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Waltraute said:
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I suspected our cock up against Real Madrid/you lot beating Tottenham would deliver some comedy gold, but never this spectacular and so soon.
And from one of our own.
RAWK are losing their edge.

It certaily doesn't take much. Almost impressive, actually.
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It's a case of fighting fire with fire mate. Someone responds to my post like a prick, I'll reply likewise. Respond like a mature adult, then I'm more than happy to open up a sensible debate - United might have been top dogs for a long time, but you've still got open wounds I can poke from time to time.
 
retardman5 said:
It's a case of fighting fire with fire mate. Someone responds to my post like a prick, I'll reply likewise. Respond like a mature adult, then I'm more than happy to open up a sensible debate - United might have been top dogs for a long time, but you've still got open wounds I can poke from time to time.
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I know, redman.
Just responding in kind too.
 
retardman5 said:
6 wins, 2 draws, & 2 defeats in the last 10 PL games. 4 of those games were away to United, City, & Arsenal, & a home game to Spurs.

20 points is one less than Tottenham have managed during the same period.

We're in pretty good form whichever way you look at it. Remains to be seen if we can continue it, or improve on it come next season.
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Exactly. Once you've dropped out of contention to do anything, you pour it on.
 
retardman5 said:
We'd also use it to change the angle of attack. If one side of the pitch was well protected by the opposition, you'd often see our keeper race across to the other side of the penalty area & throw the ball out to the other full-back to start a move on the opposite side of the field. It actually took years for other managers to suss something out that we could see week in & week out.
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That was brilliant. Liverpool football club should have won Nobel prize for that.
 
AlwaysRedwood said:
Exactly. Once you've dropped out of contention to do anything, you pour it on.
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Nothing to do with the new signings of course, or Lucas getting back to full fitness in the middle of the park. How do you explain our good form in 2009 when we were chasing United for the title ? Lots of pressure then. How do you explain last season when we only picked up 19 points in the 2nd half of the season ?

This 'Liverpool only play well when the pressure is off' stuff is lazy conjecture which becomes a bandwagon for people on here to jump on when we put a few good results together. It's possible it may all just fizzle out as it has done in the past. Or it's possible our young manager might just know what he's doing, & the recent results might be reflecting this.
 
retardman5 said:
Nothing to do with the new signings of course, or Lucas getting back to full fitness in the middle of the park. How do you explain our good form in 2009 when we were chasing United for the title ? Lots of pressure then. How do you explain last season when we only picked up 19 points in the 2nd half of the season ?

This 'Liverpool only play well when the pressure is off' stuff is lazy conjecture which becomes a bandwagon for people on here to jump on when we put a few good results together. It's possible it may all just fizzle out as it has done in the past. Or it's possible our young manager might just know what he's doing, & the recent results might be reflecting this.
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That was four years ago. In the seasons since you lot havent done well under pressure. Season 2010-11 you went on a good run but in the end you lost against Spurs when you got back into contention for Europa league. Last year in the league you did ok until the new year. Then when you needed to beat Arsenal to keep your CL hopes alive you got beaten.
 
thegregster said:
That was four years ago. In the seasons since you lot havent done well under pressure. Season 2010-11 you went on a good run but in the end you lost against Spurs when you got back into contention for Europa league. Last year in the league you did ok until the new year. Then when you needed to beat Arsenal to keep your CL hopes alive you got beaten.
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We were hardly in sparkling form prior to the Arsenal match last year. Just 13 points from a possible 30 going into the game. So to suggest that we 'bottled it' is completely untrue, as it was pretty much in keeping with our current form at the time. The Arsenal match was played a week after we'd just won The League Cup. Our poor league form in the 2nd part of that season had a lot to do with the players, & manager to a certain degree, saving their best for the cup competitions, because we also reached The FA Cup final that season. 2011 was the year we actually got back into contention for Champions League never mind the Europa League. Considering how we floundered under Hodgson, it was a miracle we ever got to a point where there was a possibility of CL football. You might have had a argument if we'd started the season well & faded at the end. But it's a bit silly, not to say ridiculous, to believe that after such an horrendous start, we should have done better in achieving something that was considered to be an impossible task just a few months earlier.
 
The worst thing Liverpool did in recent years was throw the game against Chelsea in 2010 to stop United winning the league, when winning the game would have kept their CL hopes alive.

Nice bit of karma that their club has been in a spiral of irrelevance since, when CL football might well have kept them at the top table.
 
retardman5 said:
Nothing to do with the new signings of course, or Lucas getting back to full fitness in the middle of the park. How do you explain our good form in 2009 when we were chasing United for the title ? Lots of pressure then. How do you explain last season when we only picked up 19 points in the 2nd half of the season ?
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2009 is a great example.

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There you are, never quite doing it.

Anytime you really had to step up and take it, you didn't. When it mattered, nothing.

And as I recall, that the last two or three months it was all a mirage, as United often had two games in hand.

Since, you've learned how to not do it even better. And there you are, still not doing it and getting excited at in March all over again.
 
Kraftwerker said:
The worst thing Liverpool did in recent years was throw the game against Chelsea in 2010 to stop United winning the league, when winning the game would have kept their CL hopes alive.

Nice bit of karma that their club has been in a spiral of irrelevance since, when CL football might well have kept them at the top table.
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Throw the game? Or just beaten by a better team going for the title.

Didn't Chelsea beat United home and away that year? If so then surely that had an effect on who won the league, you couldn't beat them but you expect others to.
 
AlwaysRedwood said:
2009 is a great example.

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There you are, never quite doing it.

Anytime you really had to step up and take it, you didn't. When it mattered, nothing.

And as I recall, that the last two or three months it was all a mirage, as United often had two games in hand.

Since, you've learned how to not do it even better. And there you are, still not doing it and getting excited at in March all over again.
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You've gone to quite a bit of trouble to prove a point that isn't there to prove. What exactly does your graph tell us ? It shows that we led the table up until late Jan/early Feb. Had a few bad results which allowed United to grab the lead. We then won 10, & drew 1, of our last 11 games. This resulted in us hitting the highest ever points total for a runner-up at the time. United won the title with one of the highest points totals for the winners. It's not like we blew away a huge lead is it ? If you want to do one of your snazzy little graphs highlighting something like that, then just go back to last season when your own team choked away a significant lead. Or go back to the time when you were a zillion points clear of Arsenal but still somehow failed to win the title.
 
johnny boy said:
Throw the game? Or just beaten by a better team going for the title.

Didn't Chelsea beat United home and away that year? If so then surely that had an effect on who won the league, you couldn't beat them but you expect others to.
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3 days prior to the Chelsea game we played Athletico Madrid in the Europa League 2nd leg. The match went into extra-time, & at one point we were 2-0 up & heading for the final. That was until Diego Forlan scored & made us cry. As you can imagine there was lots of laughter & merriment on here. Of course, what they didn't comprehend at the time was the negative effect it was going to have on the players, & the supporters. Everyone was physically & mentally drained.

So what was that about karma ?
 
retardman5 said:
3 days prior to the Chelsea game we played Athletico Madrid in the Europa League 2nd leg. The match went into extra-time, & at one point we were 2-0 up & heading for the final. That was until Diego Forlan scored & made us cry. As you can imagine there was lots of laughter & merriment on here. Of course, what they didn't comprehend at the time was the negative effect it was going to have on the players, & the supporters. Everyone was physically & mentally drained.

So what was that about karma ?
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That's right they beat us on away goal rule.

To be honest when we hear about the "Gerrard back pass" and more, if they lose home and away to the team in question you can't expect favours from elsewhere.
 
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/197479.html

"I did not fail at Liverpool," Sahin said. "Brendan Rodgers wanted me to play as a '10'. But I do not play behind the forwards. I spoke with him and asked him why I was playing there. It is not my real position.

"The boss could not answer me... Still, I am not sorry about it. To play in the red jersey and be in Anfield is something marvellous. Maybe if I had not gone there I would not have been able to return to Borussia Dortmund. For that, I am happy. But I have left Brendan Rodgers, thanks be to God."
 
oh well didn't work out for him, so let's have a go at the previous club.
Nice to see it's working out so well for him at Dortmund, played 1 full game in 7 and the other 6 came on late in the game.

Suggest he is finding it hard to settle, no doubt will be shipped on somewhere else and have a pop at Dortmund when he leaves.

84min sub - 77min sub - Full Game -89min sub - 82min sub - 81min sub - 82min sub
 
Joe Cole, over-weight and over-smoked footballing genius was 'misunderstood' by Brendan.

Nuri Sahin, over-injured and over-rated footballing genius who occupied our bench and now is permanently splintered on Dortmund's also 'misunderstood' by Brendan.

Next week, Luis Suarez....oh hold on. Maybe not.
 
Doesn't sound like he's bitter with the compliments to Liverpool. Just sounds like he thinks Rodgers is a fecking idiot which is a sentiment I'm sure most of us share.
 
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