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NANNY RED wrote:Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson: "It's a bad result every time you lose, and it's difficult to give an assessment straight after you've been beaten. When we went 1-0 down we were forced to take some risks and they almost got us back into the game so unfortunately not. Most of today we've defended long throws and long ball forward and balls pumped into your penalty area, so it's a very different game to that against Chelsea. It's a special game, this one. You have to defend stoutly and do more going forward than we did."

yEH WHA, HELL

wat the ....Roy you sent the team out to play just like Rafa did last year, it did not work then so it was not going to work now.......the idea is to win games mate not to get beat but look ok doing so.

bunglemark2 wrote:NESV - did you watch this ? Does this not give you just cause for publicly flogging Woy ?
Come on Mr. Henry - do the right thing....

Lee J wrote:here she is, right on cue, the forum clown.

go fuking do one you jumped up b!tch.

I may have taken 4 month longer than you to come to the conclusion Roy must leave but at least I was behind him hoping he'd give it a shot. you wrote him off from the day he was rumoured.

what an utter disgrace of a fan you are, go watch X factor you low life fuking trollope.

lakes10 wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson: "It's a bad result every time you lose, and it's difficult to give an assessment straight after you've been beaten. When we went 1-0 down we were forced to take some risks and they almost got us back into the game so unfortunately not. Most of today we've defended long throws and long ball forward and balls pumped into your penalty area, so it's a very different game to that against Chelsea. It's a special game, this one. You have to defend stoutly and do more going forward than we did."

yEH WHA, HELL

wat the ....Roy you sent the team out to play just like Rafa did last year, it did not work then so it was not going to work now.......the idea is to win games mate not to get beat but look ok doing so.

LFC2007 wrote:

Raoul wrote:lakes and LFC2007 how many of Stoke's or Wigan's player would you buy? They made us look poor. Or is not the players or something else?

Clearly there are problems with the depth and quality of the squad, but I'm not sure that is our biggest problem right now...

I would say as a minimum that Kenwyne Jones, Etherington, Shawcross, Nzogbia, Figueroa and Rodallega are either better or equal to several players who have featured regularly for us this season. We are carried by a core of quality and experienced players, while the rest aren't truly Liverpool standard - though I believe you can get away with carrying one or two of them (e.g. Kuyt) and with a bit of luck still challenge for the top honours. Do I think the squad can perform better? Of course. I think we should reasonably expect to be three or four points better off than we are currently, and to that extent I find the criticism of the manager fair. But with so many numpties in the squad, whoever took over was going to find it difficult to get real consistency from our performances. You aren't going to dominate many games and play fluent attacking football with the likes of: Konchesky, Skrtel, Carragher, Kyrgiakos, Lucas, Poulsen, Jovanovic, Maxi, Ngog and Kuyt forming a key part of it. Even less so when your key players are injured or seriously out of form, as they were for spells last season, as they have been in spells this season. Stick enough of that lot in any top side and you'll see the same problems. That doesn't mean that individually they haven't put in good performances, or even several good performances (e.g. Lucas vs Blackburn, Bolton, Chelsea) but it means that with enough of them in our team - over 38 games - we'll struggle to find any real consistency. We swapped a dodgy manager for another dodgy manager and the squad remained effectively the same. No coincidence then that we're seeing a similar sort of outcome. We'll just have to grin and bear it until we get an opportunity to put it right.

bunglemark2 wrote:The Scum come back from 2 down against Villa. We can't even do that against Stoke - pathetic !

bavlondon wrote:btw not much to do with today but Aquilani setting up a goal for Juve. Glad we let that rubbish go. We have far too much creative talent in our team, full to the brim.

That's right Bav, Aquilani would have loved it against Stoke wouldn't he  . Feck me sideways.

bavlondon wrote:

lakes10 wrote:

NANNY RED wrote:Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson: "It's a bad result every time you lose, and it's difficult to give an assessment straight after you've been beaten. When we went 1-0 down we were forced to take some risks and they almost got us back into the game so unfortunately not. Most of today we've defended long throws and long ball forward and balls pumped into your penalty area, so it's a very different game to that against Chelsea. It's a special game, this one. You have to defend stoutly and do more going forward than we did."

yEH WHA, HELL

wat the ....Roy you sent the team out to play just like Rafa did last year, it did not work then so it was not going to work now.......the idea is to win games mate not to get beat but look ok doing so.

Will you stop saying he sets his teams up like Rafa. Firstly it isn't true and secondly it's an insult to Rafa to compare Roy's tactics. The same formation was used by 4 or 5 teams in the world cup. Does that mean they all set up like Rafa too?

lakes10 wrote:i see on other forums the backing of MON coming to the club is building.......not sure about that one myself.

LFC2007 wrote:

Raoul wrote:lakes and LFC2007 how many of Stoke's or Wigan's player would you buy? They made us look poor. Or is not the players or something else?

Clearly there are problems with the depth and quality of the squad, but I'm not sure that is our biggest problem right now...

I would say as a minimum that Kenwyne Jones, Etherington, Shawcross, Nzogbia, Figueroa and Rodallega are either better or equal to several players who have featured regularly for us this season. We are carried by a core of quality and experienced players, while the rest aren't truly Liverpool standard - though I believe you can get away with carrying one or two of them (e.g. Kuyt) and with a bit of luck still challenge for the top honours. Do I think the squad can perform better? Of course. I think we should reasonably expect to be three or four points better off than we are currently, and to that extent I find the criticism of the manager fair. But with so many numpties in the squad, whoever took over was going to find it difficult to get real consistency from our performances. You aren't going to dominate many games and play fluent attacking football with the likes of: Konchesky, Skrtel, Carragher, Kyrgiakos, Lucas, Poulsen, Jovanovic, Maxi, Ngog and Kuyt forming a key part of it. Even less so when your key players are injured or seriously out of form, as they were for spells last season, as they have been in spells this season. Stick enough of that lot in any top side and you'll see the same problems. That doesn't mean that individually they haven't put in good performances, or even several good performances (e.g. Lucas vs Blackburn, Bolton, Chelsea) but it means that with enough of them in our team - over 38 games - we'll struggle to find any real consistency. We swapped a dodgy manager for another dodgy manager and the squad remained effectively the same. No coincidence then that we're seeing a similar sort of outcome. We'll just have to grin and bear it until we get an opportunity to put it right.