Son of L8

We are shit at set pieces too, really shit.

We're probably the shittest team in the league at attacking set pieces. Which is why it's so damn satisfying we beat those cunts on an attacking set piece... :D

There seemed to be a recurring theme throughout the match...

"Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure."

Fuck off you drunken delusional Neville-shagging cunt!

He isn't a prolofic scorer anymore and won't be in the future either because he's very much a second striker like a Sheringham but people forgot that when he was signed he'd only scored 11 league goals for Monaco and played behind a striker rather than up top because people we're pblinded by his goals in the Champions League. If he was playing with a striker who was scoring constantly like Owen or Fowler in his pomp, Nando wouldn't have come in for half as much stick as he's got because another player would have been scoring. He's in exactly the same position as Crouch was earlier in the season (and worryingly is in again now) where he's playing well but not scoring and unfortunatley no other striker is either. Crouch and Nando are not going to score a shed load of goals on their own and but are better with a finisher to play off. We'll have to hope Robbie can be that player and if not that we get one in the summer.

Thinking about these comments, it's a bit odd. If Robbie is the natural finisher and Morientes is meant to be the "second striker", isn't it a bit odd that the best chances we've had in the two games they've played together have been Robbie getting wide and putting in a great cross for Nando? If you could have freeze-framed and swapped them around at those moments, we could have bagged an extra few goals last week.

In any case, while I'm not thrilled with Moro's contribution, I'm more concerned that Rafa keeps playing Moro and Crouch together. Two second strikers with no finisher isn't exactly a recipe for success. Possible that it's a variation of Rafa's ideas about bringing the midfield into the attack -- *two* men up front whose job is to orchestrate and distribute to a midfield-based attack? That's... Different. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I'd rather have at least one striker out of two who's a bit good at sticking the thing in the back of the net.

I really do think Morientes is running out of time though. He's had that one goal that's supposed to open the floodgates three or four times now, hasn't he? Over the two seasons, that is. And they've never opened. He seemed to be getting into better positions with Fowler as a partner, but that probably has something to do with Fowler actually running off the ball to create space, which neither Cisse nor Crouch do much of. If they continue together, and those chances keep cropping up, he'll have to get his scoring boots on before the end of the season I reckon, if he wants to be wearing the shirt come september.

Hmmmmm......

Well, if anyone would know about a couple of bum-boys in the northeast, it'd be D*nk and his pals yeah?

"fit lads" and all. O_o

Well, it sometimes seems there's nothing but Blues around town... Breed like fucking rabbits they do, can't back your car up without running over a small family of them. Only thing I object to is him saying he actually likes the bitter cunts!

Anyone know who was booing Cisse's touches around 80 minutes, and why?

93:10 of a match with three minutes of stoppage time announced, leading 1-0 and having just been awarded a corner... Commentator's stunning pearl of wisdom: "I think Liverpool are reasonably confident of winning here now."

Who the fuck hires these people? I want his job.

I wouldnt bother - she was shite.

Won that one last year, did yer? ;) Damn recycled prizes.

Quite some time back, I suggested sticking this into the Sloop John B "Five Times" tune:

We made John Terry cry,

We made John Terry cryy-yy-yyy,

Last year in May,

We made John Terry cry

Wasn't actually serious about singing it at the game like, just more of a forum piss-take. Is that what our lot were singing yesterday?

me, personally, i find rafa to be an idiot, or atleast very confused. He bought players in january we needed last season, he bought people at the back, where obviously everything is fine at the moment.

Come on, mate... Everything at the back is quite patently not fine. We had NO cover whatsoever at centre-back, if either of Sami or Carra had been injured or sent off we'd have been right up the creek. A central defender was essential shopping, no question. Swapping Josemi out for (on reputation, at least) a superior player was excellent business as Josemi was a liability every time he came onto the pitch, and we had no other option there when Finnan was out.

Yes, a winger is a priority, and beyond that sorting our attacking options (players out and players in) but as far as I'm concerned when shopping for players the back gets priority, and you buy further up the pitch once you're comfortable with your defensive options. If we could only pay for one player this window, anything except a centre-back would have been fool's business. Can you honestly say you'd have been happy to have Simao at the club right now, and no cover for the centre of defense for the rest of this long, punishing season we're in the middle of?

Sometimes I find Rafa's team selections and tactics a bit mystifying, based on my (fairly limited) experience and understanding of football... But you can't criticise the way *he* has operated in the transfer market. Maybe the suits in charge of the pound-signs, if you want to argue that way, but Rafa and his priorities have been spot on.

However, defo agree that someone needs to teach Crouch how to head a ball. Last night, I taught my 12-year-old nephew the basic technique in about three minutes, and he wasn't bad at it. For fuck sakes, we've got a 6'7" monster who hasn't a clue how to attack a ball in the air. Talk about a waste.

Does anyone else think the female co-author's surname is funny or is it just me? Sounds like a surname from a Carry On film.

Especially considering the fella's name is Moyes. This article a joint production of a tit and a cunt. ;-)

:D A translation is "I am afraid I am going to disappoint you"

 

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Rofl! Feck, I've got to watch my alcohol intake... :D

Hilarious, mate. Cheers. 8)

You`re a real romantic you... ;)

Well, Cain's has this curious effect on me vocabulary like... ;)

Would not surprise me if Cisse started on the right wing tonight with Gerrard in the middle. Fowler coming on around the 75min mark for Crouch.

I'd rather get a look at a Crouch-Fowler partnership sometime during tonight's match, for twenty minutes or so... But you're probably right on the sub prediction. The smart thing to do would be Cisse in a wider role, but I don't expect it myself.

I was saying the exact same thing to my bird only last night...

Or this one:

http://www.skysportsdvdshop.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=275&osCsid=e1a09c968cf3d7cdc7d27dbc23ff567e

I guess when you've got fuck all else to cheer about...

I like how their 'more recent successes' go back to 1978.

Last summer when he left, Bluekipper had this to say:

"Stubbs signed a one year contract with Sunderland. Not a two contract he was after with Everton. Very strange. If it's not the money, it must be the attraction of fighting a relegation battle."

There it is -- he realized there was an even better relegation battle going on back at Goodison, and couldn't resist coming back.

He's [Walcott] a constant thread

Yer, he is, on every bloody Liverpool forum out there. :D

Reckon he should wait until his seventeenth and fuck off our way for a half a million at the tribunal. Rupert Lowe is due a good transfer shafting by us, isn't he? And paying an eight-figure transfer fee for a sixteen-year-old is absolute nonsense.

While I don't rate the show-pony at all, I don't like the thought of anyone with great pace running at Sami.

Of course, he probably won't run *at* him. He'll just do a little side-to-side soft-shoe shuffle, thirteen step-overs, 27 keepy-ups on the inside of his left thigh, then have a fit and take a flying two-footed leap at the nearest body... Hopefully the referee.

:whistle:

Related note, the "tackle" he got sent off for on Saturday was easily one of the funniest things I've seen all season. If you thought an effeminate two-footed lunge wasn't possible, how wrong you were!

No charge? Bloody hell, what does it take...

As a preventive measure, the FA should require both of those twats to pop a Ritalin an hour before every match.

I always enjoy Alan Green's commentary, even when he's slagged us off. He brings a bit of colour and opinion to things, as opposed to the boring dross served up on telly. And he does it well, right clever twat at times. I remember... I think it was an early League Cup tie in 2000, when we went on to win it as the first of three, we had Fulham at Anfield in October or November sometime. It was pissing rain and freezing, and only 30,000 or so had turned up for the match. I was stuck in Essex (don't ask) that week, and so had to listen to it on the radio. It was an awful, awful match, and Green went on and on for most of the match slagging off both teams AND fans, and was fecking hilarious entertainment for the full ninety minutes. Can still remember some of the things he said. "Don't get me wrong, we do enjoy our jobs, and think we're quite privileged to get paid to travel around the country and watch football every week, but there are nights and matches like this when you start to seriously question your career choice." When Super Dan came on in the second half, "At least now with Danny Murphy on the pitch, there is one player who actually looks like he's interested in playing football, which is a relief because I was starting to think Liverpool and Fulham had given up on football and taken up lawn bowls."

I've loads of respect for that man. An interested, entertaining and *honest* voice talking about football in the media -- not many of those left. Glad he's around, and "Big Sam" can shove his ugly face up something. Childish twat.

ps, hiya lads -- I'm giving up "KopTalk" and coming in here instead. It got my back up over there, so I'll be bothering you lot now.