Cara said in his book, some players feel they’ve made it once they sign for Liverpool, that the hard work stops and they can put their feet up and basque in their own success. The truth is that when you join Liverpool, the hard work really begins and you have to prove you have both the attitude and character as well as ability to play for such a huge club. If you can buy the best then this problem is partly overcome, however, loads of players, big names too, have failed miserbaly to do this. Dean Saunders, Stan Collymore, Mark Kennedy, El Hadj Diouf, Sali Diao, Djiril Cisse, Robie Keane, Paul Stewart, Paul Ince and others. If you haven’t noticed, most o these players were signed by either Souness, Evans or Houllier and most cost big sums, most of which we lost when they were sold on. At least Rafa’s made plenty of money on players he’s sold on becuase they weren’t good enough for us such as Crouch, Sissoko, Bellamy, Arbeloa etc. The guy is being asked to pull a rabbit out of the hat every season. Something’s gotta give.

Having said that Rafa has made some terrible signing’s but i won’t repeat the list but i’m telling everyone right now that it’s Rafa’s fault if it rains tomorrow,wink!!!!!!

That’s our very problem that we don’t have a large enough squad capable of dealing with three or four major injuries unlike a Man Utd or Chelsea who are far stronger.The owners are to blame for being liers and too tight fisted and Rafa is also responsible for some terrible signings that begger belief!.

As for Rafa we simply can’t afford sacking him.

2 years ago we run the same poll and it was 84.2%.

Vast majority of people I have spoken to as well also still think Rafa is the right man. The media are completely out of touch with the ‘majority’ of reds.

There will, of course, be more talk about Rafa and his position, but for me he has to be given more time.

You only have to look at Newcastle as the classic example of getting rid of managers when they begin to struggle and look at the mess they are in now.

Benitez has been so unfortunate with injuries this season. I do not think Torres or Gerrard have ever been fully fit, Aquilani has yet to feature much, which has made Alonso’s absence all the more keenly felt and also the likes of Skrtel, Johnston Agger, Riera and Aurelio have been in and out the team.

He has never been able to filed a full strength side and, more importantly, a settled side. That was crucial towards the run-in last season when we went on a superb run of winning games.

Benitez is not blameless, but the players have to take responsibility. Credit to guys like Reina, Carragher, the much-malingned Lucas because they’ve never hid, even though the latter two have come in for stick.

Players like Voronin and Babel should view this as a chance to stake their claim for a place in the team, but Voronin just does not look interested, while Babel goes from the sublime to the ridiculous, although I still think he merits getting a run.

Insua has seized his opportunity, but there are others who have not stepped up to the plate often enough.

Yes the stats make for grim reading just now, but could any manager have coped with such injury problems better than Benitez has.

He has more than earned the right to be judged when he is able to get a full strength side on to the park. As a manager, you can affect a lot of thing, but there is little you can do when you lose so much quality out of the side because on injury.

There’s no doubt that as Liverpool fans we all share in the disappointment that we have not been able to build on how we finished in the Premiership last season, while our chances of Champions League progression look grim, but there is still much to play for this season.

The critics in the media will through statistics at it to try and make us doubt otherwise, but for now let’s get behind the team as they need our support now more than ever.