I gave Rodgers a lot of praise for doing a stunning job last season.
For as much as he overachieved with that team, he's underachieved this year with this one.
We have Balotelli, Lambert, Borini and Aspas all on the books - all bought by Rodgers in the last three years - and he has zero confidence in any of them. I'm not convinced that any of them are either good enough or well suited to our style of play, but you could argue that none of them (Balotelli aside, out of position and in a woeful team) have been given a run of games to even prove themselves. Collectively they cost over £35m.
Sick of this "no striker" excuse. It might well prevent a title challenge, but not from getting top four or beating a poor Villa side in an easy cup run or prolonging our season past early April. We've got two brilliantly rated youngsters in Sterling and Coutinho, a £20m prospect in Markovic, another future star in Henderson, a £25m Lallana and more to call upon for goals.
And if it isn't strikers then it's injuries, and if it isn't that then it's the pitch, or perhaps no luck. We don't like teams who sit deep, but then we don't like teams who play it long, or who are physical, or who have energy, or who run at us, and so on. Basically, if we're not playing teams like Newcastle who have given up before us then we're not happy.
There's no fight about this team in all honesty, and that's simply inexcusable.
Two wins from Blackburn (H), Man Utd (H), Arsenal (A), Blackburn (A), Newcastle (H), Villa (N), WBA (A) and Hull (A). If we'd won the last three then we'd be in the cup final and in a serious battle for fourth, and they were against teams who are fighting relegation, the last two of which are (...were) in dreadful form.
No excuses: the last manager who saw us whimper to the finish line / beach lost his job over it. Rodgers is in serious danger of suffering the same fate with the results and performances at the moment, combined with just how awful the season has been overall, and he's got no-one to blame but himself.