Europa League - Napoli Away Build up

[Chris]

Napoli have already sold 50 thousand tickets for this.

http://www.sscnapoli.it/client/render.aspx?root=707&fwd=3641&content=0

[Shaggy]

Haha ****ing hell. They're gonna be so up for it. Think I might watch it through my fingers.

[johnly]

Sounds like Gerrard and Torres wont play either.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/duo-ruled-out-of-napoli-clash

And has another little dig at Agger.

From the above article... "Christian Poulsen has recovered and is okay."

Oh ****

[Chris]

Haha ****ing hell. They're gonna be so up for it. Think I might watch it through my fingers.

You can picture it already cant you? Wave after wave of attack, 1-0, wave after wave of attack, 2-0, we finally try and go forward and miss a couple of ok chances, ends 2-0 or they get a 3rd late on.

[dww]

dww - I know roy apparently said judge me after 10 league games and i've heard others say it's too early....but i'm interested to know what you want to or expect to see in the next two league games taking it to the magic 10 that will convince you he should stay or go?

see for me - i can't see anything that can happen against blackburn at home and then bolton away (iirc) that could change how I or pretty much 95% of us feel.

we would need to play blackburn and bolton off the park, winning both games, with good performances all round and smiles on the players faces - then i might go...hmm ok - but there has not been one thing in 3 and half months to suggest that this will happen

so at best - all i can see is us playing poor boring football at home to blackburn and scraping a 1-0 win through a bit good of play when our decent players pull their fingers out for 5 mins and string some forward passes together. - I can't see us winning at bolton, so again at best - all i can see us scraping is a drab and dreary draw.

So if that happens - that'd be 4 points taking us 10 overall and maybe if results went our way out of the relegation zone to 16th.

But is that going to be enough to convince us that hodgson should stay???

And thats being optimistic - i fear it could be even worse, maybe a a win and a loss, two draws or two losses....we'd have to have the forum on suicide watch lol

What I need to see is that some sort of tipping point has been reached - that there has been a method behind what we have seen and that some small change has allowed us to bring it from the training ground to the game environment.

Do far I have seen nothing to suggest it will happen but I don't have such faith in my opinion that I think that it is definitive. A number of people who know about the game more than I do think Roy needs more time and so I'm willing to give him some.

10 games is a bit arbitrary but psychologically it is for be a barrier at which the number of points on the board added to my general impression is a fair reflection of what a manager has been doing rather than subject too much to transition effects or ill fortune.

I suppose if we lose the next game then there is really no hope of him getting to 10 with any momentum and I will call for his head but even a single victory wouldn't be enough for me.

[anfieldanfield]

****ing hell. They've sold 50,000 tickets ?! Their ground is going to be ROCKING.

[Rich]

We do look a lot less vulnerable when teams stop trying to attack us

Quality

[Pablo]

We're going to get absolutely tanked

[Rich]

We're going to get absolutely tanked

If we do I'm sure Hodgson can place the blame on someone other than himself...

[Pablo]

If we do I'm sure Hodgson can place the blame on someone other than himself...

He can blame it on the kids like he did against Northampton

[PTP]

WTF

neiljjones Neil Jones
"In my opinion this was not a simple act of vandalism," Naples councillor, Alfred Ponticelli. "No coincidence we are playing Liverpool,"

is he suggesting that some young rapscallions from Norris Green boarded the 42 Bus to JLA, got a flight to Naples with Easy jet, broke into the ground, wrecked the pitch, and sneaked away bunking a lift home on a milk float.

[lancinleeds]

Definitely no Torres or Gerrard:

Liverpool squad: Reina, Jones, Hansen, Konchesky, Aurelio, Kyrgiakos, Skrtel, Wilson, Carragher, Kelly, Spearing, Poulsen, Shelvey, Maxi, Babel, Jovanovic, Pacheco, Eccleston, Cole, Ngog.

[-V-]

We won't get spanked because they aren't that good. But it will be painful to watch as we will spend the whole game defending again

[Rix007]

Is anyone wanting us to lose tonight ??? I hate to even think it, but IF losing tonight puts the final nail in Roy's coffin, then I'm all for it...

[Neil Young]

is he suggesting that some young rapscallions from Norris Green boarded the 42 Bus to JLA, got a flight to Naples with Easy jet, broke into the ground, wrecked the pitch, and sneaked away bunking a lift home on a milk float.

You've got to admire them for trying to save us all from another instalment of Hoxha's Hoofers. Desperate times call for desperate measures