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

No8Bally · September 12, 2015

This one REALLY made my sides ache when I read the final line...

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Re: United 3-1 Liverpool FT
« Reply #380 on: Today at 07:41:31 PM »
Quote from: TheShanklyGates on Today at 07:23:06 PM
Totally and utterly depressing. I can't even get properly angry any more because that sort of performance has become so commonplace.

We have fallen so, so far and we won't be back any time soon. I just don't what the answer is from here. We could sack the manager but then what? We could give him even more money to waste but what's the point? Maybe this is simply who were are now and I'll have to learn to live with that.

Pretty much this. Abject performance. Sad to say I've lost faith in Rodgers. Maybe it's going to be his Ferguson moment where a lucky cup win keeps him here and he goes on to greatness although right now it's impossible to see it. We have no recognisable identity in our play and our possession and passing game is almost non existent. Pathetic to start like that against a United team without a recognised forward. Don't feel angry just apathy which isn't great. Obviously Sturridge, Coutinho and Henderson would help but not if we can't defend or pass.

Only 5 games in and the predictability of a monied club (City or Chelsea) being champions and our struggle for 4th seems pretty much set.

Lids1978 · September 12, 2015

Kenny Cunningham (Irish Legend) was lol at their ZONAL marking on Setanta MOTD. He's completely CORRECT

Bluerover · September 12, 2015

Have the SoS planned their next march yet???

Eggs · September 12, 2015

.....fume.

Debaser · September 12, 2015

Anyone have a link to that Stevie G speech at the end of the City game - for some reason I just feel like watching it right now lol

Minimeister · September 12, 2015

Bluerover said:
Have the SoS planned their next march yet???

No mate they're too busy singing Munich songs while fuming about being victims of this and that.

Lids1978 · September 12, 2015

Andre Wisdom is World Class. Why is he on loan at Norwich lar?

Bluerover · September 12, 2015

RS next fixtures are really frightening the loveable best supporters in the weeeerld...

One on the 4th October looks interesting !!!

Jags..class · September 12, 2015

So what type of manager will Gerrard be?

A cross between Rafael tactical mind and Brendon man management

Gerrard own words
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...el-exception-Steven-Gerrard-time-Benitez.html

To be honest Brendon man management is poor.

Deleted member 28206 · September 13, 2015

summerisle · September 13, 2015

Minimeister said:
No mate they're too busy singing Munich songs while fuming about being victims of this and that.

Don't forget the other - there is always the other.

summerisle · September 13, 2015

Brenda's walks are getting increasing lonely :

What is it with Brendan Rodgers? Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of football can see that isolating Christian Benteke up-front is a recipe for disaster, yet despite failing last season with exactly the same tactic, Rodgers continues to employ a tactic that yields negligible results for the club. Inexplicable decisions like this are sabotaging Liverpool's forward progress, and ex-Red David Thompson is as stunned as everyone else by Rodgers' apparent inability to see the obvious.

Reacting to Liverpool's atrocious performance against Manchester United, David Thompson scathed:

"I can't believe Rodgers used Benteke in the same way [as] Lambert. Unreal naivety to think he would get more out of him leaving him isolated!"

It's not only Lambert and Benteke [combined Cost: 37m] who've fallen foul of Rodgers tactical ineptitude; Mario Balotelli also failed to prosper as a lone striker, and along with Lambert, he suffered an incredible80% reduction in creative output under the Northern Irishman's toxic tutelage.

We've been here before, though. Last season, it was astoundingly obvious from very early that Balotelli wouldn't work as a lone striker, but just like now, Rodgers ignored everyone and persisted tactic that arguably derailed Liverpool's entire season.

Balotelli himself even made a public plea to Rodgers to stop playing him out of position, but this was summarily ignored. Now, history is repeating itself, and as a direct result of Rodgers' pigheaded refusal to change things, Liverpool are utterly toothless in attack this season.

In the first half of today's game, Liverpool delivered an utterly shambolic, directionless, and amateur performance, and Benteke's isolation up-front exacerbated the team's overall ineffectiveness.

Prior to kick-off, everything seemed so promising: Rodgers finally decided to play two strikers, and many believed that he'd do the obvious and employ a 442 diamond, with Ings providing support alongside Benteke.

As per usual, though, Rodgers subjugated the team's attacking instinct and decided to play Ings as (ostensibly) a left wing-back, something I suggested might happen prior to the game (though deep down, even I didn't think Rodgers would be stupid enough to actually go through with it).

In my view, this is totally unacceptable. Rodgers' job is to utilise the club's playing assets in a way the maximises the team's possibility of winning games. He is not doing that, and today's game proved that yet again.

As I've argued several times this season, Rodgers is obsessed with forcing his attacking players to prioritise defending/pressing etc over fulfilling their primary role (i.e. scoring/creating goals), and this is having a manifestly negative impact on the team's creativity.

Nothing is going to change, and expecting Rodgers to magically turn things around is as futile as expecting him to see the folly in playing Benteke as a lone-striker.

As such, as noted over the summer, I remain in favour of managerial change at Anfield.

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