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Im bored. As a result im watching the Charlton v Brentford game. The 'pundits' were raving about this young lad from Charlton before the game - and having witnessed the first half hour, he looks ace. Granted its League 1 football but he's only 17 and looks streets above anything else on show here. He's strong, quick, bags of energy, passes brilliantly and strike's a mean dead ball. Wonder how long before he goes to Villa

Could this be the answer to our woes? Handled big stars at Real Madrid with a 75% win record,ran all the top Spanish teams close with a small club with Villareal,and he's available. Ticks a few of NESV's boxes too.

After that insipid rubbish today there is only one man I want to take us on for the rest of this season. An outsider will take too long to settle and now we're in a, can't believe I'm saying this, but a relegation fight. Kenny understands what needs to be done, he's been around the club for a few years now in his capacity as club ambassador so whould have good idea of players to go and keep. Please Henry, you might not understand the game completely but surely you can see that old fool Hodgson doesn't either!

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson says club will have to deal with protest against George Gillett and Tom Hicks - News - MirrorFootball.co.uk Hodgson: Reds will deal with planned protest A sit-in protest planned by Liverpool fans unhappy with owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett is just something else for the club to deal with, according to manager Roy Hodgson. With the Americans' loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland due for refinancing or repayment next month and no sign of an imminent sale supporters are stepping up their campaign to oust the unpopular pair. The latest plan is to get the crowd at tomorrow's game against Sunderland to remain behind to demonstrate peacefully after the final whistle "I, like anyone at Liverpool Football Club, would be very happy if the ownership situation got clarified, and in particular if we got a very good owner that can help us move forward," said Hodgson. Quantcast "It (the protest) doesn't help but is something I've had to live with since I came to the club. "It is a major issue for a group of people who are very much anti the owners and the current people who are trying to solve the situation. "It is often the case that when things are conspiring against you there is always an extra thing to come in and make it that little bit worse. "It tests our mettle, our desire and strength. I am very confident the strength of this club, the strength of the playing staff and the people around me is more than enough for the club to come through this period. "But while you are in that period it is unpleasant." A statement from the Liverpool Supporters' Union and Spirit of Shankly group said: "We have given time to those in charge and listened to more empty promises. "Now we are demanding results, and action will continue for as long as the situation remains unacceptable to us as fans of Liverpool Football Club"

Rafa you seriously need to spend a game up in the stands with some of us and see what we are seeing, as you clearly are not! Why not come to the next home game and sit between me and ATK (if Alan would agree to it) and we could sort out plan B for you....and maybe even plan C because its blatantly obvious that you dont have one! Someone needs a word with you urgently. Looks like you consult no-one about substitutes or timing of substitutes. Last week I posted this thread, Rafa, You are boring us to death! - The Liverpool Way And I still mean it. Your obstinance (and/or EGO) is mind blowing and is destroying our chances of winning number 19. PS This is not a knee jerk reaction, its been boiling in me for weeks.

BBC Sport - Football - Roy Hodgson insists Liverpool will overcome problems Click on the video thingy button and see how Roy gets a bit frustrated with journalists questions on his approach. Interesting that they are already focussing on this as a stick to beat him with...

5 points from 5 games, out of the carling cup to a 4th division side, terrible negative football, no substitutions till its too late, a cockney who didnt really have any attachment to club whatsoever before he took the job on the basis of being a nodding dog for the board. i really do hope things change and roy turns things round, but he really is starting to stink of a manager who is completely out of his depth and doesnt really know how to change things. if we are still in this mess come christmas, i for one will be hoping that the club start to think about other options! dark times. :(

just looking at some of the post-match comments and they really do emphasise exactly what we are lacking i.e. passion, energy, belief Whiskeynose came out with his usual one-eyed garbage saying it could have been 10, saying it's a catastrophe for our title chances, saying Torres was trying to get O' Shea sent off (nothing to do with his tackle then taggart you sad bitter old drunk) and that basically the linesman got us back in the game and at 2-2 the result was a travesty....basically he came out with all the spiel you'd expect from a drunk embittered repressed sexually frustrated chronically undereducated and incestuously one-eyed manc fan, usually you'd expect slightly more dignity and magnamity from a manager but that's taggart for you and that's why he's universally hated outside of their place.....but even though he is an angry pile of shoite, he is successful, he stands up for his club and he bends over for nobody compare his post-match reaction to his old buddy roys Roy is nice and articulate and erudite and loved by the media because he uses big words, is polite and gives long "thoughtful" answers, he is a reasonable, civilised and dignified man.......oh and he hasn't won an away game this milennium, we have 5 points from 5 games and have had less efforts on goal than my castrated pooch has had wet dreams Roy after the game said he was happy with our comeback, that we almost saw the game out, that the performance was an improvement on the last few games (no it wasn't, it was the same sterile muck, I was no fan of Rafa but he averaged about 15-20 goal attempts a game, Roy is aiming for about a quarter of that average and failing), we were unlucky, conceding late is tough, "we can take a lot of credit for the way we went about our business", oh and he said maybe Sir Alex (as he calls him) is right that is it catastophic in terms of comparing ourselves with Chelsea but his focus in on trying to get into Champions League, he also said despite people on the Liverpool bench jumping around saying O' Shea should have got red, he thought it would be "churlish" to demand red cards for "petty" offenses and to finish up Roy said "I thought United played well but to undermine our performance is a little bit harsh. I really am staggered by Roys comments, he just is not a Liverpool manager, simple as that. I am sure he is having a nice glass of shiraz with his friend Sir Alex now and recommending him a new paperbook maybe. The guy is a decent coach for a side with midtable aspirations, he'll organise a team, make it hard to beat BUT IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO WIN SOMETHING, you need to display some attacking quality, any kind of offensive plan would be good. For God's sake the guy failed to buy a back-up striker for Torres as we desperately whored ourselves out to various agents of unproven strikers on the last day of deadline day leaving them no time to get a replacement. The ownership issue is the big battle and I know we are just 5 games into the new season but there is no doubt in my mind, Roy is not a Liverpool manager. He is too soft, too nice and too easily bullied by the likes of whiskeynose. He doesn't have enough passion or fight in my opinion but at least he is articulate and respected and well-liked (it's easy to be popular when your rivals beat you and you just take it and smile, oh well, next time eh Roy, jolly good, splendid blah blah blah). Rafa at least got under the skin of the bullies like Taggart, Allardyce and Mourinho, under Roy on and off the pitch we are just devoid of any kind of passion.......it's time to get nasty, in terms of protests against the owners off the pitch and in terms of our manager and players giving every last drop of blood, sweat and tears to fight back against this dying of the light, not sit there like Roy, smiling patiently at the press, saying "we can take a lot of credit for the way we went about our business". Liverpool used to be about maintaining a dignified silence, only speaking when you had something to say. Roy strikes me as just another spoofer, spinning his spin, deluding the masses. Just like Hicks and Gillette and then Broughton and Purslow, now Roy too is spinning and spoofing to us all, treating us like idiots, saying nice things as our clubs downward spiral continues. The performance today was garbage, admit that and do something about it because the last thing the club needs is another propoganda merchant, another spoofer. Fight back!

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