Brendan Rodgers

[sm1]

2 hours ago, Lako42 said:

There is a very real reason the fans can't warm to BR and it doesn't matter what he achieves imo. 

 

His constant need to slyly put the club down in all of his interviews is utterly pathetic. 

 

I'm a Leicester fan, not a Rodgers fan and I wouldn't put up with his underhand comments from anyone let alone the clubs own manager. 

 

 

Everything this bloke says is all about upholding his personal brand. He's an egotistical Tosser and I'll never warm to him.  

This is what I dislike about Rodgers too, his endless need to big up other clubs whilst putting us down. Even against Forest, he made them sound like Real Madrid and us as some peasant club. It's no wonder we went out there and performed to his expectations. It's like he's too good for us, we're a shitty backwater team that he's keeping in the PL singlehandedly. No wonder the players bottle it, he gives them no confidence. We have some great players here, not many teams have players with double digit goals and assists, we've got 2 in Maddison & Barnes, with Nacho not far behind. Vardy has one of the best goals to mins ratio in the PL. Absolutely we should be competing for Europe. I hope he does well because him doing well means we're doing well too, but as a person he irritates me. In his world success is all due to him but failure is the players and clubs fault.

[An Sionnach]

13 minutes ago, sm1 said:

This is what I dislike about Rodgers too, his endless need to big up other clubs whilst putting us down. Even against Forest, he made them sound like Real Madrid and us as some peasant club. It's no wonder we went out there and performed to his expectations. It's like he's too good for us, we're a shitty backwater team that he's keeping in the PL singlehandedly. No wonder the players bottle it, he gives them no confidence. We have some great players here, not many teams have players with double digit goals and assists, we've got 2 in Maddison & Barnes, with Nacho not far behind. Vardy has one of the best goals to mins ratio in the PL. Absolutely we should be competing for Europe. I hope he does well because him doing well means we're doing well too, but as a person he irritates me. In his world success is all due to him but failure is the players and clubs fault.

He is a football manager , its what they do. These days they are basically politicians. His mentor Mourinho is the archetype. However the fans are as bad in their failure to see through the bullshit. During our two pre-Christmas good periods, the eulogies on here about him were frankly embarrassing. 

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, majaco said:

Rodgers should be supported.

 

Our Premier League season was poor.  FA Cup was poor,  We had one of our best seasons in Europe.

 

We didn't get enough points in the league.  Our squad should get a minimum of 60.   But Rodgers had to put up with a terrible injury crisis and we were o the wrong end of some poor decisions. On the other hand our record from set pieces was awful and that's on Rodgers.

 

if we don't improve next season, he should go.  But for now, he deserves to stay and have the chance to sort it out

Getting to a European semi final was great but lets not forget we ended up there having got dumped out of the better competition.

[Dames]

1 minute ago, Fox92 said:

Getting to a European semi final was great but lets not forget we ended up there having got dumped out of the better competition.

I'd argue that from the Semis onwards the quality of teams left in each competition made the Conference League the tougher competition. 

[st albans fox]

We went back to complete zonal marking yesterday 

 

been ages since we did that 

 

clearly we’ve been working on it. I can’t recall what we did at Chelsea but I’m pretty sure it was a mixture 

 

Southampton seemed a bit perplexed about their delivery - I assume they had planned for that mix of marking and zonal. 
 

if we can mix up our approach depending on who we are playing then that will help us - the opposition will undoubtedly spend time trying to exploit our weakness and if we aren’t set up as they expect then that’s going to help.  (This assumes we will attack the ball and block the runners) 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

as i said above i thought the interview was a sacking offence.

Unfortunately that says a lot more about you than it does about his interview

[HighPeakFox]

In my opinion, if you're allowing yourself to get upset by what BR says, then you might need to consider some distance from football. 

[Dahnsouff]

4 hours ago, foxinsocks said:

as i said above i thought the interview was a sacking offence.

It wasn't. Did you hear Maddison say we should not gauge this season against our recent over achievements? Or is complaining about such language reserved for the manager? 

 

 

[Lako42]

33 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

In my opinion, if you're allowing yourself to get upset by what BR says, then you might need to consider some distance from football. 

He's the manager of the football club that we support. I fail to see why people shouldn't hold him to some sort of standard or take an opinion on what he says. 

 

He is the mouthpiece of the club. A club with pretty much zero real fan engagement, it's a closed shop. 

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

15 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

He's the manager of the football club that we support. I fail to see why people shouldn't hold him to some sort of standard or take an opinion on what he says. 

 

He is the mouthpiece of the club. A club with pretty much zero real fan engagement, it's a closed shop. 

 

 

Of course. And my opinion is that some of us choose to be offended by the slightest thing. 

[foxinsocks]

57 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

It wasn't. Did you hear Maddison say we should not gauge this season against our recent over achievements? Or is complaining about such language reserved for the manager? 

 

 

Maddison is right to say that we should not gauge this season against our recent over achievements.  BUt what are the omens for the future? - we can spend big and bring in better players - but we will still be beset by Bredans flaws.  What frustrates fans is that we never see any progress on overcoming such issues. Frankly Brendan could have the Newcastle budget and we would still be playing low every uncreative  possession football... 

 

I think the manager should be prepared to take responsibility for his own flaws and mistakes - sure there were many reason why we didn't do better - and while Brendan blames all others then we will solve the other probs yet still be hampered by a lack of progress on sorting out his weaknesses.

 

IN business people sometimes say that if you say things enough times it will happen (....this is not true) - similarly Rodgers seems intent on presenting  and re=presenting a narrative where he is never to blame for anything - ever.  This will be useful to  him at  his next job interview.

Edited 23 May 2022 by foxinsocks

[foxinsocks]

1 hour ago, Guest said:

Unfortunately that says a lot more about you than it does about his interview

You're right.  I am keen on open honesty...  I realise I have been too optimistic. I must accept managers deflecting.  I expect it is similar in other sports and at other clubs.  Shame really.

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, foxinsocks said:

You're right.  I am keen on open honesty...  I realise I have been too optimistic. I must accept managers deflecting.  I expect it is similar in other sports and at other clubs.  Shame really.

Rarely do people reach the top of their professions with a degree of narcissism, it is perhaps a shame but calling a thing by its nature need not reduce its value

[PAPA LAZAROU]

5 hours ago, Tanya said:

What do you mean?

slow tippy tappy football , going forward with no purpose, the worse record in the Prem for conceding from free kicks and corners, bizarre substitutions and a habit of blaming everyone else but himself. Need I go on? 

[foxinsocks]

Yay... what a finish.... beating Watford Norwich and Southampton in style.  All our problems are behind us now.  Let's all look forward to another helping from the master chef.

[coolhandfox]

I find the user ignore function to be one of the forum best features.

[Guest454545]

Just now, foxinsocks said:

Yay... what a finish.... beating Watford Norwich and Southampton in style.  All our problems are behind us now.  Let's all look forward to another helping from the master chef.

5th, 5th, FA Cup, Euro semi final. In 3 and a half years.

 

His cookbook seems to have some decent recipes

[PAPA LAZAROU]

5 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

I find the user ignore function to be one of the forum best features.

If you use the ignore feature then you end up with a small circle of other posters who agree with everything you say and challenge nothing you say Not my idea of a forum. More like an echo chamber.

Edited 23 May 2022 by PAPA LAZAROU

[foxinsocks]

1 minute ago, Guest454545 said:

5th, 5th, FA Cup, Euro semi final. In 3 and a half years.

 

His cookbook seems to have some decent recipes

But some days it gruel..

 Hard to swallow. 

[Guest454545]

1 minute ago, foxinsocks said:

But some days it gruel..

 Hard to swallow. 

If you don't know what gruel tastes like, you'll never be able to appreciate truffle oil-topped stuffed duck 😁

[Dahnsouff]

3 hours ago, ealingfox said:

Flexing a joint-4th highest finish since 1946, with the most resources and backing in our entire history  absolutely shameless.

The competition had the same rises in resources and backing in their histories too   absolutely biased.

[Lako42]

5 minutes ago, Guest454545 said:

5th, 5th, FA Cup, Euro semi final. In 3 and a half years.

 

His cookbook seems to have some decent recipes

Conference League semi final

 

If we made it to the Champions League semi we'd call it that, but because people want to pretend it was a bigger achievement than it actually was they call it 'European semi final' 

 

I went to all but 1 Conference League game but let's not pretend it was some top tier achievement. 

[coolhandfox]

11 minutes ago, PAPA LAZAROU said:

If you use the ignore feature then you end up with a small circle of other posters who agree with everything you say and challenge nothing you say Not my idea of a forum.

Not at all.

 

Its not about their opinion, any view point is valued. 

 

It about some of the vitriol, fury, venom or trolling  I like to avoid.

 

Bit like you would avoid the odd person in a pub

 

Edited 23 May 2022 by coolhandfox

[Lambert09]

results wise you can’t complain but it’s the manner of the defeats, the terrible signings, the injury management and the damn awful style of play that has turned the fans. 

 

I don’t think brendan is a boring manager, he’s not negative necessarily, it’s just that when his methods aren’t being effective they are horrific to watch.

 

I think we all know that when our players are on form we are attractive to watch. playing the exact same game. it is down to brendan to make sure we have the players to do it. Removing youri is a huge hindrance. I think much of the drivel we’ve seen this season was because youri wasn’t fulfilling the youri role and it’s so critical to this game plan as he very much is our quarterback. 

Edited 23 May 2022 by Lambert09

[J. James]

12 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Not at all.

 

Its not about their opinion, any view point is valued.

It about some of the vitriol, fury, venom or trolling  I like to avoid.

Bit like you would avoid the odd person in a pub

 

The village l live in has a limited gene pool... ALL the people in my local are odd!

Edited 23 May 2022 by J. James