RAWK
You were doing an excellent job detailing the mess that the team has become in your post, until you reached the final part when you incomprehensibly exonerated Dalglish from almost all the blame.
Do you not see that virtually ALL the malaise and problems that you so competently explained, are caused by completely wrong-headed team set up and strategising, poor decision making, catastrophic player selection, and weak leadership and management that allowed Gerrard and Carragher to have their way at the expense of the team's performance? Just to focus on the last point, Gerrard only achieved his potential because Benitez was strong enough to tell him where to play - in the hole whre he did not want to be and where he still for some unknown reason does not want to be in preference to that central midfield role where he fancies himself to be great. Carragher got his contract renewal under Purslow but Benitez would never have given him such a generous renewal - probably the same kind of year by year extensions that Ferguson meted out even to his favourites Scholes and Giggs, despite both of them being far more talented and better players as MFs than Carragher will ever be as a defender.
Since Dalglish is the manager of the club, he bears the LION'S SHARE OF THE BLAME for either causing or allowing all these problems to occur. It is in fact the entire management team - which includes Dalglish as the most important member thereof - which is the problem.
And I cannot even understand how you can blame the owners - they have done no missteps other than not supporting Dalglish better int he Suarez debacle.
I agree with you that Dalglish should be fairly given one more season, but it makes the situation worse and more confusing for us to allow sentiment and loyalty to blind ourselves to the truth that is as clear as day - that Dalglish, Clarke and COmolli have done more than anyone else to royally muck this season up.
Expect him to be gone soon
You were doing an excellent job detailing the mess that the team has become in your post, until you reached the final part when you incomprehensibly exonerated Dalglish from almost all the blame.
Do you not see that virtually ALL the malaise and problems that you so competently explained, are caused by completely wrong-headed team set up and strategising, poor decision making, catastrophic player selection, and weak leadership and management that allowed Gerrard and Carragher to have their way at the expense of the team's performance? Just to focus on the last point, Gerrard only achieved his potential because Benitez was strong enough to tell him where to play - in the hole whre he did not want to be and where he still for some unknown reason does not want to be in preference to that central midfield role where he fancies himself to be great. Carragher got his contract renewal under Purslow but Benitez would never have given him such a generous renewal - probably the same kind of year by year extensions that Ferguson meted out even to his favourites Scholes and Giggs, despite both of them being far more talented and better players as MFs than Carragher will ever be as a defender.
Since Dalglish is the manager of the club, he bears the LION'S SHARE OF THE BLAME for either causing or allowing all these problems to occur. It is in fact the entire management team - which includes Dalglish as the most important member thereof - which is the problem.
And I cannot even understand how you can blame the owners - they have done no missteps other than not supporting Dalglish better int he Suarez debacle.
I agree with you that Dalglish should be fairly given one more season, but it makes the situation worse and more confusing for us to allow sentiment and loyalty to blind ourselves to the truth that is as clear as day - that Dalglish, Clarke and COmolli have done more than anyone else to royally muck this season up.
Expect him to be gone soon
They've just been unlucky though.
