Roy Hodgson, know your role and shut your mouth

[Duff Man]

And what makes that comparison fair, is that all of the factors are exactly the same.

 

De derp de derp de derpedy derrrpp.

[BringbackBiscan]

We had 5 points and a goal difference of 2-4 after 4 games under Hodgson.

 

After 12 games we had 16 points and a goal difference of 13-15.

 

Will 16 points after 12 games be acceptable under Rodgers?

 

The sweet nothings that Rodgera whispers makes actual league points secondary.

[Code]

And what makes that comparison fair, is that all of the factors are exactly the same.

 

 

Its roughly 1/3 of the season so it should be possible to see where the season is going, thats what.

 

Last year we had 7 points after 4 games and 22 after 12 games.

[Duff Man]

We'll certainly have more to go on, but comparing point totals when there so many things that are different, even between this season and last, is meaningless.

[King Emlyn]

He's achieved more in the game then Rodgers ever will.

Has he? what exactly has he achieved?

[xerxes]

Has he? what exactly has he achieved?

Halmstads BK Allsvenskan (2): 1976, 1979

Malmö FF Allsvenskan (5): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

Svenska Cupen (2): 1985–86, 1988–89

Inter Milan UEFA Cup Runner-Up (1): 1997

Copenhagen Danish Superliga (1): 2000–01

Danish Super Cup (1): 2001

Fulham UEFA Europa League Runner-Up (1): 2010

 

International Quarter finalist with England and Switzerland

 

All of which tend to be ridiculed - by those who have not done it themsleves.

 

I have no torch to carry for Hodgson. It didn't work out.He was a poor choice as England manager too. But the problems at LFC transcend Roy Hodgson. they did before, they did during, and they continue to.

[The Golden Eel]

He's achieved more in the game then Rodgers ever will.

 

That's the spirit.

[lifetime fan]

Halmstads BK Allsvenskan (2): 1976, 1979

Malmö FF Allsvenskan (5): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

Svenska Cupen (2): 1985–86, 1988–89

Inter Milan UEFA Cup Runner-Up (1): 1997

Copenhagen Danish Superliga (1): 2000–01

Danish Super Cup (1): 2001

Fulham UEFA Europa League Runner-Up (1): 2010

 

International Quarter finalist with England and Switzerland

 

All of which tend to be ridiculed - by those who have not done it themsleves.

 

I have no torch to carry for Hodgson. It didn't work out.He was a poor choice as England manager too. But the problems at LFC transcend Roy Hodgson. they did before, they did during, and they continue to.

 

 

Clutching at straws me thinks.

[King Emlyn]

Halmstads BK Allsvenskan (2): 1976, 1979

Malmö FF Allsvenskan (5): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

Svenska Cupen (2): 1985–86, 1988–89

Inter Milan UEFA Cup Runner-Up (1): 1997

Copenhagen Danish Superliga (1): 2000–01

Danish Super Cup (1): 2001

Fulham UEFA Europa League Runner-Up (1): 2010

 

International Quarter finalist with England and Switzerland

 

All of which tend to be ridiculed - by those who have not done it themsleves.

 

I have no torch to carry for Hodgson. It didn't work out.He was a poor choice as England manager too. But the problems at LFC transcend Roy Hodgson. they did before, they did during, and they continue to.

So fuck all then?

[md1892]

Halmstads BK Allsvenskan (2): 1976, 1979

Malmö FF Allsvenskan (5): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989

Svenska Cupen (2): 1985–86, 1988–89

Inter Milan UEFA Cup Runner-Up (1): 1997

Copenhagen Danish Superliga (1): 2000–01

Danish Super Cup (1): 2001

Fulham UEFA Europa League Runner-Up (1): 2010

 

International Quarter finalist with England and Switzerland

 

All of which tend to be ridiculed - by those who have not done it themsleves.

 

I have no torch to carry for Hodgson. It didn't work out.He was a poor choice as England manager too. But the problems at LFC transcend Roy Hodgson. they did before, they did during, and they continue to.

 

So other than win titles in pub leagues, nothing then.

[xerxes]

Clutching at straws me thinks.

 

So other than win titles in pub leagues, nothing then.

 

Your responses were predictable nonsense.

 

You asked what he had achieved- there it is in black and white. No point in being in denial.

 

Better than most, not as good as some.

 

I am no hodgson Champion- but when some claim that International Qtr Finals and UEFA Cup final appearances count for nothing its nice to see names against such opinions.

[RobbieOR]

Xerxes is Purslow is disguise.

[silverlining]

The vilification of Hodgson before, during and after his time here is an intriguing phenomena which transcends the man, and a complex one.

 

The club that Hodgson inherited was in meltdown. The best players wanted out, the financiers were forcing a sale, the Chairman and CEO were on their way out, the previous manager had spent a self-destructive past season engaged in civil war and the new incumbent was likely to be in for months, not years, before new owners, new ideas, and new money arrived. It was the job from hell.

 

Some believe that was the moment at which Kenny should have been appointed. Yet Kenny, ever the shrewdest of players, declined to throw his hat in the ring publicly, no doubt aware better than most that this was a poisoned chalice.

 

In retrospect the solution is obvious, a temporary appointment, probably of Kenny in a strictly caretaker role would have been ideal. Instead some dreamed of Mourinho and Pellegrini, when in practise no-one of substance wanted a runt of an opportunity, the right job at the wrong time. Hodgson was the personification of all of our ills, and no-one liked it, understandably.

 

There was a case that Hodgson would be a safe pair of hands. Familiar with the North West from his time at Blackburn, a family friend of Kenny so well aware of the nightmare of G&H, an experienced PL manager , an experienced manager of multi-national sides and a good media man,his task was really just to arrest the Rafa slide, hold our own around top six – and wait for the cavalry to arrive.

 

From his point of view accepting the job was a no-brainer. His last chance to have a crack at a top club side, our customary crazily generous contractual terms and the knowledge that outside of LFC everyone knew he was on a hiding to nothing so he didn’t have much to lose all conspired to “yes”- and who could blame him?

 

Upon arrival he faced the contempt of the Rafanistas, and the refuseniks who could not comprehend that this was how far we had fallen. It was inauspicious. A few inspiring signings might have rallied the troops, but Konshecky, Poulsen and Cole proved anything but, and as Kenny knows, no manager can survive a bad session at the transfer market. Yet still all was not lost. The side was disillusioned under a season of internecine warfare, it wasn’t terrible. A bit of basic organisation. Some realism with the fans,” I am here to do as well as I can in the most appalling of circumstances, we are all in this together, etc, etc.” Instead the pressure got to him. The footballing basics deserted him and his media discipline deserted him as bizarre comments, and poor results, caught him in a death grip. His fault.

 

He was not a success here. He failed at the basics. But it is unlikely that anyone could have done much better ,and his home league record was better than Kenny’s last season.

 

Sadly, I think he is simply past his best. His notorious faux pas in asking a journalist for a group game competitors result , and assessment of performance, the day after, when he should have not only known it, but had the scouting report, shows a man happy to be in office but for whom the detail of the job is now beyond him. His press comments, under less pressure than he was here, continue to be scatty and ill-judged.

 

The “Hodgson era” at LFC is a catch all term for the dog days of the G&H regime in the round as much as a damning of the man himself.

 

You massive, shit-spouting, mental cunt

[Anubis]

Can people just not quote Xerxes. I have him on ignore and the excessive scrolling to get past the quotes is causing me repetitive strain injury.

[BringbackBiscan]

So fuck all then?

 

Yet you wank yourself silly over the fat man and his play off trophy.

[RobbieOR]

Yet you wank yourself silly over the fat man and his play off trophy.

 

Turn it in.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I read Xerxes posts like a jazz beat poet.

[Guest ShoePiss]

Yet you wank yourself silly over the fat man and his play off trophy.

 

Who are you referring to?

[xerxes]

You massive, shit-spouting, mental cunt

Never let the facts get in the way eh, Brendan?

[xerxes]

Can people just not quote Xerxes. I have him on ignore and the excessive scrolling to get past the quotes is causing me repetitive strain injury.

 

I suspect that you ignore quite a lot- which explains much.

[Coro]

Xerxes - shut up.

[lifetime fan]

Never let the facts get in the way eh, Brendan?

 

 

He's right though.

[lifetime fan]

I suspect that you ignore quite a lot- which explains much.

 

 

And yet people don't ignore his posts as he's one of the most popular posters on this site.

 

Your posts on the other hand...

[Jairzinho]

Which one was the Tuna Cup?

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Which one was the Tuna Cup?

 

If it is the Line Caught Tuna Cup, then credit to the old twat; however, if it's the Drift Net Tuna Cup then Hodgson is an owly cunt.