RoyaleeIan Royal One off poor performance from players is either from the manager getting his tactics totally wrong for a game or the players having an off day.
Frequent poor performances from the players is either the manager being incapable of doing the very basics of his job or the players simply not being good enough. If those same players then put in vastly improved performances under a different manager it pretty much spells out to all but the most blinkered or stupid exactly where the problem was.
You don't understand the difference between playing poorly and creating nothing and being poor in front of goal, or anything much about the game to be fair. McDermott's done very well getting players like Kebe to play, but let's not forget Rodgers' predecessor still couldn't get anything out of him and to call most of our performances insipid under Rodgers is utter toss - we played some excellent football at times, but were missing the investment needed up top and were robbed of Noel Hunt.
Would that be Rodger's predecessor who got something like 15 assists out of Kebe in one season?
We never looked particularly like scoring even with the chances we created and that was clearly down to the lack of confidence and happiness the players had in their manager and tactics.
We played pretty pretty ineffectual, directionless toss under Rodgers.
From all the reports your estimate of Rasiak's cost is also at least a third off the actual price. And of course it was Rodgers who decided we'd be fine with one fit striker and we didn't need anyone to cover for an unfit Hunt, but could instead rely on a player who'd done little for seasons, a player who'd failed to cut the mustard over 4 seasons and a player without a good scoring record in his first season at this level. None of whom were well suited to playing up front alone.
