Downing

[Fox]

Deserves to be in our first team. Good passing, nice control and dangerous.

Just needs to be more of a goal threat.

Considering where he was last year congrats to Him and the gaffer

 

[hmmmmm1]

The great white hope.

For some reason I imagine you to be like him

 

[Buddha]

He still lacks bottle when it opens up before him. We all know he's got a great touch, bit of pace etc, but he annoys the fuck out of me a lot of the time.

 

[jimmy]

I didn't think he was great today. Seems to lack balls.

 

[Delinquent]

He was incredibly ponderous in attacking positions today. He's still got no balls, and regardless of his slightly better than eye-bleedingly-poor form of late he still needs moving on sooner rather than later. Hopefully he can have a purple patch and raise his value a little bit.

 

[Fox]

He will never please some.

 

[Mors]

He was shit today. When he got near the box he was hitting hit and hopes. No goal threat. Shits out of tackles. Suarez does more defending and tracking back than him and that's saying something

Fuck him. Get a front 3 of Suarez, Sturridge and Coutinho asap.

 

[the count]

He was incredibly ponderous in attacking positions today. He's still got no balls, and regardless of his slightly better than eye-bleedingly-poor form of late he still needs moving on sooner rather than later. Hopefully he can have a purple patch and raise his value a little bit.

This
He is so frustrating, getting onto decent positions to take on the full back yet refusing to do so or playing a nothing ball into the penalty area when there is nobody there.😡

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

I thought he did okay. On current form, I'd pick him over Sterling to start games until Sterling shoves him over and snatches the place back.

 

[mark1975]

I thought he was ok, he did shit out a few times though. Aside from a break late on when he should have slipped Suarez in, I thought he was a good outlet for us and helped us keep possession well. Of course we need more than that, but anyway, horses for courses and all that, he protected Wisdom well too.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

He still lacks bottle when it opens up before him. We all know he's got a great touch, bit of pace etc, but he annoys the fuck out of me a lot of the time.

Yeah, he's pacy and has a good touch and seemed to slow up when space opened up. Andre santos is quite poor and downing only went at him once.

 

[the count]

I thought he was ok, he did shit out a few times though. Aside from a break late on when he should have slipped Suarez in, I thought he was a good outlet for us and helped us keep possession well. Of course we need more than that, but anyway, horses for courses and all that, he protected Wisdom well too.

To be fair he did do a decent job at this.
We looked more vulnerable down our left

 

[Leo]

We need better and players who don't shit the course.

 

[Ryan]

He will never please some.

No goals, no assists, no attacking threat.

At least he's consistent.

 

[Modo]

Well there's nothing new from me. Henderson is where he is supposed to be but Downing just doesn't cut it. We need better.

 

[Red_Water]

This
He is so frustrating, getting onto decent positions to take on the full back yet refusing to do so or playing a nothing ball into the penalty area when there is nobody there.😡

He can't go past players, especially when he is playing on the right, always comes inside and once out of 50 attempts that will get him a shot on goal as per his goal a few weeks ago. When he is on the left, he get's the ball, brings it under control, slows things down and then tries to go again. He'll be gone in the summer or tomorrow if rumors from LFC_Tongue are to be believed!

 

[Modo]

Please.

 

[StevieM]

This is the best we're ever likely to see from him.

He has to be sold in the summer.

 

[red_maradona]

erm, what match were you watching? He was v.poor.

 

[Modo]

I'm loving this...

 

[Leo]

He wasn't poor but he was average.
And average is good for Downing.
He's a middle of the road player who should be playing with Stoke or Villa or the likes.
No bottle and a cowardly fairy.

 

[the count]

I'm loving this...

and Carra?

 

[Modo]

and Carra?

Carra did well. But this thread is about Stewie Downing Jr.

 

[LadyRed]

Celebrating mediocracy, great.

He's a bottler an' all.

 

[#roadred]

This is the best we're ever likely to see from him.

He has to be sold in the summer.

I agree, he has had the best six weeks we are going to see from him in a Liverpool shirt, we need to sell him in the next 24 hours because the price is gonna keep on dropping. I genuinely wish him the best somewhere else, but it hasn't worked at Liverpool for him, and definitely not for us. 20 million, no no no no no!

 

[gkmacca]

He really wasn't an irrational buy. It made sense. He just didn't deliver. Now he's doing something, but he OUGHT to be doing what he was bought to do week in week out.

 

[Modo]

He really wasn't an irrational buy. It made sense. He just didn't deliver. Now he's doing something, but he OUGHT to be doing what he was bought to do week in week out.

I lol'led at "something".

 

[gkmacca]

I lol'led at "something".

Good. I abbreviated my response.

 

[Modo]

Good. I abbreviated my response.

I imagined a scientist behind a one-way mirror looking at Downing going:

- He's doing something.... but....I can't figure out what.

 

[keniget]

He really wasn't an irrational buy. It made sense. He just didn't deliver. Now he's doing something, but he OUGHT to be doing what he was bought to do week in week out.

I have to disagree. It made very little sense, but what you gonna do now.

He's not as shit as he was last season right now, but that's largely because we play a very open game and he often finds himself in loads of space, which is what most mid-table wingers need.

I sincerely hope we offload him in the summer.