If a foreign manager had experienced the same performance/results over the past 12 months as Rodgers, the media would have hounded him out by now. Rafa had just 1 poor 12 month run and was forced out.
Precisely. There is a long training program to knock actually trying to make this a football forum out of any mod.
Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool: Goals per game (league) With SAS - 2.17 Without SAS - 1.19 Great attacking manager though.
I like the word "expect." How are Chelsea the Champions and yet play such uninspiring football? Or is football these days totally devoid of magic these days. Oh well, two weeks without football is wonderful. Sod the internationals.
A scapegoat isn't someone that is just ****. It is someone who gets criticised no matter how they preform.
Rodgers is a man who genuinely thought Gerrard and Johnson were crucial to our team last season. This is a man who publicly blamed the youngsters and threw them under the bus. It's a man who criticised Mario once who wasn;t even playing. Who will he blame now ...
Anyone and anything bar himself, our transfer policy is such that he can blame others for forcing signings on him, he should have fallen on his sword and ****ed off when the club sacked the real scapegoats(his backroom staff)for his amateurish inept management.
Hence my inclusion of Skrtel. Most of the players in the list ARE bad. Some like Migs and Skrtel are sometimes decent. If I were doing our worst xi Brad Jones would be in there. Coates would replace Skrtel. Yesil would be in there... Etc.
We all use the word incorrectly, tbh- though I suppose if we all understand the meaning inferred then it doesn't really matter.
Yep. It was literally a goat that had all the sins of the community ritually bestowed upon it and was then turfed out into the wilderness, thus getting rid of all the current sins. And leaving everyone free to start sinning again. Obviously the goat is entirely innocent, and the people we use it against, although their responsibility may be exaggerated, are nevertheless partly to blame.
A scapegoat can also be a player who is blamed when the whole team is doing badly. Lovren deserves to be blasted for the past weekend but GJ and Lovren have both been blamed for losses and unfairly targeted in other games that... Yeah... They played Crap but so did the whole team.
Quite frankly if you are referring to last year's squad you could close your eyes point your finger at any payer and build a case to "scapegoat (ignoring Saints correct definition )" them. We were that poor. As for Jimmys list I assume there's one trumps the other since Lovren, Coutinho are foreigners. Can't believe you're still putting Mario on a pedestal after it became clear he didn't need to be on the pitch to cause havoc. Someone start a thread about how Rodgers can be linked with the increase in lamb still births in Liverpool over the last three years....
I included Mario as a scapegoat for certain incidences i.e. when he was the nominated penalty taker and Sturridge had a go at him, and Gerrard publicly berated him on live TV. And also when Rodgers blamed Mario for a loss when he wasn't even playing.
Hmmm. Mario -brings it on himself entirely. Always has probably always will. Common denominator in every situation. Youngsters - club's avowed policy to bring them in. One of the youngest squads in the PL. If anything the problem is too many young players and not enough experienced ones. Imo, of course. Foreigners - a fair few of those also. I think it's fair to say that commentators and the media far more readily blame foreigners than natives but I don't see how that translates to our club doing the same thing. Committee signings- who are they?
I said at the time that I believed Gerrard was wrong to publicly criticise him for that, no matter what he felt privately. I still can't see how that makes Mario a scapegoat, by any definition. Although I was happy for him to take it, if the decision had been made prior to the match and he chose to disobey it, then that is again symptomatic of his lack of discipline and understanding of the team ethic..
