Rodge: success or failure

[Mike Oxlong]

Season by season pretty successful but he’s let himself down recently showing a lack of grit, leadership and true responsibility. The playing side is presently in a far worse position than when Puel left which is some achievement from where we were. Recruitment and player development have been sub standard 

[filbertway]

Failure. The club is in weaker position now than when he joined. Simple answer.

[Bert]

Over the course of his reign, it’s been a success. Two trophies, our 2nd joint highest ever finish in the league along with an 8th placed finished. It’s a shame it’s petering out the way that it is but it’s football and it happens at a lot of clubs. 

[Ted Maul]

The FA Cup, consecutive European campaigns and the football we played for the majority of his first 2 full seasons are heights we've never scaled before as a club.

 

However, I think whether he goes down as a success will depend on how things go from now- if he goes, we avoid relegation and the finances recover then he will be. If we end up in a Peter Taylor-esque tailspin, then that's what he will predominantly be remembered for. 

 

[Foxxed]

We won the FA cup and played some good football.

 

But the most damning thing is Puel left us with players signing contract extensions, a squad with little deadwood, the ability to play possession football, a painfully developed academy player who’d later win the Champions League, loads of money though that transfer and a team that would later go on to win the FA cup.

 

Brendan will leave us with first team players leaving on a free, players refusing to sign contract extensions, a squad with loads of expensive deadwood, financial crisis worsened by his wage bill hike, a bizarre injury problem and a hardly improved first team that will disintegrate next season.

 

The initial football and trophy win was undoubtedly better with Rodgers but the aftermath will be a hell of a lot harder to manage.

[Wolfox]

1 hour ago, taupe said:

Amen brother.

 

It's across so many debates; the simplistic notion of being for or against, of someone being entirely good or bad. I find it tiring, and it can sadly bring out the contrarian in me.

Reminiscent of all that ‘top 4 or FA cup?’ nonsense at the tail end of the ‘21 season 

[fox_up_north]

Sadly, I think it's one of those where he is the definition of taking the rough with the smooth. The euphoria of being nailed on for top 4, then crashing into 5th. Twice. Of being FA Cup winners then bottom of the table.

 

Another example of quit while you're ahead. He probably should have looked for something "better" after the FA cup win. Everton, Newcastle, etc. 

 

Now it's just a really, really tainted legacy. 

 

[Rigga]

Difficult one to assess..

 

Success to an extent with euro football x 2 and the Fa cup win..

 

Cracks were already there though as early as 19/20 when we bottled the CL spot.. Got fed up of people saying well just be grateful for any kind of European football..

with the CL carrot dangling we couldn’t raise our game and something didn’t seem right back then…

 

we repeated this the following season… Cracks were there.

style of football was easy to play against and we could not break teams down..

18 Months on we still have this Puel style mind numbing football and we end up where we are..

 

 

[Stadt]

Missing out on one Champions League campaign would have been tolerable if the collapse hadn't been so dramatic. If we'd have dropped out in the middle of the season and then finished 5th, we could stomach that. Instead, to be in CL spot for almost a year's worth of matchdays and drop out in the final week - TWICE - squandering almost a 20 point cumulative lead was unforgivable.

 

The cup win was amazing but when you weigh up, how has Brendan Rodgers made us feel about Leicester City over his tenure it's largely negative. The Forest game, The Spurs games, Bournemouth A, Newcastle H, Man United H, Everton H, Norwich A, Roma A, Napoli A etc - they were all hurtful and embarrassing.

 

For 18 months we've been a chore to watch and support. The position he leaves us in is abysmal too, what should be unprecedented success is overruled by dismal failures.

Edited 5 September 2022 by Stadt

[Fox92]

42 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Unfortunately, he is about as useless as Peter Taylor when trying to build his own team 

Fortuately there's no comparison.

 

I've seen us win the FA Cup and Community Sheild. Two days at Wembley that I'll never forget. We've all longed for the FA Cup and Rodgers finally delivered that.

 

The first part of 19-20 was among the best I've ever seen us play too. Southampton A, Arsenal H, Villa A - amazing games - it's sad to see where we are now having experienced all of that under the same manager.

Edited 5 September 2022 by Fox92