Im watching Raja from Zambia suggesting on some fan show they should spend 60m on Gonzalo Higuain. I hope Brendan is watching 
RAWK Goes into Meltdown 2014/2015 - The "We go again" Edition
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Not only does Henderson hog the free-kicks he also hugs his teammates when the go close with a shot.
I actually remember you saying you'd made that bet.
I think, at the time, a part of me still doubted you'd win though. Thankfully those days are over.
He's so shit at them aswell, going to be a travesty if he's named our captain.
Who would you prefer?
How come skirtel isn't under consideration? He's been at the club since forever and is aggressive as feck. Albeit, he's one of my least favourite players as he's a mouthy, dirty, cheating cnut.
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Set pieces- Coutinho or Can heck I bet Moreno would take a decent corner.
Captain- Sakho Lucas or Can.
Sakho can see the language barrier being an obstacle but we should be building our defence around him.
Lucas- gone from underrated to overrated and now back to underrated again, not the player he was but he's still excellent as a pure DM with a good passing range (our Carrick if you will) been at the club a long time, will be absolutely livid if he's gotten rid of before welsh Xavi.
Can- Young player with that aura of being a natural born leader, drives the team on at times the only one, Still got work to do to prove himself in MF but he's had a great season all things considered.
Skrtel- can never take a liking to just because of how poor he's been in a back four, was excellent as the sweeper in a three but In a four he just looks lost and it's no surprise we're being cut through like butter and are back to conceding easy goals. That being said I'd wager he'd look better in a team that is actually coached to defend properly as would all our international defenders.
I would vote for Lucas, if he was likely to be a consistent starter. But he isn't. He'll probably leave over the summer and even if he doesn't, he's not going to play every game. I believe the captain should be the senior outfield player WHO ACTUALLY PLAYS and next season that will be Martin Skrtel or Jordan Henderson. As Henderson is currently the vice captain, he seems like the natural choice. You might disagree, but to call that a travesty when two of your three suggestions are players who are in their first season at the club is just silly.
Henderson works hard and has shown that he learns and improves. I really don't get the hatred for him from some supporters. I think familiarity is breeding contempt and that he's also getting the blame for poor management.
Now, is he hogging set pieces? No, he isn't. Coutinho took several corners against Hull. Balotelli took the free kick he wanted to take. I don't recall if anyone else had a go at the free kicks, but blaming a player for "hogging" the ball in these cases is ridiculous. It's the manager and coaches who assign these responsibilities.
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Gary Neville has to respond to this.
Great book or series of books by the way. I'm reading book 10 Crossroads of Twilight at the moment.
sterling not the messiah anymore, he's a very naughty boy
Heh. You could smell this coming the moment it was getting clear he could be off
Well Sakho is in his second season but I get the gist of where you're coming from. I don't hate Henderson I rate him as one of our best players i just don't think he's captain material simple as.
Skrtel is part of an underlying issue with the defence, you have Rodgers wanting to implement an aggressive high line game yet he's made a man who's natural instinct is to drop off and defend the penalty box a mainstay of the defence. It's utterly baffling to me and I have no idea what he actually wants to do.
A back four of Manquillo Lovren Sakho and Moreno would be the ideal defence for Rodgers principle method of defending, but the strategy is ever changing one minute were playing counter attack football the next we're playing possesiom football with target men and no Dm. Can you understand why it all becomes slightly confusing??
I appreciate adaptability and versatility in a manager but its getting ridiculous when we bought an attacking midfielder highly rated Europa League player of the year to play him at wing back and right back.
The set piece issue is just borne out of frustration at being so poor at them.
Hmm. Not sure it is the right thread.
A million times this. I suspect he has no idea either.
I almost wrote a screed about Lazar who I think is a gifted and intelligent player who has been criminally misused by Rodgers. And I could write a book about all the things I haven't liked this year. Here's just one. We started out playing with a back four. We only shifted to a back three because the back four was so crap. Who brought in Sakho (and yes, he's in his second season - my stupid mistake) Lovren, Manquillo, and Moreno? And who completely failed to fashion a decent back four? And who has dropped all four players throughout the season?
My single biggest problem with Rodgers - except that I just don't like him - is that he lacks all courage in his convictions. I get the feeling he keeps changing things at random until he stumbles on something that works and then announces he's a football genius. Again.
Yep the only time we've defensively looked comfortable is in a back three. Manquillo's currently getting the Sakho treatment from earlier in the season where Rodgers pretends you don't exist. Markovic appears to be the scapegoat constantly being hooked at HT, his face when receiving instructions from Rodgers yesterday told the whole story he was utterly bemused and unsurprising given he was being asked to play RB. It looks like the media are ready to stick the knife in I've seen several articles today lambasting him.
There's a smartass kopite in a firm I visit and he laughed when, pre season, I told him this was the first LFC since promotion in the early 60s that they didn't have a genuine "star" to rescue them. Hunt, St John, Keegan, Dalglish, Rush, Owen etc right up to Suarez - there was always one.
The gobby little tart was trying to hide in the canteen when I pulled up today so I had to say "Hull of a game lad" - thought he was gonna cry.
The gobby little tart was trying to hide in the canteen when I pulled up today so I had to say "Hull of a game lad" - thought he was gonna cry.
They don't do individual player threads no more. Whereabouts on the 107** pages of
''Sterling (*)'' are these from?
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they are from after the game last night
Well, I knew they weren't pages 1-21 when he was well worth every penny, innit,
.But anyway, this season's books will be out soon,
.RAWK said:Personally I think we'll be orders of magnitude better off having Lallana, Henderson, Sterling, Sturridge spend the summer with Rodgers instead of Hodgson (and hopefully not having new players brought in that will ever spend time with Hodgson... ever!)
If anything killed the first 1/3rd of our season it was Gerrard, Lallana, Henderson, Sterling, Sturridge, Lambert and the absolute Hodgifiction of them
Actually Sterling did ok, but... I think it was that time with assholes from Chelsea and Manc United that made him believe he was bigger than he is. Assholes
And they did not win a single fecking game at the WC
What a fecking disaster
Note: Our "transfer committee's" disaster last summer was formulating around a team able to be manipulated by Roy fecking Hodgson for the entire summer
HA! The epitome of clutching at straws.
If their transfer policy continues then they would be clutching at thin air next season.
Just out of curiousity to do we an Arsenal Mania goes into meltdown thread? I've seem some quality ones from the Arsenal forum whilst flicking through their Gundogan thread.
I'm not sure about Arsenal fans, maybe Chelsea have one on their forums but they seem to be realistic fans where as Liverpool fans are as thick as a wall and City fans are so bitter and hate us so much both make for great reading
Start one.
We do but it is rarely bumped.
I go on Arsenal mania quite a lot and most of them don't really say anything too bad against us apart from the odd poster who seem to despise us (it seems to be that way with all clubs forums lol). The only time they go overboard about us is when we are playing them or about to play them really.
Goon Mania
Arsenal's players are potentially the best in the Division or actually are the best in the Division if they cost more than £ 10 M. Quality of football served up is the purest since anyone first inflated the bladder of a pig. Fawlty is in /out according to last week's result.
Arsenal's players are potentially the best in the Division or actually are the best in the Division if they cost more than £ 10 M. Quality of football served up is the purest since anyone first inflated the bladder of a pig. Fawlty is in /out according to last week's result.
You're going to hell for that one.
God I forgot about that. Maniacs.
You would think they would be a bit fed up of blowing it?
They're top of the 'blow-it' league as well?
They took one Hull of a beating! (Norwegain accent required)
I was going to add a Liverpool greats rant with that one, something along the lines of:
Slightly breathless Norwegian accent:
Arthur Askey! Cilla Black! Craig Charles! Edwina Currie! Ken Dodd! Kenny Everett! Billy Fury! Rex Harrison! Carla Lane! SIR Simon Rattle! Patricia Routledge! Alexi Sayle! Peter Sissons! Jimmy Tarbuck! Your boys took one HULL of a beating!
Slightly breathless Norwegian accent:
Arthur Askey! Cilla Black! Craig Charles! Edwina Currie! Ken Dodd! Kenny Everett! Billy Fury! Rex Harrison! Carla Lane! SIR Simon Rattle! Patricia Routledge! Alexi Sayle! Peter Sissons! Jimmy Tarbuck! Your boys took one HULL of a beating!
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