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Be awesome if he scored the goal that kept us up.

Back really is terrible with no names/letters on it. I think it's pretty decent, nothing to get terribly excited about but miles better than the current attempt at a strip.

Went for a game of Pitch and Putt cos it was such a nice evening. Shot a 59, pretty pleased with that like.

One of our few players that contributes anything positive whatsoever. Be nice if he had any sort of end product though, obviously.

I'm a right cunt, to be fair.

If we're going 4-3-3 then dropping Owen is ridiculous, he's by far the best suited player in our squad to playing in the hole. Lovenkrands in midfield won't happen either, and nor should it. I'd not be adverse to giving Smith a run but not as the holding midfielder, slap Guthrie there and let Smith play in one of the outside CM roles.

I love the way he starts off saying he likes Newcastle in some laughable attempt to make the rest of the article seem in some way unbiased.

I have Liverpool winning the league on goal difference on the predictor btw, not sure how I managed that. Maybe I just hate Man U.

To be fair, they've got two games against Stoke at home and Bolton away that they could get anywhere between 0 and 6 points from. (apart from 5, I suppose) We need them to get no more than 3 or we're in real, real shite. We can only hope they don't nick something in any of their three harder fixtures, if that happens then it'll be the old toaster and the bath option for me.

Mine's probably the Blackburn side that beat us 2-0 at the end of the 2006/2007 season.

Yes, but our current lot can't provide that. It's about getting the best from what we have, and if we're going 4-4-2 then that means dropping Owen because Martins gives you much more shot at doing something with the level of service we can provide. Obviously, we need to be going 4-3-3 though.

Hull at home to Stoke is as big as any of our games tbh, if they win that then we're really fucked.

I really disagree with that. Owen has never been a technically gifted player. His touch on the ball and his passing isn't particularly good at all. In the past, he's relied on his athleticism, but now that he's lost the edge off his pace, the reality is he's just an average Premiership striker. I keep hearing about 'the service' being poor, but it didn't seem to stop Martins getting on the end of a few chances. bang on Would you drop Owen and play 4-4-2 then? Surely 4-3-3 is the way to go from here on in?

Both would improve the team if available, can only hope they make it.

No, we need to play him alongside Martins and one of Carroll or Viduka. Ideally a midfield 3 of Barton, Guthrie and Jonas. Think there's a nice balance in that trio, Guthrie the static distributor with Jonas and Barton providing the legs.

The only team I've ever seen make wing backs work was Brazil around the turn of the century. They did have possibly the two best players ever suited to the wing-back position of course, Cafu and Roberto Carlos. We have Ryan Taylor and Damien Duff. Enrique or not next Monday it'd be absolute lunacy to try this fucking bullshit formation again. We've looked absolutely and completely useless every second we've been in this system the last two games. It was only when we abandoned it against Stoke and let Duff play much further up field that we started to look in any way threatening and got our goal. The moment we reverted to it after the goal it handed Stoke the initiative and they naturally finished the game looking the more likely winners. Can't believe Shearer claimed it actually worked against them, we were useless. Same against Spurs for most of the first half, again the minute we abandoned it we improved immediately. If Enrique doesn't make it next Monday, play Duff or Bassong at LB. I can only hope that Shearer has gotten it out of his system and is going to go with a formation that makes some sense. If he hasn't, I don't see us getting a win next Monday.

This I would say the same formation, with one exception. I think the formation should have Owen and Viduka swapped. Owen has been Mr Nobody when he's dropped back to help in midfield, yet Viduka's whole game these days is about getting possession, holding the ball for a bit and then feeding players making forward movement. So I'd put Viduka in that central forward role to act as a target man, to get the ball, hold it at his feet, allow Martins and Owen to make runs in to the box, and then passing it to Owen's or Martin's feet. So this for me: Harper Beye Colocinni Bassong Enrique Guthrie Barton Jonas Viduka Martins Owen Only time Owen has looked in any way useful for us the last couple of years is in a hole, it's clearly the place for him. FYP Ahhh lighten up man http://i40.tinypic.com/205qerk.gif

This I would say the same formation, with one exception. I think the formation should have Owen and Viduka swapped. Owen has been Mr Nobody when he's dropped back to help in midfield, yet Viduka's whole game these days is about getting possession, holding the ball for a bit and then feeding players making forward movement. So I'd put Viduka in that central forward role to act as a target man, to get the ball, hold it at his feet, allow Martins and Owen to make runs in to the box, and then passing it to Owen's or Martin's feet. So this for me: Harper Beye Colocinni Bassong Enrique Guthrie Barton Jonas Viduka Martins Owen Only time Owen has looked in any way useful for us the last couple of years is in a hole, it's clearly the place for him. FYP

This I would say the same formation, with one exception. I think the formation should have Owen and Viduka swapped. Owen has been Mr Nobody when he's dropped back to help in midfield, yet Viduka's whole game these days is about getting possession, holding the ball for a bit and then feeding players making forward movement. So I'd put Viduka in that central forward role to act as a target man, to get the ball, hold it at his feet, allow Martins and Owen to make runs in to the box, and then passing it to Owen's or Martin's feet. So this for me: Harper Beye Colocinni Bassong Enrique Guthrie Barton Jonas Viduka Martins Owen Only time Owen has looked in any way useful for us the last couple of years is in the hole, it's clearly the place for him. Putting Viduka there and asking him to run around and link the play could land Shearer in jail, I doubt Viduka would manage 45 minutes without dying of exhaustion. Owen in the hole, Viduka up front is the only way to go. I'd swap Barton and Guthrie too. Joey has a far better engine to get up and down the field, whereas Guthrie's best asset is his distribution. If Barton isn't able to go then maybe Smith. Doubtless it'll be Butt and Nolan that start though.

To be fair, he's had them playing a completely different system the last two games so there's definitely been a change. Unfortunately, that new system makes the previous 4-4-2 look awesome.

If Shearer pulls his head out of his arse and abandons this 3-5-2 bullshit then we're still right in there with a shout. If we win our three home games we should still stay up, and despite how absolutely ungodly bad we've been all year there's absolutely nothing whatsoever that should stop us doing just that. Boro and Pompey are absolutely shite too, and we have them at our place and with our 3 best goalscorers looking like they'll be available. Beat them two and we'll have our tails up when Fulham come, and while they're a decent side we should still be able to beat them considering how important a game it'll be for us. I think Blackburn will be safe. They've 3 very winnable home games to come too and West Brom on the last day. So it's two of us, Boro and Hull for me, and I think Boro are 90% gone. If Hull get more than 4 points from their run-in I'll be very surprised. We need Man U to go to Hull needing a win on the final day too. If we go down on the back of Man U rolling over against Hull on the final day to rest players for the CL final I'll probably have to kill some people.

Don't get to see a lot of Inter games, what system is Mourinho using there? Zlatan and Drogba are both more target man types really, I think they'd be better served getting Villa than Drogba tbh, even though Drogba is a better player.

Could have very easily gone down under Fat Sam tbh, we were every bit as shit before Keegan took over as we are now, arguably moreso in fact. Appointing Wise was probably more damaging, as while he didn't actually do a whole lot wrong in his time here it was his presence that ultimately led to KK's departure. We'd not be in this mess if Keegan had been left to his own devices, not that he was in any way blameless in the situation.

Went to see 'The Boat that Rocked' last night, had written this game off as over. FML

The Letters from the Heart section on the Liverpool website is impossible to read, heartbreaking.