Yes, what's far worse than Crap? He was that and more. I didn't get there till 20 minutes gone, but the proportion of passes that went to Liverpool directly (bad pass) or indirectly (through kicking the ball "inadvertently" out of the pitch) was disgusting. At times it was like we were 10 against 12.

Brad did, then the dimmer one (Gray) just wandered off becuse there was a shiny bauble somewhere else (or some such similar excuse) which left Tugs to go to where he thought more danger was. Wrong! Ps I was the one screaming "for F*CKS sake Gray, stand where you're ****** told, will you" at every corner!

Sad, sad, sad!

Well you would, wouldn't you- as the person most invested in his NOT coming back. Get used to it. He is coming back. For money and on a wage, and I am delighted. It'll be nice having him REALLY back at the club- as opposed to just attending every game.

People will be spending their Christmas bonuses!!!

We're only making it difficult to get to games where the away end sells out. This shows common sense. And anyone who really believes that just because smoeone has a Blackburn accent they won't be a Liverpool supporter is naive at best.

Actually, I noticed that last thing too- although I'd have said censured (although censored also works). But then there is one rule for favourites.

I suppose the fact that Jeffers, like Roberts, is injured has totally passed you by!

GOOD

Paradoxically that makes me quite happy. It means Hughes will HAVE to play Todd.

Because I'm a girly woose!!! I sit in my office with a heater on (winter or summer- the air-conditioning makes it too cold). I whine when the temperature drops below sub-tropical and my house's thermostat is set at 28 degrees. I'm probably responsible for global warming all on my own!

Can't go- it's our Christmas party at Lord's cricket ground. I'd have missed the party if we still needed the points, but as we don't I'm going!

On the way up to the Sunderland home game last season (which was ultimately cancelled) my friend and I were practically crying at the thought of having to sit outside (we had corporate hospitality booked but outside seats). We both agreed that we were willing to pay whatever they asked to sit inside! Then 50 miles from Ewood, they cancelled the game. We still went and got our food, but agreed it was a very long way to go for a meal!

Having travelled recently to Barnet, Grimsby and Wycombe, I can say anyone wanting to go back is COMPLETELY MAD!!! You REALLY don't want to be going back to dross like that- standing, tiny crowds and facilities to make a builder wince!!! (Although to be fair at Barnet I was in the Director's box which was ok) I'm one of the "new school" of fans. I like people to sit down and shut up so that I can concentrate on the game. Pointless droning on about Burnley just irritates. Now I'm not saying that a few good tunes before kick-off or at selected moments wouldn't be welcome, but we don't have any of them!

Aha- but you don't have the option of watching from inside the lounge if it's cold!!! (this is very important to me!)

From memory, Boxes are about £10k a pop. Corporate hospitality is from £130 to £400 a person in other suites. I normally do that 5 or 6 times a year. Plus I have an on-site parking place, so I think I already do my bit. Although have considered getting a hospitality season ticket (if we did such things). You can get them at Parkhead for about £1,500 a year

Todd also has great pecs and abs- I may already have mentioned it and he's the best fracking defender we;ve got- AND I include Nelsen!!!

The best thing Totti did was to make Italian men advertise what they were by haveing his name on their shirt.

I'm probably the only other person posting on here who likes this idea. Especially the heated seats bit!

The edit was to include Emerton. I forgot him the first time round so thought I'd add him as the most improved.

Well it seems like aggy hasn't read the answers. Well there's NOT a first!

At the end of the day it actually doesn't matter to the club if supporters buy their merchandise off Chorley market. The club makes the same money whatever. That's the whole point. As I said before, I suspect the club shop, before it was franchised out, was either not making much money or making none at all, and the club was taking all the risks on buying merchandise and hiring staff. Now they're not. It's a win win for the club.

Providing this is the same type of outsourcing arrangement as most are, we only get a fee from Sports World for allowing them to run the shop. They take the risk of it making a profit or loss. Therefore if they sell NO merchandise we still make money, and they make a loss on the staff and stock. It takes the risk out of ordering the wrong merchandise or too much. So actually although we sell the same merchandise regardless, if it's awful it doesn't matter under the present arrangement.

Someone somewhere will have done a cost/benefit analysis between keeping the shop (and catering) and hiving it off. The assumption must be that we're making more money by hiving it off than we were by running it ourselves. (This was true years ago for my student union's catering- the company we hived it off to ran it so badly it ran into the ground, but we still made money) Unfortunately for our club, with no great benefactor, the objective is to be profitable. Hence customer service will suffer. I would say - what's the point of having the best club shop in the world if it's losing money hand over fist?