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[bigmick]

The seats saved for you mate and the bus has filled right up. Mind you if we get spanked by Arsenal in the first game we'll all be getting off as if someone's dropped one 

[roberto green]

Is it me or does someting just seem right about having Roy Hodgson as our manager.Don't get me wrong I know it is so easy to get carried away as he hasn't done anything yet but something just feels right  about him.

Happy Days. for now anyway

[Reg]

Good thing the season hasn't started yet isnt it lads?

[shabelle50]

The proof will be in the pudding but for now Woy Hodgson rules!

[Rush Job]

Have you ever seen so much love in a thread?

We love you Roy. 

[boodiddy1]

A change for the good. Happy people. Keep it up and leave the negative for the other topics. Fight the owners before and after a match. Support the team during 90 mins. We will reach our goal. A few right additions and maybe roy gets no.19!

I mean rafa got CL with traore and biscan.

[zarababe]

This is so funny - Please read :

WHERE THERE IS HODGSON THERE IS HOPE
It was Roy Keane, of all people, who cooed last year that "all football managers are romantics." No, the smouldering Irishman was not suggesting that gaffers up and down the land spend their evenings trying to arrange the perfect bouquet of flowers, penning winsome verse or serenading sweet maidens under moonlit balconies. What he meant was that managers devote their lives to the pursuit of a dream.

By way of classic example we could cite another Roy: Mr Hodgson. Hodgson's irrelevant playing career petered out when he was just 27 but his football dream didn't. Within months he took charge of Swedish small potatoes Halmstad, where the players, nearly half of whom were older than him, initially viewed him with the same sort of suspicion that veteran boozers eye teenage teetotalers. Once he explained his vision and method, however, they were convinced – and, hey presto, that season the presumed relegation certainties won the league for the first time in their history!

Hodgson the Wandering Conjurer has performed similar tricks all over Europe ever since, with very few mishaps en route (Kevin Davies to Blackburn was the rabbit that died in the hat), and all that magic and dream-chasing finally paid off earlier this month when the 62-year-old was appointed to what he calls "the biggest job in football". There is, of course, a grave risk that the position of Liverpool manager will mutate into a nightmare, what with the club still being in the clutches of Duke and Duke from Trading Places, Fernando Torres breaking down more often than peace talks in the Middle East and the whole mood about Anfield being about as uplifting as a grand piano dropped from a great height.

But where there is Hodgson, there is hope. Joe Cole listened to his dream, and now he's a believer. And that, in turn, appears to have converted $tevie Mbe too. "Joe has proved his ability over many years in the Premier League - sometimes against us - so it will be fantastic to play alongside him in a red shirt for Liverpool," hurrahed Mbe. "I wanted the chance to meet Roy Hodgson privately and having done so, I'm very impressed with his plans for the future," added the England captain, who, in fairness, had already moved to dampen speculation linking him with moves to the likes of Real Madrid ... by performing like an incorrigible galoot at the World Cup.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/20/1

[RED BEERGOGGLES]

roy is lkie TOm bak;eer takking Liverp[ol back to t he glorty days in hios TArdiis
Somebosy te;l me to g o to bed fffs

[NANNY RED]

^^^^  Someone is gonna have a whopper of a hangover in the morning

[ruskiy playmaker]

roy is lkie TOm bak;eer takking Liverp[ol back to t he glorty days in hios TArdiis
Somebosy te;l me to g o to bed fffs

rolf 

[fivecups]

^^^^  Someone is gonna have a whopper of a hangover in the morning

At work apparently as well. That'll be a looonnnnng day! 

[NANNY RED]

God me own head hurts just thinking about how hes head and guts are gonna be when he wakes up ha ha ,

[Sabre]

Have you ever seen so much love in a thread?

We love you Roy. 

Yes, there is love.

I just hope we don't have an anti Roy brigade before November. 

[Redx]

Have you ever seen so much love in a thread?

We love you Roy. 

Yes, there is love.

I just hope we don't have an anti Roy brigade before November. 

That would be a shame..

[bigmick]

Have you ever seen so much love in a thread?

We love you Roy. 

Yes, there is love.

I just hope we don't have an anti Roy brigade before November. 

We had a bit of an anti Roy brigade before the middle of July never mind November, but thankfully it seems most people are now swinging in behind the new manager which is great.

To become an "anti" towards any manager you have to first see them operate over a sustained period of time, to understand their philosophy and their ethos, and to come to a conclusion eventually that they are not healthy for the club. I've said a few times now that if we're top in November it doesn't necessarily mean that Roy is a genius, and if we're 10th it doesn't mean he's sh!t either. It's not the "where" at first, it's the "how".

If for instance he chops and changes the team every week, doesn't allow them to get any rhythm or cohesion and shows that he isn't really getting what's required in the league he's operating in, it's a real worry. If on the other hand events conspire against him but he recognises nice and early that certain formations aren't working, certain partnerships not functioning, and he remains upbeat and looks like a leader who can lead and inspire, then there is hope.

For me, Roy has to get the same freedom to operate as the previous manager did. We don't "expect" him to win trophies in his first season, because we've gone a few seasons without winning one before he came. We don't "expect" him to challenge for the title, because he takes over a team which was 7th last season. What we do though, or at least what I do, is expect him to improve things, and hope we might even achive something which right now seems unlikely. Even if he doesn't do those things though, Roy deserves a minimum of three seasons IMHO before it is possible to say he isn't up to it.

The previous manager got three or four seasons before people began to have their serious doubts, this manager deserves the same.