Telegraph: "Four years on, the Brendan Rodgers formula is still Leicester City's best bet"

[RonnieTodger]

This season is like a mental endurance test.
 

We all know Rodgers and Ward will be present come 3pm at Brentford. 

[sheffield_fox]

5 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

This season is like a mental endurance test.
 

We all know Rodgers and Ward will be present come 3pm at Brentford. 

Honestly think we might be down by then. 

[Guest]

This article was a great laugh but personally I preferred the one by some other Telegraph berk celebrating our "spectacular turnaround" after we'd just lost three on the spin in the league and scraped past the team bottom of the entire football league in the FA Cup. Presumably it's not just scandalous images of Top and Rudkin on Rodgers' phone, there's the Telegraph's sports editor too

[lcfc old boy]

On 24/02/2023 at 12:02, An Sionnach said:

If Percy is so clever , what is he doing scribbling for that execrable rag? Rodgers is life expired. , it happens to all managers. We need new thinking and its not coming from him. 

maybe the pay is good

[HybridFox]

4 points off a European spot last season

 

Currently above safety on (negative) goal difference 

[Matt]

This ages like a fine wine with every week that goes by.

[Noahfence]

John Percy is on the mans payroll 

[Matt]

 

[RonnieTodger]

Strange for Percy to take offence at that.

 

Didn’t list all of those when Rodgers was still here and like many, tried to suggest that we’d be wise to stick with him. 

[The Year Of The Fox]

6 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Strange for Percy to take offence at that.

 

Didn’t list all of those when Rodgers was still here and like many, tried to suggest that we’d be wise to stick with him. 

He blocked me on Twitter when I regurgitated his January article a few weeks before Rodgers got sacked 🤣

 

I expect Bourne will get the same treatment now

Edited 12 May 2023 by The Year Of The Fox

[Beechey]

22 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

He blocked me on Twitter when I regurgitated his January article a few weeks before Rodgers got sacked 🤣

 

I expect Bourne will get the same treatment now

 

[Dan]

42 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

He blocked me on Twitter when I regurgitated his January article a few weeks before Rodgers got sacked 🤣

 

I expect Bourne will get the same treatment now

Likewise. Percy generally been OK but has gone downwards - although ultimately become another club mouthpiece so his decline is in line with the club.

[Stadt]

The club can’t stand any sort of criticism even when it’s constructive. Journalists have to tread carefully otherwise they get very little out of the club. Verging on client journalism half the time.

 

I know for a fact the UFS article Percy published parts of after Forest in The Athletic went down like a lead balloon. It was unsurprisingly prescient and they had their heads in the sand.

[An Sionnach]

Never believe anything a Telegraph hack says about anything at all. If it was left to them that crackpot Truss would still be in Downing Street. Rodgers antediluvian tactics have even been largely abandoned by Barcelona and the Manchester machine. Big men up front is back and so it should be.

[Foxxed]

1 hour ago, Dan LCFC said:

Likewise. Percy generally been OK but has gone downwards - although ultimately become another club mouthpiece so his decline is in line with the club.

Aye. He seemed to be getting insider info. He was very reliable. I suspect he had very good connections in the club. Then he became a mouthpiece for those connections. It’s hard to say there was much journalism going on—more like regurgitation. Bourne was the only critical eye I saw.

[Sly]

I think it’s become obvious that as this season has gone on, outside of the weekly press conference and potentially Maddison speak out, the club has stayed very tight lipped.

 

Its almost like the club have been in denial about the chances of millions of assets being wiped off the balance sheet. 
 

They’ve basically been stuck with their heads in the sand and hidden. 
 

I do wonder if we’ll see someone stand up and discuss this dumpster fire of a season once all is said and done.

[Guest worth_the_wait]

21 hours ago, An Sionnach said:

Never believe anything a Telegraph hack says about anything at all.

That's a bit of a silly thing to say.   

 

I've always found that the quality of a football journalist, bears no relation to the political sympathies of their host paper.    I enjoy match reports and analysis from the Guardian and Telegraph.

[An Sionnach]

1 hour ago, worth_the_wait said:

That's a bit of a silly thing to say.   

 

I've always found that the quality of a football journalist, bears no relation to the political sympathies of their host paper.    I enjoy match reports and analysis from the Guardian and Telegraph.

It does of course give you something to fundamentally disagree with.

[Kitchandro]

23 hours ago, Matt said:

 

The reality is they do make a difference, even if they aren’t ‘culpable’. Managers live and die by their reputation in the press and among fans. 
 

Certain managers get a much tougher ride from both and Rodgers would never have stayed in the job if he has the same treatment as Conte or Steve Bruce.

[Matt_Lcfc]

44 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

The reality is they do make a difference, even if they aren’t ‘culpable’. Managers live and die by their reputation in the press and among fans. 
 

Certain managers get a much tougher ride from both and Rodgers would never have stayed in the job if he has the same treatment as Conte or Steve Bruce.

I agree that the media has a significant impact on people's opinions, and this can be seen in football. Rodgers was portrayed positively in the media, while Conte was vilified. Club journalists should hold managers accountable, even if it means risking losing interviews.

[Noahfence]

It wasn’t Percy but that article saying how Rodgers had turned it round after we scraped past bottom of the football league Gillingham will always be incredibly funny 

[Tuna]

Who has bumped this? Are they trolling the entire forum?

Edited 13 May 2023 by Tuna

[Matt]

4 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Who has bumped this? Are they trolling the entire forum?

 

Me. And no.

 

On 12/05/2023 at 10:29, Matt said:

 

 

37 minutes ago, Matt_Lcfc said:

I agree that the media has a significant impact on people's opinions, and this can be seen in football. Rodgers was portrayed positively in the media, while Conte was vilified. Club journalists should hold managers accountable, even if it means risking losing interviews.

This is what I meant when I was calling on local journalist's to ask the tough questions.

 

People's replied saying they would wanna upset the club or get banned from pressers, e.t.c. I'm sorry but if the journo's had asked the tough questions they'd have been heavily supported by the fanbase for it (See: Jason Bourne's grilling for example) and if the club were to ban them it wouldn't be a good look, they can't ban them all, there are obligatory media duties and banning them would simply look like Rodgers/The club were running and hiding.

 

Obviously there is a line, they have to be professional, they can't be vitriolic and just go all out on them, but come on, ask some tough questions of note, but some pressure on management and club.

[Tuna]

3 minutes ago, Matt said:

 

Me. And no.

 

 

This is what I meant when I was calling on local journalist's to ask the tough questions.

 

People's replied saying they would wanna upset the club or get banned from pressers, e.t.c. I'm sorry but if the journo's had asked the tough questions they'd have been heavily supported by the fanbase for it (See: Jason Bourne's grilling for example) and if the club were to ban them it wouldn't be a good look, they can't ban them all, there are obligatory media duties and banning them would simply look like Rodgers/The club were running and hiding.

 

Obviously there is a line, they have to be professional, they can't be vitriolic and just go all out on them, but come on, ask some tough questions of note, but some pressure on management and club.

Thanks Matt, and I hadn't bothered to see the reason - very interesting!

 

The thread title is rather triggering 

[Tuna]

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Edited 13 May 2023 by Tuna