Steve Clarke another one better than BR

[Sir X]

waaay better, where did he come from.

[Paul Marin]

waaay better, where did he come from.

X, before Liverpool, Clarke was at Chelsea and West Ham and I believe he was also at Sunderland or maybe Newcastle. In my opinion, he was the big reason that KD's team turned the corner after Hodgson left. There are suggestions that KD stopped listening to him and even though he resigned out of loyalty (a resignation that FSG did not accept mind you) to KD, no one can blame him for leaving Liverpool (which he did before BR was appointed). He also spent time at Chelski the same time BR was there under Mourinho. JM speaks highly of both BR and SC.

[Sir X]

Sarcasm Paul , I know steve Clarke quiet well ,I have to question ((rumors)) that talk out of both sides of dem arse, stop listening to him but resigned out of loyalty to ........Steve & KD a ***** and cheek one of the most vocal supporters of KD after being sacked ...said pointedly pool were heading in the right direction under K.D and he cant see how a top 4 wouldn't be the objective for BR , when it was for them.


Happy new year

[Paul Marin]

Sarcasm Paul , I know steve Clarke quiet well ,I have to question ((rumors)) that talk out of both sides of dem arse, stop listening to him but resigned out of loyalty to ........Steve & KD a ***** and cheek one of the most vocal supporters of KD after being sacked ...said pointedly pool were heading in the right direction under K.D and he cant see how a top 4 wouldn't be the objective for BR , when it was for them.


Happy new year

Happy New Year to you too bredrin. Sorry - I should have known you knew that - but just in case. Anyway, I will be $10000 that SC would never have started the Hobbit in the FA Cup final...that was pure KD. Other than that, I have no reason to believe they weren't in agreement on most football decisions.

[Sir X]

You and di Hobbit , well im gone and wi nuh look any better in di midfield...Paul yuh a mi idrien but boss yuh assesments sometimes make me wonder.

[Paul Marin]

You and di Hobbit , well im gone and wi nuh look any better in di midfield...Paul yuh a mi idrien but boss yuh assesments sometimes make me wonder.

LOL!! No worries. That is why we are fans...we are allowed to be crazy.

[Sir X]

Yuh right bredrin....I think I am there with BR ....I have concluded I support LFC the club but not the manager ...this football bizniz will make you bipolar...hehe ..I sneak a peak at pool once a month, to see if anything has changed , boss it just look worse, dis bredda mi juss nuh like , I gave him a chance but now its like even if im come good , I think my bias has set in , I want him to fail miserably, worst than Hodgon ...that look like championship , nuh worry we will rise, we just have to learn the hard way , the bottom has to cave out , I see mass exists , Aggers, Skertel, Johnson , Lucas, Sterling, Shelvey ..Rafa spine and youth , leave di Rux.

Yes I have lost it.

[Paul Marin]

Yuh right bredrin....I think I am there with BR ....I have concluded I support LFC the club but not the manager ...this football bizniz will make you bipolar...hehe ..I sneak a peak at pool once a month, to see if anything has changed , boss it just look worse, dis bredda mi juss nuh like , I gave him a chance but now its like even if im come good , I think my bias has set in , I want him to fail miserably, worst than Hodgon ...that look like championship , nuh worry we will rise, we just have to learn the hard way , the bottom has to cave out , I see mass exists , Aggers, Skertel, Johnson , Lucas, Sterling, Shelvey ..Rafa spine and youth , leave di Rux.

Yes I have lost it.

Hol' dis...it legal in nuff states now fi deaden di pain

[Sir X]

I was thinking about it....lol ...good fi stress.

[Peter R]

You guys don't like rollercoasters? especially when you going down? whheeeeee.....

[Paul Marin]

You guys don't like rollercoasters? especially when you going down? whheeeeee.....

Pedro - X and I differ on the trajectory the club is on. He is far more pessimistic than I am and has admitted his bias against the manager, which I pray he will find a way to overcome should the results warrant. I think that the team is in transition to a very new way of playing and will need new blood. My biggest concern is that we keep blowing leads and X is right when he says our defending is ridiculously leaky. I also don't have a problem with some of his assesments of BR's tactics which stump me at times too. For example, he plays Shelvey high up the park all season long and the one game where his physicality is needed (against Stoke) he is playing deep. Similarly, he seems to be unsure how to use Downing and Enrique. Again, against Stoke, he should have had Enrique play further up the park with Downing at the back - but I am a fan, so what do I know?

Regardless, I don't see these as long term problems, and on the positive side, I see a team that is holding its own with only one striker and playing decently attractive football that is far less dependent on Gerrard than we've been in years. Objectively though, if we're going to continue playing this way (i.e. wannabe tiki-takka), we need different personnel. Suarez, Sterling, Allen, the back 4 (Enrique, Agger, Skrtel, Johnson), and Suso all fit, but Shelvey, Henderson, Lucas (odd, but true though we still need him), Downing and Carragher don't. Lucas though is a keeper as he is needed to get the ball back when we lose it. He is struggling to find his old form though. No matter, we need different players to replace the ones I mentioned, particularly midfielders who can score.

I continue to hold to my prediction that the team will finish better than last year; as it is, we got robbed of 2 points at Everton and were very unlucky against City; so we are at least 4 points better than our record shows and not to inflame the touchy hair-trigger manutes, but Valencia's dive robbed us of another point there as well. A win tomorrow puts us in 8th spot two points of 7th and 3 off fifth - said another way, we would be only 1 point off 4th had we got those 4 points with a win tomorrow and tied for 4th had Valencia not dived*. So I think we are much better than the record shows, but we still have nuff work to do. Rodgers continues to get my support and we will see if the owners can learn from their blunder on the Dempsey transfer - it appears they are beginning to get it. Look for a big summer spending spree from Liverpool.

YNWA

* And before unu manu bwoy start wid unu foolishness - we have a saying in Jamaica: "Cockroach don't have no business inna foul fight" - me X and Peter are the chickens, no badda wid unu chupidness eena disya argument mek we haffi tek unu fi cockroach.

[Dunny]

waaay better, where did he come from.

How u come to that conclusion with Clarke in is first half season as a manager?

[Paul Marin]

How u come to that conclusion with Clarke in is first half season as a manager?

Dunny - meet X; X - meet Dunny.

[Dunny]

Dunny - meet X; X - meet Dunny.

Paul, X think it is only Rafa that knows anything about football. He is desperate for BR to fail but he is gonna embarras himself yet again.

[Paul Marin]

Paul, X think it is only Rafa that knows anything about football. He is desperate for BR to fail but he is gonna embarras himself yet again.

X is my idrin but me and him don't see the current situation the same way. If BR can add one decent central midfield playmaker to play beside Gerrard on the right in a 4-1-3-2 formation with Sturridge up front with Suarez, well, well, well...I think a much stronger Liverpool will emerge from January on. (Rodgers will have to change from a 4-3-3 with Sturridge in the mix).

As I have pointed out before, we are at least 4 points better than our current record shows - 2 points robbed at Everton, 2 points by an uncharacteristic mistake against City and to inflame the Manure-ians, 1 point if Valencia never dived. With 5+ we would be sitting tied with Everton (5th) on points but 6th in the table. Nuff ball leave fi play.

Anyway, the owners have already promised a decent amount of spending in June, so we will see, but I still predict a better finish than 8th and that would be accomplished with far fewer dollars than KD had at his disposal. X doesn't believe me that we are still recovering from KD's wasted £80m spree last year.

I think anyone objectively looking at Liverpool has to be encouraged (which by his own admission rules out X). Today's team had more youngsters 25 or younger than I think any other Prem team has other than maybe Villa - Wisdom (19), Suso (19), Sterling (19), Shelvey (20), Allen (22), Suarez (25), Lucas (25) and now we have Sturridge who is only 23. The back 4 are all 28 and Reina is only 30. The point is that the team is a young team that is learning a new system and with a few seasoned additions, I believe will come good. Plus - we are playing more attractive ball than we have in a long time (X - don't blow a gasket - I know you don't agree )

YNWA