Brendan Rodgers: New Celtic Manager

[manwithnoname]

"Not a single one"? Fuck off Arn, you trolling twat. Coming from the same idiot who repeatedly tells us that our manager can never be wrong about anything and unless we're 100% behind him then we're not real fans. An average manager who hasn't had one successful signing, are you for real?

Mark, Arn is a total fucking cunt and also genuinely mentally ill. It isn't going to do anyone any good to engage with him, least of all the Forum, because you can't debate or argue with him. There's no valuable end product. It's not even amusing to laugh at him.

Just...let it go

 

[LeTallecWiz]

This place is fucking ruined.
Lucas and Rafa being dragged into every fucking thread.
It's becoming unbearable to log in anymore.

A single poster is doing this ... UNITE against him.

 

[Kay Age El]

I honestly believe it's a good move for him and about his level too. For now at least.

Rodgers for me is not a top manager not even close, but he might get more humble with age and gain more experience and perhaps come back to the big stage one day.

I find it hard to understand why an opinion like this would make Mark etc jump at posters?

PS When I think of the Season we came 2nd I can only think of how much I felt we lost out on 1st and it just got worse from that point on. Rodgers had a lot of blame in that shambles in the end of that Season - much more so than Gerrard's slip.

 

[Insignificance]

Interesting to see whos names will be in the envelopes....

 

[cloggypop]

Interesting to see whos names will be in the envelopes....

I couldn't name 3 Celtic players.

 

[Judge Jules]

I honestly believe it's a good move for him and about his level too. For now at least.

Rodgers for me is not a top manager not even close, but he might get more humble with age and gain more experience and perhaps come back to the big stage one day.

I find it hard to understand why an opinion like this would make Mark etc jump at posters?

PS When I think of the Season we came 2nd I can only think of how much I felt we lost out on 1st and it just got worse from that point on. Rodgers had a lot of blame in that shambles in the end of that Season - much more so than Gerrard's slip.

It's not the opinion itself that provokes such a reaction in some of us, it's the sheer grinding repetitiveness of someone bringing it up over and over and over and over and over again, including in totally unrelated threads at times. What do they put in the water over there in Sweden? 😉

 

[Arn]

It's not the opinion itself that provokes such a reaction in some of us, it's the sheer grinding repetitiveness of someone bringing it up over and over and over and over and over again, including in totally unrelated threads at times. What do they put in the water over there in Sweden? 😉

We swedes aren't even close to be as repetitive as a lot other posters here but we stand up for our opinion and some posters don't like that at all. I don't jump on other posters instead I ignore them but then the ones I ignore continue to throw shit at me. If you tell someone that you are ignoring him or her then the shit throwing should stop straight away. You don't throw shit at someone that ignore you because you know that you won't get a reply.

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

Does anyone else think that Modo and Arn are the same person ?

 

[cloggypop]

Modo is funnier

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Modo is funnier

and smarter
and a better human being 99.99% of the time.

 

[cloggypop]

Not arsed about that. Just arsed about the funny bits.

 

[manwithnoname]

Does anyone else think that Modo and Arn are the same person ?

They're both twats, but Arn is more deranged

 

[localny]

[QUOTE="Kay Age El, post: 1443348, member: 1758"

PS When I think of the Season we came 2nd I can only think of how much I felt we lost out on 1st and it just got worse from that point on. Rodgers had a lot of blame in that shambles in the end of that Season - much more so than Gerrard's slip.[/QUOTE]

Yes, like playing for the win against a Park the Bus Chelsea team when all we needed was a draw.

BUT, he got us there, and deserved to do it his way. Just like Rafa and his Athens cock ups. He got us there, but also cost us.

 

[Insignificance]

Good luck to him anyway!

 

[Hansern]

Gary Mac rumoured to be joining him

 

[Kay Age El]

[QUOTE="Kay Age El, post: 1443348, member: 1758"

PS When I think of the Season we came 2nd I can only think of how much I felt we lost out on 1st and it just got worse from that point on. Rodgers had a lot of blame in that shambles in the end of that Season - much more so than Gerrard's slip.

Yes, like playing for the win against a Park the Bus Chelsea team when all we needed was a draw.

BUT, he got us there, and deserved to do it his way. Just like Rafa and his Athens cock ups. He got us there, but also cost us.[/QUOTE]
He did indeed and for that he deserves credit too, I just don't think a more seasoned, experienced and quite frankly better manager would've dropped that Season on the floor like he did. The Chelsea game but even to a greater extent the Palace game away for me was major cock-ups on the managers behalf more so than any player he fielded.

 

[doctor_mac]

Rodgers is dead to me.

 

[Best Believe It]

He's half the man he used to be.

 

[peekay]

 

[cloggypop]

This photo is bizarre

He looks absolutely tiny due to the size of the scarf but his arms look dead long.

 

[Markeh]

This photo is bizarre

He looks absolutely tiny due to the size of the scarf but his arms look dead long.

You didn't even mention his face and mahogany tone

 

[gene hughes]

Yes his eyes look to be getting divorced.

 

[Skullflower]

panoramic brodge

 

[Kay Age El]

This photo is bizarre

He looks absolutely tiny due to the size of the scarf but his arms look dead long.

That's an Oompa Loompa if I'm not mistaken.

 

[mark1975]

Yes, like playing for the win against a Park the Bus Chelsea team when all we needed was a draw.

BUT, he got us there, and deserved to do it his way. Just like Rafa and his Athens cock ups. He got us there, but also cost us.
He did indeed and for that he deserves credit too, I just don't think a more seasoned, experienced and quite frankly better manager would've dropped that Season on the floor like he did. The Chelsea game but even to a greater extent the Palace game away for me was major cock-ups on the managers behalf more so than any player he fielded.

That was two games of the season. We also scored more goals than we'd scored in ages and battered some of our fiercest rivals on the way there AND got closer than anyone has since Kenny's first stint. We also lost Henderson at that time due to a rash challenge against City, Gerrard slipped, it was a combination of things that went against us. We were three to the good against Palace and could smell blood and the chance to up the goal difference, which the league could have come down to. At least we went out trying to win the league, instead of trying not to lose it and fucking up anyway. We've gone defensive against Chelsea loads of times and got beat. We should have deservedly got beat a couple of weeks back, there was no tactical brilliance there either.

 

[Kay Age El]

That was two games of the season. We also scored more goals than we'd scored in ages and battered some of our fiercest rivals on the way there AND got closer than anyone has since Kenny's first stint. We also lost Henderson at that time due to a rash challenge against City, Gerrard slipped, it was a combination of things that went against us. We were three to the good against Palace and could smell blood and the chance to up the goal difference, which the league could have come down to. At least we went out trying to win the league, instead of trying not to lose it and fucking up anyway. We've gone defensive against Chelsea loads of times and got beat. We should have deservedly got beat a couple of weeks back, there was no tactical brilliance there either.

It's a game of marginals and for all hat he did right he also made some major wrongs, that eventually costed us. Too clever for his own sake at times in my opinion, just look at how Ranieri managed to keep it simple with Leicester, that kept on playing the exact same way all Season despite the outlooks of an unreal Premiership title lurking in the horizon.

I think Rodgers showed signs of panic and tampered too much and eventually 'lost' us the title.

This is all a bit hypothetical and maybe I am wrong I just don't see a great manager in Rodgers and I personally believe Klopp is better in almost every aspect (despite carrying a few flaws of his own) and definitely far better suited for Liverpool than Rodgers ever were.

 

[mark1975]

It's a game of marginals and for all hat he did right he also made some major wrongs, that eventually costed us. Too clever for his own sake at times in my opinion, just look at how Ranieri managed to keep it simple with Leicester, that kept on playing the exact same way all Season despite the outlooks of an unreal Premiership title lurking in the horizon.

I think Rodgers showed signs of panic and tampered too much and eventually 'lost' us the title.

Hang on, what cost us in two games is that WE carried on playing how we'd played all season. It wasn't because he changed anything, we went into both games thinking we would win and trying to score as many goals as we could in the process, it's what served us well for about 90% of that season. What did he do to tamper? If anything, people said he should have played Lucas, which he didn't do at all really all season. He didn't tamper with anything to cost us, he just came up against two teams at the wrong time and when we were clearly starting to hit a brick wall with our form.

 

[Kay Age El]

Hang on, what cost us in two games is that WE carried on playing how we'd played all season. It wasn't because he changed anything, we went into both games thinking we would win and trying to score as many goals as we could in the process, it's what served us well for about 90% of that season. What did he do to tamper? If anything, people said he should have played Lucas, which he didn't do at all really all season. He didn't tamper with anything to cost us, he just came up against two teams at the wrong time and when we were clearly starting to hit a brick wall with our form.

Lucas played in both the Chelsea and Palace games.

Anyways he never should've relied so much on a rather unproven Sakho for the run-in in the first place. Skrtel had a good Season but should've played alongside Agger (or if not him then Kolo) and not an unproven, rather erratic young defender whom obviously struggled to adapt (and maybe still is). Our defense was our big worry throughout the campaign and Rodgers obviously had no clue what to do, luckily for him our attack often bailed us out.

If I am not mistaken he even introduced Coutinho and Moses as subs in the Palace game when ahead chasing more goals, instead of out-of-favor Agger or the experienced Kolo.

Tell me again, what top manager would've made such stupid calls, when in the lead away from home in a must win for the Prem title? Moses and Coutinho on to defend the lead with Kolo and your "vice captain" who's also a defender still sitting on the bench? It's almost inexcusable bad calls and calls that loses you titles.

You can defend him all you like I believe he made some very poor calls and showed bad judgement that eventually costed us dearly.

 

[mark1975]

The subs cost us?

He took out Sterling on 78 minutes for Coutinho (like for like in terms of position) and Moses on 86 minutes for Sturridge, if anything that should have given us more numbers in midfield. That's two pretty standard subs, not a case of him throwing more attackers on early to go for goals. He put on like-for-likes. They scored one goal straight after the Coutinho sub, it happens. We played with a defensive midfielder for one of the few games of the season and we shipped three goals. Like I said, losing Henderson at that point cost us too, evidently.

PS. How did I guess that a Daniel Agger snub would be the root of your point?

 

[Piedro]

Ive got no problem what happened in the Palace game. We drew, so what? Even if we would have held the lead and won 3-0, then we wouldn't have won the league. It was either win 7/8/9-0, or nothing at the time, due to what had happened before. 3-0 wasn't good enough, so I've got no issue with us going for a big win at the time.

The Chelsea game was the one that fucked us. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but all of the talk before the game was about how Mourinho was going to send out a weakened team and "Park the Bus" for a boring 0-0. We went at them and played our usual style, and went for the win. When really, we should have fucked off Chelsea and played them at their own game. Sat back, kept the ball, let them come out at us, and then try and exploit. A point at worst would have done, then win your last two games (which we would have done knowing we had to) and the league is ours.

That's the only criticism of Rodgers that season in my opinion. Yes he couldn't help Gerrard slipping, etc. But we didn't need to win that game and should have played for a bore draw. I think we all got carried away by the big wins, blowing teams away every week. Everyone was loving it, rightly so, but sometimes you have to be smart and only try for what you need to get out of a game.

He doesn't deserve some of the shite he gets on here like. Good luck to the guy and hope he does well.