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is the great steven gerrard finished , he is a true great best player of his generation , but today and monday his performance were to be kind to him absolutely dire , just awful jumping out of tackles , abysmal passing from a player who even at half pace should be better at than anyone else , i am pretty sad to put this post up but its easy enough to give other players stick because maybe they havent got the ability of gerrard , but gerrard looked like a great player who is very much on the downward slide for me today was by far the worst performance from the liverpool captain and actually one of the worse performance from a liverpool player of his calibre for a long long time .

Here we go.

Fickle doesn't even begin to describe this.

He's not finished, he is just not the same player he was back in 2008-9, where he probably was the second best player in the world/

not being fickle at all , just seeing a true great especially today going through the motions , he was utterly bad today and last monday at swansea , not fickle its was glaring obvious today , yes he isnt the player he was in 09, or 05 etc etc , but even players who are not at the top of there game can still play at a certain level and gerrard sadly isnt .

Two bad games ( that's debatable) and he is finished.

That is fickle in any mans language.

did you watch the match mate ? are performances like today and monday really acceptable from a player of gerrard's calibre ? ok if a lesser player was playing like that he would be called sh1te , crap etc etc , but you are giving gerrard a walkover based on the past .

He's not finished, he just had his best playing days under Rafa. Rafa seemed to really get him playing to his full potential. Something no other manager has managed since. Whether it was Rafa knowledge or his belief in Stevie and his managerial skills, or just the fact Stevie was in his prime, I dunno, but he never played better than under RafaelBenitez.

As I said in another thread. I can't begin to understand why he was given a new contract this season, likewise I don't know why he is playing every minute of every game and is seemingly undroppable, his best days were 5 years ago and has been on a downward spiral since Rafa left.

His legs are long gone, his attitude is awful, always the first head to drop when we are losing, is getting progressively worse at set pieces, attempts some ridiculous Hollywood passes and very rarely gets lucky, takes the man out rather than the ball. I think he's already on the Golf green planning his retirement.

The worst thing is we haven't even begun to think about replacing him and Brendan is only kidding himself if he thinks Stevie has more years left in him.

I think he doesn't have the engine anymore (to play how he played) and this is why he plays deeper. Unfortunately it was his driving runs that caused the most problems rather than his passing and this has been in short supply for over two years. He still has something to offer but Mr Liverpool's star has dimmed.

In the past the fight in him was that against all odds we will win if it doesn't work the next time it will. During the last few years it looks like he has a go and when it doesn't work he is like "whats the point" and has a little break.

+1 The old Gerrard is gone, but we need to move on from being a one man team.