Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

I'll take what I can get. Clean sheet for Enrique too, get that up ye.

it's all about the cups. it's all about the cups. it's all about the cups. argh fuck it.

no Dalglish interview :(

I'd have a 'what does the future hold' poll up by now were it anyone else.

hey, look on the bright side, at least doni's gonna get a few games :D

At least we'll get an outfielder in goal now.

Think the last time that happened was Staunton going in goal in the Derby in 99/00 wasn't it. Made a great fingertip save too.

Tottenham being well outplayed here in the first 15', but I don't really trust Swansea to make sure the scoreline reflects that.

Predictably, one nice Spurs counter makes it 1-0, VdV with the goal.

Bale acting like a winger

otm

Give Bale time. He'll revert to form before you know it.

Think the last time that happened was Staunton going in goal in the Derby in 99/00

Staunton at Liverpool in 2000?

It's such a joy to see Bale bombing down the left again, Rangel can't cope with him at all. Swansea are playing too openly for an away game at WHL, would expect Rogers to do something about that at half time.

Modric is looking good as well, late miss aside. That guy could play for Swansea.

Dion Dublin keeps saying 'Bale's heels are on the chalk'.

Dublin is a bizarre 'analyst' figure, almost all his replies to questions are jovial references to his own excellence as a player.

first goal in 133 corners for spurs

We scored from one on Wednesday.

league corners

Have you had 132 today?

Kenny is now favourite to be next manager out

i posted that fact in the league thread guys. come on.

If we get one more we're back in third.

Siggurdsson is really good btw.

yeah, he has 15 goals in 47 epl and bundesliga apps

Staunton at Liverpool in 2000?

Indeed. It was after that Westerveld/Jeffers fight at Anfield and we'd used all 3 subs.

Dublin is a bizarre 'analyst' figure

he thinks that Swansea's goal was a mis-struck shot, which seems entirely wrong to me

3-1 was a more or less fair score I think but Spurs' profligacy in or near the box was almost Arsenal-esque

(xp) How old was he by then? I have no memory of Staunton going back to Liverpool.

well he was trying to keep the volley down but i don't know if the bounce was entirely intentional

nah I reckon he knew how much havoc it would cause Friedel on acct of his poor positioning

caller to 5Live just suggested, quite seriously, that Kevin Keegan should take over at LFC till the end of the season.

football fans are the biggest idiots in the world

xp pretty sure every non-Liverpool fan can get behind that idea tbf

Dalglish to reign for a thousand years

carragher player manager, phil thompson as assistant

staunton came back at the start of 98/99 when evans and houllier were in charge. ahh, joint managers, that was fun. he was 29 when he came back. scored against hull in the league cup. don't know why i remember that. i have to say this staunton chat is a lot more enjoyable than trying to make sense of what's going on at lfc in 2012.

Staunton's got managerial experience, no?

no

no way is dalglish going any time soon btw. don't know why i'm so sure of this but there ya go.

Stevie G for player-manager surely!

Dalglish won't be manager when the next season starts.

I think Kenny's finished now myself, he probably won't go now because there's a semifinal shortly, but he'll be gone with thanks as soon as the season's over. That was the kind of shambles, rounding off a dreadful streak, that managers rarely recover from. The players are obviously all over the place, mentally.

I'm thinking it'll be Rafa.

Really ??

I mean I can see KD going but not RB coming back.

rewatched qpr last night and our defensive strategy is all over the place. some players pressing, others not, leaving gaps, downing at centreforward for restarts, in a 442 shape sometimes, 451 at others. no-one seems to have a clue what they're supposed to be doing, and it makes you wonder what the hell they're doing on the training pitch. same today, spearing presses, leaves a huge gap behind him - basic stuff. i posted a video recently of rafa's lfc pressing against villa in 08/09, and it was fucking beautiful. not saying we should be at that level already at this stage of kenny's project, but ffs it's march, and we don't seem to have any idea whatsoever of what *the plan* is. are we analysing games? figuring out what's going wrong? even attempting to put things right? because it's been the same problems all season. and yet every now and again we do look very good. first 20mins today, excellent, thought we were on to something, moving it from back to front with confidence. but when we keep falling apart like this, i dunno, is kenny just leaving it all to the players to figure out for themselves?

he'll still be here next season mind. and no way is rafa coming back, however much i want him to.

however much i want him to.

(in 10 years time when kenny's won us a few league titles and a couple of european cups obv.)

hi

no way does dalglish last june

third, i'm tellin ye. adebayor rubbish today besides two centre fwd goals- i can live with that but he'd get more if he

i. took up centre fwd positions
ii. jumped ffs

which spurs player was it that accidentally kicked a swansea player when he was supposed to kick the ground in frustration? that was funny.

walker

Pardew attributed Cissé's excellent performance to diet. The striker's two goals here took his Premier League total to seven since his debut in February – two more than Carroll has managed in the league in 14 months at Liverpool. "We had Africa day at the training ground on Friday," Pardew said. "We made him feel at home by having curried goat for lunch. It was lovely."

Lawro is like D-Mac in thinking Spurs 3rd

I liked the casual authority with which he said it

Lawro is now much better pundit than Hansen / Shearer unless it is just the magic MotD2 influence.