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yes i want both and i can see why liverpool can't have both .

Do you! I would say very few fans (apart from you) would de happy with a good cup run and 5th in the league.

thats being harsh on the kids

Faz, you can't see because you won't read what anyone says to you, you just accuse people of not wanting to win. We all want to win trophies, but there is a reason playing our strongest side is a huge risk. In fact, there are 6.

Sturridge, Johnson, Sakho, Enrique, Allen, and Flannagan are all hurt. 3 first choice defenders, our second leading scorer, and two important squad players; ALL INJURED. Both our first choice fullbacks and even our first choice backup fullback are injured. To cap that off, we just played a heavily congested run of 3 games since boxing day, including 2 very demanding games against the two toughest squads in the country. Playing our tired 1st teamers is a huge injury risk right now. Unless we sign some players, and soon, it's just not smart to play our strongest side in the cup.

Consider the worst case scenario for either option on sunday. Say we play our strongest side, and Suarez, Henderson, or Sterling gets hurt. One more injury would destroy our season; Cup run and League run. Even if we won Sunday, do you really think we could have a deep run with another key injury?If we drew City or Chelsea or Spurs, we'd get our asses knocked out in the next round. Or worse, say we pick up injuries AND lose because our players are so exhausted. The potential gain simply does not outweigh the risk, and it's a very high risk.

Now say we play a weaker side and we lose. Play Agger, Migs, Toure, and Gerrard, and give Aspas and some youngsters a shot. That team SHOULD be able to beat the likes of Oldham Athletic, but even if we lose the FA Cup match, that's only the FA Cup gone, with the league to come and our first team rested and ready.

A bird in the hand or two in the bush, that's the choice.

I am the only one who's curious about lumba and his Italian crack addict girlfriend?? we seem to have just skipped past that.

I missed that bit. Maybe we should start a new thread for that. Over to you, Lumba.

so faz what you are saying is you hate liverpool, and want to murder world leaders?

Pathetic when you think in general terms, for proper logic you must have a look at our squad and who we had on the bench against City and Chelsea compared to them. Yes they play the champions league, but their bench has better players than our first team and we are still only 6 and 5 points off them probably because they have played in the CL, ask Jose Mourinho the difference on the squad when playing every 3-4 days and every 6-7 days.

I'm going to this one, so hoping to see a few first teamers through in there

Where's the score prediction thread...AGAIN?