Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

Kerrigooney

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Easier said than done with an alcoholic.

True, unfortunately. This day last year was the last day I saw my best buddy, passed away unexpectedly in early March. A few years back he described being off the drink as the best thing that ever happened to him. Demons constantly niggle away at you.

Turtyturd

Chucky the tree wrote: »

I always find it funny how when an average alcoholic Joe on the street hits his wife/girlfriend then he's called all sorts of names. Bu when an extremely talented sports startdoes it then no one gives a **** really.

George Best.....old school cool.

Chucky the tree

Turtyturd wrote: »

George Best.....old school cool.

Paul McGrath....he was brilliant against Italy. Hero.

Pyjamarama

Get in West Ham

Ciano35

West ham winning

smileyj1987

Ciano35 wrote: »

West ham winning

Blow it up ref !!

SlickRic

If Spurs end up dropping points here, this afternoon easily becomes our biggest game of the league season so far.

Big cojones needed.

There's no way Spurs wont score.

Saying tha,t their defence looks a disaster

Heisenberg1

Just watching the Spurs game West Ham pressing every ball with no mid week game expect the same form Southampton.

smileyj1987

Heisenberg1 wrote: »

Just watching the Spurs game West Ham pressing every ball with no mid week expect the same form Southampton.

Southampton will be fresher , they have had 11 days off so they should come out of the traps.

JohnDaniels

Has the team been leaked or has that all stopped?

Washington Irving

Y'all just went and guaronteed a Spurs win

Kerrigooney

Augeo wrote: »

True, unfortunately. This day last year was the last day I saw my best buddy, passed away unexpectedly in early March. A few years back he described being off the drink as the best thing that ever happened to him. Demons constantly niggle away at you.

Sorry to hear that. That's rough.

Heisenberg1

Heisenberg1 wrote: »

Just watching the Spurs game West Ham pressing every ball with no mid week game expect the same form Southampton.

smileyj1987 wrote: »

Southampton will be fresher , they have had 11 days off so they should come out of the traps.

Over half of our team today will have the experience of being in the title race almost to the end last year, they all have the CL experience and disappointment of not doing themselves justice this year.... A Thursday game is no excuse imo, get out there and show the PL this is last year's runners up.... Not this year's also rans.

smileyj1987

Augeo wrote: »

Over half of our team today will have the experience of being in the title race almost to the end last year, they all have the CL experience and disappointment of not doing themselves justice this year.... A Thursday game is no excuse imo, get out there and show the PL this is last year's runners up.... Not this year's also rans.

Oh I know that but I was just saying Southampton will be able to give LFC a game for 90 minutes and it's up to the manager and players to get it right today and get a win.

citytillidie

Super-Rush wrote: »

I thought the same. It looked bad but imo it was a complete accident. I don't think Matic should have been sent off, he only pushed him. The ref had a complete mare of a game though. Chelsea should have had two penos and Barnes should have seen red for his tackle on Ivanovic.

You can see why the ref did send him off, Matic got up ran at Barnes who was looking the other way and pushed him right in front of the ref, but Barnes was lucky to be on the pitch but I thought it was bad from Ivanovic to roll about 5 times as if he was badly hurt then get up right away when nothing was done

kfallon

Has the lineup been leaked yet?

hammertime

BMJD

West Ham 2 up now, happy days

Luckycharms_74

BMJD wrote: »

West Ham 2 up now, happy days

Such a massive game for us now. We can not loose.

DaveSuarez

With us playing Man City next week I really think today is a must win.

JohnDaniels

kfallon wrote: »

Has the lineup been leaked yet?

Not from what I can see. I think I read on this thread that the guy who was leaking the team stopped after the Echo article on it but not sure.

citytillidie

DaveSuarez wrote: »

With us playing Man City next week I really think today is a must win.

Why Man City have been in poor form yesterday they played Newcastle who crumbled in 30 seconds by giving away a pen, A Man City team who also have a big mid game V Barca

Iused2likebusts

Huge game today. No surprise our rivals dropped points after a tiring midweek. Spurs had a tough game and that eastenders special was very draining.

DaveSuarez

citytillidie wrote: »

Why Man City have been in poor form yesterday they played Newcastle who crumbled in 30 seconds by giving away a pen, A Man City team who also have a big mid game V Barca

City play at home on Tuesday, we've to play in Turkey on Thursday. They'll be a lot fresher than us. Silva and Aguero are hitting form and they've got Toure back as well.

murpho999

DaveSuarez wrote: »

With us playing Man City next week I really think today is a must win.

Of course today is a must win as we are playing rivals for the position that we want and a chance to catch up against Spurs and Utd.

It will give us great confidence and momentum going into the run -in that I wouldn't fear Man City next week either.

BMJD

feck off spurs

Harry Palmr

Spurs back in it! Shirley West Ham can hang on for a point

Once spurs dont win here it's a good result

Heisenberg1

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Spurs back in it! Shirley West Ham can hang on for a point

They can hang on and don't call me Shirley.

BMJD

penalty, f'sake

Harry Palmr

FFS West Ham

FT 2-2 still that's two points dropped.

Spurs got out of jail.

Still a great result for us tbh

livinginkorea

Points dropped is always a good result, pity it wasn't more.

mosstin

In fairness to Spurs, they've rescued a lot of points late this season. Good trait to have.

murpho999

mosstin wrote: »

In fairness to Spurs, they've rescued a lot of points late this season. Good trait to have.

I would say that draw feels like a win to them the way the game went. That never say die attitude could stand to them later in the season.

Outkast_IRE

Quite simply today is a day when Liverpool need to "Put up or Shut Up". Nothing less than a win is acceptable, to lose or draw today will mentally be a severe blow to the team.

mosstin

murpho999 wrote: »

I would say that draw feels like a win to them the way the game went. That never say die attitude could stand to them later in the season.

That said, there are 3 certainties in life;
1. Taxes
2. Death
3. Spurs ****ing up a Top 4 finish

mosstin

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Quite simply today is a day when Liverpool need to "Put up or Shut Up". Nothing less than a win is acceptable, to lose or draw today will mentally be a severe blow to the team.

That's nonsense. A point at St. Mary's would be far from the end of the world. Would be lovely to win but to suggest that if we don't that it would be a severe blow is far off the mark.

NukaCola

More points dropped for another top 4 contender. Set up for a great weekend of results.

NukaCola

mosstin wrote: »

That's nonsense. A point at St. Mary's would be far from the end of the world. Would be lovely to win but to suggest that if we don't that it would be a severe blow is far off the mark.

You dont think it'll be a big blow? I mean a draw isn't the end of the world but we need a win. Man City up next also. Less than 3 points in the next 2 games will make things a lot harder if we are being honest.

JohnDaniels

While Ibe has been very good with Markovic suspended for Europe then surely you have to play him today for rotation purposes. Can he afford to drop Coutinho in such a pivotal game like today? Personally I drop Sterling in for him. I hate the idea of starting without him as we have looked so disjointed between midfield and attack without him but he looks absolutely knackered the last few games. Do we go with Balo from the start? Loads of interesting team selection headaches for Rodgers ahead of this one.

livinginkorea

I think Cou would do well starting from the bench today against tired defenders.

garra

JohnDaniels wrote: »

While Ibe has been very good with Markovic suspended for Europe then surely you have to play him today for rotation purposes. Can he afford to drop Coutinho in such a pivotal game like today? Personally I drop Sterling in for him. I hate the idea of starting without him as we have looked so disjointed between midfield and attack without him but he looks absolutely knackered the last few games. Do we go with Balo from the start? Loads of interesting team selection headaches for Rodgers ahead of this one.

Ibe is the in-form player, would not be surprised to see him start ahead of Lazor. Rotate for the city game

Grayditch

We'll need to play as well as we did against Spurs to get a result here. It's not going to be easy and I'm half expecting us to be too tired to win it.

doc_17

Need to win today if we are gonna get 4th. Huge game given the other results

Has the leak been fixed at Melwood?

JohnDaniels

garra wrote: »

Ibe is the in-form player, would not be surprised to see him start ahead of Lazor. Rotate for the city game

I really want to see Ibe again today but I just think you need to be clever. Play Ibe then the City game roles around, Ibe is on the back of another couple of good displays so he plays again at City and we persist to run him into the ground like Coutinho. We have far too many games between now and the end of the season to not have a good rotation policy or the wheels will come off the bus towards the latter end of the season. Rodgers has never really dealt with having so many games before and rotation has probably been one of the weakest areas of his tenure as manager so it's a real danger area for where this season could go up in smoke.

Markovic for 60 mins then bring on Ibe to run at them for the last 30