27 Feb 2015 18:27:33
Seema simple to me. BR osnt able to rotate a squad. We had a good season last year as there was no CL/Europa, and now juggling. This season, our bad patch was around the CL games, where BR mis-selected the team constantly. Agree with a couple of other posters, we should go best 11 where poss, at least until we have a manager that can rotate better. Last nights team confirmed this for me.
Whilst I think we'll all agree we have drastically improved, for me, this is in spite of BR and not because of him. If we make the CL next season(and I fully expect is too), it's safe to say BR isn't the man we need at the helm
27 Feb 2015 19:26:35
Wait until the end of the season to make judgement on Rodgers. There are loads of examples of teams not rotating and rotating where there is good and bad results so I wouldn't say whether Rodgers is good or bad at this. It's a no win situation for a manager.
27 Feb 2015 20:18:50
Assuming we should go 'best' 11 every game, who was missing that BR didn't select? sakho? Injured. Coutinho and Henderson? Whilst maybe not actually 'injured' both have played a lot of games, and look jaded. Aside from that, it was pretty much our best available eleven. If you lose a game, your selection is criticised. For instance, if we lose on Sunday, other fans (not you obviously) will say we played too many of our best eleven last night. It's easy to be smart with hindsight. 😊
28 Feb 2015 00:07:19
IMO, that team he put out there was good enuff to get it done and had they taken their chances in the first half, we are not having this conversation. They did not get it done and that`s it. The hindsight conversations to me, are not relevant. We screwed up and so be it.
28 Feb 2015 00:20:05
Tbf been critical of BR but just looks like he was no where near ready for European football, but is his first time playing it so is a learning curve. Our European campaign was terrible but Spurs are out, City look out (barely got out of their group), and arsenal just got thumped by Monaco on their ground and for think the 3rd or 4th season running are out at the first round.
Not sure why but besides everton and city nearly every english team have been poor this season. Not entirely sure why but all I can think of is bar chelsea every english team have no concept of defending or tactics, everyone slates Mourinho but can make sure his team get result when needed. Other thing I've noticed is most BPL teams se to struggle to just keep possession, alonso was brilliant for us of taking the sting out of opponents by just keepin the ball for a few minutes which english teams seem terrible at
01 Mar 2015 00:40:48
Rodgers has to tamper. To be the star.
We used to start every European match home or away like an away game.
Defence first. Keep it tight and use your speed to catch them on the break. If you score then the other team must come at you and guess what. You catch them on the break.
Nit for rodgers goes with arrogant chip on shoulder ballotelli and mr 4 touch sturridge.
Naivety in extreme.
Got what we deserved.