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Interesting article/interview in The Independent. Not sure overall what to make of it. Makes me a tad uneasy if Rogers is not overly concerned with defending like this but on the other hand he has definitely had a swipe at Agger and Skrtel here. Feel they maybe on their way in the summer.

Anyway, good reading for those interested:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footb...rs-9147901.html

Its not my fault the tools won't listen to me. Sorry bren would get the plaudits for attack so the defence is your fault too

And he brought 3 CB in the summer but is playing the one reject everybody thought would be sold.

And he didn't say the players were uncoachable

"The problem is that it's not coaching," he said. "Some of the things we conceded goals in you can't coach that. There's a feel when you're in the game of how to defend and you have to use that experience to be able to defend properly."

Agree, don't think the title is correct. I wonder though if he had told Skrtel to stop the shirt pulling as he said that it was not a penalty or a very soft one. Not pulling shirts can be coached I would think. The first goal (Shelvey) was not a defender's mistake and the second one was deflected. May be he was talking about other games.

he's probably told him many times to stop that crap but Skrtel is a bit brain dead. I would think Rodgers is saying it wasn't a pen to the press to put more pressure on the refs (as all managers do)

thats correct he said its not down to coaching causing mistakes its down to individual mistakes and possibly lack of concentration, as for agger or skrtel or both leaving wont by a big loss especially agger who is never fit .

I really don't like the title of this thread. It sounds like he's having a swipe at Agger and Skyrtel. What he said was that the problem isn't the system, it's decision making errors.

Not sure if the problem is entire Agger and Skrtel's fault.

The way we are playing now is focusing on attack and leaving only SG to cover the backline. While I acknowledge the work he has done so far as a DM, he can only do so much with his age.

The amount of pressure our backline get nowadays is not healthy. The best defenders in the world will also be prone to errors under such pressure.

Not sure if you guys agree on this.

Unfortunately, BR like this attacking style which to me is good to see but we have to every time out score the opponents to win (like our last game with Swansea). It will give me a heart attack if the next 11 games are like that.