@Moko, I rate Spearing very highly and think he will be way more effective than Lucas. Let’s give him a go.

Do you guys think he is worth a try?

The team just has to find a way of playing well and winning irrespective of who is on the field. That is the expectation we all have as fans. At the peak of our run towards the end of last season it actually didn’t matter who did what in the team coz as at TEAM they were magnificent. We must just work with what we have.

With Lucas in or out of the team I expect Liverpool to beat all comers, absolutely everyone! and i think as a TEAM we are capable of it and we have show this in the past.

It is worth remembering that in Champion’s League winning side there were some players who in my opinion who rank in the Lucas range and even lower. The current side is way better than that side.

When we’re winning again you find everyone on the team will play and look like a star!

COME ON LIVERPOOL!!!!! YNWA

The point here is that Lucas has consistently played badly. Blame Gerrard for the penalty, blame Torres for the header, but who is to blame for the Villa opener? We cannot turn a blind eye to that especially in light of previous dissapointing performances. If Torres and Gerrard play badly why can’t the other players (e.g Lucas) step up? When games were tight last season Yossi would come off of the bench and win it for us. That is a player who has proven his worth. Are we then saying that Liverpool winning or losing depends solely on Gerrard or Torres?

As regards Lucas at OT I wouldn’t go so far as to say he won the game for Liverpool, it was one of his better performances but him winning it for us? I disagree.

We must also be careful to reduce soccer to stats, Voronin may have the same goal ratio as Keane but in the games I watched, Keane’s overall contribution to the team was always good. As Ron said, Voronin came on and looked like a headless chicken. Note, this is not the first time that Voronin has played badly in a Liverpool shirt.

If I can ask the forum one simple question: How did Lucas play against Villa?

Gerrard and Torres costed us! Plain and simple! This Lucas talk is just to cover for the “superstars”.

At this rate of star worship we’ll end up like McClaren’s England squad. Thankfully Rafa don’t take reputations into account in dishing out blame!!

Voronin has hardly played. His goal ratio is just like Keane yet Liverpool fans were complaining when Keane was sold!!

There are players who are shielded from critisism coz of past performances. But if that was worth anything then we should sign Maradona coz he was great before!!!!!!

Gerrard and Torres shoulder the blame for me. Gerrard more so cos his key involvements were all negeative, missing and penalty!!!

WE lost because Villa put in a defensive performance that would have required us to either score that early chance or to play at the same level as at the end of the season when the ball was sticking to feet and shoots all flying in from any distance.

It’s early season and I’m of the opinion top teams don’t hit top form till Jan. Only little teams get into the season on peak play well till Dec and fade to 7th (like Villa) at the end. you cannot sustain the energy levels to play like they did last night. Let me remind you of Hull last season!

Again like last season we’ve have played mainly top half teams (2 out of 3)early on. look at the Mancs they’ve played 2 promoted clubs already!!!!!

But you play what’s in front of you. We just have to do better under the circumstances.

A plea to my fellow fans. Don’t be superficial. It’s easy to pick on Lucas. We can’t have our own fans BULLYING our own players!!!!