Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

He was asked directly about Trusty tonight and gave an honest answer.

He looks like a player who needs a kick up the * anyway. Gave Murray a chance early on too.

Has all the attributes physically to be a very dominant centre back and has been before in games in Europe but at times he looks sloppy.

Don't know if he thinks it's too comfortable playing league games or what but he seems to lack a bit of concentration.

Needs to up his game bcoz we can't go back to Scales

 

He's been acting weirder than usual lately. Can't be arsed listening to him.

Anyway, this team needs a major shake up, both tactically and personnel wise.

We need to find a way to get our strikers involved more. Idah has been terrible but he's isolated, as is Kyogo when he plays there. Oh and give Kenny some more chances.

Stop inverting Taylor. Either play Valle or get KT back ASAP so we can have a fullback who overlaps and can beat a man.

Decide on whether you want Trusty or Scales and stick with it. Ideally we'd get someone better than both but that isn't happening this window.

Grow a set of balls and drop McGregor. At least rotate him more, he's been utterly abject since Leipzig. We need pace and power in that midfield. It's slow and weak as anything.

Think we're in serious danger of bottling any chance of European progression unless we fix these issues.

 

I think next week is becoming a major worry now.

A game most have looked at as a shoe in for a while now looks a far lot trickier due to the way we are playing.

We have also shown tonight, last 2 Hun games and brugge game that if teams press us high we will struggle so if they've bothered to do their homework it could be a much tougher game than many thought.

You really wouldn't put it passed us, given our recent track record, to * it up at this stage

 

Totally agree mate. I've been worried about the YB game since our limp dicked performance against Zagreb. I haven't seen much from us since then to ease those concerns.

The Brugge game you can (kind of) forgive, but those sevco games were a shambles. We obviously don't like it up us, when we get pressed and harassed we fall to pieces. It needs rectified ASAP.

 

He needs to get a plan B together than he can implement during games. Fannying about at the back has cost us a few times this season when we've been under the cosh. Get the ball over the bodies and relieve a bit of pressure. Then again, we would be relying on Idah being able to provide a presence to do so, which he looks incapable of just now. Honestly, see if we could get a better quality of that Vassell boy at Kilmarnock I would be delighted. Remember them knocking balls over the top to him against us and no matter where it went he was there fighting for it. That is what Idah should provide.

If we can see it, why can't a guy making his living off managing a football team see it ?

 

I’ve backed the guy more than most, completely understand why he left, and gave him more than the benefit of the doubt last year when the poor recruitment was evident.

However, alarm bells are ringing. Pushing the two centre midfielders so high up the park at the first stage of the build up is * madness.

It suggests we’re about to play a direct game, but we insist on playing a one paced laboured build up.

Our defenders and keeper have next to no options if we play a reasonably well coached team, and are absolutely * if we inevitably lose the ball under next to no pressure.

Huge concerns moving forward for me. Any half decent European side will cut right through us at this time.