Premier League Fixtures 13th/14th of April

[Roboklopp]

Anichebe. What's the point?

[Fivex]

Monreal is like a normal version of Crouch.

[Neil Young]

Dave Jones:

The second goalless draw in 42 meetings between them. The last was 40 meetings ago.

Why not just tell us the second bit?

[Arn]

I hope that Rodgers can get our players to work as hard as the Everton players do week in week out.

They have a better team mentality than us. Always give 100% out there. We have a better squad but not the team mentality to finish above them.

[Nick77]

I hope that Rodgers can get our players to work as hard as the Everton players do week in week out.

They have a better team mentality than us. Always give 100% out there. We have a better squad but not the team mentality to finish above them.

Exactly, Everton have proved all season that despite having a weaker squad than us, they have been consistently better than us & therefore dare I say they have a better manager than us?!

[Muddled]

If after eleven years, Rodgers has us playing with consistency, will you all be happy?

David Moyes has had 11 years at Everton and won **** all. Rodgers has had 1 year. *ONE* year.

[RichC]

If after eleven years, Rodgers has us playing with consistency, will you all be happy?

David Moyes has had 11 years at Everton and won **** all. Rodgers has had 1 year. *ONE* year.

Patience is not a virtue most fans have anymore it seems

[Arn]

If after eleven years, Rodgers has us playing with consistency, will you all be happy?

David Moyes has had 11 years at Everton and won **** all. Rodgers has had 1 year. *ONE* year.

Rodgers have been our manager almost a year so you would think that our team mentality would be top class by now but it isn't.

I can take a loss as long as every player on the pitch give 100%. That is the most important point IMO. That the manager can get every player giving 100% in every game.

It don't take a year to change the mentality of a squad if you are a good manager. It simply don't.

Tactics mean almost nothing if you can't get the players working their socks off.

[Nick77]

Rodgers have been our manager almost a year so you would think that our team mentality would be top class by now but it isn't.

I can take a loss as long as every player on the pitch give 100%. That is the most important point IMO. That the manager can get every player giving 100% in every game.

It don't take a year to change the mentality of a squad if you are a good manager. It simply don't.

Tactics mean almost nothing if you can't get the players working their socks off.

Thank u! I do not & did not expect at the beginning of the season that ANY manager would make us challenge for the title, but the fact remains we are 30 odd points behind a very average Manure side. Rodgers has done nothing to suggest next season is going to be any different imo. Benitez & even Roy Evans had an instant impact on the team, whereas with Rodgers I'm beginning to think we may as well have given Kenny another season...

[Neil Young]

Rodgers have been our manager almost a year so you would think that our team mentality would be top class by now but it isn't.

I can take a loss as long as every player on the pitch give 100%. That is the most important point IMO. That the manager can get every player giving 100% in every game.

It don't take a year to change the mentality of a squad if you are a good manager. It simply don't.

Tactics mean almost nothing if you can't get the players working their socks off.

No you wouldn't. Well, you obviously would, but I think it's a ridiculous thing to believe.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

I hope that Rodgers can get our players to work as hard as the Everton players do week in week out.

They have a better team mentality than us. Always give 100% out there. We have a better squad but not the team mentality to finish above them.

Maybe them having a smaller squad than us helps them pull together, but it hasn't happened over night there either.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Thank u! I do not & did not expect at the beginning of the season that ANY manager would make us challenge for the title, but the fact remains we are 30 odd points behind a very average Manure side. Rodgers has done nothing to suggest next season is going to be any different imo. Benitez & even Roy Evans had an instant impact on the team, whereas with Rodgers I'm beginning to think we may as well have given Kenny another season...

I am a massive Benitez fan but his first season we finished behind Everton in 5th, worse than the season before. Yes we won the CL but we're talking league form here so how exactly is that an instant impact?

[dom9]

I am a massive Benitez fan but his first season we finished behind Everton in 5th, worse than the season before. Yes we won the CL but we're talking league form here so how exactly is that an instant impact?

I'm sure there was something. What was it..? Got it! The signing of Josemi. Er, no, it couldn't have been that. Oh - The Carling Cup Final. No. We lost that. ****. What on earth could it be? Maybe it was the winnning the Champions League that season? Was that the impact?

[Nick77]

I am a massive Benitez fan but his first season we finished behind Everton in 5th, worse than the season before. Yes we won the CL but we're talking league form here so how exactly is that an instant impact?

U said it yourself - winning the CL - duh!

[Arn]

I am a massive Benitez fan but his first season we finished behind Everton in 5th, worse than the season before. Yes we won the CL but we're talking league form here so how exactly is that an instant impact?

You do know that Rafa rotated the squad to get best out of them in the CL the last few months the 2004-05 season? I don't have a clue how many points that cost us but we played with a weakened XI in a few games.

CL...priority one. League.....priority two.

We won the CL because of that. If we had won the EL and Rodgers rotated the squad in the same way then you can compare Rafa's first season with this one.

Rodgers also have the big advantage thanks to Rafa that our youth system is now top class.

You only need to ask Didi how big impact Rafa had straight away. The impact was massive. He totally changed the team mentality. From a losing to a winning one. The players believed that they could win whoever we played against, home or away.