Brendan Rodgers

[winteriscoming]

2 minutes ago, chapero82 said:

Would that manager got us in the top four in the first place? 

Yes and would of kept us there. 

[volpeazzurro]

11 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

He's sold the 'little old Leicester punching above their weight' line and people are buying into it. He'd make a decent second hand car salesman

Not really, I think I'd see straight through him and buy elsewhere in fairness. He wreeks of insincerity and bullshit.

[shailen]

I see what he's trying to build, with us playing a style similar to how Man City play. We are in control of most games we play including today but it's high risk football and the players need to follow the game plan even if they suffer from a loss in confidence. We also have to accept if we play this way we will concede a few chances to the opposition but our heads should not drop.

 

For me, if we master this style and all the players believe in it, we will be around this level every season. If the players don't believe in it, then we will ultimately fall down the table and Rodgers will face the sack inevitably. 

[sdb]

Reiterates how brilliant Ranieri was in the second half of 15/16. Managed the pressure and handled the players so well.

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, volpeazzurro said:

Not really, I think I'd see straight through him and buy elsewhere in fairness. He wreeks of insincerity and bullshit.

Plenty don't see through it

[MattFox]

Talking the club down in order to gloss over the fact we’ve crashed and burned since Christmas

 

Pretty poor form really

[chapero82]

1 minute ago, winteriscoming said:

Yes and would of kept us there. 

I am not so sure tbh Look what Puel did  to us

[frany104]

He’s a fraud. Zero tactical nouse and subs are baffling. We have to stick with him though as we can’t afford to sack him. Let’s pray the recruitment is good or we could be fighting relegation next year with the form we’re in. 

[foxfanazer]

Just now, MattFox said:

Talking the club down in order to gloss over the fact we’ve crashed and burned since Christmas

 

Pretty poor form really

Reached our ceiling according to him then presumably? 

[Jacnah]

3 minutes ago, Swiss_tony said:

The team today looked like it was over-coached and not confident it could do the job asked of it.

If we'd played a little more freely, we might still have conceded two but might've scored 3 or 4.

this was classic rodgers tactics, and we did what we needed to do in the frst 45, but the second half was baffling,  we needed to go for it, and didn't.

I think he had said in the prezzer before the game that he felt we needed to control it untill the last drinks break and then go for it. Arguably this is what we were doing until Hamza gives the ball away where he did and when he did. Whether it would have made any difference I dont know - Im still baffled as to why he swapped nacho out for perez. It was quite physical in that hole and Nacho has much more physicality that Perez.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

6 minutes ago, Matt said:

Fair enough.

 

And whilst i've noted its a difficult market to work in, January? Surely given where we were purse strings could have been pulled and we could have done better than Gordon Bennett? I see where this is going the blame is being pushed elsewhere, spread across personnel, either way I questions should and must be asked.

 

Ultimately we've finished where we are because of how we've played and our form but let's not get away from the fact people are talking as if we had no chance of strengthening at any point.

You reap what you sow, we got a Wolves reserve in and ultimately failed.

[Jacnah]

4 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

Not really, I think I'd see straight through him and buy elsewhere in fairness. He wreeks of insincerity and bullshit.

I think this is why he annoys me more than anything else - its like hes swallowed a 'how to be a consultant' book

[shailen]

Just now, sdb said:

Reiterates how brilliant Ranieri was in the second half of 15/16. Managed the pressure and handled the players so well.

He was a tactical genius and in 15/16, every man on this earth could tell you okazaki was coming off in the 67th minute in every match. It was very predictable but it allowed the players to work within a structure and knew exactly what their roles were.

 

One thing I'd say about BR is the second half of the season, he has changed the team about 10 times and not all due to injuries or suspensions. It's unsettled the team and he's been stubborn to not change his style. It might benefit us long term but to play possession football with Justin, Thomas, Evans and Morgan is only going to end one way short term. 

[justfoxes]

12 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

I just think another manager would of got us in CL with 3/4 games to spare. 

Who?

[Webbo]

11 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

I just think another manager would of got us in CL with 3/4 games to spare. 

Apart from Ranieri, no other manager ever has.

[lgfualol]

I miss the good old days with leaving 3 at the half way line when we conceded corners. Back when the team and manager had some backbone.

[Webbo]

1 minute ago, shailen said:

He was a tactical genius and in 15/16, every man on this earth could tell you okazaki was coming off in the 67th minute in every match. It was very predictable but it allowed the players to work within a structure and knew exactly what their roles were.

 

One thing I'd say about BR is the second half of the season, he has changed the team about 10 times and not all due to injuries or suspensions. It's unsettled the team and he's been stubborn to not change his style. It might benefit us long term but to play possession football with Justin, Thomas, Evans and Morgan is only going to end one way short term. 

And yet people say he's too rigid and has no plan B

[Matt]

1 minute ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

You reap what you sow, we got a Wolves reserve in and ultimately failed.

Exactly.

 

That's what time saying to those who are trying to make excuses saying he hasn't had chance to get anyone in and i'm sorry i'm not buying 'we have a budget and stick to it', not given where we were in January. We could and should have done better.

 

You have to say it doesn't bode well for business that going to done or not as may be the case.

 

Let's get linked to a load of players that have 'done well in Scotland' though.

[Hammo]

He was flavour of several months in the autumn - and deservedly so. But, for all the praise he was getting then, he deserves the same amount of criticism for the way he has mismanaged the team since he signed that massive new contract in December.
 

My big concern is that he - and the players - never seem to address, let alone correct, the flaws they make game after game, which reeks of stubbornness and arrogance - and definitely makes you wonder what they get up to at Belvoir Drive. And his record in big games is scarcely better than Puel’s, which was atrocious.

 

He has a lot to prove next season.

[winteriscoming]

2 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Apart from Ranieri, no other manager ever has.

Don’t want to criticise Rodgers but a couple more wins and we’d of been fine. Praise him first half of the season but you’ve got to criticise him for the second half of the season. 

[HighPeakFox]

Ah, fraud - the new f word that gets trotted out the moment someone isn't perfect the whole time.

[kingfox]

His mentality is absolutely shocking and it rubs off on the players.

 

We have a mentality weak manager and we have a mentality weak squad.

 

The way he approaches big games is shocking, but he’s got history of it. His tactics at times are baffling too, some of his decisions lately have been suicidal.

 

He somehow needs to pick this team up big time, start of next season will show us what he’s about, he needs to show some cojones or he’ll be a goner. 

[Guest Col city fan]

He’s presided over an absolutely awful 2020 for us so far

Yes we’ve had crucial injuries which haven’t helped but he hasn’t had the managerial ability to somehow pull us over the line for the Champs League

Jury’s out imo

But he DOES need a transfer window to sort out some of the completely average players on our squad and to improve it

[Guest Col city fan]

Just now, kingfox said:

His mentality is absolutely shocking and it rubs off on the players.

 

We have a mentality weak manager and we have a mentality weak squad.

 

The way he approaches big games is shocking, but he’s got history of it. His tactics at times are baffling too, some of his decisions lately have been suicidal.

 

He somehow needs to pick this team up big time, start of next season will show us what he’s about, he needs to show some cojones or he’ll be a goner. 

Agree 100%

[shailen]

2 minutes ago, Webbo said:

And yet people say he's too rigid and has no plan B

I think the best managers in the world don't change their philosophy. But our injuries and suspensions were too much for us to overcome and we should have been a little more pragmatic in the games that came afterwards. Man City have two players in every position and can therefore afford to play the same way and with the Pep philosophy. We don't have that luxury.