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http://www.mrworldpremiere.net/2012/10/being-liverpool-episode-4.html

Haven't watched it yet, only just found this link.

Enjoy

I am just watching it now, and i am job smacked at telling the players in the 9am meeting what he did. I have lost some respect for him with that underhanded motivational tactic.

Whats this about? 9am meeting? What did he do

I think he's referring to showing the players at a meeting 3 envelopes and saying in each of these envelopes is a name of a player, there's 3 players, 3 names, and these are the 3 players that I think are going to let me/us down this season. But I'm not going to tell you the names of these players until the season is over, or words to that effect.

Let me guess....empty envelopes which he hopes will push the players to lift their game out of fear for being humiliated?

Or Downing,Carroll and Enrique

Yep thats what i was referring to. Another thing I didn't like was that at half time and after the match there was no passion or emotion. There was no rallying of the troops, and the faces of the players told a worrying story.

Its like he treats players as kids. He has a belief in the system and is like a preacher talking to people who don't believe. He uses the fear to harness respect and that created an inner circle situation.
He is obviously planning for the future, but that might not be fully focused with Liverpool. He sucks up to Shelvey as he did with Boroni and Allen, the ones in his click which he would likely poach if he moved clubs. If your not in his click then you are a waste of space to him.

To be fair this is all based upon a few videos which could easily be contrived and unrealistic. The issue I have now is that his preaching doesn't agree with me and I am now firmly in the camp of seeing is believing.

Liverpool have been struggled for goals for a number of years and the change of system has fundamentally changed nothing. Sterling, Suso and even Shelvey are players that shouldn't have any pressure on them, yet they are carrying the hope and expectation on their shoulders.

On the brighter side, I expected this season to be one of torment but I also thought we would achieve about 60 points, and a trend of improvement. I still believe this can happen but I am now more sceptical as we don't look like a team playing as a unit. We are a team of players that are in Rogers plans and ones that are only there as due to no replacement yet. The road just became rougher, but I still have hope that it will smooth out.

He has to be given space and leniency for this season at least. By the end of the season we must start seeing a huge improvement, with it carrying on through the start of next season. Our players are highly paid, professional footballers who should NOT take 12, 18, or 24 months to adapt to a different way of playing.

I desperately want him to succeed after the miserable Dalglish reign but my gut feeling says he is all talk. I have serious reservations about BR's abilities to manage. He strikes me as a salesman who has talked his way into a big job that he isn't capable of performing. When you consider the other managerial options available to us back in the summer, it is clear to see that he wasn't employed because he had the best CV - he simply sold told them what they wanted to hear. I hope he proves me wrong but I can't see it...

To be honest with you, I can now see where you are coming from. I know he believes in the system, but I have this feeling that he is ignorant to everything else. The logic is sound, if we have the ball they don't and can't score, but in the real world you don't need the ball if its in the back of the net, and they can't break your defence.

We had to try something different, so I still am fully supportive.

lets not go there just yet and start slating the manager and losing faith. i don't think he's the man to blame for our short comings so far. i just don't see how any manager in the world could do better with this group of players. so far its been the same story as last year, dominate the play but not get the result we deserve. rodger's may have implemented his own system, but in football any system isn't going to work without an out an out striker, a poacher, goal scorer / natural finisher... a number 9! we don't have one. wether that is his fault or not lets cut him some slack and let him build the squad to suit the way he wants to play.