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Unread 28-01-2013, 03:50 PM
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Brendan Rodgers did probably not envision things going quite so badly as they have at Liverpool so far this season. Here was a capable manager, just 39-years-old, who had taken Swansea City into the Premier League and attracted praise for their style of football. Not content to use the in-vogue word ‘vertical’ as if it meant something, the Swans were more interested in possession, a more morally secure pursuit.

Given Liverpool fans’ incredibly high opinion of themselves as intellectual ambassadors for the right way to play football, and Rodgers’ incredibly high opinion of himself as an intellectual ambassador for the right way to play football, it was a match made in heaven. Self-congratulatory, possession-based heaven. They called him ‘Brendan’ and he called himself ‘myself’. He played to the crowd, praising the fans as if they were two parties trying to achieve a higher plane of football, and ultimately, existence.

Which makes it all the more hilarious that this season has been such a waste of time, pockmarked by buffoonery and errors. The latest installment involved a loss to a thoroughly crap Oldham side managed by Paul Dickov, a man who will admit to you that he doesn’t know what he’s doing if you bother to ask him. It started early, as the massed minds of FSG and Rodgers began the season with two strikers, one of whom was the £10.5million non-scoring forward Fabio Borini, and the other goal imp Luis Suarez. They also signed Joe Allen, the Welsh Xaviesta (he can play both roles, according to RAWK, the Liverpool forum where sense goes to die) who has played this season as if he simply couldn’t be bothered to transfer any information along his synapses.

And Allen plays next to Steven Gerrard. Steven Gerrard has, brilliantly, put in the bare minimum of good performances throughout the year to stop his gang of sycophants from noticing that he’s a couple of years from the glue factory. A Roy Rogers with a bad fringe, he stinks up the club with a sense of entitlement only matched by, er, his club. His shots used to be lethal in the metaphorical sense, now members of the crowd behind the crowd look genuinely worried every time he enters the pitch. The sooner he is replaced with a player capable of playing ninety good minutes rather than two great ones, the sooner Liverpool will again have a functioning midfield.

In attack, the lack of depth has just been remedied. Sorry, not remedied, parodied. If you need somebody to define the over-inflated self-worth only previously seen in, er, Liverpool, then Daniel Sturridge is your man-child. Not above shooting wide from forty yards, not above body-popping against lower league teams, not above the minimum required standards to ever achieve something as a direct result of his efforts: he’s Liverpool’s dystopian future.

What’s so striking isn’t that Liverpool are rubbish now. They’ve been rubbish for years. The striking impression is that they’re actually getting worse under Brendan Rodgers and a supposedly intelligent group of executives and owners. They don’t have huge reserves of cash to sort this out, nor do they appear to have a convincing plan for the future—not one that’s working, anyway. Brendan Rodgers: looks intelligent, has a track record of success elsewhere, going nowhere fast. Now it seems that the same could well be true of FSG. And that really would be a bit funny for us, presumably sad for Liverpool supporters.
 
Unread 28-01-2013, 03:58 PM
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The latest installment involved a loss to a thoroughly crap Oldham side managed by Paul Dickov, a man who will admit to you that he doesn’t know what he’s doing if you bother to ask him.
Excellent.
 
Unread 28-01-2013, 04:04 PM
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They're giving Rodgers daughter dogs abuse on twitter, which from seeing her retweets of court proceedings i'd say she deserves

https://twitter.com/MischaRodgers
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Unread 28-01-2013, 04:09 PM
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http://twitter.com/MischaRodgers/sta...383488/photo/1

Illiterate scouse @#%&!.
 
Unread 28-01-2013, 04:15 PM
utd99
 
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The English language was developed and refined over centuries for one purpose, to allow people to communicate their thoughts in the most articulate way possible. To be easily understood.

People like Rodgers use it as a tool to do completely the opposite. To confuse and bewilder the listener. It appears that he, like many middle management types throughout society, have decided that the less people understand them, the more likely they are to feel inferior intellectually and therefore less likely to criticise.
 
Unread 28-01-2013, 04:22 PM
Zorg
 
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They called him ‘Brendan’ and he called himself ‘myself’
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 08:50 AM
thrills_pills_bellyaches
 
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Manchester City Vs Liverpool Preview: Even Victory Won't Mask Brendan Rodgers' Failings

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A well-respected and highly regarded coach this time last year, Rodgers has fallen into the trappings of newfound fame. His profile at Liverpool is obviously greater than at Swansea but the Being: Liverpool documentary augmented that to a catastrophic degree. The spotlit self-portrait in the lounge, the envelopes and the "trust" speech heralded the nickname Brenton, after David of The Office fame. It has heightened the scrutiny to such a level that on the madhouse that is the Red and White Kop forums - renowned for its blinkered views and staunch defences - he is often scapegoated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...tml?ref=topbar
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 09:47 AM
Pop
 
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That's the second reference to rawk I've seen in the press.

Both stated the place was full of lunatics
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 09:49 AM
dunk
 
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I'm sure 'Brenton' was coined on here..
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 09:54 AM
General Woundwort
 
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That's the second reference to rawk I've seen in the press.

Both stated the place was full of lunatics
Same website, same journo. The journo lurks on here at the very least.
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 10:47 AM
Mao's Favourite Starling
 
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I'm sure 'Brenton' was coined on here..
Post 72 onwards

http://www.utdforum.com/forum/showth...brenton&page=2

Think it's a joint invention by Borsuk and Sparkles
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 05:03 PM
red in cumbria
 
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Think it's a joint invention by Borsuk and Sparkles
Ironic, given they can't stand each other
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 05:15 PM
Sparky***
 
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Borsuk's work.
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 06:43 PM
bobbledinho
 
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Brought to the nation by MC
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 06:46 PM
armchair
 
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Borsuk's work.

i think there was a lot of brent references but bors was the first to come up with brenton
 
Unread 02-02-2013, 08:36 PM
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Same website, same journo. The journo lurks on here at the very least.
He posts on RI Sanctuary and the main forum afaik, the former has its own equivalent of the RAWK nuggets thread. May be registered on here too I don't know.
 
Unread 03-02-2013, 01:45 PM
wonky no
 
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C+P journalism.
lazy fecker
 
Unread 12-02-2013, 09:55 PM
HERTS_RED
 
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An open letter to the Rodgers Out brigade :shakehead:

Even manages to get a seething in

http://www.liverpoolfcfanscorner.com...sout-fans.html
 
Unread 12-02-2013, 10:13 PM
HERTS_RED
 
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Who said it? David Brent or David Brent?

Rodgers, who can certainly talk the talk, perhaps doesn't walk the walk. He has infuriated Liverpool fans to the extent that on the Red and White Kop forums, a haven for the paranoid and deluded, he is something of a scapegoat.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...mm_ref =false
 
Unread 12-02-2013, 10:24 PM
Switching Off
 
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An open letter to the Rodgers Out brigade :shakehead:

Even manages to get a seething in

http://www.liverpoolfcfanscorner.com...sout-fans.html
Didnt even read it.

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