lets make it clear i am 100%

[kewellnthegang]

behind the gaffer

just one thing is gettin at me and i wondered if anyone feels the same

under gh every game we played i NEVER saw us gettin backinto a game once we had gone a goal down and at the same time when we went one up i always thought we needed another - we were never comfortable one up


am i mad ?

[Morph]

nope i feel exactly the same way

[AFII]

I think we went two or three years or something like that with Houllier without turning around a game.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Agree.

We just don't score enough goals.

[Rocket]

very rarely finish off **** teams.

mancs and chelski always seem to

[Jayesh87]

very rarely finish off **** teams.

mancs and chelski always seem to

We go negative after taking the lead which doesn't help.

[Tatterdemalion]

We've not been proficient in attack since Uncle Roy.

[pezzzer]

ahh, the good old spiceboys era.

i think rafa knows that the way to beat arse is to attack them for 90mins,as there not that hot defensively

should see some attractive football tmrw.

[Rocket]

We've not been proficient in attack since Uncle Roy.

if roy hadn't been such a nice guy and was more strict, we would have won stuff during those years

[Rafa Shankly]

no your not mad.
but why would no other clubs fans feel exactly the same?
why would we be the only set of fans who feels uncomfortable whether were winning or losing?

i honestly dont think were the only fans who feel like this tbh.

[Nicey]

behind the gaffer

just one thing is gettin at me and i wondered if anyone feels the same

under gh every game we played i NEVER saw us gettin backinto a game once we had gone a goal down and at the same time when we went one up i always thought we needed another - we were never comfortable one up


am i mad ?

Well am see things completely at the other end of the spectrum, its Rafas ability to turn a 1-0 deficit into a draw at least or a win which really initially impressed me, that said of late and not surprisingly considering we have not been playing to our potential we've looked less than confident

But we will come out of this dip in form a stronger team for it

[Kaip]

Is 100 % the same as crystal clear

[pezzzer]

houllier came in to soon, roy needed more time to settle in to the job.

we are at the very, very start of a new lfc era(the new grounds not even been built yet)

we have truck loads of cash to buy the best in the world and improve our youth system, but this wont happen over nite

lets get rid of the cack thats left in jan and fill tose last few places where we are week, gel the team squad together over the next 5 months and prepare to obliterate all who come in our path.

(when i say come in our path, i mean as in teams we play, not the other cum, ahem.read my avitar)

[Nicey]

If someone came in my path worse still say over my car I would definitely take a hammer to them, mind you I don't have a path or a car

[calvoboy]

We've not been proficient in attack since Uncle Roy.

ahh, the good old spiceboys era.

if roy hadn't been such a nice guy and was more strict, we would have won stuff during those years

Some rose-tinted nostalgia going on there - while at times we were great going forward there was some absolute dross too. How many times when Barnes and Thomas were in the same midfield did we get to the edge of the box then not have a clue what to do? Loads of lateral passing with no cutting edge was the story in too many games under Evans. Defensively we were always suspect too, leading us to lose lots of games that we dominated to a late goal against the run of play.

Don't get me wrong, Roy did a great job in stabilising the club, and came close to winning the league the year we finished fourth in a two-horse race with the Mancs, but the myth is growing around his team beacuse of games like the Newcastle 4-3. More often than not we relied on MacManaman's genius to pull us out of trouble rather than a great attacking team display.

Under Houllier, we never came back from a goal down because he never had a plan B if plan A wasn't working. We just started to hit longer and longer passes, and shoot from further and further out.

Rafa has plans B, C, D and E, and can come up with an F on the fly (as in Istanbul). Fulham away in his first season proved that we'd nailed this coming from behind issue.

In my opinion, Rafa's only chink is that he gives the opposition too much respect at times. Against the likes of Birmingham, West Brom, Derby, Sunderland etc. we should just go out and attack as the Mancs, Chelsea and Arsenal do. Rafa seems to stick to the same approach of trying to negate their strengths first instead. This gives the lesser teams confidence against us, as they are not on the back foot from the first minute.

He always comes up with the right approach for the big games though, and I have no doubt he will do the same on Sunday. It still requires the players on the pitch to do their jobs though, and too many of them have been below par over the last few weeks.