Brendan Rodgers needs time. We are not a club like Chelsea who gives manager 6 months then the chop. We are in a healthy growing position, and as managers change all around us, we have a head-start. Believe In Rodgers, he wants only success. And if you cannot believe in anything else... I give you this picture to look back on... So remember - we have hit the lowest of the low, and we are on the way up again. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/new-squad-photo-for-2010-11
It's quite possible we'll look back at a team photo from this season and think just the same. Downing, Aspas, Alberto, Borini, Shelvey, Allen, Coates, Jones...and Rodgers. Not saying we will...just that we might
No, we give them less time (Woy) or 18 months (Kenny) - Rodgers made it 3 in 3 years. Naive to start spouting this kind of dribble. Once we could say this, but not any more. We do need to get behind the team and ensure they know we're behind them. Loud and proud.
Well, ...they had 3 in less than two years so he is accurate....just Nothing Naive about saying give Rogers time. It may be optimistic or more patient an attitude than you accept but it's not naive. And the argument is sound enough. We made no progress in getting rid of 2 managers in 2 seasons (along with a few other blunders by inexperienced owners) so after declaring that lessons are learned & the next one is to be given longer as long as we don't regress immediately:which we didn't; and before someone argues it, comparing cup to no cup is naive if anything, as it assumes KD would have got us a cup every year for it to be a meaningful comparison. we obviously can't say that to be true as it didn't happen. And his buys have not excelled with us or after moving on in any way to suggest miracles would have happened the next year if KD had stayed. To hypothesise about what he "might" have done, well, you could say he would have convinced messi to join us while we're fantasising. We can't see alternate realities so therefore can't use it as a stick to beat BR with. I still believe he needs time & by that I mean accepting gradual progression rather than expecting miracles or holding him to an imaginary standard that has not existed at our club for some time. The owners say five years. Well if he gains a league place a year over those 5 then at the end of them he'll be 3rd with 2 years in the CL under his belt. That's simplistic but it gets across my point of gradual & realistic progression. If he doesn't do that then I'm all for analysing why not & if its his responsibility or if he's not been given the support by the owners to keep improving each year we can start to apportion blame. Getting behind the team should be a given.
I agree, he shopuld be given time to build. Bill Shankly took over in 1959 and took 2 years to get the team promoted to the first division. Another 2 years we were champions. Then in 1965 we won the FA cup for the first time and it was in this season that we played our firt European football (reaching the semis). This was just he start - even the greatest take time to build a great team.
We are certainly better than when that pic was taken. Thing is, so are a few other teams who have been consistently finishing above us since. Think Everton will slip down the table now. If we continue our form of the 2nd half of last season we should be alright.
When football was filmed in black and white and money wasn't an obsession this was possible, now it's impossible. Yes time is key but it'll take a decade to reach those dizzy heights.
