RAWK Goes into Meltdown 2014/2015 - The "We go again" Edition

My personal favorite: "Tonight isn't about revenge for last season - we're not a club who live in the past." - Rodgers
 
Decotron said:
Not sure if these were posted already. 20 of Brentons finest quotes

1. ”It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes.”
2. “I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”
3. On Luis Suarez: “He is a real warrior of spirit.”
4. “My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
5. “I am not a power freak.”
6. “I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”
7. “When we have the football, everybody’s a player.”
8. “You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
9. ‘I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes.”
10.”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
11. “When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them.”
12. “Joe Allen is one of the most courageous players I’ve seen.
13. “I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless.”
14. “I always say a squad is like a good meal – I’m not a great cook but a good meal takes a wee bit of time, but also to offer a good meal you need good ingredients.”
15. “All I’ll ever do is all I’ve ever done in any job, and that’s promise to fight for my life for the people of the city.”
16. On the ‘Being: Liverpool’ documentary: “It was something I didn’t watch, and thankfully it’s over.”
17. “I’ve always worked along the statistic, that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning a game of football.”
18. “I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.”
19. “The problem with being a manager is it’s like trying to build an aircraft while it is flying.”
20. “We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”
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Dear lord, that's approaching George Dubya levels of wutness.
 
DJ Jeff said:
The second one kills me every time. Its the kind of thing I'd say if I were trying to do a Brenton piss take.
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I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope. Well, you can live without hope of course, it is not like you would really die or anything. I mean it is like sex, would you want to live life without sex? I wouldn't. Well, I'm not saying I need sex to live, look I'm doing just fine without sex. No, I don't mean I'm saying I can't get a woman. Of course I can get a woman, what are you saying. That's sexist.
 
montpelier said:
I want to know why Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre is the only player that still has his own player thread**. It's bang out of order.

(**mainly discussing Sakho v Lovren)
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Sakho vs Lovren in Suso thread? :lol:
 
They missed his best quote, in my opinion. “It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us,” said Brenton, after the 2-0 defeat to Sunderland.
 
If he put three players names in an envelope that he thought would let the side down, why didn't he just not play them?
 
SAF has used the envelope trick way back in 93 when we finally won the title. It was meant to be a motivation so noone became complacent.

I've heard him talk about it during interviews and it was in his book as well.
 
Decotron said:
Not sure if these were posted already. 20 of Brentons finest quotes

1. ”It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes.”
2. “I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”
3. On Luis Suarez: “He is a real warrior of spirit.”
4. “My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
5. “I am not a power freak.”
6. “I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”
7. “When we have the football, everybody’s a player.”
8. “You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
9. ‘I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes.”
10.”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
11. “When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them.”
12. “Joe Allen is one of the most courageous players I’ve seen.
13. “I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless.”
14. “I always say a squad is like a good meal – I’m not a great cook but a good meal takes a wee bit of time, but also to offer a good meal you need good ingredients.”
15. “All I’ll ever do is all I’ve ever done in any job, and that’s promise to fight for my life for the people of the city.”
16. On the ‘Being: Liverpool’ documentary: “It was something I didn’t watch, and thankfully it’s over.”
17. “I’ve always worked along the statistic, that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning a game of football.”
18. “I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.”
19. “The problem with being a manager is it’s like trying to build an aircraft while it is flying.”
20. “We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”
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Christ, thats one weird man.
 
I really want him to be made explain that 79% one. I'd love to hear the logic behind that.
Wrt 20, my Dad's a Liverpool fan and he doesn't consider Mignolet a goalkeeper either so maybe Brents right there. XD
 
Pexbo said:
My boss is a casual Liverpool fan, he's a kiwi so isn't actually that clued in football wise but still thinks he knows his onions. I bet him £500 a few weeks back that United will finish above Liverpool next season and he almost tore my hand off.

He thinks Rodgers is a genius and that they'll be even better in attack next season because of Lallana, personally I think his lack of pace is going to cause disjointed counter attacks and is defiant that they're going to replace Suarez with someone of equal quality.

I'm kinda gutted I won't be working with him all next season because their inevitable demise is going to be sweeter than ever.
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After putting up with him last season I can't tell you how gutted I'm not there rubbing it in right now. Very much looking forward to picking up my cash though.
 
My boss is a casual Liverpool fan, he's a kiwi so isn't actually that clued in football wise but still thinks he knows his onions. I bet him £500 a few weeks back that United will finish above Liverpool next season and he almost tore my hand off.

He thinks Rodgers is a genius and that they'll be even better in attack next season because of Lallana, personally I think his lack of pace is going to cause disjointed counter attacks and is defiant that they're going to replace Suarez with someone of equal quality.

I'm kinda gutted I won't be working with him all next season because their inevitable demise is going to be sweeter than ever.
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:lol:
 
This one cracks me up “The problem with being a manager is it’s like trying to build an aircraft while it is flying.”

Can't help but read any of those quotes in a smug David Brent accent and see this image...

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Tyrion said:
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Yeah I enjoyed that too.

He started off convinced they would get Sanchez and was raving over him until it came out that Sanchez was holding up the Suarez deal because he didn't want to go their and wanted to go to Arsenal.

Then it went through a variety of players they were linked with including Falcao, before he got giddy over Remy and how great and quick he was and Remy and Sterling would be unbeatable... Then that fell through and he had a meltdown when it turned out he wasn't injured and went to Chelsea.

Then Balotelli was the second coming, he gave it all the "huge potential" thing and was convinced Rodgers was the manager to bring it out of him.

Then we signed Falcao and Di Maria and he went a bit pale.

Not the summer he was expecting with their Champions League status and our 7th place finish.
 
I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.
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He definitely thought this one up whilst sitting on the bog. I'll throw this one out at tomorrows presser, it'll sound f*cking great. I'm f*cking great.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
He definitely thought this one up whilst sitting on the bog. I'll throw this one out at tomorrows presser, it'll sound f*cking great. I'm f*cking great.
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That thought makes me laugh, especially if he just tries to force it into his press conferences without being asked about it.

Reporter: "What formation are you going with today Brendan?"
Brendan: "A formation that uses a good mix of old and young players. I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence."
Reporter: "... wut"
 
Ole's_toe_poke said:
SAF has used the envelope trick way back in 93 when we finally won the title. It was meant to be a motivation so noone became complacent.

I've heard him talk about it during interviews and it was in his book as well.
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Imagine if he opened those envelopes and in one of them there was Roy Keane's name. Feck he will be moaning about it till this very day.
 
Ole's_toe_poke said:
SAF has used the envelope trick way back in 93 when we finally won the title. It was meant to be a motivation so noone became complacent.

I've heard him talk about it during interviews and it was in his book as well.
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Which one? Don't seem to remember that in either book.
 
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