Carra: I'll get back to my best form

Come on Carra kill em

talk is cheap we need to see Jamie back to his 2005 days but time catches up with all players doesnt it.I think his performance in Istanbul was the best ever centre back  performance by any Liverpool player, he was a man possessed I would love to see him back to that type of form again. Sami did it so lets hope Jamie can.

Hopefully he can back this up..

Well in Carra. Sure you and the team will be back to your best in no time!

Honesty is what I admire in Carra. There isn't many players anywhere who can match him for his honesty on and off the pitch.

Good luck Carra. You know you can do it.

He definitely struggled these past weeks, no doubt.  But the true sign of a champion is knowing your faults, overcoming them, then getting better.

After the first few games, I posted on here that maybe he should not play 90+, maybe age is catching up to him. Maybe he should play 2nd half or 60 min...He got schooled in the West Ham match.  I think everyone will agree on that.  You could tell he was upset about his play and knew he had an Issue to work through..

But, after reading that article, I am all for him playing it out.   He is a class act. He will retire in Liverpool, and become a Liverpool Football Legend.  I wouldn't be surprised he followed the Dalglish plan and became coach one day.  He will always be Liverpool Football. I put him in the same mold as Shankly,Paisley,Dalglish etc.. Just born to play at Anfield.

I'm not playing well for Liverpool this season, admits Jamie Carragher

Jamie Carragher has admitted that he is partly to blame for the poor defending that has undermined Liverpool's start to the season, despite Rafael Benítez's assertion there was an improvement in his play at Chelsea on Sunday.

The 31-year-old has come under scrutiny following several costly errors, the latest in the build-up to Chelsea's second goal in the defeat at Stamford Bridge, with Benítez having to issue a rare public vote of confidence a fortnight ago. Martin Skrtel, Carragher's centre-back partner, has been similarly off-colour this term, particularly in the Champions League loss to Fiorentina when the full-backs Glen Johnson and Emiliano Insúa were deliberately targeted by the Italians and frequently exposed.

Carragher, however, accepts he has fallen short of the standard expected and believes the criticism of Liverpool's defending has been warranted. "We aren't playing well as a back four and I'm not playing well personally. I need to hit better form and hopefully that will come in the next few games," he said.

"Over the last five or six years we have been renowned as a team who have kept a lot of clean sheets and for keeping it tight. I think that's why we get a bit more criticism because people don't expect it of Liverpool – and rightly so. We take the plaudits when things are going well so you have to take the criticism when it's not going well. I know I need to improve myself and we also need to improve as a team."

Carragher's admission coincided with a figurative arm around the shoulder from Benítez, who has been without the injured Daniel Agger and could only afford a £1.5m defender in Sotirios Kyrgiakos when he sought a replacement for Sami Hyypia. Carragher and Skrtel have kept one clean sheet when paired this season.

The Liverpool manager said: "If you analyse the performance of the centre- backs, it was clear to see they were much better and that was the positive thing to take from the game [at Chelsea]. Skrtel is a really good player and Carra was doing better again. Maybe you could say something about the second goal but the signs, for me, were much better. It was a difficult game for the central defenders to play and you know that when you come up against the top sides you must keep it tight."

Despite recent defensive displays, and three defeats in eight Premier League fixtures, the Bootle-born defender insists it is premature to dismiss Liverpool. He has refused to be discouraged by the fact no team since Manchester United in 1966-67 have won the league after such an opening. "You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to," added Carragher. "We've now got the same points as Manchester United had at this point last season. That's another statistic you could look at because they went on to win the league with 90-odd points.

"Whatever statistic you throw at us, we know we haven't made a good start. We don't need to look at them because we know ourselves that we haven't performed as well as we would have liked in certain games. We've lost six games in our previous two Premier League seasons. To lose that many in 76 games – that's some achievement and yet we still haven't won the league. Man United have lost more than us and won the league for the past two years."

Source: The Guardian Online

It takes a man to put his club over his country. And don't most of us club football fans want to see that - a player putting his 150% commitment and heart to his team?

Bang on. As fans we care more about Liverpool than England, so why shouldn't players be the same?

well i have to admire him for his frankness but how many bad performances as a club can we tolerate. he has played so many games that in a fact ages players more than there care to admit. but we know this season we have been leaking goals. he is the player who has scored most goals against us because of his own goals. perhaps he just cant perform to the high liverpool standards any more