getting out of jail

[ronniedrew]

You high on beetle juice(see his red tung)!
Subbing Gerrard instead of moron Sissoko. How can you reason that?

levia came on and had the shot for the second pen, so justified decision for me

[Guest]

Rafa just showed to Stevie who's the boss.

[Morten_nogamst_Pedersen]

Just what was needed, another thread

[blacky]

We need to sell some of our less creative players and replace them with players that can create something.

Rafa should play Lucas instead of Momo nine times out of ten.

In January I would sell both Momo and Crouch but only bring in 1 player. Use the 20 million we would get and spend it on a flair player to play alongside or behind Torres!!

[paulcooper4]

Why the **** isnt Voronin getting stick? He was diabolical. missed abar 5 sitters

[Morph]

Why the **** isnt Voronin getting stick? He was diabolical. missed abar 5 sitters

because he was coming in from the left wing all the time, which isn't his position and never looked to really settle is my guess

[James]

Gerrard was losing the ball high up the field when we needed to retain it to cause pressure. Right call by rafa.

we looked more composed when he came off, there's a time and a place for stevie's swashbuckling style but we needed a more composed head.

In saying that though Momo was **** today.

[JCase]

I am made up we won.

But rafa is really really worrying me.....so many bad decisions. We were soo lucky today. No width, gerrard coming off ....waiting to long for subs. Sissoko looks shocking.

We got out of jail but i am very worried going into the arsenal game

Too right. I'm really worried we'll get a beating by Arse next week. They ssem to dig in deep to get the results. We've been playing **** lately and Rafa's decision-making is getting more and more bizarre. I'm made up that we won tonight but really we need to step up a few more gears.

[Diego]

I agree with you.

It's time that Rafa puts the PL first and CL second. I can't see any other reason to why Rafa took off Stevie instead of Momo.

It's ok to do that when you are a goal or two up but not when you only have a draw.

i think i was a tactical substitution, i don't think he was resting gerrard, but he just switched to 433, and fellt like gerrard couldn't hold the midfield like the others, he would have driffted and left space behind him, so he put on someone a little more defense minded that would distribute the balls to the flanks, and thats what happened, we created a lot of chances after lucas cam on and most of if came in some point through him...

[paulcooper4]

because he was coming in from the left wing all the time, which isn't his position and never looked to really settle is my guess

That explains having feet like a sherriff`s badge?

[Riddler]

Blahblah ****ing blah, so what? Game's ****ing over, we've got three points. Aw ****it, this board ain't worth it.

Is this what Rafa might say at the next AGM ?

[Craig_H]

Stevie was playing with his heart and not his head, Rafa wanted to calm things down and have more intelligent play

Hehe...easy to say that after hearing what Rafa said.

But let's be honest, looking at how the situation was shaping up, how many of us were sitting there thinking "Oh i know...we need to take off Gerrard" ?

None of us, i bet.

It was a bizarre decision. Lucas wasnt the problem, his impact was good. But taking off Gerrard instead of Sissoko or Masher was unfathomable.

[red g]

Hehe...easy to say that after hearing what Rafa said.

But let's be honest, looking at how the situation was shaping up, how many of us were sitting there thinking "Oh i know...we need to take off Gerrard" ?

None of us, i bet.

It was a bizarre decision. Lucas wasnt the problem, his impact was good. But taking off Gerrard instead of Sissoko or Masher was unfathomable.

[Morph]

That explains having feet like a sherriff`s badge?

no it doesn't and I think he should have scored at least one of the attempts, it was a prticularly bad decision when he tried to shoot rather than passing Kuyt in the box, but I don't see the point of plaing him on either wing, it's square pegs round holes stuff from rafa when he had babel and pennant on the bench

[Craig_H]

no it doesn't and I think he should have scored at least one of the attempts, it was a prticularly bad decision when he tried to shoot rather than passing Kuyt in the box, but I don't see the point of plaing him on either wing, it's dquare pegs round holes stuff from rafa when he had babel and pennant on the bench

That's the thing, Voronin did what he could from wide left, but why was he playing there?

Ultimately though, as ive said before, it doesnt matter HOW we win, as long as we do.

If he keeps getting 3 points, rafa can play Hicks up front for all i care.