Brendan Rodgers

[Shaggy]

Rodgers' lad has been cleared of all charges.

[Yozza]

Rodgers' lad has been cleared of all charges.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2330232/Brighton-footballers-guilty-sexual-assault-trial.html

Four Brighton footballers including Rodgers' son found NOT guilty of sexual assault

Four footballers were cleared today of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room.
Jurors at the Old Bailey also found them not guilty of voyeurism at a retrial.
Brighton and Hove Albion players Anton Rodgers, 20, Lewis Dunk, 21, and George Barker, 21, and former team-mate Steve Cook, 22, who now plays for Bournemouth, had maintained their innocence.

They were given bail throughout the trial and their families, including Rodgers' father - Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers - watched the proceedings.
The prosecution said the players were celebrating victory in a local cup in July 2011, when they came across the drunken woman at a club.

She woke up at the Jury's Inn hotel to find her strapless dress pulled down and said she saw explicit pictures on Rodgers' mobile phone.
Richard Barton, prosecuting, said these were taken as a 'permanent record of their conquest'.
But despite forensic tests on all the players' phones, only one photograph was found on Barker's phone.
It showed the sleeping woman with shaving foam spelling out GB on her thigh. Barker was next to her doing a thumbs-up sign and smiling.
Another player, Leon Redwood, said he went into the room at night and sprayed the foam.
Barker and Rodgers said the woman had joined in the 'boy's banter'. She climbed into bed with them and started kissing them.
Dunk and Cook said they were sleeping on the floor and did not get involved with the woman.

The woman was said to have 'told a pack of lies' following the incident.
She agreed she lied to police and her employers but said she had been humiliated by the sportsmen.

She complained to police about the players six months later after getting into a volatile relationship with another player, Kazenga LuaLua.
He wound her up about her photographs being shown around the club and kidded her that a video would be put on YouTube.

Police have been unable to find anyone at the club who had seen pictures of the woman.

The woman admitted an assortment of lies, including:
Missing work earlier that day and ringing in to say her father had been involved in a traffic accident;
Missing work the next day and saying she had been assaulted in the street by three men named Jack, Ben and Sam;
Producing a black dress instead of the pink dress that she had been wearing;
Missing work a month later because she was at Gay Pride celebrations and telling her bosses she had been drugged.

The woman hoped she would be taken out by Redwood on July 16, but started kissing and dancing with another player, Roland Bergkamp, after seeing him with another girl.
She said she was not drunk and could remember nothing after taking a drink in the club.
But her friend said they had each drunk between 10 and 15 shots of alcohol and shared a bottle of wine.
Jurors at an earlier trial in February could not agree verdicts but found Dunk not guilty of voyeurism.

Brighton this week released Rodgers and his team-mate Ben Sampayo, who was a reluctant prosecution witness in the case.
There were tears in the public gallery from the mothers and girlfriends of the footballers as the seven men and five women returned their verdicts.
The young sportsmen were released from the dock and wept in a group hug outside.
Visibly shaken, they were comforted by their families.
Dunk's father Mark said: 'I believed 100 per cent that he was innocent and now it has been proved in court.

Cleared: George Barker made his Brighton debut earlier this year
'I hope he will be able to build up his career again. This sort of thing would have an effect on anybody's career.'
Solicitor Steven Barker said: 'Lewis is grateful to the jury for their consideration of his case and their verdicts.
'Lewis would like to thank his family and girlfriend, everyone at Brighton and Hove Albion football club, his many friends and supporters and his legal team for their support.
'Lewis is looking forward to putting the ordeal of being wrongly accused of these matters behind him and regaining his place in the Brighton first team.'

[Daniel 7]

Just had a dream with Brendan in it.

Liverpool were playing Northampton in a Cup, went 1-0 up and he changed tactics and equalised within a minute. Then they went 2-1 up and he threw everything forward, but they kept hitting Liverpool on the break, it was 5-1 to Northampton with half an hour to go.

I wandered out of my seat over to the technical area, and asked him what the **** was going on and he told me he was struggling and it wasn't going well. He was amazed at how good a game Dave Beasant was having for Northampton even though he was 55.

Anyway, he cracked a couple of jokes, invited me to his for dinner after the game and let me sit in on the team talk. He was annoyed at first but they soon had him laughing and it was all forgotten.

Top fella.

[EwarWoo]

he told me he was struggling and it wasn't going well. He was amazed at how good a game Dave Beasant was having for Northampton even though he was 55.

He shoulda brought on Barnes.

[RedSince1964]

He shoulda brought on Barnes.

[Buzzo]

Just had a dream with Brendan in it.

Liverpool were playing Northampton in a Cup, went 1-0 up and he changed tactics and equalised within a minute. Then they went 2-1 up and he threw everything forward, but they kept hitting Liverpool on the break, it was 5-1 to Northampton with half an hour to go.

I wandered out of my seat over to the technical area, and asked him what the **** was going on and he told me he was struggling and it wasn't going well. He was amazed at how good a game Dave Beasant was having for Northampton even though he was 55.

Anyway, he cracked a couple of jokes, invited me to his for dinner after the game and let me sit in on the team talk. He was annoyed at first but they soon had him laughing and it was all forgotten.

Top fella.

I'm starting to warm to Brendan after hearing that.

[Alex]

Official site has compared this season to last. Seems the only thing we have really properly improved on is converting our chances.

Total shots
12-13 - 528
11-12 - 515

Possession percentage
12-13 - 57
11-12 - 55

Goals
12-13 - 71
11-12 - 47

Headed goals
12-13 - 9
11-12 - 8


Penalty goals
12-13 - 5 (of 6)
11-12 - 1 (of 6)

Total passes
12-13 - 19802
11-12 - 18794

Total successful passes
12-13 - 16667
11-12 - 15213

Crossing accuracy
12-13 - 19.02 per cent
11-12 - 21.58 per cent

Hit woodwork
12-13 - 16
11-12 - 24

Clean sheets
12-13 - 16
11-12 - 12

Goals conceded
12-13 - 43
11-12 - 40

Shots on target
12-13 - 232
11-12 - 207

Passing accuracy
12-13 - 84.17 per cent
11-12 - 80.95 per cent

Passing accuracy in opposition half
12-13 - 73.45 per cent
11-12 - 69.39 per cent

Goals from outside the box
12-13 - 12
11-12 - 7

Goals inside the box
12-13 - 59
11-12 - 40

Goal conversion
12-13 - 13.45 per cent
11-12 - 9.13 per cent

Set piece goals
12-13 - 3
11-12 - 2

Offsides
12-13 - 110
11-12 - 128

Yellow cards
12-13 - 54
11-12 - 53

Straight red cards
12-13 - 2
11-12 - 3

Aerial duels won
12-13 - 482 (of 928)
11-12 - 490 (of 835)

Ground duels won
12-13 - 1513 (of 3105)
11-12 - 1398 (of 2716)

Fouls conceded
12-13 - 402
11-12 - 402

Successful corners into the box
12-13 - 73
11-12 - 78

Unsuccessful corners into the box
12-13 - 161
11-12 - 186

Tackle success
12-13 - 78.49 per cent
11-12 - 73.76 per cent

Left foot goals
12-13 - 19
11-12 - 13

Right foot goals
12-13 - 39
11-12 - 21

Successful crosses from open play
12-13 - 82
11-12 - 162

Moments of Stupidity from Luis
12-13 - 1
11-12 - 2


Unsuccessful crosses from open play
12-13 - 485
11-12 - 679

Shooting accuracy
12-13 - 43.94 per cent
11-12 - 40.19 per cent

Attempts from set pieces
12-13 - 33
11-12 - 33

Penalties conceded
12-13 - 5
11-12 - 5

Successful dribbles
12-13 - 378
11-12 - 286

League finish
12-13 - 7th
11-12 - 8th

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/the-numbers-game-2012-13

[Sarb]

Official site has compared this season to last. Seems the only thing we have really properly improved on is converting our chances.

As well as league position, goals with right foot, reducing misplaced crosses (Downing) etc

[meffin]

Surely converting chances is a pretty important thing to improve on? That's the main thing we needed to improve

[Alex]

Well yeah obviously that was the biggest thing we needed to improve over last season 9% conversion rate was totally ****.

[Darkon]

And yet it's still a very poor conversion rate for a team aiming higher in the league. Would be interesting seeing it pre and post January transfer window! Imagine it would look much more competitive in the second half.

Still highlights the need for one more reliable striker up front other than Sturridge.

[Alex]

You mean as well as Sturridge? Or do you not rate him to get the goals consistently?

[Darkon]

Ah, sorry I meant as well as Sturridge +1

[The_weatherman]

For me there is also a noticable change in tackle succes but converting chances and goals scored are like the other have pointed out the main stat. If we carry this on and improve our defence as well I expect further improvement next season. We had quite a bit of possession under Dalglish though.

[dww]

Official site has compared this season to last. Seems the only thing we have really properly improved on is converting our chances.



http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/late...s-game-2012-13

I think a lot of the numbers look better. The two seasons are very difficult to compare as last season we markedly improved as things went on and in the previous one we gave up months before the end. I'd be interested to see the breakdown in half seasons from when Hodgson took over - I would imagine we would come out as a totally Jekyll and Hyde outfit.