Conroy wrote:
Heard things like that for years from the red side of Merseyside. What was the excuse when Torres and Gerrard were upfront and you bombed the league by dropping points against the lesser teams in the league like Fulham, Wigan, West Brom etc? What was the excuse last year with the King in charge when you dropt points against teams like Fulham, Wigan and West Brom?
Obviously, I wasn't speaking so literally. Results like that will always happen, but the past few years they've been a too regular occurrence. The point I'm making is: with a better striker to partner Suarez, in a game like today where we start better, create more and look the better side, we'll capitalise on that play more often than not. We lack the mentality to kill teams off, whilst our defence hasn't been anywhere near strong enough to keep us in close games. That's not a view on today, that's a view on the past two/three seasons. I'm hoping things will change, but change doesn't take place until you get rid of the dire personnel. As shown today, Suarez was on fire for the majority of the first half, but you can't expect him to do everything offensively and score the goals, he needs support but he didn't get it today. I can accept Borini struggling, it's early doors for him and he'll have time to improve, but Downing is an established player who's never proven his consistency, Gerrard too is established and you can't accept sloppy play like today. Today was too much like last season, a combination of wasteful play, poor play and bad luck resulted in a dire result and overall poor performance. These 'reasons'/'excuses' have become so normal you start to wonder if it is bad luck. A game like today I would normally brush off as 'one of those days' where nothing goes in your favour, but I've seen that happen so often I have to question the attitude of the team.
I'm confident in Rodgers, I think he'll identify the problems and get rid, I just hope he does it sooner rather than later.
