Roy Hodgson

[Rich]

I've watched 95% of the games this season. The football was at times dire and the passing poor, but it wasn't long ball ala Wimbledon or Stoke. Not even close.

It wasn't football at times.

We were OK at home under Roy and tried to keep it on the deck until we started panicking.

Away his tactics and formation were shambolic - and we relied on the long punt from deep.

He might do ok with the Baggies saying all that.

[Shaggy]

Tell that to Fernando Torres.

Exactly, it's garbage. He managed 18 in 20 games "chasing long balls" in Rafa's last season.

Hodgson isn't Allardyce, no, but he loves to launch it - especially away from home. We all know that. And the stats back it up.

Bob's probably just a bit miffed that the up and at 'em English approach backfired so badly.

[BobTheCharmer]

It wasn't football at times.

We were OK at home under Roy and tried to keep it on the deck until we started panicking.

Away his tactics and formation were shambolic - and we relied on the long punt from deep.

He might do ok with the Baggies saying all that.

Yeah I agree with this. Although Utd away we didn't play like that. But one away game out of 10 doesn't making a spagatti bolonese.

[Daniel 7]

Baggies are used to decent on the floor football. they used to call themselves "The Arsenal of the Championship" - they weren't even arsed about going up so long as they could watch the Baggies playing nice football. Hodgson is the anti WBA style. He'll be hated there too.

[Shaggy]

"Just launch it!" went the cry – a kneejerk scream that can be heard up and down the country if a defender appears to entertain the slightest ambition of using skill or dexterity to remove himself from a vulnerable position.

Football players, fans, spectators and coaches schooled in Sunday league football will know all about it. This particular demand for the player to immediately welly the ball as far as he can was recently attributed to Roy Hodgson, erstwhile manager of the most successful club side in English football history.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/jan/31/mind-your-language-football-dads

Hodgson was Rinus Michels in disguise.

[The Erectile Banana]

Yeah I agree with this. Although Utd away we didn't play like that. But one away game out of 10 doesn't making a spagatti bolonese.

Doesn't even make a solitary piece of gnocchi.

[Daniel 7]

Jeez, that reminds me of being in the school team. I played RB, we used to get told "No tae bugger aboot, jist get rrrrid o' it - safety son"

Tit.

[BobTheCharmer]

Exactly, it's garbage. He managed 18 in 20 games "chasing long balls" in Rafa's last season.

Hodgson isn't Allardyce, no, but he loves to launch it - especially away from home. We all know that. And the stats back it up.

Bob's probably just a bit miffed that the up and at 'em English approach backfired so badly.

FFS. I'm not miffed in the slightest, i'm ****ing delighted that the king is back on his rightful throne. The fact that we had to go through a few months of despair under Roy to get the end result makes it all worth it in my book. Sacking Rafa was fantastic, one of the best days I can remember. Now we have Kenny and it's like Christmas everyday.

I just think the ****e that is written about Roy is way over the top. Fulham weren't known home or away for being a long ball team. Not once can I remember this being said. At home we played some decent stuff in patches, just didn't happen anywhere near enough. Away from home as confidence was so low we did play complete ****, but again it wasn't long ball in the way you set up with two big fellas up front. The defenders launched it as they had no players making themselves available, again ultimately down to Roy's lack of nous away from home. But he's gone and it was right he went. He wasn't up to the job at LFC. I was wrong in hoping he'd make the step up. But some people seem to be angry he took the job, like who would say no?

[The Erectile Banana]

FFS. I'm not miffed in the slightest, i'm ****ing delighted that the king is back on his rightful throne. The fact that we had to go through a few months of despair under Roy to get the end result makes it all worth it in my book. Sacking Rafa was fantastic, one of the best days I can remember. Now we have Kenny and it's like Christmas everyday.

I just think the ****e that is written about Roy is way over the top. Fulham weren't known home or away for being a long ball team. Not once can I remember this being said. At home we played some decent stuff in patches, just didn't happen anywhere near enough. Away from home as confidence was so low we did play complete ****, but again it wasn't long ball in the way you set up with two big fellas up front. The defenders launched it as they had no players making themselves available, again ultimately down to Roy's lack of nous away from home. But he's gone and it was right he went. He wasn't up to the job at LFC. I was wrong in hoping he'd make the step up. But some people seem to be angry he took the job, like who would say no?

I think that's a fair summary.

[Fredo]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind...-football-dads

Hodgson was Rinus Michels in disguise.

[dww]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind...-football-dads

Hodgson was Rinus Michels in disguise.

To be fair to him, I do think people are picking up on things here that are not wholly representative of his views on football. Lineker for example often talks about how Cruyff used to tell Barcelona to play more direct, long ball football at the end of games if they were losing.

[BobTheCharmer]

To be fair to him, I do think people are picking up on things here that are not wholly representative of his views on football. Lineker for example often talks about how Cruyff used to tell Barcelona to play more direct, long ball football at the end of games if they were losing.

don't bother dave, people aren't interested in listening as it doesn't fit in with their group wanking sessions where I've been told they each shout out 'woy long ball rub your face' louder and louder until they shoot their loads as one. they seem pleased with themselves mind, who are we to intervene.

[Craig_H]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind...-football-dads

Hodgson was Rinus Michels in disguise.

Great find

[Shaggy]

Tell you what I think's over the top, Hodgson's inexplicable reputation and the eulogising over his much-fêted experience. On Sky today some numpty was talking about "Hodgson's fantastic achievements in the game". Same **** they all come out with.

What achievements?

1976–1980 Halmstad
1980–1982 Bristol City
1983–1985 Örebro
1985–1990 Malmö FF
1990–1992 Neuchâtel Xamax
1992–1995 Switzerland
1995–1997 Internazionale - SACKED
1997–1998 Blackburn Rovers - SACKED
1999 Internazionale - SACKED
1999–2000 Grasshopper - SACKED
2000–2001 Copenhagen
2001 Udinese - SACKED
2002–2004 United Arab Emirates - SACKED
2004–2005 Viking - SACKED
2006–2007 Finland - SACKED
2007–2010 Fulham
2010 Liverpool - SACKED

The man has an inflated reputation and his teams play primitive football. Of course "we played some decent stuff in patches" - there are lots of good players in the squad so it had to happen on occasion, despite the enormous Hodgson handicap.

Fact is he's an old English duffer, one of the boys and one of the leaders of the gang. They all salute each other, for patently obvious reasons, and if you tell a lie often enough it becomes accepted as the truth. If you watched SSN today you'd have heard Hodgson being lauded as some sort of managerial great.

Other than Hicks & Gillett being ousted, that glorious day when Hodgson was sacked was the best and most important day in our recent history. It was always going to be a disaster. It was obvious.

I'd like to be magnanimous and wish him well at West Brom, but I think he's a total bellend and I hope they go down.

[Craig_H]

Tell you what I think's over the top, Hodgson's inexplicable reputation and the eulogising over his much-fêted experience. On Sky today some numpty was talking about "Hodgson's fantastic achievements in the game". Same **** they all come out with.

What achievements?





The man has an inflated reputation and his teams play primitive football. Of course "we played some decent stuff in patches" - there are lots of good players in the squad so it had to happen on occasion, despite the enormous Hodgson handicap.

Fact is he's an old English duffer, one of the boys and one of the leaders of the gang. They all salute each other, for patently obvious reasons, and if you tell a lie often enough it becomes accepted as the truth. If you watched SSN today you'd have heard Hodgson being lauded as some sort of managerial great.

Other than Hicks & Gillett being ousted, that glorious day Hodgson when was sacked was the best and most important day in our recent history. It was always going to be a disaster. It was obvious.

I'd like to be magnanimous and wish him well at West Brom, but I think he's a total bellend and I hope they go down.

Nail smacked firmly on the head.