parchpea » Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:45 am wrote:We seem to have slotted into a blame culture where by its everyone elses fault but
our own and in particular the manager.
Whilst its convenient and comforting its not dealing with the situation head on and to
start blaming the media for Liverpools problems smacks of desperation.
We have made it hard work by buying poorly again but if we can get the right people
in and out this summer then we will start to see an improvement in results and an end
to the stick the club is getting due to poor performances.
i`d say it`s the opposite, i`d say fans have been too quick to lay the blame on managers without taking other things into consideration.
look at roy evans, his teams played great attacking footy and he never finished out of the top 4, he was a bit unlucky in the sense that in his time in charge united probably had the best side in their entire history (uniteds side back then would wipe the floor with the side they have now) and arsenal probably werent far off theirs too (that was when arsenal had the `british` back 5 that george graham put together but also had viera and petit in midfield and overmars, bergkamp and annelka in the side too.)
roy was unlucky also because only the top 2 qualified for the CL back then so what would be considered a decent league finish and a successful season these days was faliure in those days. Roy was coming under pressure for finishing in a position where managers would get a pat on the back for finishing now. what let roy down was the defence but who`s to say if roy had got 2 or 3 more years that he wouldnt have been successful, ron yeats had just found big sami and the likes of owen (who started under roy) gerrard and carragher (who also started under roy) were coming through the ranks. 4 seasons in charge and in those 4 seasons he never finished outside the top 4, won the league cup and got to an F.A cup final, he wouldnt have been edged out these days with that record, especially with the footy we were playing.
funny enough arguably our best title challenge in the last 20 odd years came under roy, it was the infamous `4th in a 2 horse race` season where we led the league for most of the season and were neck and neck with united until the last 3 or 4 weeks of the campaign but then david james got the jitters and we imploded, even so on the last weekend of the season we were in 2nd place and 3 points ahead of the 3rd and 4th placed teams, CL qualification looked in the bag but somehow we lost badly and the other 2 sides won and we ended up 4th on goal difference.
we all know why the wheels came off benitez`s reign too, but the frustration of the fans ended up on rafa`s shoulders when the fans should have battened down the hatches and accepted we were going to be $h1te until the yanks went.
as a fanbase we`ve got more patience than most but i reckon if we had shown even more patience at times we could have been in a better position now.