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at least give him time lads,i wasn't convinced about him when he signed but like everyone else has stated,who else is out there to do a better job.on positives,at least he has brought in 2 international quality footballers in cole & raul,but i think he still doesn't know his best team or formation yet,a minimum of 6 points from the next 2 home games is required just to get a bit of confidence in the team.
but with the restrictions in squad i.e.no wingers & an extra striker i think we'll struggle !!

The thing about Roy not having any money to buy, Purslow has come out today and said that Roy had money at his disposal but he chose to re-valuate in Jan. Wingers and a second striker are like gaping holes which cannot wait till Jan.
I'm increasingly of the thought that Roy can coax out better than expected performance out of average teams but don't think he has the vision for a top 4 team. His tactics are astonishing when faced against at best mediocre teams. I think he won't even have the excuse of being involved in multiple tournaments at the rate he is going

dont give me the bull of no investment and not having money to buy the players he wanted. so out of birmingham, west brom and northampton and liverpool who has had more investment in resent years and more money to buy players in this transfer window? with the squad that hodson has he should be beating teams like that or at least play to the same level. am sorry but we dont need massive investment to compelete with those teams, man u yes, chelsea yes, man city yes, northampton and birminham NO.

hodson so far has talked the talk but has done nothing in the important games( pl). am not saying we should sack him but if this continues until christmas then yes get rid

Frankly, given the state of our football if Roy has the Liverpool job this time next season he will have performed nothing short of a miracle. Did we hire him to perform miracles? No. We hired him to improve us, to not be another Leeds, but only now are we really beginning to understand that finishing 7th last season wasn't an accident. Think about that a moment before calling for his head in September.

Furthermore, if Roy fails to meet expectations this season, then if he's replaced mid-season I can't see his successor doing anything more than dragging us into the top 10. Think about that a bit as well. If Roy has not got us into the top 10 by January, how will changing the manager help us finish top 4? It won't. Any miracles performed by his replacement will merely see us finish where we did last season.

I don't want to sound dramatic, but Torres staying or leaving depends entirely on Roy's performance (unless we get a 150m bail-out and use it to flood the team with quality international players rather than two-bit hacks like Lucas and Babel - and yeah, I'm not betting on any part of that happening).

And here's something I've kept to myself for a while: does anyone else think that Purslow didn't hire Dalglish as manager to protect the legend? I'm not saying Purslow is a prophet, but this appointment had "danger" written all over it.

Look. We have a relatively 'easy' few games coming up now that we'd reasonably expect a fairly large bagful of points to be collected through.
Wednesday was a fluke that took everyone, including the manager, by suprise, shock and horror.
I don't think we'll see such a dire performance again.
Roy WILL and has learnt severe lessons from that.

We could quite literally be in the top 4 in a couple of weeks, so lets just hold back a bit on the Hodgson bashing just for now ey please.
If the results go all awry between now and Decemeber, well fair enough.

I'm no great lover of Gerrard as a person, but I totally agree with his latest statement.
Well said Gerrard. Acting and speaking like a true captain should.

Of course it's been a tough week," added Gerrard. "But I'm looking at the big picture. There has been a change of manager, a change of coaching staff, also physical as well as technical and it's going to take time to get the new ideas and methods over to the lads.

"So the message from me to the Liverpool supporters and the people out there is just be patient a bit longer and I'm sure the picture will brighten up in the coming weeks."

I can completely understand wanting to wait another 5 games that are all winable to see where we are and how Roy has done after that. So I'm all for that, but I really dislike billy bullsh!tters telling us wednesday was a fluke, we wont play tht bad again, Roy has learned his lesson, you know that as much as the people are calling for his head know he is gonna be a failure. So call for patience yeah, all for that. But You have absolutely nothing, absolutely 0 reasons or evidence to back the other stuff up. If anything the bit about dire performances, well we've had those every single game this season mate which suggests the contrary to what your saying. And we will learn about how quick Roy is to learn a lesson or two by seeing his team sheet on saturday.

I'm not worry at all at this moment - reason? Let's see FACTS:
- Arsenal home 1 point - last season 0 points
- Man City away 0 points - last season 1 point
- WBA home 3 points - last season 3 points (with newcomer - you can choose)
- Brums away 1 point - last season 1 point
- Man Utd away 0 point - last season 0 points
Total - 5 points EXCACLY THE SAME AS LAST SEASON!!!
And were was the problem last season? AWAY WITH TEAMS FROM BOTTOM 10 of the table!!!
We don't know yet what results we will get with Newcastle, Wolves, WBA, Stoke, WHU, Blackpool etc. AWAY - so why are you complaining already? We are NOT CONTENDERS!!! Everyone knows that before last season ends, before RAFA has gone and before Roy came in!!! Stop expecting miracles, beautiful play and high score wins - we must FIGHT for every point - and we do that!!! After next 5 games we should colect all the points - If not - then it will be reason to complain.

Back the team - You'll never walk alone - anyone remember that - or it's just empty words?!?

Roy has my backing - because I belive he is doing everything he can to play as good as he can in Premierleague - that is the reason why he protects players from playing in EL or CC - what wuold you say if Torres get a knock in Northamptons game, and he couldn't play against Sunderland??? It's easy to judge - but
IMO Roy is realising his target - PREM is most important - nothing else can't compete wit it - and I agree with that!

Remember also, that the first game we played in our almost best XI (only without Kuyt) was with Man Utd last week - and we almost upset this scums!!! And please don't tell me that we are in 16th place in the table - at this point of the season it's bullsh!t - let's say - we are just 3 points behind 4th place - so is Wolves - do you realy think Wolves will compete for TOP4???

did u even see the man u game? we got raped, they played us off the park( more a case of we didnt even turn up). it would have been day light robbery if we came out with any points.

For me its not the results that worries me but the way we play. Even the win against west brom was not convincing at best.

I agree he needs more time and hopefully at least till Xmas to get a clear picture of whats going on.

But to say i am not concerned about his leadership would be a lie