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21 Apr 2018 20:45:45
This is a pretty poor result in that we failed to put another nail in Chelsea's top four hopes, and we've now given them a glimmer of hope in maybe catching us.
But I also think there is an unusual silver lining in this result.
I suspect that if we'd cruised to a 3-0 win today the media and fans would've started with the all-conquering Liverpool hype, and I think we'd have cruised on into Tuesday's game expecting a win, and being a bit complacent- which is usually disastrous for this team.

After todays disappointment Klopp and the players will be angry and upset, and I think it might give them a bit of extra sharpness and determination on Tuesday.
They will need every bit of focus and determination to stop Roma getting am away goal, and yes it's a small consolation, but this result today will stop any complacency creeping into Tuesday's game.

At the moment Bayern and Real are weaker than they have been for several years, and we may not get this good a chance of reaching a CL final and winning for another five years, maybe more.

A top performance on Tuesday holds the key to getting into a winnable CL final- and at least now we will come out hungry and focused.
Not much consolation I admit, but it's something.

17 Oct 2016 12:47:07
Mourinho is well under way with the mind games already.
He is worried that the ref may try a bit too hard to avoid showing any pro-utd sympathies, so he makes a statement about how much pressure the ref will be under etc- thus adding to pressure the ref is under.

Then he takes the mick out of klopps touchline arm-waving, and saying he (jose) is there to coach, not to wave his arms around.
I feel sure his mickey-taking won't bother klopp in the least, and it won't make klopp alter his style- in fact I hope he will do some arm waving at jose for a laugh.

This is one manager that jose will not be able to unsettle, anger or otherwise manipulate by mind games.

Hopefully the ref ignores jose's comments as well. There is admittedly a risk of the ref favouring lfc in his attempts to show that he has no pro-utd bias, but managers are now forbidden to make comments about the ref ahead of the game, so there will likely be a modest punishment given to jose- after the game of course.

Part of me has a sneaking admiration for his sheer desperation and his will to win whatever the cost, but the greater part of me despises him a bit for the fact that he will literally go to almost any lengths in order to win a game- including any amount of cheating that he or his players can get away with.
I'm expecting some of the nasty old chelsea gamesmanship tonight- surrounding the ref to protest every major decision, time wasting with fake injuries, everything.

21 Jul 2016 12:16:11
So how about a bit of chat about the futures of hendo, milner and lallana?
Are those three more likely to be coming on from the bench by the end of this year, once the new boys have settled in and really started to challenge for starting places?
And can the new boys give what those three do- which is hard work, good pressing and a positive attitude?
What would your starting 11 be assuming the new players adapt and perform well?
By xmas I'd be hoping to have grujic and Can in a mf two, with mane, firmino and couts ahead and sturridge as striker.
Looking at the players, I do wonder if klopp is thinking more of adopting a 433 though.

18 Feb 2016 15:46:58
Watching the CL game last night, and Nainggolan was quite simply a class apart.
If LFC are serious about adding some real quality to the midfield hairstyles, we simply cannot ignore this magnificent specimen.
There are many players we could target whose eccentric hair might warrant a squad place, but this summer has to be about improving the starting 11 haircuts, and on last nights evidence Nainggolan would walk straight into the first team.
As one wag put it on the FIFA site, even his mohican has a mohican.

23 Mar 2015 15:08:59
We've pretty much blown our chance of top four this season, but it is at least mathematically possible.
Utd still have to play city, chelsea and the gunners, and they could easily lose all three games.
We have to play chelsea and arsenal away, and we could win both games. Yes its very unlikely but possible.
In fact it would be typical of rodgers to find a winning tweak to his system and have us win both of those very difficult games.
Problem is that utd will likely win the rest of their games even if they lose those three, so we probably need to win every single game to overhaul them, and that is too much of a miracle for me personally to get excited about.
Brendan has great attributes in some respects and you have to give him a lot of credit for the recent great run of results, but if he is a genius in some ways, he is a badly flawed genius.

His downside is he has been incredibly stubborn in sticking with a failing system far too long. He is a very poor judge of a player and most of his buys have been average to poor, and he is a very poor judge of what positions to strengthen as a priority.
I think one day he will be a top class coach, but that won't happen until he gets rid of his deep attachment to posession-football idealogy, and learns to be truly flexible and adaptable in his tactical thinking, and consider a wider variety of tactical options.
I think its a great shame that it hasn't worked out, because he is hard working and very talented; he's not a bad guy and doesn't deserve all the personal insults and snipes. But the bottom line is that he has cost us fourth place by his awful management and stubbornness from sept to december.
And he doesn't seem able to get the squad motivated before big games either. How many times have we looked lack lustre and devoid of motivation, passion and creativity in the first half of games this year?
I am starting to doubt his ability to motivate the players.
The numerous new players bedding-in is no excuse either- Koeman also had numerous new players but he hit the ground sprinting at Southampton.
And yes our best striker forced his way out last year, but Brendan had a lot of money available, and he refused good options like Remy and Bony, and instead settled on Mario.
Watching our manager be out-thought by Van Gaal, and his players being outfought by utd, was painful, but it was just the icing on the cake.
I suspect sunday's game will turn out to have been the key 4th place decider, and I think the owners will soon call time.
The three seasons he has had might be all he gets at lfc, or all the owners feel they can risk giving him.
The irony is that if he had accepted the owners preference of a dof handling player buys- and directing him to change hus failing tactics back in september- we might be in the top four now and brendan might have been looking at a long and successful tenure at lfc.

{Ed044's Note - fair post.}

1.) Mostly rumour, innuendo and passing off opinion as fact. Plus I laughed out loud at the Bony suggestion - no thanks, wouldn't suit liverpool any more than Mario does.

{Ed044's Note - you're right on the transfer innuendo, but the sentiments all there Essex. Over to you.☺️}

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