'Reset Everything'

[StanSP]

Words uttered by Rodgers after last night. 

 

Firstly, can that start with him, as the manager? 

 

Secondly, what does this even mean? Is it just a tidbit from him, a soundbite? Is it different to a refresh...? 

 

Thirdly, if you had to reset things (apart from Rodgers as the obvious), what would you choose as a priority? 

[Matt]

The “rebuild” and “change in culture” should have started with him last summer.

[Dames]

Its a soundbite. He was saying similar stuff after Forest last season. Its a deflection tactic designed to get people talking about anything other than his short comings. Its been 4 years, this is his team, his players and his philosophy. The 'rebuild and reset' starts with him. 

[Babylon]

[AKCJ]

Sounds to me like he's worried about his job. 

[Tommy G]

I'd change John Rudkin - and splash some cash on a seasoned DofF. How transfers and contracts are managed has been atrocious and it's down to him. 

 

Reshuffle the board - I'd keep SW, bring in a cpl of non execs to help out Top. I'd plough on with the stadium expansion in the hope that the football side sorts itself out with a new DofF. 

 

The rest of it is there - but a manager change being the obvious call.

 

I'd create a fan representation group, of maybe 25 people - all of different ages, background, colour, sexuality - you name it, which would have a direct line into the board on a monthly basis - and have a dedicated section in board meetings to cover issues and fan feedback. I think that way, the club then isn't blind to what the fans want, and the fans would feel more engaged and represented.

 

In my day job, we cover this at our board meetings, employee engagement is key - in this case it's more fan engagement, because sometimes at the top you can feel a bit disconncted as to what's going on in the business at ground zero.

[Spudulike]

Great time to reset everything a few days from arguably our most important match of the season. No idea what he means. 

[The Doctor]

it's his wheel of excuses again. Backed in January and embarrassed? better get the PR machine in spin and make out that the problem is he's not been able to sign a load of players. Dude started his career under Mourinho and is a mini-Mourinho through and through, always someone else's fault for the dour football

[Happy Fox]

He’s just rinsing the whole board and has them hoodwinked, it’s comical he’s still here.

 

The owners deserve a relegation the fans and players do not.

[daddylonglegs]

the goalkeeper

 

just to show that if you're consistently terrible there are consequences.

 

not because the alternative is dramatically better (We saw last night that Iversen is quite similar - has a howler in him for sure), but because as a matter of principle - if you're not performing to the standard required over a prolonged period of time, you have to be dropped 

[Mark_w]

Just pay Bristol City whatever we have to and start rebuilding properly please.

[Lcfc098]

If the owners still can't see through him after all of this and his excuses, as I've said before they deserve all the criticism he gets and more.

[Gamble92]

23 minutes ago, Dames said:

Its a soundbite. He was saying similar stuff after Forest last season. Its a deflection tactic designed to get people talking about anything other than his short comings. Its been 4 years, this is his team, his players and his philosophy. The 'rebuild and reset' starts with him. 

The narrative is firmly set within media that he's had his team taken away from him because of no money. We know that isn't the story, but it's been set in stone.

 

I remember at one point in the summer only Kasper had actually departed and all day on Talksport the talking point was Leicester have lost half their squad and replaced no one. Someone did ring up at one point and say we have only lost one player and the response was yeah but Maddison and Tielemans are going at least. Neither did, yet that narrative continued willingly from Rodgers. 

 

[indierich06]

I'm less vociferously Brendan Out than I have been in recent times - we lost last night because our depth is non-existent, and barring the Arsenal game we have looked good recently - but I still think the overall rot does not stop until he goes, and until the players who are stinking this place out go with him.

 

Out in the summer (ideally):

Rodgers

Tielemans

Mendy

Soumare

Vestergaard

Bertrand

Soyuncu

Evans

Ward/Iversen - one can stay for backup.

 

Start the rebuild in earnest.

[westernpark]

Just now, indierich06 said:

I'm less vociferously Brendan Out than I have been in recent times - we lost last night because our depth is non-existent, and barring the Arsenal game we have looked good recently - but I still think the overall rot does not stop until he goes, and until the players who are stinking this place out go with him.

 

Out in the summer (ideally):

Rodgers

Tielemans

Mendy

Soumare

Vestergaard

Bertrand

Soyuncu

Evans

Ward/Iversen - one can stay for backup.

 

Start the rebuild in earnest.

That team should have won last night. Citing depth against a championship team is not right as an excuse.

[orangecity23]

26 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

it's his wheel of excuses again. Backed in January and embarrassed? better get the PR machine in spin and make out that the problem is he's not been able to sign a load of players. Dude started his career under Mourinho and is a mini-Mourinho through and through, always someone else's fault for the dour football

Unfortunately, he obviously never paid any attention to Mourinho when the subject of possession came up. Mourinho has stated it's often better to not have possession, as when you have the ball you can make a mistake and get caught out. Rodgers will watch his players repeatedly losing the ball in and around our own penalty area and tell them to carry on doing the same thing. Just letting the keepers exercise their own judgement on whether short goal kicks are a good or bad idea based on how high and how aggressively the opposition are pressing us could make a massive positive difference.

Edited 1 March 2023 by orangecity23

[Pliskin]

Does he has a reset button….. how can the board sit and listen to this?

 

”Beaten by the better team so congratulations to Blackburn” 

 

**** off, what kind of speech is that. 

[Matt]

8 minutes ago, westernpark said:

That team should have won last night. Citing depth against a championship team is not right as an excuse.

And it was only the summer ahead of the 21/22 season we were universally proclaiming we had the strongest squad depth we’ve ever had.

 

Obviously the signings that were made were massively underwhelming and didn’t live up to their promise but Rodgers and his team had a lot of input on that are have to be held accountable for.

 

Edited 1 March 2023 by Matt

[EnderbyFox]

 

 

Fixture congestion 

Injury Crisis

Not been backed in the transfer windows

Need full reset

 

 

 

 

[Happy Fox]

Does he want to reset the league table? Bit too late for that Brendan.

[davieG]

They seem to be playing to a fixed system, which isn't working and all flair and individuality has been destroyed. The players are so obsessed with following his mantra that you can almost see their brains contemplating what was it he wanted me to do as they constantly lose the ball in a tackle, miss place, over hit or under hit a pass or hit it straight into opposition player.

 

Then it seems like as the game is all but lost he makes his subs and tells them to go for it. The shackle come off and we then make a decent attempt to claw ourselves back in the game but more often than not failing.

 

Reset = look in the mirror Rodgers the answer is there.

[AKCJ]

If the club needs to hit the reset button then he cannot be trusted with that task.

 

Sack him and get someone fresh in. The club absolutely stinks and he and Rudkin need to go as a result.

[mod hero]

[CloudFox]

What did he actually say?

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Jock Wallace was the manager when I first started watching Leicester and when we were shit first half you know he would go all out ballistic at the players at half time and there would me a marked improvement second half 

 

we look like a team in comfy slippers these days. Something has to change and that should be the manager in reality. We should have got Potter when we could have and probably Dyche but now who? 
 

Potter if he gets sacked from Chelski perhaps?