Newton's Three Laws of Liverpool In Motion

Adversity makes people react in different ways. Some will wither and fade away, either unable or unwilling to fight back.  There are certain obstacles that cannot be overcome, regardless of talent and effort.  This in turn makes some people dig deeper.  A select few will be prepared to fight until the bitter end for a cause, even if it means to go down on their sword. In a group of people upon whom success is dependant upon each other, it's vital that this energy is channelled in the right direction.

When it comes to motivation, certain people rely on different factors.  The outlying desire for fame and fortune will only drive a person so far in the face of never ending hardship - and for some uniquely talented people that's enough - but there will often be other catalysts.  For many it's a case of pride, or the chance to disprove all those that have on some level ever cast doubt upon them.  It can be a case of responsibility, in that there are people whose fate is dependant on another and it is up to them to provide.  Whatever reason someone wants to give themselves as a way of overcoming something isn't important.  What's important is that they have one.

In the Anfield dressing room Sunday afternoon, there will have been a lot of dissatisfied footballers. These are - at worst - men with a lot of professional satisfaction and as such what happened will have hurt them.  Not only that, there are others in there who really care for the well being of this football club and will be as upset by recent results as the supporters themselves.  As far as the disparity between the points that have been accrued and the performances that they have merited, that's the primary task which needs to be addressed.  Now that the fixture list - in terms of it's intensity - is dying down, there will be a chance to take out those frustrations on so called lesser opposition.  The backlash begins here.

Scientifically speaking, the force needed to pull Liverpool Football Club back to where it wants to be will have to be a heavy one.  A collective willing of the masses isn't enough, there will have to be action.  A lot of work was put in place over the summer.  Rodgers' came in with fresh ideas and a new set of eyes to cast over this squad.  Some of them weren't good enough to stick around, others were just underachieving.  Though there has not been a massive turnaround in fortune and it may appear that there are no fruits to show of all this hard labour the different philosphy in which the new management at the club has already started to show some shoots of recovery, with a team comprised of academy and fringe players being able to take on a such difficult tasks as winning away in Europe and also going to West Brom to take on their first team - a task our own starting eleven found difficult - and emerge victorious.  

That we've seen any signs of the changes which Brendan Rodgers and his management team are trying to implement whatsoever at this early stage in his tenure is quite remarkable but is a testament to the technique and skill of those players already at his disposal.  Likewise the sheer weight of numbers in which the young talent is battering down the door of the first team all make it so that there is a real impetus growing within the heart of this club.  Though it will take a lot of effort to get back into the upper echelons of this league, everything is beginning to take it's place.

Liverpool is often at it's most dangerous when the club is backed into a corner.  When it appears that all is lost, there is still some hope in our hearts.  Bad results against last years top three aren't ideal but the season doesn't end there.  Last season, Arsenal had four points from their first five fixtures and went on to finish third.  We might not have the mercurial talents of a Robin Van Persie in the form of his life but what we do have is a collection of players who are better than languishing in the lower reaches of the table.  Now is their time to prove that.

There are certain voices up and down the country who want Brendan Rodgers - and Liverpool Football Club as a whole - to fail.  To the vast majority of supporters - and one could also argue certain outlets of the media as well - up and down the country, the clubs downfall in recent years has been something they take immense pleasure from Everyone loves it when a giant falls to his knees but there's a problem with that.  This club hasn't gone to sleep yet.  It's those who are writing off what's happening and the bright future of Liverpool that are dreaming.

Momentum, or at least the face value appearance of it in sport, is the key to any level of accomplishment.  For the last few years Liverpool have struggled for consistency and in this calendar year have only won just five league games.  It's going to be the hardest thing to correct in the long term but it can only be done in the clichéd manner of one game at a time.  If nothing else, the club needs a victory which would rid the monkey from Brendan Rodgers' back and get the team moving in the right direction again.  Winning becomes a habit as much as anything else and the teams that fancy their chances against Liverpool now would be far less inclined to do so should Rodgers get a points total which matches up with the performances being put out.  Getting that first win has become crucial but once the club has taken those first few steps, it won't be long until it's up and running again.

Whether they do it for the fans or themselves.  Whether it's to ram down the throats of all those newspaper columnists and Internet bloggers who say that they aren't good enough.  Maybe it's a sense of injustice, that things aren't going either the way they would have liked or should have been.  Whatever a player takes with them to use as fuel for when they cross the white line is up to them.  Norwich, Stoke and Reading await.  This next run of league fixtures will go a lot more in the way of defining this campaign than what has already transpired.

There's no point in dwelling on the past and the points that have already been lost are gone.  What you can do is use what's happened and also learn from it.  Holding onto those feelings of grievance and anger at the league position won't do anything about it.  They have to be let out and unleashed on our future opponents.  From penalties being given and harsh red cards being dished out to players making uncharacteristic errors and a casualty list of injuries being picked.  There's been a lot of actions that have cost the club in recent weeks.  Now it's time for the reaction.