Liverpool FC Forum

[maguskwt]

If u give me a draw now...i will snatch it straightaway....

There is nothing i hate then to lose to manure (apart from losing in the final of the champions league.... )

So as long as we don't lose, i would be satisfied...

shouldn't be the spirit mate... we have to WINNNNNN THISSSSSSS!!! or die trying!

[kunilson]

i hope liverpool win. that is all.

[Emerald Red]

I have no nerves so far. Maybe it's the insomnia. Maybe it's because I think we'll outplay them...again. I dunno. Important thing is that we score against the w*nks this time round. Torres will be the difference.

[maguskwt]

BTW, according to my sources this is the team rafa might put out against the scums...

                   Reina
  Arbeloa   Carra   Hyppia  Riise
Voronin  Gerrard  Mash  Kewell
        Kuyt    Torres

Hope not...don't really like voronin and Kuyt in the same line-up.

change voronin for benayoun and I will be satisfied with the line up...

[ruskiy playmaker]

I highly doubt Rafa will start with Voronin on the right when he has Benayoun and Babel.  But if Voronin did start on the wing, I would jump off the roof.

btw-Is anyone watching the Fifa Club World Cup final?  I  want Milan to finally break the European jinx.

[Dundalk]

Im crapping myself now, only 2 hours to go

[OneHotRed]

Im excita-scared now, my Manc "mate" is coming round soon, wish i could have got tickets

Still think we'll nick this one by a solitary goal, as long as we keep Ronaldo quiet

[Igor Zidane]

Im excita-scared now, my Manc "mate" is coming round soon, wish i could have got tickets

Still think we'll nick this one by a solitary goal, as long as we keep Ronaldo quiet

When your manc mate comes round , tell him to fook right off and go watch the match somewhere else. That will make you feel better i promise.

[roberto green]

This game will make or break my week.....

Please tw!t the c!nts

[Igor Zidane]

We've gotta win today lads and lasses, we've gotta set a marker of our intent for the rest of the season . If we beat the mancs today we will be right in the mix going into the christmas period. Everyone of us would have taken that at the start of the season.

Mine and rafa's team to play today -

                                  Reina

                Arbeloa           Carra          Hyypia    Aurelio   


                       Lucas             Mascherano         

              Gerrard                                        kewell
                               Torres               Kuyt.


COME ON REDMEN !!!!!   2-0 To the mighty reds.

[Bad Bob]

Just a couple of things spring to mind here while I'm sweating me nuts off (it's about 33 degrees here today and fecking unbearable). Firstly, sorry in advance to Peewee and Bamaga, but I've got to stick up for Bob's tight to defend himself if somebody actually names him, refers to him in a post. He has a right to respond in my opinion, whether he is a mod or not. Just because you are a mod it doesn't or shouldn't mean that you can be criticised without having a right of reply. Apart from anything else it'd be fecking boring if people just had to take flack without giving some back.

Secondly, and I might as well fall out with everyone on the board practically while I'm at it. This thing of Leon, Stu's and now Peewee's about attending the games in order to have a clue is simply plain wrong, I've said it before and I'll say it again. Attending games does give you an insight which you are often unable to pick up off the telly, but even then you'd need to know what you're looking at. I'm not saying for a second that Leon, Stu and Peewee don't, but this idea that Anfield is filled with forty thousand experts a week is fantasy stuff to be honest. I think it's a bit too easy a retort, if you don't agree with something to use the "go to the game" angle.

All that said and thirdly, Peewee does have a point about the Alonso thing. Funnily enough I was just thinking the other day that when we went through our "blip", the anti-rotationers maintained all along that our reluctance to keep the semblence of a settled team and our eagerness to "rest" our best players was the overriding reason that we were in something of a "dip in form". (I keep puitting "blip" and other similar things in quotes because the reality is of course that it was much more than a blip, and it wasn't a dip in form we were playing absolutely awful). Anyhow, anti-rotationers were chided and assured that far from being the overiding reason, the team selections were merely one of a huge number of factors, and a pretty insignificant one at that.

"But Torres started against Porto and we didn't score then either   " it seems incredible when you think about it but some posters actually wrote that. The other factors of course at the time were Alonso's absense mainly, along with the loss of Agger, International breaks etc etc. Well since then neither of the aforementioned injured players have played a game, International breaks have come and gone and the team has low and behold found some form. Coincidently, Torres plays every game now and practically scores every game as well, similarly Gerrard.  Masherano too almost always plays, and we almost always have the same central defensive partnership. It's not a "seeing of the light" from Rafa I'll grant you that, but there does seem to be a bit more common sense shown in most cases these days, with the obvious exception of Reading Away. So I repeat on the question of Alonso, such was the vehement criticism of anybody who dared to voice an opinion that he may not be Jesus christ reincarnated, it doesn't seem unreasonable to mention the fact that he hasn't played a part in our richest run of form under Rafa.

Good post, Mick, and it saves me a long-winded reply that would fall on deaf ears with these two anyway.  Bottom line, Peewee and Bamaga Man--if you don't respect my footballing posts I won't be losing any sleep.  But singling me out for not going to the game is pretty lame seeing as you don't either and seeing as a large percentage of people on here--people that make exceptionally good points on football matters--don't often get to matches as well.  As, for actually playing the game, while I'm sure that Peewee was the Scouse Pele back in the day, I think it should at least be known that I was the Canadian Pepe Reina.  Went the entire sixth grade without conceding a goal, I did.

On to the matter of Alonso and whilst I agree that we've managed quite comfortably without him over the past few weeks, I still contend that he's a valuable player to have around--every bit as, if not more, valuable than Mascherano when he's on his game.  And, as long as we are talking about correcting overblown views, for every balanced poster who suggested that Alonso may not have been achieving his top form over the past 18 months or so, we also had to endure the out-of-proportion negativity of one or two noted Rafa-skeptics who clearly saw in the Basque midfielder the embodiment of the gaffer on the pitch and who used Alonso as another stick with which to beat Benitez.  Not surprisingly, some of us who rate Alonso took exception and pushed the envelope in the other direction...such is discussion on Newkit, it would seem.

But, Mick, you've held your hand up lately and acknowledged our defensive solidity and recent goal-scoring form has happened despite a continuation of rotation Rafa-style so I'll do the same with Alonso.  Clearly the absence of Xabi (and Agger) were not the cause of our blip and anyone who suggested so called it wrong.  Like rotation, their absence was surely a factor but to what degree and in what relation to other factors, we'll never truly know...not even the good ladies and gents that do manage to get to the match every week.

[Sabre]

Went the entire sixth grade without conceding a goal, I did.

The Canadian Pepe Reina . Does this mean you were the keeper in the bench?

For the record, I was not good enough for my school's team

[murphy0151]

Yaaaaaa kkking dirty manc bastar.ds.

I hate these little fu.ckers.  Greeat when ya beat these but its BAD when you get beat by the little interbred cun.ts.

Fingers crossed it's a good day.

[Bad Bob]

Went the entire sixth grade without conceding a goal, I did.

The Canadian Pepe Reina . Does this mean you were the keeper in the bench?

For the record, I was not good enough for my school's team

No mate, I started every match but we had our own version of Peter Crouch--a devastating weapon in sixth grade--and we managed to keep teams pinned back for virtually the entire 90 minutes so I never had much to do (just like Pepe these days).  I did save a crucial penalty, though... (see, the similarities are eerie!)

[112-1077774096]

so bob we agree then that you have never really played football to any decent standard and never watched decent football live, thats all you had to say.

now in my opinion your football knowledge is lacking and based on what others on here say as opposed to your own belief, no problem, don't lose any sleep over it but at least know i know when you critcise my knowledge i know you are doing it out of spite rather than you know more than me   

my 11 year old niece talks better football than you, but then  again she has been to a match   

hahahahahahaha go the game bob, you will enjoy it, i went consitently from 1973 to 2002 when i moved to asia and even in that time i have been to games, go and watch hockey or something you know about as you know diddly about football, sorry soccer

as for the scouse pele, no bob i was never that good, i was a slightly above average player, i am not as sad as you that needs to lie to boost my ego, i have a great life as it is without resorting to petty cards to get one over on someone.

about time you got real bob, you know nothing about football and you know nothing about handling people, thats obvious on both fronts, now be a man and admit why you gave the card