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maypaxvobiscum wrote:are you happy with the result In and Out? is that how low the standards have dropped where we cant even string proper passes together against Birmingham?

When a new manager comes to a club the first thing he usually does is, looks to make the team defend to the way his methods suite.

Once he has that 'down pat' he builds on from there regarding the football etc. He was slated for the 4-4-2 at Citeh (perhaps the Mascha thing altered that, we don't know). Now he's slagged off playing this style and personel? People expect Merieles to come wading in from the off (just like Aqua did) and show us what he can do? No time for bedding in new players anymore, hell no time for a new manager to get his methods right anymore, ontop of a pre-season that never was.

Konchesky who was signed and slagged off (yet again surprise surprise  ) came straight into the side, where as Meireles didn't- figure that out it's not hard why.

The NEW manager needs and deserves time, best fans in the land definately f.ucking not.

maypaxvobiscum wrote:

bigmick wrote:I'm happy witht he result. Before today, they were unbeaten in 16 Premiership matches at Home, stretching back to the beginning of last season. It's now 17.

Meanwhile, for the second league game in a row we kept a clean sheet. The game was very loseable, and we didn't lose it. Nae bother, move on.

i was expecting more ambition. results like this were the reasons, or at least one of the reasons, why we wanted the previous manager sacked right?

Roy has always been about anti football and that's not going to change.  It's not a bad thing, but we're not going to win with these types of tactics unless we get top quality players.

In and Out wrote:

maypaxvobiscum wrote:are you happy with the result In and Out? is that how low the standards have dropped where we cant even string proper passes together against Birmingham?

When a new manager comes to a club the first thing he usually does is, looks to make the team defend to the way his methods suite.

Once he has that 'down pat' he builds on from there regarding the football etc. He was slated for the 4-4-2 at Citeh (perhaps the Mascha thing altered that, we don't know). Now he's slagged off playing this style and personel? People expect Merieles to come wading in from the off (just like Aqua did) and show us what he can do? No time for bedding in new players anymore, hell no time for a new manager to get his methods right anymore, ontop of a pre-season that never was.

Konchesky who was signed and slagged off (yet again surprise surprise  ) came straight into the side, where as Meireles didn't- figure that out it's not hard why.

The NEW manager needs and deserves time, best fans in the land definately f.ucking not.

Benny The Noon wrote:If Hodgson first thing was to sort out the defence he needs to do it quickly - one person saved us and that was Pepe - how many clear headers did they have in the game ?!

Benny The Noon wrote:If Hodgson first thing was to sort out the defence he needs to do it quickly - one person saved us and that was Pepe - how many clear headers did they have in the game ?!

rocky29 wrote:so is the midfield better now than last season with aqua and masch?

rocky29 wrote:so is the midfield better now than last season with aqua and masch?

Scottbot wrote:Very very disapointed with the performance today even if the result wasn't the end of the world. Roy's new Liverpool (so far) is a carbon copy of Rafa's 2009/10 Liverpool from what I can see.

I thought the personnel, set-up and substitutions were as lacking in ambition, verve or attakcing intent as anything Rafa threw out last time around.

- Didn't understand our midfield four at all. We played with two wreckers (not particularly good ones at that) in the middle with Lucas and Poulsen, the pedestrian Maxi on the right and Jovanovic (our best outfield player today) on the left. We sat VERY deep, invited them to press us, let them get the ball wide, fill the box and put crosses in to Jerome. When we did get it back our midfield were so far away from Gerrard/Torres and we lacked the wide players to carry it. It was obvious I thought?

- Baffled by the lack of substitutions. Rafa took stick for it (and rightly so) but Roy simply sat there and waited......and waited......and waited. Mereiles finally got on in the 75th minute to try and solve our dysfunctional midfield and Agger only came on as a forced substitute. The game finished 0-0 and Babel and Pachecho spent the 90 minutes picking splinters out of their a.s.s. We've got 5 points from 4 games with the mancs at trafford next weekend. Despite Birmingham's impressive home record, I fancy this was a game we should have been trying (a little harder) to win.

- Thank fook Joe Cole is available form here on in coz we desperately need him in the side. Would anyone really (deep down) be that upset if Lucas or Poulsen pulled a hammy (please spare me the usual response to this Benny) and had to sit it out for a few weeks? At least then we could avoid a repeat of these two manning the middle together again this season. They are an inept pairing.

- It's still early and perhaps Hodgson is going down the 'let's be tough to beat first and go from there approach' which I can understand and appreciate but it's got to get better. Hodgson remarked that our passing needs to improve, that our movement needs to get better but that will only happen if you get the right players in there. That means having at least one GENUINE wide player who offers a threat dribbling with the ball and playing someone with GENUINE passing ability and a bit of guille in the midfield two. We had neither today.