What do you really expect?

[stayingupfor drmagicdiao]

While a 5-0 drubbing never leaves a pleasant taste, the mood swings on here can at times be extraordinary.

Ok, Pulis probably got his selection wrong, although a similar idea worked at Anfield - when we were team of the week. Cresswell coming on was bordering on insane, but hey we did get tanked by the Champions of Europe and we were not the first nor we will be the last.

Was there enough passion from the team? I don't know, I wasn't there.

The reality is that it's the next five games that really count. While the lack of adventure away from home is frustrating, how many points did you really expect at this stage of the season? 30?
Are we cast adrift at the bottom of the table? No!
Will we go down? I don't know, but I can't wait to move on to the next stage of the rollercoaster!

For a sane view read Ted's post, excellent as always.
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[luke45]

In the end of the day, why would pulis change an approach that is proven to work at liverpool? if we had have gone there all-out attack, it could've been worse, yesterday wasn't down bad tactics, and poor performances, even if we perfected the tactics, and the lads worked their socks off, i still don't think we would have won, because there is an obvious gulf in class.

I'm really confident we'll get that first much needed away win at St James Park, in a few weeks, they still look vulnerable, and their for the taking.

As nice as it is to get points on the road, i still firmly believe that it'll be our home form from now till the end of the season, which will determine our fate, we are more than capable in my opinion, of getting near enough points racked up to survive, solely from home form, so, for me, i look at any points on the road as an un-expected bonus.

[baystokie]

luke - think it's stretching things to say that we had 'an approach that is proven to work at Liverpool' - fai enough we hot a point but that was mainly due to the inept shooting of the Reds - and the unbelievable disallowing of Gerrard's effort.

Methinks we'll need several variations of approach before this season's finished.

[luke45]

Nov 16, 2008 20:37:28 GMT baystokie said:

luke - think it's stretching things to say that we had 'an approach that is proven to work at Liverpool' - fai enough we hot a point but that was mainly due to the inept shooting of the Reds - and the unbelievable disallowing of Gerrard's effort.

Methinks we'll need several variations of approach before this season's finished.

Regardless of the chances they had though, we came for a point and we got one, we defended magnificently, and for me, got what we deserved.

And i still stand by the fact Gerrard's goal was off-side, the rules state if ANY part of the body that you are capable of scoring from is in an offside position when the ball is played it's offside, and in slow motion you can see his thigh is marginly offside, pety i know, but rules are rules.