Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Some of that second half was up there with the worst football iv ever seen us play at Celtic Park.

 

We’ve had about 5 decent performances this season and even in those good perfomances we didn’t win every game. No Celtic team should be struggling as much as we are domestically this season.

 

A few dodgy performances can be accepted, even some dropped points.

It's the fact we seem absolutely void of any fluency of * heart in our approach in just about every game.

The players have their fair share of looking to do in the mirror, but the manager is a tactical fraud. Always has been, always will be...

 

A bad spell that has gone on all season. We got of jail and rode our luck away to motherwell and st Johnstone . The cracks were papered over but we have been consistently poison all season

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Betis still tried their best and the players they used were on a different level to those Kilmarnock ones today.

 

Very obvious players are gone mentally too.. I thought if we could get to 10 ish games left at least level . Rodgers coule build up bit of a siege mentality get ccv and hatate back, we may pull it off having made incredible hard work of it. Was more my heart than my head that felt that way... since hearts at home this team was in real trouble. We aren't getting it right anywhere. Nicholson is absent, the recruitment team are trying to single handedly bankrupt the club, the squad is mid table spl quality in Celtic jerseys coached by a manager who appears completely incapable of addressing the glaring issues that have been getting worse all season..

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People are looking at his track record of what he done before, and trusting that he knows what he’s doing because of his experience and level he’s operated at most of his career,


But judging him by what he’s doing here, his decisions, body language, and leadership. I can’t think of a very good defence except CCV, Hatate, Abada all being injured majority of the time was something Ange struggled a bit with. But by the ‘a bit’ he struggled, was it not being as * electric and solid in comparison to them playing and being at our best.

 

They could be 5 ahead after the game too. Grim.

 

If that's the case, one only needs to look at his 3rd season before jumping ship...

 

The tactics at that point was to push forward, O’Riley had moved very high up the pitch to the right, Bernardo same to the left. * McGregor was getting encouraged to bonb forward and overlapped the striker to cross in 90 minutes or so in at 1-0, trying to chase a 2nd to kill it. And left us wide open. The defence had no protection, and both fullbacks tucked in majorly trying to help the cb’s and the midfield was nowhere to be seen.

And that was Tactical. Because it’s not a style they players naturally do, like they’d decided to vacate the middle of the pitch on their own. Rodgers chased a 2nd, and got it very wrong. For the 3rd/4th time that game, his decision making helped killie and hindered us. McIness * all over him tactically

 

For the 3rd time this season. With Kilmarnock.

If that doesn't worry anyone, then nothing will...

 

People forgot the performances, see the success. Never mind 2 of the trophies that year was Neil Lennon getting it over the line, and I don’t think Br would have he had 2 games in Edinburgh, Tynecastle and Easter Rd just before he jumped ship. I think he only had one win in Edinburgh, his first one, Sinclairs debut.

But the board also gets a large amount of blame for * that season, it’s all very familiar. As far as I’m concerned, whilst his tactical and man management of this team is lacklustre, he’s a proven failure twice round at making his directors take him seriously, look what Ange made them do. Look at Rodgers, no matter how many times he tries to make a strong statement. It doesn’t work for him. Ange made on statement, whilst taking all the blame for the boards * negotiations and it was a cannonball aimed at them whilst doing so. And they jumped on board and danced to his tune.

Rodgers is whining into the abyss, and getting a pat on the head off Lawwell and Desmond saying aw don’t worry we’ll help ye. And laughing at him. Because their actions and our business, and Rodgers statements and opening interviews when he returned, has made that clear they view him as a joke no matter how he tries to grandstand.

 

I’m more worried about playing at home just now than away. Anybody feeling that? * whiplash from last season to this, this time last year I was at a peak of Celtic adoration matching my Martin O’Neill days. Now I’m * Mowbray and Ronny.

 

It almost feels as if it's a set up from the board to make him look like a *, and him trying to make the board look like the big bad * for his *.

A total clash of egos either way, and it's hard to see how long this poison can continue.

 

His appointment screamed of DD throwing his weight around as 'he knows best'.

Exactly like McCarthy.

No one was pining for then yet here they are.

No plan whatsoever.

 

Mowbray-esque in terms of tactical retardation.

Ronny-esque in terms of * snoozefest fitba.

 

This is the first job I can think of that he’s not came in to a struggling talented squad underachieving, and turned it round, it feels like a very succesfull one under a better manager, he’s came in and the guys who are used to the previous, better manager, with such a fun team to play in… they view him as a bit of a joke. And that’s something players have aimed at Rodgers, they’ve suddenly realised 2/3 years into him being there manager. Like this guys full of *. Ange was full of exactly zero *. How does that gel?

 

Up there with Tony Mowbray and Neil Lennon's second term, shocking.

 

I was fully behind it so can’t criticise the original decision, I still think he’s the probably the manager with the biggest reputation, operated at the highest levels, and has a proven track record that we could get to manage us. Because despite his narcissistic bullshit, he is a Celtic fan. If he wasn’t he’d be out of our reach.

But, I was wrong, and second time round he’s shown * nothing

 

Worse than Lenny’s second term, he’d need to get 5 Trophies in a row before having his shitshow to get to that level.

And BR took over a far better team than he left Lennon back then.