Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Low end EPL if he goes back to England but he may fancy a different challenge abroad. He wouldnt look out of place in any of the bottom 5 in the EPL at the moment.

 

yes the quality
Has dropped off but Rodgers style has become boring and predictable, Nygren came in like a tornado and look at. Him now he is like square ball McGregor, can’t blame the board for that, just the coaching, no doubt Rodgers is a. decent manager but his arrogance and stubbornness will be his downfall.

 

* help us all when he leaves. A Ronnie type incoming.

 

So 13 then?

 

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has he papped yamada and inamura out the side to protect his view that the board set him up to fail if that is so thats * stinking ego maniac stuff

it cant be a case of if these guys do well hes unhappy can it ???

thats what a lot of us are thinking

id also say the young striker that done so well in epl2 is far too good to be coming up here to play in the lowland league for us, id imagine * be sick he came to us now and will be looking to get out as soon as he can

 

You can't sell both your strikers for over £16M and reinvest less than £2M on an unproven striker and a youth player and then scrape the barrel on a free agent after the window. Thats not bad management from Brendan, that is horrific recruitment. Open your eyes to the big picture.

 

You can do all the mental gymnastics you want, that squad isn't good enough. No manager is competiting in Europe and sweeping to a treble with that team. We are massively weaker than we were last year and failed to recruit proper players across the board.

To say he has * to pick from isn't being simple minded, its a fact. We currently have Maeda, Iheanacho, Kenny, Yamada or Osmand who he can start up front. Thats a fact. And I'll tell your right now you can set up your team however you want, pick whatever formation or tactics you like and those options aren't good enough. So how is that on Brendan? We have no good options on the right wing. We have 1 decent looking option on the left wing. Where are our goals coming from? Its no coincidence we've only managed 8 league goals in our 6 games. Our defence and keeper are doing their job and allowing us to draw or win games.

Brendan isn't a magician. He has to work with what he's got until January. No Celtic manager should be in the position that he's in just now with a depleted squad, its unfair and unrealistic to just say "Oh its Hibs we should do them" Its narrow minded pish.

 

If we play that first half again with those chances then 9 times out of 10 we’re 2 or 3 goals up. I’m not going to moan about the result too much because we were generally unlucky not to be leading at half time.
However, what I will criticise are those subs he made today. The only sub that needed to made at the time was Engels off and Nygren on. He should have gave them players another 10 mins as we were battering them and I’m sure the goal was coming.
Why didn’t he go 2 up front when they went 5 at the back? Do we literally not work on anything else but the 4-3-3?

 

hes given kenny loads of chances, hes not good enough, hes gave yamada a couple of chances, last game came on done well and bombed out again, hes gave osmand nothing

but then again thats the managers job if he doesnt think their good enough you dont play them

its frustrating for us fans though seeing a striker or any player not getting a chance when we fans think they are fairly capable

 

Everyone knows the issues run deeper than the manager.

But that doesn’t excuse the manager from * * poor management.

Taking off your biggest threats when they were looking like doing something. Not giving Shin Yamada any more minutes after a positive cameo at Ibrox. Surely that would’ve made more sense than bringing on Kenny for example.

You can bemoan the protest the board whilst still acknowledging the manager has to do better.

 

We played pretty well today and couldn't score, I don't think Brendan did anything wrong. Sure some of his subs can be questioned but there's no guarantee we would have won if he'd done them differently.

I'd have Shin in my team or on the bench all day long, but then again I don't see him in training every day so maybe there's more to it. However, there are glaring squad quality issues all across the pitch that no amount of management will fix for me. So I don't have a clue what you're expecting Brendan to do. Apart from ripping up his formation and tactics and trying something entirely different, what do you think he's failing to do that would get different results?

 

Enough is enough brendan, change the * system

 

He has far far more to pick from than any other team he has came up against this season. His options aren't as strong as last year but he still should be doing far more with what he has.

 

He made the comment a few weeks ago about when the sack the board chants start it tends to mean sack the manager folk found it a strange thing to say at the time

Fast forward a few weeks and here we are. The board failed to give the manager the tools required and it's the manager carrying the can

 

This is what I call the Brendan Brendan Brendan hoax. Folk trying to oust him out the door as if this is his doing. The tools in front are just not there. Maybe the poorest squad he’s had in his last 5 seasons at Celtic wherein he has won nearly everything. The Celtic establishment needs rocked as we are archaic.

As you were.

 

He's lucky the board have copped a lot of the stick, with good reason as well, but he needs to get a plan b in place pronto. There's only so many drab performances you can blame on a poor transfer window while outspending everyone in the league except the huns by a country mile.

 

Thats a laughable take and not in any way true. You're delusional if that's your take.

 

Name me another club where the manager is forced to abandon his system and rip up his tactics because your recruitment team can't recruit players. That's a truly ridiculous demand of any manager. You'd be as well sacking him and bringing someone else in if that's the solution.

 

We did for once play pretty well today I agree. A rare positive performance.

But it’s his subs mate. His subs suck all the wind out of us. Taking off your best players just doesn’t sit well with me. Not when it’s clear they were hardly tiring. We needed a goal.

So he turned to Kenny and Forrest? On what planet is that going to work?

 

What will your excuse be when we do actually play well, take a good few off a team and they * options up front score some goals? All of which will inevitably happen. Will they still be *?

That debate is what it is, it could go on for a long time. The more pressing issue is....why are the team so slow and ponderous in getting the ball up the park? Why do they all look terrified to try an early ball to catch out the opposition before they get a chance to find their shape?

The first thought 99% of the time is to take control of possession, even when a forward pass is on. 'Changing the point of attack' i believe is what Rodgers calls it.

A midfield which contains ALL of the options available last season, who were slick as * for a few months yet for some reason ended up getting slapped about by any team that pressed them, and still haven't figured out how to combat it.

Blaming just the board is a major * cop out, our on field issues are down to Rodgers first and foremost.