Oldham post match

[Bender]

We got what we deserved,before the game game BR said he wanted to take a good look at the rest of the squad!well the rest of the squad is ****.As for most of his signings they have very poor and ****....Mansfield should have been enough for BR to realise not to play a weakend team

[Lecter]

Allen wasn't our worst player. Think Rodgers probably got the tactics wrong today and left the midfield too isolated. Then our passing was poor. The average age of the team which started was 22 so it's hardly an 'embarassing defeat'.

Allen has zero strength. hes easily bullied and put him under pressure and his passing goes to ****

Allen wasnt the worst player but I genuinely think he is a liability

Hes too weak and for me he slows our play down.

Gerrard once again showed what it takes to be a top player

Rodgers approach is admirable but I still think we need strength and power married alongside technique

[shanks69]

I think the team selection was a bit wrong. Gerrard should have started for me. Possibly even Shelvey for Allen.

But I actually don't think blame can be put at Rodgers for this, players showed absolutely no bottle at all.

[Fredo]

We were beaten by Burnley in 2005. There's a lot of overreaction in here.

[Shaggy]

Burnley away was worse imo. But it's a pointless discussion really.

How? They were a 10th placed Championship side. Oldham are about 20th in the division below!

[kingfunk]

Meh- concentrate on the league.

[Fredo]

We got what we deserved,before the game game BR said he wanted to take a good look at the rest of the squad!well the rest of the squad is ****.As for most of his signings they have very poor and ****....Mansfield should have been enough for BR to realise not to play a weakend team

We should have beaten them no matter how '****' the squad is. I mean, we didn't lose because of our squad. We lost because we couldn't compete physically.

[el matador]

Allen has zero strength. hes easily bullied and put him under pressure and his passing goes to ****

Allen wasnt the worst player but I genuinely think he is a liability

Hes too weak and for me he slows our play down.

Gerrard once again showed what it takes to be a top player

Rodgers approach is admirable but I still think we need strength and power married alongside technique

yes and that strength and power is called diame

Go and get him. Ince and a left back can wait until the summer but we are one midfielder down after sahins exit. Diame offers something different.

[BigChief]

Think you have a point about the refereeing. Stevie was arguing with him for long periods. We never got any protection whatsoever today and that cunt Smith was revelling in it.

Carra and Gerrard were shaking their heads when Probert didn't stop play after Borini got the ball smashed against his face in the first half. You could see they were visibly not happy with the ref.

Probert started ok then got worse and worse as the match wore on. Didn't even finish the full injury time.

[Shaggy]

Doesn't inspire much confidence for Arsenal or City away

[Norbs]

It is not the end of the world, bit disappointing, but not season defining.

In the bigger scheme of things, we really need to cement 4th place in the league. I'd hate a good cup run dragging the manager's attention away from that

[Exiled_red]

When you look at Luke Shaw for example who is only 17 you can see the difference in football brain. I agree its too early to write him off but telling our star player to **** off basically isn't good, wouldn't want an attitude like that round any other younger players.

I haven't seen much of Luke Shaw, but Wisdom is an obvious comparison for me: I think that Wisdom is a big physical guy at such a young age helps him significantly, when he gets caught out he can used his physical presence to make a nusance of himself to get back in and make a challenge, Robinson is very lightweight so every mistake is visible because he has nothing to get him out of trouble. I think Robinson is a better technical player but his mistakes are very visible. I think he needs to bulk up and get a loan move somewhere

[Gibbo]

Doesn't inspire much confidence for Arsenal or City away

My hope is we will bounce back.

We have that strange habit of upping our game against stronger teams anyway.

[Lecter]

How? They were a 10th placed Championship side. Oldham are about 20th in the division below!

[Fredo]

Doesn't inspire much confidence for Arsenal or City away

Are they as physical as Oldham? It's going to be totally different games. How can we be moving forward a week then it's like we're regressing suddenly?