but getting our first point of the season, and against last year's premiership champions, is hardly sufficient reason to start preening yourself, and counting your chickens, and firing abuse.
Under the circumstances, with Lucas going off and Agger suspended, we did ok and
the effort couldn't be faulted. Early early days. Young Allen has a cool head, Stevie ran
his heart out, as did Suarez, Skrtel scored a bullet (should be doing it more often, imo).
Hopefully there are signs that we do have an amount of depth and a good spirit in the side.
Let's not kid ourselves though, there was a lot of hairbrained stuff, giving away possession
needlessly, not enough slowing the game down and controlling it. Anyway there was nothing
approaching what Lucas did to them last season which was wrestle the game off them and
assert dominance. The manager should be heartened by the performance the lads put in but
disgusted by the manner we threw it away.
We move on and hopefully have learned something but not getting carried away at all (Southampton
I'm sure we're equally spirited against them last week).