Mad game as usual....even madder line up...cannot believe that toure and gerrard were played...with manure on sunday...mad as batshiite stuff...and now toure is going to miss the manure game...brilliant...
oh well...it's not going to be dull...i'm not sure about the old heart though...
Because of our lack of planning for Carra's retirement and none replacement of the two centre halves Rodgers doesn't
appear to trust, we ended up having to play a 32 year old instead of risking Agger's frail body.
One season clear of major injury shouldn't fool anyone, but we shouldn't have been in a position of choosing from the options that we had. We should have been able to rest both, if they are the first choice pairing.
Two centre halves are the minimum. Coates is out injured for over half the season, and out of favour anyway. Skrtel is coming back from injury, will no doubt miss some more games if his past record is anything to go by, and isn't, so it appears, trusted by the manager anyway. Now our 32 year old is injured, leaving us with just one, previously injury prone, centre half, and it being proved that Wisdom is not ready to play first team football at centre half, no matter the level of first team opponents.
Considering who has left this season, their places in the squad over the last two seasons anyway, the players that were available last season but are now on loan, all in all, our squad is probably thinner than last season, and last season's squad, in terms of useable quality, was threadbare anyway.
Rodgers has cleared out 3 Dalglish purchases he doesn't rate, a player who was here when he first arrived, and has admitted his error (if an error has been made) in removing Assadi.
Balancing out Borini/Allen (though fans are split on that one), with Sturridge/Coutinho/Mignolet, with the paucity of the numbers and quality aspects of the squad, then the manager should be backed with more than a profit making transfer budget. Whether he'll buy the right players, or for the right positions, can be argued, but the fact that he should be backed financially to do so, shouldn't really. We need numbers, preferably of the right quality of course, but we need numbers.
If they're not prepared to back the manager, then appoint one that they are, but whoever the manager is, he should be backed. I'd take Rodgers' transfer record over Dalglish's. That may not be saying much or a ringing endorsement of the man. FSG have to take responsibility for their appointments of Dalglish and Comolli and for allowing them to spend such huge sums on any single player. The shouldn't be punishing their current choice of manager, and most importantly, hanging the fans out to dry with such a lightweight squad. Ticket prices aren't being reduced in line with the strength of the squad.