If BR don't spend and we're still in such position, he will still face slaughters from the fans for not strengthening. Like it or not, it's the results that matters nowadays.

P.S. We're awful at defending set-pieces.

Rodgers is still in for me. Too premature at this stage to start talks about replacing him. His 3 yrs is not up yet so we will see how he fare this season.

This doesn't mean he has won my vote of confidence to turn things around. Lots of fans were sold by his tiki taka manifesto which evaporated quickly without a word. His signings over the  years reflects the vision he has..only that he was completely clueless on how to use them after he signed them..the dud list is piling up...but It's unfair to boot him without giving him time ( in which he is already in his 3rd year now) to solve the conundrum which the team is facing now. He has all the quality players at his disposal, strong support from FSG, enough depth n a nicely laid green pitch without potholes n mushrooms.

BR is facing the real test this season n his survival will largely depends on our CL performance n league standings come May 2015.

remember Chelsea and Manc City are yet to slip up, Southampton's thin squad will catch up with them eventually (they've been lucky with injury so far)

The jury is out for BR and his newly assembled squad, however let's put things into perspective... When Hodgson and Dalglish was managing we we'rent any better than the current situation, but BR has so far managed to steady the ship around and actually has faith in playing our lads from the academy..

Nowadays many good contributors left Lyn Kop Talk...what's left are the same negative creep, doom merchant and hate instigator..and what do they talk about, some samples:

1) BR is clueless - Rafa rules (no disrespect, but Napoli is midtable now), looking at our run toward last season, I am glad we have a dip in the early season and pick up towards Dec...having said this, even Klopp, Martinez, Lvg, PSG and Barca are not having good form at the moment...ahhh of course...

2) Moaninho did many great things, which i am sure he is top top manager but with all due respect - he finished 3rd last season, below us that is

3) We spend so so amount, but play like crap....enough of players need to gel excuses - well, Jovetic, Willian and Salah didnt gel immediately under special one dont they....

4) 100 million in question - the last i know, we spent less than 30 million before our splash this season, which to me is a bit overdue for a club our size and repute

5) Balotelli is no suarez ....but he hold up play and forces the keeper to work in every match he played, which to me is all i can ask for in his first season, maybe my expectation is low..but i'd rather have Balo in my teamsheet than a certain Soldado

Expect SSDD in Lyn thread.....aint gonna get any better..

i would start judging BR in January.

Think thats fair enough?

5 months to integrate the new players in and observe how he deals with this new lot

Lol... suddenly reading some many "debates".
I wonder does it have anything to do with the time you start to support Liverpool. The reason being those older gen of Liv supporters will have a far better level of tolerance towards poor performance/run vs those new gen Liv supporters that only started to support Liv since the last 2 seasons.

Well, I could be wrong but sometimes just put urself outside of the situation, it's just a game and it's few 10k km away from us. Is it really worthwhile to argue like this? Call me a plastic/no passion fan or whatsoever, I just don't think it's necessary to argue, just enjoy the beauty of the game.

peace out.

its not the end of the world if we draw..of course BR will aim for a win..sooner we qualify into 2nd round, easier for him to rotate/rest players..i'm expecting a win but not too disappointed if its a draw..will be disappointed if we lost

I sorta agree with you there...the general mentality surrounding us right now is gloom and doom. A win, a healthy one too, away in the CL will help to lift some of that. Even better if it comes with good performances from underfperfoming players like Mario and Marko.

A draw or loss, coupled with bad individual performances will not do morale good.

The worried part is... how on earth that we transformed from goal machine to clueless team with just 1 marquee player gone

Something is terribly not right at the moment. Any backroom rumour that you heard recently?

Are they physically fit and tactically ready to approach the game?
We all know what Sterling can bring to the team and his performance for Liverpool so far. And your proposed solution to this defeat ? Bring in another new player to replace him. Yup..Reina made mistakes, we brought in Mignolet. Agger made mistakes, we brought in Sakho, and when Sakho is not perfoming and we took Lovren in and idunnowho... the cycle continues until the cow comes home.

the biggest problem is we dont have a leader on the pitch

It's true we need a leader on the pitch. Suarez was the true leader on the pitch last season but not Gerrard. Although he was not wearing the armband, the former was the one who was constantly driving the team with his will to win n his goals galvanized the entire team. Gerrard...the legend he is...has look like he is unable to carry the team like he used to be.

Hail BR haters.. Lazy to reply, I'm not a die BR fan.. As always whenever Liverpool loses they seems to talk a lot more. I'm just a Liverpool fan I defend whatever and whenever bet against them.

Then point Suarez was the savior when Liverpool and manager defended him in me out . Time and time again flirting to leave. Still talking about Suarez?

I can't brain u supporting liv or the player itself?

We should call for owners out! If owner still stick with BR I'm sorry u gotta suck it in. Coz we are stuck with BR

Calm down.

Are we really calling for BR's head?

You guys cant be serious.

We should call for owners out! If owner still stick with BR I'm sorry u gotta suck it in. Coz we are stuck with BR smile.gif

Mad? I'm not mad.. I was joking with Carloz man, I said Sterling was piss poor last 3 games I didn't say he was poor entirely. But noooo u guys "BR hater" pointing him entirely from day 1 lol.

I told you I am a liverpool fan not manager, I trust in the owners

No player is bigger than the club. Again Suarez a leader eh biting and diving etc.. Of coz u guys always talk about results the team consist of 11 players. It is not entirely about Suarez. I celebrated when Suarez scores and because liverpool win not because he score amazing goal you see?

He was not the only person that helped get us back to CL. The entire team, staff, manager, coaches, etc etc

Yeah probably right that bigger credit goes to Suarez himself. But I would like to think that maybe a tiny bit of credit should go to Rodgers as well.

herrera might sideline for 6 weeks?
Heard he clashed with the referee..

Many LFC fans are commenting at this rate (twitter/other sites) we won't be proceeding to CL next stage.

Damn all the hard work last season is just seemed wasted. And we only have few injuries to the squad, not half of the 1st team members

None of us wish to be in Rodgers seat atm. And it may seem there isn't a rabbit to be pulled from the rabbit hat.