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It's the Anfield Rapa, Atkinson, John Gibbons, Adam Smith and Ben Johnson with you for the next hour or so

to talk about a variety of things, not just Liverpool Mill, Plymouth,

Plymouth Argyll Mill, but also what it leads to in terms of the young players who

played, what it means in terms of a replay, what it suggests around the idea of the

Southampton game and the Man United game coming up.

It's become an intense period of football. John, the manager himself today is joking about it saying,

well it's not as bad as October to May last year, but it has become an intense period of football all of a sudden.

Yeah, that has and obviously we're all hoping there's another ethical

valid in there in which Keith January just looks, you know, it is relentless.

He's going to have to try and use a squad a little bit more than what he was, I think,

looked willing to towards the end of December anyway. But I think he's got his eye on the game's the first team,

and I think it's going to become a similar sort of situation that it was in the in the Europa League running in that he's got he's already said look it's the first team Wednesday that I am that's have him one it's all my best lads I can get on the pitch. There looks like there's a couple coming back which is good news

but yeah it's gonna be kind of all lands on deck till the end of January and then just see where you are.

Hopefully we're in a good place in all three of the compositions we're playing in but obviously the priorities the league.

I mean it's he's made it crystal clear there's two sides of the

John O really first it's the idea that he's he's made it crystal clear

that the FAA cup at least at this stage wasn't a priority for a variety of reasons.

But he's also, you can't say you've got all these good young lads and then not play them.

You've got to play them at some point and

every I don't think there's a single player who started for Liverpool really there who

didn't need the start possible exceptions would burn and everyone wants to watch

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