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I've been lurking here a while without posting. Used to be a member under another username, but left, so this isn't just a knee-jerk first post. I stuck with Rafa til the bitter end, and though I felt he had to go in the end, I also thought we'd appreciate him more when he was gone. To me, it's not the Liverpool way to call for a manager's head, especially not this early, but already I think Hodgson isn't the man for us. He's getting away with murder because of the ownership issue. His style of football is complete crap, epitomised by his team selection again tonight. Anybody who picks Poulson and Lucas as their midfield engine, deserves everything they get....sterile, slow, negative football. How can Hodgson have watched the last 20 minutes against Sunderland and failed to learn anything. Tonight he went with Jedward in midfield, played merieles and cole out of position, and left Torres up alone, starved of service. He seems to be as wedded to kuyt as Rafa. His substitution said everything about him - takes off the one player we have with skill and creativity and brings on Maxi, another donkey with no pace and nothing to offer. Under Hodgson we have no midfield, no wingers, no service to Torres and a back-four that shits itself every time a cross comes in. Tonight's midfield was the same team selection as birmingham. How any manager, let alone one being paid millions, can possibly think Lucas/Poulson in midfield can win you a match is just beyond me. You can't win every game, but as Liverpool fans when are we going to demand that we play a style of football that is at least a couple of steps up from watching paint dry. I am seriously beginning to despise this guy, almost as much as I hated houllier in the end. Harsh? Let's be honest with ourselves we've been outplayed by everyone, won one league game against West Brom who outplayed us. Hodgson is going to drive Torres out the door in January, and have us finishing mid-table at best. Look at what Redknapp achieved in his first ten games with Spurs, compared to Roy. And before everyone excuses him because of the ownership saga, look at our best 11, and tell me it isn't good enough to be playing infinitely better football than we are now. If he wasn't English the press would be having a field day with him. We deserve better and the ownership issue is only hiding Roy's patent lack of balls/nous at this level.
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can we play guess who i used to be??
Are you suggesting we have gone further backwards with Roy?
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Well if you call two champions league finals, an FA Cup, 2nd place in the league, over 100 goals scored in a season, beating Real Madrid, Inter and Barcelona away, not to mind stuffing Utd 4.1 in Old Trafford going backwards from the glorious GED era, then I suppose you could say I'm arguing we've gone further backwards under Roy, yes.
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I've been lurking here a while without posting. Used to be a member under another username, but left, so this isn't just a knee-jerk first post. I stuck with Rafa til the bitter end, and though I felt he had to go in the end, I also thought we'd appreciate him more when he was gone. To me, it's not the Liverpool way to call for a manager's head, especially not this early, but already I think Hodgson isn't the man for us. He's getting away with murder because of the ownership issue. His style of football is complete crap, epitomised by his team selection again tonight. Anybody who picks Poulson and Lucas as their midfield engine, deserves everything they get....sterile, slow, negative football. How can Hodgson have watched the last 20 minutes against Sunderland and failed to learn anything. Tonight he went with Jedward in midfield, played merieles and cole out of position, and left Torres up alone, starved of service. He seems to be as wedded to kuyt as Rafa. His substitution said everything about him - takes off the one player we have with skill and creativity and brings on Maxi, another donkey with no pace and nothing to offer. Under Hodgson we have no midfield, no wingers, no service to Torres and a back-four that shits itself every time a cross comes in. Tonight's midfield was the same team selection as birmingham. How any manager, let alone one being paid millions, can possibly think Lucas/Poulson in midfield can win you a match is just beyond me. You can't win every game, but as Liverpool fans when are we going to demand that we play a style of football that is at least a couple of steps up from watching paint dry. I am seriously beginning to despise this guy, almost as much as I hated houllier in the end. Harsh? Let's be honest with ourselves we've been outplayed by everyone, won one league game against West Brom who outplayed us. Hodgson is going to drive Torres out the door in January, and have us finishing mid-table at best. Look at what Redknapp achieved in his first ten games with Spurs, compared to Roy. And before everyone excuses him because of the ownership saga, look at our best 11, and tell me it isn't good enough to be playing infinitely better football than we are now. If he wasn't English the press would be having a field day with him. We deserve better and the ownership issue is only hiding Roy's patent lack of balls/nous at this level. Completely and utterly agree, well said too. You have hit 3 or 4 important nails on the head. For me, Roy isn't even good enough to be a care taker until someone better frees up.
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Exactly the points I made earlier in the no firepower thread.the man should never have been given the job.
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Brilliant post totally agree 110%.
Hodgson would'nt get a job selling hotdogs at any of the big 4 clubs how on earth he ever got managers job at Liverpool i will never know.
Just go Roy and GO NOW!!!!!
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I couldn't agree more with the comments made by 'woy wonder', judging by the players body language alone it seems that they have lost faith in him, and if where honest with ourselves how can we expect them to have faith in a manager who is happy to get draws against Birmingham City and has the nerve to call Northampton a formiddable opposition. I have been closely reading other fans views on the current situation and i wish they could stop using the excuse of time with Hodgson. The formation he is attempting to adopt doesnt fit in with his team selection, which was highlighted when playing man city in which he played a 4-4-2 formation away from home, i mean how naive can you get. I'm not going to go into details about my views on Hodgson i jus would urge the fans to stop trying to make excuses for him and understand that this job his too big for him and i am sick of him using the ownership situation as an excuse. I seriously think measures need to be taken before its too late, as the rate where head i seriously see us finishing between 9th and 12th. ps bring back kenny ( he won't settle for draws and he knows what a winning mentality is.
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He should go ! We are lfc not fulham 。we should be winning week in week out not drawing week in week out and not telling the press that we are happy with a draw . Damn he make us look as if we are a non league team playing against some champion league team
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Rafa Benitez used the owners every week to deflect his ineptness he blamed everyone apart from himself from the lad who parks the cars to the owners so to say hodgson is doing this is just unbelievable , yes its not great at the moment and its easy to pick out poulson but its the legacy players from Mr benitez who you need to look at one in particular the awful glen johnson , the team and club is in transition new manager few new players and hopefully new owners its needs a bit of time and any manager deserves a fair crack of the whip Evans got 4 season houllier got 5 and benitez got 6 not months seasons .
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i wasnt too keen on roy when he became manager but i gave him the benefit of doubt but as time goes by i think my 1st hitch was correct. we play crap football and the tactics and selection leaves a lot to be desired. am sick of watching liverpool being out played by every tom dick and harry. i think it is nearly time for kenny to come in and see what he can do. surely he cant be worse then roy, i bet we will play better football
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