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Suarez Dirk Gerrard

after last nights f*** up I can understand why...

you need a map...?

ok so a 1-0 win will do.

Had the all round ability to be one of the best strikers in Europe. Had the attitude of a self loving t***.

much as I don't particularly rate kuyt, his all round never say die attitude & effort level is exactly what we need here. SG is gonna get some right stick and the fans need to get right behind him and the team as a whole needs to perform. anything less than 100% and we'll come unstuck. Everton are a far better team than earlier in the season. We've got the class to kick their a***, but we'll have to perform to do so.

depends on how you define `say on transfer policy' if it's a case of simply the CEO giving rafa a budget, asking him who'd he'd like to sign and how much he's willing to pay and then makes it happen then i don't see the problem. nothing wrong with the CEO having a financial input, but the manager is ultimately accountable for results on the pitch and every decision on who or who not to sign should be 100% down to him.

despite Tony Barrett writing:~ I've no idea why it's proving so difficult to get the new contract sorted, but bear in mind he's only just come back from being long term injured and the club aren't going to commit to 70k a week for a crock. (OK so we did with Kewell) I guess Agger needs to prove his fitness over the space of a few games and then the club can be assured he's over his problems, get the contract sorted and job done. I also think 70k a week is the going rate for someone of Agger's quality and potential. I can't think of any CB with maybe the exception of Rio Ferdinand who has the all round game Agger has. Skrtl might be a better tackler, but he doesn't bring the ball out of defence anything like Agger does.

Draw would do nicely please - Keeps Chelsea more then a draw points wise and stop the Mancs taking top stop if they win their games in hand.

Agree about the advantge being gone, but there will be a lot of points dropped by all 3 teams before this seasons done & dusted. Can only hope we have as good a run in as we did last season.

doesn't mean it'll work every game, against all different types of opposition though does it. I'd be far less critical if we'd changed the formation once it was clear it wasn't working, but we didn't - we plodded on hoping for a lucky break.

Hyypia Skrtl Reira

That's the exact issue for me as well. We should be in a position where we could afford to not beat the Mancs & Chelsea and still have enough points in hand to still be clear.

Newcastle tried to play football, they left space for us to work in which we exploited. Stoke didn't. We needed something different yesterday - that spark to break down a packed & well organised defence. Kuyt up front on his own will never be able to provide that. Torres could - Keane could.

It is a good opening post, but also a bit defeatest. It comes across as "well it's ok to f*** up against Stoke, because we're doing better than last year" and I think that approach is wrong. Yes we're still top of the league, and we'll still be there at the end of the day regardless, but Stoke was a decent opportunity to pull clear & build up a bit of a points buffer, and yet again we didn't take it. Exactly the same things happened against Hull, Fulham, West Ham - all games we should have done better in if we have any grand ideas about still being top at the end of the season. Not just with yesterday, but we should have pulled clear of the rest by now, but we haven't. As Carrafan says we have a problem against teams who sit deep, and yesterday yet again Rafa showed he can't deal with that problem.