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ya haven't a clue.

real madrid coasted. there is nothing in the current set up to build on, in fact taking last season into account, we are stumbling through the wreckage, clearly deluded that we are still going somewhere.

that line up was a disgrace. people celebrating cause we didnt get a hiding is a disgrace. you have all accepted mediocrity like good little boys, fsg will be very happy with your compliance.

I know the "we surrendered before a ball was kicked" soundbite was sold to us by Lineker and others in the media but if you actually think about it - it doesn't make any sense.

Our first team got mullered at home by Real 3-0. Our first team has been absolutely dire, failing to score against lowly Hull, Newcastle and others. Our first team were heading for a loss tonight... based on recent form. So why is changing the team around and trying other options considered to be throwing the game??? BR actually gave us a bit more chance by trying some new options. Toure, apart from one lapse, had a really good game. Can looks assured in that position - and Lucas seems to play a lot better without Gerrard next to him for some reason. Markovich wasn't great again - but arguably a bit better. Lallana had some good moments - and Borini showed more movement than Balo or Lambert has lately.

Yes, we were still tepid up front - abysmal and having no confidence in the final third - and that still has to be fixed. But how can naming a new team and trying new options said to be 'throwing in the towel' when the first team has been so awful? It's a good little soundbite and lots of our fans have fallen for it - but it's not really true. We brought our best three players on for the last quarter of the game and looked NO BETTER up front! Gerrard, Coutinho and Sterling created nothing remotely close to the equaliser - so not starting them is not really much of a concession is it? The team tonight did a lot better than the team did at Anfield - no matter what the armchair pundits trot out.

Couldn't have put it better by myself.

Now you look like a complete fool. That team performed better than our supposed first team did at Anfield. Actually, they played the best game since Spurs - for all your blustering and pompous doom-mongering - you're wrong again! When your team is in the doldrums you change things, try different options, try new personnel, new combinations. Had we played the team you wanted we probably would have lost by a greater margin.

Why have I not a clue? Because Im not a miserable pr1ck?
At no point did I ever say this was a good result or that I was celebrating, but if you watched the game and didnt see an improvement in performance then your blind

it's not about misery. ya see, this is the mistake people keep making. citing misery, doom and all those buzz words stop people from seeing what i'm getting at.

Trying to extract shafts of light from this situation is a waste of time. if this was rodgers starting out it might be different but we are not building a team, we had a team last year and it has been decimated. We should have been kicking on but instead it is in ruins, we have gone entirely backward. So, my point is rodgers isn't taking us forward, he has taken us backward.

in isolation it might be somewhat acceptable to have lost one nil in madrid, but no one will convince me that real took us seriously. they only ran around in the last ten minutes. it was like a harlem globetrotters game. we have been completely dire this season, in team selection, tactics, morale and effort and it is for that reason that i think this bullshiit "i'm a real fan because i'm finding tiny positives" carry on unproductive and unintelligent.