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I feel justified in making my mind up about him in the space of a few months in the same way you probably think it was fair that Roy was judged on the back of a few months. Let's have a level playing field here shall we? (I'd go as far as to bet that you were against roy from day 1, never mind giving him a full season like you think kenny deserves....)

Check my posts and you will lose that bet,but to give u the chance to win it back,I bet you've changed your username a couple of times?

You lose! Not sure who you think I am but I'm sure a moderator can verify that I haven't changed my username a couple of times. I used to be on Koptalk years and years ago - this is my first venture back. And no, its not because I've been banned from everywhere else - honest!!

That would make us even then.

How do you know you wouldn't? West Brom could finish a very respectable 10th and we'd be well clear of them (9-12 points) in 6th. At the start of the season you were not realistic enough about the state of our squad that you wouldn't have been happy with 6th? You can't base one's preconceptions about the strength of a team not your own as a measure for the success of your own. West Brom may never have stayed up before, but that doesn't mean they had no chance of doing so this season.

After all, United are 9-12 points clear of Chelsea, who started the season scoring something like 25 goals in their first 6 or 7 games.

You'll argue about anything won't you?

There is now way that any LFC fan, at the start of a season, would settle for finishing just 9 points above west brom who were widely tipped to go down.
By all means debate genuinely open topics but you'e being a fool here..

I don't think I'm being a fool at all. Saying, "Yeah we were 15 points better than WBA this season" means nothing to anyone outside those who are their direct rivals. Finishing outside the top 6 on the other hand is a disaster for Liverpool, regardless of the quality of West Brom's season. Obviously I'd be unhappy finishing within 9 points of the drop zone, but last time I checked the table WBA are well clear of it. Just because they were "widely tipped to go down" doesn't mean they will do so with certainty (consider the plight of the League Cup winners, for eg, who were unbeatable at home last season), so any comparisons with them are utterly irrelevant at the start of the season.

What is foolish is basing a feeling of disappointment about something like the performance of our club or manager upon a statistic that is irrelevant; and that is why I will argue, particularly with you who do it a lot.