Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Think that means Rodgers has seen more managers in his time than they've seen points in matches...

 

My manager.

 

Going to have a selection headaches.

The amount of games though and with injuries that will no doubt appear we will need to rotate.

Next 3 all at home. Hearts, Slovan B, Falkirk.

Want to keep momentum so wouldn’t make many changes for Hearts and Bratislava. Hopefully get Hearts put away by 60 and can take off Kyogo, Hatate, Kuhn, Maeda save them for the CL. Then Falkirk game Engels, McCowan, Valle, Trusty, Idah, Ralston, Palma, Forrest can’t all get a start.

Games are coming thick and fast after this break.

 

It would be harsh , but with CL in mind he probably needs to bring in Trusty, Valle and I'm torn on Bernardo as he was excellent yesterday.. however he did nearly cost at the start of the 2nd, when caught in possession that led to the Dessers chance..

Engels probably comes in v Hearts..

 

He's got us playing really nice football just now. Can't wait to see how we are when the new signings are integrated into the squad.

 

Makes you wonder what the actual * happened last season, we were woeful until about March and then we were half decent mostly from March on.

This season we're playing as well as we are capable of really, creative, scoring, playing with pace to our play, all over teams and a lot of players in good form. Nothing like last season at all which looked lethargic, struggling for ideas on how to break teams down, nobody playing that well and unconvincing.

 

I think there was a bit of Ange hangover last season. I also dont think hes used to taken over teams that had been flying under the previous manager.

The 2-0 defeat at Tynecastle seemed to bring everyone together and spur the team on.

 

We were having to play Yang, Mikey Johnston, Welsh, Turnbull, Palma. All were getting regular game time through injuries to key players. That was the biggest problem. Our starting elevens were hoaching. Then when you add in the likes of Taylor and Scales on top of these guys, it just gets even worse. Lagerbielke and Nawrocki got some game time as well. Our options from the bench for the first half of last season were absolutely awful.

 

He's really really got that swagger back..

We look class at the minute..

Shaky start from the players yesterday initially but cruised it after and pummelled them..

Looking forward to seeing this side developing and progressing throughout the season as we'll only improve with the depth we now have..

 

This imo was the biggest issue among many. It's not an easy thing to just transition straight away to a new manager, then you add in the awkwardness that was there with Rodgers coming back. It was weird as * for ages.

 

How long was it before we even really played our starting xi? Hatate was injured twice at the start of the season and missed most of it, CCV injured 2 games in, AJ missed the start of the season. We had injuries throughout the season mixed with cack signings.

It was a tedious watch, even when we were winning most games at the start of the season.

 

Even that shaky start I'm starting to think it was tactical to let them have the ball and defend while waiting to see the gaps because once we seen the gap in the press we sprung a counter which turned into a goal especially after clement saying they will attack us from the off reckon they knew the huns would come out at full tilt masterclass from the brodge

 

I think it was around March time we got our strongest eleven on the park. Maeda missed a lot of games as well. It was mental.

 

Hatate playing seems to be the key, although he never really got fit last season and never actually played that well when playing either the performances and results were better.

But seems whenever he plays under Rodgers we do well. Made me think there that Hatate started playing again about March and then I looked it up.

Under Rodgers Hatate has played 23 domestic games and we've won 22, the only one we never won was the 3-3 at the huns where they equalised at the death.

Even the 3 European games Hatate played the first was Feyenoord where we went down to 9 men but the Lazio and Atletico home games were good performances we should have won.

 

We were missing CCV, Hatate and Maeda. That’s what happened

 

I noticed how many times Reo could turn his opponent on Sunday, which completely opened them up. I respect Rodgers methods, I think behind the scenes we are doing a lot of good work to keep everyone in a positive mentality.

That's where we should focus our anticipation. I think we have a massive opportunity for fun in Europe this year and a team that looks competitive and Dynamic. Ronny Deila would be proud of how far we have come in that respect. Can't wait, whether we do well or less then we hoped for, we will no doubt compete and Celtic park will be bouncing. The trajectory is good and its all positive from here.

 

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