Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Watched the post match conference brought up Brugge and he’s being totally selective with what happened in that game as a supporter for that first 45 and even in the second half countless times we passed it back to then pass to a midfielder then lose the ball … frustrating then every time we passed about at the back Brugge pressed high up park forcing mistakes it’s what caused the goal …. Personally fans had right to groan in second half when maeda passed it back as the game plan wasn’t working and everyone knew it … this is an outburst by a manager that being forced to change game plans when he doesn’t want to he had to make number of changes for yesterdays game after Thursday …. I think he would rather we dropped points yesterday just so he could say told you so


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He's been unwell with that bug apparently and clearly as * as someone said his ego is dented having been embarrassed by the waffler!

 

The Brugge game was an embarrassment from our fans. We were desperate to try and get a foothold in the game and keep possession for a spell after they had started the game well. Then when we were trying to retain possession to get us into the game, fans are going berserk because we’re not just going forward with it. Someone else said it, and it’s spot on, buy this comes from a complete lack of understanding of the game in my opinion. It was obvious the team needed the fans to stay with them to try and turn the tide, but instead some chose to go completely bananas because we weren’t blowing them away as some ignorantly expected.

 

Thought the tierney comments were a bit strange from him. Not disrespectful at all. He (Tierney) is a fan favourite.

He going to have a moan that it's disrespectful to Kyogo when we sing Henrik Larsson's song?

I agree it's pretty annoying hearing fans moaning when we make a few backwards passes, however, he has to bear in mind, these moans are just off the back off a * dog * performance against they * across the road. So I think a lot of the moaning and groaning is due to that. Fans were clearly concerned it was a repeat of the pish from Thursday (which all we done was pass it across the backline then give it away).

 

I feel like missing the winter break is massive for him. The whole club must be knackered.

I genuinely think they couldn't be bothered preparing for the Hun game. They're so far ahead and they know the Huns are too focused on us to win the other games that they just went into that game hoping for a bit of luck.

 

Having listened to the interview the comments about the team I think are valid, all be it the going back to change the angle of attack is overplayed at times as for me there are players in the team who have games where they don’t take the necessary responsibility to play forward. However, I can understand those comments.

The Greg Taylor ones are just utterly bizarre, there are strong rumours out that we are keen to bring back a popular player to the club and at 3-0 a game is fizzling out, largely due to the dross we have coming of the bench in the wide areas, and the crowd start singing about said player. I know he plays the same position but if that hurts wee Greg’s feelings that says more about him than the fans singing. It’s a pretty insecure position to take.

 

Just as well we're no 13 points behind ffs.

We've played 20, won 17, drawn twice, 1 loss.
Surely it's no too much to ask to get behind the team.

In saying that, Rodgers comments on Greg Taylor were quite bizarre and not needed.

 

Aye that's it absolutely mental to suggest that


They went into training and thought * it let's sit and watch episodes of eastenders and corrie

 

Before a ball was kicked a Belgian journalist was on Clyde 1 saying Brugge like to come up against teams who play out from back and press high up to force mistakes and that’s all we did in the first half of that game it’s not about fans expecting g to blow teams away who expects to blow teams away in the champions league ? Only a moron would …. It was the fact they were not doing the basics right in the first half we were constantly playing our way into trouble the first 45 even when we had the ball…. I’m pretty sure he even criticised the players first half showing so why is he bringing it up now you can go back to the match thread everyone in here was moaning how poor we started no one was wanting attack attack … everyone in here just wanted us to keep the ball better like a said he’s being selective now in what he’s saying …. Personally I think he’s putting a target on his back to try keep the players happy


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On that last point do you reckon the players have mentioned within a group setting about them being moaned at for the back passes by the crowd? Which then as Rodgers feels responsible for it he’s taken it upon himself to complain back at the first opportunity he’s had?

 

Fair enough mate, I wasn’t there yesterday and the Celtic TV stream was pish to say the least so can’t say for certain.

I was at the Brugge game though and that was a joke, we were getting battered off a very decent team and folk around me going off their nut at us trying to actually keep the ball and try get some foothold in the game.

At times there’s absolutely no doubt we’re too slow and safe with the ball, there’s a forward pass on and we go backwards and it can be frustrating but I get his point also. Especially in games like Brugge, we simply can’t just expect to turn up to every home game that isn’t against an “elite” team and expect that we’ll wipe the floor with them playing brilliant football. It’s never going to happen. Even domestically, some teams will be tougher to break down especially if we don’t get an early goal.

Aye the time wasting was off the chart yesterday, it’s normally bad but their keeper was ripping the pish out of it yesterday. Time wasting from the first minute and even at 3-0 down ffs. I don’t expect opposition goalies to be doing a joe hart and getting the ball back in play before we’re even ready to go again but at times he was taking minutes to take a goal kick, dicking about trying to claim a ball is flat and as per the ref did nothing.

 

Couldn't have said it better tbh.

I think the Tierney comment was daft but the reaction to it here and elsewhere was insane.

I think most people will get over this over the coming month, still a lot of hurt over the huns game.

 

I think part of the point Rodgers was making yesterday was that, as supporters, we expect celtic to play teams we class as Diddy teams and give them a going over routinely every time. It's not quite as simple as that and we need to be at it every game to ensure winning. I can see why he's annoyed when the groans start given the amazing consistency we've shown.

I think the teams a victim of its own success with expectation levels from supporters through the roof.

 

It was a needless rant though, he's brought this on literally himself particularly when it comes to the Taylor stuff which was bizarre, and there's a time and a way to address the atmosphere/unrest with the crowd.

People have overreacted to his comments, but he overreacted himself in the first instance when there was really no need to at all.

 

Think he was just sore after the Hun game and wanted to vent.

His comments werent "wrong" for the most part. But they lacked context and perspective. The support was always going to be on edge after the nature of the defeat and he if he wanted to choose that time to make his point he should have qualified it by acknowledging the OF performance.

 

Fans were moaning as soon as we passed it back. He is bang on about it happening just before we scored as well. Maeda passed to back and half the stadium were up giving him pelters, a few moments later it’s in the back of the net. Folk need to calm the * down at times. There were undoubtedly fans turned up that night expecting just to run over the top of Brugge after we did so to Leipzig.

 

100%. Still hurt over his initial departure.

 

As Elsa said in Frozen....

Stop making mountains out of molehills guys, we're coasting the league 13pts clear and have a right quality manager and a great team.

 

No it's not. Don't knee-*.

They've got a hugely packed schedule and had a 14 point gap. They had 2 games in the 7 days before that game and another one 3 days latter, and it was over the Christmas / New Year period. Each of those games worth the same number of points and that density of games hasn't stopped. And they had already won the League Cup a couple of weeks before that.


They don't train every day and many players have said before when you have that volume of games you don't have time to focus on training due to the mental and physical load already on top of you. Recovery is far more important. Call it watching Corrie if you want.

If you want to see what it looks like to focus too much energy on one league game you can go and look at the Huns. That's what they did, and they shipped 7 points over the same period making their win completely meaningless - and have racked up even more injuries.

It's undeniable Celtic weren't properly prepared for what the Huns were going to do in that game. I can understand why given the situation and the constraints.