It's about that time for post-season balloting. I'd like to know who you feel was our best player based on this season's body of work. If you are conflicted, explain. My vote goes to Murphy. Gerrard and Owen both had lengthy stretches of mediocrity. Jerzy had a couple of big whoopsies to blemish an otherwise solid campaign, and Hyypia didn't look quite as dominant as in years past. What say you?
Not necessarily. Danny has had an OUTSTANDING campaign, but I feel Steven Gerrard is a better footballer. Stevie would have recieved my vote if I had been hibernating and missed the November and December fixtures. However, Murphy has been a consistently solid performer throughout the year, and was perhaps the only player still clicking along during the dry spell. In fact, if his spark had left the team, we might still be in the doldrums right now. I think Stevie has better prospects than Spuds, both short and long term. Danny will still be a workhorse, but I am expecting it will be Stevie's magic that boosts us up into the top four in these closing fixtures. (And I'm not just grounding that in the Charlton result.)
I agree with you, though I guess it depends on how you choose to define best. Or in my case, "most valuable" would have been the better choice of words to describe Murphy. He is the one player you can rely on to operate at a high level on a weekly basis and seems to have a nose for important goals. But you're right, in terms of pure quality, Stevie is ahead of Spuds. And I'm rambling so I'll stop.
LOL! Your usual impeccable timing. His worst game in a red shirt has barely ended, in this, his worst season in a red shirt and the fount of all that is incredibly stupid has him as the LFC player of the year. You utter, utter moron.
Matt, if you'd get off the he's anti English rant, you might see where I am coming from. I've had enough of this abuse. I'm out of here.
Is this the same bloke who played football with every World Cup winner between 1930 and 2002 in the NASL? BTW, Matt, when you say, you mean that in a kindly, affectionate sort of way, like you'd talk to your kid brother, right............?
Indeed it is. No, I mean that in the distinctly malevolent, "I hope he gets hit by a truck on his way home to the idiot farm tonight" sort of a way, like I'd talk to a Manc. I've told you, dipshit, this has nothing to do with you being anti-English or otherwise. Never has had, never will do, even if it makes you feel better to believe otherwise. In fact - especially if it makes you feel better to believe otherwise. I don't want you to feel better, I want you to choke to death on the cloying misery of your own stupidity. Alone. In the dark. But failing that, just let go of the anti-English security blanket, OK bub? Remember - never has had, never will do. And you will come back, as you always do. Because you are a troll, your sniffy pretence not to be notwitstanding. And I'll be here as normal, retard.