Southampton vs Liverpool - Match Thread

[Tony Moanero]

Fuck you too, you rich cunt!

 

Haha. I'd rep you if I, too, wasn't a mingebag.

[The Acolyte]

Always backed Skrtel but I'm open to him moving on and bringing in someone better.

 

I don't trust Rodgers to find someone better, the defense has been shit from the day he walked through the door. What the fuck has he done to address it?

He spunked millions bringing Sahin and then played him out of position. He takes a win as a cue to show off and chop the side up. When it goes tits up he does fuck all about it till its too late.

Will FSG trust him to find the right solution?

[kalasoma]

I like away days. Except for the crap ones when we lose. We were just so poor, about as poor a display as the team that lost to Aston Villa or against Arsenal at home earlier in the season. You got that feeling at half time too that this wasn't going to be our day. Why can't we be consistent? Is it too much to ask?

[Red_or_Dead]

Man City lost 3-1 there recently it's the premier league this shit happens.

 

Yes, because in their heads they thought they could just turn up and win! I think today our performance was marginally better than Citeh's (that isn't saying much).

 

As I said earlier, I want to support Rodgers but when he pulls daft shit like this it's indefensible.

 

We need a fucking beast in midfield and not a goat like Allen.

[Jairzinho]

Any word from Stuart yet?

[zigackly]

Any word from Stuart yet?

 

He'd have to be in haste to be back already.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Man City lost 3-1 there recently it's the premier league this shit happens.

 

Though this shit is more likely to happen if you screw up team selection and tactics

[sir roger]

My dad always said that managers over-think things & spend far too much time trying to prove how clever tactically they are, when getting a decent mix of good players in the right positions, getting a plan that suits the players & instilling a decent spirit in the side should be the basic formula for a successful team.

[Jairzinho]

He'd have to be in haste to be back already.

 

Starting to worry that there has been a problem with his helicopter.

[TheHowieLama]

The whopper chopper is a well oiled machine. He may have dropped his thesaurus somewhere along the ride and had to go back.

[Guest ShoePiss]

I imagine sexrex driving up the M6 in his Vectra with a dictaphone composing his post haste gem, probably barefoot and snacking on toblerones.

[Anubis]

He's too busy telling Rodgers where he went wrong over a glass of Romanée Conti.

[Nightcat]

I've asked this before the game starts:

 

can you remind me how/when did Henderson lose his starting place? I can understand resting/dropping Lucas but Henderson deserves to start.

 

any views?

[Guest San Don]

I've asked this before the game starts:

 

 

 

any views?

 

He got hooked after 60 mins in the west brom home defeat and played the whole 90 in the zenit away defeat. After that he was 'dropped' for countinho against swansea replacing him after 60 minutes.

 

Make of it what you will.

[jamespp]

Just watching the highlights, not seen any of the game, I think 5 or 6-1 would of been a fairer result, it's that bad

[Faustus]

Just watching the highlights, not seen any of the game, I think 5 or 6-1 would of been a fairer result, it's that bad

 

Alright Aldo lad,

 

I just saw the score on ceefax and I think we should bin off Jordan Henderson.

 

Yours angrily of Tuebrook.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Still peed off. I don't know what Rodgers wad thinking. We were dreadful with Gerrard and Allen as the midfield pairing at the start of the season so why go back to it. Is it a case of Rodgers thinking we are now good enough to go back to his original plan. He isn't learning from fuck ups and today was just negligent with his lack of awareness. He should if put the extra midfielder on 10 minutes into the game. Every man and his dog doubted that team and as usual managers miss the glaringly obvious.

[KopOut]

I've asked this before the game starts:

 

 

 

any views?

 

Rodgers seems to fancy 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 currently.

 

Coutinho has been getting the jump over Hendo , left of Suarez, on account of Downing being rock solid on the right, and with Enrique now fit in the back four, he's been expected to bust up that left wing, with Coutinho moving infield, roaming if you will, but there's no reason why Hendo couldn't do likewise. I'd have brought him on at about 60 minutes, or, started him and had Coutinho on after 60 minutes, if we were ineffective.

 

More importantly, when is Sturridge going to play FUCKING CENTRE FORWARD.

[KopOut]

My dad always said that managers over-think things & spend far too much time trying to prove how clever tactically they are, when getting a decent mix of good players in the right positions, getting a plan that suits the players & instilling a decent spirit in the side should be the basic formula for a successful team.

 

Your Dad talks too much sense, and we just can't have that I'm afraid.

[KopOut]

I don't trust Rodgers to find someone better, the defense has been shit from the day he walked through the door. What the fuck has he done to address it?

He spunked millions bringing Sahin and then played him out of position. He takes a win as a cue to show off and chop the side up. When it goes tits up he does fuck all about it till its too late.

Will FSG trust him to find the right solution?

 

FSG don't give a fuck.

 

The fans need to vote with their feet, and not accept overpriced shite. Nothing get's a yank's attention quicker than a negative bottom line.

[KopOut]

Rodgers must take the blame again for me.

 

We're well into the sequels now: pretty sure its Blame Again VII.

[KopOut]

We'd have been better off keeping Spearing, that's how bad he is.

 

That's one more of us, and one less of them.

[jamespp]

Alright Aldo lad,

 

I just saw the score on ceefax and I think we should bin off Jordan Henderson.

 

Yours angrily of Tuebrook.

 

Eh?

[cmuller]

Rodgers needs to sort the midfield out. Gerrard has never been good defensively and so, without anything special to call on alongside him, the best way to compensate is playing three centrally.

 

Allen/Gerrard had disaster written all over it. Fuck knows what the manager was thinking dropping Lucas and replacing him with that undernourished liability. Game after game he's cancelled out of the match by opposition players who only have to be physically stronger to do so. That's the way it's going to be throughout his career so get shut.

 

Awful decision from Rodgers.

[xerxes]

I prefer going to Southampton at the end ,or start, of the season when the southern sun warms your back, and a cool lager takes the sting out of the day as you look across the marina. But as Rodger’s team comes together, I had been anticipating this game with some relish, even if it was coats rather than shirt sleeves weather. St Marys as a stadium is the classic post Hillsborough bowl, functional, but unremarkable, yet the continuous roof and single tier stands make for a pretty impressive atmosphere and noise when the locals are up for it.

 

The Dell was a classic late 20th century ground, its quaint wedge shaped stands a delight, but time has moved on, and the muscle that St Marys has given Southampton is a reminder to us of the dangers of dwelling to long on a stadium past, and failing to look to the future. They don’t always get it right, as the comic statue to Ted Bates testifies, but “When the Saints Go Marching In” is every bit as iconic an anthem as “YNWA” and evidence that the past, and the future, can be easy bedfellows.

 

Not only have the Saints sorted their stadium, unlike us, also they have gone exotic with Pochettino the young Argentinian manager, eschewing the British managerial pool we now favour. Almost exactly the same age as Rodgers, this was morcilla and chinchulines versus fish and chips.

 

The team selection pre-match, looked more than enough to see of the Saints, Suarez and Sturridge to score the goals, width with Downing ,Johnson and Enrique, experience with Gerrard and youthful flair from Coutinho, but as the game unfolded it became apparent that the players had not read the script. Skrtel looked disinterested, Allen struggled to impose himself against mediocre opposition and Johnson displayed his customary lack of defensive concentration but this time failed to blind with his offensive contribution. I felt sorry for Brad Jones, increasingly looking like Reina’s replacement if he goes in the summer, not at fault or any of the goals, and not to blame for the languid torpor which the defence specialised in for much of the game. Coutinho also impressed with feet so educated, they probably speak Latin.

 

Some of the hysterical hyperbole criticising Rodgers is well wide of the mark. We will improve on KK’s league and points finish. The team today was well capable of beating Southampton. Although Johnson’s defensive lapses are pretty much a feature of his game, Skrtels lethargy could not have been foreseen, and GJ was playing against the likes of Lambert, not Messi or Van Persie. Rodgers should be judged t the end of the season, and he will have done alright.

 

Some around me had a go at Allen, but he is a poor scapegoat. We were outdone in midfield by desire, not ability.

 

The febrile mania which surrounds every game these days is depressing. This is only Rodgers second full season in the Pl, comparing him with illustrious seasoned veterans of the past is pointless. Although Pochettino exploited the wide open pampas that our midfield so generously extended to the home side, we will have better days.