Pack your bags Roy

[fred_plasticine]

Hodgson has made us worse in every respect. Points, goals scored, goals conceded, goal difference etc. But Gray and 'Keysy' reckon we're better.

everybody who cares to think knows that hasn't improved us in any aspect of our game.
the media have an english bias wich is, well, irritating to say the least but it really was to be expected given roy is still their best shot when it comes to future english england managers.

[Shaggy]

everybody who cares to think knows that hasn't improved us in any aspect of our game.
the media have an english bias wich is, well, irritating to say the least but it really was to be expected given roy is still their best shot when it comes to future english england managers.

[DannyMan2006]

Sack Hodgson. If any player wants to leave because of this (Carra and Gerrard?), well they can **** off as well.

Then ask the players who they would like in charge, and then make sure we don't give that person the job

[RedSince1964]

Sack Hodgson. If any player wants to leave because of this (Carra and Gerrard?), well they can **** off as well.

Then ask the players who they would like in charge, and then make sure we don't give that person the job

well said

[Craig_H]

You 'know' '****' craig, in fact you talk a lot of ****, and just incase you are there all confused rubbing your chin like uncle Roy thinking to yourself in your literal world 'but I never spoke to kingfunk' what I mean is you type a lot of ****.

I KNEW you'd have a crying tantrum after that last post. Right on cue.

I'm still curious as to how you 'know' benitez aint coming back. Do tell, kingmeg.

[wiw]

Can you two continue via pm please, it's getting pretty ****ing tedious reading your 'discussion'

[Craig_H]

Dear god. 13.

[G]

everybody who cares to think knows that hasn't improved us in any aspect of our game.
the media have an english bias wich is, well, irritating to say the least but it really was to be expected given roy is still their best shot when it comes to future english england managers.

He's done so **** at LFC that the name on everbodys lips regarding England is now Redknapp.

And for those suggesting bringing Rafa back,that is not the answer for me.His time had come,we needed a fresh start,obviously not with Roy but now is the time to get a top class manager in with no previous baggage to unite the squad and move us forward.If that can't happen till summer than we still haver to get rid of roy now before the damage becomes too bad that the new man will spend years repairing before we can challenge

[Craig_H]

A letter to Roy Hodgson: Please leave
Alex shares his thoughts on the manager's position, pleading him to leave the club before any more damage is done.

Email: [email protected]

Site: http://www.thisisanfield.com

Dear Mr Hodgson,

Let me begin by saying that I think you are a very nice and decent man. I have nothing against you personally, and have the utmost respect for what you have done in football over the last 30 years. I’d give my right arm to have been involved in football at the level that you have for so many years.

But having said that, this is not the point of this note so let’s get to the point. Mr Hodgson, sir, you are out of your depth. Not just a little. You are so far out of your depth that you are drowning. Your record managing teams in the premier league reads 7 wins in 55 premier league away games. That is a success rate that ranks with the worst managers in premier league history.

Today, you sent out a team that had dismantled Aston Villa a week ago. With only one change, replacing Babel with the ‘world class’ Torres there was a sense of optimism, playing against a team in turmoil. Not only had they sacked their highly popular manger, they were also 5 games without a win. The general consensus was that they were there for the taking.

But, Mr Hodgson, with your approach to away games, Newcastle ladies under-12s aren’t there for the taking, never mind their first team. Your approach to EVERY away game is absolutely shocking. You send a team out so fearful of losing, they have no idea how to win. How do you explain a team so powerful at home, being so dismal away, unless it’s approach, tactics and mindset?
City of Manchester Stadium Eastlands Manchester City v Liverpool Premier League 23/08/2010 Disappointing night for Liverpool Manager Roy Hodgson Photo Robin Parker Fotosports International Photo via Newscom

In your last 55 premier league games (17 this season and 38 last season) your teams have won 16 out of 27 at home, and 2 out of 28 away. A 59% success rate at home, a 7% success rate away from home. It is why your team last season finished 12th, and your current team is languishing in 9th. It is why, in your last 28 away games, your teams have scored a total of 18 goals, conceded 47 and thus have a goal difference of -29.

Of the 84 points on offer in those 28 away games, you sir, have racked up a grand total of 15 points.

Quite simply Mr Hodgson, your approach to games away from home is shambolic. There isn’t a team in the premier league who does not believe they can defeat any team managed by you in their own stadium. In your last 4 away games – against perennial strugglers Wigan and Stoke, newly promoted Newcastle, and Harry’s Spurs, you have collected 1 point out of a possible 12. You have achieved 5 points in 9 away games so far this season. Your team has scored 6 goals. Only the bottom 3 have scored less.

In all of my years watching my beloved Liverpool Football Club, this is the first time I can claim to feel embarrassed and humiliated by the shocking displays on offer week in, week out, away from home. I watch my team bullied off the park by teams and players who are still pinching themselves that they are even playing at this level. I see a mass of millionaire Red shirts hanging on in desperation hoping against hope they can hang on to a draw against players I’ve hardly heard of. As the clock ticks ominously towards 90 minutes, I watch my team retreat deeper and deeper, hanging on in desperation, hoping against hope they can snatch a point. Inevitably, in what is now a theme, the opposition twist the knife with 10 minutes or so to go. Today, at 75 minutes, I texted a friend. My text read this: ‘best we can hope for is 1-1. Worst is 2-1 or even 3-1.’ Now I’m no Nostradamus or fortune teller. It’s just so BLOODY obvious what is going to happen. If it’s obvious to me, why isn’t it to you? WHY do you not use your substitutes to freshen things up and offer alternatives? WHY? I sometimes think that you’re so wrapped up in your own sulk, you forget you have a job to do.

Your tactics are abject. Your mindset breeds mediocrity. Your body language is cringe worthy. Forgive me, but what was that face-rubbing thing today? What do you hope to achieve by being slumped in your chair while your team is being battered in to eventual submission? You have no plan B, and you have no idea when and how to make substitutions. You continue to play an abject performer called Paul Konchesky, simply because you signed him from your previous team. You are slumped in your chair, radiating negativity. Rubbing your chin and your face, with a dazed “what the hell do I do next” look which is being observed by a watching world is the body language of desperate man. A man who does not even understand the questions being posed, never mind the answers.

It is highly unlikely you will ever see this message, but if you do, I urge you to resign. Please relinquish the position for a man more suited to manage a club of the stature of Liverpool. It is in everyone’s best interests that you ply your trade back at a club more suited to your tactics and methods. A team where mediocrity is considered a form of success.

Let me finish by reminding you of a basic fact. You are managing the most successful team in the history of English Football – ever. You are managing a team supported by the greatest fans in the world – ever. With that comes immense expectation, responsibility and pressure. It is my opinion, and the opinion of many Liverpool fans worldwide, that you are incapable of living up to the expectations required of a Liverpool manager.

Please, I implore you. Do the dignified thing and resign your post. Let Liverpool rebuild with a manager of the stature required for club of this size. You won’t have any trouble regaining employment. Wolves, West Ham, Wigan and Fulham will all be looking for a manager soon.

You’ll do fine there.

Regards, Alex

[RedSince1964]

A letter to Roy Hodgson: Please leave
Alex shares his thoughts on the manager's position, pleading him to leave the club before any more damage is done.

Email: [email protected]

Site: http://www.thisisanfield.com

A good letter IMO, shame it won't make a diference but, you never know (prayin)

[fred_plasticine]

He's done so **** at LFC that the name on everbodys lips regarding England is now Redknapp.

And for those suggesting bringing Rafa back,that is not the answer for me.His time had come,we needed a fresh start,obviously not with Roy but now is the time to get a top class manager in with no previous baggage to unite the squad and move us forward.If that can't happen till summer than we still haver to get rid of roy now before the damage becomes too bad that the new man will spend years repairing before we can challenge

that's the main problem that i see - another year outside the cl and our top players will almost certainly seek to move. plus another midtable finish won't help us when it comes to attrackting top talent. i doubt there is anyone connected with lfc who believes that roy will turn it around.... i just hope that nesv realise that time is not on our side now.

[Baracus]

jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
All i want for chirstmas is for roy to go away

[Mostar]

Sack Hodgson. If any player wants to leave because of this (Carra and Gerrard?), well they can **** off as well.

Then ask the players who they would like in charge, and then make sure we don't give that person the job

+2

[Lecter]

That simply won't happen as long as Gerrard and Carragher play for us. The first thing Mourinho did was to get rid of Raul and Guti. That meant that he got total control something that wouldn't have happened if they had stayed.

We are in the same situation. A new manager must get rid of both Carragher and Gerrard and he must be allowed to do it to show that he is THE boss and no one else.

To say a new manager MUST get rid of Carragher and Gerrard is nonsense

BUT any new manager must be big enough to put them in their place

IF Kenny had been appointed Carragher and Gerrards powerbase would have been destroyed overnight. No way could they rebel against Kenny they'd never in a billion years win that war

Similarly when Rafa arrived they didnt have the power they do now its only since tyhey got the ear of Purslow that we have heard stories about them controlling things

[Fernandinho]

TBH I think it would be a lot easier if we just turned every thread from the Liverpool FC Forum into one single thread called "**** off Roy"