Pack your bags Roy

[TheElephantMan]

I'm pretty confident that we'd do better with no manager.

[Frenchie]

Name and shame. There's probably a few

Think he means me

[SRR]

I know the stats don't tell the whole picture (in that he wasn't at the best clubs) but for me it's worrying to have a manager who loses more games than he wins and whose team concedes more goals than they score. His stats for me are average. Based on those his teams would finish with ~48 points which would typically get you an 11th or 12th place finish in the table.

He should never have been appointed in the first place

is the correct answer.

[peekay]

The mans an idiot. And I'll tell you my main problem with him.

The managers I admire back their players all the way. They give them confidence and only ever give them a dressing down away from the public eye. All Roy has ever done since he's been here is try to justify how bad a job he has done.

Whether it's expensive flops or out of form players, or a squad missing certain types of players. The man is a disgrace. Excuse after excuse. He'll still be giving them in a year or twos time if he's still here.

And people wonder why Pezzer would have been happy to see us take a defeat v Blackburn. The longer this man is in charge, the longer it takes to get this club back on the right track.

I never thought I would say this about a liverpool manager but I hate him. Even with Houlllier and Rafa at their worst, I had a lot of sympathy and affection for them. When the team was underpeforming, even though some of the press conferences were bizarre, you could see that it hurt them to see LFC in such a state.

I dont think Hodgson even likes us. He is more hell bent on showing that he is doing a phenomenal job. It is as if he wants to create a picture that it is his tactical genius which is keeping the club at 18th position in the league.

[banditos]

Which I agree with but surely that process takes longer than a couple of months (or at least should to do the homework properly) and if that is the case then we need someone better than Hodgon to be managing us in the meantime.
I'm not one for chopping and changing managers but if NESV take too long we won't have any good players left for the new manager to work with.

The poorer the players in the club the poorer the manager we attract, currently most managers we as fans would be happy to see will want to work with Pepe, Gerrard, Torres, J.Cole and be excited by the youngsters coming through.
My fear is that if Hodgson stays until January Torres and maybe, maybe Pepe would have sorted out deals to leave. Both can play in the CL still this season and in all honesty they both deserve to play for a better manager than Hodgson

True, which is why I'm hoping they'll recognise this too and get a new manager in before the end of the year. It is certainly possible that they've already been looking at candidates for a couple of months now. Surely they wouldn't have gone through the entire bid process without thinking about the current manager's position.

[peekay]

Roy Hodgson has parted company with the Italian club Udinese. The 54-year-old former Blackburn Rovers manager had been in crisis talks with the club's owner, Giampaolo Pozzo, after reportedly claiming at the weekend that he and his players were not as "well supported as we should be".

Roy Hodgson has parted company with the Italian club Udinese. The 54-year-old former Blackburn Rovers manager had been in crisis talks with the club's owner, Giampaolo Pozzo, after reportedly claiming at the weekend that he and his players were not as "well supported as we should be".

The former Switzerland and Internazionale coach, who endured an unsuccessful spell at Ewood Park in 1997-98, only took over at Udinese in the summer after taking FC Copenhagen to the Danish title, their first championship since 1993. Hodgson was quoted in the press at the weekend as saying: "Obviously I'm very happy to be back at this level of football, but I could have chosen a better club to come back to. It's an extremely strange club."

Hodgson yesterday claimed he did not recall making the comments. An official club statement yesterday said: "After the meeting today, Mr Roy Hodgson and the Bianconeri have decided by mutual consent to break the agreement they had in the month of July. The new coach will be announced tomorrow. The club would like to thank Mr Roy Hodgson for his collaboration throughout his time."

The goalkeeping coach, Alessandro Zampa, will take charge of Udinese's Italian Cup match against Parma tonight.

Pozzo had met with Hodgson after the club's 2-1 win over Verona on Sunday. "The club does not deserve those criticisms," said Pozzo. "I am very disappointed with the comments made by Mr Hodgson."

Udinese are ninth in Serie A, five points clear of the relegation places after 13 games. They staged a dramatic fightback to defeat Verona, scoring two goals in the last seven minutes.

Hodgson had been quoted as saying: "The players and myself don't feel we're being as well supported as we should be at the moment but maybe that will change. Nothing that has happened in my time at the club has suggested that we aren't going to be able to stay in this division. I'd like to have another crack at the Premiership. I regard myself as a European, but the great advantages for me going back to England would be the language and the culture. I'll just have to wait and see if an offer comes my way."

Hodgson's playing career with Crystal Palace, Maidstone United, and the South African club Berea Park was relatively undistinguished. But when he went into management, with Halmstad in Sweden, he won two championships in a four-year spell from 1976-80.

After a brief and unsuccessful spell at Bristol City in 1982, who were relegated to the old Fourth Division after he had moved up from assistant manager to take over from Bob Houghton, he returned to Sweden and enjoyed an amazing run of success at Malmo. From 1985 to 1990 he won five consecutive championships and two Swedish Cups.

In 1994 he took Switzerland to their first World Cup finals in 28 years. As coach of Internazionale, he took the Milan club to seventh place in Serie A in 1995-96, and to the Uefa Cup final in 1996-97.

The Brazilian striker Ronaldo admitted it was a dream come true to score after just 19 minutes of his latest comeback match for Internazionale – a 3-1 win over Brescia at the weekend. "A goal after two years was so important," he said. "I have dreamt of this. It's a moment of few words and great happiness."

The Internazionale coach, Hector Cuper, adopted a more cautious tone. "When a player is fit then I will let him play, but Ronaldo certainly cannot carry 90 minutes right now," Cuper told Inter's official website. "I wanted to field Ronaldo from the start without pressure and he gave a good performance. I knew he was ready and focused."

Ronaldo lasted 61 minutes of the game before being substituted as he builds up his match fitness, having limped out of action twice before this season in attempted comebacks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/hodgson-leaves-udinese-after-criticising-club-619830.html

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Roy Hodgson has parted company with the

For just the smallest of moments you have me such false joy!!!!! I was ready to jump out my seat! Damn you!!

[Daniel 7]

Can I just add that I hate Roy Hodgson as a manager and would also like registered my preference for his sacking.

[Muddled]

[snip]

... after reportedly claiming at the weekend that he and his players were not as "well supported as we should be".

"Obviously I'm very happy to be back at this level of football, but I could have chosen a better club to come back to. It's an extremely strange club."

"The players and myself don't feel we're being as well supported as we should be at the moment but maybe that will change. Nothing that has happened in my time at the club has suggested that we aren't going to be able to stay in this division. I'd like to have another crack at the Premiership. I regard myself as a European, but the great advantages for me going back to England would be the language and the culture. I'll just have to wait and see if an offer comes my way."

[/snip]

Well it appears he has a back catalogue of excuses where ever he goes.

[red g]

surely this hatred fo the man has to spill onto the terraces?

He cant last. I found it almost impossible to comprehend that NESV are not taking steps right at this moment to replace him.

Poor John Henry I think he must be hating twitter right now......and pretty sure he muct know how we all feel !!

[Tee]

It's bewildering - I actually hate not backing the manager of our team, but with the results coupled with the style of play (or lack of), blaming everyone bar his dreadful tactics and taking pot shots at our own ****ing players he has to be living with his head in the clouds

The sooner Roy leaves the sooner we can look to build for the future, he's 63 and is nothing more than a stop gap manager whilst we sorted out other issues (H&G) - that time has now passed.

Someone needs to tell John W. Quick.

[Muddled]

Roy Hodgson:

"We have got a lot more expensive failures on our list than good players that we have brought in for next to nothing"

An extract from Roy Hodgson's lecture in Porto in October 1994:

How do you develop team spirit?

Create a comfortable atmosphere by positive "brainwashing", eliminating negative influences and use praise rather than a ticking-off - Show respect to people and players and build their confidence - Pay attention to details - The coach has to make his players understanding and patient and have respect for each others' skills.

Quite the contradiction for a man that is set in his ways ...

[Baracus]

Someone needs to tell John W. Quick.

Who's he the

[Resu]

I think he`s dead:
John W. Quick (JAN 1821 in Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania)

[red g]

I think he`s dead:
John W. Quick (JAN 1821 in Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania)

http://www.facebook.com/john.w.quick