The Big Footy Liverpool Army Part 2

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Shocking performance. We just need to be taking 3 points from these teams, as Man U are doing it week in, week out. Need to be creating a lot more from midfield. Our barometer is Gerrard. And he was poor today. Apart from him our midfield doesnt create anything. Kudos to Benny though, I thought he looked threating for most of the game, which is a surprise.

Rafa :thumbsdown:. When will you learn. A game for 90 minutes not 70 or 80.

Lucas :thumbsdown:. I must say ive liked what ive seen so far this season, but learn to tackle ffs or **** off.

Arh well, Champions League best we can hope for now.

Haha.

Funny as **** idea in motion for the Blueshite replay.

Seeing as they're ****ing off to Kirkby (for those that don't know...people from Kirkby are known as "sock robbers") our lot are going to lob thousands of pairs of socks all over the place.

**** it'll be funny!

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Can you imagine the clueless pundits announcing that kickoff is going to be delayed by 20 minutes while 10 thousand socks are cleared off the pitch. They'll have no idea! :D
Hahahaha. Oh please happen, so many people will be clueless!!
 

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couldnt agree more about kuyt, just doesnt offer enough. hes not good enough to play for a big club. i mean the guys got heart and will run his socks off, but at the end of the day that doesnt win games, pricks like ronaldo do.

yossi must start infront of kuyt for the rest of the season, even he isnt in the top 10 or even 20 wingers in the world but he adds a bit of creativity, and can actually put the ball in the old onion bag.

i think what seperates us from chelsea and man utd is the number of players capable of scoring a significant amount of goals each season.

man utd have ronaldo, rooney, berba and tevez.

chelsea have lampard, drogba, anelka and to a lesser extent kalou and deco.

with just gerrard and torres being in the same league as these guys, we just arent dangerous enough going foward. we arent creating enough chances, and the chances we are creating we are not taking.

defensively and through centre mid we match these teams. but in terms of their attacking options, and the calibre of their bench in comparison to ours, we are still 3 top quality players behind.

and unfortunately i believe that will become evident come the end of the season.

all i can say for now is come on reds, prove the doubters wrong and at the very least ensure a close title fight, where we are contenders until the very end.
 

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Be the highpoint of our season. **** it's going to be hilarious. :D

Some Everton yob suggested that the Police should be stationed at the gates at The Pit, and search people for socks!!!!!!!! :D :D
Hahahahaha!! :D:thumbsu::D

What are they going to do, make them take of there shoes to check for socks!!

Oh god thats hilarious.
 

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i think what seperates us from chelsea and man utd is the number of players capable of scoring a significant amount of goals each season.

man utd have ronaldo, rooney, berba and tevez.

chelsea have lampard, drogba, anelka and to a lesser extent kalou and deco.
I think thats a great point right there.

Some where hoping Keane was going to join Torres and Gerrard.

Look how that turned out..:rolleyes:
 

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Gee, as if January wasn't enough of a ****ing disaster...

Nemeth broke his cheekbone in his 30 minutes as a sub for Blackpool. Has to have surgery, out for a couple of months, and Francisco Duran has done his 3rd ACL in his time at the club.

Saric has also had a setback with his knee.

I ****ing hate January.

In better news, Mikel San Jose has gone back to Bilbao on loan, so hopefully he'll get some really good experience there, and Thomas Ince has been called up for the Ingerlund 17s.
 
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Haha.

Funny as **** idea in motion for the Blueshite replay.

Seeing as they're ****ing off to Kirkby (for those that don't know...people from Kirkby are known as "sock robbers") our lot are going to lob thousands of pairs of socks all over the place.

**** it'll be funny!

:D

Can you imagine the clueless pundits announcing that kickoff is going to be delayed by 20 minutes while 10 thousand socks are cleared off the pitch. They'll have no idea! :D
Ah, you've been trawling RAWK lately as well eh?

I liked the idea for a banner:

Bus departing Everton goalmouth @ final whistle
:D

*Sigh* See what our season is turning into? Infantile humour at the expense of Everton.
 

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i think what seperates us from chelsea and man utd is the number of players capable of scoring a significant amount of goals each season.

man utd have ronaldo, rooney, berba and tevez.

chelsea have lampard, drogba, anelka and to a lesser extent kalou and deco.

with just gerrard and torres being in the same league as these guys, we just arent dangerous enough going foward. we arent creating enough chances, and the chances we are creating we are not taking.
You're exactly right and it highlights how devastating Torres' injury has been to our chances. Even when he's played he's not been at his best due to limited game time.

Hey at least we have a good shot at the FA Cup and the CL as we are pretty good at not losing. :rolleyes:
 

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As if January couldn't get any worse than it already is.

Philipp Degen made a comeback from injury for the reserves against Man Utd

Guess what, it was a goalless draw :D

lfc.tv MOTM = Nabil How Bizarre

Plessis and Ngog picked up yellow cards.

Gulacsi, Degen (Mendy 45), Darby (c), Kelly, Spearing, Plessis, How Bizarre, Pacheco, Ngog, Simon (Palsson 72), Bruna (Weijl 61). Unused: Bouzanis, Antwi
 

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I would've bet on 1-0 United, so it's a good result to be fair. ;)

Especially considering that XI is mostly made up of complete garbage.

Sami off to Sunderland. San Jose loan to Bilbao cancelled. No coincidence there.
 

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I love this article

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2009/01/29/rafa-benitez-needs-to-strap-on-a-pair-or-see-liverpool-miss-out-once-again-115875-21081486/


Rafa Benitez needs to strap on a pair or see Liverpool miss out once again

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By Darren Lewis 29/01/2009


It pains me to say this as a Liverpool fan, but I'm rapidly coming to terms with the fact that, yet again, this is not going to be our year.

The same old politics, the same old frailties and the same old ludicrous tactical decisions are weighing us down like an anvil.

And all the while the well-oiled machine that is Manchester United is gathering pace. Sir Alex Ferguson's men are gearing up for the momentum in the second half of the season that traditionally powers them to the title.

To be fair, Chelsea and Arsenal have had similar nightmares inside the boardroom and on the pitch this season.

But as a Liverpool fan I felt a real tinge of excitement when Robbie Keane - who had scored 100 goals over six years at Tottenham - was captured last summer.

When we powered our way to victory over United without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres there was, again, a real sense that we had the squad rather than the team to do the business.

Yet Rafa the Gaffer has allowed the pressure to get to him. Since Raf Rant early in January the Reds have not won a single League match. It has been an implosion of Kevin Keegan-esque proportions.

In mid-December, when United boarded the plan for Japan and a World Club Cup they clinched to global indifference, Liverpool had 37 points and United just 31.

That six-point deficit, however, has turned into a two point lead for Sir Alex Ferguson's men.

After just ten goals away from home in the League up until last Tuesday night, United unloaded on West Brom to give further evidence of why only a fool would bet against them to retain the title.

Liverpool, no, sorry Rafa, by comparison is way too negative. United would never have taken off Gerrard - the hero of Istanbul, Olympiakos and the FA Cup Final against West Ham - with the game in the balance against lowly Wigan.

Rafa did.



United would never have left Keane on the bench against Wigan with Chelsea to come at the weekend.

Rafa did.

United would never have left Keane on the bench against Stoke with Torres not fit to play.

And United would never have left Keane on the bench against Hull with the Tigers proving ultimately too difficult to break down.

Rafa did.

The former Valencia boss stubbornly sticks to his insistence of playing two strikers at home and one away.

It has brought seven draws from Liverpool's last ten games and after the latest draw against Wigan it was particularly annoying to see Benitez branding the game 'crazy', but not saying why. We all had to guess.

It was simply an attempt to distract attention from yet another shocker.

Rafa still has his supporters, and has managed to convince them it is everyone's fault but his.

But if he doesn't win the Premier League this season, it will be five years and a small fortune that he has wasted in trying to prove he is not much of a muchness.

He won the Champions League with Gerard Houllier's team. Gerrard pulled that FA Cup victory from the jaws of defeat and all the while the trophy that Reds fans really want to win has eluded us.

It's now time for Rafa to prove he is worth this new megabucks contract he is trying to get out of the Anfield board.

It's time for him to start fighting for this title and stop trying to blind us all with science.

It's time for Rafa to either play Robbie Keane regularly or give the guy a break and just sell him.

It's time for Rafa to put his petty spats within the boardroom to one side and focus on the job in hand.

In short, it's time for Rafa to strap on a pair and prove he IS all he is cracked up to be and not simply cracking up.
 

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Not all is lost yet. I'd like to see Babel start the game vs Chelsea. His pace can generate lot of problems for blue bastards and Ashley Cole will have his hands full. He is however "hot & cold", but Rafa can work it out from the start [if Babel starts poorly, chances are that he'll remain like that for the rest of the game]. He can always bring Kuyt or Keane in.
Babel is better centrally, Cashely would deal with him with ease out wide.

I think you'll deal with Chelsea fairly easily though, as predictable as you guys are, they are even more so and will struggle to score.

Liverpool 2-0.
 

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I would've bet on 1-0 United, so it's a good result to be fair. ;)

Especially considering that XI is mostly made up of complete garbage.

Sami off to Sunderland. San Jose loan to Bilbao cancelled. No coincidence there.


Bus what are you doing. You gave me a heart attack. This appears to be internet (RAWK) rubbish. We can't afford to let Sami go & as insane as Rafa appears to be since his operation (gall stones or labotomy???) I cannot believe he would sell one of Anfield's all time legends during January.
 

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Bus what are you doing. You gave me a heart attack. This appears to be internet (RAWK) rubbish. We can't afford to let Sami go & as insane as Rafa appears to be since his operation (gall stones or labotomy???) I cannot believe he would sell one of Anfield's all time legends during January.
I'm putting 2 & 2 together.

Seems to be decent mail that Sunderland are close, and we've bizarrely canned San Jose's loan to Athletic Bilbao. What else can be deduced from that?

It wouldn't be beyond possibility. Sami doesn't really play a lot, is 4th choice, and could go and play regular first team football. Makes sense for him, if he was looking at it like that.

If we get a decent bid from Sunderland (which let's face it, is pretty likely to be a very good offer, given their recent transfer history) it makes sense for us too.

No room for sentiment I'm afraid.
 

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Sami is playing regulary enough to keep him happy at the club I would have thought. It appears Carra is our 2nd choice RB, so if Arby goes down again he will play even more. He will also surely be picked in the revised CL squad. Can't see Degen keeping his place there.
So with LFC he will get to play out the season with a club he has been an integral part of, and have the chance to compete in the latter stages of the CL. Vs playing maybe a season & a bit for a rubbish club like Sunderland. I also believe he is in line for a testimonial game in the summer.
Sentiment or not keeping Hyypia is important, for him & LFC.

The thing is I have trawled the net looking for other info on this deal. I can find nuthin other than the the post on RAWK. One other site (can't remember which) mentioned a link with Sunderland & a LFC defender. That could be bloody anybody!

If anyone has any other info on the deal?? please link it.
 

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Well, we had everything sorted for San Jose to go out on loan and get first team experience.

Why would we cancel that loan? We're not going to keep 5 first team central defenders for the remaining 5 months of the season.

One of them is going, it's not Carra or Skrtel or San Jose now.

That leaves Agger or Sami; with the interest in Dagger cooling off (and he was in the 18 ahead of Sami against Wigan) it makes sense that the Hyypia rumours are a little bit more and the bid that Sunderland have made was too hard for Rafa to turn down.

I love Sami but at this point in time, if keeping Dagger on board means selling Sami, then I'm all for it.
 

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Well, we had everything sorted for San Jose to go out on loan and get first team experience.

Why would we cancel that loan? We're not going to keep 5 first team central defenders for the remaining 5 months of the season.

One of them is going, it's not Carra or Skrtel or San Jose now.

That leaves Agger or Sami; with the interest in Dagger cooling off (and he was in the 18 ahead of Sami against Wigan) it makes sense that the Hyypia rumours are a little bit more and the bid that Sunderland have made was too hard for Rafa to turn down.

I love Sami but at this point in time, if keeping Dagger on board means selling Sami, then I'm all for it.
Could be a possibility of San Jose going to Sunderland. :p

In all honesty if Sunderland are offer a really decent sum for Hyypia i'd reluctantly let him go. Would rather he stayed on at the club in a defensive coaching role of some sort to be honest in the future.
 
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