Brendan Rodgers

[ramaiya2]

1 minute ago, FoxinNotts said:

 Reckon Rogers will be gone by dinner time tomorrow 

what makes you think that? heard all the excuses. wait till after the Spurs games, then after the funeral on Monday. This going to on and on. This page is nearly 1600 pages. It will get 5000 before BR goes

[Hollism]

Scenes if he’s sacked at breakfast tho

[Matt]

Brunch.

[Gravel]

Not happening before Forest is it? See you on the other side. 😡

[FoxinNotts]

7 minutes ago, ramaiya2 said:

what makes you think that? heard all the excuses. wait till after the Spurs games, then after the funeral on Monday. This going to on and on. This page is nearly 1600 pages. It will get 5000 before BR goes

Could be lunchtime or teatime tbf

[Daggers]

Everyone needs to stop making a meal out of this. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

24 minutes ago, Fosse93 said:

Why are dinner ladies called 'dinner' ladies when it's actually lunch time?

 

Always wondered that.

This is the content I come on Foxestalk to see. 

[filthyfox]

4 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Everyone needs to stop making a meal out of this. 

Exactly, he's obviously going to **** the Forest game up.

[StanSP]

11 minutes ago, Matt said:

Brunch.

Knew you were posh! 

[HarryDee8]

Flipping hell this sacking of Brendan Rodgers is playing out at the slowest pace I've ever seen. Managers will have retired by the time the board make an announcement 🤣

[Weller Wing]

Maybe Steve Cook will make Brendan a pre match tea or dinner.

 

Maybe with a Moussa for pudding or a Willy Boly Poly

[FoxinNotts]

My favourite thing about Foxestalk is when people miss the jokes and sarcasm and puns 😂

Edited 20 September 2022 by FoxinNotts

[Mike Oxlong]

If the Forest fans sing “You’re getting sacked in the morning” to BR they’ll get a standing ovation from us ! 

[ramaiya2]

For Fox sake
‘Why Leicester sacking Brendan Rodgers would deliver HUGE blow to Premier League ‘Big Six’ wannabes’ is a Sun headline that certainly caught Mediawatch’s eye. At surface level, it seems to be absolute bollocks as Leicester sacking Brendan Rodgers would really only be a HUGE blow to Brendan Rodgers.

Dave Kidd writes that ‘if, as seems likely, Saturday’s 6-2 thrashing at Tottenham turns out to be Rodgers’ final match in charge of the Foxes, this should sadden anyone wishing to see the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ seriously challenged’.

Well, we would like to see the Premier League’s Big Six seriously challenged and yet we would not be saddened by the sacking of a manager whose team is currently bottom of the Premier League. The two things seem entirely unrelated.

‘Because it will say much about the league’s glass ceiling, about the finite nature of realistic ambition, and it will also expose the limitations of English boasts about possessing the most competitive league on Earth.’

Or it could just say much about how Rodgers has entirely failed to organise this Leicester team throughout 2022, when they have conceded 48 goals in 27 games. For context, Crystal Palace have conceded 28. Sometimes the sacking of a failing manager is just about the sacking of a failing manager.

‘With back-to-back fifth-place finishes and an FA Cup triumph in 2021, Rodgers has been the most consistently successful manager of a non-elite club for a generation.’

Has he though? Most definitions put ‘a generation’ between 20 and 30 years so we will be kind and just look at this century. And that would be a century in which David Moyes led Everton to five top-six finishes. We would say he was the ‘the most consistently successful manager of a non-elite club for a generation’. But that doesn’t fit the narrative.

‘Of course, there was Leicester’s ridiculous title win under Claudio Ranieri in 2016 — an achievement which looks even crazier still in hindsight.

‘No other side from outside the ‘Big Six’ has even finished in the top four since Everton in 2005 – and that was before Manchester City got rich and there even was a ‘Big Six’.’

And when do you suppose this Big Six emerged? There was certainly no talk of a Big Six when Tottenham finished in the top four in 2009/10 for the first time in 20 years. There had been a Big Four and then City gate-crashed with money and Spurs crowbarred their way in with money, coaching and recruitment.

Indeed, you could argue that Harry Redknapp was ‘the most consistently successful manager of a non-elite club for a generation’. How does a Big Four become a Big Six without anybody challenging the elite?

Dave Kidd then goes to dismiss the idea that Leicester are poor this season partly because they have sold key players, writing that ‘the wider issue is that when a club bashes its head on that glass ceiling for any length of time, without achieving the major breakthrough of Champions League football, everyone starts getting frustrated, bored and restless’.

We’re not sure that being ‘frustrated. bored and restless’ is why winning a corner against Leicester is like winning a penalty.

Or why they are fielding a goalkeeper who has been comfortably the worst in the division.

And we would certainly argue that having a transfer net spend of basically zero in two seasons is sub-optimal.

Kidd writes that ‘once you stop moving upwards, you inevitably start plunging downwards’ and cites West Ham and Wolves as examples, but you don’t have to ‘stop moving upwards’; Tottenham have proved that.

Brendan Rodgers was in charge of a Leicester side that won only one of their final five games of 2019/20 to drop out of the Champions League places.

Brendan Rodgers was then in charge of a Leicester side that won only one of their final five games of 2020/21 to drop out of the Champions League places.

Sometimes the problem is the manager. And more often the problem is a combination of the manager and a lack of investment. Blaming the ‘glass ceiling’ is a rotten excuse when the ceiling was broken barely more than a decade ago.

[foxfanazer]

In a few years we've gone from being everyone's second team to the laughing stock of the league. So sad to see 

[BenTheFox]

2 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

In a few years we've gone from being everyone's second team to the laughing stock of the league. So sad to see 

12/13 months ago we were the envy of every club in English football barring 3 or 4. Things have gone down hill very quickly. 

Edited 20 September 2022 by BenTheFox

[sylofox]

Beat the trees I see half this forum wanting to keep this cvnt. So fickle, my last words before the game.

 

But you know you will.

 

Ffs rodgers out.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

Beat the trees I see half this forum wanting to keep this cvnt. So fickle, my last words before the game.

 

But you know you will.

 

Ffs rodgers out.

I guarantee that beating forest will make no difference to the vast majority.  The vote may creep to 90/10 but rodgers has burned his bridges here in many ways 

[sylofox]

1 minute ago, BenTheFox said:

12/13 months ago we were the envy of every club in English football barring 3 or 4. Things have gone down hill very quickly. 

Not in my eyes, seen us 3yrs ago at norwich. 1 down with 30 mins to go, knocking it around at the back like we was 5 up. The only time I've ever walked out early. Yes I was about in the Pleat years. Rodgers ball is the most boring I've ever seen.

[Paninistickers]

We're down. After not sacking after Brighton, I thought we are as good as down..Fortunately Villa was cancelled so Spirs away largely a free hit, but keeping him.for forest - win, lose or.draw - we're gone....anyone with the vaguest of football brains knows it. Even, tbf, Rodgers. He's knows we are.down, but he doesn't care - just wants his money as he feels he's been sold a.pup. The players know we've gone. Half are on a free anyways so they ain't that fussed. The fans know. The local media knows. 

 

The only people who don't know how garbage we are are the football brainless; Top bless.him, knows as.much about football as I know about the conditional  past perfect tense in Thai. Whelan knows less.thsn even Richard Keys would credit her.for. 

 

 

[sylofox]

6 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I guarantee that beating forest will make no difference to the vast majority.  The vote may creep to 90/10 but rodgers has burned his bridges here in many ways 

Feck off stuff forest half of this forum will love Rodgers. Ffs you've been here long enough to know that.

[fox_up_north]

9 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Beat the trees I see half this forum wanting to keep this cvnt. So fickle, my last words before the game.

 

But you know you will.

 

Ffs rodgers out.

Beating a team, at home, that got promoted through the playoffs and has been thrown together through a scattershot recruitment process is the bare minimum for a City that finished top 8 last three seasons. 

[don_danbury]

12 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Beat the trees I see half this forum wanting to keep this cvnt. So fickle, my last words before the game.

 

But you know you will.

 

Ffs rodgers out.

dw, that will not be happening 

[Stinkenzo]

3 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

We're down. After not sacking after Brighton, I thought we are as good as down..Fortunately Villa was cancelled so Spirs away largely a free hit, but keeping him.for forest - win, lose or.draw - we're gone....anyone with the vaguest of football brains knows it. Even, tbf, Rodgers. He's knows we are.down, but he doesn't care - just wants his money as he feels he's been sold a.pup. The players know we've gone. Half are on a free anyways so they ain't that fussed. The fans know. The local media knows. 

 

The only people who don't know how garbage we are are the football brainless; Top bless.him, knows as.much about football as I know about the conditional  past perfect tense in Thai. Whelan knows less.thsn even Richard Keys would credit her.for. 

 

 

Get out

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

37 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Everyone needs to stop making a meal out of this. 

Mods!