[BaggieSteve]

Well deserved goal for you guys!!!  Much better performance in the second half and how good is it to see Brunty back putting deliveries into the box like that corner!!

But why do we have to wait to be 2-0 down and totally outclassed before we start to offer up some passion and some desire to go forward? Trouble is, a 2-1 scoreline will totally gloss over a wretched performance. Liverpool well deserve their win and our performance deserves nowt. Trouble is, Piulis will spin some crap out of it. Apologies for the negativity.

Pulis went in with a plan, as he always does, it didn't work due to some great play by Liverpool and poor play from you.  Once you were 2-0 down he changed the formation and your second half performance was much better.  Liverpool deserved the 3 points, they had the bulk of the chances but you gave it a go once Plan A failed.  If you had started like you finished playing cavalier type football I think the score would have been far worse, doesn't get you any points but gets you some credit and hopefully some confidence after that second half performance.  You will beat lesser teams if you play like that second half, but probably not the top teams.

Trouble is, St Charles, that the plan is always the same. Defend and defend again, hope to grab a goal from a set piece. As soon as the opposition score, we are in trouble. Our goal, unsurprisingly, game from a scrappy corner and then we lumped the ball up, hoping to get a lucky knock down. One shot on target! I'd like to know who these lesser teams are that we can beat - lost to Bournemouth, drew with Middlesbrough, Stoke and Sunderland. No-one is asking us to play cavalier football, it does not have to be one or the other. What we want is some level of ambition, a positive approach and not the negative, play it backwards at every opportunity. Whenever we got the ball in the first half, the first reaction is to play it backwards, grotesquely illustrated by their second goal. Let's be honest, this should have been 5-1 and not because we decided to make some positive effort at 2-0 - it should have been 4-0 before we scored and down to Fozzie that it was respectable.