Pack your bags Roy

[Craig_H]

I wonder what would happen if the fans audibly and obviously started calling for him to go.

I also wonder whether it'd actually happen.

[SRR]

Has he still not been sacked yet, thought SOS would have got this sorted by now.

[Arn]

I wonder what would happen if the fans audibly and obviously started calling for him to go.

I also wonder whether it'd actually happen.

I think that we should just stand up and laugh at him. He is a comedian both on and off the pitch.

[Craig_H]

I think that we should just stand up and laugh at him. He is a comedian both on and off the pitch.

Being serious, the longer he stays, the more damage gets done - literally, every single game longer that he remains, is hurting us. He needs to go NOW.

I know it's against what we do, but the end justifies the means - i'd be happy to see the Kop voicing their discontent in an obvious and unmistakable manner on Sunday.

[SRR]

Being serious, the longer he stays, the more damage gets done - literally, every single game longer that he remains, is hurting us. He needs to go NOW.

I know it's against what we do, but the end justifies the means - i'd be happy to see the Kop voicing their discontent in an obvious and unmistakable manner on Sunday.

It's not funny anymore, the Hodgson experiment needs to stop now.

[Big-Red-Ed]

Just read on bbc site that Gordon Strachan has resigned from Boro tonight, ripped up his contract and walked away asking for no compo. Admitting things just haven't worked for him there.

Any way Hodgson will do the honourable thing?

[Shaggy]

Blackburn-Sunderland and Kenny is in the directors box taking notes............

[kris90210]

Just read on bbc site that Gordon Strachan has resigned from Boro tonight, ripped up his contract and walked away asking for no compo. Admitting things just haven't worked for him there.

Any way Hodgson will do the honourable thing?

Fair play to him. There aren't many around who would do that.

[pezzzer]

king kenny until we find a full time replacement. no brainer an wld hope its sorted by tmrw

[Kenneth]

I wonder what would happen if the fans audibly and obviously started calling for him to go.

I also wonder whether it'd actually happen.

I think a poor performance against Blackburn, which is inevitable, will be met by audible boos. Problem is, Roy will just say it's unfair for the crowd to boo the players.

[Daniel 7]

Being serious, the longer he stays, the more damage gets done - literally, every single game longer that he remains, is hurting us. He needs to go NOW.

I know it's against what we do, but the end justifies the means - i'd be happy to see the Kop voicing their discontent in an obvious and unmistakable manner on Sunday.

The press would not be able to ignore an anti managerial statement from the Kop. It just couldn't be ignored, especially with our reputation for backing managers.

It would be a million times more emphatic than even the "You don't know what you're doing" chants from the Geordies to Fat Sam.

[Craig_H]

I think a poor performance against Blackburn, which is inevitable, will be met by audible boos. Problem is, Roy will just say it's unfair for the crowd to boo the players.

Boos are fairly open to interpretation, in terms of whether they're aimed at the players or the manager.

We need something specific to Hodgson, so that there's no doubt at all what's being said and who's fault it is.

[Shaggy]

He somehow has this reputation as an amiable, loveable character, but I don't even think he seems a good bloke. He's a bit of a tit.

Got form for being overly spiky too.......

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

Hodgson leaves Udinese after criticising club

By Gordon Tynan

Tuesday, 11 December 2001


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.

[Craig_H]

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Best suggestion goes on a banner for the Kop.

[RedReet]

Dan, I think most people would agree with you that Rafa's transfer record over the past couple of years was poor. I think what most of us feel is that there were mitigating circumstances. For example, it was revealed the other day that Rafa thought he was getting Aquilani AND Jovetic as replacements for Alonso. This was a common scenario...

Regarding your point on signing Evra, Vidic et al. By all account we tried! Unfortunately for us, Utd had a bigger pull than we did at the time. There has been a lot of speculation over the players we've *nearly* signed. Berbatov when he was Leverkusen. Alves. Simao. We were after Villa years before he became the player he is today. This suggests to me that Rafa was good at spotting players but wasn't given the backing to proceed.

Concerning the wisdom of replacing Alonso with Aquilani. Alonso was a playmaker more than a defensive midfielder. Aquilani is also primarily a playmaker. They both approach their duties in different ways but their roles are similar. Alonso could use his incredible range of passing to achieve this. Aquilani would link the defence and attack with movement and intelligent short passing. At least that's the theory. Hindsight is 20:20. Do you really believe that Rafa would still sign him if he knew he would be crocked for most of last season? He has come out and said he was given bad medical advice on Aquilani.

As I said earlier, Rafa did make mistakes in the transfer market. Of course he did. Everyone does! The man has admitted as much himself. I think people on here are being over defensive because you seem to be ignoring:

a) mitigating circumstances
b) that if you break his transfer dealings down, he actually spent very little (net) compared with our rivals

Well said.