Newcastle post match

[DannyMan2006]

We're all frustrated - I guess I'm clinging on to the hope that these new owners are genuine. If we get ****ed over again... well football already feels like a chore. It would be gutting to say the least.

[Mostar]

Roy Hodgson today demanded an instant improvement from his Liverpool players after describing the Reds' display at Newcastle as 'way below our best'.

Hodgson admitted he was left angry by the manner of his side's 3-1 defeat in the north east and held a team meeting at Melwood this morning in which he called for a quick return to winning ways.

"I was certainly saddened and certainly angry with our performance because in recent weeks we have shown we are capable of playing good football and we were looking like a very solid and strong unit," Hodgson told Liverpoolfc.tv.

"Even though we got back into the game against Newcastle and then had chances to go in front, because of our capitulation at the end I still wasn't happy with the performance.

"Certainly I don't think the level of performance was what I was expecting right from the first minute to the 90th minute. There were far too many poor performances and as a result that led to a poor team performance.

"We've had quite a long get-together with the team on that subject and everyone agreed with me that it was a performance way below our best and certainly we can't afford those type of performances."

We had a few right at the start of the season which put us on the back foot and then some good performances got us onto the front foot and that's certainly where we have got to stay.

"We know we have to improve our performances away from home. There is an element of confidence, certainly we can't deny that, but basically I don't think we've been strong enough physically and strong enough mentally away from home and this bad away run goes back to before my time here.

"If we are going to improve upon our woeful away record it will be because we have become more physically and mentally stronger. We have to adopt a harder core to our performance and make us harder to beat and then we won't concede the type of goals when all the opposition goalkeeper has to do is kick a long ball into the heart of our defence and then there's a goal chance.

"We have got to make certain we stop any vulnerability with that simplistic type of play.

"We have got to work hard on the training ground and to be fair to the players, even after a very long meeting today, a long post-match analysis and quite a lot of critical words aimed at the team's direction, out on the field they worked extremely hard and certainly I think that's what will get us through bad periods in the long run."

FFS can someone please point him to any other synonyms for the word Performance..

[DannyMan2006]

FFS can someone please point him to any other synonyms for the word Performance..

Another reason to sack Roy

[Roboklopp]

FFS can someone please point him to any other synonyms for the word Performance..

In this context "display", "effort", "showing", "endeavour".

[Roboklopp]

Bodgeson, please stop raping English. It's a crime.

[Craig_H]

Dont you mean 'cwime' ?

[DannyMan2006]

Dont you mean 'cwime' ?

[The_weatherman]

Roy Hodgson today demanded an instant improvement from his Liverpool players after describing the Reds' display at Newcastle as 'way below our best'.

Hodgson admitted he was left angry by the manner of his side's 3-1 defeat in the north east and held a team meeting at Melwood this morning in which he called for a quick return to winning ways.

"I was certainly saddened and certainly angry with our performance because in recent weeks we have shown we are capable of playing good football and we were looking like a very solid and strong unit," Hodgson told Liverpoolfc.tv.

"Even though we got back into the game against Newcastle and then had chances to go in front, because of our capitulation at the end I still wasn't happy with the performance.

"Certainly I don't think the level of performance was what I was expecting right from the first minute to the 90th minute. There were far too many poor performances and as a result that led to a poor team performance.

"We've had quite a long get-together with the team on that subject and everyone agreed with me that it was a performance way below our best and certainly we can't afford those type of performances.

"We had a few right at the start of the season which put us on the back foot and then some good performances got us onto the front foot and that's certainly where we have got to stay.

"We know we have to improve our performances away from home. There is an element of confidence, certainly we can't deny that, but basically I don't think we've been strong enough physically and strong enough mentally away from home and this bad away run goes back to before my time here.

"If we are going to improve upon our woeful away record it will be because we have become more physically and mentally stronger. We have to adopt a harder core to our performance and make us harder to beat and then we won't concede the type of goals when all the opposition goalkeeper has to do is kick a long ball into the heart of our defence and then there's a goal chance.

"We have got to make certain we stop any vulnerability with that simplistic type of play.

"We have got to work hard on the training ground and to be fair to the players, even after a very long meeting today, a long post-match analysis and quite a lot of critical words aimed at the team's direction, out on the field they worked extremely hard and certainly I think that's what will get us through bad periods in the long run."

I kind of get the feeling that he not actually doing anything to address the problem of a poor performance though. It's like the alleged match instructions, you just don't tell the players perform better. If that would work anyone could be manager. I get the mental picture of him standing over the team yelling:
"Play better"
"Be more confident"
"Be strong mentally and physically"
And the players just sitting there and thinking their hardest to improve mentally and physically.

You can't just talk a good performance out of the team, you need to coach it.

[RichC]

I kind of get the feeling that he not actually doing anything to address the problem of a poor performance though. It's like the alleged match instructions, you just don't tell the players perform better. If that would work anyone could be manager. I get the mental picture of him standing over the team yelling:
"Play better"
"Be more confident"
"Be strong mentally and physically"
And the players just sitting there and thinking their hardest to improve mentally and physically.

You can't just talk a good performance out of the team, you need to coach it.

I know what you mean with Dodgson - I get the impression all this stuff he comes out in the press with is entirely to keep his job, the press love him so by telling them all the wonderful things he's doing to change and turn around the dreadful mess that was left for him he's demonstrating he's the right man for the job!

In reality it's pretty clear looking at the performances he's not the right man for the job but when you've got the press on your side it makes it easier to pull the WWwool over the eyes of those that count

[Lecter]

In this context "display", "effort", "showing", "endeavour".

"**** up" would be more apt

[Roboklopp]

"**** up" would be more apt

**** up implies a one-off. Sadly, this is much more systemic.