Pack your bags Roy

[red g]

Ah, that's pretty clear cut then. Please let them be right.

Well I think we have all learned a valuable lesson from this. Never listen to the iTK's on Twitter.......they were clueless on Takeover and useless at predicting the Bodge sacking.

I am sure the next time some big news concerning Liverpool is all over Twitter then we will have learned from this and the forums will take a calm and measured approach.

[Lecter]

@MirrorAnderson Hodgson survives for another 24 hours at least. Doing a press conference tomorrow at Melwood.

[Chris]

@MirrorAnderson Hodgson survives for another 24 hours at least. Doing a press conference tomorrow at Melwood.

Theyve **** out again then, ****ing disgraceful. Absolute cunts.

[bigbill]

They said there would be a managerial sacking tomorrow (but couldnt say where) then 30 seconds later stated one of their award winning journos was heading up to Liverpool to cover said managerial sacking

[GorbyPeacePrize]

The head of the body that represents football managers in England has warned that clubs should not be "treated as the playthings of the super rich".

The jobs of Roy Hodgson at Liverpool, Gerard Houllier at Aston Villa, Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea and Avram Grant at West Ham are all reportedly at risk.

League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan has urged clubs to stop "scapegoating" their managers.

And he suggested it might time for managers to undergo formal appraisals.

Bevan wrote: "In these, the strengths and weaknesses of how the football-side of the club is performing might be assessed against realistic expectations and previously, mutually agreed goals.

"In any other sector, there is a recognition that the highest performing organizations are those who build winning organizational culture - shared beliefs, goals and ways of behaving - coupled with a long-term vision.

"Yet, in football, there is an incomprehensible belief that the continued sacrificing of the football manager, the 'scapegoat' and installing another will turn around a football club's performance."

606: DEBATE
Support for Liverpool's Roy Hodgson on the Kop seems scarce, if it exists at all, after the 3-1 reverse at the hands of Blackburn

Mike Henson - BBC Sport

Nineteen of the 29 managers to have parted company with their clubs this season have been sacked, while 21 coaches have also been dismissed following managerial departures.

Those figures are slightly down on this time last year when 33 managers had departed by the end of the first week of January in 2010.

"They actually serve to highlight the continued chronic short-termism in football manager employment," Bevan added.

The LMA chief executive cited academic research showing that the effect of changing managers initially brought an average 2.5 points for Premier League clubs, before a team's performance dipped backed to a level below that achieved before the managerial switch.

"It is clearly the decision of club chairmen whom they hire and fire and when they choose to do this," Bevan continued.

"But the statistics show that a club is likely to end up worse off when they sack their manager, they have less points and are often significantly out of pocket due to monies spent on compensation and paying up contracts.

"Clubs in lower leagues simply cannot afford to keep sacking managers."

A manager's average tenure during the 2009-10 campaign was one year and four months, compared to three and a half years in 1992, according to Bevan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9346616.stm

If Managers don't like the industry they are working in they should **** off to a different one then.

Bodge told Broughton he could get the best out of our current squad, so the 'formal apprasial' would say that Bodge was talking out of his hoop and blagged his way through the door. Bye Bodge.

[red g]

The head of the body that represents football managers in England has warned that clubs should not be "treated as the playthings of the super rich".

The jobs of Roy Hodgson at Liverpool, Gerard Houllier at Aston Villa, Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea and Avram Grant at West Ham are all reportedly at risk.

League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan has urged clubs to stop "scapegoating" their managers.

And he suggested it might time for managers to undergo formal appraisals.

Bevan wrote: "In these, the strengths and weaknesses of how the football-side of the club is performing might be assessed against realistic expectations and previously, mutually agreed goals.

"In any other sector, there is a recognition that the highest performing organizations are those who build winning organizational culture - shared beliefs, goals and ways of behaving - coupled with a long-term vision.

"Yet, in football, there is an incomprehensible belief that the continued sacrificing of the football manager, the 'scapegoat' and installing another will turn around a football club's performance."

606: DEBATE
Support for Liverpool's Roy Hodgson on the Kop seems scarce, if it exists at all, after the 3-1 reverse at the hands of Blackburn

Mike Henson - BBC Sport

Nineteen of the 29 managers to have parted company with their clubs this season have been sacked, while 21 coaches have also been dismissed following managerial departures.

Those figures are slightly down on this time last year when 33 managers had departed by the end of the first week of January in 2010.

"They actually serve to highlight the continued chronic short-termism in football manager employment," Bevan added.

The LMA chief executive cited academic research showing that the effect of changing managers initially brought an average 2.5 points for Premier League clubs, before a team's performance dipped backed to a level below that achieved before the managerial switch.

"It is clearly the decision of club chairmen whom they hire and fire and when they choose to do this," Bevan continued.

"But the statistics show that a club is likely to end up worse off when they sack their manager, they have less points and are often significantly out of pocket due to monies spent on compensation and paying up contracts.

"Clubs in lower leagues simply cannot afford to keep sacking managers."

A manager's average tenure during the 2009-10 campaign was one year and four months, compared to three and a half years in 1992, according to Bevan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9346616.stm

In Big Business those who are responsible for the crisis invariably hvae to fall on their sword normally with a big pay off. No different to Football imo.
That bloke is obviously a **** of the highest order protecting another one of his ****ty managers who is doing a **** job in his ****ty organisation.

[Drago]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MSm...ayer_embedded#!

[RedReet]

Ah, that's pretty clear cut then. Please let them be right.

It has to be right. How can Roy enter the dressing room with every player knowing he’s useless and won’t be there much longer? It would have been embarrassing to have him pitchside with the United supporters having a field day and our fans probably joining in. I hope this doesn’t come back to haunt me, but I’ve maintained all day that there is no way he’d be at Old Trafford on Sunday as there was absolutely no good that could come out of it.

[Buzzo]

It has to be right. How can Roy enter the dressing room with every player knowing he’s useless and won’t be there much longer? It would have been embarrassing to have him pitchside with the United supporters having a field day and our fans probably joining in. I hope this doesn’t come back to haunt me, but I’ve maintained all day that there is no way he’d be at Old Trafford on Sunday as there was absolutely no good that could come out of it.

[red g]

It has to be right. How can Roy enter the dressing room with every player knowing he’s useless and won’t be there much longer? It would have been embarrassing to have him pitchside with the United supporters having a field day and our fans probably joining in. I hope this doesn’t come back to haunt me, but I’ve maintained all day that there is no way he’d be at Old Trafford on Sunday as there was absolutely no good that could come out of it.

if he walks the team out ( because he wont be leading them!! ) it will be an embarrasment to all. We don't want him, Scum fans will have a field day on and off the field.

It will be an anhilation to which Hodgson will smile and give that **** a warm embrace at the end of the game. Then that Ginsoak cunt will come out at the end of the game and profess his support for Roy while probably having a dig at Rafa.

[RichC]

It has to be right. How can Roy enter the dressing room with every player knowing he’s useless and won’t be there much longer? It would have been embarrassing to have him pitchside with the United supporters having a field day and our fans probably joining in. I hope this doesn’t come back to haunt me, but I’ve maintained all day that there is no way he’d be at Old Trafford on Sunday as there was absolutely no good that could come out of it.

Hope you're right, initially I thought he'd get the United game then got rid of whatever the result but after yesterdays efforts I was sure he'd be gone today.

I want him gone before the Utd game for the reasons you've mentioned but as it gets closer to the game the less likely he'll be gone before it

[johnly]

Hodgson now 3-1 ON to get the mallet next. Willhill's. Very short now

I work at a radio station, (one in the north west, but not on Merseyside) our news team got an email of Willy Hill today saying odds on Hodgson had been slashed, the last time they got an email like this it was about Fat Sam. 90 Mins later he got the sack. If these emails have gone out, something is happening

Edit: Dan Roan latest from Twitter
danroan Dan Roan
Lpool latest: Hodgson to hold press conference as planned tomorrow at 1.30

[wavydavy]

It has to be right. How can Roy enter the dressing room with every player knowing he’s useless and won’t be there much longer? It would have been embarrassing to have him pitchside with the United supporters having a field day and our fans probably joining in. I hope this doesn’t come back to haunt me, but I’ve maintained all day that there is no way he’d be at Old Trafford on Sunday as there was absolutely no good that could come out of it.

One of the problems here is that G&T COULD(if the mood took them) dismantle what is ,at best, an average United side. We'll then have to suffer the bodge grinning like a Cheshire cat saying "I knew I'd get it right given time" when in actual fact any victory would have had **** all to do with him. That'll get him another half a dozen games!

[SimonNo7]

not sure if this has been posted but:

danroan
Lpool latest: Hodgson to hold press conference as planned tomorrow at 1.30

[wavydavy]

I work at a radio station, (one in the north west, but not on Merseyside) our news team got an email of Willy Hill today saying odds on Hodgson had been slashed, the last time they got an email like this it was about Fat Sam. 90 Mins later he got the sack. If these emails have gone out, something is happening

One of the biggies? Radio Billinge?