Mick

When?

We were also winning when he came off, it was hardly his fault that he did nothing from the bench.

We're more than capable of beating Spurs next week if we play our best 11 and they all perform, Spurs don't seem to like coming here for some reason.

The 5 or 6 bad footballers would all be expected to get into a 4th division team, maybe not Smith but the rest should. That performance was the worst performance of the season in any game we played.

Until he was sacked after that deplorable game against WBA. Much better tactically my arse. Hughton took a team with Carroll, Barton, Jonas, Ben Arfa, Tiote, Coloccini and Enrique, and had them losing 1-2 to Stoke at home. We created one single clear-cut chance all game with that team. Similiar can be said about games against Blackpool, Blackburn and Bolton. Pardew took a team with Krul, Simpson, Perch, Coloccini, Williamson, Barton, Smith, Nolan, Ranger, Best, Routledge, Lovenkrands and Tiote to Stevenage and had them losing 3-1.

The input Pardew will have is 5 minutes on YouTube.

Not really, we play Spurs on the 16th.

Wrong.

Probably not.

The only players at the club who have made more tackles than Simpson are Cabaye and Tiote, he must be doing something right.

He does get back though, I think it's understandable that it's not as quick as when making his initial move forward.

He does bust his arse for 90 minutes.

Simpson does run back and he will be knackered.

Try it and see how effective you are. Running for 100 yards. I've tried it plenty of times. You'll not travel as fast as the ball which can be back where you started from before you've turned around.

I thought that the QPR game would have put an end to that rubbish, it clearly hasn't.

Try it and see how effective you are.

Simpson is damned if he does go forward and damned if he doesn't. If he's going to make a 50 yard run then he's not going to be able to be able to turn around and run another 50 yards to get back. Our left side have been the best at covering each other for a while. Jonas, Enrique and Coloccini were always good at helping eack other out and playing as a unit. We still see this to some degree this season with Ryan Taylor being helped out by Jonas and Coloccini. We rarely see this on our right side and this isn't down to one player. The biggest problem I have with Simpson is his backing off and I can understand that a little because it will have been coached into him. I've been coached by professional footballers, one who played in and won a world cup as a defender and I was told never to dive in, Simpson takes that a little too far.

How can Simpson adjust his game enough to be able to attack and defend almost at the same time? That looks like it's what some people are expecting of him and it's not physically possible. Attacking and defending is a team game and it's not something we're very good at down our right at times, it's not all down to Simpson who can't be in two places at once.

Simpson isn't the only player responsible for our right side, Obertan should play a bigger part when it comes to defending our right side and Taylor should also come over to cover when Simpson is out of position. Just like Jonas and Coloccini do on our left side.

You can't blame Simpson for Obertan not pulling his weight and that's what was happening yesterday. A few times Simpson ran forward with the ball and was looking for Obertan to get beyond him to take the ball and it didn't happen. Simpson has been at his best when he's had Routledge or Barton in front of him because they both got involved more than Obertan does. Simpson can't be both the player who is furthest up field and the person at the back.

You have to be a special type of footballer to play for Liverpool. You have to accept that if you're away on club business then you're more than likely going home to an empty house. No other set of players have to be able to handle that on such a scale.