27 Sep 2015 13:00:20
Hi ed01 would like to pick your brains on a few things. One of the most worrying things for me now about rodgers is that due to the pressure he's under, he has stumbled upon a team, formation which has produced a few goals and looked better. What he will do now is stick with this team until we hit another rocky patch. The problem he has now is this will not include 60 million pounds worth of bent eke and firminio. He has no idea how to integrate them into the side and risks isolating new players like he did last season. The team will not be changed due to fear and ibe lallana will sit it out. Don't get too excited though the run won't last as he still insists on playing 3 at the back with can who got found out there last year and is still making mistakes. The good thing for supporters is the longer now he stays in the job the higher up the table we go, bad results return and he will be gone. My only wish is that when he does go we are still with a chance of top four and still with a chance in the cups. I can't get my head around his conspiracy theories either. Can a reporter not mention his failure last season and a mediocre start to this. The fact that everyone else is so poor this season is helping him. If we only had a decent coach we actually could have won the league this season. Thoughts ed
{Ed001's Note - My worry is his comments are getting increasingly asinine, with him quoting ridiculous stats about how many shots on goal we have had, while neglecting to mention the vast majority of them came from over 40 yards vs a League Two side. His constant denigration of the playing staff, past and present, in order to claim that his own failure was not actually due to him. I am sick of the constant buck passing he does. I support Liverpool FC and what is best for the club, he is not even close to being good for the club, let alone what is best for it. He has no tactical insight whatsoever, repeatedly fails to analysis the opposition or his own team effectively and still keeps spouting the same crap in press conferences lauding mediocrity.
He is the worst Liverpool manager of my lifetime, which included Souness and Hodgson, so it takes some doing to take that title. I am in full agreement with Souness on this being an idiotic appointment of a no mark manager (to paraphrase his recent comments on TV) that should never have happened.}
27 Sep 2015 13:26:29
But he nearly won the league, haha.
Can you imagine Shanks or Paisley saying that as a positive?
For me, the club doesn't look to have a plan or direction.
We continually buy players and then don't know where to play them. We continually change the team, formation and tactics more in hope than expectation.
And the captain of this rudderless ship is a bumbling idiot.
That NEARLY won the league, hahaha.
27 Sep 2015 13:31:44
I agree with Ed001.
A while back, some posters here argued that what Rodgers says (most of which is absolute BS) has no impact. But because of his constant BS, nobody now trusts him and the fans all see him as a disingenuous personality and that will have played a part in the supporters losing his trust.
27 Sep 2015 13:40:36
Couldn't have put it better myself Redheaven!
27 Sep 2015 14:13:19
Spot on, Ed! Don't know if he's the worst LFC manager in my lifetime but I will say he's the most disrespectful, dishonest and irresponsible manager in my lifetime. At least Roy had some honour and respect for the club and never said a bad word about us when he was unceremoniously but deservedly ousted. BR is a true piece of work. He would throw his own mum under the bus just save his image. Disgusting attitude!
27 Sep 2015 15:03:06
I don't think he is worse than Hodgson but he certainly runs him close.
27 Sep 2015 15:12:45
Hodgson is the only Liverpool manager ever that was genuinely scraping about in the bargain basement. His tactics were awful, no doubt about it but no one can argue with the lack of investment when he was in charge.
27 Sep 2015 16:19:21
Yeah I think in hindsight Irish Rover, you're probably right. Had Hodgson actually had a bit of money to play with, we have seen better signings instead of the likes of Konchesky, Poulsen and Jovanovic. Although I think I'm right in saying that Jovanovic was signed by Rafa on a free transfer before he was sacked? I remember being excited by that signing as I thought it was the guy who destroyed us in the champions league that season, Jovetic.
I still don't think that Hodgson was the right appointment though, he was never going to be a long term solution at Liverpool.
27 Sep 2015 16:28:03
Hi eds0001, did souness really say that about Rodgers? I remember him saying something about square pegs and round holes when talking about Rodgers use of players and their position.
Is Rodgers statement about the "conspiracy" include what souness said?
{Ed001's Note - I was paraphrasing, he was very scathing of FSG's decision to appoint a manager who had won nothing, especially to replace the greatest legend in the club's history.}
27 Sep 2015 20:18:11
Hodgson was never a Liverpool type manager but he is not a bad manager IMO. Remember he had no money to play with and awful owners who did more to ruin club than any manager including BR.
27 Sep 2015 22:15:47
Hodgson was an absolutely rubbish manager for LFC.
If you need proof, look at the season he was in charge.
First half of the season, 20-odd points, then Kenny came in and had the second best record in the league.
28 Sep 2015 01:22:12
You do realize ron that Rodgers has got less points than hodgson in their last 17 or 18 games i think with 200 timew the investment
28 Sep 2015 07:23:39
Reet, it's not the point I was making.
We've had people re-writing history saying Hodgson wasn't that bad and he had no money.
He was rubbish and the proof is there for all to see. You can only really compare like for like. Kenny had virtually the same squad he just changed Suarez and Carroll for Torres and Babel.