Right let's take this bit by bit.
I don't think anybody thinks it is a useless cup
Somebody who doesn't care about the result (won't complain if we lose) sees it as useless cup. Simple way of looking at things for me.
but I am sure he is just afraid that Liverpool will lose players in the league cup jeopardising our league position.
Well we've got a big enough squad to deal with injuries.
I don't think anyone will back you up if you get nasty with people who have a different opinion.
I think you need to re-read this thread then because plenty have backed me up. And I don't really think I've got nasty, it's natural Scouse speak. I've called me best mates a soft c**t before now.
He's relatively new and new people can have misguided opinions.
So we can't tell somebody straight until they've had a 6 month period on the forum? Nah swerve that lad, I've laid into people on their first day - granted they're usually Everton or United fans though.
I can't say his opinion is misguided though
I can. And it is misguided as far as I'm concerned.
he has genuine concern about keeping players fit for priority games.
The priority game is always the next one. Not one in six weeks time. That's like saying, we can "rest" Suarez, Sturridge, Coutinho, Gerrard, Agger and Mignolet for the next three months cos the Christmas period is more important. It's nonsense. The priority game is the next one.
I saw you dished out scenarios so here's one. ..Gerrard and Coutinho get injured in the league cup against Manchester United, we draw against Swansea... miss out on 4th at the end of the season by 2 points.... I am sure most people won't even remember about losing points for a league cup game.
I don't what scenario I've dished out but your's is totally F***ing stupid. If Gerrard and Coutinho get injured in the League Cup, we'd of already F***ing drew with Swansea so missing out on fourth by 2 points won't be the League Cup's fault anyway would it? F**k me.
But the point you're trying to make is mute anyway. There's 38 League games during a season, if we miss out on that oh so great fourth place finish by a mere two points it'll be because we haven't been good enough over 38 games. Not because of one injury picked up in the League Cup. We could pick up injuries at any time in any game - why is it just the League Cup that players need to be protected from injuries in? Also we picked up three injuries in the last round of the League Cup - followed it up with a win over the current Premier League champions. So again, that scenario is totally F***ing stupid.
It's not that we don't want to win
You just don't care if we don't. I get it.
it is that it is nowhere near as important as the league
The important thing is winning the next game. When the League Cup tie comes around that will be the most important thing in the season.
that is as delusional as saying that 4th isn't an achievement.
Another one who thinks fourth is an achievement. It isn't, never has been, never will be, an achievement for Liverpool Football Club.
4th is a massive achievement
Oh it's not just an achievement but a massive achievement now. No it isn't. It's an embarrassment for a club of this size to be even considering fourth as something as an achievement.
unless you have had your head up your but for the last 3 seasons.
I haven't and still don't see it as an achievement.
4th is champions league football
No fourth is a Champions League qualifier. Ask Everton if you don't believe me.
which will attract better players for us to challenge for the league.
Like Joe Ledley, Anthony Stokes and Georgios Samaras. Oh how I long for those players compared to the likes of Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez.
Go on, surprise us why are you called grandad at 22? Do you wear a cardigan? I ask because one of my friends did so I nicknamed him grandad, it wasn't a complement... it was his fashion sense.
No I don't wear a cardigan. And to many it won't come as a surprise as to why I'm called Granddad but it's mainly due to the fact that I'd rather listen to the music of the 50s and 60s than today's racket, would rather watch the war time comedy legends than today's over dramatic sh*t, have a much greater knowledge of those days than I do today, have a much more old fashioned look on life than today's modern ways. All in all I was born in the wrong generation.
Either way, you were pretty rude to CoutinhoRed
Awwwwww diddums. Did he ask you to have a nice word with the "pretty rude" man? And at least I was rude (if I was) to him and not make silly snide remarks to others. If he's old enough to use the forum, he's old enough to get any stick that comes his way and he's old enough to defend himself. He doesn't need you wet nosing him.
having 15k posts doesn't give you any right to do that.
Did anybody say it did?
I've had this attitude from me first post. People on here will happily vouch for that. I've never changed my approach. And I think there's more than enough on here who respect, value and appreciate my opinion.
I don't care if you've got 1 post next to your name or a million and one posts, if you say something I don't agree with I'll tell you straight. If I think you're being a pr**k, I'll say you're being a pr**k. If I think you're a stupid, glory hunting, waste of space, good for nothing c**t, I'll probably call you an Evertonian.
So the 15k posts next to my name have no baring on this situation whatsoever. Why bringing it into the equation is something only you know.
