Our players generally go in the stand for the atmosphere. Rio and O'Shea were suspended at Anfield a few years back and sat in stands. Darren Fletcher and Ashley Young did for Newcastle a few years back. Unless you have your family with you, players tend to prefer getting in the chaos of the match day fans, because that's what they grew up with. Nobody is telling them to do it.
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ffs he was jumping up and down 
Probably got injured in the celebrations..
MOM for me today
Player of the season for that surely.
What a charmer.
Someone change the title name to 'Performances in the stands'.
I'm not convinced, but don't really care either way. Can't wait until all three are back on the pitch.
He was in the red zone today.
His best performance of the season!
best moment of the game, also thumbs up to Rojo and Carras as well!
There is a lad behind/to the right of him with long ish hair that seems to get swallowed into an abyss in the middle of all of that.
Is that Carrick to the left of him?
Not sure if serious?
Serious.
PR stunt? To what end?
Hey guys, get in there and jump up and down and then people will love me.
Nah. I doubt woodie gives a feck what we think, and this certainly doesn't reflect on him.
Players always go in the away end. I remember Young being there away to Newcastle and I'm sure Carrick's done it before too.
Is he fine? I fear injuries. I mean all that mad jumping up and down
So Phil Jones 4 is a brand now? Who knew...
i will never tire seeing this, its mint
Atleast we get some use out of him in the stands.
I do agree... 3 players, separately get tickets to an away game rather than sit with the club entourage?
Jonesy 1 Gerrard nil.
Repeat ad infinitum.
Repeat ad infinitum.
Seriously?
Yes.
I've seen Young and Fletch in the crowd together at Old Trafford watching us play and I've seen others but it's rare.
Then you have 3 players going to one away game separately with their own friends? Don't they usually just go with the squad? What was different yesterday that made 3 players decide to go sit in with the fans?
Maybe they just they just wanted to experience the biggest fixture in English football like a fan?
It's a fairly rare opportunity if you think about it, Jones & Carrick have featured in all of our games at Anfield since they've been here I believe (bench or starting line up). Rojo was on the bench last season. I'm pretty sure it's the first time any of them have got a chance, due to being injured for the game.
Even if the club asked them to go, it's great.
Surprised some bastard hasn't said he's found his best position 
Set to feature for the U21s tonight against Norwich.
I hope this doesn't mean van Gaal will give him his obligatory sub appearance on the weekend and further disrupt the defence.
I hope we replace him in the summer. Waste of space.
Would keep him in the squad in hope he'd do a 'Smalling.' Still 23 afterall..
But we do need a stable upgrade of a center back partner for Smalling whilst we conduct this experiment, I like Blind but there'll always be one or two defensive lapses per game as a CB. I don't see him as our long term CB solution.
But we do need a stable upgrade of a center back partner for Smalling whilst we conduct this experiment, I like Blind but there'll always be one or two defensive lapses per game as a CB. I don't see him as our long term CB solution.
Sadly I agree. I'd rather keep Rojo, who is also injury prone but seems to possess the better skill-set to become a great defender one day (He probably won't though).
I don't mind sticking with some injury hit players because they can overcome their problems. Giggs' for example, they spotted that his hamstring issues could be linked to the clutch in his Ferrari and he made the decision to sell it or at least not use it which apparently helped a lot.
Jones on the other hand:
That's 76 games missed in 5 years. He's missed about 25% of the available games.
That 25% doesn't count the time he spends making bench appearances while he gets up to fitness.
That's 10 different injuries of varying types. The only way to stop him getting these injuries is a lobotomy.
Jones on the other hand:
That's 76 games missed in 5 years. He's missed about 25% of the available games.
That 25% doesn't count the time he spends making bench appearances while he gets up to fitness.
That's 10 different injuries of varying types. The only way to stop him getting these injuries is a lobotomy.
I'm thinking, if we get Mourinho, Jones could very well be a player to his liking and he could help him ironing out some foolishness.
If he could just stay fit, Jones that is.
Smalling, Jones and Shaw has the potential to be frightenly good. Darmian is also showing some nice stuff lately.
If he could just stay fit, Jones that is.
Smalling, Jones and Shaw has the potential to be frightenly good. Darmian is also showing some nice stuff lately.
The issue isn't his defending. It's the fact he can't keep fit. Hes actually a very good defender when he's on the pitch.
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