Roy Hodgson - Respect

[McDermotX]

I'll settle for just erasing him from memory and the history books.

I won't go slagging him off, but I hardly think he deserves a standing ovation if he ever returns to Anfield.

[SimonNo7]

Although in the end it turned very messy and personal towards Roy, he still needs a thanks for his efforts.

He took the Liverpool job and im sure he did his best. In all honesty he was never cut out for the most prestegious job in English football, this was obvious from a very early stage.

He needed to go, and thats now happend. But if he ever comes back to Anfield as a visiting manger - i'll certainley applaude him. It would be very disrespectful for any of our fans to boo him. Liverpool fans are much better than that.

Even in his leaving speach he was very respectful to our club and fans, which shows a lot of class.

Anyway onwards, and upwards under Kenny - regardless of what happens for the rest of the season, we will definaltely see some pride put back into the shirt - starting at old toilet tommorow afternoon!

Thanks Roy.

[Red_Polo]

It's all up to him but knowing him, I know it won't be the case. Anyone thinking that his press statement was really written by him and not by LFC's PR is deluded. It's got everything but his stamp on it.

Not sure he was completely removed from the statement, that would just be a flagrant fabricated statment on the club's part, he did mention he was sorry 'not to be given the chance' etc

Though, yes, I agree it was obviously very 'guided' by the club PR.

[wavydavy]

No. IMO you don't study other clubs like you do your own. I always thought of him as a steady manager who was a good footballing man. When he came to LFC and I started to listen to his excuse riddled bull**** I, along with everybody else, saw straight through him. Study his previous achievements(?) and stats etc and you uncover a man who could almost be a byword for the modern football manager. ie Constantly rewarded for being **** at his job. You get the sack and a pay off and then some other mug offers you yet another highly paid position. It's ****ing madness! There really is no other job like it. No, sorry. Not in the mood for saying thanks.

[Paul12]

I for one am sad. I thought it inevitable that Benitez was let go and was not conivinced that Kenny was the man for the job. I took the view that it would be difficult to sell the club whilst we had a manager who wanted to spend large amounts of money, so we needed a manager who could get more out of the existing squad; and I thought Hodgson had done that at Fulham. I wanted a manager who would be more media friendly than Rafa was at the end and Hodgson had been that at Fulham.

I have thought that a portion of LFC fans and people on this site have been plain wrong and way out of order in some of the things they have said about his record and him personally.

Nevertheless I agree he has performed incredibly poorly and antagonised players and fans. He just could not handle the job and had to go. I don't like LFC being talked of as a sacking club but he has made it necessary.

In my view his performance has been so poor and he has been so wilfully perverse in the things he has said that, although I think I am very fair minded, I still don't think he deserve our thanks. Sorry Roy.

[Charly]

Lots of class? No way. ..

Yeah, but listeneing to some of the ****e people have been coming out with, perhaps we deserved him.

He was rubbish, he said some stupid things, he was sacked. Thats what he will be remembered for, the worst LFC manager in living memory.

[GorbyPeacePrize]

Although in the end it turned very messy and personal towards Roy, he still needs a thanks for his efforts.

He took the Liverpool job and im sure he did his best. In all honesty he was never cut out for the most prestegious job in English football, this was obvious from a very early stage.

He needed to go, and thats now happend. But if he ever comes back to Anfield as a visiting manger - i'll certainley applaude him. It would be very disrespectful for any of our fans to boo him. Liverpool fans are much better than that.

Even in his leaving speach he was very respectful to our club and fans, which shows a lot of class.

Anyway onwards, and upwards under Kenny - regardless of what happens for the rest of the season, we will definaltely see some pride put back into the shirt - starting at old toilet tommorow afternoon!

Thanks Roy.

Let's just see what he says to the press (assuming there is no gagging order in the severance deal) before we start saying what a lovely man Bodge is. Even in his official statement he is still making out he could do a job here, if given time:

"I am very sad not to have been able to put my stamp on the squad, to be given the time to bring new players into the club in this transfer window and to have been able to be part of the rebuilding process at Liverpool."

[magicalbarnes]

Yeah, but listeneing to some of the ****e people have been coming out with, perhaps we deserved him.

He was rubbish, he said some stupid things, he was sacked. Thats what he will be remembered for, the worst LFC manager in living memory.

Sorry that accolade belongs to Souness

[Fredo]

Yeah, but listeneing to some of the ****e people have been coming out with, perhaps we deserved him.

That was a tiny minority though. We deserved him?

[Mattshark]

Sorry that accolade belongs to Souness

Nope, Roy is statistically much worse.

[Cormack74]

Sorry that accolade belongs to Souness

Until a couple of weeks ago I would have agreed with you but now I'm not so sure.

Souness had problems of his own making like getting rid of a lot of good players and then not adequately replacing them.

But he did have a substantial number of injuries to contend with and he did win the FA cup.

[Yozza]

Nah mate...., no abuse from me but good riddance to the senile classless clueless old fart

[Roboklopp]

Won't wish I'll on him, but in no way am I gonna thank him or wish him well. Given his behaviour and performances, I'd say that's fairly generous.

[Armchairkopite]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out, good man.

[Roboklopp]

Nah mate...., no abuse from me but good riddance to the senile classless clueless old fart