I want him to be given another season partly because changing managers is always disruptive but also because there are mitigating circumstances behind this season. Let's deal in facts rather than bullshit, shall we?
His first season started poorly but the club admitted that they didn't even have a transfer system in place when Rodgers took over so the Summer was a disaster. Once it was put in place we bought Sturridge and Coutinho, two players who made a real difference. The previous season we finished 8th on 52 points, seventeen points behind 4th place. This season we finished 7th on 61 points - nine points higher than the previous season before he took over, three points higher than the season before that.
His second season started well and went from strength to strength as the season wore on. However, yet again we missed out on our top targets in the Summer - we wanted Henrikh Mkhitaryan, we ended up with Iago Aspas. Nonetheless, we finished the season in second place on 84 points, only three points from winning the title.
His third season starts with the star striker (Suarez) wanting out to Barcelona. Our top target was Alexis Sanchez but like the Summer before, we miss out on the main target and end up with Balotelli, a very good player wholly unsuited for our style of play. To add insult to injury we then loose Sturridge to injury and the season has just gone from bad to worse. Then the icing on the cake of a player giving unauthorised interviews, smoking bongs, inhaling laughing gas and demanding to be one of, if not the highest paid player at the club.
Nonetheless, there's a common theme running through this season which today demonstrated once more - a lack of goals. This lack of goals is hardly Brendan Rodgers' fault and regardless of how you feel about him, any fair minded person will agree on that. We still have five games left of this season and are only four points off exceeding his first season's points haul. Despite mitigating circumstances of loosing our two top strikers and failing to land our top transfers for a third season running, there is a empirical upwards trend to our points under Rodgers.
The real test comes in a season where we don't suffer from injuries and we do score goals. A season where there are no mitigating circumstances where we can judge Brendan's true calibre as a manager. Can he improve on this season's points tally? Can we finish higher in the table than we will this year? Can we break in to the top four once more? If he goes now there will always be that shadow of doubt if the next manager does better. Would the next manager have done as well if he'd had the problems Brendan has this season? Would Brendan have done as well as the next manager if he'd remained in charge? If next season there are no mitigating circumstances then no doubtful shadows can be cast.
Obviously the dickheads who criticise his teeth and his tan aren't going to give him that chance but who give's a sh*t, they're morons and their replies aren't wanted. The rest of us should be more considered in our judgement of this season, especially given the upwards trend in points since he took over (this season the exception) and compared to year on year since FSG took over.
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