Brendan Rodgers

[roblcfc84]

13 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

It's a night game tomorrow so I expect Brendan's excuse to be it was too dark.

Or too cold

[WilmslowFox]

1 hour ago, Foxxed said:

I’m fond of the theory that Brendan is actively trying to get the sack

Maybe not... we've won the FA Cup, League Cup, Community Shield, Premier League title, Championship title and League One title.  I suspect that Brendan has identified the League Two title as the biggest domestic trophy we are missing, and is getting us into a position to challenge for it in 2025/26.

[st albans fox]

3 hours ago, filbertway said:

We're still outperforming our xG :p

 

I meant that we are now lower in the real table than the Xg table 

[filbertway]

Just now, st albans fox said:

I meant that we are now lower in the real table than the Xg table 

Haha I know, I was just being a pedantic arse

 

[ARM1968]

9 minutes ago, roblcfc84 said:

Or too cold

Difficult to get the muscles going in such arctic conditions. 

[Foxxed]

8 minutes ago, roblcfc84 said:

Or too cold

Goldilocks Rodgers.

 

 

[Guy]

7 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

The fact he is still here is crazy should have been sacked months ago, we are just going through the motions and will get relegated as a result. Top needs to pay him up I know it’s a lot of money but the sooner we are rid of him the better.

I'm sure I've heard these two logical lines somewhere before! In an ideal word but obviously something major must be still preventing Top from doing so. Maybe the fact he stuck with Pearson when the chips were down in a similar way, if not to a much greater degree in our Great Escape season and that paid dividends, then perhaps he thinks Brendan can turn it around and do the same! 

Edited 19 October 2022 by Guy

[Dames]

15 minutes ago, Guy said:

I'm sure I've heard these two logical lines somewhere before! In an ideal word but obviously something major must be still preventing Top from doing so. Maybe the fact he stuck with Pearson when the chips were down in a similar way, if not to a much greater degree in our Great Escape season and that paid dividends, then perhaps he thinks Brendan can turn it around and do the same! 

If that's the case anyone know if Brendan's lad can be enticed into a Thai Orgy?

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

The activity and frequency of posts on this thread is interested. It’s dropped off a lot - I think anyway - in recent weeks. Perhaps that reflects the utter despair we all feel, and might be reflective of some of threads that question whether we care anymore! Such is the drain that this saga is having on us all. 
 

Makes me also think that a sacking and a new appointment might excite us lot again…

[foxfanazer]

14 minutes ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

The activity and frequency of posts on this thread is interested. It’s dropped off a lot - I think anyway - in recent weeks. Perhaps that reflects the utter despair we all feel, and might be reflective of some of threads that question whether we care anymore! Such is the drain that this saga is having on us all. 
 

Makes me also think that a sacking and a new appointment might excite us lot again…

There's just not much else to add is there? He's openly mocking the fans and the club at this stage and the sad thing is he's being allowed to

[Lambert09]

They often say history repeats itself, almost anything in football has happened. 
 

That’s why having a little look at leeds’s fall from grace hits a little too close to home. 

 

O’leary came in and spent 2/3 years absolutely bossing it. Hitting dizzying heights and a european semi final… before it all came crashing down. Their owners had been taking bank loans against future predicted income, based on reaching europe again. Something that our owners have done on premier league income. 

 

Leeds were crushed because they believed o’leary would continue to deliver what he had at first…. something he couldn’t do. Something that brendan also can’t do. 

 

The more i read about his time there and how it ended, the more i am alarmed about ourselves 

 

In short, this isn’t the first time a club have over backed a manager after initial success and clubs like us and leeds can’t turn the ship around as fast as big clubs. 

Edited 19 October 2022 by Lambert09

[BKLFox]

2 wins and potentially 12th 

[alanf0x]

Interesting interview with David Cotterill who played for him at Swansea:

- Best training sessions put on as manager in his career 

- He missed 2 consecutive penalties, so Rodgers took him out of the first team squad and made train with the under 21s. Holds grudges. Reminded me of Cags being dropped following Spurs away last year and not seen since

- Liked to ship out a senior player at each club to show who is boss (Kasper for us)

- Has a click of players and knows everything about them, families / friends etc. But if not in that group, made to feel isolated. Could picture that happening now

- When your playing for him and it is going good, it’s great, but it quickly changes (again can picture that now) 

- Tried to mentally break him. Called him in to train alone at weekends. In training games, didn’t blow up for fouls to hopefully get him to react with other players to give him an excuse to get him out

 

Im sure most managers are the same, but a good insight to Rodgers behind the scenes. 

Edited 19 October 2022 by alanf0x

[foxfanazer]

25 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

2 wins and potentially 12th 

1 win all season but yeah we're nailed on to win the next two 

[deep blue]

4 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

Interesting interview with David Cotterill who played for him at Swansea:

- Best training sessions put on as manager in his career 

- He missed 2 consecutive penalties, so Rodgers took him out of the first team squad and made train with the under 21s. Holds grudges. Reminded me of Cags being dropped following Spurs away last year and not seen since

- Liked to ship out a senior player at each club to show who is boss (Kasper for us)

- Has a click of players and knew everything about them, families / friends etc. But if not in that group, made to feel isolated. Could picture that happening now

Your 3rd point - likes to ship out a senior player ... - has eerily sinister echos of Peter Taylor.

[KFS]

9 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

Interesting interview with David Cotterill who played for him at Swansea:

- Best training sessions put on as manager in his career 

- He missed 2 consecutive penalties, so Rodgers took him out of the first team squad and made train with the under 21s. Holds grudges. Reminded me of Cags being dropped following Spurs away last year and not seen since

- Liked to ship out a senior player at each club to show who is boss (Kasper for us)

- Has a click of players and knew everything about them, families / friends etc. But if not in that group, made to feel isolated. Could picture that happening now

- When your playing for him and is going good, it’s great, but it quickly changes (again can picture that now) 

- Tried to mentally break him. Called him in to train alone at weekends. In training games, didn’t blow up for fouls to hopefully get him to react with other players to give him an excuse to get him out

 

Im sure most managers are the same, but a good insight to Rodgers behind the scenes. 

You read this and think surely it’s not that deep? But then realise this is a manager who has a portrait of himself in his house, and you begin to believe it 

[BKLFox]

1 hour ago, foxfanazer said:

1 win all season but yeah we're nailed on to win the next two 

Mate you can either let it eat you up & drag you down or just get on with your life, I know which I’ll be doing. 
 

[Guy]

10 hours ago, Dames said:

If that's the case anyone know if Brendan's lad can be enticed into a Thai Orgy?

Well I can't see Basingstoke Town FC going on any Thai tours over the World Cup winter break personally re his son Anton's present team but maybe stranger things have happened! 

[Legend_in_blue]

Surely he's gone if we fail to win today.  Table is an embarrassment like the bloke himself.  Total disgrace.

[Le Renard]

3 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

Surely he's gone if we fail to win today.  Table is an embarrassment like the bloke himself.  Total disgrace.

You would think so, but we've been saying that before every match since September. 

[volpeazzurro]

16 hours ago, Dames said:

If that's the case anyone know if Brendan's lad can be enticed into a Thai Orgy?

If his son's of a similar stature, we're going to need someone to volunteer to give him a leg up to reach the target, it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it. Be mindful however that if he can't manage the task then it will be somebody else's fault.

[CosbehFox]

18 hours ago, WilmslowFox said:

Maybe not... we've won the FA Cup, League Cup, Community Shield, Premier League title, Championship title and League One title.  I suspect that Brendan has identified the League Two title as the biggest domestic trophy we are missing, and is getting us into a position to challenge for it in 2025/26.

‘I don’t even know what the Papa Johns Trophy is’

[daddylonglegs]

46 days & 3 whole points on since Brighton and he's still under no pressure happy match day !!!

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

8 hours ago, alanf0x said:

Interesting interview with David Cotterill who played for him at Swansea:

- Best training sessions put on as manager in his career 

- He missed 2 consecutive penalties, so Rodgers took him out of the first team squad and made train with the under 21s. Holds grudges. Reminded me of Cags being dropped following Spurs away last year and not seen since

- Liked to ship out a senior player at each club to show who is boss (Kasper for us)

- Has a click of players and knows everything about them, families / friends etc. But if not in that group, made to feel isolated. Could picture that happening now

- When your playing for him and it is going good, it’s great, but it quickly changes (again can picture that now) 

- Tried to mentally break him. Called him in to train alone at weekends. In training games, didn’t blow up for fouls to hopefully get him to react with other players to give him an excuse to get him out

 

Im sure most managers are the same, but a good insight to Rodgers behind the scenes. 

It all makes sense but David Cotterill is a very very strange bloke so I'm not sure I'd believe a word he says.

[Fox92]

8 hours ago, alanf0x said:

Interesting interview with David Cotterill who played for him at Swansea:

- Best training sessions put on as manager in his career 

- He missed 2 consecutive penalties, so Rodgers took him out of the first team squad and made train with the under 21s. Holds grudges. Reminded me of Cags being dropped following Spurs away last year and not seen since

- Liked to ship out a senior player at each club to show who is boss (Kasper for us)

- Has a click of players and knows everything about them, families / friends etc. But if not in that group, made to feel isolated. Could picture that happening now

- When your playing for him and it is going good, it’s great, but it quickly changes (again can picture that now) 

- Tried to mentally break him. Called him in to train alone at weekends. In training games, didn’t blow up for fouls to hopefully get him to react with other players to give him an excuse to get him out

 

Im sure most managers are the same, but a good insight to Rodgers behind the scenes. 

Exactly.

 

These sort of interviews maybe insights but also one sided. Just like people like Matt Mills who come out and slag Pearson off just because he dropped, then sold, him.