Team Spirit

[Marky]

you may have heard them mate, but i haven't. my job is heavily centred around the premier league and keeps me quite well informed as one of my colleagues is a former liverpool captain. most, if not all, of what is reported is utter bollox to keep people interested.

unless you know different and want to PM your source

Fair enough mate, it's just i've noticed more rumours/strories regarding Liverpool players this season than any season before.

[carrsim]

Fair enough mate, it's just i've noticed more rumours/strories regarding Liverpool players this season than any season before.

no drama mate

i think we are all a bit more sensitive to these things after 2 seasons of gerrard leaving and we are analysing everything trying to explain our bad form.

if we score first in 3 out of those 5 away games (and we could and should have easily) we win, confidence is high and these stories don't appear. as it is, we just have to deal with it.

from my company's POV liverpool make great copy- if we win trophies and so on we can satisy our legions of fans in this part of the world, giving our pundits the chance to wax lyrical about one of the worlds great clubs.

if we lose they know that any criticism will get the forums buzzing, our feedback avenues go into meltdown and people talk about our channel.

one of the drawbacks of being popular. the reaction to crisitcism of chelsea is neglible by comparison.

[Morph]

Fair enough mate, it's just i've noticed more rumours/strories regarding Liverpool players this season than any season before.

because we were starting to become a threat and people want us to fail, it's not a coincidence.

[alunevans]

If at was all as bad as what you reckon mate, I think Rafa would have been hung by Moores already.

Or at least had someone else brought in to be joint manager

[Morph]

Or at least had someone else brought in to be joint manager

nah Houlliers doing to well with Lyon at the moment

[BobTheCharmer]

Although there are one or two players not cutting the mustard - I lay the blame squarely at Rafa's door. So far this is Groundhog Day - a copy of the Houllier years - trophy wins in the first two seasons and a bag of ****e in the next.

I don't like our style of play. I don't like Rafa's tactics. I'm definitely not calling for his head - yet - but he needs to reassess his own performance before he starts on the players. The current team can play far better and more cohesive. I think Rafa is so intellectual and up his own arse with tactics that the players haven't got a clue what he's on about.

Great Shankly quote to Ian St John - 'If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards.'

this is pretty much exactly how I feel. good post mate.

some people try and make football overly complicated.

[Farside]

Fair enough mate, it's just i've noticed more rumours/strories regarding Liverpool players this season than any season before.

Our history is unmatched, we have a manager that won us the Champions league in his first season and FA cup the next season. This season he was able to get the players he wanted. So far we are in 9th playing like ****e and our captain, who could walk onto any team in the world, looks disinterested. The signings off Pennant and Gonzalez are looking terrible.

Dude, as far as the press are concerned we are fair game.

[Icon]

Feel a bit sorry for SG really as there are players making stupid mistakes all the time and as captain he should bollock them IMO.
It's not like he can whisk them off to his office and sit them down for 10 minutes is it?
People say as the captain he should be lifting them all the time, I think his patience is wearing thin. Listen to yourselves on hear and note that your'e the same.
The only difference Carra would make as captain would be that if he reached the levels of frustration the SG is at now he'd probably do job them on the stop.

[Marky]

Feel a bit sorry for SG really as there are players making stupid mistakes all the time and as captain he should bollock them IMO.It's not like he can whisk them off to his office and sit them down for 10 minutes is it?
People say as the captain he should be lifting them all the time, I think his patience is wearing thin. Listen to yourselves on hear and note that your'e the same.
The only difference Carra would make as captain would be that if he reached the levels of frustration the SG is at now he'd probably do job them on the stop.

What and Gerrard isn't making stupid mistakes as well?

[Morph]

Feel a bit sorry for SG really as there are players making stupid mistakes all the time and as captain he should bollock them IMO.
It's not like he can whisk them off to his office and sit them down for 10 minutes is it?
People say as the captain he should be lifting them all the time, I think his patience is wearing thin. Listen to yourselves on hear and note that your'e the same.
The only difference Carra would make as captain would be that if he reached the levels of frustration the SG is at now he'd probably do job them on the stop.

nah mate, think you're overestimating the captains job.

He certainly shouldn't be going round bollocking players for anything, unless maybe there's discent in the ranks or one of the players says something out of order that Rafa didn't know about.

It's his job to lead by example and get Rafa's ideas across to the team on the pitch, and it doesn't appear he's doing that at the moment cos he;s got his head up his arse.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

I think its crap this year