The OFFICIAL Liverpool Supporters thread

[The Real Laoislad]

f**king pathetic
Why was Lucas and Kuyt left on the pitch? Even Gerrard was awful,The game was crying out for Robbie Keane imho,even when Torres came on the played the same formation.
If Rafa has some grudge against Keane he would wanna get over it fast,Kuyt is not good enough to play as a lone striker and never will be.
Babel was his normal brutal self when he came on,Mash kept giving the ball away,Jesus I felt like putting my foot through the telly at times

I thought Babel did all right in the short time he was on. He had one great run up the left where he won the free. I don't remember him screwing up either. He was about the least of Liverpool's worries today.

So in 20mins he had ONE run down the wing,wow that was a great impact he had..
Do you know why he didn't screw anything up ? Because he is a lazy shite who won't get involved when the going is tough and might as well have not been on the pitch..IMHO

[J70]

f**king pathetic
Why was Lucas and Kuyt left on the pitch? Even Gerrard was awful,The game was crying out for Robbie Keane imho,even when Torres came on the played the same formation.
If Rafa has some grudge against Keane he would wanna get over it fast,Kuyt is not good enough to play as a lone striker and never will be.
Babel was his normal brutal self when he came on,Mash kept giving the ball away,Jesus I felt like putting my foot through the telly at times

I thought Babel did all right in the short time he was on. He had one great run up the left where he won the free. I don't remember him screwing up either. He was about the least of Liverpool's worries today.

So in 20mins he had ONE run down the wing,wow that was a great impact he had..
Do you know why he didn't screw anything up ? Because he is a lazy shite who won't get involved when the going is tough and might as well have not been on the pitch..IMHO

A bit cranky tonight, are we?

He was on the ball several other times, but it was in general play, laying it across or back to Aurelio. I think he attempted one shot also coming in from the left that was blocked, as happened to Gerrard a few times. I'm not saying he is the answer to any problems or that he has a future at the club, but that run he made was one of the few positive, direct things any Liverpool player did in the entire match. He was far from the worst out there today. He was certainly nowhere near the depths he plunged in some recent games e.g his appearance against Hull.

[Stalin]

A 4-4-1-1? Thats a new one. Keane could and would have done a lot worse than Kuyt, going by his previous efforts this season. Can you not accept that Keane is being left out and taken off for a reason? He has been absolutely gash all season, and his worst performance to date was his last, against Luton.

Forgive me for glossing over your post, but you do come out with a lot of the same shite over and over again.

Your point about Babel is very retarded.

[Minder]

Rafa can frustrate but you have to understand he sees the players all week and sees if they are performing or not. I have been a critic but he is better placed than us to pick the team and i cant think of another manager i would prefer to steer the ship.

[Stalin]

Rafa can frustrate but you have to understand he sees the players all week and sees if they are performing or not. I have been a critic but he is better placed than us to pick the team and i cant think of another manager i would prefer to steer the ship.

Bring back Steve Finnan to replace Rafa.

[Minder]

Finnan is alright where he is..........

[Stalin]

Robbie Keane player manager?

[The Real Laoislad]

A 4-4-1-1? Thats a new one. Keane could and would have done a lot worse than Kuyt, going by his previous efforts this season. Can you not accept that Keane is being left out and taken off for a reason? He has been absolutely gash all season, and his worst performance to date was his last, against Luton.

Forgive me for glossing over your post, but you do come out with a lot of the same shite over and over again.

Your point about Babel is very retarded.

I see so thats gonna be your attitude is it..
Fair enough I have no time trying to chat with someone who has that sort of opinion of me,I leave you to your own thoughts as you seem to be far more educated in the world of football than me..

BTW it was Preston North End not Luton they were playing

[The Real Laoislad]

f**king pathetic
Why was Lucas and Kuyt left on the pitch? Even Gerrard was awful,The game was crying out for Robbie Keane imho,even when Torres came on the played the same formation.
If Rafa has some grudge against Keane he would wanna get over it fast,Kuyt is not good enough to play as a lone striker and never will be.
Babel was his normal brutal self when he came on,Mash kept giving the ball away,Jesus I felt like putting my foot through the telly at times

I thought Babel did all right in the short time he was on. He had one great run up the left where he won the free. I don't remember him screwing up either. He was about the least of Liverpool's worries today.

So in 20mins he had ONE run down the wing,wow that was a great impact he had..
Do you know why he didn't screw anything up ? Because he is a lazy shite who won't get involved when the going is tough and might as well have not been on the pitch..IMHO

A bit cranky tonight, are we?

He was on the ball several other times, but it was in general play, laying it across or back to Aurelio. I think he attempted one shot also coming in from the left that was blocked, as happened to Gerrard a few times. I'm not saying he is the answer to any problems or that he has a future at the club, but that run he made was one of the few positive, direct things any Liverpool player did in the entire match. He was far from the worst out there today. He was certainly nowhere near the depths he plunged in some recent games e.g his appearance against Hull.

Just a tad cranky J70 alright,how could one not be after that horror show. 

[EC Unique]

Rafa can frustrate but you have to understand he sees the players all week and sees if they are performing or not. I have been a critic but he is better placed than us to pick the team and i cant think of another manager i would prefer to steer the ship.

Im amazed he can continue to pick teams which are designed to not loose a game and maybe nick a win instead of picking a team to attack and try to win from the start and still hold on to the faith of the supporters. Fair enough he has the team at the top of the league but if he used his balls a bit more Liverpool could be 8+ points clear at this stage...

[full back]

In Rafa we trust

Seriously, the selection, tactics & substitutions are going to cost the scousers

[Over the Bar]

Gerrard was also pretty anonymous yesterday in midfield.  Looked like his mind was already in Wormwood Scrubs!

[corn02]

We can expect the usual Rafa cracked bullshit from the press. A terrible performance that even if Rafa took out an effigy of Ferguson and pissed on it, it would be hard to imagine the players playing worse.

Re: One striker. It is not one striker it is one striker with Gerrard playing off it. We scored five times using it in our last match. Fair play to Stoke they deserved the points.

It does appear that this is the case though. Ask yourself, but take your 'I love Rafa' t-shirt off first, is it a coincidence that the day after Benitez goes off on an unprecedented rant/ justified monologue, which gets splashed all over the press, his team put in their worst performance of the season? 

Yes, yes it is. They were terrible and there is no way that performance was related to the press conference.

[milltown row]

the leagues over for another year

[J70]

the leagues over for another year

Get a grip. Yes, United will be probably be top by the time Liverpool play Everton and will be hot favourites for the league, but its not even the middle of January yet. This isn't other years when Liverpool were 15 points adrift at this point, while, impressive as United were today, they've struggled for consistent form over the past couple of months too. Its been a bad weekend for Liverpool for sure, but they're still in a very strong position.