Bretc wrote:During all my 24 years as a Liverpool fan, I’ve never seen a Liverpool team playing as bad as the one under Hodgson. Granted, the Souness-era was a terrible period but the team was made up of horrendously average players that still made me cringed today. Today we have the likes of Torres, Gerrard, Cole, Meireles, Johnson, Reina, Agger, Kuyt and a handful of promising young talents, yet we just keep on losing every single match! My point is this – we have the players but we do not have the right tactic and right motivation to make them succeed as a team.
Many may point the fingers at the players for lack of motivation but who is the one responsible for motivating them? A manager has the authority to choose his players; if any of them refuses to be motivated, jolly well have the guts to drop them! Be it Gerrard, Torres or whoever the hell! And when things go wrong on the field, stop stroking your damn chin and work something out!!! Watching the way we play at the moment makes me wanna cry cos we’re playing the same way as Fulham! We’re sitting very deep and inviting the opposition to attack us at will! And when we have the ball what do we do? Whack it hard towards Torres – oh wait, that’s not Agger doing the passing, that’s “hoof-the-ball” Carra doing the job. Where’s Agger? Oh, Hodgson has decided that Skrtel, Soto and Carra are better defenders than him and moreover he’s more of a leftback – and a 2nd choice behind Konchesky. ATROCIOUS!!!
I see the media blaming Torres and I blame Hodgson for that cos he’s trying to deflect the attention away from himself and towards Torres. I dun blame Torres at all. It’s obvious there wasn’t any decent service from midfield especially when Gerrard and Cole were so far away from him. As a result, he gotto feed on scraps and ended up looking bad. When we’ve got 2 of the best English attacking midfielders behind the best striker in the world and yet can’t produce any consistent stream of goalscoring chances, you know something must be wrong. There is no pattern in our attacking build-up play and Torres is isolated up front. If this has nothing to do with Hodgson’s inept tactic, I dunno what it is.
So whichever way I see it, all fingers are to be pointed at Hodgson – fingers of blame! He’s a born loser with loser tactics and loser mentality. He hasn’t got a clue what Liverpool is about; he is deluded and he deserves to be sacked! *Dun even bring up the smiling episode after the derby match – that was a disgrace and insult of infinite proportions!!!*
On a sidenote, I wonder how’s the current relationship between Torres and Gerrard. I dunno what it is but something seems to be amiss between them. I worry there is a division between English and non-English players. Hope not cos that would be a bigger problem to resolve. And I hope we do not see the ugly player power drama unfolding. I really worry that players like Carra and Gerrard hold too much influence that will create different camps in the team. This is one of the problems prior to Rafa’s arrival – here’s hoping my worry is unfounded.
good post