Rubbish takes on our situation

[HankMarvin]

It’s not that much of a weird take, we was on course for 34 points with Rodgers, depends what Everton and leeds finish on 

[pmcla26]

3 hours ago, Tuna said:

 

He would have done better than Smith. 

[Gamble92]

2 hours ago, Corky said:

Rodgers definitely watches these, does a little clap, writes down the names in his notepad to thank them later before gazing at his Gucci belt.

 

That is the beauty of his life.

Oh believe me this is all part of PR Brendan's machine that is years and years in the making.

 

Part of his managerial career has been about acquainting as many of the media in as many places as he can. Paul Merson being one. I called it ages ago when Merson would make so many outrageously over the top comments regarding Rodgers. Then in a podcast last year he admitted he speaks to him regularly. Wasn't shocked in the slightest he laughably did a big article touring him for the Chelsea job after Potter.

 

All part of Brendan's plan. 

[ozleicester]

I thought "Rubbish" was our new manager  ..... oh wait  

[MPH]

6 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Garth Crooks has clearly had a brain transplant with a cabbage 

 

Bit harsh on the cabbage….

[smudger63]

8 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

I'd say the vast majority of the criticisms on here over the season turned out correct. Certainly more on the ball than the club were anyway. Which is damning.

The fans of a club are generally the best judge of what's going on at their club, because they are emotionally invested in it, and watch it week after week. Some fans take longer to see things than others, that may be out of blind loyalty, or because they don't want to believe what they are seeing, but no fan wants to criticise their club, or wants to be protesting against the manager, board or calling out the players, but ultimately the reason they do, is because they love their club, and can see things need to change, for the good of their club. People outside of their club will not really know how bad things are, and will often have a pre conceived idea of what's going on, while basically not really having a clue.  Lennon and Garth Crooks have clearly not been watching us. 

[LCFCJohn]

6 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

It’s not that much of a weird take, we was on course for 34 points with Rodgers, depends what Everton and leeds finish on 

Based on what? 

[HankMarvin]

4 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Based on what? 

His points per match over 30 games 

[Fox92]

11 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

One lazy take I've seen on our situation is "it's what happens when you sell your best players". Clubs our size have to sell players. I would actually argue that not selling players, particularly in the summer of 2021 contributed greatly to our downfall. 

Not replacing them is the issue.

 

Clubs like us afford to sell good players as long as good/better players are brought in. We did it but it stopped and our recruitment has been poor over the last two years. Same with Southampton really. Brighton are getting plaudits at the minute but they'll be next if they don't continue to replace players with good players.

[CrazyKopCorner]

14 hours ago, Unabomber said:

That’s weird Garth Crooks is usually spot on

Yes he's usually the king of forensic investigative journalism - I have to say it's got me reconsidering whether Rodgers was indeed a mercenary (see this belt), one trick pony, narcissistic charlatan 

 

Well done Garth  

[Stuntman_Mike]

Easy to say he'd keep us up in hindsight. 

 

Just as in hindsight I'd wish it was him who was taking more of the blame and here when it's confirmed. 

[Sampson]

12 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

One lazy take I've seen on our situation is "it's what happens when you sell your best players". Clubs our size have to sell players. I would actually argue that not selling players, particularly in the summer of 2021 contributed greatly to our downfall. 

Agreed. I’m not even sure who they are referring to that we have really even sold either?

 

Schmeichel of course we miss his influence even if he was starting to look a bit past his best. 
 

Other than that I assume they’re referring to Fofana, who had one very good season for his age, but missed all of last season injured? He was a great young player with bags of potential but I’m not sure I’d call him one of our best players. 
 

Other than that who? Maguire and Chilwell were good but not amazing players and we improved after they both left. I don’t think you can really say we missed them, 

 

Mahrez and Kante were both great players of course but left years ago and we had plenty of success since. Silly to say losing them 6 or 7 years ago is the reason we’re going down.

 

Age catching up with Vardy and Rodgers throwing £55mil away on big money flops in Perez and Daka as long term replacements for him is a far bigger issue than any player we sold. 

Edited 17 May 2023 by Sampson

[Scotch]

I intensely dislike Neil Lennon as a person but his choices in his personal life and what we think about him as an individual are besides the point. They have no bearing on his footballing opinions. 

 

Litteraly being chased out of Glasgow and being sacked from a managerial position in Cyprus DO however hold relevance and serve to prove that the guy hasn't got the first clue as to what he's talking about. 

[LCFCJohn]

40 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

His points per match over 30 games 

Yeah but most of the points were obtained in the spell before the World Cup or the two wins in Feb. We were on a worsening downwards spiral so I don’t think it’s a simple as looking at a points per game stat. I agree that logic works if you are plugging away picking up a draw here and there and slowly building a points total.

 

We will never know of course, you may be right. I personally don’t think he’d have got even the 5 points Smith has…

[SouthStandUpperTier]

11 hours ago, Pete52 said:

He would have done better than Smith. 

But that's like saying Stevie Wonder would do a better job of cutting your hair than Ray Charles. Just because Smith hasn't improved us doesn't make the sacking of Rodgers wrong.

[Les-TA-Jon]

15 hours ago, Pete52 said:

He would have done better than Smith. 

Whether or not it was the right decision to sack Rodgers, the club certainly sacked him at the wrong time. 

 

Sack him after failing to beat Brentford, whoever comes in gets the international break to bed in and 3 additional games. We're going to stay up by a point or GD, or most likely go down by 1-3 points. 

 

I find it hard to believe we'd have taken ZERO points from Palace, Villa and Bournemouth had we done the above. 

[Foxin_Mad]

17 hours ago, honeybradger said:

 

 

Realistically he had to go, sadly Smith doesnt seem very good either.

I think this is unfair to be honest. In 6 games, mid season its not a lot of time to make much difference. He needs a lot longer to turn this lots around, so ingrained is the style, the poor morale, the mentality. Smith would actually be a decent manager to get us promoted. He is badly tarnished here. 

 

Its all Rodgers fault. To be honest I wished the little weasle had stayed and took us down now, to be honest he can now pull the 'i would have turned it around card' despite the fact there was no evidence of that.

[Les-TA-Jon]

16 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Whether or not it was the right decision to sack Rodgers, the club certainly sacked him at the wrong time. 

 

Sack him after failing to beat Brentford, whoever comes in gets the international break to bed in and 3 additional games. We're going to stay up by a point or GD, or most likely go down by 1-3 points. 

 

I find it hard to believe we'd have taken ZERO points from Palace, Villa and Bournemouth had we done the above. 

Oh and also note, that when Smith et al were appointed we needed to win 3 games (probably?) to stay up. Given the fixture list, we only had the Wolves, Leeds, Everton, Fulham and West Ham to realistically target. 

 

So Smith was essentially tasked with getting one of the worst teams in the division to win 3 out of 4/5 games. A tall order indeed...

[Gamble92]

17 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Simon Jordan really does talk a lot of sense.

Great clip this 👍

He always does. I actually think him and others who haven't ever played football like some (not all) YouTubers are often way more on the pulse of what's happening than the thick ex footballer pundits tend to be.

[Guest Mee-9]

17 hours ago, Col city fan said:

Simon Jordan really does talk a lot of sense.

Great clip this 👍

He's been spot on about Leicester and Brendan Rodgers all season mate.

 

Sees him for what he is, and apparently he and Jim White know him well personally too. Apparently Rodgers' will be on the show at the end of the season to discuss Leicester. 

[Monk]

I read some rubbish takes on our situation here:

 

Football Snowflakes

[RonnieTodger]

That Graham Brock guy on twitter.

 

Must search for criticism and replies to all.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

7 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

That Graham Brock guy on twitter.

 

Must search for criticism and replies to all.

Graham likes cabbage soup and cravats. He dislikes criticism.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

19 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Garth Crooks has clearly had a brain transplant with a cabbage 

Bit harsh buddy

 

cabbages are actually useful 

[fazzyfox]

Waiting for repeats of Brendan's "Fans Expectations" narrative. OK, hands up I expected us to be better than Forest and Bournemouth and to be able to compete with the likes of Fulham and Brentford, silly me, head in the clouds glory hunting, all my fault, fair cop, with our wage bill, squad and facilities we should be buckling once the first thing goes against us, hiding from the responsibility of having the ball, fielding a keeper less effective than hanging some clingfilm from the crossbar and be ever grateful that our sole summer signing (ie before season started) was a 3rd choice goalkeeper. I was greedy, I wanted more than that, head hanging in shame at my sheer gluttony.

Edited 17 May 2023 by fazzyfox