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[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

Brendan made a big mistake trying to go down the hoof ball route, that was never going to go down well at Anfield, and his biggest problem now is that there are large sections of the fanbase who are just apathetic, they have almost given up caring if we win or lose. There's a real sense of - meh, whatever - surrounding the club.
Returning back to his high intensity pressing/passing philosophy is the only way he's going to win those supporters back imo, I sense the Norwich performance (not the result, the performance) has been a massive step in the right direction though.

[RedAnt]

Brendan made a big mistake trying to go down the hoof ball route, that was never going to go down well at Anfield, and his biggest problem now is that there are large sections of the fanbase who are just apathetic, they have almost given up caring if we win or lose. There's a real sense of - meh, whatever - surrounding the club.
Returning back to his high intensity pressing/passing philosophy is the only way he's going to win those supporters back imo, I sense the Norwich performance (not the result, the performance) has been a massive step in the right direction though.

Your last sentence sums it up for me, Yakka. It's what I meant by we're a nursery team. 3 years down the line and a decent performance against Norwich is a step in the right direction. The owners let this man play around like its a computer game. Can't we get a real manager and start competing again? I'm 38! I don't have time to wait for Brendan to get up to speed.

[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

Brendan made a big mistake trying to go down the hoof ball route, that was never going to go down well at Anfield, and his biggest problem now is that there are large sections of the fanbase who are just apathetic, they have almost given up caring if we win or lose. There's a real sense of - meh, whatever - surrounding the club.
Returning back to his high intensity pressing/passing philosophy is the only way he's going to win those supporters back imo, I sense the Norwich performance (not the result, the performance) has been a massive step in the right direction though.

Your last sentence sums it up for me, Yakka. It's what I meant by we're a nursery team. 3 years down the line and a decent performance against Norwich is a step in the right direction. The owners let this man play around like its a computer game. Can't we get a real manager and start competing again? I'm 38! I don't have time to wait for Brendan to get up to speed.

We do seem to be in a constant state of transition under Rodgers mate I'll give you that, as you say this is his 3rd year and 4th season in charge and the team is still searching for an identity which is ridiculous.
If he was sacked tomorrow I don't think he could complain, despite a decent run of results midway through last season it has felt like we have been going backwards for 12 months now and when you look at the state of our midfield that is almost a sackable offence in itself (especially considering the money we have spent).
I just don't see FSG going down the route of bringing in a Klopp or Benitez though mate, for some reason they don't want competent managers they want unproven, up and coming managers like Martinez, Lambert and of course Rodgers.
Imo if we sack Rodgers and bring in someone like Monk or Howe then our journey from giants of the game to mid table also rans will be complete.
As cr@p as we are atm I'd rather stick with Rodgers than go down that road of another average manager, what has happened at this club isn't rocket science, we sign players that the top clubs wouldn't sign and we hire managers that the top clubs wouldn't hire, as shyte as we currently are sacking Rodgers and bringing in someone like Monk would actually just send us further backwards not only in league position but prestige also.
This club has been beset by poor decision making for over a quarter of a century and alas I don't see anything changing in the near future.

[johnbarnes]

Is it over yet? Has he gone now? Is it safe to come back?

[RedAnt]

Well to be fair it was Reina who pretty much engineered his own exit from here when he was dropping hints left right and centre that he wanted to f[uc]k off to Barcelona, it was only when Valdez announced that he was staying on another year that Reina started to backtrack a bit, by that time though we'd already agreed a deal with Mingolet.
Reina's comments about Rafa being the best manager he'd ever worked with obviously pi[ss]ed Brendan off too.
Maybe Brendan should have been a bit more pragmatic though, imo Mingolet is probably a better shot stopper than Reina but the style of footy we play almost demands that we have a keeper who is comfortable with his feet.
It's not that Mingolet is a bad keeper, he isnt, it's just that stylistically he's probably not the best match for us.

Isn't that cutting off the nose to spite the face? So he wanted to go to Barca. He was good enough. De Gea wanted to go to Real. He didn't and now Man U are benifitting. Rodgers could have allowed Pepe to speak to Barca and if nothing materialised then we should have kept him. I'd guess it was BR's ego that didn't allow Reina the option. Instead of selling him to Barca, or using his experience, we loaned him to Napoli. That showed him, huh? And then he went to Bayern! Meanwhile we had Migs and Jones

[leeroy74]

Is it over yet? Has he gone now? Is it safe to come back?

yaaaawn!!!

[maguskwt]

The single biggest reason I want BR gone now is probably so that I could stop seeing all the whining and moaning and negative posts on here. Other than that he deserves until end of the season to show what he can do with this team. Unless of course we are in relegation zone during the Xmas period

[Reg]

I'd have him out tomorrow if the whining would stop!

[maguskwt]

I'd have him out tomorrow if the whining would stop!

"Out you go Brendan! I cant take it anymore. The forum members are whining too much!"

[RedAnt]

I'd have him out tomorrow if the whining would stop!

"Out you go Brendan! I cant take it anymore. The forum members are whining too much!"

And BR would say "listen, they're an outstanding group of whiners with a lot of character and honesty and they can see what we're trying to build here and though they might whine I can assure you that they, like the owners and players at this wonderful club are working hard to ensure these traditions of being loyal to me and what we're trying to achieve...has it been five minutes yet? Great."

[ycsatbjywtbiastkamb]

To be fair it isn't just here, practically every LFC forum is in meltdown over the manager.

[maguskwt]

To be fair it isn't just here, practically every LFC forum is in meltdown over the manager.

I saw reasonable debate on RAWK. There are alot of posters who saw positives with the Norwich game despite the result...

[RedAnt]

To be fair it isn't just here, practically every LFC forum is in meltdown over the manager.

I saw reasonable debate on RAWK. There are alot of posters who saw positives with the Norwich game despite the result...

It's like you have no memory of how poorly we've performed under Rodgers, other than the Suarez season. What are the positives? Because Man U had positives against the Saints and came away with three points. Are we still huddled around the cute little duckling, waiting for it to walk whilst all the others have waddled off on their way?

[Boocity]

To be fair it isn't just here, practically every LFC forum is in meltdown over the manager.

I saw reasonable debate on RAWK. There are alot of posters who saw positives with the Norwich game despite the result...

Clutching at straws springs to mind

[C-R]

This man loves us judging by this picture