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  1. I hate writing this, as I've always been one to give our manager (and players) time and the benefit of the doubt to get things right. I'm not one for snap judgements and am, at heart, a serial optimist, but I'm saddened to admit that I've already all but given up on Hodgson's reign as Liverpool manager. Alarm bells began ringing when the jubilation of being told we were trying to sign Young from Aston Villa turned to incredulity to find it was Luke, not Ashley, who we were after. Not only that, the bastard ended up turning us down. Those alarms turned into sirens after the first half against Arsenal. That performance - like all first half's this season - put paid to rest any illusion that we were still in a 'honeymoon period' with the appointment of the new manager. Even if you'd hired the worst manager in the world (and please note, I'm not saying we have!), after a change in management you expect some upturn with fresh impetus and new ideas, but we've seen none of this. The football we've seen so far is - at best - on par with the depressingly horrendous stuff we saw last year, football which got one of the most sought-after manager's in world football the sack. Other alarm bells: - lining up 4-4-2 away to City - the Lucas/Poulsen partnership - preferring Skrtel over Agger, Jovanovic over either one of Babel or Pacheco - letting Aquilani (a £15m+ player) leave for nothing in a season when we were absolutely desperate for a second striker but had limited funds - can we honestly believe there was no club which would have been willing to do a swap for the loan of a striker? - having expectations "not that high" versus Birmingham, and being "not that disappointed to draw [or with] our performance" As far as I can see, Hodgson's finest achievement so far has been keeping hold of Gerrard and Torres, but if you were in the latter's boots how long would you stick around? Torres says that he's going to give it another season and then see how things lie and to be honest I can't blame him. I see his frustrations primarily being with the owners, not the manager, but would you stick around if you were to think that our performance against Birmingham was to be in any way repeated over the coming season? It was one of Torres' worst performances in a red shirt and, like the rest of the team, he was far from blameless for the performance, but is there a striker in world football who could have produced the results provided with so little by the rest of the team? As with any player, if his head has been turned and if he is wishing for a move away from LFC in the summer then he should be shown the door. The sadness here is Torres/Reina and Alonso (when he was here), these lads 'get' Liverpool FC. They're not badge kissers; they understand the tradition and what the club means to the local people. These guys are world class players who appear to truly care about the club they play for. We've seen with Alonso how difficult it has been to replace him, I'd hate to make the same mistake with the others. There's been a lot of talk about us having to be a lot more realistic about our expectations this season, and I agree, but 4th place shouldn't be too far out of our sights. Even if history were to repeat itself, that Liverpool were to finish a position lower in the new manager's first season than the position of the previous season, you get the feeling that so long as there were definite signs that we were going down a path which would eventually lead to success with more flowing attractive football, that the current players - and prospective future players - would probably accept one step back to take two steps forward. As yet, I'm honestly yet to see anything which makes me feel that we have turned a corner, and that we're on the path to bigger and better things. The football we've played is like a horrible mixture of the worst of Houllier's reign, and the worst of Benitez's: sitting around our own box while hoofing long aimless balls forward, and with two defensive 'holding' midfielders 'controlling' the game. Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? I'm not calling for the managers head, but at the same time I'm not willing to accept the turgid sh*te we've seen so far, and I wonder how many of the players will be thinking along the same lines. I hope I'm wrong, and that Hodgson is able to attain legendary status at LFC, but more and more I get the feeling that Hodgson may be a temporary appointment, and at what cost?
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