Welcome to LFC Roy Hodgson (Officially Confirmed)

[Vermilion]

to be honest, i can see 1st to 4th being seperated by only a handful of points this year so if we are to break into top 4 which is what we need, then he'll have to challenge for the title IMO. ****ty situation to find yourself in with a club as ****ed as ours but one he is going to be in.

Yes, but that handfull of points will be two handfuls more than we;ll have, imo. Just looking at the type of player those sides are after now, and they can afford them.

I think 4th is gone till the club is taken over.

[Bender]

Geez give the guy a chance at least

[the rev leeroy brown]

Geez give the guy a chance at least

i'll happily give any manager a chance but he has a **** load to do to win me round. as said, it is the most underhwhelmed i've ever been about my club right now and i'll bet he faces a lot of opposition from fans feeling the same.

[Pablo]

Geez give the guy a chance at least

Says the man who turned on the previous owner the second he hit a bad patch because you thought we'd get Mourinho.

We all are giving him a chance anyway, he'll get the backing of the fans no matter how disappointed we are, you can be sure of that

Welcome to LFC Uncle Woy.

[Vermilion]

Geez give the guy a chance at least

We have no choice but to give him chance, does'nt mean we must be happy about it, or change our opinion on how good a manager we think he'll be.

I'm not about to say...'woo hoo...Roys here...he's mr nice and he'll win win win' now am i.

[Bender]

We have no choice but to give him chance, does'nt mean we must be happy about it, or change our opinion on how good a manager we think he'll be.

No but for some to write him off before he's even had arrived .....i know he's not anyones no'1 but we have to go with it now

[BobTheCharmer]

Yes lets get Capello. The bloke who has failed to do his job with England. Lets get a manager from Spain that has never managed here before and will take a year or two to grasp what our league is about.

i havent championed capello as manager but he had more experience than hodgson and at a far higher level of football. so he couldnt get a nation of overrated footballers to win the world cup..........big deal - no-one could. i'd take him over hodgson in a heart beat.
and the manager from spain (pellegrini??) the man who took madrid to a record points haul and was only beating by the most complete football team on the planet by a matter of 1 or 2 points......another gaffer who is head and shoulders above roy and who has managed at a high level.

I think as a manager Roy Hodgson is ****ing excellent. I think there have been some ****ing excellent managers in the lowers leagues over the years. Look at Dario Gradi, could anyone have done a better job with Crewe? Ferguson, Mourinho or Rafa? I doubt it very much. They are excellent managers used to working with quality players, although Fergie also proved himself up in Scotland. Roy has done well with the resources he's had. He knows the football world inside out. Finally a top team has rewarded this with an opportunity. Just because he hasn't won a European cup or league title in Spain or Italy doesn't make him a **** manager.

sorry but are you seriously comparing gradi at crewe to fergie at manure?? fergie who has won countlesss trophys and even though it sickens me to say, made united the juggernaught they are today! jose is a proven winner wherever he has gone and rafa won us the CL. you dont think any of these managers could have kept crewe at the very bottom of english football for 20+years?

roy has worked at alomost every level in every league availablke and never been what you would class as a top level manager. he has been average every where he has been. by that reckoning craig levein should be our new gaffer cause he has been **** too.

On the other point, he may bring the odd player in from Fulham, if it helps us out why are you so opposed?

if it helps then i would not be opposed but bar hangeland ( who we have no chance in hell of getting ) there is not another player at fulham i would rate as a top level footballer.

ste and torres who are our backbone and sole chance for regaining our top 4 status want to see "4 or 5 big name signings". will they be happy to read "lfc capture zoltan gera" or "danny murphy rejoins the pool" or even "zamora in 7 mill move to pool"? they would not be happy so why should we as fans as fans?

I'm saying that managers that manage with top players wouldn't automatically get the best out of inferior players at a lower level. Just because Dario Gradi didn't manage in the premier league doesn't make him worse than Iain Dowie who has. If you get away from the premier league bubble and understood football as a whole you'd appreciate that Dario Gradi worked ****ing miracles at Crewe. No I don't think Rafa or Wenger would have done as well.

Just like if Kenny hadn't managed us first but had turned up at Hartlepool I doubt he would have had gone on to such great things. Its often about luck and getting a golden opportunity.

You have to look at the bigger picture occassionally.

Saying of all this of course Roy may fail, every appointment is a gamble. Just give him a chance.

[Vermilion]

No but for some to write him off before he's even had arrived .....i know he's not anyones no'1 but we have to go with it now

But that's what they feel, as i say, if they think he's wrong for lfc they can't just join in the 'woy fest' and cheer....i'm genuinely worried about the direction this club is now going, and by genuinely....i mean worried sick.

[Bender]

Says the man who turned on the previous owner the second he hit a bad patch because you thought we'd get Mourinho.

We all are giving him a chance anyway, he'll get the backing of the fans no matter how disappointed we are, you can be sure of that

Welcome to LFC Uncle Woy.

Oh yeah yeah show me the quotes were i turned on him after a super season,show me the quotes of me verbally slagging him off! becuase you won't find any,but let me know when you do!Never thought we'd get Jose,might have said would like jose at the club.....

[Parr_Zee]

It may be me being over-optimistic, but I have got a strange feeling that he will do well. I think the concerns that so many people on here (myself included) had about Rafa will be gone - the strange team selections, the bizarre substitutions, the persistance of playing players who aren't good enough.

I think Roy will go back to basics and play players in the positions that they are comfortable in. I think he will identify our weak areas (LB, RW, ST) and rectify them. Maybe not with World-Class dream signings, but with players that will work-hard for him, put in a good shift, and have enough quality to do the job that they are assigned to do.

If Hodgson can get players like Hangelaand, Zamora, Murphy, Simon Davies, and Damien Duff playing to a high level, then hopefully he can do something with our average players.

Welcome Roy, and know this - if you beat Arsenal on the openning day of the season, people will start to believe.

[PTP]

i've not got much to say really - suppose I should say good luck roy, i'm behind you but well it's all just meh

[lickedlollipop]

we're doomed.

[SB]

But it doesn't remotely rhyme - unless you speak with a horrible chav southern accent of course

There's always a critic just waiting to have a go

arse and last are close to rhyming words surely

[Scratch]

i'd have hangeland above a reserve player for us.

agger and hangeland at the back for us would suit me down to the ground.

I'd still have Carra as first choice...second half of the season he improved dramatically after what was a disatrous start. Carra and Agger, with Hangeland and Skrtel as backup. Add Zamora as backup to Torres...or in a 4-4-2 as a partner to Torres and we've improved on N'Gog as well.

[the rev leeroy brown]

I'm saying that managers that manage with top players wouldn't automatically get the best out of inferior players at a lower level. Just because Dario Gradi didn't manage in the premier league doesn't make him worse than Iain Dowie who has. If you get away from the premier league bubble and understood football as a whole you'd appreciate that Dario Gradi worked ****ing miracles at Crewe. No I don't think Rafa or Wenger would have done as well.

Just like if Kenny hadn't managed us first but had turned up at Hartlepool I doubt he would have had gone on to such great things. Its often about luck and getting a golden opportunity.

You have to look at the bigger picture occassionally.

Saying of all this of course Roy may fail, every appointment is a gamble. Just give him a chance.

i think its unfair on wenger. he was a virtual unknown who was managing in japan but look at how he got the arse to be the 2nd best team and sometimes the best in the land. gradi migh have worked minor miracles at crewe but they never improved once during his tenure. they stagnated in the bottom leagues.

i would love to be proved wrong again ( still eating humble pie over lucas lat season - he was good ) about hodgson i really would, but at present i just dont want him as IMO he is not anywhere near good enough. if and when he signs official, he'll get my support like any manager would . . . . . but i wont be jumping for joy over it.