Rodgers style irks the old guard but pleases the purist....

Do I want us to improve our defence? Of course.
Do I want us sacrifice our attacking style in order to do so? Of course not.

We're great to watch (most of the time) and that's the point of being a spectator. Of course the club is in my blood so I want us to win as well. If we were playing attractive footie but ending in the bottom half of the table all the time then I'd be resigned to sacrificing the entertainment for a bit of achievement, but we're 4th, so we can't be doing a huge amount wrong.
I'd rather we tried to resolve the midfield/defensive issues without going back to square one.

 

Much as I enjoy watching us at the moment, especially when SAS are in full flow. I do sometimes think we resemble Newcastle under Keegan. They used to score loads of goals and played exciting football but had a lot of high scoring draws/losses as the defence was hopeless and often they were caught on the counter attack.

We somehow need to improve the defence without reducing our attacking prowess, all with no real money available. I know it seems like the holy grail of football, but we have to go for it in the summer and bring in some decent defenders and ship out some of the dross we seem to be accumulating i.e. Moses, Cissokho, Toure, Johnson

 

It's not a case of sacrificing the attacking style to improve the defence - unless we have plans to sell Suarez and buy Thiago Silva. More a case of enhancing the attack by adding a defence.

 

This is what I was referring to in the OP, seems to me that's exactly the point it is debating.

 

Ah, sorry I didn't realise that

And you're right the article is saying that.

 

No problem, JB.

 

Interesting stuff. I remember reading of Shankly's reaction to a defeat by Ajax was that they were fancy-dans that wouldn't stand and fight, whereas paisley saw it as a blueprint to stop slide tackling in midfield and stay on your feet at all times if possible. I loved Shanks, but I truly think that Paisley was the progressive one: he believed in solid defence, sure enough, but that possession, pace and head-up football where the foundations of pass-and-move, and the interchange of positions between full-backs and wingers, midfielders and centre-backs, midfielders and forwards. In short, the way it should be played and, much as it guts me to say this, the way the ****s down the M62 played for most of their time under the Special Brew One.