Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Aye i think we're now past the point of over relying on McGregor, who clearly doesn't have the legs anymore.

He's not quite at the stage of Brown during the covid season yet, but he's not far off it.

This has to be his last season starting for us, he slows us down so much now (not that any of our midfielders are quick bar McCowan)

 

It's that bad, if someone offered me Neil Lennon till the end of the season, id take it.

How the * am i in 2019 again.

 

You just know we're going to be throwing daft money at EPL loans in January to try and see us over the line, with no forward planning whatsoever in place.

Best thing would be for him, and the board, to go and start afresh.

 

Deserves a bit more time for me, but needs to turn things around almost immediately, the leeway from the board * ups this summer will only last so long

 

Why does he deserve more time? Regardless of anything else he won't be here next season.

 

Because he is a good manager and he has been dealt a rough hand this summer, I will wait until after the next international break and judge then

 

In all honesty I've been complaining about his poor management for ages, so I don't see that being close to being true.

Tonight is one of the worst displays I've seen in Europe from a Celtic team, and on team ability it's far higher than most I've watched over the years. On that basis I'm going to say the most obvious failing is the manager. So I don't agree he's particularly good at the moment. Not to say he hasn't been in the past, but he's pretty * now. Going through the motions really.

 

This is true. Dunno if that was out of absolute necessity rather than any sort of tactical nous tho but it's a start. Doesn't excuse all the the times he could have changed things up to get a result in the recent past tho. Just scunnered with us atm and everyone is getting it pretty much.

 

I've been giving him a bit of of a free pass due to everything that's been going on but that last night was a step too far for me. He's got to take a large portion of the blame. Don't know why Bernardo appears in the team out of nowhere and shock, horror he's average to poor, offering very little. Murray has been getting talked up all season.by him, doesn't get 1 minute of game time for weeks on end, even against Thistle when we are cruising then shock, horror he looks rusty when chucked on in a major European game. Same for an alternative striker option. Kenny & Shin might not be what we want but they are what we have so give one of them game time prior to this.

That's before we get to his rigid tactics, lack of imagination and inability to change a game. The old plan B is to do plan A better philosophy. Our change of formation last night felt like it was through gritted teeth and hence probably not worked on prior to the game.