Liverpool v Sunderland Post Match Thread

[Rich]

Seeya all next year!

[Shaggy]

Totally depressing

[-V-]

I would love to smack the **** out of the liverpool fan who threw that beachball/balloon into our penalty area. ****ing moron.

Kuyt is not a ****ing striker when supported by that useless **** Babel.

Skrtle is increasingly ****

Spearing offers absolutely nothing and shows nothing. He is just an expert at smashing shots over the bar on every attempt. But as it was his first start in a tough game he will be forgiven

**** this I can't be bothered going through the rest of these overpaid, underperforming cunts

[Hustler]

Anybody listening to Collymores phone in show on TalkSport??

I think these LFC fans calling in to say Rafa needs to go is a joke...

a) Nobody to replace him
b) He has just signed a long term contract
c) Last summer he completely restructured the Academy staff
d) Who wants to take over a team with one striker and no money

[Lee]

crouch really offer **** all besides picking the ball out of the air. he wouldn't have made a difference at all

Yeah, he offers **** all apart from picking the ball out of the air and scoring goals eh mate?

[MattB]

Can we appeal to the FA to have the game replayed

Christ, please no

[cream]

I would love to smack the **** out of the liverpool fan who threw that beachball/balloon into our penalty area. ****ing moron.

Kuyt is not a ****ing striker when supported by that useless **** Babel.

Skrtle is increasingly ****

Spearing offers absolutely nothing and shows nothing. He is just an expert at smashing shots over the bar on every attempt. But as it was his first start in a tough game he will be forgiven

**** this I can't be bothered going through the rest of these overpaid, underperforming cunts

We need first choice left attacker, a backup midfielder and a backup of decent quality.

[Havors]

It doesn't mean anything because nothing is won or lost in October. If we win 10 on the trot there's a high chance we could top the table. And we've proved in each and every season under Rafa to date that we can go on runs like this. So, it is far from a foregone conclusion.

and each and every season we say "oh if only we had won that game in october or that game in november" blah blah blah!

the league is won and lost at any point in the season... 4 defeats from 9 games is the season lost. We need to go unbeaten for the rest of the season to have chance in my opinion.

[aa4f4fsd47]

Depressing..

[Exiled_red]

Christ, please no

If so we couldn't perform as badly, and could all (try to) forget todays horror show

[MrMichael]

Anybody listening to Collymores phone in show on TalkSport??

I think these LFC fans calling in to say Rafa needs to go is a joke...

a) Nobody to replace him
b) He has just signed a long term contract
c) Last summer he completely restructured the Academy staff
d) Who wants to take over a team with one striker and no money

Although in football the buck does stop with the manager, and in no way are 4 loses in 9 league games acceptable for us, I do think there's mitigating circumstances.

I fully believe Rafa had his transfer budget pulled out from underneath him a couple of months ago. Starting the summer signing a full back for £17m and looking at SIlva/Villa/Tevez, ending it with scraping £1.5m together for a much needed but utterly random CB cover, something very shonky went on and it badly hurt out momentum going into the season.

Rich's post in the match thread that there was only £3m difference in the make up of our 11 and Sunderland's today is very revealing imo.

This is going to be a long hard season now, we're going to have to play ourselves into form bloody sharpish, but thinking of sacking Rafa right now would just be pointless and unconstructive. People were after his head before Xmas last year too, and pretty much every year before that too; we're just going to have to put our heads down, try to get behind the team and hope things don't get worse before they get better

[Exiled_red]

and each and every season we say "oh if only we had won that game in october or that game in november" blah blah blah!

the league is won and lost at any point in the season... 4 defeats from 9 games is the season lost. We need to go unbeaten for the rest of the season to have chance in my opinion.

That's a stat that's being thrown around alot, but what cost us last season was the number of draws. Last season we drew 11 games and lost 2, Man Utd lost more than us but drew less, it's the number of games that you don't win that cost you. Last season we won 25 drew 11 and lost 2, (86 points) we could have lost 11 games if we had won 4 more and still been 1 point better off (29wins 0 draws 11 defeats 87 points)

[cream]

Although in football the buck does stop with the manager, and in no way are 4 loses in 9 league games acceptable for us, I do think there's mitigating circumstances.

I fully believe Rafa had his transfer budget pulled out from underneath him a couple of months ago. Starting the summer signing a full back for £17m and looking at SIlva/Villa/Tevez, ending it with scraping £1.5m together for a much needed but utterly random CB cover, something very shonky went on and it badly hurt out momentum going into the season.

Rich's post in the match thread that there was only £3m difference in the make up of our 11 and Sunderland's today is very revealing imo.

This is going to be a long hard season now, we're going to have to play ourselves into form bloody sharpish, but thinking of sacking Rafa right now would just be pointless and unconstructive. People were after his head before Xmas last year too, and pretty much every year before that too; we're just going to have to put our heads down, try to get behind the team and hope things don't get worse before they get better

We absolutely need one of those players, or someone of that ilk.

[Red Chilli]

That's a stat that's being thrown around alot, but what cost us last season was the number of draws. Last season we drew 11 games and lost 2, Man Utd lost more than us but drew less, it's the number of games that you don't win that cost you. Last season we won 25 drew 11 and lost 2, (86 points) we could have lost 11 games if we had won 4 more and still been 1 point better off (29wins 0 draws 11 defeats 87 points)

I'd prefer the draws to 4 defeats in 9

[Exiled_red]

I'd prefer the draws to 4 defeats in 9

A draw is almost as costly as a defeat, it's about the number of points you get by the end of the season