tonights team

[kurtangle01]

KET!!!!

yeah he's fat and has an ubelievably huge uni-brow!

[kurtangle01]

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N153080060804-2156.htm

read rafa's response here.

he doesn't seem worried so should we be? i am!h:

[6sheep]

Rationale

So if I`m right (& I`d appreciate others opinions here)..then this pre-season was an experiment on Rafa`s part to give the younger players some 1st team experience (albeit friendlies) alongside the new recruits, so that the majority of the 1st 11 including the world cuppers could have more recovery time..

The hope being that there would be enough potential + ability, to roll over some lesser european clubs (no offence)..as opposed to the teams playing in the amsterdam tournament..so that we could start the season with good morale, hope for the premiership fixtures & the european campaign?

[kurtangle01]

So if I`m right (& I`d appreciate others opinions here)..then this pre-season was an experiment on Rafa`s part to give the younger players some 1st team experience (albeit friendlies) alongside the new recruits, so that the majority of the 1st 11 including the world cuppers could have more recovery time..

The hope being that there would be enough potential + ability, to roll over some lesser european clubs (no offence)..as opposed to the teams playing in the amsterdam tournament..so that we could start the season with good morale, hope for the premiership fixtures & the european campaign?

perhaps but it's a risky strategy and one that seems to have backfired.

[brendan]

Five lucky break-aways.

[Steve]

Very much so. Its as if our defenders were expecting Mainz to give them space. Doddering on the ball, silly passes. Their team had pace up front and exploited total confusion at the back. Carson had an absolute mare. Sorry but that defensive display ranks up with Charlton away last season.

If it makes you feel better didn't we win 12 out of the next 14 after the Charlton game!

[TheStig]

we must be losing on purpose

Imagine all the KTers going nuts right now

Here's a good one, "julian" says: "lets end the pain, sack the manager, lets go for O'neil......."



To be fair (as usual!) there are bits of both, some saying it's terrible etc, some saying they don't care.

[kurtangle01]

If it makes you feel better didn't we win 12 out of the next 14 after the Charlton game!

hopefully that will be the case this time as well.

[ronan]

5 ****in nil.
pre season friendly or not, that is just wrong.

[kurtangle01]

Here's a good one, "julian" says: "lets end the pain, sack the manager, lets go for O'neil......."



To be fair (as usual!) there are bits of both, some saying it's terrible etc, some saying they don't care.

he's not serious is he!?

[Leonard Crowley]

This may not be entirely relevant but I thought that Mainz was in France.

[TheStig]

he's not serious is he!?

I dunno, I think he might be.

[kurtangle01]

I dunno, I think he might be.

if he is.

oneill is the villa manager and to be fair isn't even in rafa's league.

[TheStig]

if he is.

oneill is the villa manager and to be fair isn't even in rafa's league.

You not on Koptalk anymore then kurtangle?

[kurtangle01]

You not on Koptalk anymore then kurtangle?

no mate.

banned like many others.