Gerard's gaffes

[Risso]

It's been astonishingly bad sermon pieces,

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No, completely agree.

[TonyD]

He's had shit thrown at him all season by many on this site who do not seem to acknowledge the disaster he inherited. When we put a few decent games together many started to change their tune a little but as soon results didn't go as we would have liked they are at him again.Fickle to the core, i hope if, as i expect, next season to be much more what we all want to see, those that have stuck their knives into him for months will acknowledge they got it wrong. Won't be holding my breath.

I'll throw some more shit at him:

Gabby is not a winger and don't play downing on the left

I know GH has inherited some shit but a lot of the the ime he does himself no favours.

Like on Friday when interviewed about the man City game and he said he couldn't see what all the fuss was about and why fans were majorly pissed off

I havent seen this interview on Friday.   Who was it with?

Danny kelly & stuart robson on Friday night played it at about 9.15pm. It was along the lines of "i've heard all the critisism about Wednesday night at can't understand what all the fuss is about"

The man doesn't get it even after we make all the "fuss".   

[Clampy]

I am quite worried that he feels he cannot address the defending problems now or at least try to.

Sounds like he has given up for this season.

That is worrying. Why can't he do it now? Two weeks until our next game, so why not spend two weeks working on it?

Beat me to it, i was thinking this earlier. They're professional footballers, surely they're able to change to a different way of working?

[Jimbo]

Everything he has done since Wednesday evening has been reminiscent of Jacques Tati at his blundering best.

[Mazrim]

Are we going to pretend we didn't (defensive lapses aside) completely outplay Bolton then? And last Saturday thrash Blackburn who actually only scored with a jammy deflection?

Frustrating as the errors costing us are, let's not pretend we're a bad football team because we're not.
Everything else is coming together, we just need to stop making silly mistakes or have better luck that dont cost us everytime we do make one.

And for what it's worth, I doubt Houllier thinks there's nothing he can do to improve the defence before the summer. Just that the summer is the best opportunity for fundamental change at the back.

[Villa'Zawg]

He's had shit thrown at him all season by many on this site who do not seem to acknowledge the disaster he inherited. When we put a few decent games together many started to change their tune a little but as soon results didn't go as we would have liked they are at him again.Fickle to the core, i hope if, as i expect, next season to be much more what we all want to see, those that have stuck their knives into him for months will acknowledge they got it wrong. Won't be holding my breath.

I'll throw some more shit at him:

Gabby is not a winger and don't play downing on the left

I know GH has inherited some shit but a lot of the the ime he does himself no favours.

Like on Friday when interviewed about the man City game and he said he couldn't see what all the fuss was about and why fans were majorly pissed off

I havent seen this interview on Friday.   Who was it with?

It was his regular Friday press conference.

He said we were only complaining about Wednesday because the Arsenal goalkeeper dropped the ball in the League Cup final.

At least he didn't call us fickle.

[UsualSuspect]

I am quite worried that he feels he cannot address the defending problems now or at least try to.

Sounds like he has given up for this season.

That is worrying. Why can't he do it now? Two weeks until our next game, so why not spend two weeks working on it?

Beat me to it, i was thinking this earlier. They're professional footballers, surely they're able to change to a different way of working?

This was my point

These are meant to be funely tuned professional athleetes at the top of their game earning millions of pounds per year. But apparently telling them who to mark at corners will take at least 3 months.

[Shrek]

Fickle to the core is spot on ROBBO!

Without Houllier we wouldn't have Bent Makoun or Walker.

He has improved us massively and will continue to improve, but people need to stop having such a blinkered view on everything.

He tried Gabby on the wing to protect Clark at LB which worked perfect at Chelsea, he has now dropped Gabby and played a much more effective Albrighton there. He isn't perfect and is getting hammered for every mistake yet getting no credit for the outweighing positives.

I predict alot of people will be on here next season saying "I was wrong about gerrard etc" like most have been about Downing, sure there will be the idiots who will never give him a chance like the people who still slate downing now.

[eastie]

There are several reasons for the defence being poor- don't underestimate the work done with them by Steve walford, he worked hard at organising them whereas now there is no specialist defensive coach- we need one , at Liverpool thommo sorted the defence , we need a defensive coach to sort things.

The keeper must come off his line more for crosses in the 6 yard box, GED will want defenders who are comfortable in possession and Clark fits the bill, the days of hoofing it are gone and I hope he has a couple of gems lined up in the summer. A new keeper, quality full backs and at least one central defender are the priority- until then we must hope we can survive with what we have.

We have the quality and I have no doubt the players have the fight - let's hope we can have a bit of luck which has evaded us all season.

[Risso]

Are we going to pretend we didn't (defensive lapses aside) completely outplay Bolton then? And last Saturday thrash Blackburn who actually only scored with a jammy deflection?

Frustrating as the errors costing us are, let's not pretend we're a bad football team because we're not.
Everything else is coming together, we just need to stop making silly mistakes or have better luck that dont cost us everytime we do make one.

And for what it's worth, I doubt Houllier thinks there's nothing he can do to improve the defence before the summer. Just that the summer is the best opportunity for fundamental change at the back.

And in recent games, we've been average at best against Blackpool and Fulham, and completely awful against Man City.  We're not the worst team in the division, but given the players we have, the fact that we're almost hoping that there are three worse teams is a bit deflating.

[Bosco81]

Are we going to pretend we didn't (defensive lapses aside) completely outplay Bolton then? And last Saturday thrash Blackburn who actually only scored with a jammy deflection?

Frustrating as the errors costing us are, let's not pretend we're a bad football team because we're not.
Everything else is coming together, we just need to stop making silly mistakes or have better luck that dont cost us everytime we do make one.

I agree with you on this, but until we cut those errors out we're going to keep struggling, and the opposition will think they've got a chance against us.

With such a young defence it was always going to be difficult, as much as I like Ciaran Clark I don't think he is particularly dominant in the air, whether that comes in time I don't know.

We do seem to have been poor from set pieces all season no matter who has been playing.

[Risso]

Fickle to the core is spot on ROBBO!

Without Houllier we wouldn't have Bent Makoun or Walker.

He has improved us massively and will continue to improve, but people need to stop having such a blinkered view on everything.

He tried Gabby on the wing to protect Clark at LB which worked perfect at Chelsea, he has now dropped Gabby and played a much more effective Albrighton there. He isn't perfect and is getting hammered for every mistake yet getting no credit for the outweighing positives.

I predict alot of people will be on here next season saying "I was wrong about gerrard etc" like most have been about Downing, sure there will be the idiots who will never give him a chance like the people who still slate downing now.

I'd rather be fickle than completely deluded.

Massively improved?  Outweighing positives?  What are the postives that outweigh being in a relegation battle all season, chucking the FA Cup in like a coward, and generally being inept at every single turn?

[UsualSuspect]

He has improved us massively
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hmmmmm

So out of 24 league games 5 wins is a massive improvement?

23 points from a possible 72

I'd had to see a bad run in your eyes

[Concrete John]

If the positives outweighed the negatives, we wouldn't be where we are in the league.

[TonyD]

Are we going to pretend we didn't (defensive lapses aside) completely outplay Bolton then? And last Saturday thrash Blackburn who actually only scored with a jammy deflection?

Frustrating as the errors costing us are, let's not pretend we're a bad football team because we're not.
Everything else is coming together, we just need to stop making silly mistakes or have better luck that dont cost us everytime we do make one.

I agree with you on this, but until we cut those errors out we're going to keep struggling, and the opposition will think they've got a chance against us.

With such a young defence it was always going to be difficult, as much as I like Ciaran Clark I don't think he is particularly dominant in the air, whether that comes in time I don't know.

We do seem to have been poor from set pieces all season no matter who has been playing.

We are not a bad team in the middle at the moment. I will grant you that.  We aint a great team either.  If GH had turned us into Barca going forward then I could forgive his all fuck ups (its a long list) this season. 
It really doesn't matter who actually plays in a defence that is not properly coached and drilled to do the basics.   New defenders bought in during the summer won't a make difference unless they is a game plan.   There should be a game plan NOW- to say it has to wait until next season is laughable.