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"This shite is as bad as those who were doubting Wayne Rooney a few weeks back - typical fickle press-led bullshit. All players lose their form at some stage"

There's little comparison between the two. Rooney is genuinely a great player and even when he had a dip in output in terms of goals/assists his workrate was superb. The reason for the dip in form was a reaction to his rushed comeback for the World Cup and was therefore largely physical. A run of games would sort him out and it did.

Gerrard is standing up and letting players run away from him when Liverpool/England lose possession which is a huge no-no.

If ye think Gerrard can play centre of midfield in a 4-4-2 then a lot of you are more deluded than I can imagine. There's a couple of reason's why he scored 23 goals last season the most important one being that he doesn't bother doing much defending, i.e. he is really a deep playing striker. That puts it in context. The reason he was "winning the games for Liverpool" is because the rest of the players did the hard, unfashionable work for him.

"Ferguson would probably paint his arse yellow and walk naked from Manchester to Liverpool to get him in a United jersey."

You might be right. Ferguson has made more and more bad decisions in recent years.

I don't think United would be interested in someone who would be overpriced for the bench (before the flaming starts who would you drop?) and anyway - there's no way they'd have the money for him.

Liverpool should sell Gerrard at Christmas before people cop on that he's actually not that good/finished - the same way Ferguson got rid of Beckham in the nick of time (he should have sold him a couple of years earlier when he stopped trying against Madrid in a CL game at OT). Gerrard simply doesn't have the stomach and professionalism to be the player 'pool fans claim he is. Some clowns in Spain with more money than sense would be the ones to offload him to, i.e. Real Madrid, though that said Capello would need to get sacked first.

Its a long time since I've seen Liverpool as lacking in huger and bite as in recent weeks (against the better sides).

Failing that Liverpool could try to get the back pass rule changed back again to its original state. Barwick might be able to get the ball rolling on that with the FA.

Uladh - for what its worth I think you are way off the mark. As O'Neill is well able to defend himself I'll leave it at that. Suffice to say I'd leave more value on him comments than most. As for The Gael - jury is out but beginiing to be swayed. Would love to know the real agenda.....

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this elaborate response has been viewed by the GPA grassroots as a classic political sidestep

Paper really does not refuse ink!

Before making a guess can you tell me which of the nominees are going to the dinner?