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Rodgers to miss QPR clash 30th Dec 2012 - Latest News 0 CommentsPrintShare ArchiveLFC To Go Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh will deputise for manager Brendan Rodgers in the technical area at Loftus Road today, after three members of the travelling party were struck down with illness. The Reds boss has been sent home from London ahead of the Barclays Premier League game against QPR on doctor's orders after succumbing to a bug that has made it impossible for him to be in close proximity with the players. Glen Driscoll, LFC's head of performance, and goalkeeper Brad Jones have also been sent home by the club's medical team. Club doctor Zaf Iqbal said: "It was impossible for Brendan, Glen and Brad to attend the game. They are not fit to be at the match and any contact with the rest if the squad could cause the bug to spread to more of the playing staff."

Foolishly just turned this on. Bale's booking was being discussed yesterday. Some fat gobshite from the express, John Richardson, has just said Gareth Bale is not a diver, but "The FA should go to town on Luis Suarez". Immediately switched it off. Haven't watched the show in years so its entirely my own fault.

Heart says we will surely see a response to that abject pile of shite display we put in the other night, and we will pick up the 3 points. Head says QPR will turn us over.

If I'm honest, I'd be pretty sad of Rodgers where to be sacked any time soon. There are a number of reasons for this, on a football, personal, and wider outlook level. Football wise, there are a number of things that have encouraged me. I think I can see what he is trying to do with us. I like his idea, I like the way he wants us to play in an ideal world. The problem is Liverpool Football Club today is as far away from an ideal world as we have ever been really since the 60s and the days of Bill Shankly. Current standings show that he has failed to get the best out of the squad that he currently has at his disposal. Its also fair to say tyat the money he has spent last summer also leaves more questions than answers up to now. His usage of Gerrard is an ongoing frustration of mine, as is his use of substitutions. As a team we defend poorly and opposition find it amazingly easy to score goals against us. The midfield has largely been ineffective and unable to control enough matches. Probably the best team we have beaten in the league this season is West Ham. On a personal level I like the feller. I believe he is genuine and I believe he knows what he is talking about and does have the basic raw materials to build a competitive Liverpool team, in time. I like how he speaks, he represents the club well, is open and honest and clearly respects the club, the city and our culture. I'd be upset for him if he wasnt given a proper opportunity to build something. On a wider level Liverpool Football Club sacking a fourth manager in three years would be catastrophic. There's no two ways about it. I don't believe the club can afford to not given Brendan atleast two seasons. Liverpool are not a Champions League standard team. Far from it. We have been mid table fodder for three years now. We need to readjust our expectations and deal with that fact. We are not in a false position as we like to kid ourselves as a club. We have lost 17 league matches this year. This is the situation we are in. Taking a short term view, Rodgers should be out the door. But we cannot afford to take tht view. Like I said, despite me having some cause for optimism, there are an equal amount of reasons for me to hold reservations. But 6months is far too soon to make the judgement call. He has said he needs to acquire his players to play in his style, and realistically it's going to take atleast 3 transfer windows for him to have something close to a squad that he can call his own. He needs to be given that chance. He has inherited a lot of these problems, problems which have blighted us for a lot longer than the 6 months of Brendan's tenure. It's his responsibility to fix them but its going to take time. We are not City or Chelsea, we cannot bring a new man in and give him 100m to throw at the problem. If we are no better 12 months down the line then fine, think about a replacement. But at this point our only option is to give Brendan the time and every penny the club can afford to give him, and see if he can sort out this horrible mess that we are in. It's far too early at this point to judge the man.

I agree to an extent, the last thing I want is for them to be shouting their mouth off every couple of weeks about what we are going to do in the press. However I'd also like some kind of reassurance that they are working their balls off to deliver success, and not simply just sitting on their investment over in Boston, getting a few quid more in commercial deals here and there, and happy to see us coast along in mid table without our value dropping in the process. I personally think it fucking stinks that they've not attended one match as a group all season. I think it fucking stinks that in one of the most momentous days in the clubs history when the HIP released their report, neither of them could find the time to hop on one of their private jets and fly 5hours from Boston to represent the owners of the club on St George's Hall steps with them families of the 96. The silence has been deafening for months.

I do find it a bit odd that the supposed front man for our ownership hasn't been near Anfield once all season 5months in and the Chairman only once for the first home game of the season. No communication, no interviews, just silence and absence.

Franco Di Santo is absolutely fucking dog shit. The only logic I see in signing him would be to prevent him having the annual world class performance against us that seemingly every shit carthorse striker in the Premier League seems to have against our supposedly boss world class defence. BR is still getting the benefit of the doubt from me due to the shower of shite he inherited and the fact he is still little over half a year in to the job. However if he goes near this absolute no mark then it's grounds for instant dismissal. If Hodgson wanted Di Santo he'd have been chased out of Merseyside and for that reason I can't entertain the idea that this is anything other than senseless speculation.

Code is by far the biggest cunt to ever grace this forum, a fine achievement when you look at the calibre of cunt that rivals him for the title.

Thanks for posting, really enjoyed that.

Chelsea looking very impressive here. Really think they're gonna be boss under Rafa. A lot of class players for him to work with, a good defence that he can and has organised to strengthen them up, and some outstanding attacking options at his disposal. It's basically what he worked towards up to the 2009 season at Liverpool and his Valencia side which to this day I still rate as one of the best I've seen play live at Anfield. 7-0 now.

Suso signed olin October and hasn't had a look in since with Joe Cole moving up ahead of him in the pecking order. Can't get my head around that.

Contract signed, drama over.

Peter Hooton was on TAW other day discussing the single. He said they had spoke to Paul McCartney's people about this issue, and they said every time he gigs or appears anywhere, there is a scrum of people afterwards having pictures with him and he doesn't know from one person to the next who he is having a picture with most of the time. Regardless of anyone's opinions on him, having him on the single along with Robbie Williams makes it box office and puts it on a totally different commercial level to anything that would have been produced without their input. It's all about raising awareness and raising money, therefor it's an absolute no brainer to have the biggest names feature that you can possibly find. They dont really come any bigger than Paul McCartney.

@RorySmithTimes: Think Sturridge/Ince will be £18m or so the pair. Decent signings, but is this what all the fuss about the new scouting team was about? Agreed, hardly pushed the boundaries casting the net out there.

@RorySmithTimes: As I suspect most newspapers will be reporting tomorrow, #LFC should announce Sturridge+Ince in the first couple of days of Jan. Deals done.

Sahin's continued absence surprises me. Why leave the Real Madrid bench to come and sit on Liverpool's bench?

No one knows what's going on so it's a bit daft for Sterling to be called this that and the other without any real substance at this point. Going off the club's recent form in all off field aspevts I'm certainly not inclined to give Ayre, FSG and co the benefit of the doubt over anything that goes on.

Embarrasing this. EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool issue grovelling apology for tapping up Dempsey By MARTIN SAMUEL PUBLISHED: 23:10, 11 December 2012 | UPDATED: 10:45, 12 December 2012 Liverpool have made a grovelling apology to Fulham over the tapping-up of Clint Dempsey in the summer. A statement from Fulham, expected today, will confirm that in return the club have dropped their complaint to the Premier League over the affair. The peace deal came only after a personal visit by Liverpool co-owner Tom Werner to Craven Cottage chairman Mohamed Al Fayed was followed up by a letter from Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre admitting that the club’s behaviour ‘was wrong’ and ‘simply never should have occurred’. The letter, sent last Friday, confirms that a meeting took place between Werner and Fayed, during which the former apologised for Liverpool’s actions regarding Dempsey last summer. Fulham blame Liverpool for unsettling the player and creating the circumstances that led to his move to Tottenham on transfer-deadline day. Ayre wrote: 'Please also consider this letter from me to be an additional expression of sincere regret and apology from our club to your club for our actions last summer. Our club can do better and we pledge that it will.' Fulham’s official complaint followed a series of clumsy bulletins from Liverpool and their owners, the Fenway Sports Group. The first was an announcement on the FSG website that Liverpool had signed Dempsey from Fulham. This was followed by an interview on the Liverpool website with manager Brendan Rogers, in which he talked of the USA forward in glowing terms. Finally, pictures of Liverpool's new strip with Dempsey's name on the back were published. The 29-year-old had been on a summer break in America when the FSG announcement was made, and Fulham’s complaint to the Premier League intimated that their relationship with the player who was last season’s top scorer had not recovered from that point. Dempsey did not officially go on strike, but told Fulham he wanted to leave. The club considered he was becoming a bad influence in the dressing room and he did not play a game for Fulham before signing for Tottenham.

Don't know where the "abs" came from in my previous post, fucking iPhone spelling. But just to confirm, Stoke, Stoke, and Stoke again. Cunt of a club.

Stoke, abs

ITV's coverage of the Euros was good with Carra, Keane and a few others. Sky's is relatively good and it's fair to say that Gary Neville has surprised a few people, myself included. Think the feller talks a lot of sense, and is remarkably balanced and objective. The BBC's coverage is shite. Shearer is a fucking drip with a personality vacuum, Lawrenson is a smug tit who's so far up his own arse he can see what he had for dinner an hour after he's eaten it, Hansen makes analysing football look like a massive chore despite the fact he gets paid about 20grand per show to do so, and Lineker is a jug eared gobshite who almost rivals Lawro for arrogance. Their analysis amounts to "he'll feel he should have scored that" when a chance is missed, and "The defender could have done a bit more there" when a chance is scored. No analysis or insight whatsoever, a total contrast to Gary Neville who can break down every play and actually point things out which you haven't noticed, enlighten the average supporter who doesn't have the benefit of a career playing the game professionally. The whole BBC football coverage is outdated and shite , and the above mentioned need pensioning off because when ITV4 and Channel 5 can offer a better product than you then you have some real problems.

ITV's coverage of the Euros was good with Carra, Keane and a few others. Sky's is relatively good and it's fair to say that Gary Neville has surprised a few people, myself included. Think the feller talks a lot of sense, and is remarkably balanced and objective. The BBC's coverage is shite. Shearer is a fucking drip with a personality vacuum, Lawrenson is a smug tit who's so far up his own arse he can see what he had for dinner an hour after he's eaten it, Hansen makes analysing football look like a massive chore despite the fact he gets paid about 20grand per show to do so, and Lineker is a jug eared gobshite who almost rivals Lawro for arrogance. Their analysis amounts to "he'll feel he should have scored that" when a chance is missed, and "The defender could have done a bit more there" when a chance is scored. No analysis or insight whatsoever, a total contrast to Gary Neville who can break down every play and actually point things out which you haven't noticed, enlighten the average supporter who doesn't have the benefit of a career playing the game professionally. The whole BBC football coverage is outdated and shite , and the above mentioned need pensioning off because when ITV4 and Channel 5 can offer a better product than you then you have some real problems.

Matt Smith the presenter is from the Wirral and a red I think.

Good professional result that last night, almost a throw back to our past Euro away exploits. Defended well, scored when it mattered and kept the ball for long periods. Nothing extravagant or special, but job done and that's all that mattered. One thing which has frustrated me massively this season is our inability to close out a match from a winning position. Young Boys at home was a case in point, the game was won, qualification sewn up, all we had to do was keep possession and kill the game. Instead we continued to bomb forward in numbers chasing a pointless extra goal, and out lack of intelligence and naivity was punished seconds later. That wasnt helped in the ground by arseholes booing and screaming when we tried to pass backwards and keep the ball. Last night was refreshing. I know there was a stupid scare right at the end but up to that point we weren't troubled at all and kept possession along the back and midfield for long periods. Brendan talked about "death by football" when he came in and last night was just a small step in that direction. Intelligence has been lacking in our game for the past 2 years and every little step in the right direction should be welcomed. It's going to take time.

Great couple of posts by S31