LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

[LUX]

[No Fixed Abode]

All games scheduled to KO at 15:00 to KO at 15:07 on the weekend of 11-14 April to mark respect for those that died at Hillsborough.

Its a nice gesture. I wonder if the FA will do the same/similar next season to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire?

[Victor Meldrew]

All games scheduled to KO at 15:00 to KO at 15:07 on the weekend of 11-14 April to mark respect for those that died at Hillsborough.

Its a nice gesture. I wonder if the FA will do the same/similar next season to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire?

A very good idea, why don't you write to the Football League/ Premier League suggesting it?

[soggy biscuit]

PL top goalscorers:

Suarez - 28
Sturridge - 19
Yaya Toure - 16
Aguero - 15

3 more goals needed by Suarez to equal the most goals scored since the top division was reduced to a 38 game season

[Sutekh]

PL top goalscorers:

Suarez - 28
Sturridge - 19
Yaya Toure - 16
Aguero - 15

3 more goals needed by Suarez to equal the most goals scored since the top division was reduced to a 38 game season

Suarez and Sturridge between them have scored more goals than each and every PL side outside of the top 4 have managed all season as a team bar one. The only exception is ManU who have managed 48 goals so far....

[soggy biscuit]

Liverpool have been awarded 11 penalties so far this season. Its nothing but ifs and buts of course but just think if he did take them too like most other PL top scorers in the past....

[Royal Rother]

My soft spot in the PL has always been for Arsenal but I have to say I am loving what Rodgers has done for Liverpool and I look forward to seeing their games.

I read an article on him at the time he took on the Watford job and was hugely impressed with what he had done, how he had studied the methods of some of the best coaches in the world, learned Spanish because he could foresee a time when that would be a help to his career development and knew exactly what he wanted to do, and how he wanted his teams to play.

I forecast at the time he would be a top top manager one day, and was bowled over when he was appointed at Reading. And we bottled it. I don't care what happened behind the scenes, who he fell out with, that was a terrible terrible decision.

Come on Liverpool!

I even find myself finally warming to Stevie G. WTF is happening to me?

[AthleticoSpizz]

^Agree

We got rid of him a month or two too early.

However, given our budgets/constraints/we are Reading etc etc...would he have thrived so well?

[Royal Rother]

Most certainly.

It took Mark McGhee a year to get everyone playing how he wanted, but when it clicked into place it was wonderful to behold.

It doesn't happen overnight - faith and patience are required.

[retro_royal]

Eh KoS, why did Liverpool fans put up a banner for that Ajax hoolie yesterday?

[Sanguine]

I heard it was Chris Smalling's idea.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Most certainly.

It took Mark McGhee a year to get everyone playing how he wanted, but when it clicked into place it was wonderful to behold.

It doesn't happen overnight - faith and patience are required.

That is true RR. But a vast majority of the time trying to get teams to play "the right way" ends in failure and quite spectacularly sometimes. All the signs were there under Rogers that it could go very badly wrong. Maybe not, but we had an awful lot to lose in sticking with him and it was def the right call to sack him.

MM signed Jimmy Quinn to spearhead our attack. Brendan Rogers signed Gregorz Rasiak. Probably the most glaring difference between the two.

As for the current Liverpool, they are playing football that is awesome to watch at the moment, as much as i personally dont like the club very much. The Chelsea game will hopefully be the perfect match up in attacking football v tactical masterclass.

[Hoop Blah]

That's harsh on Rasiak. He did ok for us once he'd settled in (6 league goals in Rodgers last 11 games) and had done well for Rodgers at Watford and previously for Southampton.

Rodgers side was coming together and growing into itself. It still needed work yes, or course, but the club bottled it and it sounds like it was as much about his relationship with someone behind the scenes as it was about the football (I'm not unashamedly ITK so can't confirm that, but it's what I've been led to believe).

[Sanguine]

I think that final comment inadvertently runs down both managers – to the extent that Mourinho has at times had his Chelsea team playing very fluid attacking football this season; and that there is a lot more to Rodgers as a manager than a Keegan-like attacking style.

Agreed though, will hopefully be a humdinger of a match. Liverpool have scored at least 3 in their last 6 games, and in 8 of their last 11 – and that’s in spite of most opponents setting up to stifle them. Will be interesting how Mourinho approaches the game.

[Vision]

It's all if's but's and maybe's though as far as Rodgers' time here was concerned.

I was among the most vocal in saying he should have been given more time and I simply don't understand the hatred that some seem to have for him. However as much as you can have nothing but admiration for what he's gone on to do since his time here I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that without sacking him neither party would have had the relative success they subsequently have. (It shouldn't be forgotten that as a club we're still in a better position than we were when he left)

I think it needed the setback and ego dent of the sacking and the opportunity out of the game in order for him to step back and understand why it didn't work here. Sure he had the good fortune to be given a way back in at a club that was a perfect fit for how he wanted to play but he made the most of that good fortune and to say he just inherited Martinez's team is utter nonsense.

His current Liverpool side really are a great side to watch with young English talent being given an opportunity to flourish amongst more experienced top level players.

Anyone knocking him for his work over the last 3-4 seasons really just comes across as sad and bitter which is a shame as he contributed a lot to this club long before he bcame the manager. That said I'm not sure sacking him was the disastrous decision i thought it might have been at the time or some are saying now. I just don't think he was mature enough at the time to be able to execute the brief he was trying to execute.

[John Madejski's Wallet]

I think that final comment inadvertently runs down both managers – to the extent that Mourinho has at times had his Chelsea team playing very fluid attacking football this season; and that there is a lot more to Rodgers as a manager than a Keegan-like attacking style..

It may look nicer on the eye going forward, but its still Keegan-esque in the conceeding stakes though

As a fan i'm just enjoying Suarez's moment. Just utter class

[BR2]

I think that final comment inadvertently runs down both managers – to the extent that Mourinho has at times had his Chelsea team playing very fluid attacking football this season; and that there is a lot more to Rodgers as a manager than a Keegan-like attacking style..

It may look nicer on the eye going forward, but its still Keegan-esque in the conceeding stakes though

As a fan i'm just enjoying Suarez's moment. Just utter class

Just for the record there are only 6 other teams with a better defensive record and one team only within 20 goals scored.
Not quite Keegan-esque and I'm hoping that they make the 100 goals scored (and don't let in too many either!!).
Suarez's goal-scoring record is amazing considering he missed those games at the start of the season .
Bearing in mind that he doesn't take penalties (unlike Shearer for example) I thought I heard that he is very close to (or exceeded) being the highest non-penalty-taking player in Premier League history.

As we are told on here regularly that football only started in England when the Premier League started does that make him the best striker of all time?

[Hoop Blah]

It's all if's but's and maybe's though as far as Rodgers' time here was concerned.

I was among the most vocal in saying he should have been given more time and I simply don't understand the hatred that some seem to have for him. However as much as you can have nothing but admiration for what he's gone on to do since his time here I'm becoming more and more of the opinion that without sacking him neither party would have had the relative success they subsequently have. (It shouldn't be forgotten that as a club we're still in a better position than we were when he left)

I think it needed the setback and ego dent of the sacking and the opportunity out of the game in order for him to step back and understand why it didn't work here. Sure he had the good fortune to be given a way back in at a club that was a perfect fit for how he wanted to play but he made the most of that good fortune and to say he just inherited Martinez's team is utter nonsense.

His current Liverpool side really are a great side to watch with young English talent being given an opportunity to flourish amongst more experienced top level players.

Anyone knocking him for his work over the last 3-4 seasons really just comes across as sad and bitter which is a shame as he contributed a lot to this club long before he bcame the manager. That said I'm not sure sacking him was the disastrous decision i thought it might have been at the time or some are saying now. I just don't think he was mature enough at the time to be able to execute the brief he was trying to execute.

Totally agree. There may have been other catalysts internally if he'd stayed and he might've evolved in a similar way, but we'll never know of course and I think you've called it right (in a similar way that Simon Cox wouldn't have turned into the same player if he hadn't left).

I can understand why people find Rodgers annoying, and Adkins in a similar way, but to belittle what he's done out of dislike or jealousy seems a tad daft to me. He was an importand part of the clubs development and personally I'm happy for him even though things ultimately didn't work out here for him.

[No Fixed Abode]

I think that final comment inadvertently runs down both managers – to the extent that Mourinho has at times had his Chelsea team playing very fluid attacking football this season; and that there is a lot more to Rodgers as a manager than a Keegan-like attacking style.

Agreed though, will hopefully be a humdinger of a match. Liverpool have scored at least 3 in their last 6 games, and in 8 of their last 11 – and that’s in spite of most opponents setting up to stifle them. Will be interesting how Mourinho approaches the game.

How come you support Liverpool though...........from what I can gather you're from the South?

[Royalclapper]

Crickey, Liverpool v Chelsea.........let's hope it's a draw because if either lose it'll be the ref's fault.