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Clearly roy gave a rousing pre match speech and gave some enlightenend instructions on how we would maintain shape and go forward as a team and the lads raced off on to the pitch and ignored the old fool

Spot on m8. Agree with your marks.

i think Lucas should get more marks as he was one of the better players on the day.

Reina did nothing much so for me, he gets a 7.

I think I would of given similar ratings. I must admit however that when I saw Maxi on the right wing instead of Pacheco I felt sick, but he played much better then the previous 7 or so games he started. Keep it up lads. A win at Bolton would set up a nice encounter with the blues.

oh yeah the 30m net spend over 6 years. One win and everyone forgets what they said about the manager Roy has spent 8milliion on konchesky and poulson multiply that by 6 years if he were heaven forbid still be here . thats a big spend on players of dubious quality. At least benitez are players who get picked for the international team. The next lot of buys will be interesting. Miereles is good buy have to wait and see, and yes anyone who says we played well against everton is a fool
Judge him on 10 games he said it himself . OK i am jumping the gun afte 9 games, he is incompetent,
Only settling into the job, 3 months gone and one good performance in league and one in europa against steaua (4 goals scored anyway) Roy rates himself as a big intellect which is laughable, he will be talking about rebuilding or starting to rebuild for the whole year

Its funny you mentioned that mate because apart from a few players, benitez spent millions on average 'dubious' players like you described it. I just dont understand the people who just does not want to let go of the benitez era. He's gone, welldone for him for some things but he is gone now, no use comparing todays buy with him. I would suggest you compare the buys within premierleague managers nowadays. Also you said Meireles is a good buy, and that just shows every manager, even the worshipped ones(Mourinho) buy bad players.

I half agree with you, Snakeye. Every manager buys lemons; no one is exempt from this. But it's not often that a manager buys someone who is obviously average for a top flight team, and Roy got more than one of those this transfer window. I think a lot of people that fail at top clubs at least have something going for them (youth, significant international experience at a respectable level of competition, dependability, a good left foot or whatever). Sometimes most of the reason these players fail is because they don't manage to adjust to the setup or system or manager, and sometimes it's because they were already playing their best football and aren't able to make the step up.

Perhaps one might say Konchesky was a clutch buy because the money from Mascherano came so late, but Roy had the entire transfer window to come to some agreement with someone of LFC first team class at LB (our weakest position by a mile at the time). Instead he spent what little funds we had on Poulsen. Quite frankly, had Meireles been a target prior to Mascherano being sold, I don't see how Roy can justify buying Poulsen instead of a quality left back and instead of being more assertive in getting rid of Mascherano before it turned into the fiasco it did.

We play so much better when we are let off the leash. It has never been in Liverpools make up to play ultra defensive. Look at the premier league this year, the teams who are doing the best are the ones who dont give a [oops] and just go for it.

Id rather lose 4-3 week in week out than draw 0-0 or lose 2-0 then start playing attacking after we go two down.

I am sick of defensive football, there was a stage a few seasons ago when everyone was doing it and it does my head in. After this years poor world cup I have some what fell out of love with the game, added to this the constant winging of players about an extra 10k a week when they earn 50k + - these lads should be put on a building site working for 7.00 a hour for a week to make them realise how fantastic a life they have.

Added to the fact we have played some dire football for the past year. I sometime envy fans of lower league teams because at least a lot of there players actually have passion and a real feel for the club. Our lot seem like they have the weight of the world on there shoulders...they need a kick up the arse , they play for Liverpool FC one of the biggest clubs in the world. Ungrateful shower

Im not being funny but am I the only one who think that we play much better without that Jovanovic fella in the team. I cant take to him, know hes new and came into a struggling team but why real madrid even looked at him is beyond me, He was [oops] in the world cup as well.

Maybe a tad unfair but I had a feeling when we got him he was Voronin number 2

Result was a relief, at last we went out and battered someone,
2-1 didn't do us justice at all. Robinson made some great saves.
However it is only one result and i'm not convinced! Think next 2 games are vital, if the next 2 are good results (say 4 points, possibly 6!) then think Roy will be with us till summer, if not (0 or 1 point) then think Roy should go before xmas with new man in in time for Jan window.
10 or 11 games is enough to know what direction manager is taking the team.