FA Cup 3rd Round

The Professor wrote:Lack of confidence.

I'd say football is atleast 60-70% in the head. Natrural ability, tactics, luck etc count for the rest.

Those big wins give you that confidence surely?

Arsenal wobbled for a few games, but they beat Liverpool and it's been back to normal for them.

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The Professor wrote:Lack of confidence.

I'd say football is atleast 60-70% in the head. Natrural ability, tactics, luck etc count for the rest.

Those big wins give you that confidence surely?

Arsenal wobbled for a few games, but they beat Liverpool and it's been back to normal for them.

It proves those wins were lucky, the teams they were playing had an off day.

thats the only way to explain it.

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The Professor wrote:Lack of confidence.

I'd say football is atleast 60-70% in the head. Natrural ability, tactics, luck etc count for the rest.

Those big wins give you that confidence surely?

Arsenal wobbled for a few games, but they beat Liverpool and it's been back to normal for them.

Difference is though, we already had a winning formula(we didn't have one much of last season), Pool are currently trying to create one.

The match against Reading has nothing to do with their transition i'd say, they should be able to beat teams of that standard over two legs even without Gerrard, Alonso, Reina, Jonhson etc Purely a confidence issue IMO.

debaser wrote:What's been really weird about Liverpool is complete failure to get out of the rut after good results:

Beat Man Utd - then don't win their next five.

Beat Everton - followed by a draw at Blackburn and two home losses.

Beat Villa - go out of FA Cup to Reading.

yeah, without checking I don't think we've won 3 games in a row all season.

It's hard to pinpoint the problems because there isn't one major problem, just lots of little ones plus the confidence issue. We won games before without Gerrard, Torres, Alonso etc and I think one of the reasons Rafa picked fairly strong sides against Reading was to try and build momentum.

I wonder if increased expectation is a factor. The last time we were expected to be title challengers at the start of the season was the year after Fergle announced his retirement, we'd just finished 2nd within spitting distance of Arsenal (although never really in the race) finished the season strongly and signed the new Henry and the new Viera. We were awful and finished 5th, the new Henry and the new Vieira turned out to be the actual El Hadji Diouf and the actual Salif Diao.

You actually won 6 on the bounce in September. But I'm not sure it was ever the most convincing run - other than thrashing Burnley and Hull, it was narrow wins over Bolton, WHam, Leeds and Debrecen.

I think we'll win the next 6 games on some sort of bounce. Apparently this Argentine we've signed on a free is like Ronaldo and Messi rolled into 1.

Stoke v Liverpool
Liverpool v Tottenham
a Wolves XI v Liverpool
Liverpool v Bolton
Liverpool v Everton
Arsenal v Liverpool

ordinarily I'd say that's a guaranteed 18 points, but on current form I'd take 7.

I predict you'll beat Spurs, then lose to Wolves and draw with Bolton and Everton

LOL, just hope thy dont sak him doin a great job. 10 losses in 20 great form

THE-FRANK-TAVERN!!!!!

good job Atletico Madrid are doing so well otherwise Frank wouldn't be able to gloat

The Professor wrote:Lack of confidence.

I'd say football is atleast 60-70% in the head. Natrural ability, tactics, luck etc count for the rest.

Dont forget Fergie time

Absolutely fuming.

What we saw tonight was unacceptable, absolutely shameful. Every week I'm sick of seeing the same shite being spouted by our players and manager, "we will improve and start playing well" etc then they have the audacity to throw in another gutless, effortless, disgusting performance like that.

What worries me the most is that we're losing games at Anfield, at least if you're away form's dodgy you know you can get it right at home with the fans behind you but it seems to be the other way round at the moment, we go to Villa and get a win but then we look nervy and panicky when we're at Anfield, the fans lose patience and the players are scared to play.

A lot of people are blaming the manager but the players have to take the blame as well, the defending I saw tonight was something I'd expect to see in the conference, fuck it in a sunday league match played by 10 year olds. Carragher let the ball go past him because he was scared of scoring an own goal, had that ball landed to Drogba or Rooney that would have been a certain goal and Carra would have a lot to answer for. I love the guy for what he's done for us but he's struggling badly out there now, his reading of the game has vanished, his marking is off and all he can do now is hoof it. I'm sorry but we don't have Crouch anymore, a hoofed ball is going to get us nowhere.

Kuyt yet again was awful, every time he tried to cross it, it never went past the last defender. Not good enough for a winger for a top side, not good enough for any winger. Hopefully Rafa's noticed this and that's why he's bought Maxi in because if he doesn't drop Kuyt now then for me he's lost the plot.

Torres and Gerrard aren't fit and haven't been for most of the season, it shows how desperate Rafa is and he's right to be because without them I couldn't see us getting a goal if we played for 10 days. A Benayoun that isn't confident is a very poor player IMO. He's lost his concentration and intelligence that makes him such a valuable footballer.

Despite the painful performance what I will say is that we were missing Reina, Johnson, Mascherano and Riera who you could argue would all normally start. I don't know if they would have changed the result but this shouldn't be forgotten, United are struggling without key players and so are we. It's not rocket science.

Having said that, the players that are on the pitch aren't good enough. The centre of midfield is becoming humiliating, Lucas and Aquilani can't put a pass together, Aquilani has an excuse for not being in sync with his team-mates just yet but Lucas should know who's making runs and where to pass to, he just lobs balls aimlessly half the time and it's becoming a hinderance.

It's vitally important that we keep our league form going, 6 points from Stoke and Spurs would be massive IMO and on the face of it, if we were to get that 4th place then I don't think any fan would swap that for a run in either the FA cup or the Europa League. We can still ensure we have a respectable season and more importantly ensure that next season we get things right from the start.

Have a warm drink and cheer up

How origional, knew you'd say something like that when I saw it was you who had responded, how about talking football? Got nothing to add? Stay out of it then.

The problem is Torres is 3x more injury prone than rafu and fabios put together

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I'll ban myself, this board is the gloomiest i've seen, even when we're winning, a lot of people on here are tossers, that is all

You stoop so low to actually bother looking through RAWK... Wow

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Luis wrote:How origional, knew you'd say something like that when I saw it was you who had responded, how about talking football? Got nothing to add? Stay out of it then.

Origional? I think you repeat the same rant every week, normally involving performaces not being good enough and something about Kuyt and Lucas.

How about an origional rant?

I hate how some Liverpool fans have turned Lucas into some sort of scapegoat. He's been one of Liverpool's better performers this season + he was never an Alonso. If anything, Liverpool should be playing one of Lucas or Mascherano and on current form, it would be a close call.

Cheap laughs anyone?

...I heard Rafa's English needs work. He's okay at speaking and listening, but struggles with Reading.

Credit to "Marix Quzon" from the F365 mailbox.

Tweesus wrote:I hate how some Liverpool fans have turned Lucas into some sort of scapegoat. He's been one of Liverpool's better performers this season + he was never an Alonso. If anything, Liverpool should be playing one of Lucas or Mascherano and on current form, it would be a close call.

Being one of our best performers this season is nothing to brag about Tweeds. It still means he has been shit and dominated in most matches he has played. The guy offers nothing positive to the team and never has done.

On current form it is Mascherano and on any form it will always be Mascherano. It isn't close at all.

kas wrote:Cheap laughs anyone?

...I heard Rafa's English needs work. He's okay at speaking and listening, but struggles with Reading.

Credit to "Marix Quzon" from the F365 mailbox.

love it

Liverpool had already started e-mailing season ticket holders details on how to buy their 4th round tickets -

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2809034/Reds-in-Cup-ticket-clanger.html

lolathon.

We should just nuke Liverpool. Its a total waste of space

What a surprise it's from that dirty shite paper that no one in Liverpool would read in a million years.

To clear this up for your small naive brains, on the official site it has ticket selling arrangements for the POSSIBLE game with Burnley, they always have ticket details a couple of weeks ahead of when the game would be as it allows fans to see if theyre eligible and what dates they need to get the tickets on.

What about Everton fans?

Kimbo wrote:What about Everton fans?

A lot of them don't either, a lot of them lost friends and family at Hillsborough as well, it's not just about football sometimes.

Fact. If I stood in Liverpool today with one bucket marked "Money for Haiti Earthquake Victims" and one marked "Money for Hillsborough Victims" the latter would get 4 times as much money donated.

Because Fact into Doubt doesn't go.

The Sun's circulation in Liverpool after Hillsborough went down by 95%

Around the same time they had a front page headline claiming you could not get AIDS from straight sex

What a paper

Iraq Hysén Osama wrote:The Sun's circulation in Liverpool after Hillsborough went down by 95%

Must've been dark times.

Badum.