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What's this Rodgson [oops]? Pathetic.
As Aran said, had we won we wouldn't be talking like this. And if my auntie had balls she'd be by uncle. We lost badly today and you can't get away from that. Not trying to get away from that fact but we need to put in perspective. It was a bad loss and I'm [oops] off.
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Football - ever the fickle business.
By the way, of the 18 players in the squad for us today, one was a Brendan Rodgers signing.
*RODGERS *SKRTEL *JONJO
'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'
'If there is hope, it lies in the proles'
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I know he has a few fans but let's put it into perspective. When you consider the players we have, the money he has been given to spend, and the time he has had at the club, is he doing good, bad or just about as you expected?
For me, the best way to judge him is to see how well he is doing compared with other managers new to their respective clubs:
1) Rodgson vs Laudrup: Laudrup has made some excellent signings and Swansea are better of than they were this time last year. Laudrup has spent less than BR and we have taken what is apprently their best player. Plus, we struggle against them so Laudrup wins this one comfortably.
2) Rodgson vs Clarke: hasn't spent anywhere near the money that BR has spent and is miles ahead of us in the league. Plus this is Clarke's first manager's role. An easy victory for Clarke
3) Rodgson vs Lambert: thrashed us at home today. But putting that result aside and considering the money he's had to spend and the quality of his squad, he is doing better against expectation than BR. I bet villa's fans are happier than ours this season. A victory for Lambert
4) Rodgson vs Hughton: above us in the table with an undeniably weaker squad and far less financial resources. Hughton wins this one.
BR aside, none of the above managers have needed a year or two (or three!) to implement their footballing 'philosophy'. They have arrived at their new club, made a few tweaks and are doing what a good manager should do - improve the results. All we get from BR is excuses.
His mid-season report must surely say that he's on the ropes already as Liverpool manager. Dalglish spent £110m to take us from 7th to 8th. BR has spent £30m so far and has taken us from 8th to 12th. Never has our club been in such a bad way before or had such a bleak future ahead. Can't really argue with any of that. The only mitigating factor is managing a big club (yes we are still - just about !) brings an extra level of pressure that Hughton, Lambert etc aren't having to deal with.
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likes of lambert seems to know more about the nuts and bolts of the english game whilst BR focuses is on creating barca.
BR's positivity borders on insulting and plain stupid too. He's defensive abilities are questionable but some of the footy played is lovely. the first 20mins today was just beautiful but the final pass let us down or as usual we didn't have players in the box. don't know why we even bother crossing the ball. loads for BR to do and I don't think he is the best in the transfer market either..this is going on borini and the potential capture of sturridge. overall i think BR will fail here - sadly
but if lambert had of got the job and had a slow start he would have been sacked too such is the impatience of us fans...so maybe give br time tho with the likes of sturridge coming in i think its in vain.
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Its hard to say things are going well at the moment. Although football being the game it is had we won then the mood would be liverpool are progressing. But we did not win we lost. The only thing in mitigation is rodgers has not had a large squad and we are in need of signings so more support (horefully) to come. Plus at 5 months its still early days and i don't care a fig for the comparisons with other managers we need to look at ourselves Well you should do as it proves how poor he is. So-called lesser managers are out performing us with less money and inferior players. Our transformation from being the top ranked club in the world to becoming the laughing stock of the premier league is more or less complete in just 3 depressing and very costly years. And we can thank the 3 stooges: henry, dalglish & rodgson.
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Think we can throw Rafa in there with his disastrous last 18 months if thats how you are looking at it.
"Romance has broke down
This boy is crack'in up"
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Bandwagon has no more vacancies until the next 3 points
Read between my lines.
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Just thought I would drop in here and say how pathetic it is to see a so called supporter mock our manager.
Stay classy.
"Romance has broke down
This boy is crack'in up"
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Think we can throw Rafa in there with his disastrous last 18 months if thats how you are looking at it. Rafa's last 18 months came undone due to the interference by the "custodians", the ownership problems and board members trying to pick the squad. I can't think of anyone else we can compare Rafa's situation to so unless you're just having a cheap dig, I'm not really sure what your point is.
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cheap dig at who?, why should he get a free pass when all the managers since dont, are we not allowed to criticise him?
"Romance has broke down
This boy is crack'in up"
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