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Rodgers Sacked

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  1. jenners04

    jenners04 I must not post porn!

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    That's a hard hypothetical question to answer.

    For one if we had won the league I'm hoping our targets would have been better than what we got, also players want to join clubs that can offer or at least be serious challengers for trophies. Being prem league winners would have got us noticed more by the better players out there, no idea if that would have made any did with Brendan being manager though.

    He got extra time for finishing 2nd, but it has gone downhill since Luis left.
     
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  2. JonnyBaws

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    "Apparently" he was gone regardless of the result..
     
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  3. jenners04

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    But being champions our targets would/should have been dif, so hopefully we wold have had better players to defend with.
     
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  4. astro

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    It was #nailedon

    You can't make the decision, prepare the press release and have Ayre at Rodgers' house all within 1 hour of a game ending

    Rodgers even knew yesterday but acted with #class
     
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  5. carlthejackal

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    Interesting question.

    I think that would have delayed the announcement. FSG would have waited for the next defeat or draw and then make the announcement as for LFC to sack their manager after a win against Everton would have been weird.

    I think the replacement manager has already been found and recruited. The strong rumour is that it is Klopp. When Klopp said a few weeks ago that it would be a dream to work in England, Rodgers was in trouble.
     
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  6. astro

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    Well the question was "if things had gone the same way" and in the context of defending champions last season would have been too big a drop

    Not that it wouldn't also be #harsh to judge him by his own overachievement
     
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  7. Red Hadron Collider

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    I meant he wouldn't get sacked last summer, but a bad start and he's be gone by October of THIS season. Sorry about the confusion <laugh>
     
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  8. We could say that about getting CL football but we only signed players we could have got anyway <laugh>
     
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  9. I think they would have sacked him still. They had clearly made their minds up prior to the game taking place and sacking the manager after a positive result (not that it was a negative result tbf) makes an announcement to the world that FSG make calculated decisions and don't just get a rush of blood to the head.
     
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  10. carlthejackal

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    I think he would have been given more time. Winning a title after so many years would have lifted Rodgers into a hero status.

    You could say that Gerrard's slip cost Rodgers his job. But also Gerrard's views on Rodgers didn't help his cause either. How he had been complacent etc when so near to winning the title.
     
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    Disagree. How did Rodgers overachieve? He got a 7th, a 2nd and a 6th.
     
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    The question assumes he wins the league in his 2nd season with a team that wasn't even expected to get top 4 #overachievement
     
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  13. carlthejackal

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    For overachievement read blip or freak event. You are right in that the expected position that Rodgers would have taken us would have been 5th-7th.

    We do not have to be unkind to him now that he's gone. But his record made his departure inevitable, consdiering that Dalglish was replaced on a similar or even slightly better record.
     
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    "Overachievement" simply means to achieve greater success than was expected of you. In that sense, even coming 2nd warrants the description, so winning certainly would have.
     
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  15. InBiscanWeTrust

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    yes. I think previous results were the reason and I'm glad we didn't lose for more than 1 reason yesterday. A draw away at Everton is a decent result every season, so to be sacked for drawing that 1 game isn't right. It means that it wasn't a spur of the moment and 1 result cost him his job. If some ridiculous thing like he wins he stays he loses he is sacked, then what happens next game? You can't manage a club knowing you're only ever 1 game from the sack.
     
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    I don't know whether I'm surprised or not. I had thought he would be gone last summer, when he wasn't and was allowed to bring in more assistants I didn't know what to think.

    Not sure if I'm excited by the prospect of another manager or even more worried they're waiting for McLaren <laugh>
     
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  17. jenners04

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    I think most of us are worried its not one of either klopp or ancelotti job lol.

    Knowing our luck the short list will be McLaren,pardew,pullis, Martinez and lvg lol.
     
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    Add Advocaat to the list <laugh>
     
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  19. InBiscanWeTrust

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    It looks like when you look at the names in the frame, klopp, Carlo, de boer, that the board realise at the moment we need a big name and proven talent.

    I cant any remember if it was carragher that said that you either need an experienced manager managing a young team, or a young manager managing an experienced team.... What we had was a young manager managing a young team... And when times got bad, neither had the experience to help the other through it.
     
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  20. As much as I don't want him, Martinez would be highly amusing :)
     
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