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Haha yeah. I've changed my tune a bit.

Don't get me wrong though. I'm pleased we have Rodgers as manager as I think he's doing a great job. I don't agree we should have gone for a draw with chelsea as we don't have the players for that.

But last night at 3 up to mindlessly chase a goal difference? That's not on and is a massive mistake by whoever told us to do it. We should have kept it tight and taken the three points which is massively more important than goal difference.

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Originally Posted By: wilkij1975
Haha yeah. I've changed my tune a bit.

Don't get me wrong though. I'm pleased we have Rodgers as manager as I think he's doing a great job. I don't agree we should have gone for a draw with chelsea as we don't have the players for that.

But last night at 3 up to mindlessly chase a goal difference? That's not on and is a massive mistake by whoever told us to do it. We should have kept it tight and taken the three points which is massively more important than goal difference.


I rather think BR doesn't know how to keep it tight, how many times we have seen it this season. If he can get his defensive tactics right he will become a great manager.

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Originally Posted By: wilkij1975
Haha yeah. I've changed my tune a bit.

Don't get me wrong though. I'm pleased we have Rodgers as manager as I think he's doing a great job. I don't agree we should have gone for a draw with chelsea as we don't have the players for that.

But last night at 3 up to mindlessly chase a goal difference? That's not on and is a massive mistake by whoever told us to do it. We should have kept it tight and taken the three points which is massively more important than goal difference.




I rather think BR doesn't know how to keep it tight, how many times we have seen it this season. If he can get his defensive tactics right he will become a great manager.



I don't think the tactics are wrong but maybe the personnel, carra clearly pointed out that we lack a leader at the back to bring the team out. A more vocal keeper would prevent us sitting so deep when under pressure. For the first goal we were miles away from the scorer. Just like Ramsey,cabaye,hull player who also scored relatively unchalleneged.We are as a team sometimes too deep and allow crosses and shots to come in.
A leader and more discipline on positioning would be good for next season.

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Yep its personnel as well as tactics. It really needs sorting though.

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BR should add to his coaching team an experienced defensive coach (Clark?)

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surprised no one has commented onJohnsons role in all three of their goals. First one he simply failed to close that guy down when he had time to do so, Second, he dived in without a prayer of making contact with the ball on the half way line, in fact he should have hauled him down. Third he went all lazy again and never marked the scorer before the ball was played in, he simply stopped and left two men for Skertel. Oh dear he then Tweeta fans are stupid for their critique of him and the defending

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Originally Posted By: mkelly347
surprised no one has commented onJohnsons role in all three of their goals. First one he simply failed to close that guy down when he had time to do so, Second, he dived in without a prayer of making contact with the ball on the half way line, in fact he should have hauled him down. Third he went all lazy again and never marked the scorer before the ball was played in, he simply stopped and left two men for Skertel. Oh dear he then Tweeta fans are stupid for their critique of him and the defending


Johnson has been playing as a winger actually and he probably doesn't have the fitness to do both. I would agree that he could/should have been braver on the first goal, on the second, there was just too much space in our half and usually you don't let attackers have the opportunity to be one on one, so here IMO it's more about our defensive system, and on the 3rd goal Skrtl panicked and went in no man's land on the cross.

It's true that these were defensive mistakes but for the 2nd and 3rd goal, it was because we had no midfielder defending at all and there was too much space in our half. We should defend as a team and not only rely on our defenders to do all the defending, this is how it is in modern football.

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Really? Still top of the league and you want to complain about the manager?


not saying RODGERS OUT!

he is a great coach but he has few things to learn himself, he changed a lot since coming here and hopefully he learns from Chelsea(breaking down the double bus) and Palace(beware hubris)

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Originally Posted By: EastMan
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Really? Still top of the league and you want to complain about the manager?


not saying RODGERS OUT!

he is a great coach but he has few things to learn himself, he changed a lot since coming here and hopefully he learns from Chelsea(breaking down the double bus) and Palace(beware hubris)



Carra said that City was very patient yesterday unlike us against Chelsea, and that is spot on.

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