Avoiding relegation will enhance Adams' reputation and dispel your frustration as you glow with exhilaration!
I didn't know you had big hair, so I confess it was the name on the back!! It was a good thirty yards away as we were leaving so I couldn't be sure, but I'm pretty positive I read "T. Munky" and you had a satchel
Please, PLEASE try and get at least a point against Pool, they're the vilest fans in the country and don't deserve anything. Also Rodgers is a prat.
Joking aside, of course relegation will be unpleasant, most of all because with our squad we should not really be going down (though it is admittedly a fine line amongst most bottom half teams). However, aside from the league difference, this will be nowhere near as bad as going down to League 1, or even our relegation in 2005, because in one we were all set to go into administration and in the other we had a team that was never going to get us back up. Careful management over the summer should place us in a reasonably good position to go back up again. I must confess, when we first went up under Lambert and even in the second season I had always assumed we would do the West Brom yo-yoing for a few years to really ingrain quality throughout the squad and club, create a well-run self-sustainable club and then become a permanent PL fixture. The biggest debt we owe Hughton is the reform of our scouting network and the improvement in our youth teams. That will pay huge dividends. There is a reason why West Brom are always almost guaranteed to get out of the Championship if they go down - and that's entirely down to how they're run. You contrast that with Wolves and Blackburn, who are big clubs but they were poorly run, invested in playing staff and facilities badly, and they were always going to go down.
Here's hoping. The one thing I can guarantee is that our players will try. Snodders must have run close to a marathon he charged around so hard. He was in tears at the end I think. RvW too worked his little socks off. Watching his confidence evaporate with every scuff or mis-control is heartbreaking though, because I am 100% certain there is a high quality footballer in there.
Rodgers is an exceptional manager. As for the fans they are probably not quite the vilest, just the most indulged by the media.
Are you for real? That is a crass statement to make! The most indulged by the media when 96 innocent people died at a football match and the police and authorities tried to cover it up and blamed the innocent victims!
Gerrard has told his players to treat the game against us as if it's there last ! To play against Norwich as if they are AC Milan ! Right then lads it's massive banners & smoke bombs & flares for Sunday ! How ironic if there winning run should come to an end against there whipping boys ?
So it's being suggested that Norwich should be treated the same as Milan. Maybe we could convince the players they are as good as that. Gianni Ruddy Roberto Snodgrass Giuseppe Hooper Antonio Pilkington Luigi Fer Sergio Bassong Mario Turner Marco Bunn and maybe even the two who actually sound Italian: Carlo Nash and Luciano Becchio Forza Norwich
Liverpool are on a fantastic run at the moment and will be hard to stop but we've done it before!!! Going back to the early 80's, Liverpool were on a great run and had won 8 or 9 on the bounce before coming to Carrow Road. We were struggling that season I seem to remember but we beat them 1-0, a close range mis-hit shot from John Deehan at the River End. Hopefully a complete mis-hit shot (maybe from RVW) can win it for us again this year. Stranger things have happened!! and I'm sure there is still a twist in this years relagation story.
Quite honestly we don't really care what you think of us as fans. We've quite respected Norwich fans over the years and your club. But, if that is not reciprocated then so be it. As for Sunday, it is going to be a hard match. However, I think that you will find that we will be in a very professional mood and winning is all that will matter.
Hi Dave - part of the problem is that we were one of the clubs hit hardest by the Heysel tragedy, in that it coincided with our best years of potential Europe qualification. I think there is still some residual bitterness about this. Not really anything that can be done about it. I'd agree that generally Liverpool fans are not particularly bad, though we did have that prat run on the pitch last year. I don't think many of us hope to get much out of Sunday - avoiding a thrashing may be the best we can hope for. We are a team that plays considerably better when the opposition take it to us, though. Most of our fellow relegation contenders all sit back and let us play, as if we were a "big" team, but then we don't have the skillful players or the inventiveness to break down the opposition. If it wasn't for the form you were in, I'd say we have a reasonable chance of getting something. As it is, our players looked bereft of hope and your players steeled for the final lap.
Hysel is a tragedy that our club and our supporters will have to carry with us forever and other clubs should be very thankful that they do not have to shoulder the burden. The fact that the tragedy had nothing to do with the club itself makes it hard to bear. The fact that 95% of the Liverpool supporters who were there had nothing to do with the tragedy and 100% of the rest of us at home in front of our tvs had nothing to do with it doesn't absolve us. It was "done in our name" as they say and we all have to take part of the guilt - and that guilt never goes away! We had to accept our punishment (even longer than other UK clubs) when we were recognised as the Kings of Europe so not only the fans but also the club have been punished. More importantly those 'fans' who could be identified as being responsible were dragged before the courts in Belgium and punished for what they did. On a far more pleasant note. This could be a very good game mostly because you have to come out and make it one! We are not going to change our away style. We will have the steel of resolve behind us if Rodgers and Gerrard have anything to do with it. So parking the bus at home is probably not going to be a successful tactic (though it could give us practice for the Chelsea game ). A point is probably not going to be good enough for you so you'll have to attack at some point anyway.
