Newcastle post match

[Reece]

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A brief description, if you would be so kind?

[Shaggy]

[Rich]

I just can't believe it - only because I could have written something similar.

[Reece]

Dear oh dear

[Shaggy]

It's real amateurish stuff isn't it

"Maintain a confident and reliable performance"

Genius!

"Front players stay together - give us an outlet for longer passes"

[Imy]

It's got to be a joke that, either that or Roy is turning in to:

[Neil Young]

It's obviously fake.

No way would Bodger bother with a plan for attacking when we're away from home.

[Rich]

Glen & Paul get forward

Genius AND insightful. How did we fail?

[The_weatherman]

It's real amateurish stuff isn't it

"Maintain a confident and reliable performance"

Genius!

"Front players stay together - give us an outlet for longer passes"

And the attacking instructions for Paul and Glen are, and I quote: "Go forward."

Oh, ok, then, anything else boss.

I really want to believe it's not real but I do wonder.

[Lecter]

First point says all you need to know about Roy and his tactics "Front players stay together - give us an oultlet for our longer passes"

[Lecter]

I would love to see what the defensive instructions were

[Mostar]

Dear oh dear

Pathetic and embarrassing if true

[Shaggy]

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."

[McDermotX]

Was up the park there last week watching a schoolboy game..............stereotypical, bald, tracksuited "manager" on the touchline gave a team talk with more tactical nous and insight than that above.










Said I represented Liverpool and asked if he wanted a job.............................told me to **** off. Sweetened the offer when I noticed he didn't rub is face when his team conceded...........

[DannyMan2006]

Keep us on the front foot?!? We've never been on it.