Rodgers continues - How do deal with this as fans?

[Guest Basildon Fox]

**** the football off until he has gone.  If the board don't give enough of a shit we are going down with a whimper under BR, why bother yourself?

[tickler28]

I'd love to know the thoughts of our owner and the board....if I could ask just 1 question....1 yes or no question it would be:

 

If it wasn't going to cost a penny to sack Rodgers would he have gone by now?

[sacreblueits442]

3 minutes ago, tickler28 said:

I'd love to know the thoughts of our owner and the board....if I could ask just 1 question....1 yes or no question it would be:

 

If it wasn't going to cost a penny to sack Rodgers would he have gone by now?

...the answer would be an emphatic, no!!!

  If it was a money issue, and his position was leading the club into relegation, the money would have been found, so he would have gone by now. There is another reason why we have taken such a view with Rodgers and it would be based on certain criterias being met.

[don_danbury]

13 minutes ago, tickler28 said:

I'd love to know the thoughts of our owner and the board....if I could ask just 1 question....1 yes or no question it would be:

 

If it wasn't going to cost a penny to sack Rodgers would he have gone by now?

if the club cant afford 10m then the club really is in trouble. there's money left over still from the fofana sale anyway

[tickler28]

48 minutes ago, don_danbury said:

if the club cant afford 10m then the club really is in trouble. there's money left over still from the fofana sale anyway

So this has nothing to do with money? Its about them having faith in him....you've answered my question...thank you

[fuchsntf]

12 hours ago, Hammo said:

English is presumably not your first language so, as usual, I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but if it's just more 'holier than thou' pontificating, can I suggest that you make your own judgments and - based on what I see with my own eyes (not, as you appear to suggest, the second-hand opinions of others) - I'll make mine?

 

Fair enough? Happy with that?

As far as my own English is concerned…grow up..if you have difficulties get an education…English and flexability..

I use it ,from the streets of Dublin to Mumbai back to New Parks.

[Dan]

14 hours ago, Zaphod Beeblebrox said:

**** the football off until he has gone.  If the board don't give enough of a shit we are going down with a whimper under BR, why bother yourself?

I give too much of a shit to just allow us to run ourselves into the ground unbothered. I wish it was easier.

[Collymore]

This international break has been pure torture knowing it was the perfect opportunity to get the new man in but every minute of every hour Brendan has been allowed to continue. 

 

It has been obvious for a year, perhaps more, that we are in decline and can only hope that Brendan has bit the bullet and there are radical changes being made behind the scenes by him, which includes him eating humble pie and going back to basics. 

 

If we rock up at the KP next Monday showing the same s**t we have been doing, it won't be just BR under scrutiny,  the ownership will have some big questions to answer if they aren't already. 

Edited 27 September 2022 by Collymore

[CrazyKopCorner]

Another Forest humiliation will be the final straw even for this board which appears to have infinite patience or more likely no money to get rid of him 

[Oldblueyes]

19 hours ago, don_danbury said:

if the club cant afford 10m then the club really is in trouble. there's money left over still from the fofana sale anyway

Not if the agreed fee for Fofana has to be paid over a 3 year period like a lot of big transfers are now.

[sacreblueits442]

8 hours ago, Oldblueyes said:

Not if the agreed fee for Fofana has to be paid over a 3 year period like a lot of big transfers are now.

....I would have thought that the majority of the fee would have been paid upfront!!!

No point getting dealing with Chelsea unless you can extort a pretty penny upfront.

[Speedwell 🦊]

On 26/09/2022 at 13:42, tickler28 said:

I'd love to know the thoughts of our owner and the board....if I could ask just 1 question....1 yes or no question it would be:

 

If it wasn't going to cost a penny to sack Rodgers would he have gone by now?

Yes

[oxtonfox]

9 hours ago, CrazyKopCorner said:

Another Forest humiliation will be the final straw even for this board which appears to have infinite patience or more likely no money to get rid of him 

He may yet have time from now until the World Cup, starting withe the next five so say winnable games (don’t laugh!).

I don’t think he’ll go even if we lose to Forest. He will find some excuses and garbage like “we kept possession well”, “we were really good with our pressing (for 10 minutes)”, “we have to cut out the silly mistakes”, “we’re a young side and are still learning”. The board  simply don’t want to sack him and Rodgers has them over a barrel with that new contract.

 

If we still have just a handful of points after 12 games then that has to be it surely? If this happens we are as good as down. 

[Speedwell 🦊]

11 hours ago, Collymore said:

This international break has been pure torture knowing it was the perfect opportunity to get the new man in but every minute of every hour Brendan has been allowed to continue. 

 

It has been obvious for a year, perhaps more, that we are in decline and can only hope that Brendan has bit the bullet and there are radical changes being made behind the scenes by him, which includes him eating humble pie and going back to basics. 

 

If we rock up at the KP next Monday showing the same s**t we have been doing, it won't be just BR under scrutiny,  the ownership will have some big questions to answer if they aren't already. 

I agree.He should have gone after the spurs game.And like you say,give us some time to get a new man in before we face the red shite.

[Guest Col city fan]

17 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

I give too much of a shit to just allow us to run ourselves into the ground unbothered. I wish it was easier.

Exactly this. We’re all footy fans and WILL watch it with at least some expectation. 
Anyone saying just to bin it off isn’t being real.

 

[volpeazzurro]

4 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Exactly this. We’re all footy fans and WILL watch it with at least some expectation. 
Anyone saying just to bin it off isn’t being real.

 

I'm not so sure this time Col, for some reason this time seems different?

 

Having gone down for many a decade, the ups and downs were part of being a Leicester City supporter, maybe we just learned not to expect too much because just when you thought you were getting somewhere, the buggers always let you down, it somehow went with the territory but it was never personal 🤣.

 

Personally, even if relegation to the first division was supposed to be a huge downer, we still went down and enjoyed the next chapter. 

 

I think a huge part of it was an acceptance of our finances and therefore limitations which occasionally got punctuated with some surprise good fortune of punching above our weight with what we'd got compared to others. 

 

2015/16 was the mother of all punching above our weight, Man City worth 350m, little Leicester 21.5m. That's why everyone loved it all over the globe.

 

Despite quite a few people's comments about ensuing feelings of entitlement by many of our fanbase, I don't buy into that. I just think fans could see that certainly for the 3 years Rodgers finished 5th, 5th and 8th, he had a squad of players at that time, in comparison with the opposition, that those achieved positions, from a supposed media hyped extremely well paid manager could have been reasonably expected, in fact, as things panned out, it should have been 4th twice together with a reasonable effort in Europe because certainly with the latter, we'd previously done a lot better with a lot less. 

 

Apart from the now long time dour, sleepworthy tactics we've been force fed, the Emperor's new clothes have now been fully revealed, he's pathetic and laughable. Whilst admittedly with a lack of investment this year, it would be reasonable to lower our sights from the top 6 perhaps. However, if 8th was achieved last year with a much Rodgers lamented thin squad due to injuries, then surely with all his squad back fighting fit, a similar or thereabouts finish could be reasonably expected? Even if we were to lower our sights a little further, they certainly shouldn't be set as low as a potential relegation fight!

 

Rodgers is a charlatan and a conman if this is the best he can do with this squad of players. I think unfortunately, the scales have fallen from his players eyes also. His incompetence is now lain naked as a Jay bird and people have had enough. We can take trying to punch above our weight and being let down, we've been bred on it, what we can't accept is having reasonable tools to do a decent for job for once and being lied to by a conman who thinks he's fooling us as much as he has our board with his slobber.

 

As for the original question posed 'how will fans deal with it?' I for one, if he's still here for next season will dump my season ticket because it's just not even vaguely pleasurable any more. It's not the losing, I can take that, it's the manner in how it's occurring coupled with the deceit, egotistical incompetence and waste of talent that goes with it. Rodgers has sucked the joy out of Leicester City like one of Harry Potters Dementors.

 

 

Edited 28 September 2022 by volpeazzurro

[iancognito]

The simple answer is, we get on supporting the club like we've always done. The only thing anyone should be doing now is putting the BR shitshow to one side and getting behind the team for the full 90 on Monday. We're in a hole and the last thing anyone wants is giving those bastards up the A46 the satisfaction of digging it deeper..

 

If we lose, unfurl the anti-Brendan banners, chant "WTF is going on" and all the rest of it because a LOT of people need to vent right now and get it off their chests.

[Collymore]

4 hours ago, iancognito said:

The only thing anyone should be doing now is putting the BR shitshow to one side and getting behind the team for the full 90 on Monday

So you're telling me if we go 2-0 down to Forest first half on Monday (which could actually happen quite easily) you honestly think that there's even a slight chance the fans are going to be cheering and encouraging the team on and then suddenly after the game turn on anger and venom like a switch? 

 

There's just no chance that is ever going to happen in a million years. As soon as we concede a soft goal it'll be bedlam and the team and Brendan won't have experienced anything as negative in their careers I'd imagine. 

 

 

 

 

 

[jet64]

9 hours ago, volpeazzurro said:

I'm not so sure this time Col, for some reason this time seems different?

 

Having gone down for many a decade, the ups and downs were part of being a Leicester City supporter, maybe we just learned not to expect too much because just when you thought you were getting somewhere, the buggers always let you down, it somehow went with the territory but it was never personal 🤣.

 

Personally, even if relegation to the first division was supposed to be a huge downer, we still went down and enjoyed the next chapter. 

 

I think a huge part of it was an acceptance of our finances and therefore limitations which occasionally got punctuated with some surprise good fortune of punching above our weight with what we'd got compared to others. 

 

2015/16 was the mother of all punching above our weight, Man City worth 350m, little Leicester 21.5m. That's why everyone loved it all over the globe.

 

Despite quite a few people's comments about ensuing feelings of entitlement by many of our fanbase, I don't buy into that. I just think fans could see that certainly for the 3 years Rodgers finished 5th, 5th and 8th, he had a squad of players at that time, in comparison with the opposition, that those achieved positions, from a supposed media hyped extremely well paid manager could have been reasonably expected, in fact, as things panned out, it should have been 4th twice together with a reasonable effort in Europe because certainly with the latter, we'd previously done a lot better with a lot less. 

 

Apart from the now long time dour, sleepworthy tactics we've been force fed, the Emperor's new clothes have now been fully revealed, he's pathetic and laughable. Whilst admittedly with a lack of investment this year, it would be reasonable to lower our sights from the top 6 perhaps. However, if 8th was achieved last year with a much Rodgers lamented thin squad due to injuries, then surely with all his squad back fighting fit, a similar or thereabouts finish could be reasonably expected? Even if we were to lower our sights a little further, they certainly shouldn't be set as low as a potential relegation fight!

 

Rodgers is a charlatan and a conman if this is the best he can do with this squad of players. I think unfortunately, the scales have fallen from his players eyes also. His incompetence is now lain naked as a Jay bird and people have had enough. We can take trying to punch above our weight and being let down, we've been bred on it, what we can't accept is having reasonable tools to do a decent for job for once and being lied to by a conman who thinks he's fooling us as much as he has our board with his slobber.

 

As for the original question posed 'how will fans deal with it?' I for one, if he's still here for next season will dump my season ticket because it's just not even vaguely pleasurable any more. It's not the losing, I can take that, it's the manner in how it's occurring coupled with the deceit, egotistical incompetence and waste of talent that goes with it. Rodgers has sucked the joy out of Leicester City like one of Harry Potters Dementors.

 

 

Nailed it 👍

[Speedwell 🦊]

On 26/09/2022 at 12:12, Zaphod Beeblebrox said:

**** the football off until he has gone.  If the board don't give enough of a shit we are going down with a whimper under BR, why bother yourself?

Too right

 

On 26/09/2022 at 12:12, Zaphod Beeblebrox said:

**** the football off until he has gone.  If the board don't give enough of a shit we are going down with a whimper under BR, why bother yourself?

Too right.The board think the next 3or 4 games are winnable.They are,but not under BR.

I can’t see it going well against forest.

I think they’ll be up for it more than us.

 

[iancognito]

On 28/09/2022 at 07:09, Collymore said:

So you're telling me if we go 2-0 down to Forest first half on Monday (which could actually happen quite easily) you honestly think that there's even a slight chance the fans are going to be cheering and encouraging the team on and then suddenly after the game turn on anger and venom like a switch? 

 

There's just no chance that is ever going to happen in a million years. As soon as we concede a soft goal it'll be bedlam and the team and Brendan won't have experienced anything as negative in their careers I'd imagine. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No and I already said in several of the other 45 Rodgers threads and the Forest pre-match, it'll be toxic if we concede but my answer wasn't based on "if we concede - how do we deal with this" it was based on your post title "Rodgers continues - how do we deal with this". And it's that simple. He isn't going to be sacked pre-game or mid-game. So the only thing we can actually do is back the team. More than anything because it's Forest. Rodgers will be sacked eventually, with or without a win, so I'd rather just get behind the side and do everything we can to help get a win because there's nothing I want less than hearing those inbred cretins singing "3-0 in your cup final" etc.

If it's another embarrassing shitshow, a drubbing, a televised arse-kicking or whatever boo your little heart out and go nuts. But if we're still 0-0 with 10 minutes to go, the majority in the ground will be wanting us to go for a late winner, not concentrating on what they're going to chuck at Rodgers on the way out.