Stoke vs Liverpool - 10th September - KO 3pm

Bit early to pick a team but Coates could make his debut. Rumors are that Kelly is injured and Johnson should be fit. I would drop Carroll again because of his recent form.

I can see Carroll starting, I can see KENNY saying in pre match confrence that Carroll won't be starting as Copello thinks he is not fit, then go and start him.

Will be hard to start coates ahead of Agger and Carra at the moment.

Kelly said he'll be back for the Spurs game.

Coates will prob be a sub

Can't see Coates playing tbh, we will see after the internationals how we are sorted.

Carroll will play due to his hieght.. He will be needed to defend in this one. We will play quite a bit of height her

..................................Reina....................................

Johnson...........Carra...............Skrtel....................Enrique

........................Lucas..............Adam................................

.................................Henderson....................................

.........Suarez...............Carroll........................Downing

Crouchy, would you start Skrtel ahead of Agger ?

Yep against Stoke I would, not a huge skrtel fan but i would for this one

in an ideal world kenny would go back to the 3-5-2 for this and play all 3

I think Agger would do a better job against crouch imo, and he adds so much brining the ball out that I would start him.
Agger is as effective in the air as Skrtel, if not more

Skrtel handles physical players better though, crouch will be dealt with at ALL set pieces by Carroll.

Cant see Agger not starting if he is injury free myself

Nor can I, and tbh with Crouch being so awkward i could see Skrtel giving away a peno

Agger/Skrtel wont be anywhere near Crouch for the set plays so I wouldnt worry about that. Its the quick feeted players Skrtel cant deal with

crouchy wrote:Agger/Skrtel wont be anywhere near Crouch for the set plays so I wouldnt worry about that. Its the quick feeted players Skrtel cant deal with

Of course they will be near him, Carroll won't come back for every long throw in. Or when they attack.

Imo Agger us better than Skrtel in every department, may not be as strong though but that dosent always matter.

Sorry I misread your post, but the throws still count

Carroll IMO would be back for the throw ins, last season there we had everyone back for those

Mate I know Agger is better than Skrtel, I dont rate Skrtel at all lol but I think he could get the nod for this, if he doesnt I wont be losing sleep over it haha

lets wait and see anyway, i will trust kenny !

Can't wait for the weekend

Miss the prem

This really is a big game for us, looking forward to it now.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/kenny-dalglish-bellamy-and-andy-carroll-fitness-15378763/

Kenny interview today

Love the bit towards the end about them milking the carroll story

a must win game to keep us in touch with the top teams, lets see how stokes new boys play.
Delaps long throw could be dangerous with the big players they have.

Rumour has it captain marvel will be on the bench and chomping at the bit for this

Adam and Gerrard training anyways, photos on lfc.tv

Craig Bellamy and Sebastian Coates trained with their new teammates at Melwood on Thursday ahead of the trip to Stoke - and our photographer was there to get these great snaps.

Coates reminds me of Morientes in some of those pics

Come on reds that's stoke these potter lads.lol

on set 1