Football

he makes me sound knowledgable about football

and talks more about his time at derby and other shit football clubs than pisti does about liverpool

we don't care about your very average football career robbie, we just don't care

And that other bloke who spent most of his time at shite clubs, Sturridge.
Though he does make me laugh as he gets so animated and worked up over things

Average career?

Given that there are 70 odd clubs beneath the premier league, he's done really well.

He's a British manager at a big British club, which is down on its luck and looking for a return to relevance. It's not Rodgers fault that the British media, sporting or otherwise are so myopic as to see the changes that Rodgers is trying to implement as being a revolution. Personally more credit needs to be given to the structure put in place at Swansea, and the men behind the scenes that have stuck to their footballing guns, so much so that Laudrup is an outside bet to be in the running for the Madrid hotseat.

Compare the treatment British Rodgers is getting and the treatment that AVB got, if tottenham were in liverpool's league position do you think there would be any goodwill shown to him, he'd be getting slaughtered, left right and center, with loads of stories about how every game is a must win one, and what a good team 'Arry left him.

Now managers should be given time to implement their plans, but Rodgers is having a much easier time of it than most young managers who take over a bigger team than they have before and is struggling to change it around.

sturridge just signed for us mike and yes he has spent some time at shit clubs

do you mean claridge ?

Lol yeah that's the one.

the liverpool way

Hate that phrase, what exactly is the liverpool way? mid table mediocrity.

Racism?

I do agree with Jaw to a certain extent.
BR talks a very, very good game. He reminds more more of a politician that a football manager with all his spin and deflection tactics. He is an amateur psychologist at best though
The bare facts remain that we have not beaten a single team above us in the league this season.
Give him this season to get things in place and coupled with summer signings of quality, not Joe Alan or Borini or any of the other shit he has worked with but decent signings, if he does not get off to a flyer next season with us up amongst it by Christmas then sack him

Nicely worded Corny - pretty much what I said earlier about AVB's tenure at Chelsea.

Once the team started losing press, opposition fans and every mug with an opinion wanted to see him gone. Whilst it is refreshing that Rodgers seems to be getting the time that a manager deserves, he also seems to be getting a much easier ride and getting credited for reinventing the wheel.

The way the press seems to get on the backs of anything Chelsea is getting on my tits as well. The media and their xenophobic tendencies are beyond the acceptable AFAIAC.

The sooner people realise that LFC are a mid-table team, trying to punch above their weight by qualifying for Europe, the better.

Same goes for Chelsea and another transitional year, Arsenal and their transitional decade and saying that Spurs are capable of winning the league if they're able keep the squad together.

mikec - he reminds me of a second hand car salesman, a politician he is not.

For a manager to dump Carroll out of the squad without giving him any sort of chance and then go on and on saying how he's improved Allen, Suarez , Henderson and to an extent Downing is something that I can not look past. He has also not been able to get any contribution out of Nuri Sahin. Is that because Sahin is not as good as he was made out to be (which I doubt) or because Rodgers is not as good as he thinks he is?

Steve Clarke is being left alone now which much feel like a breath of fresh air to him. They overachieved in the first couple of months and now they have something to focus on. Time will tell if he's the next SAF or not. I hope he does well at WBA and does a Moyes over there.

He's now being credited of something that has been started by, yes, Rafa Benitez. Frankly absurd if you ask me. Nonetheless, it's something that has happened in Holland and Spain for over 15 years (Cruijff advocated this) and now the British are starting to cotton onto things.

I think the guy is probably an ok manager but he's getting away with murder. If any other manager had gotten the LFC job they'd be under siege with the record they have.

From here I am sure if I can be arsed to read all reports that half of them will mention a remarkable comeback in the second half, instigated by his inspired half time talk.

Whereas a lot of reports saying he was tactically naive and made the change in the game/formation too late

Everyone is expecting a change in style and as such it's going to be a hit and miss season and expectataions are as such lowered (just get peaked a bit with a good result/performance)

wrt to the youth setup, yes Rafa set things in motion but I don't know the style of play that was chosen there.

For me he's a young and promising manager who is probably too idealistic but experience should tempter that. Most importantly he gets time, he get the fans and coming out to see the fans yesterday when they were shut in for ages after the match was a really nice touch

Once the team started losing press, opposition fans and every mug with an opinion wanted to see him gone. Whilst it is refreshing that Rodgers seems to be getting the time that a manager deserves,** he also seems to be getting a much easier ride and getting credited for reinventing the wheel.**

the article you posted earlier said otherwise... I think you're reading what you want to read.. pistiesc if you will

Hate that phrase, what exactly is the liverpool way? mid table mediocrity.

Yeah that's exactly what Bill Shankly did wasn't it

Also, no mention of the letter from Arsenal, Man U, Liverpool and Spurs basically whining at chelsea and man city

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/13/article-2261817-16EA8043000005DC-888_634x868.jpg

It's about the 4 main financially stable clubs trying to do over the suger daddy clubs... I feel it'll affect chelsea more than Man city. Wigan are also opposed to the ffp but that's cause they're a shit club with no fans

Call me pistiesc if you like.

BTW - since when were LFC the poster boys of sound businesses? Last time I checked they made a £50m loss.

Hate that phrase, what exactly is the liverpool way? mid table mediocrity.

You bollocks - we've got mid-table mediocrity sewn up. It's ours.

Personally I thought that title belonged to stoke, I always has West Ham down as punching above their weight in the middle of the table.

BR's setting himself as Libpool's saviour, what an absolute bullshit merchant... Can't wait for him to fall flat on his arse...

I love all this BR hatred all of a sudden.
If I could be bothered to trawl through 1500 pages, I know I could find examples of people praising the 'current crop of young British managers'...." who are doing a great job at teams like Swansea".

"And if Liverpool had any sense they would go for someone like Brendan Rodgers"

But I can't be arsed

He's a bellend, he'll get found out soon enough...

Mike - hatred is too strong a word. It's just that he grinds on me and the fact that he's trying to sell something that just ain't there. He comes up with too much bollocks and for now a lot of people are buying into it.

I honestly don't think that anyone on here praised him more than, lets say Pardew last year.

Do a search, you'll say the first posts with Rodgers come up around May time (about the time he got linked with the LFC job).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/9800113/Premier-League-grounds-hygiene-exposed-with-reports-of-mice-at-Old-Trafford-and-uncooked-chicken-at-Swansea.html

If all else fails it seems like Liverpool are top of the catering tables

**Liverpool **- Like their Merseyside neighbours, Liverpool showed good standards and procedures but slightly better that Everton.

He's a bellend, he'll get found out soon enough...

^this

He's the David Brent of football managers.

He's the David Brent of football managers.

^ This