The manager - where are you at?

[The_weatherman]

Still too early for any talk of sacking. As per the consensus he needs to make bold decisions and drop any player who is not performing. Players are not in the team on merit. It is similar to Houllier who persisted with players who clearly were no longer performing.

Still a run of wins (however unlikely it seems at the moment) and we could be in the last 16 of the Champions' league, semi_final of a cup and in the top four.

But how long to give him to make bold changes? It's glaringly obvious what needs to be done but he fails react and we are short upfront due to the management nothing else.

[Lecter]

The thing I find alarming is the failed shift in strategy to the disjointed system we see now.

Last season we found something that worked out of a desire to fit our two best forwards into the starting XI. This season we have moved completely away from that system despite the fact most of our starting XI were here last season and accustomed to it. That's fine, but you've got to be damn sure it will work better. It's shown no signs of doing so, and the transfers we've made don't really seem to support our new way of working.

So I'm baffled - there is nothing coherent about the way we have gone about things, I struggle to find method to our madness. It's hard not to be concerned about that. You expect to see gradual signs of things coming into fruition, but the longer they fail to surface the more inclined you are to wonder if it's not just all wrong. He deserves time to put things right, but I'd say I have less faith in him right now than 18 months ago.

[Leyton388]

He's acting like a proper gob****e whos **** scared to drop certain players. He's the manager of liverpool football club ffs.

[Daniel 7]

Last season smacks of Suarez's vision and not Brendan's every time we meekly lose against **** opposition. the dynamism has gone - its easy to manage massively motivated players who stand tall every game.

[ChrisDR1968]

I was confident at the end of last season that we'd finally found a good manager for the long term.

This season has been a real shock

Having said that I'm not a big fan of chopping and changing managers remembering that when Rodgers arrived he was our 4th manager in as many years.

Unless you're Chelsea and have spent £1bn on building the squad over the preceeding seasons sacking managers at regular intervals rarely brings success.

I say give him more time... but not a lot more.

If things don't improve and soon he shouldn't be our manager come 2015

[Rich]

I'd be making a few calls to Klopp. I can't see Rodgers making the changes needed and Sturridge cant bail him out until January, so we'll be in such a rut that he'll definitely be gone in the summer. Lets hope Gerrard goes at the same time, there's no way on earth that Liverpool of the 60/70/80s would stick with a player that's so past it. We used to be ruthless, Gerrard has such a cushy number he'd still be playing for us when he's 50.

[G]

Wavering based only on his inability to sort the defence, something he's had ample time to do.

[captainfog]

For me it's a results thing, from now. He needs to start getting results by hook or by crook. Got to win in midweek, and then the next league game. Need a run, need to see improvements. I think another calamity in midweek might see him gone, and I'd be struggling to keep the faith. Can't believe it's come to this so quickly.

Although I voted no for the sack, if he was sacked I really wouldn't care. He's doing **** and the problems are all his own making.

[baitman]

i dont really care who our manager is, just so long as we give our all, show some man strength and hopefully score a gzillion goals and win the prem and CL every year.

does if have to be rodgers...

dont care.

[Daniel 7]

Although I voted no for the sack, if he was sacked I really wouldn't care. He's doing **** and the problems are all his own making.

Yeah thats where I am. Its sad like. I so enjoyed being behind a team and a manager, but it seems like it was all bollocks now and he was riding the coat tails of a world class player.

[G]

I'll vote later, on tapatalk now but I'll tell you what, It's ****ing depressing we are again having to contemplate a change in the managers office after looking to be finally set in that area. Normally of say we have little to gain sacking him mid season but if he doesn't start getting results we'll have no choice. At least if we do, Klopp will know there's a vacancy if he wants it.

[Daniel 7]

It was a false dawn, wasn't it?

[cream]

Last season smacks of Suarez's vision and not Brendan's every time we meekly lose against **** opposition. the dynamism has gone - its easy to manage massively motivated players who stand tall every game.

Yeh, last season was all about Suarez and to a lesser extent Sturridge. He found a formula that got the best out of both, without them we really have nothing in terms of quality that sets us apart from any other mid table PL team. Imagine what Warnock could've done with those two players...

[Buzzo]

Review at the end of the year

No improvement and he will come under too much pressure, a few good results and he can fight off the naysayers

He needs to find a way to get us winning or he's ****ed. I think he needs to prove last season wasn't a fluke because right now last season looks like a fluke.

[Leyton388]

It was a false dawn, wasn't it?

A worse one than 2003 & 2008