The difference between Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish

[Mattyhitman]

Hell if we just played

ST: Torres
CF: Cole/Babel
CAM: Gerrard
LM: Kuyt RM: Mierieles
CDM: Lucas:
LB: Kelly CB: Agger, Carragher RB: Johnson
GK: Reina

Or

ST: Torres, Kuyt/Babel/Jova/Ngog
CAM: Gerrard
LM: Babel/Cole RM: Mierieles
CDM: Lucas
LB: Kelly CB: Agger, Carragher RB: Johnson
GK: Reina

I think we'd be a lot better off. Kenny's going to do well before the season is over. We've just got to make good personnel moves

I agree with all of that. We've got decent individual players, but they just don't seem to know how to play together. Also the squad lacks depth, so it's hard getting them on the field at the same time. Plus people like Torres seem to be really off their game bar the odd moment like against Blackpool. Gerrard going missing makes an automatic dent in the team and we shouldn't be relying on people like him all the time as the season is long and tough on the legs.

To a degree i agree, but in all fairness ya cannot play Cole, Merieles, Kuyt, Lucas in midfield, we need width, and with them 4 the is none !! All of them like to operate through the middle or like to cut inside from the wing far too much which creates congestion in the middle of the park, and confusion. The likes of Torres * Gerrard have no-where to go because of the congestion created by said players coming inside.

Width is what we need, bring back the days of a Barnes on the wing, Mcmanaman raiding the flanks, or at least get a couple of fullbacks that would bomb forward and get past the midfielders to create the width and get the crosses in.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

We haven't had proper width since Mcmananman left

Danny Murphy, Patrick Berger, Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt, Ryan Babel.... Just can't cut it out wide.

Nicky Barnby was maybe the exception but then he was never exceptional. Riise was a left back.