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      racerx34
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      Liverpool Without the SAS
      Nov 14, 2014 10:35:05 am

      Last season.
      It was glorious.


      Suarez and Sturridge.

      The unstoppable force.
      Steam-rolling teams all over the land.
      We rejoiced. We enjoyed the ride.
      The media loved it.
      Other teams feared it.

      and now it's gone.

      It the cold harsh light of life post SAS we have a lot of questions that need answering.

      Last season's Goals For - 101.
      Only City scored more - 102

      Last season's Goals Against - 50.
      Put's us in midtable.

      We knew Suarez was leaving.
      We knew Sturridge was injury prone.
      The boom time was coming to an end.

      Surely we needed to replace the high pressing game of our attackers this summer.
      I mean, if the defence was still going to be horrendous then surely you need new
      wild dogs up the high end. Harrying. Chasing. Intimidating. Frightening the F***ing
      life out of the other team.

      No. We bought two target men.

      There is no FEAR FACTOR here anymore.
      Until we rectify that we are in trouble.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #1: Nov 14, 2014 10:45:46 am
      What a photo.

      If they had played another season or two together we'd have won the league and they would have gone down as the best strike force pairing the premiership has ever seen.

      Ones now injured and the other was replaced by Lambert and Balotelli :lmao:

      Time to cry.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #2: Nov 14, 2014 10:52:48 am
      It's not just a fear factor gone, team's don't fancy a win against us, they go in to games confident they can beat us knowing we pose no threat to their defence and that our defence crumbles with the slightest pressure. Last Summer's transfer window has to go down in history as the club's worst ever Summer. It's turned us in to a laughing stock.
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      Reply #3: Nov 14, 2014 11:31:42 am
      It's not just a fear factor gone, team's don't fancy a win against us, they go in to games confident they can beat us knowing we pose no threat to their defence and that our defence crumbles with the slightest pressure. Last Summer's transfer window has to go down in history as the club's worst ever Summer. It's turned us in to a laughing stock.

      The fear factor is what stopped Uniteds average midfield from being exposed for years.
      If we'd kept the pairing of Suarez and Sturridge together for a couple of years it would have cemented us at the summit of the Premier League and allowed us to build around it.

      Look at United when they lost it last season.
      Even now it's hard for them to claw it back.
      The only team that has it now -Chelsea.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #4: Nov 14, 2014 12:10:22 pm
      we have basically been castrated
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #5: Nov 14, 2014 12:37:48 pm
      Great Post Racer



      We havent the attack.

      +

      (We havent the defence )

      (We havent the Goalkeeper)
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      Reply #6: Nov 14, 2014 12:48:14 pm
      It's true, but same can be said every quality partnership we have had over the years.

      We are LFC and we move on.

      YNWA.

      ps. things will gradually get better this season, esp. after studger is fit. I can see him, balo & sterling clicking very soon.
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      Reply #7: Nov 14, 2014 12:51:44 pm
      It's true, but same can be said every quality partnership we have had over the years.

      We are LFC and we move on.

      YNWA.

      ps. things will gradually get better this season, esp. after studger is fit. I can see him, balo & sterling clicking very soon.

      We replaced Torres with Suarez and Carroll.
      1 out. 2 in. 50 million in. 50 million out.
      Suarez turned out to be fantastic.
      Carroll didn't work.
      That's football.

      We replaced Suarez with Balotelli and Lambert.
      1 out. 2 in. 65 million in. 20 million out.
      Both are target men.
      Neither have worked out.
      That's not doing your F***ing homework.
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      Reply #8: Nov 14, 2014 12:55:25 pm
      That's not doing your f**king homework.

       ;D

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      Reply #9: Nov 14, 2014 01:59:22 pm
      Balotelli and Lambert for Suarez must be one of the most stupid things this great club has ever done in the transfer window. It's just embarrassing and that's not even considering the other half of the great partnership can't play 5 games without getting injured.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #10: Nov 14, 2014 02:12:40 pm
      Great Post Racer



      We havent the attack.

      +

      (We havent the defence )

      (We havent the Goalkeeper)

      We haven't the midfield either....

      What do we have ???

      We we have a handful of very good players, and a handful of very talented starlets, but we lack an identity and cohesion in the way we play. BR needs to pull his thumb out and come up with some new ideas, because his current plan of sending out the same 11 players with the same instructions and expecting different results is getting old fast....
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #11: Nov 14, 2014 02:52:07 pm
      Lambert was signed well before Suarez was sold, before the international window opened up, before the World Cup, before Suarez bit another human being on a football pitch for the third time (that we know of ;D), so in reality it was more like Lambert for Borini or Aspas, who were both on the outs. Any purpose in signing Lambert went out the window when Balotelli was signed.

      Balotelli was more Suarez's replacement, and hell, he was the third option behind Sanchez and Remy. Like I said about a week ago, if we had signed either one of them, we would be much better off than we are now even with Sturridge's injury. Why we targeted a guy in Balotelli who doesn't match our style is idiotic.
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      Reply #12: Nov 14, 2014 03:01:13 pm
      We haven't the midfield either....


      I was trying to be kind   ..................  ;D

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      Reply #13: Nov 14, 2014 04:17:52 pm
      Lambert was signed well before Suarez was sold, before the international window opened up, before the World Cup, before Suarez bit another human being on a football pitch for the third time (that we know of ;D), so in reality it was more like Lambert for Borini or Aspas, who were both on the outs. Any purpose in signing Lambert went out the window when Balotelli was signed.

      Balotelli was more Suarez's replacement, and hell, he was the third option behind Sanchez and Remy. Like I said about a week ago, if we had signed either one of them, we would be much better off than we are now even with Sturridge's injury. Why we targeted a guy in Balotelli who doesn't match our style is idiotic.

      Bingo.

      But we targeted Balotelli because he was a big name on the cheap that might turn out good for us.

      No one in the world could have replaced Suarez but damn....we sure didn't really even try that hard to figure out a way to do that very thing did we.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #14: Nov 14, 2014 06:41:10 pm
      Like a dog without a tail, that wags !!
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      Reply #15: Nov 14, 2014 06:54:49 pm

      F**k It !
      Couldn't resist it again ....

      Whenever I see that word ...



      http://youtu.be/Ugpg8XruhVk

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      Reply #16: Nov 14, 2014 06:59:03 pm
      No need for alarm - Balotelli is going to be the Cantona of Liverpool  :f_whistle:

      http://www.espnfc.com/club/liverpool/364/blog/post/2146360/lfc-fans-dont-need-to-panic--yet

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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #17: Nov 14, 2014 07:04:21 pm
      Most people argued in the past that we were dependent on few players.

      Fact is, all football teams are dependent on few players. No matter how good the players in the squad are, there will always be two or three game changers.
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #18: Nov 14, 2014 07:04:53 pm
      F**k It !
      Couldn't resist it again ....

      Whenever I see that word ...



      http://youtu.be/Ugpg8XruhVk



      :lmao:
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      Re: Liverpool Without the SAS
      Reply #19: Nov 14, 2014 07:11:08 pm

      I was dead set against him coming here and there is no real reason why I shouldn't just start on him as a major fault this season, I still can't, I can see what's going on each game and there is no link in that final third of the pitch.
      He's here now and it shouldn't be put on his shoulders.
      I could get a quote of mine from the transfer gossip in the summer and you or anyone will see I was really mean about him, the point I'm trying to make is, if I'm not going to get on his back even after that opinion I had, I must be concerned about other things in the team/tactics more.

      Thanks for sharing the article anyway :)
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      Reply #20: Nov 14, 2014 09:40:54 pm
      Even with SAS we are far off the standard required to win the Prem. They were on exceptional form last season. Chelsea finished a couple points behind us with no decent strikers. Liverpool without any decent strikers are more midtable quality than top four quality. That's the difference.

      We'd need to strengthen other areas anyway, including GK, defence, and midfield. SAS just helped us hide our inadequacies at the time.
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      Reply #21: Nov 14, 2014 10:09:41 pm
      last season we had the best strike force since Rush and Kenny at their peak ,how could anyone at Liverpool Football club start a season with Balotelli and someone else. I cannot think of a decision that is so wrong yet nobody has been sacked or even brought to book
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      Reply #22: Nov 14, 2014 10:12:12 pm
      Most people argued in the past that we were dependent on few players.
      Fact is, all football teams are dependent on few players. No matter how good the players in the squad are, there will always be two or three game changers.

      ..... and our game changers are  .....   ?

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