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Postby Rafa D » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:17 am

The Class of 2006-2007

Last year was our best and most consistent season in English football for over 16 years. The team was balanced, the defence was immense and records were broken. It was the brightest time for Liverpool Football Club since the formation of the "Premiership Years" and we were back to our best. The consistency missing for so many years was back and we went into every game knowing we would win.

  A big part of it was the balance of the midfield and the defence. Our 4 man midfield was up their with the best in the world in Stevie, Xabi, Momo and Harry. Stevie was immense, Momo owned midfields up and down the country, Xabi was a joy to watch and Harry finally got his groove back. The defence was excellent with JC and Sami steady as ever and Finnan performing exceptionally well week in week out. The only criticism with last season was we lacked a cutting edge in attack.

  Peter has been and will continue to be excellent for us. Him playing brings Gerrard so much more into games and his holding onto the ball is superb, but he was never going to score 20 goals in his first season. Morientes could not adapt to our game and our style of play and Cisse was just not cut out to be a top striker. His touch and reading of the game was no better than mine!.

  Well this year Rafa set out to put things right and he brought in 2 strikers who scored over 20+goals last year in their respective leagues  in Kuyt and Bellamy. He brought in extra pace and width in the form of Pennant and Gonzalez. Aurelio was brought in on a free for cover and push Riise for the LB role. So with these and the squad from last year Rafa had his "Class of 2006-07".

  We have not had the best starts, but then again the fixture list has not been kind to us. Some players have not lived up to the hype though. Some haven't even got out of second gear.

Pennant  -  I will never slate a Liverpool player who is new as some need time to settle in BUT from what I have seen so far I have not been impressed. He looks scared when he is on the pitch and shows no signs of trying to beat a man or take a risk. He is meant to be a right winger but he doesn't stay wide enough and his short passing game is attrocious. However Birmingham got £6.7m out of us for this drivel is beyond me. A bad signing - you can tell he was easliy a panic buy.

Bellamy - I feel for the lad, I do. He is a tryer and is willing to run his socks off, its just not happening for him at the moment. But it will. Today I thought Xabi should of played him in when we broke but for some reason he played a harder pass to Kuyt :Oo:  He is a horrible cnut buts he is our horrible cnut!

Gonzo -  I have aired my views on him before. He came with a wave of fanfare making him out to be the best player in the world. People on here were saying that he would be starting LM and ease Kewell out the way. I know Kewell is injured but if he was fit he would be starting no problem. It spoke volumes when Gerrard was moved out there instead of Gonzo. He has impressed me a little but not enough but he is only young and can learn and get to grips with our game. He has been Ok, not :censored: but not great.


Kuyt  -  The A+ goes to the flying Dutchman. He is a very intelligent footballer and seems to have adapted well to our game and our system. He has played well and will get better and better as time goes by. He will score goals and I think we have a cracking player on our hands in him.

Aurelio  - He is not a LB for sure , either a WB or a LM, not a defender. His positional sense is unbelievably bad but he is Brazilian. His passing is superb though and I will reserve judgement for now.
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Postby peterc1992 » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:21 am

last year we only were consistent in a period mid-season,but at the start of the season last year we were very bad.a bit like this year
u can say we were consistent,i remember last year ppl critisising liverpool for being un-consistent
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Postby account deleted by request » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:23 am

Rafa-Dodd wrote:The Class of 2006-2007

Last year was our best and most consistent season in English football for over 16 years. The team was balanced, the defence was immense and records were broken. It was the brightest time for Liverpool Football Club since the formation of the "Premiership Years" and we were back to our best. The consistency missing for so many years was back and we went into every game knowing we would win.

  A big part of it was the balance of the midfield and the defence. Our 4 man midfield was up their with the best in the world in Stevie, Xabi, Momo and Harry. Stevie was immense, Momo owned midfields up and down the country, Xabi was a joy to watch and Harry finally got his groove back. The defence was excellent with JC and Sami steady as ever and Finnan performing exceptionally well week in week out. The only criticism with last season was we lacked a cutting edge in attack.

  Peter has been and will continue to be excellent for us. Him playing brings Gerrard so much more into games and his holding onto the ball is superb, but he was never going to score 20 goals in his first season. Morientes could not adapt to our game and our style of play and Cisse was just not cut out to be a top striker. His touch and reading of the game was no better than mine!.

  Well this year Rafa set out to put things right and he brought in 2 strikers who scored over 20+goals last year in their respective leagues  in Kuyt and Bellamy. He brought in extra pace and width in the form of Pennant and Gonzalez. Aurelio was brought in on a free for cover and push Riise for the LB role. So with these and the squad from last year Rafa had his "Class of 2006-07".

  We have not had the best starts, but then again the fixture list has not been kind to us. Some players have not lived up to the hype though. Some haven't even got out of second gear.

Pennant  -  I will never slate a Liverpool player who is new as some need time to settle in BUT from what I have seen so far I have not been impressed. He looks scared when he is on the pitch and shows no signs of trying to beat a man or take a risk. He is meant to be a right winger but he doesn't stay wide enough and his short passing game is attrocious. However Birmingham got £6.7m out of us for this drivel is beyond me. A bad signing - you can tell he was easliy a panic buy.

Bellamy - I feel for the lad, I do. He is a tryer and is willing to run his socks off, its just not happening for him at the moment. But it will. Today I thought Xabi should of played him in when we broke but for some reason he played a harder pass to Kuyt :Oo:  He is a horrible cnut buts he is our horrible cnut!

Gonzo -  I have aired my views on him before. He came with a wave of fanfare making him out to be the best player in the world. People on here were saying that he would be starting LM and ease Kewell out the way. I know Kewell is injured but if he was fit he would be starting no problem. It spoke volumes when Gerrard was moved out there instead of Gonzo. He has impressed me a little but not enough but he is only young and can learn and get to grips with our game. He has been Ok, not :censored: but not great.


Kuyt  -  The A+ goes to the flying Dutchman. He is a very intelligent footballer and seems to have adapted well to our game and our system. He has played well and will get better and better as time goes by. He will score goals and I think we have a cracking player on our hands in him.

Aurelio  - He is not a LB for sure , either a WB or a LM, not a defender. His positional sense is unbelievably bad but he is Brazilian. His passing is superb though and I will reserve judgement for now.

Just what I would have wrote if I could write better. Great post mate, I couldnt even find one thing to disagree with.

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Postby metalhead » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:24 am

really good points rafa-dodd.

About Aurelio, I really hope in the future he can work his defencive duties, he said it himself that he wants to improve defencively inorder to get it right in the EPL, I hope we see more of him when he is fit again. What I love about this guy that he goes forward and supports the attack! I wouldn't be really surprised if he scores this season. Still he needs to work on his positioning.

I agree with you about Pennant, havn't been impressed at him at all! but i really hope he can be impressive!

Kuyt had an excellent start with Liverpool, what he needs is a goal away  :kungfu:
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Postby Rafa D » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:25 am

peterc1992 wrote:last year we only were consistent in a period mid-season,but at the start of the season last year we were very bad.a bit like this year
u can say we were consistent,i remember last year ppl critisising liverpool for being un-consistent

We started badly but went on a run early on in October till January without losing. Then a mini blip of about 4 games and then back to another 10 game winning streak.

  I  do not see the point of your post at all Peter. We had our best and most consistent season last year - Look at the records.

  A team and manager should be judged on a seasons work, last season was our best for 16 years, it raised hopes, it seems some people have forgot who picked this club up off the floor and put us back among Europes elite.
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Postby Rafa D » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:29 am

s@int wrote:Just what I would have wrote if I could write better. Great post mate, I couldnt even find one thing to disagree with.

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So I have found out your little secret eh saint? You like to go around finding things to disagree with!!!

NO WONDER MY BEST MATE OASIS HATED YOU!!


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Postby Fowler_E7 » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:35 am

Of the new editions the only one who im sure wont work out is Bellamy, not good enough far a club of our stature IMO. Great pace and works hard, but that doesnt excuse the lack of quality, especially with his touch finsihing and link up play. Of the rest i would say Kuyt is the only who deffo looks like he will be a quality first team player for years to come. Ive seen glimpses of quality from the rest but they all need to do more if there gonna have a future at Liverpool.
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Postby account deleted by request » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:37 am

Rafa-Dodd wrote:
s@int wrote:Just what I would have wrote if I could write better. Great post mate, I couldnt even find one thing to disagree with.

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So I have found out your little secret eh saint? You like to go around finding things to disagree with!!!

NO WONDER MY BEST MATE OASIS HATED YOU!!


:laugh:  :wwww  :laugh:

I go around finding things to AGREE with, but its very rare that I find something I agree with completely, and then when I do its written by Lando's bum chum!

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Postby el_stinger » Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:34 am

Rafa-Dodd wrote:Gonzo -  I have aired my views on him before. He came with a wave of fanfare making him out to be the best player in the world. People on here were saying that he would be starting LM and ease Kewell out the way. I know Kewell is injured but if he was fit he would be starting no problem. It spoke volumes when Gerrard was moved out there instead of Gonzo. He has impressed me a little but not enough but he is only young and can learn and get to grips with our game. He has been Ok, not :censored: but not great.

Aurelio  - He is not a LB for sure , either a WB or a LM, not a defender. His positional sense is unbelievably bad but he is Brazilian. His passing is superb though and I will reserve judgement for now.

Mate, do you think that Aurelio, Pennant and Gonzalez have had enough game time to impress?

I'm not sure that they have been given the same gametime to show what they can do, unlike Bellamy who has played fantastically, but just been trying too hard.

I don't think anyone can start to bag our new players, simply on the amount of game time they have had. Especially since this season is a write-off. Next season will be their judgement, but to expect things to go awesome right away, and in their first season with us is expecting way too much.

Give them time people!
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Postby Lando_Griffin » Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:56 am

s@int wrote:
Rafa-Dodd wrote:
s@int wrote:Just what I would have wrote if I could write better. Great post mate, I couldnt even find one thing to disagree with.

:bowdown

So I have found out your little secret eh saint? You like to go around finding things to disagree with!!!

NO WONDER MY BEST MATE OASIS HATED YOU!!


:laugh:  :wwww  :laugh:

I go around finding things to AGREE with, but its very rare that I find something I agree with completely, and then when I do its written by Lando's bum chum!

p.s. Oasis told me it was you he hated  :D

What is your fascination with my bottom, S@int?  ???  :D

Regarding the topic, I think we've just had some incredibly bad luck regarding decisions, players settling in, and bloopers.

It's a vicious cycle we're bound to get out of soon.
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