This is to all those whose posts I've read with admiration since coming on here in 2000...who know who you are... fans who can see that this team is destined for greatness...who understand that when we win 1-0 in the quarter final of the European Cup against a team top of the Bundesliga then we've just got ourselves a very good result...who you appreciate the old adage about attackers winning games and defenders winning championships.
I'm sick of reading posts that hail us as the greatest team ever when we have a good win but ridicule us as pathetic if, having played badly, we still win. This is not fantasy football, this is reality, this is how we won trophies years ago [heck we were worse then cos we could knock it across the back four and give it to Ray or Brucie to pick up for a while]. I hate it when the most 'knowledgable' fans in the business fail to appreciate that when the mighty reds go out onto a football pitch there are actually eleven men trying to beat them..to read some of the posts on here you'd think we should expect the opposition to applaud us as we win 6 nil every time.
This team is going places - we're not the finished article but while we're growing we're winning and that's a very important quality and an amazing feature of Houllier's reign. Do I expect us to play like we are now in 2 years time - NO. He's taught us how to defend and defend with our lives - now just watch as he turns us into an unstoppable creative force. You can add creativity to discipline and structure, you cannot do it the other way round as poor old uncle Roy found out.
France in 98 were not the team they are now, but they won and have improved steadily ever since...it's called 'DEVELOPMENT' which in case some of you on here don't realise is what Ged was in charge of as Technical Director in France. You think in terms of 90 minutes, Ged sees 90 minutes within the context of the next 5 years...which is why our acadamy is strong, which is why we're signing up some of the world's best teenagers, which is why we've got one of the youngest teams in the country...
we are a team in development, a wonderful outpouring of long term vision and creativity and I, who was not alive in Shankley's time, am privileged that I am getting to watch what my father watched - a glimpse of greatness to come - if we can continue to win while we're growing then that is merely the icing on the cake
like I said - apologies to those of you who can appreciate what I mean by this thread, this team is going places.
I can take constructive criticism and opinions on players etc because we are developing but what I cannot stand are people criticising this team for WINNING in the quarter final of the European Cup.
YNWA
I'm sick of reading posts that hail us as the greatest team ever when we have a good win but ridicule us as pathetic if, having played badly, we still win. This is not fantasy football, this is reality, this is how we won trophies years ago [heck we were worse then cos we could knock it across the back four and give it to Ray or Brucie to pick up for a while]. I hate it when the most 'knowledgable' fans in the business fail to appreciate that when the mighty reds go out onto a football pitch there are actually eleven men trying to beat them..to read some of the posts on here you'd think we should expect the opposition to applaud us as we win 6 nil every time.
This team is going places - we're not the finished article but while we're growing we're winning and that's a very important quality and an amazing feature of Houllier's reign. Do I expect us to play like we are now in 2 years time - NO. He's taught us how to defend and defend with our lives - now just watch as he turns us into an unstoppable creative force. You can add creativity to discipline and structure, you cannot do it the other way round as poor old uncle Roy found out.
France in 98 were not the team they are now, but they won and have improved steadily ever since...it's called 'DEVELOPMENT' which in case some of you on here don't realise is what Ged was in charge of as Technical Director in France. You think in terms of 90 minutes, Ged sees 90 minutes within the context of the next 5 years...which is why our acadamy is strong, which is why we're signing up some of the world's best teenagers, which is why we've got one of the youngest teams in the country...
we are a team in development, a wonderful outpouring of long term vision and creativity and I, who was not alive in Shankley's time, am privileged that I am getting to watch what my father watched - a glimpse of greatness to come - if we can continue to win while we're growing then that is merely the icing on the cake
like I said - apologies to those of you who can appreciate what I mean by this thread, this team is going places.
I can take constructive criticism and opinions on players etc because we are developing but what I cannot stand are people criticising this team for WINNING in the quarter final of the European Cup.
YNWA