No excuses now

GB

Given the position Liverpool are currently in, you really should be finishing at least fourth. If you don't, then given your current position, it will be a failure. Simply because of your season up to this point in time.

I Can't see you getting the title. I can see you getting close though. Closer than you'd all imagined you'd be back in August.

You should pipe it down a little however. You are optimistic - nothing wrong with that - but you are equally as repetitive. While optimism is a good thing, humility and realism isn't a bad thing either. Liverpool, under Brendan, have achieved nothing yet. That's not to say you won't do so, it's rather to say that you should set your sights on more realistic goals. The very thing your manager is doing.

Ripley.....on the contrary, Liverpool have achieved big time. Title contenders, competing....yes actually competing with the best this country has to offer. A team to be proud of, very good English youngsters, very good foreign youngsters, a great youth set up and most important for me.....we have pride in our clb once more.

Make no mistake, we have achieved more than we could dare to 12 months ago.

You are every right to feel proud (even in defeat today - I didn't see the game, but by all accounts Liverpool played really well).

You say "on the contrary" - then go on to make the very same point I was making - that you should be proud of your season so far.

I agree, you have had a great season so far - more than even you (perhaps) expected. Yet you are setting yourself up for a fall. Either you genuinely believe you can win the title (in which case, should you not do so, you'll be disappointed). Or you don't (in which case, your posts here are disingenuous).

Liverpool winning the title - its possible. It's not probable. You are 4 points of the current leaders, but there are three teams in front of you. It's one thing to expect one of those teams not to collect as many points as Liverpool between now and the end of the season. But all three teams?

I just can't see that happening. Especially when Liverpool, as proven this season, are just as likely to drop points as any of the teams above you are.

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Ripley....I count you as a very reasonable and considered poster, however when 2 of the teams above us have to come to Anfield and the other is only 1game in front; well ifeel you have neglected this point.

If you add in Liverpools defence returning, 1 game a week, those above and below have european football, we have the top 2 goalscorers playing for us, well I think I have given enough reasons why we can and should be In for the title

Ripley....I count you as a very reasonable and considered poster, however when 2 of the teams above us have to come to Anfield and the other is only 1game in front; well ifeel you have neglected this point.

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I haven't neglected that point. It's a valid point, and given the way you dispatched Arsenal last week at Anfield, you've every right to bring this point up.

What it will probably achieve however, is to help the others (Arsenal, City, Chelsea) gain ground on each other. On the assumption (of course) that Liverpool will indeed beat City and/or Chelsea. That is not a given however. Chelsea beating City (who had a 100% home record) is an example of why it's not.

What you are neglecting, or perhaps merely not considering, is the possibility of either Chelsea or City (or indeed both) beating Liverpool at Anfield. That is also a possibility. Probably more so Chelsea than City (in my opinion) - if Mouinho can manage a team to beat City at The Etihad, then he can also do so at Anfield (Liverpool, as strong as they are at home, are not, this season, as strong as City have been at home).

It is you who should take this into consideration. I have already done. I have also realised (it's not hard to do so) that City can afford to lose at Anfield, and still finish ahead of you in the league. That's the benefit of those 4 points that we have ahead of you (with, I might add, a game in hand over you (that game in hand being Sunderland at home - not a given, but a betting man would bet which way?)

Ripley, can you lot focus on really putting your neighbours to the sword, and despatching Arsenal too please?

This would be brilliant.

Redinthehead - I'm 42 years old. In my lifetime I never thought I would say the following:

United are just not on my radar at all just now.

Today the strikers had an off day. Sturridge won't sleep well tonight.

The fact we went to the Emirates and were comfortably a better side than Arsenal having thrashed them last week shows a strong progression from where we have been. We can now go to these places and expect to win

At this stage with the performances and the quality of players we have Liverpool should be pushing on and challenging. Obviously I hope we do!

Unlucky today but you don't always get what you deserve. Remember City got a result against us with the non offside goal ruled out and various chances missed. It happens. We just need to get on with it...look forward

Maybe 'catastrophic failure' was a bit much. I just really wanted a cup run this season