Wigan Post Match

[disco]

We really must stop selling goalkeepers to other sides. Kirkland had a blinder as well tonight

We weren't great, but we created more than enough chances. Gutted.

[Joe King]

Let's all ring 606 and say we still love Rafa!!!

Someone has already done that

[kurtangle01]

If we want to win the league we have to win matches like tonight. In the last 2 matches we've dropped 4 points which we probably shouldn't have.

It's dissapointing, gutting infact, but in reality we lack the cutting edge and ruthlessness that the other top three posses.

We have to move on from this because 4th place is the minimum requirement but there's some stiff competition this year.

Gutted tonight. I'll see you all in a few days.

[REDSCOUSER]

bad isnt it mate. Feel quite low. Dont think the team did that bad to be honest but I think deep down we are just not good enough both on and off the pitch like the other top 3.

aye dano mate, I am feeling very bad, angry, frustrated, ya name it..why cant we frigging play like Arsenal..our team is on par with them skill, ability wise..
Happy new year by the way, hope all is well with the family.

[mick the click]

I'm going to bed. I might come back later...we were all over them...12th man? Bollocks!

[ARIMAN]

Lots of poor performances. for all their talk of wanting the title - they showed precious little of desire tonight

rafa got his tactics all wrong, but these deficiencies cant be covered up by these players, who are not good enough or out of form

[disco]

****ing disgusted .. pack of wasters ... They should be ashamed of them selfs .. ****ing jokers ... I could see it coming ... they should be all bricked... I ****ing furious .. those shower of complete on utter useless windbags ... Wigan at Anfield .... ****ing shocking up to 6.00 am on my Holidays with the misus watching the game with no sound for that ****e .. Refereee and linesman also had a shocker ... still .. Wigan ... No excuse thats was not good enough

There's almost a coherent sentence there Nicey

[donpisci]

Other than not teaching Gerrard how to clear a ball from his own box, what did Rafa do wrong today? NOTHING.

Do you want Rafa to get into the pitch and finish the chances we make himself? Do you want him to get into our box and show our players how to clear a soft free kick?

We fail in the simple things, the simple things which teams like the mancs know how to deal with. An offside trap after a corner, a simple clearance out of the box, a simple finish with the keeper on the ground, a simple finish one on one with the keeper with no defenders around you and all the time to control the ball... It's these simple things, not tactics, not formation, not even ability have to do with it. It's the basics of the game.

Well said.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Simply not good enough end of

[Kopite_Colin]

The last 5 or 6 results have shaped our season. 2 defeats to Reading and Utd. We then had a chance to pull ourselves back into contention and we were doing it with wins against Pompey and Derby, but then to fluff it gainst City & Wigan is unforgivable.

If the owners were planning for next season, and planning for a new manager, then Rafa's position could be precarious. There is an arguement to ssay well "let's write off this season and bed in a new boss, new style and new players for next season." It seriously wouldn't surprise me.

I think Rafa is a good manager, but his tinkering and inability to use subs early enough to finish / change a game is a major, major weakness, which he doesn't seem to want to eradicate.

[Guest]

Well this is it. This forum has lost the plot completely and even respected posters are going rash. This is baffling. We battered Wigan today and played one of our best game in of the season at home and people are aiming at Rafa's head for us drawing from a fluke goal.

It's not because we played with 2 holding midfielders that we've drawn, it's because we couldn't score from clear cut chances, a familiar failing this season.

[Nic83]

I would really like to have a knee-jerk rant and call for eveybody's heads, but I just can't.

I really am lost for words after that display. That fat headed **** does it again! Will we ever learn?

Rafa or Titus?

[kopdan]

aye dano mate, I am feeling very bad, angry, frustrated, ya name it..why cant we frigging play like Arsenal..our team is on par with them skill, ability wise..
Happy new year by the way, hope all is well with the family.

we're at the teething stage right now. Tears and all. Maybe he'll see LFC lift the title one day

Happy new year also.

I dont know what to suggest with Liverpool. Its weird. We've handed the keys to another party and it seems to have got worse.

[Nic83]

We really must stop selling goalkeepers to other sides. Kirkland had a blinder as well tonight

We weren't great, but we created more than enough chances. Gutted.

Aye, everyone knows that keepers play really well against their old teams so the fact that we've owned nearly every keeper in the league at one stage puts us at a bit of a disadvantage!

[Kenneth]

Other than not teaching Gerrard how to clear a ball from his own box, what did Rafa do wrong today? NOTHING.

Do you want Rafa to get into the pitch and finish the chances we make himself? Do you want him to get into our box and show our players how to clear a soft free kick?

We fail in the simple things, the simple things which teams like the mancs know how to deal with. An offside trap after a corner, a simple clearance out of the box, a simple finish with the keeper on the ground, a simple finish one on one with the keeper with no defenders around you and all the time to control the ball... It's these simple things, not tactics, not formation, not even ability have to do with it. It's the basics of the game.

Nothing???

You're right though, you win the league by getting lucky when you roll the dice.