23 Jul 2023 16:10:39
Hi ED001, I remember Johan Cruyff was mentioned as a possible DOF back when FSG first owned the club, do you know the reasons why this didn’t happen and do you think it would of been a positive influence on the club at the time?

{Ed001's Note - he didn't want to leave Ajax but yes, I was one of the people who really wanted that to happen. But then it would have meant we wouldn't have ended up in a mess just at the time Klopp was available, so it probably worked out for the best.}

1.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 16:49:58
I always think that about the Gerrard slip Ed.
Had he not slipped and say we went on to win the prem, Rogers becomes some unsackable immortal.
We cling on and don’t get Jurgan Klopp. Disaster.

2.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 16:49:58
I always think that about the Gerrard slip Ed.
Had he not slipped and say we went on to win the prem, Rogers becomes some unsackable immortal.
We cling on and don’t get Jurgan Klopp. Disaster.

{Ed001's Note - the Gerrard slip wasn't what cost us, it was Rodgers' mistakes that cost us that title. Thankfully as it led to him being replaced by Klopp.}

3.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 17:51:07
Pray tell, Ed01, if you can be bothered. This is interesting. I forgot about the minutae of that season.

{Ed001's Note - we didn't need to win that game but he went for a win. There were other games as well we could easily have done better if Rodgers had any kind of tactical nous at all.}

4.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 18:33:06
I always remember the 3 0 lead we had v Palace and although we had a poorer goal difference than City and probably wouldn't have caught them in that respect, all we needed was for us to win and them to put the pressure on. We went for more goals, Palace scored 3 to draw and City went on to beat Villa I think in the next game, but they took over an hour to score their goal in that game I'm sure. If we would have beaten Palace, who knows how much more pressure that would have put on City.
But it doesn't play on my mind. honestly ?.

5.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 18:49:47
We were shocking at defending under Rodgers. That's what cost us. I'm not a fan of Suarez because of his antics but him and Sturridge dragged that team to a title challenge. They were phenomenal that season.

6.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 18:59:01
Ah god I remember that Chelsea game. Mourinho playing terrible football slowing down play. Time wasting… we could have played into that and done the exact same. A point would have won us the league. Never understood why we went for the win there ?‍♂️.

7.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 19:34:19
The only reason I can think of that made Rodgers go for a win against a mourinho Chelsea instead of the draw we needed, is arrogance.

We were blitzing most teams by that point and I think he arrogantly couldn’t resist trying his luck and Mou saw it coming from a mile off and absolutely schooled him.

8.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 19:42:22
The only tactic I remember of Rodgers was to take the credit when we won and blame the players when we lost. Or am I that bitter towards him? ( never liked him)

9.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 19:57:05
Glen Johnson said on a podcast once Chelsea requested to change the kick off time or date to work better with their CL fixture but Rodgers refused and it really annoyed Mourinho.

10.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 20:01:08
We were at Anfield against an inferior Chelsea, of course we went for the win. We would have gott it too but 4 the slip as chelsea would have had to come out 2nd half. talk about wise after the event.

11.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 20:16:31
Bmena-red, we lost the title cos BR was so full of himself it was ridiculous. We all wanted to win the title but let's be honest, our charge was built on quicksand and we knew that when we got unstuck and our forwards could not bail us out, we would be in trouble. Anyone who thinks one incident in a 38 game season lost or won the team a title was not paying attention.

12.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 21:04:00
We were defensively terrible under Rogers and the only thing we had going for us was our attack.

Probably answers the question of why we went all out attack against Chelsea and Palace rather than close up shop and try and grind out results.

Rogers was at the helm for all the mistakes but he was also at the helm to put us into contention in the first place.

He royally messed up the seasons after and that allowed us to get a world class manager of Klopp in.

13.) 23 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 23:29:18
Rather than the slip I have always thought it was more because Henderson was red carded (against ManC) and missed the next 3 games at the tail end of that season. Hendo was just about entering his peak and was crucial to our midfield at that time.

14.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 01:59:40
ArAy1969 - I was watching live on TV and that moment I knew we scred the league that day.

We can all blame Brendan and Gerard's slip but that season was lost exactly there.

It is easy to blame Brendan's arrogance and lack of technical nous now, but that was such a roller coaster season we all loved while it lasted.

15.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 04:49:12
The slip happened early in the game.
It was not the cause for the result.
There was plenty of time to turn that game around but the team wasn’t capable of doing it and conceded a second.

It’s all about how you react as a team and we reacted poorly. That’s why we lost the league that day.

{Ed001's Note - we still had a chance afterwards and we had chances before. This was just one game out of 38, it was not the decider. We simply were not good enough over the course of the season - in very large part due to Rodgers imo. He was tactically idiotic and had no clue how to change things when needed or close out games when a lead was taken. Oh and he can't organise a defence. They were all things that were far more to blame for the failure to win the league than Gerrard slipping.}

16.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 07:18:25
the amount of games we went 3 4 nil up and then finished with a draw was just stupid. the title was lost over multiple failures across the season.

i agree with ed001, gerrard slip was famously blamed but it was just one of many factors, which i would also put down to Rodgers.

{Ed001's Note - it is so harsh that Gerrard has got the blame after the many times he dragged the club out of the muck in his career. I am not the biggest fan of him as a man, but he doesn't deserve his playing career to be remembered for that one moment above all things. He should never have been playing that role anyway, for starters, to be receiving the ball so deep.}

17.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 07:23:38
After the slip, which can happen to anyone. can't just blame gerrard for that game. didn't we play palace? Sure we was 3 nil up and screwed it up to end 3-3. That was inexcusable. Rogers was a absolute crap manager. Look at the players he brought in. says it all mostly.

18.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 08:48:12
Love him or hate him Luis Suarez was God mode that season, that's when he became the best number 9 in world football. What a player he was to watch.

19.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 11:47:11
I agree with Ed001 re Rogers but I also think there was another more defining factor than the one game slip, one that could have perhaps not exposed Rogers lack of tactical awareness had it not happened.

Henderson was also rock solid that season and his Man City red card resulting in losing him for 3 of last 4 for me is the point I refer to.

I'm a massive Hendo fan (even still) and I am not blaming him by any means, like I say I agree about Rogers and he could have tactically dealt with it, but there is generally less talk about losing such a key player at such a time than they do about Stevie's slip in a game that was not the be all end all which I never understand.

20.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 12:15:31
Indeed, Ed01. Gerrard was never suitable to play the DM role and BR benched a true DM in Lucas throughout that time and would never bring him on to close out games. Even in the Chelsea game for a simple example. What stopped BR from putting Lucas on to release Gerrard further forward to partner Suarez when we were chasing the game and only needed one goal? Instead, he brought on his baby from another mother in Joe Allen after Studge got injured. Again, BR's tactical incompetence and favouritism on show right there. The guy was so inept, it beggars belief.

Anyone blaming Gerrard cos he slipped is either a rival fan I have no time for an again, an LFC fan who was not really paying attention throughout that season where we eventually handed the title to a pretty terrible City team with a bang average manager. BR did ALL of that, not Gerrard.

21.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 12:30:48
As previously said I think it was down to Henderson being suspended. He was
Great that season.

22.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 14:40:49
I still can never forgive Bodgers following his TV comments after being drubbed at Stoke away. All this nonsense about the team being brave etc. A complete charlatan who got carried away with his own self after seeing the dentist, and ditching his wife for a much younger LFC co-worker. The full length self-portrait in the hallway being a particularly nice touch.

23.) 24 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 14:55:21
Jones red, Hendo was not going to prevent BR's incompetence from costing us Fatally. It was up to him to make some of the tactical changes that could have given us a better chance in that Chelsea game and he didn't. Pretty sure Hendo was not going to do any of that for him esp. since all we needed was a draw and one goal in the game to pretty much secure the title. Just my take.