Morgan Rogers

[Drummond]

Well those ironic cheers, directed at a player who cost us fuck all, may well come back to bite us. Because when he gives it back when he next scores, or he then wants to leave and we get less than he should because his confidence is shot, those same fans will complain.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah I thought that was really poor. There were signs of improvement last night and he was noticeably trying really hard. Clearly he’s off where he needs to be, but he was still trying the passes that make a difference, not hiding.

To get ironically cheered for making a pass was piss poor.

[Percy McCarthy]

Yeah I thought that was really poor. There were signs of improvement last night and he was noticeably trying really hard. Clearly he’s off where he needs to be, but he was still trying the passes that make a difference, not hiding.

To get ironically cheered for making a pass was piss poor.

Agreed. Especially the bit about him trying really hard. He really put a shift in. Which is why I was really pissed off with the cheering. Hopefully everyone else who was pissed off with it will back him to the hilt on Sunday if he plays.

[Somniloquism]

Agreed. Especially the bit about him trying really hard. He really put a shift in. Which is why I was really pissed off with the cheering. Hopefully everyone else who was pissed off with it will back him to the hilt on Sunday if when he plays.

FTFY

[Exeter 77]

It appears Rogers knows he isn't playing well but isn't hiding and is still looking to get on the ball.

[PeterWithe]

Its a difficult situation, clearly his confidence is shot and his stats were the stuff of nightmares, but he's in the team to make things happen, to play the most difficult and risky passes, the ones that are least likely to come off and with every failed one his confidence drops another point. Boy did he need to net that open goal before McGinns.

[Scott Nielsen]

Noticed on the highlights he didn't seem to go across to congratulate McGinn when he scored. Last season he seemed to be one of the first celebrating goals from other players.

He was still on the ground from his in front of goal air swing, probably just disappointed with his attempt.  He's just horribly out of form atm and his confidence has gone.

It looked very bad (and the air swing too!). Rather than celebrating our goal, he turned to the referee to protest a non-existent shirt pull. Very odd.

[Clampy]

Those cheers reminded when of when we got booed off at against Wolves at half time a while back.

There was a chap a couple or seats away from me last night shouting as loud as he could about Rogers (including a 'fuck off back to Middlesbrough'). Little kids in front of him were laughing at his swearing which just seemed to encourage him more.

[London Villan]

He tries to do the worldy pass every time. Some basic tip tapping would do him the world of good!

[LeeB]

He tries to do the worldy pass every time. Some basic tip tapping would do him the world of good!

Yes, if you're feeling a bit off the pace just completing a couple of simple passes can do the world of good to your confidence.

I felt last season that this was where he needed to learn quickly, he seemed to struggle to read the pattern of a game and when we could do with holding onto the ball for a bit to relieve some pressure.

[DB]

He tries to do the worldy pass every time. Some basic tip tapping would do him the world of good!

2nd half when we broke he did try and thread a few passes through the eye of a needle, as you say a few simple passes would have been better option.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Everyone sitting around me cheered with irony when Morgan finally made a successful pass, it was wasn't malicious but spontaneous, he'd been that bad. It doesn't look great in hindsight but I'm sure he is good enough and strong minded enough to shove it back down our collective throats soon enough.

For context I was sat in my living room so the ironic cheers did not directly impact Mr Rogers.

[simboy]

As others have said, last night he didn't hide - he got a lot wrong but he didn't disappear on the field as he did last year. it was all a bit tentative and desperate to get the pass spot on, as a consequence he seemed to under hit passes or play it all very "precisely" and usually wrongly.

Frustrated as he was it was perhaps a mistake not to come over to the Holte at the end of the game. A bad game seems to lead to his immediate exit without acknowledging those who would back him ... did it at Monaco I seem to recall where he walked right past the Villa fans and ignored them completely. A small gripe.

Watkins did - even with those rather silly boots, and got generous applause.

[LeeB]

Everyone sitting around me cheered with irony when Morgan finally made a successful pass, it was wasn't malicious but spontaneous, he'd been that bad. It doesn't look great in hindsight but I'm sure he is good enough and strong minded enough to shove it back down our collective throats soon enough.

For context I was sat in my living room so the ironic cheers did not directly impact Mr Rogers.

I think if you're a professional and have given the ball away as much as he had you've got to expect that, and dealing with it is part of maturing and gaining experience.

He's had an unreal 18 months of stratospheric growth when everything has gone right for him, and now he's hit a rough patch and needs to work out a way through it. That's what comes with experience, he'll be a better player for it going forward. I think Emery's approach is the right one and anyway there's hardly a clutch of credible alternatives hoping to take his place.