Sabre wrote:Sabre , do I sound like a statiscian to you ?
How can I give stats on Nando v Mellor or Pongo when they have have played f'uck all footy ?
Precisely. Your topic description is "fine line between faith and reality", and I think that putting to play Mellor who hasn't played f'uck all footy, is in the realms of faith, more than the realms of reality. That's all! We're playing at the top level here, Champions League, F.A quarter of finals, fighting second place on the EPL, not bad for LFC's standards last 10 years.Mellor IMHO isn't and never will be anywhere near good enough. If we can get money for him in the Summer then take it. Pongo I'm not so sure about. At least he does posess intellience and poses a goal threat so I would've kept him and loaned out Morientes.
The combinations haven't really been tried yet and nor will they be while we insist on playing Morientes every game. Lets try Cisse/Crouch Crouch /Fowler
I agree, this combination (specially the latter) should be tested. And given some games to prove it right or wrong.
I was never suggesting that Mellor would be more successful than Morientes but given Nando's failure to capitalise on the faith shown to him by Benitez (viz the number of games he's been given) ,surely at some stage Rafa may have been better served by giving the likes of Mellor and Pongo a bit more of a go ?
I don't for one minute see Mellor as a long term solution BUT for this season only could he have produced much less than Morientes ?
I don't think so .