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how did rodgers start off?

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  1. UnitedinRed

    UnitedinRed Well-Known Member

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    Page_Moss_Kopite Well-Known Member

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    But the "young manager in first big job" never took over a team full of premier league winners like the "genius" from the past.

    #groundhogday
     
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    Silly comparison, tbh.
    Just because one manager starts with a string of relatively poor results then emphatically improves doesn't mean the same is going to happen in every case.
    The circumstances, and the people involved, are entirely different.
    This is just a rather panicky Utd fan doing the forum equivalent of crossing his fingers and repeating "everything's going to be alright..." ad infinitum.
     
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  4. Jürgenmeiʃter

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    Rodgers began his career as a defender at Ballymena United
     
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  5. DirtyFrank

    DirtyFrank Well-Known Member

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    That's just plain sad lol.....So he sets up a thread which is a barely concealed whine that we are all being unfair to deal 'ol VG. He uses a faulty premise, we at best point this out, at worst just laugh at him. He runs away for a bit hoping Tobes can successfully do his battles for him, even Tobes heart isn't really in it so his final resort is to pretend it was all a plan within a plan and hopes he can get the validation he craves from his own.

    Why didn't he just start there if all he wanted was a reach around <laugh>
     
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  6. UnitedinRed

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    True as they bottled it at the death just a few years earlier.
     
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  7. UnitedinRed

    UnitedinRed Well-Known Member

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    Quite true.

    So why are so many writing united off so early? Covering for your own concerns while ours are so obvious? Or just hopeful?

    Not directed at you btw. I mean in general.
     
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  8. UnitedinRed

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    <laugh> funnily enough youre not the first to suggest that. Funnily enough you like the others are wrong.

    I never intended to do another thread. Seeing as some couldn't bring themselves to be honest it was needed. Obviously i was fully aware of his poor start but if i had just put it out there.... What happens?

    This way i got a fair response. the responses that featured a 'but' were good for a giggle too.
     
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  9. theevilreddevil

    theevilreddevil Well-Known Member

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    Nothing to compare yet, what does matter is this

    2012 8th
    2013 7th
    2014 2nd
    2015??

    LVG
    2015??
     
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  10. InBiscanWeTrust

    InBiscanWeTrust Rome, London, Paris, Rome, Istanbul, Madrid
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    Fixed <ok>
     
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    perhaps you should compare van Gaal with Harry.
    both have loads of experience and have managed big clubs before...<whistle>
     
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  12. UnitedinRed

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    Wouldnt call Bournemouth a big club tbh.
     
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  13. theevilreddevil

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    Still going to end up with the same amount of silverware at the end of the season<cheers>
     
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    Serious answer for a moment.
    I think only the pessimists amongst us are "concerned" about our prospects. There are some who I think were so surprised at how well we did last year that they're convinced it was a blip and we can't repeat it.
    As for writing you lot off, I don't think many believe your continued decline is inevitable (though it is possible), it's just football banter. We haven't had too many opportunities to take the piss since the early 90's, so we're going to fill our boots.
    Just put your hard hat on and take it- we've had to for quite a while.
     
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    We'll match your Guinness Cup?

    <diva>
     
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  16. UnitedinRed

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    Top 5, champions league last 16, league cup 4th round and fa cup 6th.

    Reckon thats how you'll do.
     
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    Top 5, cool you're allowing us the possibility of winning the league....you're more optimistic than some lol.
     
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  18. UnitedinRed

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    Unlikely. 4th or 5th.
     
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  19. So, the general idea of this thread is to say that LVG can finish seventh this season and second next yeah? Next thread please :)
     
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  20. DirtyFrank

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    We all live on the possible.
     
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