Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

That interview is exactly what we didn't want to hear.

Blaming better quality sides for hammering us, refusing to change our style of play and saying we'll learn from it.

* me gently.

 

Delusional or the Celtic way?

Ffs Invincibles, quadruple trebles, nine in a row?

All done the Celtic way.

Keep the Celtic way!! Delusional am fine with.

 

To deny it was tactical naivety is just down right denial and delusion. We literally played them at their own game and got destroyed for it. Brandt and Adeyemi has the freedom of our half - the two best players for them literally given all the time and space to play as they please.

Football suicide again as Rodgers can't park his ego and set up to defend.

 

May as well just stick your life savings on Atalanta -5 now then.

 

* *. Brendan was asked exactly the right question from the reporter there and he admitted they won’t change it. Jesus * Mary and Joseph.

 

All irrelevant in the context of our historically poor European performances.

You reach a point domestically at which European performances become the barometer of progress, such is the awful state of our league. We are not progressing.

 

I'm OK with him not changing it TBH.

Why did we think we were going to go from last season to competing with Borussia Dortmund after a single good window? It's just not realistic. These are not the games we judge our season on.

What needs to happen is that we keep improving and have another equally good window in January and then another next summer and then we can talk. For this season, the games against Bratislava, Young Boys and Zagreb are what will determine if our season is a success. Maybe Leipzig as a stretch goal.

This is exactly what worried me before this game. We are playing some great football this season. Just because you haven't arrived yet, that doesn't mean you're not heading in the right direction. I want us to keep going.

 

Agree that this is the worst result so far and listening to him just now it seems like he aint going to change.
Its like he doesn't realise you're not facing falkirk or st johnstone but one of the best sides in the world away from home !!
We can have a go at home the crowd would expect nothing else but there comes a time that away from home against the top teams we at least make them work , that was pitiful tonight and could easily have been double figures and the rest ...theres no need for that level of stupidity time n again !!

 

That's insanity.

The best managers and teams in football adjust their tactics based on the opposition they are facing. They analyse their strengths and weaknesses and look for ways to exploit them. We set up exactly the same regardless of who we're facing. It's suicide and no number of scuddings and the experience that comes with them will change that. It was coincidentally the fatal flaw in Ange's football too.

 

I think Dortmund told us to get back in our box.

I've never seen Celtic bossed like that in my life. We've had some pumpings over the years but * me.

At one point in the first half I thought we were down to 9 men, genuinely thought so guys had maybe went off injured at the sideline.

The amount of * space between defense and midfield. Fuckiiing *.

I don't want any of the champions league smoke.

The thing is, let's imagine we qualify, we get absolutely humiliated again.

* this tournament for us.

 

The reality at Celtic is that we need a pragmatist.

We need a manager that can be effective when we're the big fish in a small pond in Scotland and then be reflexive & be effective as the small fish in a big pond in Europe.

I've got no problems about him having a go from the off but at 1-1 or even 2-1 he has to read the game and see that our system was leaving us wide open.

All day talking about needing to stay away from needless defensive errors and then to have 3 in the first 15 mins. Brutal.

The problem is that he's had these lessons first time round. Continuing to do the same things (albeit with different players) is mind-boggling.

 

And continual embarrassment on the European stage.

If you’re happy with just battering County, Motherwell and Dundee every season, and a * huns team. Then fine.

Most of us have loftier ambitions than that. Namely, not routinely being skelped by half a dozen goals in Europe.

How anyone can be content with us being the whipping boys in Europe is beyond me.

 

My worry for games like this is the board will look at players like Engels and say what difference has an 11m signing made to take us in the right direction and they revert back to 2-3m unheard of players as it’s the same end results but will still be good for the Scottish leagues

 

Honestly, anyone suggesting we shouldn’t adapt to these games and adopt a more defensive approach is a * lunatic.

We will never be expected to get points from these games, but * me I’d rather we gave ourselves half a chance by playing a more pragmatic style and maybe nicking a point the odd time.

Surely that’s better than being constantly battered any time we play a half decent team?

I’d bite your hand off for a 2-0 defeat playing *, defensive football than going for it and losing 7-1 or 6-0 etc.

These defeats demoralise the players, the fans and don’t help our reputation.

 

We must be scholars the amount of * "learning" we've done in Europe in the last few years