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Fulham werent exactly a great team to watch

Do you remember what they did to us last year,the players they have are pretty average and they also got to the uefa final.

Hopefully we score more goals than last season or the almost amazing season before

hope your right emp...

for me it would be good to entertain but results are more important to me.looking good comes 2nd behind winning bad..

let's be honest, fulham were not great to watch.

his football is firmly based around his time in Italy - he focuses on maintaining shape and all players tracking back and defending.

like the earlier post though, it's results that count for me this season

I've posted this before on here but anyway, don't take my word for it, this is what Simon Davies has said about playing under Hodgson last season....

[b] So what is it that Fulham do? The easy answer is that they keep their shape, and certainly that was in evidence against Hamburg, who passed and passed and passed and found navy shirts thwarting their progress wherever they went (a more complete analysis of that game is given here on the excellent zonalmarking website).

But why? Everybody knows that teams who keep their shape are harder to break down; why and how are Fulham better at doing it than other sides? There is, sadly, no easy solution; it's all down to hard work. "We work on it every day," said Davies. "Every day in training is geared towards team shape. I've been working with the manager three seasons now and every day is team shape, and it shows."

A faint smile suggests the work isn't necessarily particularly interesting. "We have a little laugh about it now and again," Davies said, "but when he [Hodgson] came in we were fighting relegation and now we're in the Europa League so you take it. If you're going to play for him you've got to put a shift in and perform, work to a system and be tight defensively." [b]

anyone who claims that Fulham play great attacking football, please could they let me know what games??

anyway, as I say, this season is about results for me but facts are facts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/apr/27/the-question-fulham-roy-hodgson

NOOOOO NOT MORE ZONAL DEFENDING............

can't some of you guys see the difference between the squads of fulham and liverpool? just because he had fulham playing in a certain way doesn't necessarily mean we will be playing that way. he did what he had to reach as far as he could with that squad.

and his game isn't boring. he uses real wingers and keeps the ball on the ground. the results he achieved with fulham are amazing. they wiped the floor with us last season and they beat united for the last two seasons (2-0 and 3-0).

football is hard work so of course he will have our team working hard and staying in the right positions. but he won't go to places like blackpool with two holding midfielders hoping to get a 0-0 result like we have for the past 6 years.

Keeping shape, tracking back and defending is the basics off football. However there is an extreme of this and cases of bein to cautious like rafa was. Even Spain have these basics during the world cup, didn't see them conceding many. I think it's important to attack in numbers but it's just common sense that you can't go gung ho an leavin massive gaps for counter attacks, not even Chelsea or utd do that.

don't get me wrong - I am fully behind Roy and I like what I have seen so far but Fulham won once away from home last season, so don't anyone try and tell me he's all about attacking flair.

There is a difference between Liverpool players and Fulham players but we now have the same manager who has played the same way throughout his career.

He is 62 now I think, so I don't expect his to change his outlook too much.