2/23/2012: Rogers Hits Back At Warzycha
By Ryan Kozlowski
CREWTURE.COM
Robbie Rogers is off in England battling with a Leeds United squad looking for promotion to the Premiership. In addition, Rogers currently is looking to not disappear in the Leeds reserves as the coach that brought Rogers over, Simon Grayson, was recently fired for a poor string of results.
Still with all of this stress of an overseas adventure, the former Crew winger Rogers had enough time to take a poke at his ex-coach in The New York Times:
“My first two years in M.L.S. I had Sigi Schmid,” Rogers said. “He knew how to get the best out of his players. My last three years were just kind of inconsistent. My relationship with [Robert Warzycha] was just kind of on and off. He didn’t communicate with me as well as I might have liked. I think he has a good eye for talent, but I thought I worked better with Sigi.”
If you look at Robbie Rogers stats for his last season with Sigi Schmid:
And compare that to Robbie Rogers stats for his last season with Robert Warzycha:
Rogers basically just reversed goals and assists, which isn't necessarily bad. You need someone to give a good pass to make the goals happen as well.
So, when Sigi was getting his best out of the winger Rogers contributed to 10 goals in 30 games. Whereas, when Robert was getting his best out of Rogers he contributed to 9 goals in 25 games. Not much of a difference.
Maybe Rogers was just a bit inconsistent because he was disinterested, he's always had one eye across the Atlantic (never really hid it well himself). So, find it a bit unnecessary to have to blame your field play on your ex-coach.
Or question Warzycha's ability to get the most out of his players.
Sometimes it's not best to ponder the past, especially when the present isn't so bad for a player.
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