Glad to see this on the Liverpool home web site. He tells it like it is and is particularly critical of the young players who he says didn't show the charchter and strength of mind to win. I like this glad he didn't come out and blame ref ( although he had e nough reasons too) the pitch, the weather. He has said the depth of quality in the squad is not good enough. Something we all know is true and something that must be addressed in this and the summer transfer windows. It makes an interesting read.
Radio and TV were blaming the team for a **** performance, Rodgers is doing the same. I'm blaming both the team and Rodgers. His subs were bizzare once more, he left it too late to change things and it's his job to kick the players up the arse to perform against 'lesser' teams. He can't just throw on Gerrard to bail us out then blame the team when it doesn't work.
At least Hodgson has something in common with Benitez....................................they have both managed Liverpool and Inter Milan.
You can blame the team and you can blame individuals, but ultimate responsibility falls with one guy and he picks the team. He is entitled to be unhappy with the players involved because they are paid a lot of money to perform but that is BR's job. The buck stops with him!
Never understand why it takes a manager to get the players up for a game. They are paid fortunes to represent their club ( not just talking about Liverpool here) and yet they can't go out and perform to the required standard. When Gerrard came on he was totally motivated and seemed to drag the rest of the team up a couple of gears with him. ESP disappointing was the attitude of the younger players who should have enough reasons to perform at the top of their game. The manager can only do so much. You can't legislate for poor attitude and cock ups
Gerrard seemed to galvanise the team, I was a bit disappointed with Sturridge and Suarez today didn't really impose themselves on the game and apart from Suarez goal didn't really seem up for it. Might have been saving himself for the Arsenal game, but why don't managers start with their first team and when they are winning the game take off the important players when the game is won.
I agree with a lot of what he says but his comment that 'it wasn't complacency', seems contradictory and is way off the mark with regards to a few players who were on the pitch for us today and just didn't put in the required effort. I do wonder if drilling his system into the squad worked against us today since we will never play a long ball, even with minutes to go and needing an equaliser, surely a punt up the pitch into the box is permissible then, but no, pass it around at the back, in midfield, and go nowhere. We did show signs of both 'tempo' and 'intensity', but until that's over 90 minutes we're going to continue screwing ourselves over.
Actually I thought we did too much long ball. I know at the end they were fannying about at the back but the long balls we played were not working and only playing into oldhams hands. Felt the real problem was not putting enough quality balls in the box from wide areas. We should have more about us then resorting to the long ball.
I think credit is due to Oldham for that. They sat back and kept it tight when we had the ball. They frustrated us because we couldn't break them down and then opted to hit it long rather than wait for the opening. What I am most disappointed in is Rodgers' change of system. He's spent four or five months building us to play 433 and then he goes 442. Allen and Henderson looked an awful partnership IMO.
Another record broken by Rodgers................... •Liverpool's defeat was the first time they have been beaten away from home in the FA Cup by a team at least two divisions below them since losing at non-league Worcester City in 1959.
Hate these kind of stats. How many teams that are two divisions below us have we played away from home in the last fifty-four years...? Plus, isn't this a stat that is better the longer it is? Therefore it would suggest we've done well over the years?
