funny how now everyone expects LFC to not win anymore

The mentality of us should always focus on winning and throw every doubts away.

If we are all players here, I am sure BR will throw most of the pessimist in this forum out and let them go fishing.

Last thing we want is people giving no confidence and keep predicting we are getting into trouble. Reality is, we will lose points at some point, but it's a marathon, and it's not the end of the world.

To see so many non-positive thinking is really baffling. Sounds abit like my mum who always predict the worst out of every situation. Seriously, it makes it feel better huh when the worst happens? TOTAL FACEPALM

I dreaded the people here when liverpool lose. All out in force to slaughter the team.

You can shout now "WE WERE RIGHT~~" and wooo hooo...(Not pessimist, but realistic) KUDOS to you now.

Your wish and your curse came true and you can sleep well tonight

Outplayed at Ainfield. BR's golden boy Sterling was poor. Should have sent him on loan instead of Borini
#BRout
#Rafa in

Criticism doesn't mean do not support.
Some criticism is good that expose the weakness of the team that the team, player or manager can improve upon.

Just like fans questioning the 4CB, many have said should be playing Agger at LB and Sakho should be at CB. This clearly make sense and obvious, as Agger is comfortable on the ball as well as can dribble and shoot, while Sakho played way better at CB after Agger being substituted, this already show the starting line-up and position may already a questionable issue.

You can't expect fans to say welldone, and support what the manager has being doing at last match, right?

The problem is not average players. The problem is getting the average players to perform at their maximum level. I don't think neither Lucas nor Gerrard have performed anywhere near their optimal level. It may due to them having played one too many games or perhaps the partnership is just not working right. It can be a number of reasons. But BR needs to find out how to get the most out of his players.

No need to look far. Some of our own players played their part in ousting Rafa. Maybe that's why BR is afraid to even sub Gerrard, let alone dropping him for much needed rest.

This then raises the question – Can you avoid injuries? The answer is a clear ‘no’. However, you can work in a way to prevent and reduce the amount of them.

Our way of working to prevent injury can only be done with the co-operation of the medical staff from the outset, to have a clear programme of work, to maximise prevention… The diagnosis when the injury occurs and the treatment afterwards are the key avoiding new injuries.

To this end the medical staff must be co-ordinated with the technical staff. They are the ones who design the training sessions, the workload and the extra preventative or compensatory work done by the medical staff and should be taken in to consideration by the fitness coach who also has a workload to organise. I am being serious when I say we were shocked to find a fitness coach from the medical department doing weights with a couple of players on the morning of a big game. This can only result in overload and therefore a risk of injury.

Strangely, it is becoming more common for players to return to their native country for treatment. To stop this it is vital to have absolute confidence in the club medical staff who also have a duty to solve the problem.

To investigate muscular injuries, especially the ischio-tibial ones, it is essential to know the factors involved:

The injury history The fact of having had a previous muscle injury increases the risk of re-injury, and at Inter, 80% of injuries had occurred in the same muscle group during the previous two seasons.

Muscular imbalance between quadriceps and ischio-tibial (anterior and posterior thigh muscles). You have to do specific work without the ball to address this imbalance.

Age The older the player, the more risk of injury there is, especially muscular ones; also there is the biological factor of age, so you must take in to account that older players have had more hours of practice and therefore hundreds of matches and thousands of training sessions in their legs.

Other factors can increase the risk of injury; for example, race (black players are more prone to muscle injury because they generally have more explosive muscles); fatigue (a tired muscle has more chance of being injured because its functionality has changed); inappropriate warm up, or habits like smoking, drinking, not resting or inadequate diet all increase the risk of muscular injury.

An injury, then, will have multiple causes and players exposed to more of these risk factors, like the ones we have mentioned, will be prone to suffering more injuries.

mana source?

Read that Rafa also planning to raid Mata on January.

Bro Rot = Do u watch Liverpool play during rafa regime? Rafa normally makes single/double subs at 60-66min's. U can google it & check. I put my head on it if u found it majority subs r not make during that moment. And the 3rd on 80+ minutes as usual. Wait he did make a half time changes when we won the euro cup

FYI @ Under my memory. This is the 1st time he make a tactical sub at half time(Apart from injury). The only time he make a earlier subs was sub suso out for henderson in a 30-35m which i bizzare he did so when suso was playing the best fb with suarez.

Daglish & Hogson all hardly make subs which i agree. Notablely after 70 only they did so. Wait..Rodgers also the same happen last season..I remember he make 2 subd even we r winning games. As i always complained..when we r winning..we should let young players
played yet majority 2 changes prefer.

Cant comment much tonite but what said it that article says it all. All played badly but we hardly supported moses & sturridge upfront. Pairing 4 CB plating in defensive..I haven't heard any successful team played  so and once i saw the teamsheet..R they planning to win the game like stoke or they defend like stoke. FYI @ he have 2 best youth LB england international in Robinson(Loan)/Smith & McLaughlin (Ask to joined the reb.ireland senior squad..I a better prospect than wisdom/flanagan) at RB.

Brad Smith...
An Australian-born left-back blessed with lightning pace, Smith's rampaging runs proved to be a feature of the U18s' play over the course of the 2010-11 season.
The young defender was spotted whilst playing for the same high school as Jack Robinson and combines solid defending with exciting forays forward, which was perhaps typified by a stunning long range effort in a 6-0 rout of Bolton.
Smith's superb form inevitably led to international recognition and he played a key role in England U17s' run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Mexico.
As a first-year scholar, he played for the 18s, last year he moved to the U21s but struggled a little with an injury.
However, he won scholar of the year at the end of last season which provided him with the opportunity to go away to South Africa with representatives from other Barclays Premier League clubs and represent the league. 
Smith also went away with the first-team in the summer of 2011-12 for their North America tour. He will be aiming to stay injury free this year and feature for the U21s.

Ryan McLaughlin...
Is a Northern Ireland youth international who signed in at the Academy in the summer of 2011.
The full-back is a determined competitor and a stylish attacker who has represented his country at U16, U17, U18 and U21 level.
In the summer of 2012, the teenager was called into the full Northern Ireland squad for a friendly against Finland; however, injury forced him to withdraw.
A permanent member of the U21s throughout the 2011-12 season, McLaughlin was selected in the squad that travelled to North America in July 2012 for the Reds' pre-season tour.
He made his unofficial Liverpool debut in the second fixture of the tour against AS Roma and was given the task of man-marking Italian legend Francesco Totti.
Following another year of encouraging development with the Reds' U21 team, McLaughlin signed a new contract at Anfield in July 2013.

My 2 cents.
Chris L.

The number of dribbles are not something to shout about. Luis Garcia also once has some of the most beautiful dribbles when he was with us.

In Suso's position, assists are all that matters and goals too perhaps.

When he's back, he's competing against Couts. Big task.

Rodgers decision to field 4 centrebacks was bizarre but I disagree that he doesn't have a plan B. One could say that he favours possession football but which manager doesn't have a signature style? When did Man Utd last change their style of play? Even so it needs to be noted that Rodgers has been reverting to a deeper defensive line, relying on counterattacking football rather than possession football in the second halves of games against Man Utd and Aston Villa in particular. Not saying it was the best decision on either occasion but it does prove that he changes formations and tactics during the game.

Also, he has never been shy to use the bench. Against the Saints, he brought on Enrique and shifted Henderson to fullback so that we'd have a little more bite in attack. He would also have Countinho adopt a more central or wider role depending on the progression of a game. In conclusion, I reckon it's a case of making the wrong decision instead of not making a decision.

Not having a plan B is a trait unique to Roy Hodgson who played 4-4--------2 instead of 4-4-2, playing only direct football. There is no other reason a ball playing centreback like Dagger could not get a game ahead of any of the lumpers we had. Rodgers may not be making too many right decisions on the pitch this season but he certainly hasn't been as inflexible as Hodgson.

I hardly notice whatever change or substitute made by BR has big impact, or change of tactic during the match, that can change the face of the game, aka turn draw or lose into win, or turn dismay performance from first half into brilliant on second half.

Since the season start, second half performance either awful or "heart-beating" like one.
Fitness issue? 

All 3 win come with first half goal.

I still feel Suarez should have played the front role compared to Sturridge as he looked lost and exhausted. He's not fully fit but yet his determination to play is something to talk about. I hope Suarez starts ahead of Sturridge with him, sitting behind Suarez as what we saw last season.

there's no way u want tiki-taka with combination of gerrard-lucas-hendo

plus if wanna tiki taka we shuld start with new talent with suso,alberto,teixera.. this is the player that can tiki taka

Spot on!..we dont have the players for tiki taka, not with gerard, not with leaden-foot lucas, henderson - i m not sure, he has some skill tho and is very industrious, which is one of the characteristic of hard-core possession football  ....We probably need someone to bite the bullet, drop non-performer, no matter SG or Agger...but of course managers hardly drop their captain, eventho they perform shit example - terry during moaninho former reign....but we can ill afford sentimentality...have had enough of drumming up players ability, whose decline is evident...

Roughly details our decline since 1991 but also the progress made off the pitch where the race which doesn't involve a shiny silver trophy needs to be own, and we're playing catchup - Good read,

but it is already well known amongst Red supporters...we had one calamity too many...from Souness infathomable decision to sell Beardsley and brought in Saunders, and other stupid signings i.e Paul Stewart & Bjorneby....btw, Souness is the last manager with the sort of buying power and financial muscle to revamp our players, he's got budget to do it and he blewn it..BIG TIME!! Think of Julian Dicks, and you'd think Souness is a d***...couple with boardroom incapability to Morse selling us short to H&G instead of DIC....there are too many variables that were self-inflicted...

I don't know others, but I've never said we got enough depth, when we missed out on Mickeythryan, Eriksen, Willian, we could predict that when Coutinho out, we would be screwed. And the worst case happened.

Not to mention that we missed out on so many potential transfer, yet we shipped out the likes of Downing, Suso, Shelvey. And the unexpected thing is loaning Borini out, and bring another Borini(Aspas) in. 

Suarez is an amazing player but Ian Ayre has a point. He represents Liverpool Football Club and his conduct on or off the pitch reflects upon the club. There is no possible way that any of us can condone what he did to Ivanovic. The club comes first and Suarez needs to grow up and realise that. He is responsible for his actions, no one else. He needs to mature, do away with the antics and focus on what he does best, play football. The club has always stood by Suarez and he owes it to us to behave. IF he doesn't he should be reprimanded if not by the manager, then by the management.

I don't think anyone hates Suarez because he's good. They hate him because he constantly whines and remonstrates whenever an opposing player brushes into him though he has showed some restraint since. This is where I'll give him credit. Doesn't go down like he's been tagged by a sniper these days.

Oh No! They are halfway designing the banner for:

#MaureenOut!