Brendan given vote of confidence

[Stranded]

Curbs or Keegan please.

Jesus!

Keegan has be up for worst manager in the history of football.
Keep.the.f*ck.away

Fulham promoted, Newcastle promoted, Man City promoted.

We want to be promoted.

Pretty sure he had a lot of money to spend each time.

[Deathy]

Fulham were generous, yes. £2m on Hayles? Few other good signings too. Al Fayed knew what he wanted and got it pretty sharpish. Never massively spent in the premierhsip, but proof that splashing some money at the lower levels can pay off if the club maintains some sensibility and good management when at the top level.

[Royal Rother]

im still find it quite unbelievable the lack of patience and realism on this site. 11 games, pretty much a new squad, and a new era for the club. what do you expect?

Whoever called for Coppell (or SSC if you'd rather refer to him in a retarded way) needs to be frog marched to the wind turbine, wait til the wind gets up, strapped to it, and forgotten about. He's been a spent force at RFC since 2007.

IF however we pass xmas in the relegation zone, then of course my view would change, but come on 11 games and a new team give the bloke an f'ing chance.

Just to add to this - Coppell's team won just 3 of its last 14 games of Championship football, with Doyle, Bikey, Harper, Shunt et al available to him.

Rodgers' record so far, with a completely new squad, lots of young players brought in, a fait bit of experimentation to see who can fit into the system he wants to play, stands up to scrutiny against the end of the last regime.

Some of our play has been excellent. Generally not for long enough periods though. Give it time to gain the consistency. As much time as it needs. It'll come good later in the season.

[Alan Partridge]

im still find it quite unbelievable the lack of patience and realism on this site. 11 games, pretty much a new squad, and a new era for the club. what do you expect?

Whoever called for Coppell (or SSC if you'd rather refer to him in a retarded way) needs to be frog marched to the wind turbine, wait til the wind gets up, strapped to it, and forgotten about. He's been a spent force at RFC since 2007.

IF however we pass xmas in the relegation zone, then of course my view would change, but come on 11 games and a new team give the bloke an f'ing chance.

Just to add to this - Coppell's team won just 3 of its last 14 games of Championship football, with Doyle, Bikey, Harper, Shunt et al available to him.

Rodgers' record so far, with a completely new squad, lots of young players brought in, a fait bit of experimentation to see who can fit into the system he wants to play, stands up to scrutiny against the end of the last regime.

Give it time to gain the consistency. As much time as it needs. It'll come good later in the season.

That is absolutely no achievement to be brutally honest, no one is actually saying they want a return of last season are they? It was even worse. Like the current team just with the ball in the air.

Rodgers has given himself a mountain to climb by having no decent centre forwards and playing a system which doesn't suit the players he does have. Good luck to him though i'm sure he'll do gr8.

[Vision]

Fulham were generous, yes. £2m on Hayles? Few other good signings too. Al Fayed knew what he wanted and got it pretty sharpish. Never massively spent in the premierhsip, but proof that splashing some money at the lower levels can pay off if the club maintains some sensibility and good management when at the top level.

Combined losses of over 100m in their 7 Premiership seasons. £13m on the likes of Steve Marlet?. Tigana spent bucketloads when they first went up.
They spent over 25m in the season they finished just 2 goals ahead of us.

They had the odd season where Al-Fayed has said enough is enough but as soon as they started to struggle out came the chequebook again. Fair enough when something needed doing he financed it so I'm not knocking him but lets not pretend its not primarily down to a rich benefactor rather more than "sensible management" for the vast majority of their Premiership life.

[Deathy]

Fulham were generous, yes. £2m on Hayles? Few other good signings too. Al Fayed knew what he wanted and got it pretty sharpish. Never massively spent in the premierhsip, but proof that splashing some money at the lower levels can pay off if the club maintains some sensibility and good management when at the top level.

Combined losses of over 100m in their 7 Premiership seasons. £13m on the likes of Steve Marlet?. Tigana spent bucketloads when they first went up.
They spent over 25m in the season they finished just 2 goals ahead of us.

They had the odd season where Al-Fayed has said enough is enough but as soon as they started to struggle out came the chequebook again. Fair enough when something needed doing he financed it but lets not pretend its not primarily down to a rich benefactor rather more than "sensible management".

Sorry, you think £100m over 7 years in the Premiership is a lot of money spent? Vs income from Sky, sponsors etc, that's just about right to maintain a Premiership club. I wouldn't say that was excessive.

[Vision]

Fulham were generous, yes. £2m on Hayles? Few other good signings too. Al Fayed knew what he wanted and got it pretty sharpish. Never massively spent in the premierhsip, but proof that splashing some money at the lower levels can pay off if the club maintains some sensibility and good management when at the top level.

Combined losses of over 100m in their 7 Premiership seasons. £13m on the likes of Steve Marlet?. Tigana spent bucketloads when they first went up.
They spent over 25m in the season they finished just 2 goals ahead of us.

They had the odd season where Al-Fayed has said enough is enough but as soon as they started to struggle out came the chequebook again. Fair enough when something needed doing he financed it but lets not pretend its not primarily down to a rich benefactor rather more than "sensible management".

Sorry, you think £100m over 7 years in the Premiership is a lot of money spent?

Well actually I do but that's not the point I'm making.

That's how much they've lost in operating profit/loss in 7 seasons. Not sure even with football logic that losing over 100m in 7 years with nothing to show for it but to remain in a division to continually lose the same amount is "sensible" or could be considered as "never having spent massively".

[Deathy]

The People thinks he's on the verge of being sacked.

To be honest, I wouldn't be dissapointed or pleased either way.

[Ian Royal]

Spot on Vision

[winchester_royal]

To be honest, I wouldn't be dissapointed or pleased either way.

That's how many people feel.

[Ian Royal]

To be honest, I wouldn't be dissapointed or pleased either way.

That's how many people feel.

Mostly the ones that think he's any good.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

To be honest, I wouldn't be dissapointed or pleased either way.

That's how many people feel.

Agree 100%.

I can't make my mind up if he's a genius or an utter fool.

[Ryn]

If he's sacked I will be disappointed, because we will be admitting that we couldn't get it right first time, and will have to start over with someone new.

[Deathy]

If he's sacked I will be disappointed, because we will be admitting that we couldn't get it right first time, and will have to start over with someone new.

Very unlike John Madejski.

[fozzy]

Agree 100%.

I can't make my mind up if he's a genius or an utter fool.

Yeah I've thought this since I first saw him interviewed. Cool, calm, collected, well-spoken and hidden genius.... or utter fool.

Since then I've considered it further and I've gone with utter fool.


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[Man Friday]

I've come round to "fool" but I so hope I'm proved to be wrong. Just can't see it though.

[Ryn]

If he's sacked I will be disappointed, because we will be admitting that we couldn't get it right first time, and will have to start over with someone new.

Very unlike John Madejski.

Gold star for you. This is why he won't go until we are relegated. The MadMan will hang on to him until it's too late.

[Ian Royal]

I'm rather hoping that you don't have to be proved wrong, but I suspect it won't be too long.

[RoyalBlue]

Even if the leopard does change his spots and sack the manager part way this season, it will merely be a case of frying pan - fire.

Who in their right mind would want to come to a club where there are no funds available and the cloth has been cut to shreds? And even if someone did, they would have to be an absolute miracle worker to turn things around with the squad that has been left post JM & NH's balancing the books.

[Uke]

Who in their right mind would want to come to a club where there are no funds available and the cloth has been cut to shreds? And even if someone did, they would have to be an absolute miracle worker to turn things around with the squad that has been left post JM & NH's balancing the books.

Yes, there's always a shortage of applicants for manager's posts aren't there?