S-Clarke

When we attack and it works well, we create a front 3. Not sure how you've missed that during the start of this season.

To be honest, apart from Spurs, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal etc....no one can really boast amazing depth. Take a couple of good attacking players away from us, villa, newcastle, everton, Swansea...and we look weaker. We're not amoungst the weakest, quite a silly thing to say really, we're just one of the rest.

We don't play a lone striker. We play Pelle as a focal point, with 2 players coming in from the flanks to join to make a front 3 - the full backs them bomb on to supply the width. What is defensive about that?

Just like when Shaw went and we failed to replace him with anyone decent, oh and Lovren, and Lallana, oh and Lambert. Stop with the silly posts.

Pelle is alright at the moment, working hard, but the supply into him is nothing short of horrific. So he's got nothing to work with, he's having to do it all by himself and he's not quite a player of that level to do that.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic with the board cocked up line? We sold our entire spine, and they managed to replace them all and put us a decent position. They didn't cock anything up. If you honestly thought at the start of the season that it was all about maintaining last seasons success, then show me the post. No one expected this start, not one person. Anywhere. So no one cocked up any summer signings.

Sorry, how could he have saved it? He was set to go in the direction of the flight of the ball, until it takes a wicked deflection at the last milisecond which alters the course totally. He was already set, and couldn't change that. Please can people stop blaming every goal on the GK, it's quite boring to read.

I don't think we ever really looked totally comfortable, we never had control of the game or dominated it for any real spells. Neither side did really. It was a disjointed mess from the 1st minute to the last, and it was always going to be hard to get up any head of steam playing that way.

Tadic kills our attack these days, just kills it dead. No idea what's up with him.

That was an absolute mess. No more to say.

A couple of ok moments, but generally a bit of a mess.

Well that will get some people moaning, I guess. Start for Hesketh, but at the expense of Long - not mane. Great to see Toby back. Full strength back 5.

Then you'd get no one at the games, seeing as they'd all still be commuting back from work. The games will be at 8pm.

Yeah, cause going out of the cup should be high on our priority list...

I can see him back at Liverpool, Brendan Rogers clinging onto the hope that a return to his 'spiritual home' will get him back to as he was. Unfortunately, as a player, I think he's done. Which is so sad, cause he was amazing in his peak.

It's the schedule this year, as the new year day games are so close. It has brought up quite a bit of debate and derision that it further 'tarnishes' the magic of the FA Cup, as 'third round Saturday' has always been an historical day.

Nice white teeth too, I might add.

I think the entire front 3 is struggling at the moment, Tadic hasn't been much better in recent weeks (although he was good on Monday). Passes and flicks which were working a few weeks back, are now going to the opposition. I think he's just been dragged down in the collective bad run, and when you're new to a league and quite young as well, it's can be quite difficult to play with a freedom when the team is on a bad run. In an ideal world at this moment in time he'd be the perfect impact sub, but our injuries has meant we can't do this right now.

I think if we play at the same level as we did against Arsenal and Man Utd then we'll win, we'd be too much for them. They will fight, of course, but their lack of any true PL quality through that side is shocking.

I'm not sure if it's our fans, or football fans in general, but how bloody impatient are they? I mean look at the reaction Pelle got on his home debut, he didn't even get 150mins playing time for us until some fans were on his back. I still stand by my opinion that Mane is a good player, with good movement, awareness. When he first started games for us, he was electric - a little bit erratic, but he caused teams all sorts of issues, floating all around the front 3. He was great on his debut at Arsenal for e.g. All the comparisons with him and Ali Dia are quite embarrassing for the posters really.

Yep, that's how players are scouted.

seriously townsend. what is this, LFC TV or something?

Andy Townsend, seriously, what the hell? shut up.

He's pretty abysmal.

They look diabolical to be honest. Rogers summer extravaganza has destroyed that team.