Life after Brendan

[ROKERITE]

wot the hell you on!

rodgers was shite here, useless, talked crap, brought crap in, and did f all in anyway to take this club forward, he took us backwards, and wow, we change manager, and we fly, surprise, hell no.
he did f all at watford.
and since he left he talks more crap, bout how he would have done things different if he known he had little time, what a load of tosh.
he had more time than most people get now, and with that ass comment of his must of felt he was doing things wrong too.

great he went, fantastic job by mcd, URZ! fuk rodgers

The greatest shame of the whole thing isn't the fact that Rodgers was sacked, this is football, he's made a good bit of money from it and I'm sure he'll bounce back. It's the fact that we'll never know if he could have carried us forward in the long term. Brendan clearly cared for this club deeply and was desperate for it to succeed, how great would it have been for a 'fairytale' that started as a YTS lad cleaning boots alongside Ady Williams at Elm Park to end in promotion to the Premier League lifting the trophy with a team built around a core of academy players he helped to sign and develop?

Every fan is entitled to their opinions but I saw enough potential both in the man and in displays on the pitch, to suggest that he was learning and learning quickly enough to take this club forward over a period of time. Sadly, in my opinion, that's something we'll never know.

Yes we will when he fails at MKD.
Opinions yes but, man, you are seriously deluded.

Unfortunately, I don't think he'll get the opportunity at MKD. It's a pity, because I'm sure he'd make a lot of you revise your opinion of him, by taking MKD into The Championship within 18 months.

[Man Friday]

Bolloc*s. Again. No, on second thoughts, let's just see shall we? Actions speak louder than words (which, ironically, was one of bigmouth Brendan's main faults).

[weybridgewanderer]

Unfortunately, I don't think he'll get the opportunity at MKD. It's a pity, because I'm sure he'd make a lot of you revise your opinion of him, by taking MKD into The Championship within 18 months.

I am sure that is what he will say he will do.

How many times are you prepared to get you fingers burned by this guy?

[brendywendy]

nowt to say he wont do that
im sure he'll have learned some lessons from his time here and he will become a better manager for it.

[Ian Royal]

"and that whilst it wasn't realistic this season"

The only stage he said this was when we had dropped into 20th/21st.

At no stage prior to that was he talking about it being unrealistic this season. We may have been but he certainly wasn't.

Besides, even he wouldn't say "it's our aim" whilst contradicting it with "it's not realistic".

Well I thought he was shit, but I clearly heard him stay it after he was appointed and was talking about what his objectives were, before the season started.

[brendywendy]

i imagine teh vast majority of teams in teh div had the aim of being promoted

[Dirk Gently]

"and that whilst it wasn't realistic this season"

The only stage he said this was when we had dropped into 20th/21st.

At no stage prior to that was he talking about it being unrealistic this season. We may have been but he certainly wasn't.

Besides, even he wouldn't say "it's our aim" whilst contradicting it with "it's not realistic".

Well I thought he was shit, but I clearly heard him stay it after he was appointed and was talking about what his objectives were, before the season started.

And what would the reaction have been if he'd said "our aim is to finish somehwere about the middle of the table."

Honestly, damned whatever he says!

[Ian Royal]

"and that whilst it wasn't realistic this season"

The only stage he said this was when we had dropped into 20th/21st.

At no stage prior to that was he talking about it being unrealistic this season. We may have been but he certainly wasn't.

Besides, even he wouldn't say "it's our aim" whilst contradicting it with "it's not realistic".

Well I thought he was shit, but I clearly heard him stay it after he was appointed and was talking about what his objectives were, before the season started.

And what would the reaction have been if he'd said "our aim is to finish somehwere about the middle of the table."

Honestly, damned whatever he says!

Actually I thought saying that the ultimate aim for the 3 years is promotion, and it's what he'll be striving for each season, but realistically it's too early this season was exactly the right thing to say.

It's not like most our fans weren't saying we were looking at a season of mid-table consolidation anyway.

Where he went wrong in terms of his talk about how we were doing and what we could do, was staring at the top of the table seeing what it would take to get there, when he actually needed to be grounding the players and working his way clear of the bottom first.

No point saying you're a 5 game run of wins from a play off challenge when you're struggling to win one in five and look pretty vulnerable and weak everywhere on the pitch.

[Dorset-Knob]

I'd like to know if all the 'BR might have done's, but we'll never know types' would choose a parachute packed by BR or BM, for their first free fall?

[under the tin]

[quote="Ian Royal
]

Where he went wrong ................................

......is the bloke was shown to be a big headed, tactically inept dreamer who actually believed the "Headhunted by Mourinho" hype, and thought he was a lot better than the performance of the team, made up of players he had outsourced and then had selected, playing tactics and formations he has chosen, and the consequent results those performances garnered on the pitch. Responsibility, anyone?

You can talk all day about "world class models"

Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder.

We did the right thing by getting rid.

Brian's actions > Brendan's words.

[Ian Royal]

Preaching to the converted. I wasn't talking about what he did with the team though.

[Terminal Boardom]

Unfortunately, I don't think he'll get the opportunity at MKD. It's a pity, because I'm sure he'd make a lot of you revise your opinion of him, by taking MKD into The Championship within 18 months.

I am sure that is what he will say he will do.

How many times are you prepared to get you fingers burned by this guy?

Don't waste your energy on this, Rodgerite is obviously deluded and needs to be sectioned like Royalee.

Corrected for you

[Man Friday]

Anybody have access to BR's statements DURING the season (right up until the last couple of games) when he was talking about achieving promotion THIS season?

[Dirk Gently]

Anybody have access to BR's statements DURING the season (right up until the last couple of games) when he was talking about achieving promotion THIS season?

To prove what?

He's gone, we're better off.

MOVE ON!

[wolsey]

I'd like to know if all the 'BR might have done's, but we'll never know types' would choose a parachute packed by BR or BM, for their first free fall?

Good point, well made - although there would always be a fair few impressed by shiny packaging and bumper instruction manuals.

I've always preferred bald facts and simple instructions.

[working class hero]

I'd like to know if all the 'BR might have done's, but we'll never know types' would choose a parachute packed by BR or BM, for their first free fall?

Good point, well made - although there would always be a fair few impressed by shiny packaging and bumper instruction manuals.

I've always preferred bald facts and simple instructions.

I'd like a parachute packed by a person skilled in the art - not some blooming football club manager.

[Franchise FC]

I'd like to know if all the 'BR might have done's, but we'll never know types' would choose a parachute packed by BR or BM, for their first free fall?

Good point, well made - although there would always be a fair few impressed by shiny packaging and bumper instruction manuals.

I've always preferred bald facts and simple instructions.

I'd like a parachute packed by a person skilled in the art - not some blooming football club manager.

Parachutes are easy to pack. I've packed plenty, but never had a freefall. The blooming football club manager is probably as good as anyone.

[Dorset-Knob]

Jump out of aeroplane wearing a parachute packed by BM, look up and there above you is a lovely, comforting, silk canopy, happy days!

Do the same thing with one packed by BR and I suspect when you looked up there would be a trail of washing, a big book of how to pack a parachute, and some quotes about how great he was at doing it and if, if, it failed it would of course be somebody else's fault, and he didn't get enough time to do it right and he would have done it differently if he had known!

In any event, I prefer having a 'parachute-packer' mentality type, running the team than an experimentalist, thanks!

[Snowball]

In just 12 games McDermott has picked up what took Brendan 20 games

Reading 21 1 5 5 08-15 4 1 5 15-18 -10 21 = a 46-Point Season = relegation = Rodgers
Reading 33 5 6 5 21-18 6 2 9 23-32 -06 41 = Now
Reading 12 4 1 0 13-03 2 1 4 08-14 +04 20 = a 77-Point Season = our position last year = McDermot



Reading 46 12 5 6 40 17 9 9 5 32 23 +32 77 SSC's final season


McDermot has turned the home form around, but he's played 7 away, 5 at home
and if the lads continue to pick up points H & A at the same average, his full season
would look very impressive indeed. He's averaging a point a game away, 2.6 points per game at home!!

18.4 Home Wins
04.6 Home Draws
00.0 Home Defeats
06.6 Away Wins
03.3 Away Draws
13.0 Away Defeats

W25 D08 L13 80-65 = 83 Points = Birmingham's tally last year


And this is without USA, Doyle, SHunt, Bikey, Noel Hunt, Harper, Rosey...


Frankly, this is nothing short of brilliant and if we finish top eight this season Mac should get Manager of the Year

[weybridgewanderer]

8 goals in brendan's 11 home league games

9 in our last 2