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Rotpeter

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  1. Back to 352, even though I'm not a fan of it. With the hodge podge we've got that will provide a platform for fixing most of our problems. ------------------------Ming -------Skrtel / Toure Sakho Agger --Johnson---------------------Cissohko -----------Lucas Allen ------------Coutinho ------------Gerrard -------------Suarez You're compensating for Sturridge being out. You're providing enough cover for Cissohko, so he can focus on the far superior attacking side of his game. Gerrard is close to goal and in a role that means he has a lighter workload, and hence more energy for those decisive bursts. You don't have to watch johnson punting from deep up to a lone striker. One of the CBs can safely step into midfield if things get sticky there. And Lucas, Allen and Coutinho are smart enough to compensate for sacrificing Henderson's energy. Coach it well enough so that it doesn't turn into a 532 as soon as we face any pressure and we might just start realizing the potential of the players we have.
  2. I'm a charitable type too. Just ask any of the homeless single mothers around here. I donate something like 60 bucks and 3-4 fluid ounces a month. I try to avoid all forms of publicity too. Yay for me!
  3. Rodgers has been able to bring in 100m worth of players. There's very few managers that would turn up their nose at that.
  4. I fancy Freud rather than Debbie Harry. Errrm...
  5. It's the end that is nigh. The time is usually right.
  6. Sacchi used to make the same distinction between great footballers (Messi) and great players (Ronaldo).
  7. Click here for more reviews by Angry Of Tuebrook Animal Farm. 'The pigs talk for fucks sake.' The Castle. 'Some dumb fuck, pretentiously called only K, walks around forever trying to get in a castle. Pointless.' Lolita. 'An old guy, (Humbert Humbert, oh pur-lease), tries a bit of the old Ian Watkins on some sweeter than sugar kid.'
  8. Someone needs to post the Flanno tackle from the reserves game that silverlining would unleash at times like this. I keep forgetting to bookmark it. Edit: Found it.
  9. Yeah, it's an indication that we were too stupid to setup a loan deal that would actually aid their development.
  10. Interesting, seems we've been dicking around with it for a while.
  11. That would be ironic, given that we hired and then fired the southampton academy guy years ago.
  12. And rather than try and address the hard problem, i.e. 18-21, we mess around with stuff that is better developed but easier to dick around with.
  13. Right, but the focus is on the academy. The academy's role is not to produce first team players. It's to produce players who are ready to make the step up to reserve team football. Their focus is primarily skill and technique. Hardening, physically and mentally and teaching those the application of the skills in a properly competitive context is the responsibility of the people who manage the players from 18 upwards. That's not Borrell, it's not Macparland. Segura created an end to end plan which covered every training session from when a kid joins all the way through to leaving the academy. What do the people who manage 18-21 have? Some random loans to other people's benches.
  14. The problem with bringing players through is from ages 18 to 21. We have no strategy for stretching players to their full potential during those ages. Benitez pointed it our years ago and we've talked and talked and done the square root of fuck all apart from arrange some shit loans to lower league team benches. The academy is up to 18yrs old, so that particular problem isn't there. It's from the reserves onwards and that is under Rodgers' control. Tom Ince showed how you maximize your development post academy. Leave Liverpool.
  15. Abandoned at exactly the point that the CB that could actually make the system work comes back into the team. I've been waiting years to see Agger in a real 352.
  16. That's not a problem with stats. It's a problem with lackwits who use but don't understand stats.
  17. Stats don't suggest things code. They just are. You suggest things while ignoring other more compelling correlations like: the opposition, the random defensive setup chosen for this week, whether Gerrard decides to try and clear near post corners, the tactical approach of the opposition, etc.
  18. All our midfielder are excellent when the opposition sits back and doesn't contest the midfield.
  19. Yesterdays result had nothing to do with agger. We would have kept a clean sheet any combo. Do this again but for when the opposition stand-off our midfield vs. when they contest the midfield.
  20. Am glad Jol decided to play Gerrard in the final 3rd.
  21. Ponderos and Hangerarounden against the mobility of Suarez, Sturridge and Coutinho. Game Over.
  22. The pub guide thing has been done. They failed but wrote a really good case study on everything they did wrong. I can't remember the details, but if you decide to pursue, let me know and I'll see if I can dig it out.
  23. Not really. They've just pointed out what RedRazor has already. RedRazor and TLW on the leading edge of investigative journalism! Kudos.
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