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Nope hang on he found it again.
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I think Souness had the hardest as he had to reduce an ageing team who were all on long contracts and mega bucks, we also had pressure on us to win the league back then which we no longer have. I think Roy Hodgson has the second hardest job with being left a poor team which was seventh, Hicks and Gillette at war, players like Torres and Mascherano sulking and going on strike before he got his feet under the table, the least money any Liverpool manager has been given to spend and nearly all supporters against him before he arrived, it was an impossible job doomed to failure, what a contrast to the situation Dalglish found himself in when he walked in and he still made a balls up of it with every concievable thing given to him to help him succeed... It was between Evans Houllier and Benitez, not Hodgson. But I agree, Hodgson did have a tough job. The rest of your post, is, as usual, uninformed nonsense. +1 loyal SEASONAL SH!T blabber ... just corrected it for you, no need to thank me
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apologies Kp, DID NOT MEAN TO SPOUT OFF LIKE A FOOL, SORRY
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then don't reply you t**t apologies but this forum has too many smart a$$es who instead of leaving a thread that they have read and do not like choose to reply with rubbish Overly sensitive, someone says something negative and your response...... Some vile comment  Evans, souness left him with a pretty awful bunch
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In terms of hard job, then yeah I'd say Evans. We had an awful squad from Sounness, punctuated with a couple of talented youngsters. I laugh when people talk about Benitez leaving us a bad squad, when we had Torres, Mascherano, Gerrard and Reina (players who would get in almost any side in the world, alongside several less talented but still strong players like Agger, Skrtel, Lucas, Johnson etc. and quality youngsters like Kelly, Sterling, Suso...
The quality of player I remember from the Sounness days, was Thorben Piechnik.
But in terms of how successful a job each did, Benitez would be top, Houllier second, and Evans third. Hard to argue with that. Just to flip it a bit though, in terms of enjoyment watching the teams play every week, I'd rank them Evans>Benitez>Houllier. There can be no denying that Evans' teams played excellent attacking football (the less said about the defence the better!) I'd agree with both that and the aforementioned post. Can't argue with any of that. I loved watching Evans's 'Spice Boys' playing. They got a lot of stick, and while they did leak a lot of goals, they played great, exciting, attacking football that was a joy to watch. It was a terrible shame that side never quite managed to win the title ahead of a Manchester United side who were always that one step ahead.
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'If there is hope, it lies in the proles'
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Does anyone else think that Stiggy and Heggypompom are a kind of jekyll & hyde? Ie: That they're actually the same person. They both registered on the same day and every time one posts, the other responds, usually in disagreement.
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rafa - it was more amusing watching the twàt type that out at the end of each post - why tell him how to do it automatically!
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Does anyone else think that Stiggy and Heggypompom are a kind of jekyll & hyde? Ie: That they're actually the same person. They both registered on the same day and every time one posts, the other responds, usually in disagreement. This is getting boring now, if we were the same person mods would have realised by now and sorted it. Heggypompom repeatedly refers to me (even created a post with me as the topic that was subsequently locked by mods) for whatever reason and usually in a childish manner and i personally have grown tired of it. Same goes for Armitage as well two people the forum would be well shot of
Last edited by Stiggy; 24/02/12 07:12 PM.
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That proves it then - poster X created a thread referring to poster Y ....... therefore x and y are not the same
Stiggy since when were you moderator?
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Which of these three, had the hardest job when they first became manager.
I say Roy Evans, as Souness had turned us into a laughing stock and left Evans not much to work with (first team wise).
Souness was just very unlucky in some respects. He inherited an ageing squad (Barnes, Rush, Beardsley, Houghton, Mcmahon, Molby, Whelan, Nicol etc were all 30 or above), and he faced new rules restricting the amount of foreign players so wide scale changes had to happen which inevitably caused disruption - something which most managers would have struggled with. I'm not saying that he couldn't have done any better than he did but not everything was down to him. And he did give us robbie fowler.
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