Pack your bags Roy

[Craig_H]

Dunno who this geezer is but thought I'd throw it out there

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However...senior club person sent me a text today which said 'we'll be lucky to have any fans left by the weekend'.

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Contrary to the made up stuff in the papers NESV are actively looking for a replacement with Deschamps top of the list.
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Spose that was on the cards once they appointed Comolli. Didnt they work together or am i mistaken?

[Lecter]

Broughton knighted in the new years honours list - he should be thrown in the Tower of London for appointing Roy

[Craig_H]

Hero to villain in 3 months.

[Shaggy]

Pre-match press conference first thing in the morning...should be very interesting.

[Craig_H]

Pre-match press conference first thing in the morning...should be very interesting.

They arent usually that early, are they?

[souliv]

What time Shaggy

[Shaggy]

They arent usually that early, are they?

Not usually but apparently tomorrow's is early.

It's snowballing now. Daily Post 'off the fence'

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/football-news/2010/12/31/off-the-fence-liverpool-fc-can-rescue-season-by-sacking-roy-hodgson-55578-27911367/?

OFF THE FENCE: Liverpool FC can rescue season by sacking Roy Hodgson

Dec 31 2010 By Ben Thornley, Daily Post

ROY HODGSON and Liverpool FC - not since Jan Molby squeezed into skimpy shorts in the late 1980s has there been such an uncomfortable fit in football.

If Anfield supporters were baffled by their board's decision to appoint Hodgson as Rafa Benitez's successor in the summer, they find it harder still to understand how he has lasted this long.

Nothing the Londoner had achieved in his past indicated he was the man for the Liverpool job. Less still in his disastrous six months in charge, which culminated in Wednesday's humiliating defeat to Wolves, suggests he should be allowed to continue.

On and off the field the 63-year-old has continually fallen way below expectations. Calamitous performances against the likes of Blackpool, Northampton and Everton have been as regularly matched by clangers in the media room, with each press conference bringing Hodgson another opportunity to lower expectations, demotivate players and trumpet his reputation as"one of Europe's most respected managers".

He is the anthisis of what a Liverpool boss should be, his manner and approach to the game completely at odds with Anfield's traditions.

Given his claim that he doesn't believe in innovation and his wretched track record with transfers, he also appears to be an ill fit with everything John Henry and his fellow owners represent.

Reviving Liverpool may be a long-term job, as the owners have claimed, but that task is becoming larger with each match Hodgson takes charge of.

If he is given until the end of the season as has been suggested, then the next man's job will be all the more difficult. Particularly without several of Liverpool's key players who are unlikely to hang around while Hodgson blunders through the final months of the campaign.

Far from steadying the ship, he is doing unspeakable damage to the club's standing and future.

And yet this awful season can still be salvaged, if Henry and his fellow board members move quickly to install a new manager, even on an interim basis.

The Premier League is so poor this term that it is not inconceivable that with the right man in charge and a host of quality signings that Liverpool could challenge for a Champions League place.

The top half is the limit of Liverpool's ambitions should they stick by the former Malmo coach, however - something Hodgson would probably salute as a triumph.

Despite what his friends in the media may claim, Liverpool's squad does possess great quality, but it would not suit their agenda to admit it.

However, if you keep telling a group of players how mediocre they are they will begin to believe it.

Instead the press talk of Hodgson having inherited issues - without ever specifying what they are, mind - and of the team being destabilised by the ownership issue, in spite of Liverpool having been sold two months previously.

They also credit him with overseeing a revival in recent months, yet ignore that Liverpool have taken just seven points from their last seven games.

While you expect the likes of Richard Keys to support his chum, it was particularly disappointing to hear Reds legend John Barnes claim that "sensible" Liverpool supporters still backed him.

Even before his disgraceful attack on the Kop on Wednesday he had lost even the most moderate of Liverpool fans.

Now it's time for him to lose his job.

[-V-]

Pre-match press conference first thing in the morning...should be very interesting.

Postponed on thursday moved to Friday.

But it won't be interesting, he'll just come out with the usual rubbish about needing to improve and how he doesn't have a magic wand because he isn't Harry Potter

[el matador]

****ing great news. You dont find local rags like the echo printing such stuff because its not in their interests to do so. They dont want to get marginalised by the club so something must be going on. The article is dynamite.

There's not a chance in hell that this would happen unless he was on his way. This is a sign...

[Shaggy]

Postponed on thursday moved to Friday.

Yep tomorrow is Friday.

[little dave hedgehog]

Yep tomorrow is Friday.

not in australia

[el matador]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/169762/Liverpool-Crisis-Yanks-fan-the-flames/

LIVERPOOL CRISIS: YANKS FAN THE FLAMES

LIVERPOOL’S owners have cranked up the pressure on Roy Hodgson by making it clear they are unhappy at his attack on Anfield fans.

The under-fire Kop boss vented his frustration in the wake of the 1-0 home defeat by Wolves on Wednesday.

Chants of ‘Hodgson for England’ and ‘Dalglish, Dalglish’ were the backdrop to the club’s eighth league defeat of a disappointing season.

There were loud boos at the end as Hodgson’s rocky six-month reign plunged to new depths. And the former Fulham boss reacted by taking a swipe back at the fans.

He said: “We’ve had to live with that for quite a long time now as ever since I came here the famous Anfield support has not really been there.”

That outburst has been noted over the Atlantic, where John W Henry and his New England Sports Ventures organisation are said to be monitoring the situation closely.
Liverpool face a vital spell over the next month or so, including difficult trips to Blackburn, Blackpool and Wolves, and an FA Cup clash at Manchester United.

The club’s owners are concerned at reports that Hodgson is losing the dressing room, although he himself insists he still has the backing of the players.

He said: “I have been lucky the support I have had has been from the players and within the club.”

However, he added signifi cantly: “I haven’t had a lot of support from the fans ever since I came here.

“The fans have not been happy with what they have seen in the whole of 2010 and since I came here we have not won enough games to keep them happy.

“That is understandable in the sense that they were hoping when I came here the latter part of last season would be forgotten and we would start flying again.

“That hasn’t happened and as a result, as manager, you are the one in the fi ring line, but it doesn’t make the job easier because it makes the players more nervous.

“I can only say as a manager you have to understand that fans care for their club and want it to do well and when it is not doing well they voice their disapproval.

“I have to accept that and try to keep doing my job and try to improve things.

“It is a vicious circle and in order to break it we have to start playing well and winning matches because if we don’t, they are going to reserve their support until such time as we can do it.”

[Baracus]

[-V-]

Yep tomorrow is Friday.

No mate, Today is Friday

[el matador]

Hodgson left to fight for future as owners' doubts grow

Liverpool's American owners are beginning to harbour doubts about Roy Hodgson and are particularly concerned about the manager's increasingly fractured relationship with supporters after the excruciating home defeat to Wolves on Wednesday.


The owners are understood to have been surprised to find that Hodgson had questioned the supporters after the 1-0 defeat, during which ironic chants of "Hodgson for England" and calls for Kenny Dalglish were heard. Though Dalglish is understood to feel Liverpool still have no appetite to appoint him as caretaker, the club's owners believe that the fans should not have been further alienated after a performance in which the club's principal owner, John W Henry, was not convinced the players were sufficiently committed. Hodgson observed after the match that in his six months as Liverpool manager "the famous Anfield support has not been there" and called on "those fans to become supporters as well, because this is the time when the club needs supporters".

The 14-day break caused by the cancellation of Liverpool's fixtures with Fulham and Blackpool created the platform to excel against a Wolves side who arrived at Anfield with the worst away record in the four English leagues. In those circumstances, the Americans were particularly surprised by the listless performance Hodgson's players put in. A make-or-break month appears to lie ahead.

Henry and his chairman, Tom Werner, had been hopeful that Hodgson could at least see them through to the end of the season and initially expressed surprise at the level of criticism the 63-year-old has incurred. If Hodgson were to be sacked, the problem is who might be available to take the club through to the summer. It is understood Dalglish would jump at the chance if he received any encouragement for a return which would restore the link to the supporters, though his temporary appointment could store up more trouble. Were Dalglish to succeed in any way as a caretaker, it might be difficult to remove him harmoniously in favour of a younger, long-term manager such as Marseilles' Didier Deschamps, Porto's Andre Villas Boas or even Bolton's Owen Coyle.

There is also the risk that, after a decade out of the front line, Dalglish simply could not deliver Liverpool towards the top of the table. In the meantime, he remains a brooding presence for Hodgson. "In the summer we lost one manager and got another one in," is the limit of Dalglish's cool assessment of the new manager in his latest column for the club's weekly magazine.

The Americans may be reluctant to move swiftly, with the FA Cup third-round tie at Old Trafford only nine days away, and there are good reasons not to react prematurely and instead wait until the summer to move for the kind of young manager Henry may prefer.

Hodgson's players, whom he insisted yesterday still support him, have proved themselves perfectly capable. The side had started to show signs of promise only last month, with a creditable display in the defeat at Tottenham and victory over Chelsea before demolitions of Aston Villa and West Ham. Two dire defeats and two cancelled games have now destroyed the momentum. Coyle's Bolton present a tough challenge tomorrow.

Hodgson is a popular figure within Anfield and there is a feeling among some that he is too candid and articulate for his own good at times. Nothing the manager said in his questioning of the supporters was factually inaccurate – there has, indeed, been little fans' support for him – and his language on Wednesday night was not intemperate. But by calling for better support he has rendered his relationship with supporters an even more dislocated one. There is also a feeling – perfectly justified – from some quarters at Anfield that Fernando Torres has escaped scot-free from the wrath of fans, while Hodgson has taken all the abuse.

Hodgson believes one of the reasons why smaller teams are regularly beating larger ones in this Premier League season is that the days of journeymen teams are over and that every side has at least one elite potential match-winner, from Wigan's Charles N'Zogbia to Wolves' Matt Jarvis.

With each side capable of achieving a decent level, Hodgson reasons, delivery from that star player is more often the difference between success and failure. Torres is one of the star men for Liverpool and, despite playing in every League game bar one this season and enjoying a contract way beyond that of Jamie Carragher, he does not look interested. It has not been lost on some that Torres' only star performance was in the first half against Chelsea, the side to which he would welcome a move.

Privately, Hodgson believes the Spaniard's problems are physical and psychological, but Liverpool have stored up trouble by making the player bigger than the club, whose former managing director Christian Purslow was desperate to keep the striker as part of the process of making the club attractive to buyers. The informal understanding reached before Henry's New England Sports Ventures group took over was that Torres would be permitted to leave at the end of this season if Liverpool had failed to qualify for the Champions League and a £50m offer came in.

Now, the 26-year-old seems to be beyond the manager's control. Tactically, Hodgson's style, with Pepe Reina punting long balls in the direction of Torres when he needs the ball played to his feet, is often less suited to him, but that does not account for his poor season.

Torres the terrible

After some great years at Liverpool, 2010 has seen the striker struggle for form and fitness, looking increasingly unsettled.

March Penalty spot disruption goes unpunished. After heading Liverpool ahead at Old Trafford, Torres then kicked the spot before a Wayne Rooney penalty. Torres went unpunished by the FA.

April Hauled off at St Andrew's Withdrawn after 65 minutes of a 1-1 draw at Birmingham City, prompting a bemused reaction from Steven Gerrard.

June/July Limited role in World Cup glory Torres was clearly unfit at the World Cup in South Africa. He started four of Spain's seven matches, but was substituted in all of them and only once lasted beyond 58 minutes. Scored no goals.

September Accused by Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson said that Torres made "an absolute meal" of a foul by John O'Shea in Liverpool's 3-2 defeat to United. "There is no doubt he tried" to get O'Shea sent off.

November Scores against Chelsea and Wigan Both goals are his in a 2-0 win over Chelsea at Anfield. Then strikes his fifth goal of the season at the JJB – and has not scored for Liverpool since. Seen turning his back and looking uninterested as Jermain Defoe missed a penalty in the 2-1 defeat at White Hart Lane.

Make-or-break month?

Tomorrow v Bolton (h); Prem

Wednesday v Blackburn (a); Prem

9 January v Man United (a); FA Cup

12 January v Blackpool (a); Prem

16 January v Everton (h); Prem


22 January v Wolves (a); Prem


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...w-2172428.html