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in from the game , yes i agree with rodgers on this totally self inflicted defeat , due to all round poor displays by suarez , gerrard ,the utterly awful sterling ,reina and the defence who went missing today except downing who actually played well , yes poor defeat after a decent couple of weeks , notice all the nonsense is back wanting sackings left ,right and centre , but i suppose thats the way it is these days watching liverpool get beat sack the manager unless its a certain manager who never had bad results did he .

We need more quality in both defense and attack and the reality is we are not competing on the transfer market, we've bought one true quality player in the last five years (Suarez) but we let some quality players go without ever trying to replace them with similar quality. The truth is we are operating on a wing and a prayer, but the reality is; that approach just wont work in a competitive market place.
We haven't replaced like with like, instead we have gone for the poor mans options and overpaid for them all, without exception, when you do that there's only one way you are going to go. FSG will have to change their silly policy of buying young unproven players in a league as competitive as the PL, that approach will just get us hammered on any day an opponent hits any kind of form and we have just had a hard lesson to that effect.
We are incompetent in the final third and we're porous at the back, People are talking about 25 - 30m In my considered opinion 120m would be closer to the mark, particularly with the style BR and FSG want to play. If FSG are unable or unwilling to make the necessary investment we should encourage them to move on. Failure to properly invest = failure to compete = failure to progress = failure!

17 attempts ON target and still can't get more than a consolation. do we have a striker coach at all?

yes have to agree with you there, just in from the game myself, first 25 mins was probably the best we have played all season but if we don't score in that time we run out of ideas. I thought like you the usual awful Downing played well and the usual things let us down like inability to finish off chances. I think Gerrard was again poor and am afraid Joe Allen just isn't a footballer, he's a poor mans Ray Wilkins, I think Suarez purple patch was just a flash in the pan, four games without a goal now and counting, he picked up another booking for mouthing off yet again, when is this clown gonna learn. I did think we may of sneaked it today with home advantage proving the difference, am not too bothered though as I still think we are nailed on for a top 8 or 9th place finish so all is not lost...