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Interesting post on rawk:

 

It was brutal to see us fall apart against Newcastle, of all teams. Newcastle who sold us a pup and replaced him with not just one, but two, strikers most of our fans would now kill for. Newcastle who we normally stuff, St James's or no St James's. Newcastle who are managed by a tart like Pardew but who somehow contrive to play a maverick like Ben Arfa, the sort of intuitive player we haven't seen take the field for Liverpool since.....since....since who? Litmanen? Beardsley?  Of course he wouldn't be able to play for us because he doesn't 'track back' or whatever it is the Dirk Kuyts of the world do.

 

 

seems the tables have turned slightly with the tracking back comment :iamatwat:

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someones just put this on another forum from RAWK....great to see how bitter/mad/jealous of ben arfa some of them are :D

 

It was brutal to see us fall apart against Newcastle, of all teams. Newcastle who sold us a pup and replaced him with not just one, but two, strikers most of our fans would now kill for. Newcastle who we normally stuff, St James's or no St James's. Newcastle who are managed by a tart like Pardew but who somehow contrive to play a maverick like Ben Arfa, the sort of intuitive player we haven't seen take the field for Liverpool since.....since....since who? Litmanen? Beardsley? Of course he wouldn't be able to play for us because he doesn't 'track back' or whatever it is the Dirk Kuyts of the world do.

 

It's like a virus has got into the team and no one has a clue what the antidote is. Maybe a semi-final win over Everton will be the antidote. One fears, if it is not, that Kenny is now on borrowed time.

 

It's so hard to work out what the team is trying to do. Clearly there must have been a vague sort of message to hit the ball long a bit more often - and sure enough quite a few lollipops were launched from the back which Newcastle's weak defence picked up and sucked. But what was Gerrard meant to be doing? What was Shelvey's role exactly? And Spearing? Is he allowed to move when we have the ball? I know he points a lot and spreads his arms out wide. But movement? Is that not permitted?

 

That was a predominantly British team out there today yet there seemed to be incredible communication problems: players converging on the same ball, players making identical runs into the box, players occupying the same space. Players standing still for seconds on end. Zero imagination.

 

I caught a bit of Pienaar's movement off the ball yesterday on MoD. Jeezus, how we could do with some of that. Or Ben Arfa's today. These sorts of midfielders know what it means to support the man on the ball. They change their mind and alter their trajectory when the ball moves in an unexpected way and they do it instantly and damagingly. We seem to have none of that intellligence in the middle of the pitch.

 

Let's not talk about Carroll. He had such a wonderful chance to make his erstwhile admirers choke on their pies and elected to dive instead. And what an inept dive. At least clip the fucker, Pires style, if you're going down. I see no hope for him at Liverpool unless Liverpool have given up on hope.

 

I hope Suarez doesn't give up on us. He had a poor game today but he was still on another level to his teammates.

 

Finally, the Geordies are wankers. 'You'll never get a job'? Yeah, like Tyneside is riding some kind of economic miracle. I used to feel a sense of solidarity with that part of the world. But today it sounded like a stadium full of David Camerons. Shame on you you c*nts.

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No idea why you've addressed that to me. I was never on the Kenny bandwagon.

 

I think it was probably because you argued in Kenny's favour over Roy Hodgson - which in hindsight was probably more through revulsion at Hodgson rather than any enthusiasm for Dalglish, so fair enough. Your fans in general have been lulled into overlooking Kenny's fatal flaws because of his legend status at Anfield. I agree with that post you took issue with tbh.

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someones just put this on another forum from RAWK....great to see how bitter/mad/jealous of ben arfa some of them are :D

 

'You'll never get a job'? Yeah, like Tyneside is riding some kind of economic miracle. I used to feel a sense of solidarity with that part of the world. But today it sounded like a stadium full of David Camerons. Shame on you you c*nts.

 

I'm with him on this one like, that fucking song man, so, so, so outdated, old and boring. I cringe whenever I hear it.

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someones just put this on another forum from RAWK....great to see how bitter/mad/jealous of ben arfa some of them are :D

 

'You'll never get a job'? Yeah, like Tyneside is riding some kind of economic miracle. I used to feel a sense of solidarity with that part of the world. But today it sounded like a stadium full of David Camerons. Shame on you you c*nts.

 

I'm with him on this one like, that f***ing song man, so, so, so outdated, old and boring. I cringe whenever I hear it.

 

your right tbh, it's a fucking terrible chant

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John Aldridge:

 

"To have picked up just eight points out of 36 since the turn of the year is shambolic - that's relegation form. The fact that this is the worst run in the league since 1954 speaks volumes. We're becoming a laughing stock. At the moment being a Liverpool fan is just embarrassing and that's something I haven't had to say before."
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Is there a more difficult job in football management, than turning around a once successful club whose form has dipped? The pressure to succeed and succeed quickly is immense, and it comes from the media as well as the fans. The result is often a series of big money signings who it is hoped will bridge the immediate gap between the club and whoever has taken over their mantle. Usually that gap still remains or widens. Man U suffered that way for many years while Liverpool were on top, and in recent years the tables are turned.

 

Before Man U's current domination, Fergie took them to their lowest league position since the early 70's. The club went through a process of clearing out the dead wood and starting from scratch. It doesn't feel like Liverpool have yet reached that point, although it might be thrust upon them.

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Dagliesh hasn't so much cleared out the deadwood as bought a load of deadwood.

 

This, I hope he gets a big transfer budget this summer window. Can't wait to see him bring in the likes of Colback, Bent and Mclean.

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Is there a more difficult job in football management, than turning around a once successful club whose form has dipped? The pressure to succeed and succeed quickly is immense, and it comes from the media as well as the fans. The result is often a series of big money signings who it is hoped will bridge the immediate gap between the club and whoever has taken over their mantle. Usually that gap still remains or widens. Man U suffered that way for many years while Liverpool were on top, and in recent years the tables are turned.

 

Before Man U's current domination, Fergie took them to their lowest league position since the early 70's. The club went through a process of clearing out the dead wood and starting from scratch. It doesn't feel like Liverpool have yet reached that point, although it might be thrust upon them.

 

Dalglish was one of the very few people who would have been given the time (by the fans at least) to try and rebuild the team with talented youngsters with potential to improve - instead he bought a load of average premier league players and looked for a quick fix

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Is there a more difficult job in football management, than turning around a once successful club whose form has dipped? The pressure to succeed and succeed quickly is immense, and it comes from the media as well as the fans. The result is often a series of big money signings who it is hoped will bridge the immediate gap between the club and whoever has taken over their mantle. Usually that gap still remains or widens. Man U suffered that way for many years while Liverpool were on top, and in recent years the tables are turned.

 

Before Man U's current domination, Fergie took them to their lowest league position since the early 70's. The club went through a process of clearing out the dead wood and starting from scratch. It doesn't feel like Liverpool have yet reached that point, although it might be thrust upon them.

 

Generally in that scenario you're looking at a 5 year ovehaul and rebuild where one manager has to be given total faith and so on...

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The Scouse taxi driver yesterday was decent. Good chat about Liverpool and he was generally just fed up of it all. Didn't criticise Dalglish as such but thought in hindsight it was probably wrong to have given him the job and should have continued with his Development Role upstairs (would prefer to have him back upstairs).

 

To be fair he did point out that they were missing their only guy in midfield who can tackle (Lucas). However, he did seem pretty disappointed with how Henderson has developed. Not sure if he was a RM or a CM. Reckoned Spearing has hit his heights as a player, if not playing above his ability trying to fill in the role of Lucas (lots of running and chasing not much more).

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