Joe will have to raise his game considerably to merit keeping his place. Hendowas far far better than Allen. He can't rely on "teachers pet" forever.Stil no goals and no assists, and his lack of bulk means he is easily brushed aside.
"Problem is not all teams will play as poor as Fulham or QPR. More organization and strength is needed when we go up against teams that performed like Stoke did."
"I think you should do your talking on the pitch Joe you haven't been that good in fact on several occasions you've been pretty bad. You can't fool the fans. This is Liverpool not Swansea."
"You are right Subiedude!If that is the case Joe, let's reproduce the form we showed against Norwich, Fulham and QPR to the coming games against Man U and Arsenal.Where is your real form Joe that you showed us in the aerly games?"
"Joe....I really hope that you guys don't read these threads. You guys really don't need opposition with fans like we have....u see some of us are really HARDCORE. We leave our brains on our seats after a game and then make our way home. Don't worry the lesser HARDCORE fans have faith and trust that you do have more than what it takes and will be key to our success.YNWA"
"is it just me; but i think we were saved by the ref missing 2 good shouts for a penalty by qpr. we need to improve, and fast. half the season has gone abd sometimes we see the team playing like amateurs; e.g. vs villa. it is so sickening to see that everybody else is beating, no; thrashing them and we, we lost; by a big margin on top of that. we got to improve. ynwa. happy 2013."
"Joe Allen is Brendan's unknown son. Lol.
He is not a great player, I admire him a lot, he is great, I really need him to improve his strength. He gets moved so easily, gain some humpth like Skrtel. Sahin makes some errors, but he is a great player. More Sahin!"
"FOREVER RED 13.38, NAIL ON THE HEAD !! JOE ALLEN'S A GOOD PLAYER BUT AS USUAL OUR 'EX PRO FOOTBALLERS' WHO 'SUPPORT' THE TEAM BY SLATING INDIVIDUALS SEEM TO KNOW BETTER. UNFORTUNATELY, ALLEN, HENDERSON, SHELVEY AND DOWNING ARE THE CURRENT LFC SCAPEGOATS NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO !!"
"A lot of fans forget that Allen has had to cover for Lucas so far this season and looks to have become increasingly frustrated at the teams lack of movement at times which has led to his indecisiveness. Until BR gets the whole team to click and Allen gets to play further forward the inconsistency will continue, so ride it out people!"
"Happy new year to everyone involved with LFC. I think what will be key is how we respond to teams that actually press us high up the pitch and not give us time on the ball. I believe we need to learn when to move the ball quicker and change the pace of our play from slow to quick especially in the final 3rd. Also I hope we get M.Suarez, Damiao, Sturridge. Sneijder would be a nice bonus"
"Allen from bench.Too many mistakes-boy.Ya have to grow every single way..get some weight and stamina with balance and speed...you trust too much with your team-mates to do ya work which belongs to you.You cant be starting-line yet.Sorry grow-up."
"I cant believe that the players think that was a good performance. A needed 3 points yes but Liverpool should dominate teams at the bottom in both halves, that performance against a top 4 side would be disasterous as to many stray balls. LFC YNWA"
"For starters you need to start scoring goals Allen. It serves no good for you to talk like BR with very little action or any consistent high performances. We need action not words!!!!! about time you deliver some good performance as your form has dropped!!! "
"I reckon that Stoke and Villa woes could have been just a false step along the way, but that miss won't have to be repeated from now to the end of the season. We can't miss so many points against teams which should be blatantly behind us in the table, in terms of team and singles worth! "
"dhd39 you are right, but if we would have had it against Stoke and Villa also, probably we would have won that games as well! It's as simple as that! 1+1=2!"
"the 3 points was welcome. but QPR is bottom of log with one win. our level is nothing to talk about considering how we got thrashed by villa at home and it hasnt won ever since"
"This frustrates the hell out of me. Some of you cannot see the blatant obvious- we are asking our BOYS ( Joe/Hendo/Raheem/Suso/Jonjo etc) to play like MEN. These kids were supposed to be eased into our system. They were to be given time to learn from the senior pros. We sold our experienced player and drastically changed the make up of the team. Hence the cries for FSG to spend on experience."
"Enough of this 'consistency' blah blah. Lets do the talking on the pitch and take out the annoyance on opponent not just expressing our disappointments on paper pages only to get back to field and fall 3-1. A win against Sunderland will help against Manhud...YNWA!"
"FOREVER RED
1st Jan 2013 19:19,
Couldn't agree more, no use having a bunch of rookies if they haven't got enough seniors to aspire too and learn from, in all departments of their trade. "
"CONSISTENCY,THATS THE WORD THE PRESENT BATCH OF BRITISH LFC PLAYERS NEED TO ADHERE TO.WE PLAY SUNDERLAND TONIGHT,TWO STEPS FORWARD OR THREE STEPS BACK AGAIN LADS?"
"Lets get off Hendersons Back and play him where we bought him to play!
and Joe step up or sit on the bench.
All of our players need to walk into the trophy room, this is Liverpool FC and what we expect YNWA"
"I TELL U AGAIN, THESE "BRITISH BOYS" ARE GONNA PUT EGG ON SOME FACES SOONER THAN WE THINK. ALL THE BOO BOYS WILL GO INTO HIBERNATION THINKING THAT WE WON'T REMEMBER. I HAVE NOTED EVERY THREAD AND I WILL REMIND YOU .....TRUST ME. IT HURTS ME WEN U DO THIS.....NOPE IT IS NOT CONSTRUCTIVE WHAT SOME OF YOU SAY."
"I think that if we play like we did against QPR we are not going to go very far at all. QPR were woeful and we should have won 6-0, so actually we need to play better than that every week to get where we should rightfully be."
"I agree with xxrussx. Joe too small has been easily brushed aside in several games. We need a strong tackling DM who can carry the ball forward, Lucas too nice this will give Stevie more confidence going forward as he keeps looking back."
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1st Jan 2013 12:34