Re-posting in this thread.
Just as I would give Roy and the team credit when credit is due I think it is equally fair to lambast the team and the manager when they put on a performance like tonight.
We looked like the team of 11 new players uncomfortable playing with each other not City.
On tonight's display and with almost a full team we wont come close to challenging for anything worthwhile, not to mind finishing in the top 4.
Gerrard for about the 15th season in a row looks head and shoulders above most of the other outfield players. Lucas is not good enough for Liverpool, Carragher is a spent force. Johnson was shocking, Kuyt's touch was diabolical to say the least.
Hard work and graft are attributes used to describe players who just dont cut the mustard and on tonights performance we have plenty of players that are exactly that.
Torres must be looking at the transfer window wondering if a move can still happen because himself and Gerrards talents are wasted in a team that performs like that.
As for Hodgsons tactics, decision making and use of substitutions, you wouldn't have seen them in a Championship game. We have witnessed some bad results over the last few seasons but that rates right up there with them.
The forwards looked isolated, waiting to pick up scraps from balls just lofted up from defense. Gerrard was almost expected to cover the two central midfield positions Lucas was so ineffective. Jovanovic to give him his credit showed some glimpses of promise. Defensively we got cut open, Carragher struggling to get back, Johnson chasing shadows. We allowed cross after cross be whipped into our box from both wings, rarely closing the likes of Adam Johnson down.
People can point to the fact that its so early on in the season but this is just yet another repeat of early seasons gone by. Fans should no longer accept this crap. We look a spent force in desperate need of an overhaul and although this is a rant in the heat of the moment I refuse to keep making excuses as to why we are so often so bad.
Maybe its time fans increased the pressure on the yanks to go because on tonight's performance we are light years off a team that although drew got battered by Spurs on the opening day of the season.