23 Mar 2015 18:36:38
Reading ed's conments about the Rogers backers (im one)
I agree most would like to keep him and age has a impact personaly if Klopp was a option i'd go for it other wise have some faith in Rogers like he only messed the 1st 45 minutes up and Gerrard done us in for the 2nd half
23 Mar 2015 19:06:45
I'm in the Rodgers camp but failure to reach the top four isn't good enough should we not make it.
23 Mar 2015 19:25:04
Rodgers is a Championship manager.
That is why Reading sacked him.
Not good enough for Liverpool.
23 Mar 2015 19:34:16
The problem I have is his intentions for a career in Spain. What if he wins the treble for the pool? He will leave eventually, so why not sooner?
{Ed002's Note - I am in Madrid right now - dreadful dirty city.}
23 Mar 2015 19:49:52
He didn't just mess up the first half of the United game.
He messed up the first half of the season.
I have to give him credit for the way he turned it around, really good going that.
But he's aloud the opposition to figure us out again and is already about 3 or 4 games behind on changing tactics.
Far too slow to adapt, you can't just keep singing from the same hymn sheet you have to change your tune and adapt to what's in front of you.
Anybody here could set up a winning team, it's tweaking it on a game by game basis to keep it fresh and keep the opposition unsure of what we will put in front of them that makes a good manager.
Rodgers is not a good manager, at least not yet.
I see a lot of comments like "he's still learning" and "as long as he learns his lesson" but shouldn't he be doing that at a lower league club? No disrespect but Liverpool should have a proven top class manager (coach) not be the classroom of a rookie still yet to learn the basics.
May as well stick anybody off the street on as manager and let them learn the trade on a week by week basis.
Harsh? No, truth hurts. I like Brendan a lot, met him a few times now and he's great. I just don't think he's ready for the Liverpool job. He's failed badly.
23 Mar 2015 20:54:21
Agree with some of what you say Mickey but he has a very very good group of players that should be in the top three this season as its a very very poor league. i'm sorry to say that I belive he messed up the first few months of the season and got lucky with a change of tactics but the proof of his mediocrity is that in the last few weeks other teams have started to find our weaknesses and BR has not changed tactics to remedy this. Swansea were all over us and very unlucky and he didn't change and then Man U gave us a lesson in the first half.
In my opinion a good manager sees these things and has a plan or better still starts with a new approach to catch out the opposition, BR has none of these qualities, almost three months of his poor tactics at the start of the season before he "finds this great new formation". Problem now is that it's four games since we've been found out and he still has nothing new . De Boer for me, can't be any worst than beaten in league then followed by over 100million in new players and going for 5th.
24 Mar 2015 02:15:07
Agree Mcgoveb! BR is on the brink ATM and needs to show what he has got or he might be out of a job come this summer.
24 Mar 2015 04:49:57
With the financial outlay we should be getting top 4, it's really that simple for me. Rodgers has bought badly, not used his squad correctly and, by the looks of things, we will probably miss out on top 4. He has to go if that proves to be our final position.
24 Mar 2015 05:33:18
I don't agree that he has failed badly Mickey.
I agree with almost everything else in your post though just not that.
Was it a naive appointment; Yes.
Was Rodgers too young; Maybe.
But having given him the job in my opinion he has made a decent fist of it.
Two managers have tactically out thought him blatantly.
Maureen and now Van Gaal.
Very public and very hurtful defeats for us to take.
But these are not fly by night managers, they are two of the very best managers, look at their records.
Mourinho; pains me to say it is one of the best of all time and Van Gaal's reputation and achievements are vast as well.
I think a lot of our fan base always think of Rodgers as being old when he's not he is 40 which is a baby in management terms.
Now the question is do we get rid of him or allow him to keep learning and improving here?
I don't think we need much in the transfer market this season.
Just some tweaking.
The squad is young, hungry and strong.
His style of play is good (when he employs the pressing system) although there are some negatives like a patchy transfer record and his stubbornness at the start of the season.
All of those managers who I would want we won't be able to get.
I would stick with him, limit the transfers in this season so we don't spend money we don't have (Ed002 insert comment here) and see where he takes us.
I would rather be absolutely sure he is not the man for us than get rid of him before he has had a proper chance.
But then again I am old school and would like to see every manager given 5 yrs unless they produce Hodgson like results.
I think Rodgers does a lot of things well and some things wrong and over time given his experience and youth then he should eradicate those negatives.
I think he would be a very good manager then.
There are even signs from this season that he is learning quickly in my opinion.
{Ed001's Note - what signs are they? I am failing to see those signs myself.}
24 Mar 2015 09:16:46
the only sign i'd show BR is the EXIT one myself
24 Mar 2015 21:13:25
Mikey, have to say that learning triumphs over knowing
The best managers in the world are learners, the problem with Rodgers was he stopped learning in my view
24 Mar 2015 22:26:24
Well the switch to 3-4-3.
The switch from sitting off (first half of the season) to full on pressing.
Switching Can into defense.
Moving Markovic to wing back.
Bringing Ibe back from loan.
Dropping Glen:)