Liverpool vs Northampton: Build Up and Match thread

[Mattshark]

Sorry - was just taking the piss
I've had it with this game and have lost the ability to take this seriosly - sorry!

NP mate

[Exiled_red]

Kelly now down with cramp

~3mins to go

[DannyMan2006]

Rafa, I love you.
please come back.

He only left because the owners screwed him and the situation was unworkable. Pending on how it goes at Inter he'd be back in a shot if he had money to spend.

[Slinky Skills]

Agreed mate he's no idiot but he needs to stop acting like one. He needs to get his tactics sorted and have the bottle to make subs when they are needed. His only tactic seems to be Hoof ball. Every game so far this season we have looked second best.

No worries dude!

I can't see his tactics being hoof ball, he knows the club's philosophy and it's heritage and that is to pass and move. Get the fans behind the club.

We need to give him more time, all of us do.

[Buzzo]

****ing hell, this reminds me of cheering when Scotland got the winner against Liechtenstein.

Yep.

[SimonNo7]

Didn't really want to post tonight in this match thread, this scoreline is just too depressing. However could it actually be that, if we take off our rose tinted glasses that tell us our team is really nearly as good as Manure, the Chavs, the Arse and ****ty that it really isn't, that the players we talk up are mostly actually just not good enough (I've also included some that have now gone), players like Babel, Lucas, Kuyt, Skrtel, Kyriakos, Aurelio, Ngog (I know he has had a good start in the Europa this season and has shown some development), Riera, Insua, Benny etc. Now these players couldn't create, couldn't attack for Rafa (bar one season) and now they can't create, can't attack for Roy (and again I am not just going by this game). So maybe we are all wrong from our high perches up here on internet forums and it isn't actually the managers that are bad, it's just the overpaid, lacking passion, embarrassment, poor excuse of footballers can't be arsed to put the effort in, to play for the thousands of fans who pay their hard earned cash to watch their feeble attempts at playing what is a pretty simple game.

[Philosophia]

****ing hell, this reminds me of cheering when Scotland got the winner against Liechtenstein.

[El Diego]

Unless we score before extra time we will lose on pens

[tsb]

By the way inter won 4-0

Yeah but the credit is due to Mourinho.

Just like the blame for today is on Rafa

[DannyMan2006]

Do we ever lose on Pens?

Only time I can remember was against Pompey in a pre season cup.

[RoadEnd]

headed off the northampton line from a soto effort

[Lecter]

Do you think Hodgson misread his brief it said "steady the ship"

Not "scuttle the ship"

[Kenneth]

At the end of the day it's a completely different side with 11 changes made from Sunday. We were all happy to see that line up and so if we get beat we can't go crying.

Play the reserves and you run the risk. At least we learn something. The reserves aren't good enough. Not hungry enough I'm guessing.

[Gibbo]

He only left because the owners screwed him and the situation was unworkable. Pending on how it goes at Inter he'd be back in a shot if he had money to spend.

I know mate, i was just expressing some emotion
id love it if he came back with some new owners, absolutely love it

[Needles]

No worries dude!

I can't see his tactics being hoof ball, he knows the club's philosophy and it's heritage and that is to pass and move. Get the fans behind the club.

We need to give him more time, all of us do.

The club's philosophy means **** all if the manager has his own ideas about how the game should be played.