Liverpool v Birmingham - Match thread

[Tom]

the best thing about the old kop, when you could still stand, is you could move away from the moaning gob****es.

or have a piss down the back of their legs.

[JohnDoe]

I think Torres is coming in straight for the restart in place of Kuyt.

Rafa never makes changes before it's the 55-60 minute unless it's an injury. I'll be surprised if that happens.

[Guest]

So nobody under 30 knows what they are talking about??? I'm over 30 and i've seen bad performances over the years but has no managers tactics and football pissed me off more than Benitez's.

He should be sacked for pissing off people.

[Flake]

or have a piss down the back of their legs.

in the coat pocket...

[Sarb]

Thing is Rafa has the players to win these games, yet fcuks around too much with rotation to do anything

Ged never had a title winning side. Rafa has one but still dicks around. Pick your best 11 game in game out and then if you've got a game tied up after 60 mins or so, take them off.

fcuking joke if we lose this game

[sid]

or have a piss down the back of their legs.

[MrMichael]

So nobody under 30 knows what they are talking about??? I'm over 30 and i've seen bad performances over the years but has no managers tactics and football pissed me off more than Benitez's.

Sure, getting to 2 European cup finals in 3 years really really pissed me off too.

Did you watch us when Souness was in charge for example? And Houllier, remember Cheyrou and Heskey?

[sid]

He should be sacked for pissing off people.

He should!!

[Guest]

Thing is Rafa has the players to win these games, yet fcuks around too much with rotation to do anything

Ged never had a title winning side. Rafa has one but still dicks around. Pick your best 11 game in game out and then if you've got a game tied up after 60 mins or so, take them off.

fcuking joke if we lose this game

Chill mate we'll win in, take my word for it.

Rafa just trusts his squad and wants people to compete for their places. If Torres thinks he's got the god given right to be in the starting 11, he'll become complacent and I'm sure Rafa doesn't want that.

[tomasjj]

This is a must win game for me, regardless of what anyone says.
If we want to challenge, we have to get 3 points in games like these.

[Flake]

So nobody under 30 knows what they are talking about??? I'm over 30 and i've seen bad performances over the years but has no managers tactics and football pissed me off more than Benitez's.

I'd actually suggest that hardly anyone of any age knows anything about anything... but that makes me sound like I belong in the library.

I'm not 'happy' with the performance, but it was a first half against a hard working team who haven't threatened us.

there may be a certain amount of guile lacking in the performance, but the west midlands bitters are working very hard to keep us out.

of course I want to see us playing with panache and verve, but some days you just have to kick the door in.

i expect today will be one of those days.

[sid]

Thing is Rafa has the players to win these games, yet fcuks around too much with rotation to do anything

Ged never had a title winning side. Rafa has one but still dicks around. Pick your best 11 game in game out and then if you've got a game tied up after 60 mins or so, take them off.

fcuking joke if we lose this game

Fcuking joke if we don't WIN this game!!

[The Erectile Banana]

Thing is Rafa has the players to win these games, yet fcuks around too much with rotation to do anything

Ged never had a title winning side. Rafa has one but still dicks around. Pick your best 11 game in game out and then if you've got a game tied up after 60 mins or so, take them off.

fcuking joke if we lose this game

FFS calm down lads.

We're not going to lose this game.

Sure we've been poor so far, but I fully expect us to pick it up after the break and thump Brucie's boyos.

Remember we had a few games like this last season where we struggled in the first half but triumphed by 3 or 4 in the end. The Fulham game, amongst others, springs to mind.

[Red_Polo]

This is a disgusting performance.

Jaysus, I don't think we've been that bad. Plenty of pressure, just not quite incisive enough to break them down at the moment.

I honeatly don't understand any of you who are ranting or disgusted or shocked by this performance...

You all must be under 30. When we were on top of the world we still ground out results on occasion. and we rarely pumped teams 7-0.

sometimes those days happen, but its the first half against a team who work hard at the back, come off a run of two wins in three games, and went close to beating the chavs on the first day of the season.

please get over yourselves. we don't have some god given right to win every game with ease...

as my mum would say... 'you're not playing the blind school'

ffs

Isn't it.

the best thing about the old kop, when you could still stand, is you could move away from the moaning gob****es.

[bigfooty]

What does frustrate me a little is that last week we were playing a big old unit of a side with only one proper wide player and Crouch constantly having to compete for balls hit from 60 yards back. This week we've been pushing fullbacks on, getting crosses in but no Crouch to capitalise.