I was referring mainly to the Carroll/striker situation than your view on Rodgers as a whole.
I have to say that I've been very impressed with him since he's taken over. Obviously I hoped we'd have picked up a few more points so far but a tricky first few fixtures mixed with a total change of style and the failure to address our goalscoring needs in the transfer market (who knows who was to blame for that) hasn't made things easy. I'm hopefully that slowly but surely things will get better over the coming weeks though.
That seems a bit, well this is what I said about Hodgson just not being the guy fans wanted. Rodgers has started significantly worse than Hodgson yet you guys are making excuses willingly for Rodgers while you stuck the knife in on Hodgson straight away. Total change of style? That is whats known as complete and utter media BS. Liverpool played more long balls than all but one team before this round of games.... Hodgson got accused of ancient style while Rodgers is a forwards thinking style.... according to the media, but I've seen little to no sign of that on the pitch.
Gerrard is still trying to play direct football, Suarez wasn't there under Hodgson, but is playing identically today as the day he joined Liverpool.
A fundamental goal for the team is one thing, how an individual plays really isn't. 90% of the players are playing as they did before. Sterling is direct, but so was Bellamy who he replaced, Bellamy was better though. The only player passing it more than anyone else is Joe Allen, and a great passing rate it is, and utterly worthless. There is passing for the sake of passing, and there is passing with an intent to win a game, the later is difficult, and something Allen hasn't even tried, the former is achievable by my gran, and Joe Allen does.
Even Shearer managed to highlight the pointlessness of Allen , Gerrard gets a ball, looks forwards and makes the pass, or drives forward. Joe Allen is doing what Song or Denilson would do, get the ball, look up, have 10 passes on, choose the 3yard sideways pass for someone else to pass it forward. Outside of ALlen there isn't a new philosophy, just mostly the same team playing mostly the same way... but worse defensively and worse upfront.
They could have gotten Dempsey first day of the transfer window for 10mil he'd have had a full preseason, been used to the team and had an actual goal scorer in the team and yes the manager bears a huge amount of responsibility for that. If it was Ayre's job then Rodgers should have been in there day one of the transfer window saying this is one you need to get done before all others, just sort it, losing the player over a couple million is beyond stupid.
Of course Liverpool will get wins, why wouldn't they, but ultimately up till Jan who will score the goals to win games. With Skrtel/Agger making monumental mistakes between them in basically every game so far, Reina looking pretty awful only add's to the need to score goals. Sunderland scored with basically their first attack/shot on goal leaving Liverpool desperate for one goal which they finally got which only got them a point rather than 3.
If their defence was top notch, best in the league and in form, scoring one goal would still only win them half the games in a season as the best defence concede's goals. Liverpool have been pretty crap defensively, and they can't even score 1 every game.... that doesn't bode well.
For me Suarez is one of the problems, he's a ball hog, passes when he wants rather than when he should, wants to create a chance for himself and only passes when his own chance to score has gone... which is rarely the best time to make a chance for someone else.
I said a year ago that he looks great on the ball but is selfish and can't hit a barn door, with the racism thing hanging over him, he was worth 25-30mil in a transfer a year ago to strength the team overall. Buy a winger for creating and a striker for scoring, rather than a guy inbetween that does neither.
Looking good and being effective, Suarez is one, you desperately need the other.
) but the penalty was missed. If anything, that should have lifted his team so to use it as an excuse seems a bit cheap. Also, his memory of fouls seemed to not stretch back to a knee high rake attempt on Nani in the first half, which although it luckily missed, was a shocking tackle. Or the stamp attempt which also missed.
) and giving time I believe he will take us to where we want to be again.
