Positives and negatives from the season

[friedk]

Positives:
Torres
4231
Gerrard/Torres partnership
Top scoring English side
The reserves
Babel - the supersub
Skertle
Youngsters having some first team games - Lucas, Plessis, Insua
Torres again

Negatives:
New owners
Not holding on to our leads -the difference between a title challenge and 4th place
Inconsistency
Early season home form
Results against top 3
New owners again

[Guest]

We were inconsistent at the start of the season. But not now.

[kev776]

Fortunatly we have been inconsistant with our inconsistancy.

[Guest]

Fortunatly we have been inconsistant with our inconsistancy.

Of late yes. We've been very consistent during the last 3 months. We missed the boat at the end of December and January and our home record let us down. Too many draws which if turned into wins, would have put us right up there.

I feel we're very close. Very very close.

[pezzzer]

Positives:
Torres
4231
Gerrard/Torres partnership
Top scoring English side
The reserves
Babel - the supersub
Skertle
Youngsters having some first team games - Lucas, Plessis, Insua
Torres again

Negatives:
New owners
Not holding on to our leads -the difference between a title challenge and 4th place
Inconsistency
Early season home form
Results against top 3
New owners again

spot on there mate

i truly believe that a settled boardroom/ownership situation would of bought us much closer this year, not that we were that far off.

this is the best side we've had for nearly 2 decdes

[dww]

Positives:
Torres
4231
Gerrard/Torres partnership
Top scoring English side
The reserves
Babel - the supersub
Skertle
Youngsters having some first team games - Lucas, Plessis, Insua
Torres again

Negatives:
New owners
Not holding on to our leads -the difference between a title challenge and 4th place
Inconsistency
Early season home form
Results against top 3
New owners again

Results against top three haven't been that bad have they? I think really it is our failure to gain a point from United that you are thinking of. Two draws with Chelsea and Arsenal in the league and the first one of those was gifted to Chelsea by the ref. Not saying we can't do better but I really think the number of home draws is a much bigger problem as getting a lot of points against the top 3 is always unlikely. The real negative being a consistent lack of guile against packed defenses.

I agree with all your positives and would add that during the second half of the season we saw the emergence of occasional rapid counter attacks which I think is an area of our game we have lacked for a while.

[slimbimjim]

More Negatives

Parry
Set Pieces
Zonal Marking (Until Skrtel learns)
Reina looking shaky at times
Nemeth not getting a look in
Still **** all marketing
Crouch treated like **** (not very fair)
Gerrard still not being the captain he should be

More Positives

Mascherano
Plessis debut performace
Insua debut performance
Stadium has the go ahead
Hyypia = LEGEND
DIC still sniffing about
Rafa drew the battle lines and seems to have won
Another CL semi final

[Guest]

More Negatives

Parry (He's not the only one though)
Set Pieces
Zonal Marking (Until Skrtel learns)
Reina looking shaky at times
Nemeth not getting a look in
Still **** all marketing
Crouch treated like **** (not very fair) Crouch is no world beater mate
Gerrard still not being the captain he should be

More Positives

Mascherano
Plessis debut performace
Insua debut performance
Stadium has the go ahead
Hyypia = LEGEND
DIC still sniffing about
Rafa drew the battle lines and seems to have won
Another CL semi final

[friedk]

For years there has been the argument that so and so would have been better if he was played in his best position or if he had played more often, but Torres is a prime example of if you are good enough then you can make that position your own.

Rafa gets a lot of criticism for his treatment of Crouch, but he is competing for a place alongside one of the best strikers in Europe. Rafa stuck with Crouch when he arrived even though he never scored a goal for months, and he has offered him a new contract. The only way Crouch will play more regularly is if we change our formation to suit him, which is never going to happen.

In a lot of sides he would be a regular, and if that's what he wants, then best of luck to him. But he would not play regularly, for Arsenal, Chelsea or United, and I don't see why it should be any different at Liverpool.

I like Crouch a lot and I think he has been an excellent signing for us, but in our current line-up and formation he is not good enough to be in the starting 11.

[Joe King]

If we had beaten Utd twice, we would be top of the table

[kev776]

More Negatives

Parry
Set Pieces
Zonal Marking (Until Skrtel learns)
Reina looking shaky at times
Nemeth not getting a look in
Still **** all marketing
Crouch treated like **** (not very fair)
Gerrard still not being the captain he should be
3 attempts at a stadium and not a shovel in the ground yet, Arsenal would have built a ****ing city by now, even Wembly was quicker

More Positives

Mascherano
Plessis debut performace
Insua debut performance
Stadium has the go ahead
Hyypia = LEGEND
DIC still sniffing about
Rafa drew the battle lines and seems to have won
Another CL semi final

[Fan65]

Another Positive

£63K a week saved by recycling a waste product.

[Exiled_red]

If we had beaten Utd twice, we would be top of the table

If we'd beaten Utd twice chelsea would be top of the table

[lfc1394]

Fortunatly we have been inconsistant with our inconsistancy.

A lot of the early season inconsistency can be attributed to not only the chopping and changing of players, but the chopping and changing of systems.

Now we have the 423122344321131 system in place, even if we make changes, the people coming in know what they are doing and it is having the effect that freshness to the side should bring i.e. positive results.

[Joe King]

If we'd beaten Utd twice chelsea would be top of the table

How?

Our difference is 11 points.