Yes we have plenty of world class players. This season, however..injuries has played a huge part in our poor form. Imagine United without Rooney for more than half the season. This season has f***ed us over in terms of injuries. Torres, Gerrard, Agger, Skrtel, Benayoun, Aquilani and Glen Johnson have all been injured for extended periods of time. Thats almost half of our first team right there.

The bottomline is, our squad isn't good enough. When you look at our bench, we have babel, el zhar, ngog and pachecho. Now look at Chelsea's bench. Look at MU's bench. Hell, even City has a better bench than us. Our first team is good enough to defeat any team in the world on our day, even barca. Our subs however, needs to be improved.

My question: is there anything more we can do to improve the chances of Rafa staying? Clearly he knows that the majority of fans are behind him, so it's not about letting him know that we want him to stay, but what about letting the board know that there'll be hell to pay if they don't give him what he's (apparently) asking for? And FFS, if he's really just wants the right to spend any money he makes on transfers, then how much less could he be asking for, and how could they possibly justify denying him without coming out and admitting that they deliberately forced him out? So I suppose I'm wondering if there's anything (that is, anything we haven't done already) pro-active that we could do to sway the decision our way before it actually gets made? (Which I suppose begs the question of when the decision is getting made - is it really all going down later today?)

I just hate sitting here feeling so disempowered, not being able to do anything except obsessively read RAWK for news of anything being decided one way or another.

I posted a suggestion last night, and I've received numerous PM's since from various posters, urging me to make a thread specifically for this idea. So here goes.

The idea is that we should all prepare our own individual statements which make it abundantly clear, that we (the fans) are 100% behind our manager, and that our support for him will remain totally resolute, regardless of what anyone in the printed or broadcast media say about him.

These statements don't have to be too long. As long as the message is loud and clear then a few lines or a paragraph should be sufficient. My idea is for us all to e-mail these statements to numerous addresses at precisely 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon. If we can get enough people on board to participate in this, then surely we can make someone in the broadcast or printed media take notice.

If Sky News, The BBC, Setanta, Radio 5, The Times, The Liverpool Echo, Tony Barrett, Guillem Ballague, Christian Purslow, et al (all suggestions are welcome here) were all to receive thousands of e-mails in their inboxes within the space of a few seconds, then surely someone somewhere would have to notice that there is a collective show of solidarity among us, and that we want Rafa to stay.

I suggest that all of our e-mails contain the same subject, header, and footer. For example, something along the lines of this:

Subject: I want Rafa Benitez to stay

Header: Hello my name is (insert name here) and I am a life long supporter of Liverpool Football club.

Then insert your own statement that you wrote in your own words. Remember to make it absolutely clear, that we do not wish for Rafa to leave Liverpool

Footer: I trust you will also be hearing from my fellow supporters. Yours sincerely (insert name)

I’m open to tweaking the subject title, as well as the header and footer. If anyone has any suggestions then don’t hesitate to put them forth. But the important thing is, whatever we decide on, we should all use the same headers and footers to show that we are all together on backing our boss.

I also think that having the same subject title would also strike a chord. Imagine thousands of e-mails descending down your inbox, all with different names and addresses, but with the same subject. It would certainly make me sit up and notice if I was a journo or presenter. It would really show that we are united in this.

He came and carried us in our time of need in 2004, and gave us some of the greatest nights in LFC history. The time has come for us to repay the favour, and do whatever we can to carry him in his hour of need.

I’m going to go trawling the web for as many email addresses as I can find. I’ll post them in here as I go. Once we have a collection of these addresses, (the more the better) then we can copy and paste them into the “send to” pane of our emails. Then at 1pm on Friday we all click send together. We send our message together, and we show everyone and anyone willing to listen, that Rafa has our full support.

I hope you are all willing to get on board with this. It’s well worth the effort if you ask me. Bill Hick Appreciation society recently set up a facebook page demonstrating our support for Rafa, hopefully that might be a way to get even more people to take part in this. I’m also going to send a message to the administrator of the SOS facebook page to ask if they would be willing to post a link to this thread.

YNWA Rafa

Guys, heads up. The effort to sign mails to Rafa and to Liverpool FC to show our support has been hijacked by the Mancs, you know.. the red coloured manyoos ?

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When journalism goes up to polish shoes of certain groups, that's what we get, like a ridiculous newspiece like this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/20...beard-liverpool

You know what? If you are going to copy and paste, at least have the decency to acknowledge it and source it. http://www.xtratime.org/forum/showthread.php?t=245859

Oh, and use a more recent argument please. Half of what you copied are just regular drivel spun by the tabloids. Rafa have to work under a CEO that backstabs and sell stories to the media for his own gain, a chairman that is a die hard Chelski fan and runs a company that is paralysed by its own problems.,and 2 owners that to date, only agree to disagree.

I could come out with a point to disagree with your every copied point but you are probably too ignorant to acknowledge it. The thing is, this is the man that is fighting for the supporters. He is the only one shoving two fingers in front of the owners and telling them to fook off. I disagree with a lot of his on-field tactics and signings, but given the backdrop he has to work in, I at least see the rational behind it. I am not going to be a two-faced punk and disrespect the man that is fighting for us.

I am impartial to him leaving. That said, I expect the 'best fans in the world' to at least treat the man with more respect, the baseless assumptions and pure vile filth that some of ours churn out against one of OUR OWN is disgraceful. He fought hard for us, he brought us some good times, he is one of us, the least we could do is to at least let him leave with our respect and his dignity in tact. Too much to ask from you? Then you are a cancer to Liverpool. I hope you f*** off now. Please f*** the hell off to Mancland or somewhere. 

PS: We are already out of the race for fourth. Forgot to change your second paragraph.

Have already sent the emails earlier.

I don't see the Rafa situation being of paramount importance though. We have more to worry about ie the ownership of the club. Lets focus and channel our energy to the right problem.

already send emails to multiple journo & newspapers around UK in support of Rafa..go to RAWK for details..YNWA!!!

From his wiki page
"At the time he declared "I have always been a Liverpool fan and it is a dream come true to play for them. If you get a chance to go to Liverpool on trial then you have to take it. You cannot ignore a trial with the reigning Champions League winners. I would even have swum across the channel just to take part."

get the heck out of liverpool, rafa u are not wanted here

go go go

what's your point???

so i initially wanted Jose in as our manager...so he move to MAdrid and i didnt get what i wished.

so according to your mail i am a supporter who dunno anything?

and i deserved to be f**?