Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

It's arguable tbf, much of a muchness (I hate that saying)

 

Love seeing Brendan's passion and fire post-match. This season has been one of ups and downs but we have come out it stronger and ultimately champions again!
Looking at the bigger picture, not one of the starting 11 yesterday was a BR signing, so looking to the future, will he be given the backing in the summer to put his own mark on the team and take us back to the level we should be?
I feel if the answer is yes, then we will have a great chance to not only dominate Scottish football for the next decade but build a team capable of going deep into European competitions.

 

Bit late to this but this is a bit of a mental take, mate. Clement's sole tactic was long balls to either winger. He totally lost the midfield battle, they had one shot on target all game and barely created a real chance outside of their goal, whereas we could easily have had 4 or 5.

 

How so? I thought the exact opposite and our players not adhering to the tactics panicking towards the end is the only worry we really had. That first half, with a wee bit more clinical finishing, 4/5 goals wouldn’t have been unbelievable

 

Aw mate don’t fling that sorta comments out there before Wednesday, genuinely been more concerned bout that one than the Scum game.

 

He is an absolute master in man management, mindset, and management of the press. I love how he has come out and had a go at all the gutter press and their treatment of him this season, gagging for him to fail at every turn.
He’s got fire in him and that can only be good for us.
I think he knows we as a team and a squad are not good enough and I think there will be steps taken to address that come the summer. For now, though, let’s just enjoy what has taken place as many managers would have collapsed at points this season when it looked like we were on the brink of falling apart. Brendan held it together, kept composed and played an absolute masterclass. For contrast, all you need to do is look across the city and see the sheer meltdown that has taken place in the mind of Belgian Beale. Brendan has tied him and his team up in knots.
I, for one, look forward to next season as I genuinely believe we will kick on now and further dominate for years to come. We are going to benefit to the tune of likely £60M from next season’s champions league campaign and this should give us a near insurmountable advantage. I cannot wait to see us in the new format of the competition and I’m confident Brendan will have us ready to take all fronts on next season.
We’re lucky to have a manager of his standing and we need the board to get behind him too so we can bury these hun * all over again.

 

If you genuinely believe that, I honestly think you need to re-educate yourself in the sport because that statement is complete garbage.

 

I'm not apologising for not wanting and also wanting him sacked at a point in this season. Just like he didn't apologise for leaving midseason when he came back.

He's been * over by the board and recruitment side of things. We should've won the league more comfortably and the football hasn't been that great but he got us over the line.

He needs backed and we have no reason not to spend over £30m in the summer.

He needs backed as he hasn't been at all since he has joined and won us the league with a weaker squad than Ange had at his disposal.

 

I think we for sure lost our way for a bit in the second half, but it’s skewing people’s perception of the game overall.

This team has some mentality issues which, in my opinion, stems from a leaky back line. Can you imagine using all your energy and guile to play a team off the park, seeing save after save, missed chance after missed chance (including a penalty) and then the other team get the ball and play a long diagonal and suddenly it’s * panic stations at the back yet again this season.

It rattles the whole team.

If the Huns had scored an equaliser we would’ve went up and scored a winner shortly after because it would’ve reset the team.

It’s obviously a big problem and I’m not denying it but it will persist until we get better players in to defend and give the team a confident back line to build on. We’ve been saying this every window for a long time and somehow despite our cash we downgraded from Starfelt to Scales.

 

Taking an hour to calm down with anger after beating the huns to all but clinch a league title. Jesus wept.

 

We absolutely brought that nervy ending on ourselves by deliberately slowing the game down mate, talk about players/transfers/opposition all you like but we made a decision to take the intensity our of our own play. It was a conscious thing.

I looked at the clock which read 64 mins, then again at 67 when Cal was telling folk to slow it down. I then thought to myself 'asking for trouble here' and so it proved. We dnded up giving them energy and we started panicking. One of the stupidest decisions I've seen tactically on a pitch and we got away with it in the end. Which is criminal considering the position we were in.

 

Not keen on the guy and his style of play isn’t great to watch a lot of the time but he’s got the job done despite getting next to no backing from the board. Got to give him credit where it’s due.

 

I actually a few times had a look down at the dugouts from where I was sitting, and you could see how cool and calm Rodgers and Kennedy were, compared to the big baldy fraud and his wee baldy rat * assistant.

I'll never fully love Rodgers' style of football, but he has my full backing now.

 

Think them getting energy and a bit of a foothold in the game was due to the fact it was make or break for the league. There was no chance we were going to control the entire end of the game due to it. They needed to try and salvage something, so don’t really think we can blame the team or Rodgers for that.

 

Can’t forgive our performance this season. We have been absolutely battered in the moral league with 0 moral points to our name. Shameful

 

Nah I can't get past the thought that we let them back into it by reverting to slow 'controlled' possession stuff. If we kept up the intensity we'd have took 4 or 5 off them. 100% our own doing.

 

Last time we spoke he said he'll see us back here in May. See you next weekend Brendan. Then the weekend later.

 

It was starting to get a bit manic, they were properly pressing and putting pressure on at every opportunity as well.

I reckon the penalty being missed * with the players heads, put them under a bit more pressure than they should have been and the huns built on it

 

I’ll need to look at it again but I don’t think they would deliberately remove the intensity from our game like that. There must be some reason to it. Maybe more of a ‘calm down’ because they were starting to give it away?