Popular Post dmayne7 Posted 2 April 2023 Popular Post Posted 2 April 2023 8 minutes ago, Mee-9 said: Ruined the club - stifled the progressive attacking football we were known for. I'm not buying this 'European Semi Final' rot either. We should never have been in the Conference League. It's so ignorant to reference that semi final as success because that was born from failure and ended with abject failure. 8
dmayne7 Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 26 minutes ago, kingkisnorbo said: Be interested to see if the rhetoric surrounding him softens in the years to come. Of course it will. Time's a great healer. Bought got to agree with other posters, the timing of this is crass 1
dmayne7 Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 3 minutes ago, Stinky said: He's obviously been poor this season but the sheer hate for the guy on this forum has seen the players, none of which (bar one or two) have been better than a 6/10 this season, get given a free ride. And his constant blame shifting and arrogance brought that on himself. It's not a fair assessment granted but you cannot be surprised given his actions.
HankMarvin Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Football is a results business, unfortunately as a Manager you are only as good as your last handful of results. Claudio died on his sword having achieved the greatest feat in the modern era. Rodgers was given more time than most to show that the bad form was a blip. 1
Guest bennytwohats Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 29 minutes ago, Dusty said: I think it’s a shame how a lot of people will remember him. He is one of the best football managers the club has ever had and we had a period of success unseen by the club before even when the competition is tougher than ever. Brendan had his flaws and what we’ve seen for the last year has not been good enough. But we will do well to see us finish in the top 5 again for the next decade, or probably longer and maybe never again in our lifetimes. The fact that his success is taken for granted is a shame. We comfortably over achieved, but people will still find a way to say he failed. I’ve never really understood a lot of the personal attacks on him either, there were very few things he said in press conferences or in the media that bothered me that much and I think a lot of people on here over exaggerated it because they didn’t like him. Hopefully we can all move on from it now, this has been a pretty depressing place to be recently. You've summed up my feelings perfectly. There is definitely a bit of a mob echo chamber at work here. Read enough times that he 'claims to be an elite manager' and I'm sure people are just feeding off each other at this point as I've never heard him say any of those types of things about himself. The insults are just a bit of a poor reflection on the fanbase really that people can't discuss the legitimate reasons of where he is failing in his role (of which there have been many lately) and instead need to result to childish name calling and attacks. Brought us some of the highest highs, and some of the lowest lows. At this point it's clear that him moving on is best for all parties but for me there is also a disappointment about it as it draws a line under one of the best periods of our history. Whilst it's become clear that he was unlikely to get us back there, you only need to look at some of the names that are kicking around in the replacements thread to know that he had a much higher ceiling than what might come next. I also think anyone who thinks Brendan is the root of all of the club's problems are in for an unpleasant surprise.
Stuntman_Mike Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 He'll go down as the least likable manager I've even known, despite the cup win. I don't really want to give him any praise at all. 2
Koke Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 No way the Poch thing is true. We really ****ed it up big time.
21st Century Fox Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Given zero control of anything other than tactics and team selection he's a good manager who has brought us success. Give him the keys to castle and you'll end up with masses of injuries, players bought for millions who don't even make the bench and others ostracised. 1
Mike Oxlong Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Some things are said/done just too soon after an event (like shagging your wife’s sister on the night of your wife’s funeral). With time I might be able to rationalise some of the sentiment in the OP but at present I’m just too overcome with relief to do so
cropstonfox Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 27 minutes ago, David Hankey said: Well, I for one, thank Brendan for bringing the FA Cup to Leicester. After 4 failed attempts and witnessing 3 of them this was one of the Club's finest hours (or 90 minutes). Well he over saw the cup win which was won by a team put together by Puel Shakespeare Ranerri and Nigel. He couldn't believe the squad he inherited but he never had the ability to build on this. He actively knocked the belief and spirit out these players. He signed poor players and made good players poor. He then complained about lack of backing. It seems like there is a strong possibility that his contract had a bottom 3 sacking Clause in it.This was then activated by Top In the first instance. Hopefully he has walked away with the Square root of F all! If we stop up watch the new manager get full backing! 1 1
Fox92 Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 53 minutes ago, foxfanazer said: **** him. The frauds taken enough from this club Shut up. Won the FA Cup and Community Shield, got us into Europe via the league and always had us in the domestic cup quarter finals pretty much every season minimum. Relegations happen but I winning trophies is the greatest, it’s what I want us to do, and Rodgers did that. Don’t comment if you’re gonna post something like that. Being a high paid manager, or “taking from the club”, isn’t his fault. If a board offered me 10m a year I’m not gonna reject it and neither are you. 1 2
Mike Oxlong Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Also, the bizarre thing is that some of his greatest achievements ended as under achievements. We should have had two top 4 finishes and got to the Europa knockouts. Time and again his team showed a lack of bottle and grit.
Livid Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Thanks for the good times, but this should have happened months ago. We’re in a state as a club but ultimately he has to carry the can for some absolutely shocking performances this season. There have been some desperate and puzzling team selections in recent weeks. Ndidi in midfield and Amartey at the back are a couple. He’s made some awful signings and alienated decent players within the squad.
copunk Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Can put my sensible hat on and say he gave us some amazing moments and looked at times to have built us into a genuine consistent top 6 team However the last 18 months have been beyond awful, performances terrible, wins when we have got them haven't been because we've been amazing, it's because the other team have been awful, tactics had gone stale a long time ago and he didn't help himself with the crap he came out with when the going got tough It's sad that a manager who ultimately won us the one elusive trophy in English football will be thought of by the majority of us as a rot that set in and killed us off this season with negative football, stubbornness beyond anything I have seen before when it came to not playing players who should have been given a chance, and sticking by players who have been quite frankly so far below standard it's a joke
foxfanazer Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Fox92 said: Shut up. Won the FA Cup and Community Shield, got us into Europe via the league and always had us in the domestic cup quarter finals pretty much every season minimum. Relegations happen but I winning trophies is the greatest, it’s what I want us to do, and Rodgers did that. Don’t comment if you’re gonna post something like that. Being a high paid manager, or “taking from the club”, isn’t his fault. If a board offered me 10m a year I’m not gonna reject it and neither are you. I understand its a difficult day for you so I won't react to you telling me to shut up I'll post as and when I like Edited 2 April 2023 by foxfanazer 2
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Was really good. Was then really dogshit. Should have gone 18 months ago. Is what it is. 2
LCFCJohn Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 It’s like going round the thanksgiving table I appreciate the cup win. In terms of the OP of the thread, I think people describing it as lucky are probably referring to the final itself. But, he took it seriously with team selections and the run was a good one. Even away games at places like Stoke and Brentford in the first couple of rounds are no given. So yes, for his part in that, fair play. The two half seasons in the Autumns of 2019 and 2020, were very good in different ways. The 8 game winning run in 2019 was amazing and the following year some wins away at Arsenal and Man City were highlights in terms of profile, taking apart Leeds 4-1 at ER was a great performance. Europe was a bit of a disaster really. As others have said, being in the conference league was a symbol of the failure in the Europa League in the same was 5th twice looks great but in context, not as much. But the win away at PSV late on was a highlight there. Some good stuff but other than the PSV win, nothing since 2021. Shame he stayed as long as he did and couldn’t have been more classy but those things do deserve acknowledgement and appreciation.
cropstonfox Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 1 minute ago, Sol thewall Bamba said: Was really good. Was then really dogshit. Should have gone 18 months ago. Is what it is. Was never good.inherited a really good squad!
An Sionnach Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Its been a terrible season, his time was well and truly up and he knew it. Like almost all managers , shelf life is a couple of years , three at most. The main cause of this shambles is the ludicrous extended contract. Extreme naivety from the club. We must never do that again. He had the benefit of Vardy and Evans remember and Tielemans and Maddison. All top class players here before him , their days with us are nearly over and he was never going to have an answer for that.
LFox99 Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 9 minutes ago, Koke said: No way the Poch thing is true. We really ****ed it up big time. I mean... Poch somehow managed to not win the league while managing PSG with Mbappe and Neymar available to him
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 2 minutes ago, cropstonfox said: Was never good.inherited a really good squad! Ah come on. No one can say he didn't get a tune out of that squad the first 18 months. 4
foxfanazer Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said: Ah come on. No one can say he didn't get a tune out of that squad the first 18 months. He did. When the going gets tough though he doesn't have the mental toughness to stop the rot. I've never seen such a soft Leicester side Edited 2 April 2023 by foxfanazer 1
Pliskin Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 Best decision he ever made was to allow Chillwell to leave, only to stand offside. Top work. 2
Popular Post adejo92 Posted 2 April 2023 Popular Post Posted 2 April 2023 If he was a nice bloke, and he had been sacked, I'm pretty sure the whole forum would be based around comments thanking him for what he's done and wishing him the best. Most people don't dislike him for his results, they dislike him because of his slimey nature. All the time he's gone against the values of the club, all the times he's shifted the blame from himself to just about anyone and everyone...the way he's stripped the players of any confidence, the way he's tried to brain wash the fans to think we're lucky to have him and should be lucky to just be in the Premier League. The results didn't make him disliked, the above did. 5 2
Fox92 Posted 2 April 2023 Posted 2 April 2023 10 minutes ago, foxfanazer said: I understand its a difficult day for you so I won't react to you telling me to shut up I'll post as and when I like I do actually apologise for that but a manager who was largely successful for us lives in your head. Why do you have so much hatred towards him? The only thing I ever wanted us to do was win the FA Cup. I will talk about that day for all my life, if we stay up then I’ll not remember the season in a decade.
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