Not sure where else to post this, though…
Just in case folks do not have a times sub
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So, he was originally appointed as ‘first-team individual development coach’ then shoehorned into the set piece role instead, now he’s been sacked?
Okay…
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Might not have been good enough in the former either. These coaches obviously have a role to play and we’ve been horrific in that phase of play. Sad when people lose their jobs but it’s fairly obvious the way he was handling his role was hurting the team.
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cant be bothered going over the Chiesa debate, but wasnt there some ridiculous stat about us not conceding after Endo came on last season …
it makes you wonder though doesnt it, he used to come on late in the piece and shut the door closed last season with efficiency, yet this season when we are an absolute shambles in the dying minutes hes nowhere to be seen…
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For all of the Slot Out comments, this seems more pertinent. Clearly, set-pieces is something we have been desperately struggling at.
I suppose this all depends on who he is replaced with, and whether they will be able to work with the other coaching staff.
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Wait a minute…
We had a set piece coach?
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You are making me repeat the same points again and again:
- It’s really hard to show anything when you play once in a blue moon and always in bad situations. And for the record, as far as I can tell your opinion of Chiesa is decidedly in the minority at least in here. But further to the point, this isn’t about Chiesa, it’s about how he is utilizing his squad.
- The PL is the most demanding league in the world and for the second year in a row Slot is attempting to negotiate it with a limited number of players.
- The overwhelming majority of successful managers are perfectly capable of both rotating and winning honours. As did Klopp. Rotation seems to be a problem only when it is debated in regard to Slot.
- The league title was a fantastic achievement. However, it doesn’t make Slot infallible, nor does it work as a lightning rod against criticism.
As for Briggs’ dismissal, it was a long time coming. It’d be interesting to see if and when we’ll see an improvement with Slot and his staff more directly involved.
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I am sure there was a period when he came on and we then conceded.
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This is seemingly the simplest explanation for Slot’s recent insistence that we’re actually doing well and its only set pieces that are hindering us. It was a variation on the “give me the tools” plea.
On the first point, I thought Arne had acknowledged in the summer he needed to rotate more and had been trying to. However, one of the issues when playing badly is to get the preferred line up onto the pitch and give them all playing time. Unnecessarily swapping players in and out just adds to the disruption - which has been one of the issues we have seen affect us negatively this season.
Secondly, I thought Klopp was regularly criticised for not rotating more.
It feels like a real mess behind the scenes though…
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If the set-pieces do not improve or even get worse under Slot now, Slot will be under even more pressure…
It doesn’t help when some twitter folks are saying Slot made the call!
Arsenal vs Liverpool in 10 days. We beat them 1-0. Virgil to score after delivery from a corner kick 
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or it could be the other way round…
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And who exactly is supposed to be rotated?
CB - was worried about Gomez’s fitness and was proved right and Leoni is done for the season
RB - both have had injury issues
LB - have been rotated but people wanted Kerkez dropped because he didn’t settle immediately.
Midfield - Other than Endo they all play plenty.
CF - people moaned when he benched Ekitike to try and get Isak match fit.
So in effect we’re talking about Endo and Chiesa here, maybe Ngumoah at a push. Neither he’s been all that interested in playing unless he has to and neither has pulled up any trees when called upon.
And I’m sure it’d be used as a stick to beat Slot with if he drops Gravenberch and Salah to play Endo and Chiesa and we go on to lose the game. We were in a rut, you put out the team you think gives you the best chance of winning the game and like it or not that best team will rarely, if ever, contain Endo or Chiesa.
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Apparently the story with Briggs isn’t quite as straightforward as ‘Set piece coach turns out to be shit’
I read that Aaron Briggs was a development coach, and a really good one, who was asked to fill in the set piece job. Liverpool then ended up making him do the job permanently, and hiring another development coach to take the role he wanted to do and was really good at.
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Well done boys, good process…
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And has now been scapegoated to quite the angry masses its unbelievable 
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He was initially hired to replace Victor Matos who left to go with Lijnders. The role is not well defined to those of us on the outside, but it is described as being as being responsible for managing the academy players’ transition into senior football, either with us or on loan with individual development plans. It seems the role on the training ground is a bit nebulous, acting like an extra body, and in that capacity Briggs ended up leading work on set pieces last season. Once they decided to transition him into that full time they brought this guy in to fill the position he had left.
This is a totally normal move within an organization and is rarely done without approval of the employee
It might be semantics, but I would read it less as scapegoating and more as Hughes doing his equivalent of buying Benteke for Rogers. You are responding to the excuses for why results meeting expectations and effectively saying “go on then, you’ve got what you said you needed now show me how it improves now.”
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