by Vision »
20 Oct 2009 16:13
Ideal Royal Lady reflect on what he needs? Didn't he have the whole of pre-season for that? If he doesn't have the type of player he needs, it's ENTIRELY down to him, he bought players in on contracts and on loan. He's a complete and utter buffoon.
+1,000,000
With the greatest of respect, what he inherited (and had pre-season with) was a squad without many performers proven at this level. He was never going to be sure whether the majority of those players could cut it at this level anymore than anyone else could. A big chunk of what he's bought in are, on paper at least, players such as Mills,Howard,Rasiak and McAnuff who are decent if unspectacular at Championship level.
His biggest mistake in my opinion (and I said this after the Barnsley win) has been in trying to give "everyone" a chance to prove themselves he's chopped and changed far too much and as a result has given very few a realistic chance to actually prove themselves.
The signs on Cummings and Howard in my view are not good but I certainly wouldn't write off McAnuff,Mills and Rasiak on the evidence of less than a handful of League starts each.
He's made mistakes for sure and he does himself few favours with a lot of his public utterences but anyone who thought this season was going to anything other than a struggle was seriously deluding themselves. Perhaps that applies to Rodgers as much as it does to some of the fans.
