Pack your bags Roy

[einar]

Just wached the Inter-Tottenham game. I miss Rafa.

[The_weatherman]

FLMAO we'll end up looking like an old folks home if Roy stays in charge

Where did you get that from? Honestly, I'm trying really hard to give Roy a little patience and understanding but it's very, very difficult when you keep posting things he does or say.

[spanky]

Just wached the Inter-Tottenham game. I miss Rafa.

[banditos]

still muddled is a pretty fair description and banditos is hardly British is it?

Lucky I'm not british then, isn't it.

[G]

Actually there's a lot of ageism on this thread.

Normally I'd be against it but...

You're too old to care????

[Muddled]

still muddled is a pretty fair description and banditos is hardly British is it?

Lucky I'm not british then, isn't it.

I am, however, guilty as charged.

[Glenn Hysen]

Any new rumours?? We really need a world class manager soon if we are gonna get some quality players in january and keep hold of the ones we have. Very worried now...

[spanky]

I hope he goes soon as i cringe when i read some of his interviews, just comes across as a small club manager but who do you get in.

[Mostar]

Any new rumours?? We really need a world class manager soon if we are gonna get some quality players in january and keep hold of the ones we have. Very worried now...

It's been very quite since Sunday... Hopefully it's a calm before the storm and NESV are still looking into replacing Royee

[Lecter]

Why Roy Hodgson needs a crash course from Fergie in how to play the media game at a truly big club
By Darren Lewis
Published 07:58 27/10/10


Five months ago I wrote this: Why Roy Hodgson should stay well away from the Liverpool job.

For those of you too busy to read it, it was a piece arguing the case for why the former Fulham manager should not have touched the Liverpool position with a barge pole.

Hodgson is a good man, an excellent tactician and a very honest man. But with every day that passes the reputation that he reinvigorated at Craven Cottage is taking a huge kicking.

You can understand why he did go to Anfield. At 62 (63 now) he found it far too difficult to resist the lure of one of the giants of English - world - football.


But if he is to stay on Merseyside he will need a massive PR makeover.

If he starts getting questions about the job being too big for him, he needs to politely swerve them. Not show how hurt he is and start justifying himself by trotting out his cv.

It may sound strange this coming from a journalist, but he may even need a crash course in how to sound as though he is giving the fans what they want from the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Because you would never in a million years get Manchester United's finest admitting it would be hard to hold on to one of his strikers if a so-called bigger club came along.

And yet that is exactly what Hodgson did last week when he conceded he would struggle to keep Fernando Torres in the face of interest from United.

If you are resting players for a game ahead of one that is more important at the weekend, the fans don't want to hear you talking about how they have to put up with stiffs who are not quite good enough.

Talk them up! Big up the players who are deputising for the likes of the big guns, just like Arsene Wenger did yesterday with Jay Emmanuel Thomas.

To be perfectly honest, Hodgson cannot afford to be losing ANY games at the moment. Liverpool need momentum and that comes with a consistency of tactics and team selection.

Weighing heavily in his favour is the fact that Liverpool have never sacked a manager mid-season in their 117-year history.

If Hodgson is to continue that trend then he will have to review his way he deals with the media instead of biting on everything and showing he can be wound up.

Because the patience he would have had at Fulham is running worryingly thin at Anfield.

And while he could get away with playing down expectations in London the fans are most definitely not having it on Merseyside.

Read more: http://www.mirrorfoo...l#ixzz13euKxV1C

[red g]

The Media have turned rather quickly............

would you agree? Seems its just the pundits that are deluded............

[dww]

Interesting article that.

Seems to me the idea of being hurt and defensive when trotting out his CV is at least as good an explanation of some of his comments as the arrogance some have diagnosed it as.

Interesting to see if the new tactics against Blackburn and the difference between his reaction to the Torres and Reina stories are a sign of him taking things on board. I hope so. My feeling is that no matter how much people want him sacked he is here for a little while at least.

[banditos]

Is Darren Lewis a red? Would be nice to see some criticisim of Roy from someone who doesn't support LFC.

[Roboklopp]

my name is Jean-Paul I just use Paul

[Vermilion]

Is Darren Lewis a red? Would be nice to see some criticisim of Roy from someone who doesn't support LFC.