The Roy Hodgson Thread

[TommyW]

I just hope he demonstrates some backbone when the owners and Purslow fuck him over

 

he's our manager now and needs to show he's on our side not the owners

[Guest LFD]

What about "safe hands"?

 

I don't mind that.

[Guest ian garro]

This litle gem's not going away, is it?

 

Not for a while, it probably won't, no. Whilst, as someone who would have preferred Benitez to stay, I won't be joining in with it, I can see why people would.

 

All those platitudes rolled out last season; "top managers would crawl over broken glass" and "we are still Liverpool" etc etc, look a bit empty now.

 

All those shouting the loudest, most vitriolic abuse, have strangely disappeared though...

[Bogman]

Ok mate not here to argue with anyone.......LFC FIRST AND FOREMOST :thumbup:

 

Aye. Agreed mate.

[hamstrung]

Oh I agree, but we have no money?

 

Then he'll have to be creative, I suppose.

 

"Improvements" like Zamora and Murphy aren't going to get us back into the top 4.

 

If you are happy to accept that, then you can advocate as many average players as you like.

[Chinandeler Bong]

Liverpool Echo - Liverpool FC - News - Patience was the key to appointing new Liverpool FC manager Roy Hodgson

 

Throughout the process, Liverpool’s senior players have been kept abreast of developments and it is understood the decision to install Hodgson was greeted enthusiastically.

[jon lad]

Welcome to Liverpool Football Club Roy and good luck. Don't take any shit from G & H et al. You're the boss.

[goatboy59]

All those shouting the loudest, most vitriolic abuse, have strangely disappeared though...

 

Possibly because this

 

:wallbutt:

 

isn't their idea of fun?

 

I love it!

[Thants]

So, basically, lets just be Fulham.

 

I'm always up for a bit of Cottaging.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Do you not think they are improvements?

 

Not particularly. Danny is 33, Zamora is rocking on 30. They both had full season, N'Gog didn't.

 

They are both English, which is why you're talking about them, I suspect.

[jackofdk]

Good luck, Roy.

 

I think you will need it.

[MLB]

Fully behind him. Can't be arsed talking about what might have been now.

[mrw74]

Me and my mate have just been discussing this by text and it is a thoroughly depressing day. Roy is going into this with his eyes wide open, and he's probably been told to sell x,y and z for £50 million and get £10m of it to spend. Our prospects are not good and will only pick up when dumb and dumber have been removed from our club.

[cochcaer]

Strange really, I've never been so underwhelmed or ambivalent. Good luck; you're gonna need it.

[Soleilrouge]

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/ff-football-forum/86806-id-love-see-him-interim-manager-love-2.html#post2047049

 

 

the fact that i foresaw this by seven months is proof that this appointment is inspired

 

roy hodgson brings something we have been lacking for years - an ability to spot a good player where others do not and to an ability to improve undeperforming ones

 

he also understands the subtleties of building a players confidence

 

the questions remain over his tactical ability, his ability to spend big (not really a problem for us) and his ability to manage a bunch of egotistical underachievers that are currently referred to here as steven gerrard and jamie carragher

[Guest ian garro]

Possibly because this

 

:wallbutt:

 

isn't their idea of fun?

 

I love it!

 

Right. No irony there then.

[Guest LFD]

Strange really, I've never been so underwhelmed or ambivalent. Good luck; you're gonna need it.

 

NEGGED

[Antynwa]

Not particularly. Danny is 33, Zamora is rocking on 30. They both had full season, N'Gog didn't.

 

They are both English, which is why you're talking about them, I suspect.

 

Nope. I'm talking about them because they are better than Lucas and Ngog

[dirty_sanchez]

Good luck Roy, you're really really going to need it.

[gkmacca]

A THREE year contract according to SSN.

[hamstrung]

[TheHitman]

Possibly because this

 

:wallbutt:

 

isn't their idea of fun?

 

I love it!

 

But you were not part of the hypocritical band of merry men, you actually rate Rafa as a coach but couldn't stand the politicking and If I recall you probably would have given him another year. This is a bit different to what some imbeciles suggested ie Jose, Hiddink anyone could do job etc etc.

[TommyW]

ridiculous appointment for all manner of reasons but its done now, all the best Roy

[Skidfingers McGonical]

May be getting shot of most of the coaching staff mightn't be such a bad thing.

 

How might that not be a bad thing?

 

In my opinion majority of the coaches within the club are full of the high end of qualifications, a lot more than any possible english coaches Hodgson may bring in. They focus on technical aspects of a players development, and develop them properly.

 

I said in the Rafa's Coaching Staff thread the other day I believe the framework that Rafa set up for the Academy left us in a good position for the future, and I believe that would carry on right through to the first team.

[Kevin D]

The implications of this are unnerving. I hope Hodgson is a principled man who has the stomach to fight the board; he's taken on a fantastic post but at the most difficult time.

 

Not a lot we can do now but wait and see.