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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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I guess they were in Dubai celebrating their second half draw against Stoke...





Class and dignity as usual
 
Stevie Me's 'Open Letter' to the Kopites:


"When I was a kid, kicking a ball around in Ironside Road in Huyton, all I ever wanted to do was play for Liverpool. I dreamed of pulling that shirt on just once."

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http://interactive.liverpoolecho.co.uk/openletter/index.html
 
blue4eva77 said:
The pundits weren't too far wrong after all. Amazingly there was one red who has his head actually screwed on and wrote this below. At the time he got a roasting for the post. Its quite scary how pin point accurate he was. Also posted August 2014.... Its a long post but have a read.

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I've said it before and I got pilloried for it, but I'll say it again.

This is going to be a car crash of a season.

Even had we not sold Suarez, I expected us to suffer a severe hangover from last season. I wrote in May that most teams similar to us (teams that punched above their weight and unexpectedly challenged for a league title but ended up failing), generally suffered from a hangover the season after. [Poor language removed] hell, I'm nowhere near over not winning it last year. I don't have a clue how we can expect the players to be.

I just don't see, psychologically, how we can "go again". After such highs, can the players go through the mundane few weeks of the season without feeling a major difference? Take the opening game at Anfield vs Southampton. There'll be no welcoming parade. It's back to normality for everyone. Can they accept that without there being an impact?

We have a horrible start to the season, fixtures wise. 2 away trips to City and Spurs is the last thing this team needs so early on. If we have a bad start, I feel there will be a horrible sense of deflation within the fanbase and the squad- from the captain and everyone else. I feel they'll start feeling sorry for themselves over what happened in May, over losing Suarez and it will take a lot of time for us to recover. Losing Suarez is an absolute nightmare for us. I strongly feel it will have hurt every single one of those players in the squad. A minority on here try to downplay Suarez's importance to us, but I'm sure the players know just how much he brought to the team. You do not lose a player like that and move forwards or sideways (unless you're a team that is used to winning trophies on a yearly basis). Suarez's contribution was not just about goals and assists: it was about fight, sacrifice, dedication and leadership.

I mean, look at this Coutinho interview:

Coutinho was asked what he felt when he was excluded from the Brazil World Cup squad: “Anger. Not because I’m selfish, but because I could have offered something.

I’m going to use this anger and push myself to my limits. I saw how Luisito (Suárez) was a maniac in training. At this point, my body and mind feel like clay. I will mold it the way I envision, and I will use my fire to make them harder.”

It's simple psychology. How much did a thumbs up from Luis push Raheem Sterling on? How much was Suarez's acceptance important for someone like Jordan Henderson? How much did Suarez's name on the team-sheet petrify opposing defenses, before a ball was even kicked? Add that to a host of new players we need to bed in, Champions League football for the first time in 5 years (And the first time in Rodgers' career), and a horrific pre season where we lost key players to injuries, failed to bed in our 3 most expensive signings and missed out on our seemingly only 2 attacking replacements for Suarez (For different reasons), and it doesn't look good at all for us.

Not convinced by our signings at all too. Lovren has had 5 good months in the last 3 seasons (he was basically chased out of Lyon and was poor in the 2nd half of last season). Lambert is passable as a 3rd striker, but is nowhere near suitable for our style of play. We're a Sturridge nigggle away from having him lead the line at the Etihad and White Hart Lane, which would be horrific. Markovic and Can are exciting talents, but we surely can't expect too much from them in their first season at such young ages. Lallana will have missed all of pre season, have had no friendly games to adapt to the team and will be thrust in with a big price tag on his head. Far from ideal.

This term, we'll have the season we all expected us to have last year. We'll challenge for 4th but end up missing out. I'm fine with that, but I suspect the narrative will be that it was a failure and the fact is, that would mean that we went backwards. A bad start, and there will be a huge cloud around Anfield that won't be lifted for a while. I predict 6th. No doubt that many will call me a moaning and negative [Poor language removed] but that's what I expect. Hopefully we'll get a cup run to set the pulses racing, but I foresee a season of transition for us.
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Jesus, that is an impressive level of foresight. Lads like that don't last on RAWK though, I'm sure he got the hammer soon after that post.
 
Prevenger17 said:
Jesus, that is an impressive level of foresight. Lads like that don't last on RAWK though, I'm sure he got the hammer soon after that post.
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He has a deep understanding of RAWK it seems, too.

Take no satisfaction at being right. Hate that when someone says something against the grain on here, they get pilloried and laughed at as I was on this thread and others before the season started.

It's one of the main reasons why I don't post on this section of the forum anymore. Been going on for as long as I remember and I'm quite frankly bored of it and I've gotten myself banned a couple of times for nothing comments when people have called me all manner of names and not gotten a ban.

Some posters cutting and pasting other people's posts and claiming them as their own too... Get a life, Jesus Christ.

Hope Brendan will come out of all this laughing.
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Gotta a lot of time for getting over a disappointing season by having a big fat stripe and a bottle of wine each.

A lot of time.
 

davek said:
"The highs have been all the sweeter because they have been achieved with my boyhood club."

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I wouldnt mind if he actually said something like:

Although everybody knows who my boyhood team was, Liverpool has and always will be a huge part of my life, people know what this club means to me etc etc

He wouldnt sound as big of a Cheese Helmet as he actually is. Then again thats like saying Hitler wouldnt of been as bad as he was if he never has a sh*t mustache. All irellevant now i suppose. (In stevie Me's case i meant)
 

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