I think that you're a little previous after one match to suggest a prediction might be right. I'd love to see Liverpool in a relegation situation but I'm not saying it. WBA at home are an efficient team and I don't think 'Pool need be concerned yet.
I thinking that their game against Norwich could well prove to be a 6-pointer, even this early in the season.
Agreed. It ain't going to happen. I can't say that I wouldn't be more than slightly amused if it did, but it won't. They lost badly yesterday. They looked in total disarray at times. There seems to a definite failure to communicate between manager and squad, at the moment.
That will get worse, not better, as manager blames players and players blame each other and the manager, and the Mousers blame everyone except Stevie G. BR has just become my odds-on favourite to beat RDM to the sack.
True dat, get some good results in the next few games. Every one will start talking about top 4 again...then BOOM! We just got slapped in the face by Norwich City and Stoke.
Of them first bunch of games for 'Pool, the only games I can seem them getting a point at is Sunderland and Norwich. Although I don't think they'll be in a relegation battle, I can seem them being mid-table. I never actually used to mind them in all fairness but there's been a few Scousers on our board constantly giving it and trying to WUM, with one of them laughing at us signing Sigurdsson for £8m while then bragging at the fact they'll be signing Gaston Ramirez (who they claimed was far superior, personally know nothing about him) and yet now appears to be on his way to the Saints . Liverpool are a great club with an amazing history and deserves respect but their fans seem to hold on to their glorious past as a means of trying to consider themselves a major player in the current era. I'm always hearing "we should be back where we belong in the top 4" and pundits too say the same, personally I don't think any club has a devine right to be in the top 4 until the end of the season comes and they're sitting in the said places. You deserve to be there after 38 tough games, not because you've got numerous trophies in your cabinet from past eras.
We'll have a so-so season probably finishing 7th. What's important is we progress each game with this new philosophy, which despite our humbling by WBA was already coming through with high possession and 90%+ successfully completed passes.
When you consider that they where 17th from Jan to the end of the season and have a worse manager and worse players then a relegation fight is a very real possibility.
If Rodgers has the common sense to address their defensive frailties he'll keep them well away from the bottom 5/6 teams. He cannot continue to ignore the fact that they have one of the poorest defences in the league. I don't think they'll struggle, but with Agger out/his future uncertain they only have Enrique who I would consider as a half decent defender and that's not good enough for top 7/8. Their fans will realise Rodgers isn't an improvement on gobshite Dolegleish and be on his back before those 6 fixtures are over, for sure.
If we are judging this season on last season with new managers and players then Chelsea are due to have a worse win % record under RDM than AVB.
Difference is we signed some decent players. You signed a Championship level striker and a midfielder from another midtable team like yourselves....oh and some bloke who you signed for his FIFA 12 stats ffs.
[NSFW][/NSFW] The difference is that you have your Russian sugar daddy, with his ever open chequebook to go paying £25mil for a completely untried, untested player from South America. There's only one other club in the Prem that can afford that kind of madness. Funnily enough, they also have ridiculously wealthy owners who don't care about such trivialities as profit and loss accounts.
