Elm Park Old BoyIan Royal It's patently obvious that Rodgers is a very good manager. It's also patently obvious that he didn't do a good enough job here.
He tried to do too much too quickly, without any appreciation that he needed to keep an eye out for the trap door opening below us. He was too rigid and uncompromising in his approach to start with and his recovery was a little too late and a little too unconvincing. He was also generally not really very likable in personality when following Coppell.
It's also obvious McDermott is a good manager and did a good job here. But that his experience, style and skills were lacking when it came to a weaker side playing with the big boys (Hardly surprising for a man in his first 'professional' managerial job). There's just only so far that organisation and self-belief can take a decent group of players. Especially when that self-belief is being eroded by losing so many games and playing against people way better than them every week.
It's also obvious that Adkins is a good manager, but who happens to be struggling a bit at the moment.
Hey, you know you'll only get in trouble writing such patent good sense on here?
That post was spot on, Ian
