Football

The mess Liverpool were in? Hodgson got them to eighth, They are currently 12th with some tough PL games coming up against fellow relegation battlers Stoke, Sunderland and Leicester.

His insistence on playing Stevie Me cost him his only shot at a trophy last year, maybe they could appoint Stevie Me as manager, though I obviously I hope Brendan stays there for a few more years yet.

No I'm talking about improving the defense through different training rather than sacking the manager that is actually quite good considering the club.

I know I'm probably in the minority here but for me Rodgers is a decent manager & has done a good job considering the mess Liverpool were in but he's never been particularly defensively minded. The lack of goals (due to being without the two best strikers from last season) wouldn't be as much of a problem if the defense weren't shipping soft goals every game.

Should we lose the improved attacking football by sacking the manager & getting someone more defensive in? No, we should keep the good forward play & get someone in to help with the back-line. They're not bad players, they're just making the wrong decisions or plain old mistakes - different training for when the team doesn't have the ball would help Liverpool.>

The club is a bit of a mess....a 20+ year mess. Even when we had LS and DS we were terrible defensively- Darren Fletcher could hold it better than we could. Exactly what has changed? Round pegs in square holes up front. All the while we've been chasing players for glamour positions- Konoplyenka anyone? Ian Ayre spent a week in some siberian salt mine for that signature and failed, despite having the likes of Ibe, Suso, João Teixeira, what was the point in £20M on Lazar? What preps were being made for defending? We know for sure BR chased and signed Lovren:

2014-15
"They don't have to sell. (Southampton) have a choice. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe." - BR

What has improved? They look totally clueless as ever. How much did we spend on Sakho? £20M? Why has he been dropped so badly? Yet he plays really well for France. Whose decision was it to buy him, BR or the 'committee'? Wisdom and Illori. What happening there? We had enough players to spunk the £100M on just 2 or 3 top drawer players.

Why isn't Lucas (whom I think is terribly slow but reads the game light years ahead of SG) getting a look in esp after his Madrid performance? Can, too? Players (new and old) are getting mismanaged badly in terms of fitness/game time.

Brendan is in danger of doing a Wenger: doing the same thing and hoping something else will happen. We've signed two forwards that are the antithesis of lasts years batch yet we haven't changed our game plan to suit their strengths...It's November now...