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I'm really getting ****ed off with our "supporters" blaming Balotelli for this, and everyone jumping on he bandwagon, even the Echo is asking for an apology over the shirt swapping 'incident'.

It's a joke.

Honestly it just feels like he is a whipping boy for the utter **** we have been playing recently. Such an easy target.
 
anticonscience said:
I'm really getting ****ed off with our "supporters" blaming Balotelli for this, and everyone jumping on he bandwagon, even the Echo is asking for an apology over the shirt swapping 'incident'.

It's a joke.

Honestly it just feels like he is a whipping boy for the utter **** we have been playing recently. Such an easy target.
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Don't get me (and perhaps others) wrong, i'm not blaming Balotelli for losing the game. But if you can't bothered to put some effort in for probably the biggest game of the season, then it says a lot about you as a player (After a string of poor performances as well).

Everyone was bad, but in particular Balotelli (and Johnson, but he at least appeared to be "trying").
 
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It's not aimed at anyone here specifically, just on listening to people on the radio and seeing peoples tweets.

I saw something posted that Jan Molby said and it was "Mario tracks back to get the ball, he gets called out for not waiting in the box, he waits in the box and gets called out for being lazy and not playing for the team". The poor lad is screwed, then you have being played up front as a lone striker which does not suit him and he is the sole focus point for all the frustration.

Brendan needs to step and take this flak along with his backroom staff, we have serious issues this season.
 
Balotelli is just one of those low workrate players that will never make it at a big club, or at least not one of the English clubs. He should go back to Italy really, he seemed to be doing pretty well at AC Milan.
 
anticonscience said:
...Brendan needs to step and take this flak along with his backroom staff, we have serious issues this season.
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The majority of press today has focused on Balotelli swapping shirts at half time when it should really be on how rubbish Liverpool were tactically, Brendan must be delighted he's got a scapegoat.
He still hasn't got a clue how to set up a team to not lose (see V Chelsea last year) which is sometimes as good as a win & you frustrate the life out of better attacking sides which by doing so can get you wins, see Chelsea in 2012.
He's spent an awful lot of money this season and has gone backwards, I wonder if Liverpool fans now realise that it's not just about how much money you spend.
 
Liverpool have never been that good defensively under Rodgers the major factor this season is that other teams are showing a lot more ambition against them because they're no longer over-occupied with containing Suarez and Sturridge who were devastating last season. I felt Real Madrid were just seeing the game out second half last night.
 
JohnnyG said:
The majority of press today has focused on Balotelli swapping shirts at half time when it should really be on how rubbish Liverpool were tactically, Brendan must be delighted he's got a scapegoat.
He still hasn't got a clue how to set up a team to not lose (see V Chelsea last year) which is sometimes as good as a win & you frustrate the life out of better attacking sides which by doing so can get you wins, see Chelsea in 2012.
He's spent an awful lot of money this season and has gone backwards, I wonder if Liverpool fans now realise that it's not just about how much money you spend.
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Wasn't there a point where everyone was giving Spurs grief about how they spent and how they wasted all the money and everyone piled on. Even though they hadn't dropped really any points on the previous season it was just the actual performances were god awful and it was awful to watch football.

The comparison was made over summer, bale/Suarez, big money, club spending it on a relatively large number of younger/less known/bigger risk players. Liverpool fans were very insistent they weren't in the same situation as Spurs....... funny how things work out really isn't it :p

Liverpool are now doing most things wrong. Harry Redknapp style management, don't fix the defence in terms of training, tactics, coaching.... just bring in new players and hope that fixes the defence.

I saw I think footie 365 basically saying Rodgers had said, while talking about England, don't blame the players, blame the coaching......... yet he just replaces defenders rather than change the coaching. Not sure if he's blind or just a hypocrite.

Rodgers is tactically pretty poor, he relied on several very pacey players and said, run your hearts out for 30 mins, even if it meant the next 60 minutes would be harder.

All the top teams are weathering this 30 minute storm then beating Liverpool now. Stupid teams(Spurs/Arsenal) are completely tactically inept and pushed forwards during this 25-30 minute period and got caught time and time again. Chelsea/Real/City sat further back, attacked less, made that 30 minutes hard and then really went on to comfortably dominate the next 60 minutes of the game.

It's an exceptionally risky tactic, it's also ridiculously predictable and pretty damn easy to counter, even with Suarez there the genuinely top teams weren't getting caught out by it, without Suarez the tactic isn't even working well against worse opposition and the bigger games are much less close.

Thing is, with this effectively single tactic, why didn't he go out and buy the fastest striker possible? One who actually suited this one real strength of the team and the only real tactic he uses?
 
drunkenmaster said:
It's an exceptionally risky tactic, it's also ridiculously predictable and pretty damn easy to counter, even with Suarez there the genuinely top teams weren't getting caught out by it, without Suarez the tactic isn't even working well against worse opposition
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Suarez was a match winner and if you sell a match winner (unless you are a small club), you should replace with another match winner...quickly.

Liverpool sell, arguably the best striker playing in Europe and they replace him with nobody (I'm going to ignore Balotelli because this guy can't be taken seriously). I said after the biting incident that they should only sell Suarez if they get £90M+. If they do, buy another match winner (eg. Ronaldo, Messi, Robben, etc). Instead, they sold for a lower amount and didnt replace him.

Perhaps Suarez demanded to leave...but it is upto the manager to persuade the player to stay. Thats the manager's job. Keep the good players in the team. I remember when Ronaldo wanted to leave, Fergie told him to stay another year, then he could go to Madrid.

Perhaps B.Rodgers didnt think much of Suarez - not sure, but he is now going to pay for that very costly mistake.

In any case, while Liverpool wont be competing for the title any time soon, they should at least be competing for a top 4 position. Arsenal and Man Utd aren't doing particularly well, either.
 
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