many penalties was suarez denied last season due to his " reputation "

^ beachballs thrown onto the pitch by liverpool fans

^^Not as many as the number of cards that he should have picked up for diving, cheating, racism, biting, elbowing and being in general a grade A cunt.

^^Not as many as the number of cards that he should have picked up for diving, cheating, racism, biting, elbowing and being in general a grade A cunt.

spurs would have been in trouble for sure

I don't have any stats to hand, but Arsenal's youth academy makes money for the club, i.e. it is profitable.

Realistically, if an academy can produce one first team player every two seasons it is successful and if you can sell three or four players each summer then it should make enough money to cover the cost of the coaching staff.

Again no profit stats, but Spurs have brought through Steven Caulker, Danny Rose, Jake Livermore, Andros Townsend, Harry Kane recently. If an academy costs £500k pa to run (invented figure), there's a tidy little profit.

Given the chance that you may turn out a gem worth high 7 or even 8 figures, it's a more worthwhile investment than the average £500k player.

Under the EPPP clubs get a £5m funding from the Premier League. I don't think any team publishes the exact outlay of their youth academy.

If the goals were made larger, there would be more woodwork for Liverpool to hit.

FACT

how is the post rafa era treating you clive ?

won any trophies yet ?

Dicki, dear chap, if you followed Chelsea a little closer you'd know that TFSW is taking the team on tour to the US. We have 2 petro friendlies lined up over there, one in NYC and another in St Louis.

If the goals were made larger, there would be more woodwork for Liverpool to hit.

FACT

Er. No. If the goalposts and crossbars were made larger etc and so on.
The dimensions of the goal itself are changing. Not the boundaries marking out the goal. Or have I missed something?