beejay

Wow, that is a proper article from your local paper. Fair play to Ben Thornley, way to go

GEH007 : Are you referring to indemnity insurance by any chance?

This is getting really daft now. You and many others are slagging off our captain and best player for what exactly? He didn't sack Rafa, he doesn't run the club and there is no evidence anywhere that he & Carra have some sort of a hold over the club hierarchy. It's garbage

I'm as keen as anyone to see the back of Hodgson but what on God's green earth is all this about hoping to lose against Blackburn? We are in the relegation zone and need to get the f*** out of it pronto, starting with 3 points against Fat Sam. The owners aren't stupid, they will sack him once they have the right person lined up but until then, I'm sick of losing, sick of the jokes, sick of moaning, I want to see us win a game and play some decent football.

I really hope Harry Harris was right when he reported that the club have an escape clause in Hodgson's contract that allows us to pay him off with a year's salary within 28 days of a takeover. Clock ticking...

They talk about driving up revenues but then re-investing all the money into the club. They have also said that they have not taken a penny out of the Red Sox since acquisition. That can only mean in business terms that their return will be on capital appreciation. Having bought the club for a reported £300m (which could be less if the Times are right and RBS accepted £200m to redeem the loan), then they can afford to plough back all profits to seek to boost revenue through success on the pitch and exploiting the brand and then work on self-financing capital investment in stadium build/improvements. If this is successful, the club would be worth mega-more than their initial outlay and NESV can borrow more as a company based on the value of their underlying assets without directly impacting on the balance sheet of LFC.

Dead man walking is spot on. We know it, he knows it and the owners know it as well. The players know it as well, judging from their performances. I think he will be kept on while NESV step up their search for the right replacement and that is probably No 1 on their to-do list but could still take some time. For now, he is walking the plank

At right back maybe. I would prefer him at centreback to Skretl any day

The best hope we've got (other than the boot for RH) is the players ahem "influencing" the manager to change tactics and to stop putting square pegs in round holes. Playing Meireles regularly in the middle will help. If he can be persuaded to field this team most weeks to play their natural game, we should be ok : --------------------------------------Reina-------------------------------------------- Kelly..................Carragher................Agger......................Aurelio ..........................Meireles.........Gerrard..........Cole......................... Johnson.......................................................................Babel .................................................Torres........................................... Impact Subs to come on regularly : Pacheco, Maxi, Ngog, Shelvey, Suso, Kuyt when fit

We have to be realistic and consider what will happen rather than what we, the fans, want to happen. Firstly, the comments from Werner of NESV over the weekend have already boxed them in. They are professing stability and have said they will give Hodgson time. They will not want to break their word so early on. We are therefore stuck with the clueless cretin, probably for the rest of the season. He will be given a small amount of money in January, almost certainly for one of the strikers he was after last summer, Gomez maybe, and we will probably have a bit of a rally and finish a poor mid-table. Then he will go. NESV are described as thoughtful people, prepared to look at innovative solutions and are obsessed with statistics & research. The key to their baseball success has been to bring in a young, inexperienced coach who was extremely bright allied to a high work ethic and with a team of good people around him. I think they will use this season to formulate their plans and try to recruit all the right people in the summer when they can put their revolution into action. It doesn't make life any easier for us fans who are impatient to start the process now and can't stand Hodgson or his garbage football. But that's where we are, I will be very surprised if Hodgson goes before the summer, a thoroughly depressing prospect. There is an outside chance he may decide to walk if the pressure from fans intensifies but I doubt that as well. Sigh...

New broom sweeps clean. We were on our way to oblivion under Hicks & Gillett, so we can now at long last start to look forward. But any new owner of a failing enterprise has to look at the organisation from top to bottom and make changes. But this one is a no-brainer. Talk to the fans, look at the results & performances, listen to the clueless excuses and make the decision. Roy has to go. Now. Don't concern yourself with the media. The fans do know best, he is dragging us down. We don't ask any more from you as new owners for the moment, you have saved us from the despised regime of H&G and we are happy for you to be here and will give you the time to plan your strategies for the stadium, the revenues, the transfers. But this is a decision that has to be made. Hodgson will not improve us, he is out of his depth and if you give him time & support it will cost you time & money. Sweep Hodgson away, bring Dalglish in for the rest of the season and then look at a new, young manager to take us forward. That's what you did with the Red Sox, do the same now.

It comes down to jurisdiction - I'm sure the eventual parent won't be a part of the purchase so we should be ok once the lawyers have worked out a strategy.

If the sale is aborted Hicks might face a multi-billion law suit from NESC in a Boston court

There might be something in this speculation that his whole pack of cards will come tumbling down if the sale goes through and he has to stump up £75m + Gillett's slice

If he succeeds he has signed his own death warrant

It's only a couple of weeks since I stood proudly on the Kop in solidarity with 9,000 or so others chanting anti-G&H songs with the impending fear of administration and the 2 c*nts hanging on to us. This is such a great day, we have our club back - it's my lad's birthday on Saturday and I can finally get him an SC jersey

H&G said exactly the same - "we wont do a Glaser" didn't they? Broughton has already said it's the "acquisition debt" that won't be loaded on the club - but there's nothing to stop them from taking on more debt, potentially much, much more debt when they have settled in. NESV are a US company, the people are all American, they have no track record of sporting interests other than in America. So not surprisingly, their main focus will always be on the States, especially the Red Sox which will always be their No 1 brand. They are buying us for no other reason than we are perceived to be cheap so they think they can make money out of us. They are not a charity nor are they buying us as a trophy. To me, that sounds an awful lot like H&G's strategy - and fyds, you were one of the main standard bearers for Hicks & Gillett when they first came in so excuse me for not taking your latest outpourings seriously. The tough decisions we need are pretty obvious given the team is in disarray in the relegation zone, but I don't expect NESV to do much given they know f*** all about the game.

I'm elated that we will be under new owners but am far from convinced with the choice. Can't help feeling that we will always be 2nd to the Red Sox. That is where these guys will mainly be focused on and I just can't see what is their game plan for us - other than the same as Hicks & Gillett. We are still in a mess and needed a new owner brave enough to take some tough decisions. Don't think we will get that now

I feel like doing a player rating to make me feel better, after 90 mins watching some pub team wearing our colours. REINA : 7 So close to saving another penalty, his passing was the best in the team by a long way. JOHNSON : 3 Where do I start? One of our few athletes, very talented but utterly braindead. Dopey defending gifted them both goals and despite looking so dangerous going forward, his judgement and final ball was awful. SKRETL : 6 Thought he did well, looks much better when Kyrgiakos is attacking the ball in the air leaving him to tidy up. A couple of missed tackles towards the end when we were stretched but he was solid enough otherwise. KYRGIAKOS : 7 Fair play to the big man, he has less talent than the rest but gives it 100% and didn't hide. Also our main threat in front of goal, could have had a hat-trick but also lucky not to be sent off. CARRAGHER : 4 Out of position and out of his depth. Hodgson picks a decent CB pairing but Carra is undroppable so slots him in at left back where he was constantly exposed & offered nothing when we're chasing the game. MEIRELES : 5 Out of position & lost on the right for an hour, intelligent prompting when moved into his correct centre midfield position but is obviously struggling with our tactics, his short passing game is unsuited to our static play. POULSEN : 1 What a waste of money. Brings nothing to the side, he's allergic to the ball never gets anywhere near it. Spearing, Lucas or Shelvey would look like Messi in comparison. GERRARD : 7 We are back to a one-man team. A thoroughbread amongst carthorses, virtually everything positive involved SG even if he started to force things at times when more patience was needed but you can't fault his effort. COLE : 5 Out of position & lost on the left. Tried his best but too often surrounded by their pressing game and couldn't break free. Head went down towards the end. KUYT : 1 Diabolical performance, inept in every department. Back from the World Cup he thinks he's better than he is, trying to drop off and be a playmaker but without any of the necessary skills in control, passing or vision. Work rate well down as well TORRES : 2 In his 9 mins he did slightly less damage than Poulsen & Kuyt in their 90 mins but most around me on the Kop believe he is disinterested & cannot be relied on anymore. SUBS : NGOG : 5 Did his best but simply not good enough JOVANOVIC : 4 Showed for the ball & tried to make things happen but he looks as one footed as Riise and kept moving inside when we were desperate for width at the death. MANAGER : 0 Clueless. MoM : 1. Kyrgiakos 2. Gerrard 3. Reina

The only miniscule of hope I can take from watching that latest example of the implosion of LFC is that it may hasten the departure of the 2 f***wits. Surely, surely, the business sense of the top men at RBS will see that we are going down the pan and the only way to get their money back is to take control away from the f******g s***houses who have put us in this mess. The anger at every level of our support now is such that if they do extend the loan or refinance them, then they will be hit by the biggest sh&storm ever to hit a bank. The other emotion I take with me from today is pride for our support - in terms of the universal applause both at half & full time for the Blackpool players. They were magnificent, a credit to their brilliant manager fair play to them.

Hodgson isn't as bad a manager as he has shown so far. He seems to have got just about everything wrong to date - you name it, he has f***d up. Signings misjudged, spouted sh*te to the media, misread the fans, tactics, selections & subs all clueless. Plus his motivation skills are laughable. He now knows how tough it is to manage a top side but what we don't know is if he has the balls to turn it around. Personally, I can't see he has but there again he has been in the game long enough and perhaps he has it in him to coach this disparate bunch into an organised, effective winning team. The pressure is intense at the moment, he's on borrowed time with the fans but at board level they have to back him so like it or not he will be given time. So there you go Roy, you wanted the challenge of managing at the top level - now stop feeling sorry for yourself, pull yourself together and get to work.

I presumed it was meant that the fans would set up a blockade to prevent others getting into the ground. If that's wrong I stand corrected

A blockade would set fan against fan in direct conflict. Marches and protests in the ground attract media attention, hence do have an influence. Our own supporters fighting each other will hardly send out the right messages

Drop Skretl should be No 1 on the list. A centre back who won't/can't head the ball? We are at risk from every cross because we have no aerial presence whatsoever. In both the Birmingham & Utd games, virtually every high ball into either our penalty area or theirs was won by an opposing player. Our only hope is the header is misdirected or Pepe makes a save while our attacking threat in the air is non-existent. Heading is a huge part of the game, especially in the Premiership and I bet we are the weakest in the League. We have regressed so much in this aspect since the days of Hyypia & Crouch it's unbelievable. Skretl's game plan is to hold his opponent ahead of the ball so it goes over both of their heads - that's not clearing the ball though. He seems to be scared of putting his head on the ball ever since Carra booted him in the face 1st game of last season. As someone posted earlier, I really thought Hodgson would have sussed this out like he did with Fulham when he bought Hangeland very early on.

Well in SOS Just hope to f*** that the ones who shouted down previous protests in the ground are better educated now and will support direct action