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Stan the sensitive new age guy!

i couldn't agree with kenny more. i hope he tore adam a new asshole. and not in a gay way, in an i am [oops] off at you way.

Tearing new assholes* and similar smokescreens are well and fine but the game was tactically flawed. Bolton, one of the bottom 3 teams, knew enough of what to do as to not allow Liverpool room to move and nobody, NOBODY, on or off the field had a clue how to react to this.

I don't think what KK has said is that impressive really. What else could he say? Furthermore,it says that either:

1. the players weren't focussed

or

2. the players or the tactics weren't good enough

Either way, the buck stops with the manager.

If the players weren't focussed after a season of disappointing results including the last home game only a week ago, then what were the coaching staff doing all week?

If the players and tactics weren't good enough, then that's down to KK. Perhaps most of the players were his signings. Of the rest Gerrard and Reina are world class.

Might, what tactics? They didn't do [oops] at all. A lot of idiots blaming kenny after this defeat but the fact remains the players were headless chickens. Disgraceful performance from the players and we deserved to lose.

Agree that on the pitch it's down to the players. But at the end of the day, who picks the players, mentors them, coaches them trains them. Who's responsible for making sure that the players selected are focussed, motivated and good enough for the job? That's all the responsibility of KK.

If it was a one off defeat after a string of wins, then I'd perhaps be more critical of the players and cut KK some slack.

But right from day one of this season, things haven't quite gelled. We're like a misfiring engine - the odd bang but otherwise just spluttering along. And the responsibility for that lies with KK.

I'm not saying he should be sacked. But he needs to improve his game big time. Maybe he needs more help in the coaching department. Whatever it is he needs to do change something.

Us supporters, fans etc. can only keep supporting and believing. But with each passing week more and more will lose the faith.

Right now everyone is to blame!

Yes the manager does all the fundamental things, so why can't the players perform that on the pitch!

Why is it the bottom 3 teams still work hard they still have their job!

Anyway, I agree with others, and all those home games plus last week where we drew?? What then?

Either way, the spotlight is firmly on the club now as they are in a big slump, KD has seen it and now hope he does some change just like when he came in this time last year! We had the opportunity to close the gap on Chelsea and lost it!

Improve, forget the league position! Just bloody improve

I said he looked like he had lost that fire we all know him to have.

Pleased to see that's not the case.

About bloody time he told them how it is, most of them don't deserve to wear the red of Liverpool football club.

Everyone is to blame... but KK is accountable. When the owners and the fans ask... 'WTF is going on?!'... it's KK that's gonna have to provide the explanation and the soloution.

He was the solution when things weren't working for Roy. But now he's in the same boat as Roy... i.e. he'll be asked to explain why the team isn't performing and results aren't as expected.

Some may say we need to lower our expectations... but most won't agree with that. At least not our medium term expectations. In any case, 4th place was the club's publicly stated target.

And if there aren't any new faces in this transfer window to freshen things up, then it could be a long, slow, painful second half of the season for KK and the fans.

Actually I don't agree with kenny that the lads didn't put a shift in. I think they tried, but it wasn't good enough simply because tactically we were doomed to fail.

Stevie must never play in CM as sometimes he can go missing. There seemed to be some mis-comm between him and adam as to who was supposed to play more defensively.

Kenny has been backed with funds we've never seen before in the history of LFC and if he can't produce, sorry he's got to go.

If Rafa had been given half of what kenny was given, and didn't have to buy 2nd choice players, we would have won no.19 by now.