Rodgers will be sacked the 1st or 2nd week of December

[Dunny]

Jangle, you were going good until this bit of insolence "Go hold yuh space and stop call up big team name."

X - who says that dussin' out Norwich is the bar? For me, I see that Rodgers is doing certain things that no manager in recent times (as I can remember) is doing - e.g. playing the youngsters and focusing on possession as well as tempo. He played 5 teenagers against WBA in the Carling Cup and won; they also played very attractively. And as far as the first team goes, he is giving them chances there as well - Sterlling looks to have cemented a starting position, and *young* players like Wisdom and Suso look like they can hold their own and are being given opportunities at the expense of senior squad members like Downing and Enrigue. That is exactly what is needed - hunger!

Lastly (and it pains me to say this) I agree with Jangle. We have to beat the run of the mill teams and not worry too much about the big guns - we will ALWAYS be up for those games...it's the likkel stupid ones that we screw up on. A few seasons ago, losses to Reading and Middlesborough derailed our championship run. Had we won those games, we would have taken the title. Since then, the league is more competitive.

We'll talk again at Christmas.

EDIT: By the way - Rodgers mistake so far was with letting Carroll go without a replacement (if that was his doing) and that his defence is not playing tight enough. The two goals that Norwich got on the weekend were inexcusable. He has to fix that.

X can stay deh live in the past. The house need rebuilding and foundation need putting down first. As for Downing and Enrique dem goose looked cook like the rest of KD rubbish signings. KD push back Liverpools progress by about 3 years.

Up your game: Rodgers warns Downing and Enrique that exit looms
By DOMINIC KING
PUBLISHED: 21:49 GMT, 28 September 2012 | UPDATED: 21:49 GMT, 28 September 2012
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Brendan Rodgers has warned Stewart Downing and Jose Enrique they are fighting to save their Liverpool careers after he raised questions about their attitude and desire.
England winger Downing became the fourth most expensive signing in Liverpool’s history when he arrived for £20million from Aston Villa in July 2011.
But he has struggled to make an impact and Rodgers said last month he may have to reinvent himself as a left-back to stay in the team.

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Enrique, meanwhile, has suffered an alarming loss of form in recent months. He made a terrific start to life with Liverpool following his £7million signing from Newcastle 13 months ago but Rodgers has preferred using Glen Johnson in his position in the Barclays Premier League.
The Spaniard, 26, is unlikely to play at Carrow Road today, as he has been struggling with a knee injury, but Downing, 28, could come back into the squad after being left out of the 18 for last week’s clash against Manchester United. How long he stays there for, though, remains to be seen.
‘What is important is that you have good communication,’ said Rodgers. ‘I don’t waste time waiting until January to tell both players what I know now. So they know in relation to the demands of what we want and certainly what it is going to take for us to succeed and for them to fit into the group.

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‘As coaches we are not magicians. For me football players are not different to plumbers, to joiners to bricklayers, they are self-employed and us as medics, coaches and managers we are the tools that help them to be better.
‘We will give them everything to help them to be better, but if they don’t want to show that self-motivation – and if they haven’t got that desire and hunger to succeed – then it can be very difficult. Stewart is a good guy but it hasn’t quite worked out for him as he would want it.
‘The big challenge for him now is that commitment to the cause – to fight – because he has the qualities. Talent alone is not enough. You have to work hard; you have to fight for the shirt. I will keep private the discussions Stewart and I have had but he is under no illusion that he has to fight.’

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When asked if Enrique – whose last performance against Young Boys Berne in the Europa League saw him culpable for two of three goals Liverpool conceded – was in a similar position, Rodgers was just as emphatic.
‘It is about the hunger and desire and that is why you admire big players who stay at the top for as long as they can because it is not just what they are doing in games,’ said Rodgers, who is aiming to record his first Premier League win as Liverpool manager at Norwich.
‘In order to be like that, that is what they are doing every single day of their life. Look at Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. They are immaculate. It is a way of life and if you prepare yourself right that will ultimately lead to success.

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‘But if you are not quite right in your preparation and you come in looking in for an easy life, to pick up your money, it won’t be here. We are a club that has to be fighting going forward. I am out there every day, assessing what is going on.
‘Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn’t matter how much money you have come for. That doesn’t matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.’
What will not be easy, after such a difficult start to the domestic programme, is bustling up the top four this year. Rodgers does not have to deliver Champions League football this season – owner John W Henry said so in July – but he is refusing to give up on that target.
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‘We have got 99 points to play for,’ said the manager. ‘I believe that 70-plus points will allow you to arrive in the top four. So that gives us 68 points that we need over the remaining games. We can maybe have 10-odd games with problems. That maybe the next three games, you know?
‘Of course, sooner rather than later, you want to get your points and get up and running. I want us to get the points our performances deserve. But we have got to achieve it. There’s no doubt it’s going to be a monumental achievement for that to happen but we have to work towards it.’


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[Jangle]

"As coaches we are not magicians. For me football players are not different to plumbers, to joiners to bricklayers, they are self-employed and us as medics, coaches and managers we are the tools that help them to be better."

A my coach this.....

[Paul Marin]

"As coaches we are not magicians. For me football players are not different to plumbers, to joiners to bricklayers, they are self-employed and us as medics, coaches and managers we are the tools that help them to be better."

A my coach this.....

He has to stop talking about top 4 being a monumental achievement. His squad is the 4th most expensive in the Prem, so top 4 should be the minimum expectation especially when Everton flirting up near the top. That is probably my biggest criticism of him. When he came on board initially, he sounded like Hodgson all over again wid the deadwood business. Even it he believes that is the case, he can't say it...poor form. His best signing by a long way has been Allen, that youth is as steady as they come. Borini - not so much and Assaidi looks like he has nuff promise. Suso, Wisdom and Sterling are the future.