Woodsyla

Why is everyone benching Coutinho, he's the one player that Arsenal didn't have a clue how to deal with. Strongest XI every week for me from now till May. Winning breeds winning.

Sublime

Win tonight and I'm on the bus as well. If we are aiming for 3rd why not aim 2pts higher !!!!!

One thing I noticed on Saturday was that the availability of Coutinho deeper took a lot of pressure of Mignolet when looking for a quick break. Having a player who could get the ball, beat a man and start an attack within 30yds of his goal rather than having to give it to Lucas to Skrtel to Toure then back to the keeper who kicks wide.

Hang on, he was the one who first said that Suarez wanted to go to Madrid, now he says Luis is going nowhere and you want him to pipe down. This is as close to horses mouth as it gets, Luis Suarez is happy. He can talk about how happy Suarez is at Liverpool as much as he wants as far as I'm concerned. A team that is matching his ambition.

Kono NOT Kolo, a 30 minute cameo at West Brom would have been a nice option.

Win the next 3, draw 1, win 4, draw 1 win 4. I'd take that.

I reckon we worked a lot harder and ran a lot further v Arsenal. Half the Fulham players didn't leave their own penalty area for the 90 minutes. I don't think we (the football team, not the fans) lose either way. Obviously it's a massive ball-ache for those with tickets. Hopefully Henry's tweet will carry a bit of weight and the game will go ahead. It's daft that 3 other clubs are ok to play but Fulham aren't.

Playing devils advocate, the momentum from the derby win didn't help the tired legs in the second half v West Brom. IF this is canned we get a weeks rest for the cup game and Arsenal play a crucial game against United. We have all of the European nights coming up when we can reschedule this Fulham game. On the other side of the coin we have had 24hrs more rest than Fulham.

Especially when everyone around us bar Everton is now up to their neck in Europe, great timing for us these games, just got to get 3pts at Fulham before we can start to take advantage.

I know the stakes are high but I feel we need to back ourselves, looking up, not down 3rd is very very possible now, two consecutive defeats at home for Arsenal right now would be hugely damaging especially when followed up by a spanking by Munich. United 9pts behind I am happy with, bringing Arsenal into our clutches is better than United being 12pts behind.

Not playing the same football they were under Brendan, not wowing everyone in the same way. 7pts worse off than last season.

I don't want Rafa back. There I've said it. Brendan is the future. Look at how gradually Swansea have fallen apart since he left. Look at how gradually we have progressed under him. He's very very good at what he does and long may it continue for us.

I'm not Gibbo but he meant that Cortese didn't have a 'history of making good decisions', or at least not one that we were aware of and sacking Atkins seemed mental because he appeared to be doing a decent job of keeping a promoted side in the Premier League. Not that sacking Atkins was a mistake, which it clearly wasn't BECAUSE he had lined up a much better replacement. At the time it seemed, to most of us I would imagine, a mistake and a knee jerk reaction to a poor run of results. As, to me, does the Laudrup sacking.

and Allen and Borini and Aspas and Llori and Alberto

And we have played City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and Everton away. All of our rivals bar 1 away. 4 of them have to come to us still.

Fixed that for you

Massive game on Tuesday, leggy second half with same XI, I don't think you can say we have a problem with away form though. We have problems but they are more about lack of depth in squad than any ability to get results away. I think our away form will be fine in the run in, I think once the European games re-start this will prove a huge advantage to us over Spurs and Utd.

Apart from West Brom where we were in total control till we threw a goal away. We have played really well, on the whole, since Hull away, at home and away, we have dropped some points we shouldn't have but our away form is not a reason for concern.

Our last two away games that weren't against the best two sides in the league. Yeah really selective. Unless you are saying that our away form in November is causing you a concern now? (sorry 1st Dec - a pendant) Since losing to Hull we have played City Stoke Chelsea and Spurs and got 6 pts. That's 2 months of decent away form. West Brom we controlled until we gave a soft goal away, we wouldn't be having this conversation if Kolo hadn't had a brainfart, our away form is like our form at the moment - good.

I must have dreamt us scoring 10 goals in 2 away fixtures?

Can't agree with this, 2pts a game has us 4th, Everton don't have anything better in the tank and United are 7pts plus goal difference behind us, Spurs have some hellish fixtures and look mentally soft. We carry on as we are and we will get 4th. United wont get 8pts more than 2pts per game in 14 fixtures.

“Whatever frustrations I have I would never let you know,” Rodgers added. All you need to know, Brendan isn't going to bit the hand that feeds him.

I can certainly believe that.

Makes a change from 'with 6hrs to go we are looking at a player who ends up at Spurs'