Brendan Rodgers tribute thread

[Royal With Cheese]

Rodgers, I wish you no ill but you didn't half talk a load of bollocks.

[Ian Royal]

Thanks for trying. Thanks for caring. Thanks for Rasiak. Thanks for McAnuff.

But may I suggest you try a little more realistic, consistent and step by step approach in your next managerial position. Oh and try and conduct yourself in the media with more decorum, dignity and integrity.

Enjoy Christmas with your family and good luck in the future. If you get the hang of management, you're more than welcome back. No hard feelings.

IR.

[RoyalBlue]

I'm sorry that the wrong bloke left the club Brendan. Despite taking over a squad with the quality having been ripped out of it and being expected to deliver on the Chairman's Premiership ambition with pitiful resources, we did see glimmers of the great football that I'm sure you would eventually have brought us. It's just a pity you had to arrive at the club at the time when the Chairman had become bored and had publically stated his intent to get out. I'm sure you will become a great manager and, in doing so, show who really was to blame for our current dire position.

I really hope that the reports are true and that your departure did come after a blazing row with the Chairman. It's about time someone stood up to him and challenged the clear mismatch between his empty rhetoric about Premiership ambition and the level of funding made available to his managers. I should imagine he really hated it. Only downside is that by the time he has now paid off the contracts of you and your coaching team, there will be even less money around and no doubt a need for further cloth cutting. A great bit of business management that is!! Perhaps it would have been more cost effective to spend the money on transfers afterall.

[Ian Royal]

RoyalBlue in "man-crush broke my heart" shocker.

If you've nothing good to say, say nothing.

[Terminal Boardom]

Who?

[Terminal Boardom]

The Chairman is ultimately to blame. HTH

[willz_royal]

I'm sorry that the wrong bloke left the club Brendan. Despite taking over a squad with the quality having been ripped out of it and being expected to deliver on the Chairman's Premiership ambition with pitiful resources, we did see glimmers of the great football that I'm sure you would eventually have brought us. It's just a pity you had to arrive at the club at the time when the Chairman had become bored and had publically stated his intent to get out. I'm sure you will become a great manager and, in doing so, show who really was to blame for our current dire position.

spot on.

Im glad we gave him a shot. He had a lot of potential which he didnt fulfill, but one day his big book of tactics will come up trumps (as it wouldve at scunthorpe if we didnt have such dump forwards)

[brendywendy]

nice bloke- loved the positivity, loved some of the football- hamstrung with the quality of players, and total rebuild needed, and made a few mistakes on teh way
good luck to the bloke-

[sandman]

Underneath the bravado you are probably a nice bloke. If you stopped the soundbites, talking about Chelsea so much and let your own personality rather than Moronho's out a bit more you may have gained more respect.

This was a job too soon for you. We needed experience to guide us through this difficult period and you just weren't the man for it. The people who appointed you should have realised this but they didn't and their mistake has probably set your career back.

Good luck in the future.

[Forbury Lion]

You just know he will bring a team to Madjeski one day

Assuming Horsemans give him a job that is.

[John Peel]

You just know he will bring a team to Madjeski one day

Assuming Horsemans give him a job that is.

I shouldn't laugh as I thought he should've stayed, but that is funny.

Not doubt he will come back to the Mad Stad with a team one day. He'll have to work his up, probably via a League 1 or 2 club now, but he'll definitely back. Sooner rather than later the way we're going at the moment.

I can't help feeling this was another turning point in the club's history and we got it wrong because of an incompetent board. The other major turning point in our history was the day we all thought it would be a good idea to get Coppell to stay. In hindsight we should've had the clear out in year one of the parachute payments and got a new manager. The chances are the BR fans will be proved right when the results don't get any better. He should've been given more time. Simple as that.

Anyway, that's it, time to move on. I just hope we get it right next time.

[Terminal Boardom]

At least we can stop wasting our time wondering what Fat Frank Senior did - apart from giving Shane Long coaching on being a striker which I still find highly amusing.

[Murts-is-Lej]

I'm very sorry to see you go - not because I was enjoying the results, especially at home, but because I genuinely think you will be a good manager one day and it would have been fun to see you grow up at the Mad Stad. I'm surprised someone that is so obviously as patient as Sir Mad has only given you 6 months when he knew he was getting a raw talent but I can only assume that some of your public naivety was reflected in behind-the-scenes petulance. Shame because I enjoyed supporting the sort of club that could laugh at the antics of Newcastle and the like - still they're going up and we're only just going to avoid going down so I'd better keep my head down...

I can't see you going down a league or 2 to learn your trade (I can't see the footballers down there having any chance of understanding your "methods") so I'm hoping you don't come back to haunt us in the Championship. However, best of luck for the future and thanks for those 6 wins and Jobi...

[Sir Dodger Royal]

He never stood a chance with a blonker like the Madman at the healm. RFC were a success despite the Madman. BR will come again. Mark my words. SDR is NEVER and I say NEVER wronggg

[glass half full]

He never stood a chance with a blonker like the Madman at the healm. RFC were a success despite the Madman. BR will come again. Mark my words. SDR is NEVER and I say NEVER wronggg

What's a blonker?

[MmmMonsterMunch]

Goodbye Brendan. Never before has RFC endured quite as arrogant a manager as you.

It is crystal clear you do not have the ability to back up your talk of groups, growing, DNA... whatever other b0ll0x you regularly come out with.

You have dragged this club even further into the mire & wasted more money we don't have in the process.

I have a fair bit of admiration for the way you have hoodwinked various football clubs into employing you though chap, so for that I take my hat off to you. With skills like that, it won't be long before some other mugs put you on their payroll, so I'm sure your kids will eat at Xmas.

[Ian Herring]

Couldn't help thinking that Brendan sounded if he'd undergone a course of cognitive therapy. Or mixed his pages up in his big folder with a copy of the Road Less Travelled.

He reminded me of an emotionally-incontinent woman explaining her love life even though he was supposed to be talking about football.

Changed his tune as often as a bird would as well, to be honest.

If he concentrated on the basics he might become successful at some stage. But ditch the bullshit and the pally-pally act with players and the like.

Some talent in there and some good ideas, undone by his own self-delusion.

Shut the f*ck up, keep it simple, make the players scared of you and you might do something, someday.

But most of all, shut the f*ck up. In football you want to see results. Not hear of their potential arrival or why they passed us by.

Best of luck for the future. Keep your trap shut and just concentrate on simple consistent football and you might do something sometime.

[Flyingkiwi]

What STILL pisses me off is that if we hadn't had to hand over a whole wad of cash to Watford for "luring" this Wally away they'd already be in administration and have had 10 points deduced which would have gone some way toward making up for the abysmal string of results we've had during the reign of this moron!

oxf*rd off and never come back you knob!!!

That should, of course, be deducted. Sorry Slammed! I'm sure that terrible spelling cock-up is the reason for the eye-roll.

[SLAMMED]

What STILL pisses me off is that if we hadn't had to hand over a whole wad of cash to Watford for "luring" this Wally away they'd already be in administration and have had 10 points deduced which would have gone some way toward making up for the abysmal string of results we've had during the reign of this moron!

oxf*rd off and never come back you knob!!!

[Dick Habbin's hairdo]

What STILL pisses me off is that if we hadn't had to hand over a whole wad of cash to Watford for "luring" this Wally away they'd already be in administration and have had 10 points deduced which would have gone some way toward making up for the abysmal string of results we've had during the reign of this moron!

oxf*rd off and never come back you knob!!!

What he said.....

still, could be better - could be Aldersh*t

BUT, we have Bignall back in the family and he is going to save us this season....