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Great to see the lads back on the pitch. It was fantastic to see the travelling kop (and some loud Roma fans) as well decorate a famous baseball stadium. The pitch looked pretty decent considering it's a baseball field, although it did look small on the TV. The Green Monster was a great backdrop for the game. I would have loved to have gone but it was just bad timing and a bit expensive and I would rather only go see games that actually matter.
Thank god that is over. That was the worst league campaign in my lifetime (I'm 43) in terms of goals scored and our performance at home. All those supporters who wanted Rafa out, after one year of not making the champions league, should be ashamed of themselves. We were spoiled back then and didn't realize how good we had it. Well now that we have had an additional two years of inept performances we have our previous ownership, Christian Purlsow, the supporters and media who drove Rafa out to blame.
Sacking's, 3 points and oh yeh, A semi final with the blues
Blacburn vs Liverpool wasone of the weirdest football games I have a seen in a good long. The game was not really coming to life over the first 15 minutes with both sets of players feeling the game out. Liverpool had provided the game with much live besides for some clever passes by Shelvey and lots of good running by Bellamy. Other then that this had all the makings of a tight 0-0 affair.
If supporters want to understand why we have fallen so abruptly from one of Europe's elite to one of the Premier League's upper mid table teams just look at our two centre midfielders on display on Saturday.
Both Henderson and Shelvey had decent games, both want the ball and have a good engine on them. One of them, Henderson, is terrified in the final third and the other one is only playing in his 5th or 6th league start. Just a few years ago Liverpool boasted about Mascherano and Alonso and now we have Shelvey and Henderson.
I just couldn't bear to write my thoughts after the Wigan game. We played reasonably well for a period of time during that match, got the equalizer, and a goal that should have stood, which probably would have seen us go on and win. Once the ref disallowed it we lost our way. Then Wigan went ahead and we never really looked liked getting back into the match. We completely lost the fight.
Sunday's game against Newcastle was on odd one. I thought we played quite well at times, looking more dangerous than our hosts, especially in the first half. Our passing was decent, and Shelvey was very lively. He wanted the ball, got his head up, beat a few people and we looked up for it. Gerrard was not his normal self, however it was great to have Craig Bellamy back in the side. Craig was creating problems but his final pass let him down a few times.
It has taken me just over 24 hours to calm down enough to write this little blog. 12 kids between the ages of 4-6 had the unfortunate experience to have me as their baseball coach 2 hours after this match. It's safe to say the red mist had fully descended and those little guys did their fair share of running last night. Dinner was forced down and frankly I just couldn't wait to get to bed such was the mood that LFC's collapse had put me in.
It was not a great game of football on Sunday but Liverpool did enough to win the match by taking their chances. We started quite brightly in this match but Stoke did so as well. At times they were passing the ball quite quickly and looked dangerous.
After the depressing performance at Sunderland, where "Liverpool did not turn up" according to our captain this was exactly the tonic the players, staff and supporters needed. To win any game 3-0 at home was a welcome sight but to batter our neighbors from start to finish, capped up by a fantastic hatrick by one of our greatest ever players made it even sweeter.
I watched the game against Sunderland on Saturday in utter disbelief. I just couldn't get my head around the fact that Liverpool, who passed and moved so well against Arsenal 7 days before, could come out and lose to Black Cats. We had zero energy, zero ideas and zero chances.
Liverpool's 2-1 loss to Arsenal at Anfield had to be the most disappointing game of the season. To play like we did at Bolton and get beat is deserved. To play like we did on Saturday and lose proves that football is a funny old game.
Honestly I can't remember the last time we have played so well against Arsenal. Normally they always have lots of chances against us and we seem to chase the game. However, in this match we completely dominated from start to finish. I didn't even realize Van Persie or Yossi were even playing until about the 15th minute.
Liverpool were camped out in Arsenal's half and we are such a better side when Carroll doesn't play. Our passing is quicker, shorter and along the ground. The big man has been better recently and has shown signs of working harder for the team but I'm just not sure he will ever be a first-team regular. Kuyt and Suarez were unplayable at times with Henderson having a fantastic bounce-back game after his disappointing League Cup final performance.
Winning the Carling Cup is a fantastic achievement when you think of where Liverpool were 500 days ago.
We had a very difficult passage to get to Wembley and along the way we lost our best player in Lucas. It was great to see 35000 Kopites at Wembley and fantastic to see us walk up the steps to get the trophy. I hope we can build on this victory and it will give some of the new players an understanding of how hard you have to work if you want to make it LFC. Hopefully this taste of success will make them work even harder to get back to where we belong.
I'm embarrassed by it all. I was embarrassed by the decision to have the ridiculous handshake ceremony. Embarrassed by Suarez during the handshake. Embarrassed that Kenny had said during the week that Suarez would shake hands and then he didn't.
Embarrassed that there was a confirmation between the teams on the other side of the hand shake line before kickoff. Embarrassed at the half time tunnel "bust up". Embarrassed that one of the worst United teams in recent memory passed that ball around with such ease. Embarrassed with the tactics and team selection.
Embarrassed by Downing. Embarrassed by Kenny's post match comments where he blames the media. Finally I'm embarrassed by Evra's post game reaction and Ferguson's comments afterwards about Suarez being a disgrace. He should leave those comments to himself as I don't remember anyone else calling Roy Keane a disgrace when he purposely tried to maim another player.
Overall though Liverpool need to focus on ourselves. LFC let themselves down badly at Old Trafford. United may have won the match, after I felt we shaded the first half, but football and LFC lost on Saturday.
At some point this season we are going to have throw caution to the wind and go for it at home. Yes we dominated a very good Spurs side on Monday night and should have come away with the three points but overall we didn't create enough clear-cut chances as we failed to get men in the box in support of Andy Carroll.
The big striker was much better on Monday, his work rate, hold up play and desire to get on the end of crosses was evident, but twice when presented with chances he failed to take them. Early on Dawson made a great tackle on the big man, live I thought it was a penalty, but on the replay it was a great tackle. Late on after a Kelly cross he slashed at the ball with his right foot rather than just taking his time. But it's easy to say that watching from afar.
I got back late on Friday night after a week in las Vegas. I managed to sneak away for a few hours, leaving the Consumer Electronics Show, to a local pub called the Crown and Anchor who always show the matches. I had a quick pint to settle the nerves and watched Liverpool completely dominate Man City for the opening 20 minutes.
Liverpool were awful against Oldham for the first 40 minutes and it took a tactical change by Kenny Dalglish to swing the balance of the game our way. Once Bellamy moved out to the right wing, with Gerrard just behind Kuyt, Liverpool took control. Bellamy ran riot and had Liverpool been able to convert the chances from his crosses this game could have been seven or eight. He changed the game completely.
It was not a surprise to see Oldham have some chances, and take a shock lead, because our back four had not played in six weeks and Gerrard was not helping out Spearing in defence at all. I thought Martin Kelly had a good game throughout and is really unlucky to find himself on the bench lately.
Martin Skrtel kept the very good Ba in his pocked for the better part of 90 minutes on Friday night and for this he is man of the match. It would be easy to look at the excellent Craig Bellamy as well but Skrtel made the play of tr game at 2-1 to make one of the best goal line clearances I have ever seen. Went it left Ba's foot I couldn't believe we had let Newcastle back in the game. They had only one shot at this point (on target) at that had gone in. Otherwise it was complete dominance by the men in red. When Skrtel somehow cleared the ball I thought maybe we would do enough to actually get three points at home.
I hate when Liverpool play Wigan. We always expect the 3 points and rarely get them. I was at the match last year, we started well, got an early Torres goal and then went home. Woy never let any of our players into their side of the half and the invetable equalizer came and Wigan should have won it at the end. This year was totally different, but the outcome still as frustrating.
I have not had time to put my fingers on the keyboard over the last few games but we did have two nice wins, with two very solid clean sheets. The Aston Villa game was extremely odd because we normally find that a tough ground to go to but it was actually the easiest three points we have had in a good while. Perhaps they got us confused with Man United, as they usually lay down for them. With Darren Bent out of the line up they were devoid of any real attacking threat so I was hopeful we would go at them from the start.
The game on Monday was very frustrating. I was a bit disappointed to see Maxi on the bench but I was pleased to see that Bellamy had kept his place in the team. I understand why Kenny picked Carroll to lead the line but at some point the temptation to select him must be resisted.
These last two games have finished so quickly that I barely had time to even open the computer up to write about City. The City game was a bit of a weird one for me. During the game, I just wanted it to end and I kept saying we would take a point from this game. After the game, and after the anxiety had died down, I was quite disappointed in the result.
Well that was very sweet was it not? I'm not sure which picture of the match was the most enjoyable. The sight of Glenn Johnson looking back at his team-mates after the goal, the sight of big John Terry sliding on his bum as the ball rolled into the side netting or perhaps the sight of Torres smiling to his ex-Liverpool team-mates after the game, which must have incensed the Chelsea faithful.
I have to say I was really pleased to see both Maxi and Bells put into the starting 11 at the expense of Downing and Carroll. It seemed Downing knew the chop was coming as he was in the papers a great deal this week talking about how his time had come. Of course, I still think he will be playing more than not, but it was nice to see Kenny go with the players who been playing well when given a chance.
I have read a few match reports after Liverpool's frustrating draw on Saturday and the majority of them say that Andy Carroll did ok besides for missing a sitter in the 7th minute. They said that he put in a decent shift and won some good headers when the ball was in the box, but no one was on hand to score.
I'm not quite sure what happened on Saturday. The commentators were saying that Norwich deserved a share of the spoils and I suppose the 1-1 score-line agrees with them but Liverpool completely dominated that game from start to finish and could and should have scored nine goals. We created chance after chance but our finishing has been woeful this season and this was the case again Saturday.
Liverpool were very unlucky on Saturday but we need to do a better job of taking the chances that are given to us if we want to climb the table. United had two chances to score, a Phil Jones header and the goal by the Little Pea or whatever nickname that fella has. In typical United fashion they scored from one of those two chances to steal a point at Anfield.
Regular readers of my column will know that I dislike Martin Atkinson, the ref for the derby this weekend. He never gives Liverpool anything. He never protected Torres when he was with us and he's just an accident waiting to happen. So it was no surprise when he got the decision to send off Rodwell totally wrong after a foul on Suarez.
It's times like this when it's very difficult being the Liverpool Correspondant. I was very excited for this match as we had to wait 8 days since we were so unlucky at Stoke so even though the game started at 530 am on a Sunday I was chomping at the bit and couldn't sleep.
Diabolical is the only word that comes to mind when I think of Liverpool's recent trips to Stoke. Last year I witnessed the worst Liverpool display (in person) at the Britannia Stadium. Last year we were out-managed, out fought, out thought and totally out played by Stoke. This year the word diabolical is saved for the man in the middle who cost us all three points on Sunday. He was a disgrace.
I'm truly sorry about the delay in writing this post match summary of the Bolton game. I'm just not sure what I can say that has not been said in the press already. This was a special treat for me as I was able to watch the game with my dad. For regular readers of my stuff over the years you will know that I often drive the 20 miles to sit with him and watch the match together. It's something we enjoy tremendously. I have two kids that are getting bigger so my schedule does not always permit the drive time however Saturday was a perfect for me as I headed to San Mateo to watch the match.
I think Liverpool just about deserved to win on Saturday. My Friday evening was spent getting to bed early so I could try and get some sleep before the alarm went off at 430 am (kick off is at 445 for me). I was able to be in bed by 10am but once I looked at the clock at 3:50am I knew at that point I had no chance of going back to sleep as the nervous excitement of a Liverpool game was in the blood.
So I'm up checking the team news and making coffee while hoping that I don't disturb the kids or my wife. Finally 555 minutes later we kicked off and I was quite surprised to see Henderson in the line-up at the expense of Suarez but I understood the logic behind it. Nice to see Kelly returning to the right back role, he had a heck of game.
Needless to say the last few opening games of the season have been a big disappointment. After getting five consecutive away days under Rafa the fixture computer handed us two consecutive home games that we have failed to win. Last year against Arsenal, in which somehow we played quite well, even down to ten men, but still managed to only come away with a point. This year, against Sunderland, with four new faces in the squad, we again only managed a draw. It was an extremely disappointing result.
Since Kenny Dalglish took over this was the first game we have played under heavy expectations and it did not go well for us. As Kenny said, we did not start well and frankly I think he made a mistake by restoring Andy Carroll to the starting line up. I don't think Carroll had that bad of a game but by having him in the team stopped Maxi from getting forward and left Lucas and Spearing very isolated.
My dad and I back in the UK in November for some games and were unlucky enough to watch Wigan away (played well for 10 minutes then Roy told us to defend for 80) and Stoke away (got hammered 2-0 and it should have been more).
Liverpool got the early start they required as Dalglish only made one change to the team that destroyed Birmingham with Johnson coming in for Robinson at left back. Johnson looked very good coming down that left side an much of our early play involved him and Max. Maxi was picked ahead of Andy Carroll after his hat trick last week.
Liverpool were given the perfect start to the match after some bad goal keeping by Ben Foster after a Spearing shot fell to the recalled Maxii Maxi had not choice but to place in the ball in the back of the net net. This was just the start that Liverpool needed and it came after a frantic opening 7 minutes when we looked very lively. This team is full of runners and every time Birmingham had the ball two or three red shirts were on hand to close them down.
What a battling performance by the men in black at the Emirates. Liverpool ended the game without captain, vice-captain and big target man. We also had two "kids" at the outside full backs yet if there was any team that looked liked scoring in the last 20 minutes it was us.
I don't know how Liverpool can look like relegation fodder one week and Champions the next. Last week against West Brom we were just brutal to watch and this week against one of the Top Guns in the Premier league we were scintillating.
That was Liverpool's worst performance under Kenny Dalglish and the most disappointing by far. West Brom played us off the park at times, which is quite unbelievable considering who they are managed by. Their second goal came from a typical Roy Hodgson long-ball but with Sotirios Kyrgiakos struggling it was a wise plan.
Steve Bruce said, "these things happen in football" after the Sunderland v Liverpool game last year when the ball hit a beach ball and went in the goal. He also said at that time that if you know that the game should have been started by a drop ball after hitting the beach ball you are a saddo.
Well Steve, it was ironic then to watch you rant and rave on the sidelines on Sunday after a somewhat dubious penalty in the 33rd minute. Liverpool need to get about eight more dubious penalties at the Stadium of light for that complete lack of understanding of the rules to even out. At least the decision on Sunday was close to being correct!
I thought Liverpool were just awful on Thursday. We didn't have one single player on the pitch that had any invention or creativity. We also didn't have a player on the field that could actually go around a man with a bit of pace or creativity. If Joe Cole never plays for Liverpool again that is fine with me, he is totally over-rated and is a complete bust. I have given up on him.
Liverpool battered Manchester United on Sunday. Truth be told the score-line was not a fair reflection of the balance of play. United had many nearly-men on the pitch while Liverpool had 11 warriors. Liverpool actually dominated the game much more than in their 1-4 thrashing of United at Old Trafford.
Well Liverpool were awful over the 90 minutes and deserved to get beaten against West Ham. This was our worst showing since Kenny took over as the players lacked imagination and looked very jaded.
It's very worrying that Lucas, Liverpool's best outfield player this season, has now had a run of a two games were he has looked very tired. He was getting caught in possession during the match and our entire passing display was just not quick enough.
Wigan are baffling to me. I just don't see how a team with that much pace and confidence on the ball can be in the Premier League drop zone. I was actually at the game in person at Wigan and they deserved their draw on that day. As a matter of fact they were the better team and should have won. Liverpool found the home fixture a very hard game but with a little bit of luck over injuries and with a linesman paying attention Liverpool would have captured all three points. We greatly missed both Agger and Gerrard and sick Meireles did not help matters as Liverpool were forced into making too many changes.
Liverpool were simply marvellous at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. We actually out fought Chelsea and out matched them tactically. I'm not sure if Carlo Ancelotti or Roman Abramovich decided to go with three strikers up front but in hindsight it was a mistake.
Liverpool's 3-5-2 formation dominated Chelsea's midfield and we had all the better chances in the match. Of course Chelsea did have one decent penalty shout turned down at the death but it would have been very harsh on this Liverpool side who should have been two up at this point.
Finally. Finally not just a win but an away win and a pretty convincing one at that. Liverpool were not perfect and at the start of the second half we were under pressure but my goodness we were 10 times better then against Wolves at Anfield. They team actually looked like they wanted to pass the ball up the field rather then boot it up the pitch.
I thought Liverpool were very unlucky not to claim all three points in the derby. Just as we used to do when Rafa was in charge, we played Everton off the pitch in the first half.
It should have been more then one at half-time as Torres was very unlucky when his shot crashed against the post with Howard beaten. The tone was also set when Phil Dowd missed an obvious penalty as Torres was fouled in an off the ball incident. How the ref didn't blow for that I will never understand.
This was the most disappointed I have been after a match under our current manager's reign. I thought this was our best performance by a country mile and had we had taken our chances, and the referee not been Martin Atkinson, we would have at least got a share of the spoils, if not all three points.
Liverpool dominated the first 45 minutes against West Ham on Sunday and scored 3 goals, none of which came from the body of Torres and Gerrard! It was our best display of the season by far. In saying that West Ham are theworst team to come to Anfield in some time and if I'm being greedy we should have scored a lot more. We did create lots of chances however and once the match started I always felt we were going to score and win, it was just a question of how money they were that bad!
Liverpool dominated the first 45 minutes against West Ham on Sunday and scored 3 goals, none of which came from the body of Torres and Gerrard! It was our best display of the season by far. In saying that West Ham have been the worst team to come to Anfield in some time and if I'm being greedy we should have scored a lot more. We did create lots of chances however and once the match started I always felt we were going to score.
I saw our current manager on the way back home to California last Sunday, the day after attending the Stoke gmae. Once I got over deciding it was really him I just shook my head and walked away from him. It was just me and him as it was early hours in the Manchester airport.
Liverpool's first half display was the best of the season, without a shadow of a doubt. I was really pleased with the line-up when I saw that Kelly was being given a game at right back. I still have not heard if Johnson was dropped or injured but either way the kid stuck to his job and put in an excellent display. I was surprised not to see our big Greek in the middle but I did think he picked up knock in midweek so he was probably injured. In hindsight not having him was not as much as a problem with Drogba on the bench for the first 45 minutes.
Well another inept performance by the men in red and one in a suit on Sunday. For the first time in many seasons we were totally outplayed at Everton. I know they beat us 3-0 at their place a few years ago but Reina didn't have one of his best days on that occasion. At least then we showed some spirit and fight but as soon as Cahill scored the game was up.
I thought Liverpool were very good for the first 15 minutes of this match and once they went ahead they were very poor, until the last 15 minutes.
I would have much rather had Torres chested down and volley goal had stood, which I thought was incorrectly ruled out for offside. Then the "backpass" goal. Both goals were legitimate, however Sunderland's sense of injustice seemed to shake them from their slumber and they dominated the game from that point on.
Liverpool were poor in the first half with the cheating Nani causing our new boy Paul Konchesky problems throughout. However, how Alex Ferguson can have the nerve to say that Torres was trying to get O'Shea sent off by diving is a joke.
Liverpool were lucky to draw at St. Andrews on Sunday afternoon. Our goalkeeper was fantastic and was clearly the man of the match. When you goal keeper is man of the match you know it has been a bad day at the office.
Liverpool were hammered on Monday by a clearly better side. Man City were better than Liverpool in every department (quicker, stronger, more agile and tactically). Our ridiculous idea to play a 4-4-2 with Ngog and Torres clearly did not work.
The gap between Man City and Liverpool has never been more evident than it was on Monday. I would expect them to be better than us after all the money they have spent in the last two transfer windows, however I thought we could and would still compete with them.
That was is a great game tonight and once again showed Rafa Benetiz is the man to lead us. He somehow managed to get out best 11 players left on the field tonight in a line up that surprised everyone. I know we didn't do it in the end but my gooness we were close.
In the first I thought we marvelous, some of the best passing and movement I have seen out of us all season.
I watched that game on my dad's new 47 inch flat panel TV, in HD and for once we actually looked good on it.
The news and results this weekend were particularly poor. I just couldn't believe Scholes scored that goal with his head in the dying minutes which started off a bad weekend of football results. Once United won I felt Chelsea would slip up and they did, providing spurs 3 more vital points. Both Everton and Villa won so the weekend was quite poor. Then the news on Sunday that Torres will miss 6 weeks and end his season. All I did was simply shake my head and say out loud, what is next?
Liverpool were robbed of a foothold in the last four of the Europa League by some absolutely shocking officiating in Portugal on Thursday night.
A fantastic cheeky back heel by Agger provided the Reds the away goal they needed. Benefica, when it was 11 v 11, looked a very good side but I always felt we had another goal left in us such was the intent that Gerrard and Torres started with.
I had to wait 24 hours after watching Wigan v Liverpool to put "pen to paper". I have only ever walked out of a game once (and that only lasted two minutes before I came back in) -the game was an FA Cup match against Chelsea when we were winning 2-0 and lost 4-2. Our second half display was dreadful that day!
So nice to see Liverpool's number 9 back in action against Blackburn on Sunday. He was marvellous in the first half, tired in the second, but was still excellent overall. He just gives us a totally new dimension and we desperately need him to stay healthy in the run in.
Liverpool played very well at times but for some reason in the second half we just couldn't seem to get a hold of the ball and were guilty of giving the ball away up front. This allowed Blackburn to pump ball after ball into our box, and with the ref giving Reina almost zero protection it was a sound tactic.
Liverpool came up trumps with their gritty, hard working and physical display as they fully deserved all the three points. David Moyes might feel the gap has closed between Liverpool and Everton but Everton had a very difficult time dealing with their man advantage.
Let me know start off by saying that I thought the referee was awful. Fellaini should have been off well before the tackle with Kyrgiakos. He Rugby tackled Kyrgiakos in the box during a corner kick and then he purposely slid into the face of Kuyt, after the whistle had gone. Both of these actions were completely ignored/missed by this referee. Then unbelievably, the major talking point of the match between Fellaini and Kyrgiakos saw the referee completely ignore the big haired thug as he showed a straight red to the greek letting Fellaini away with assault. Some justice was served as Fellaini was not able to return to action as his further participation in the match would have been a joke.
So Liverpool gained a valuable 3 points at home to Bolton on Saturday. The performance in the first half was not great as Bolton had two very good chances to score but this was a much better performance then midweek against Wolves.
Steven Gerrard was our most improved player as he was being man marked for most of the match but his work rate and movement was much better. Our defense also looked pretty strong, the big greek in the middle doing very well.
Liverpool were bloody awful against Wolves. Rafa and Gerrard can spin it any way they but the honest truth is that if you'd swapped kits before the match you could not have been able tell which team was Wolves and which team was Liverpool.
The Reds had one shot on target and that was a fluke more than anything. Who knew that Liverpool's best chance would happen in the opening minute when Alberto Riera flashed a header wide.
Well that was a bit more like it. This was never going to be a night when we out passed Spurs but what we did do was out run and out hustle them, from the first whistle to the last whistle. In speaking of whistles we even had a bit of help from the man in the middle. This made for a nice change after some of the awful decision that have come our way this season.
Aquilani was much better in his advanced role last night and Dirk Kuyt must have ran a marathon. Typically I don't think he is a good selection for the lone striker role, but last night he excelled at it. He actually probably took the hardest chance of the lot when he slotted in Liverpool's opening goal after 6 minutes. He went on to miss 3 easier chances to finish the game off, but kept his nerve with two well taken penalties in minute 90.
Liverpool got a much needed 3 points in their home match with Wigan last night. Much of the attention around this match was celebrating that has been 50 years since the great Bill Shankly walked through the Anfield doors.
Many famous players of the two FA Cup winning teams during Shankly's era were on the field for a celebration of the great man.
In bed early on Friday night as it has been two long weeks with out a Liverpool game. The alarm was set at 430 am so I could get up and make a cup of coffee for the 4:45 am. kick off. People think I'm crazy but on a completely personal level I enjoy the early kick off's as I can watch the game with out feeling like I'm taking time away from the kids. The downside of the early games is that if we don't win it makes for an awfully long day of stewing on the result.
2-2 was a fair result. City played well for about 20 minutes which was enough to share the spoils at Anfield.
This is getting old. I'm not sure what Liverpool did to upset off the soccer gods but whatever it was it must have been bad. I couldn't' believe the team sheet on Saturday morning. Missing from the squad was Skrtel, Agger, Rierra, Gerrard, Auerilo and Ngog. I just couldn't believe how many forced changes we had.
Everyone knows that I'm a huge Rafa supporter. We need Rafa more then he needs us but this was not one of his better games. I have no problem with him taking off Torres after 60 minutes but his decision to remove Yossi was a surprise. Surely Kuyt was the better option, Kuyt had a very poor game and looked tired. The other beef I have with this team was that Vornonin was in it. He was terrible and is simply not good enough to start an away league match. I would have rather seen Yossi behind Torres and even Babel out left. Babel was awful again by the way.
Liverpool actually dominated the first 25 minutes of this match. Fulham barely got out of their own half. For all possession we didn't have that many clear chances at goal. Although Degen was finding some joy down the right, his final ball was not great. Finally an opening did arrive as Yossi took the ball down well but his shot hit the post. Of course, the way the games are going for us we found ourselves a goal behind from Fulhams first attack. Poor marketing from our Greek center back and a lazy Insua allowed Zamora to tap it in.
The Liverpool players seemed to play with a real belief from the first whistle to the last, although the last 15 minutes of normal time and the 5 minutes of injury time(not sure where the ref got 5 minutes from,) was very nerve racking. Every time a United player went to ground the decision seemed to go for them. They had quite free kicks in dangerous positions and I was happy that certain number #7 was playing in Spain.
Liverpool seemed to have a balance in the team that was missing in recent weeks and our Brazilian left sided midfielder really helped the side. His dead balls and work rate were very good all day long. Yossi was popping up everywhere and really running at the United defense. Of course, Kuyt worked so hard but the battle was won the middle of the park. Our pair of Lucas and Masch dominated their central midfielders. Glen Johnson was a solid right back with Agger and Carragher doing a job on Rooney and Berbatov
Liverpool's game was a thriller for the neutral supporter but as a Liverpool fan I felt it was taking time off of my life. A team that was so comfortable at the back last year looks ragged at times this year. Both of our centre-backs were guility of poor play in the first half. Carragher almost gifting West Ham the lead inside of the first few minutes.
Liverpool won two games on the trot, the Burnley game was a stroll in the park after a shaky first 10 minutes. Once Liverpool got going Gerrard excelled in a center midfield role and dictated the game well. Of course, Yossi will get all the headlines and deservedly so. He was fantastic and deserved all of the plaudits after completing his hat trick. Liverpool scored four, even though Torres looked well of the pace. How we did not make it more is a surprise but Voronin should have done much better when he was put clear through on goal.
Well thank you to Sean Davies for getting sent off in this match after two avoidable incidents. Had he not been sent off I'm afraid Liverpool might be in looking at a very different international break. Liverpool dominated the game but found themselves behind twice.
Liverpool's performance against Villa was awful. We had a good twenty minutes but after that we seemed to lose our way and I just felt things might go against us as the game started to settle. Villa were working hard to get us out of our rhythm and it was working well as many of our steady performers were having a hard time keeping hold of the ball.
Torres was given a torrid time by the defence and how the ref missed three clear fouls on him is beyond understanding. One of these was a clear elbow to the back of the head which was missed. These things change football matches and we have not been on the receiving end of much luck so far this season.
This was the first time in a long time that I can remember a Liverpool league game not being on the TV. On the final day of the season all of the Premier league games start at the same time so Setanta and Fox Sports had some deciding to do. I can understand showing the relegation struggles first, Hull v United, Villa v Newcastle and Boro v West Ham but how Stoke v Arsenal, Everton v Fulham, even Blackburn v West Brom was shown over Liverpool. I resorted to watching it on a streaming feed and for what I could see of the match Liverpool dominated from start to finish. The only blemish on the match was that Robbie Keane prevented Reina from claiming his third golden glove awards with a late goal. To Keane's credit he did not celebrate on bit. It's to bad that it didnt' work out for Keane, but we were clearly a better team after he went back to Spurs.
Gerrard and Torres combined well for Liverpool to ease the nerves of the traveling supporters (and those watching on TV). Gerrard took his goal so well but his movement to create the space is what created the goal.
Give West Ham credit, they actually played much better in this game then the previous game at Anfield where they took a point from us.
Well the last few weeks have been pretty decent to say the least. I was so pleased when Rafa had his contract extended for another 4 years plus the 1 left to work with us to 2013. It was great news during a non-football week.
After Fulham beat United on Saturday Liverpool's game against Villa was even more nerve racking. Liverpool started out well and were rewarded with an early goal. Gerrard could have added a second after a deflected cross. Once Villa got past that early pressure they were the better side for the next 20 minutes. Carew was causing us all kind of problems and Reina was forced into making a couple of fine saves.
Not much you can say after you thrash your old rivals 4-1 on their patch. It was an odd game really as I through both teams were sloppy in possession .Liverpool suffered two early blows with Alonso and Arbeloa ruled out over muscle injuries. Up stepped Hyypia and Lucas who both filled in very well. Hyypia was a rock at the back and Lucas was much more careful with the ball then he has been in previous weeks.
Once again Liverpool continue to astound me and show me just how far we've come under Rafael Benetiz. A team that played with an injured Torres for 60 minutes and with out our skipper somehow beat a Real Madrid team that was going very well.
To a player they all did well. Alonso just shading the man of the match display for me, but really it could go any of them (bar Riera who didn't have one of his better days).
Same old story for Liverpool at "fortress" Anfield as another two points slipped away by the worst away team in the league, Man City.
Liverpool's lack of creativity in the middle of the park cost us on this occassion. With Alonso suspended and Gerrard hurt the pairing of Mascherano and Lucas just didnt' work. Neither one of them as much creativity in them so we did well at snuffing out much of City's attacking play but we really struggled to create much in their box. Of course, if we had players that gambled more in the box, like Riera we would have been a couple of goals up at the break. As it was they scoreline at half-time was a very typical 0-0.
Well I apologize to all of you in the media who had your knives out ready to carve Rafa and Liverpool open on Saturday evening. Rafa seems to be public enemy number 1 with whatever he says being reported with a negative spin. Soccernet even had an article with Rafa's rants, which was a bit of a farce really, but I suppose they got what they wanted as I read the article
Liverpool put in an excellent display on Wednesday with Rafa picking his strongest current 11. Liverpool seemed intent to shoot more often with Riera, Alonso and Mascherano all having early efforts. I don't remember Reina having a save to make all afternoon.
Chelsea's goalie didn't look all that comfortable and Liverpool let a couple of follow up opportunities go missing. Of course the talking point of the contest was Lampard's straight red. At the time I thought it was a foul on Lampard. After watching replays I think the outcome was a drop ball. I didn't think it was foul on either player.
Lampard's foot was high and Alonso's follow through caught him. Mike Riley is a terrible ref and he proved so again on this occasion. He missed the tackle four years ago involving the same players that Lampard got away with. He blew this call as well.
The score-line might have been the same but this was a very different game. Everton deserved their draw on Monday as we didn't play well and they had a few good chances in the first half of that match.
In this game, minus a shot that went well wide in the early stages, their only other real attack of note, resulted in a goal from another set piece. The annoying Cahill again found space with Alonso ball watching. Skirtel then left Lescott who had little problems glancing his header past Reina.
I was recently on a trip to Las Vegas for work and attended the Consumer Electronic show (CES). As always when I travel for work and Liverpool are playing I always hunt down the a pub that is showing the match. Finding the Crown and Anchor in Vegas was not hard as I been there a few times in years past, the most memorable of which was Liverpool's League Cup Victory over United. Unfortunately this visit was not as memorable. Joined by a few reds from Wigan we settled in to watch what was Liverpool�..s' worst performance of the season.
Liverpool were very impressive against Bolton and played with a desire to get that early goal. I was really impressed with everyone on the pitch that day but especially Alonso in the center of the park. He made things look so easy and pulled all the strings. It is crazy to think that we were going to sell him in the summer and hopefully any of the rumour that he still might leave are just that, rumors.
Once Riera used the bottom of his boot to score Liverpool looked to be in charge. Bolton's only real chance of the game was inside of the first minute. Once that chance went begging we rarely looked to be in trouble. Keane capped off an excellent 90 minute display with two fine goals, the first was a great strike after a fantastic through ball by Gerrard and the third was a fantastic Liverpool move that started with our keeper. Gerrrard was even afforded the luxury of a rest. Special praise must go to our young left back Insua. I have been hoping he would get a few chances this season and the illness to the Doss at Arsenal might have been the best thing to happen to Insua's career. He has taken his opportunity with both hands and was excellent all day against Bolton.
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State police investigate animal cruelty case
Published 7:54 AM EDT Oct 08, 2012
State police in Lancaster County said someone shot a Martic Township woman's dogs, killing one and wounding the other.
The case of animal cruelty happened in the 500 block of Bridge Valley Road, troopers said.
State police said they do not have a description of the suspect.
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Turtle Island Quartet to Perform in Concert, Supports Elemore Morgan Jr. Visual Arts Endowment Fund at Community Foundation of Acadiana
By: Angela Becnel - Staff Writer
LAFAYETTE - The Community Foundation of Acadiana is a 501 © (3) non-profit entity and focuses its primary grant making within an eight-parish area which are Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary and Vermilion. The Foundation currently has assets exceeding $47 million and has granted more than $20 million back into this community of Acadiana since its inception in 2000. For more information visit www.cfacadiana.org. - or call Kathryn Wynne at (337) 769-4844.
In memory of artist, teacher and long-time arts advocate, Elemore Morgan, Jr., Friends of Elemore will present a benefit concert featuring the world-renowned Turtle Island Quartet on March 11, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. in the James Devin Moncus Theatre of the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Proceeds of the concert benefit the Elemore Morgan Jr. Visual Arts Endowment, a Fund at Community Foundation of Acadiana. Tickets may be purchased online at http://acadianacenterforthearts.org.
The event will begin with a 7 p.m. preview of a retrospective exhibition by internationally recognized Louisiana artist Francis X. Pavy.
As an extension of the Endowment's mission, Friends of Elemore presents the Turtle Island Quartet, a two-time Grammy winning string chamber music group renowned for their exploration of jazz, classical, American vernacular and world music styles, taking their audiences on a journey through many musical vernaculars.
This performance, with special guest Michael Doucet, will tackle works by legendary guitarist, songwriter and performer Jimi Hendrix, as well as other compositions reflective of and inspired by Hendrix's music.
"This benefit not only allows us to present world-class performers to the people of the eight parishes which make up Acadiana, but to further extend the mission of supporting and honoring artists as Elemore did throughout his life and career," said artist, endowment co-creator and board member Francis X. Pavy.
A lifelong resident of Louisiana, Francis X Pavy was born in Lafayette on March 2, 1954. As a child, he studied art under the direction of Elemore Morgan Jr. At the age of 12, Pavy, an avid photographer, set up a darkroom in the attic of his parent's house. In college he studied music, ceramics, animation, painting, printmaking and sculpture, graduating in 1976 with a fine arts degree in sculpture. Pavy's work has been published in a variety of catalogs, books and magazine articles, including "Elvis & Marilyn: 2 times Immortal", (US & Japanese Edition), "The South: A Treasury Of Art and Literature", "Francis X. Pavy, La Musique Zydeco", "The Colors of Rhythm" and "Outward Bound, American Art on the brink of the 21st Century".
Pavy's retrospective of his 35 years as an artist includes pieces from 1976 until present. His art collection will show at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, in conjunction with the Turtle Island quartet and will contain a variety of multi-media pieces, including paintings, prints, constructions and sculpture
Since its inception in 1985, The Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings. Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY®-Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined. Check http://turtleislandquartet.com/ to hear the sounds of this group of artists.
The mission of the Elemore Morgan, Jr. Visual Arts Endowment, a Fund at Community Foundation of Acadiana, is to demonstrate that the visual arts are significant cultural necessities by supporting, promoting, enhancing and strengthening the visual arts, primarily in south Louisiana. To further the endowment's mission, funds will support programming—exhibitions, symposia, workshops—visual arts activities and scholarships, reflecting the passion and life-long vocation of Elemore Morgan Jr. www.cfacadiana.org/elemore
To purchase tickets for the Friday, March 11 Turtle Island Quartet chamber music performance visit http://acadianacenterforthearts.org. Tickets are $75 per person for Front Orchestra per person; $40 each for Rear Orchestra per person; and $10 discount with a valid student identification.
Community Foundation of Acadiana's mission is to improve the quality of life in our region by increasing giving, connecting donors to the causes they care about, and providing leadership on community needs and opportunities. Donors establish funds at the Foundation, with any dollar amount, invest the fund, and make grants on fund earnings to fulfill immediate community needs or permanent charitable objectives.


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For Sale : FARMS & GAME FARMS
Private Big 5 Game Reserve For Sale
The property is situated in the
Lowveld of Northern Kwa Zulu Natal, Republic of South Africa.
It consists of 3 864 hectares and forms part of a bigger
conservancy of 10 700ha.
This property is truly THE GEM
of all game farms in the RSA due to the fact that it has a big
perennial river flowing through the entire property with a
luxury lodge overlooking a magnificent waterfall in the river
(see photo gallery). The vegetation is made up with sweet
thornveld with big trees, riverine forest along the river and
open savannah veld and wetland area.
The property is well stocked with
game including all five of the big five as well as hippos and
cheetah (photo gallery). It is fenced with electrified elephant
and predator fencing.
Available services consist of a
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chalets, each with private splash pool, lounge, dining room,
outside eating area, conference facilities, swimming pool,
beauty spa, curio shop and offices – telephone and television
services.. The tented camp situated up river offers splendid
views of the river and game feeding/drinking along the banks of
the river. The camp is a luxurious tented camp each with
en-suite bathroom as well as air conditioning. A dining room,
boma, bar lounge area and swimming pool compliments the tented
camp. An airstrip and helipad is available.
All personnel are accommodated in
tastefully built houses and single quarters with appropriate
This property is on offer as a
going concern @ R120 000 000
Additional farms inside this
reserve is also available and purchase prices can be
persons: Francois +27 82 893 5073 or Office +27 34 983 3722
972 ha
game farm situated 22 km from Pongola,
Northern Kwa Zulu Natal, Republic of South
Africa. The farm is easily accessible from the R66 tar road and
topography consists of flat as well as mountain areas. A
farm like this comes seldom in the market and will sell as a
running business with all assets as listed.
The farm consists of a
homestead and lodge with swimming pool, chalets and beautiful
bush camps. Out buildings consists of a butchery, cold
room and shed.
List of assets:
Reception, Butchery
and Cold room (One Building)
6 Labourers Houses
Main Lodge - 5
chalets en-suite (16 bed). Luxury thatched lapa, open deck
with Jacuzzi. Bar, etc (furnished)
First Bush camp - 3
thatched chalets en-suite (6 bed). Thatched lapa
Second Bush camp -
Camping site (own tents) with bucket shower, water & bush
2 boreholes,
equipped with pumps, reservoirs, etc.
Game fencing 2.1m
The property borders a
game farm that contains rhino, elephant, leopard, lion and
buffalo (Big Five).
Price R 13 million
as a running concern
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R7.4 million (negotiable).
R30.53 million (negotiable).
R17 million as a running concern. (negotiable)
R30 million (negotiable).
Property No
1362ha. The
general topography is flat to undulating and consists mainly of
Lowveld Bushveld. The water supply is from one point on the
municipal pipe line (purified water) eight earth dams and two
capped boreholes. The buildings consist of a well built double
story homestead, hunters cottage, cold room, big shed,
slaughtering facilities, 2 Wendy houses and servants quarters.
(see photo gallery)
R22 500 000 (negotiable)
467ha. The topography is gently rolling
with a small hill to the west. The habitat is also sweet
Bushveld grazing. The water supply consists of purified
municipal water, four boreholes of which three are equipped with
electric submersible pumps. All the water schemes are
The buildings consist of the main stone built
lodge, a rondawel with ameneties, square davel, managers house,
cottage, workshop, butchery, pool, outbuildings, bushcamp and
compound (see photo gallery).
Price R9.345 million (negotiable)


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The regional semifinalists include several familiar names, among them Dudley Slater, co-founder of Integra Telecom. The company replaced him as CEO in February after 13 years.
Other finalists from this region are:
- Brandon Dawson, Audigy Group, Vancouver
- Gene Biggi, Beaverton Foods, Hillsboro
- Stuart Ellis, Charter School Capital, Portland
- John Marick, Consumer Cellular, Portland
- David Shaffer, DePaul Industries, Portland
- David Childers, EthicsPoint, Lake Oswego
- Steve Marsh, Smarsh, Portland
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Today in history
Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 327th day of 2012. There are 39 days left in the year. This is Thanksgiving Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot to death while in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same open car as the president, was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested.
On this date:
- 1718, English pirate Edward Teach -- better known as "Blackbeard" -- was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.
- 1930, listeners of the British Broadcasting Corp. heard, for the first time, radio coverage of an American college football game as Harvard defeated Yale, 13-0.
- 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, Calif., carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
- 1965, the musical "Man of La Mancha" opened on Broadway.
- 1967, the U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
- 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced her resignation.
- 2002: Russian President Vladimir Putin told President George W. Bush the United States should not wage war alone against Iraq, and questioned whether Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were doing enough to fight terrorism.


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Calling all 5-inchers: Full HD screen phones roundup
0. phoneArena 09 Jan 2013, 14:36 posted on
Getting dizzy from all that pixel density jazz coming towards you from all directions at CES? We are too, so let's stop for a little, and round up what Full HD screen handsets are out there, or have been speculated on so far. Whether you think Full HD on a phone is an overreaction or not, better buckle up, because it is coming from all directions regardless...
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1. freebee269 (Posts: 539; Member since: 10 Aug 2012)
the sony xperia Z is the most intriguing to me of that bunch. more interested in the galaxy s4 though.
2. bakhtawar (Posts: 41; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
Sony FTW !!!!
7. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
I have never seen a single person carrying a Sony device in all of my travels. My job takes me from NYC, Dallas, Charlotte, ect and not one Sony device. What does that tell you?
9. GTR722 (Posts: 261; Member since: 20 Oct 2012)
I bet you see a lot of iphones....What does that tell you ??
10. aokde (Posts: 186; Member since: 09 Jul 2012)
That you americans understand sh*t in technology and class.
Where i come from even little kids already heard about the XPERIA line...
21. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
good joke
11. smallworld (Posts: 484; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
You need glasses. (also the US does not represent the whole world)
14. Feanor (Posts: 711; Member since: 20 Jun 2012)
It tells us that Sony phones are not popular in the USA... yet. Kind of expected if they are not properly marketed. But there are a few more billion people outside of the US and apparently they have bought a lot of Sony smartphones recently as the latest sales figures indicate.
19. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
Who said they are expected, they are not popular bcoz... No sony phone has overpower Samsung bench marks right now.. and they release TOO LATE.... by the time xperia s released... Galaxy s3 released in 2 months and crushed it bigtime.. and even galaxy s2 had better processor with better bench marks.. what to say more..
34. gboo2565 (Posts: 10; Member since: 29 Feb 2012)
I agree with your point about being late. If Sony say released late March that will surely be late April early May at best as per all previous phones..
35. Mittal (Posts: 493; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
Thats true, but Fallout09 never generalized about the whole world. He was just saing what he has himself witnessed (or Not witnessed)
17. Katrina (Posts: 84; Member since: 17 Aug 2012)
lol @ fallout09, you dont know what a sony phone looks like. hahhaa
20. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
Yes bcoz.. no one buys its in USA and its hardy seen any where , seriously, I travel a lot too and I haven't seen it any where...All i see mostly Iphone.. due to craze.. and samsung or HTC, or some moto.. but rarely any sony..
18. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
Agree, Sony doesn't sells in USA at all, DROID DNA is released months ahead of these.. so owning a DNA makes sense right... XPERIA Z is too late sames specs
But here is my rating of all these phones.
1. Galaxy s4 and Optimus g2
2. Sony Xperia Z
3. ZTE grand s
4. Huawei
5. Vizio
6. Droid DNA ... it will be still competitive... so GET THE DNA if you want to buy now.. or wait for GS 4
7. Alcatel...
22. xSamx (Posts: 5; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
droid dna? only LTE 700, only 16 GB (11 GB user available) without card slot, only 8 mp camera, only 2020 mah battery and it is near 1 cm bigger than SONY XPERIA ZL( and i cant even find it in my country).......thx but no thx i will w8 for the ZL.
30. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
I use only LTE 700.. Verizon fastest and best carrier in the world.
Unlimited data and cloud services.. do not need a sd card..
1 cm bigeer... ahahahahahahaha... that makes no difference....
The battery performance is good for me and its TRUE Champion in stand by... and as its not in ur country I cant help it..
28. pyradark (Posts: 857; Member since: 10 Jun 2012)
Are you sure about that "Doesnt Sell"
so why on earth Sony become 3rd behind apple & sammy on Q3??
Plus Xperia is never been late, what ever Processor Sammy & others bought, Xperia Z design & build quality will kick them all :))
31. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
what .... DNA has same processor and screen.. 3 months ahead.. how the hell are they not late... and XPERIA S could not even compete against.. Exonsys inside galaxy s2.. are you Drunk..?
38. Mittal (Posts: 493; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
It is actually a matter of geographical dominance too!!
Here in India, if observation is anything to go by, i mainly see
1) Samsung
2) Apple
3) Sony/HTC
Moto and LG are rare
29. joshOps85 (Posts: 31; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
gs4 ugly and lg cheap as...
1. Sony Xperia Z
2.HTC butterfly (or DNA if you must)
40. Aaron_R96 (Posts: 198; Member since: 22 Jan 2012)
"Add the 13 MP Exmor RS camera with HDR video capabilities, and the Xperia Z will very well climb on top of the smartphone ladder when it launches this quarter."
Don't think your precious DNA is the best phone in the world right now, to be honest.
Also you don't know how good the gs4 or g2 will be, so that's really just speculation, they may also have 2gb RAM and a Full HD screen etc etc and be another one of these generic 5"'s at the minute for all we know..
36. linneti15 (Posts: 49; Member since: 26 Sep 2012)
ehh it doesn't matter how many carry what phone for me, while i want a premium brand phone (not some brand no one has heard of or thinks is cheap), after that i will choose the best phone available :) sony, samsung, htc, motorola, lg, apple or nokia, doesn't matter which i will choose the best phone available.
43. RamyRamz69 (Posts: 390; Member since: 12 Dec 2011)
That Americans know nothing but s**t about technology. Proof? Vizio is the #1 TV company in the US. Not to mention Apple sales.
3. jibraihimi (Posts: 762; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
Phonearena, you forgot to mention Alcatel Scribe X, and smartphone from Vizio. They both are also sporting 5" FullHD screens............
5. Daniel.P (Posts: 105; Member since: 14 Jul 2011)
Added, cheers :)
16. jibraihimi (Posts: 762; Member since: 29 Nov 2011)
Thanks Daniel, and good work.......thumbs up to you.......... I asked you to add those two phones also, as I wanted to save this page, for reference and comparing all the models at one place....... In future after mobile world congress you can add other new FullHD phones also to this very same list, so that we have all the FullHD phones on one page for comparing.......... Cheers and thanks again........ :)
4. RamyRamz69 (Posts: 390; Member since: 12 Dec 2011)
Xperia Z. You just can't compete with it.
32. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...... dna HAS SAME CPU AND BETTER SCREEN.. gs4 and lg optimus will have better cpu even zte..lol.. you drunk..
39. Mittal (Posts: 493; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
Dude u need to mellow down with the HAHAHAHA and other aggressive stuff!!
42. daftastic (Posts: 87; Member since: 07 Jan 2013)
Except HTC's have s**t designs. The Xperia Z beautiful.
44. abhishek48 (Posts: 164; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
HTC has best design xperia is just a rectangle.. and you in love with it..lol
47. daftastic (Posts: 87; Member since: 07 Jan 2013)
I don't expect idiots to understand that simple designs can be the best.
45. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
FYI information XPERIA Z with BRAVIA ENGINE is the best screen on the market! Just see screen comparison on YOUTUBE XPERIA Z VS HTC BUTTERFLY and ull knw which one is better
6. shamataa (Posts: 215; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
Most of them are for China markets which is so sad I would love those phones hit the US carriers.
8. Aeires (unregistered)
Digging the form factor of the Oppo the most, too bad it'll probably never see a US T-Mobile roll out.
12. jackhammeR (Posts: 1548; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
I can't help but wonder how stupid someone must be to carry around something as big as lenovo phone. Look at the photo. it's ridicolous. Call this a portable device?? A phone? Whoaa. No way. Sanity and logic say bye bye.
23. jwl3429 (Posts: 36; Member since: 28 Sep 2009)
The lenovo is the only one that lets you uninstall there skin, now that is a selling point. Also the phone is not much bigger then the note 2 phones ate getting big deal with it.
15. _Bone_ (Posts: 2154; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Still think the Oppo Find 5 is the best offering of the bunch, great form factor, slim design despite 2500mAh battery, Sony's 13MP sensor, clean Android JB design, friendly price point.
24. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
Maybe phonearena should run a poll on how long it will take Apple to update the iPhone resolution and screen size (must be both). I'm saying 20 months.
25. MC1123 (Posts: 1255; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
sony offers the best!! and im pretty sure xLoud technology offers almost same quality as the beats audio of HTC DNA!
and also that oppo find 5, who would want that? especially that it is almost same spec as the DNA and also the price!
also the vizio phone! since it will be like suicide to buy a high end phone but no LTE radio on it!
but that alcatel phone will be the most affordable! and i got no problem with mediatek chips! and that new quadcore by mediatek will be alright even though its just cortex a7!
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Will the 5"phone phones please stand up
27. joshOps85 (Posts: 31; Member since: 09 Jan 2013)
new glalaxy sIV is just as ugly as sIII, if thats what its going to look like
33. bayhuy (Posts: 320; Member since: 23 Jun 2011)
Don't forget HTC M7 !!!
46. kobainez (Posts: 429; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
htc m7 is nt 5 inch
37. TheCynicalTechie (Posts: 78; Member since: 19 Nov 2012)
The Lenovo Ideaphone K900 annihilates them all. No contest.
41. Jimstar (Posts: 259; Member since: 24 Oct 2011)
This is NOT a good time to have small hands and be looking for a high end phone.


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I also enjoyed their MJ program.
I'm probably even more in the minority in that I like them way more than Chock/Bates. The Shibutani's are my favorite team now that Davis/White have retired.
I also enjoyed their MJ program.
I'm probably even more in the minority in that I like them way more than Chock/Bates. The Shibutani's are my favorite team now that Davis/White have retired.
My favorite dance team! I'd be so sad if they were to call it quits before the next Olympics.
I feel like there's something untapped within them and for some reason I feel that it wasn't all there this season despite the awesome MJ program. I'm not sure what it will take but they have a good number of years to improve and they're not on a bad track. I remember reading on another forum that their programs are going to have to be executed a little differently from other pairs since they are brother and sister and they can't do romantic programs, but I think that's something that will help them grow as ice dancers and as siblings.
I'm glad they're continuing, but I'm hoping against hope that Marina can get them some good programs. Their TES are almost on par with (and in some cases better than) the top teams, but they're lagging behind in PCS. With a killer program, I think they can break through.
They can't explore romantic themes, but they can go a darker route.
yes they canThey can't explore romantic themes,
the shibs need to get rid of marina though. they should be the solid US #2 team but they're being consistently beat by chock/bates who've only been together for like three years.
and marina has never been as effusive in her praise about the shibs as she is about her other teams. even what she said this week about i/k, idk how they still have confidence in her
Sorry I wasn't sure if you were being serious, still learning the ins and outs of these forums!
Well how are you just assuming that Marina's interest will be the same as it was when she was fully immersed in V&M and D&W??? Maybe the Shibs are her next main project.
did you read her comments about i/k from a few days ago? i'd be pissed as hell seeing my coach say those things about another team. it's obvious she's got a wandering eye as far as coaching goes.
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what is standard cost. how to find standard cost of a product.
actually requirement is:
for a finished product u need labour cost = 25000, fuel = 1800, power = 500. (assume 1 machine is working for this product)
how can u calculated standard cost for this product. i know the process of product cost, but in KP26 what amount can i enter?
You can calcualte the STD Cost through trx CK11N
hi thanqu
CK11N IS planned cost or standard cost
You can calculate standard cost estimate in :
Tcode : CK11N Create Standard Cost Estimate & CK24 Release Standard Cost Estimate
CK40N Create & Release Standard Cost Estimate in single transaction
check from CK11N cost estimation.
and in KP26 you nned to enter the cost per hour.
based on this the cost is cliculted for the work done.
so for labour cost - activity labour you need caliculate for 1 hour how much it will cost so this cost has to assing int KP26 agsinst the Labour activity tpe and the cost centre
like wise for Fuel and Power also
Hi ashok there u r,
what my doubt is ( and in KP26 you nned to enter the cost per hour.).
How we calculate cost per hour.
can u explain
Please check my suggestion regarding KP26.
Cost per hour is defined by client. Client will calculate the cost, suppose machine cost means per hour Rs.50. It is upto Client requirement.
for how many hours did your labour works on this machine?
yes as Dharma mentioned the cost list will be given by the client Accountants or FICO core team. based upon their data teh KP 26 is created
Edited by: ASHOK on Oct 7, 2008 12:52 PM
To calculate the STD Cost
- Transaction CK11
- Enter PPC1 (standard SAP variant - configuration transaction OKKN) as the costing variant, material and plant. If you do not enter a lot size, the system uses the costing lot size from the costing view of the material master record.
- Hit Enter
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- Press Enter and the system will costs the material.
Read the link, for deeper clarity and get it solved by your self.
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Std cost for a product you can find in material master costing view2 for that product.
In KP26 you have to assign only a rate of cost for a activity. Say activity Labour means cost per hour or as your period.
Like this, enter cost per rate for all activities. Using these actitvities, system will use costing formula assigned in workcenter costing tab to calculate cost for a product.
While costing run system will update the cost in material master costing tab.
While confirming production order system will take this cost and multiply according to confirming qty.
Hi ashok and darma thanqu for ur replay
but client gave some details like this and prepared cost estimate for that product: i have the following details, how can i calculate cost per hour labour, and how can i calculate power and fuel.
for ex; for a finished product
THE LEABOUR COST = 25000/-, POWER = 500, FULE = 2000. Only these requirements they given, for this they r usnig 1 mechine.
how can i calculate standard cost per hr labour, power & fuel.


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