what do you want to ask rafa

[Red_Polo]

What?

I do wish you'd stop your crusade for that lying winnut to return

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

I have three questions:

1. Should Marky be let back into the club, and if he is successful should he buy himself a top notch leather jacket to celebrate?

2. Which chippy is better, The Lobster Pot or The Famous Blue Star?

3. How long will I have to keep banging the back of my head against the wall when our midfielders constantly play header pinball whilst the opposition sizes up their chances of a well taken goal on the counter?

[Red Chilli]

I do wish you'd stop your crusade for that lying winnut to return

He's a goal machine. He's gaurenteed to score 20 league goals a season.

[Ste1986]

What he thinks about the life of Harold shipman

[Tee]

Rafa, too much rotation makes dizzy, no?

[kurtangle01]

Mate, I almost decked someone in the pub the other day because he kept insisting that Riise was a 'great' player. It wasn't the fact that he rated him that got my back up, but when he said that Riise was more important to us than Carragher I was on the brink of opening a can of whoop ass on the fool. The worst thing is, he was a red

Hell yeah!

[rushscored4]

Corrie or Eastenders ?

El Dorado...

These players are incapable of passing the ball and moving around Rafa??? Why??? Surely all footballers can pass the ball??? Even the **** ones.

Even Momo Sissoko?

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

To listen to the sat nav lady?

the ****e Houllier left us with has gone. I don't believe for one moment that their replacements can not pass and move.

The worrying thing is the nucleus of our side is still the players Rafa inherited from Houllier:

Finnan, Carra, Hyypia, Riise and Gerrard.

All five started and finished on Sunday yet all five were way below standard...

[Nicey]

the official site is doing some ass kissing promo bull**** about asking the manager questions. just emailed mine in



Some of us are not interested in what type of car he drives or what he had for his tea last night and would like a tough question or two to be answered in regards to tactics.
Rafa, On Sunday you replaced Jermaine Pennant with Dirk Kuyt (a striker) and you never, or it never changed the shape of the team. Can you please tell the Fans the logic of that decision especially in lieu of Yossi Bennayoun, a right sided midfielder that was sitting on the bench at the time?

Revo

A very good Question mate ..

I would also like to know what the **** the Liverpool Canteen are serving, they put poor Ged into Surgery and now Rafa seems to be expanding week in week out ... Sort it out Yeah Fat ******* ............

Sincerely

Mr Nice

[friedk]

Do you think modelling yourself on someone who has a show called "Road to Nowhere" sends the wrong message to your players.

[alunevans]

The worrying thing is the nucleus of our side is still the players Rafa inherited from Houllier:

Finnan, Carra, Hyypia, Riise and Gerrard.

All five started and finished on Sunday yet all five were way below standard...

To be fair Hyypia is not the nucleus of our side. And Carra and Gerrard can't be referred to as Houllier's ****e.

Put it this way, with our current squad of players, Wenger would be having us play a pass and move game.

If your players are better than your opponents (and game by game they usually are which is why we're a top 4 team) then the best way to play is to enforce that superiority by passing it, not drop yourself to their level by hoofing it.

I know people will consistently say we've not got the players to do it, but our players are better than at least 16 of the other teams in the league. So by definition yes we do, and like I say, Wenger would be having us play that way.

I don't mind us playing a certain way against teams who are clearly better than us, but for the rest of the time lets get it on the floor, pass it round, move for your team mates, and give each other options whenever your mate has the ball. I'm sorry but it's how I was brought up to understand the game, and given that teams who play this way still do rather well, I've not lost faith in the idea.

[JohnDoe]

what the **** has this got to do with backing the manager? are you saying that rafa is above answering a tactical question that baffled abar 99%. my question is about some insight to what he sees in that particular substitution that the 99% dont see. but eh if your that 1%, **** waiting for a response from rafa why dont you enlighten me

I think Rafa knows more about football than all of us, including you, and he doesn't have to explain his tactical decisions during a game, especially when his tactical decisions won us a European cup a couple of years ago and got us into a second CL final in three years. He's not the first and won't be the last manager who will make a decision which will seem "strange" to some fans.

When we don't win, people immediately search for reasons, any reason and usually they're the easiest to find.

Whether it's rotation, zonal marking, playing Benayoun when it was a game not suited for him, not playing Benayoun when we lacked creativity, not playing Gerrard when he must play every game regardless of form/fitness, playing Gerrard when he was unfit/uninterested/****e, playing Hyypia because he doesn't have pace, if it's Babel- why not Pennant? If it's Pennant- why not Babel? it doesn't matter. If we didn't win, something must have been wrong with the manager.

Anyone who thinks he can do a better job, go get some coaching badges and start proving it.

[alunevans]

I do so loathe deference.

[JohnDoe]

I do so loathe deference.

It's boring, isn't it? Much more fun to complain about anything between the earth and the skies, makes you seem more knowledgeable. It's of course impossible that there are people who analyzed the game and reached the conclusion that Rafa Benitez' tactical decisions have nothing to do with the poor results lately. No way, they must be arse licking the manager.

[cobain]

I want to ask Rafa what he thinks about this Chelsea **** that's happening lately I'm sure he'd reply with only "we're thinking only about the next game,no?" though

[tomasjj]

When Marseille were dominating us at the centre of the pitch at Anfield, what did you do to counter that tactically, and why didn't it work?