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by **Owzat** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:56 am

ben oseman wrote:shut the hell up i support liverpool u idiot

Do you think you could aim for a few less one liners, this isn't MSN messenger but you're making it look like it

by **boodiddy1** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:10 am

Ban the litle runt. He's ruining everything. come on Mods do something decent

by **tubby** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:38 am

He's probably being kept around for entertainment purposes.

by **dawson99** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:42 am

he wears gazelles, give him a chance

by **ben oseman** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:44 pm

whats wrong with you fools, we're meant to be discussing roy hodgson. and i think , given the chance and without the crucifying pressure he'll be a very productive manager. look at what he did at fulham on limited funds.

by **TarnRed** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:49 pm

ben oseman wrote:whats wrong with you fools, we're meant to be discussing roy hodgson. and i think , given the chance and without the crucifying pressure he'll be a very productive manager. look at what he did at fulham on limited funds.

Have you still got your Gazelles on blud?.

P.S Adidas Beckenbauers are the dogs nads in red & white.

by **Owzat** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:04 am

ben oseman wrote:look at what he did at fulham on limited funds.

Finished 12th, your point is.................?

I know the old line about such and such did well with limited funds at club x, y or z, but the bottom line is the pressure is there at a bigger club because you can't just finish mid-table. And other managers on these "limited funds" have been found out, just because you can spot the odd bargain and get a club to avoid relegation or finish mid-table or slightly higher doesn't mean you've got what it takes to guide a side to Champions League football. Examples :

Allardyce to Newcastle
Hughes to Citeh
MON to villa - more money than at Leicester for a gain of one or two places in the league and godawful football getting there

by **Thommo's perm** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 11:00 am

ben oseman wrote:whats wrong with you fools, we're meant to be discussing roy hodgson. and i think , given the chance and without the crucifying pressure he'll be a very productive manager. look at what he did at fulham on limited funds.

Why you no use capitals?

by **RED BEERGOGGLES** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:54 pm

Decent press conference from the manager although towards the end he does seem to lose patience with the Media and throws in a few barbs as to the press now building Liverpool up as contenders .... Rome wasn't built in a day ..... Trust me Roy Liverpool supporters will know this ,we our as a rule a patient bunch ... I personally loved what he said about Mascherano honouring his contract
Press conference

by **Fowler_E7** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:15 pm

Hodgson is very good with media, alwaysgives a good interview, plus being English he will get a bit of extra leeway that Benitez never got

by **Thommo's perm** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:27 pm

Fowler_E7 wrote:Hodgson is very good with media, alwaysgives a good interview, plus being English he will get a bit of extra leeway that Benitez never got

I think the lack of bullsh'itting will give him the edge as well

by **parchpea** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:30 pm

Hodgson has been a breath of fresh air and his press conference was nice and relaxed without any edge to it at all. So far the fella has not put a foot wrong off the park but ofcourse we await to see his side take to it and thats when the real judgement of him will begin. If he can instill the same approach to work he portrays himself through to our players I personally think we will see a big difference in our lads this year and I am really looking forward to the campaign ahead.

by **Dundalk** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:53 pm

by **Igor Zidane** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:47 am

Yer see ,THIS is the reason we need to get behind ROY.

Tony Barrett
Updated 1 minute ago

Liverpool manager’s optimism tested as Europa League begins with vital players still on the beach after their World Cup exertions

Four weeks to the day since his reign began with promises of a brave new world, Roy Hodgson heads into his first competitive game as Liverpool manager having declared that the squad he inherited is ill equipped for the immediate task at hand.

That Hodgson had cause for complaint is beyond doubt, with the World Cup hangover costing him the services of several of his senior stars for tonight’s Europa League third qualifying round, first-leg tie against Rabotnicki, of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The hand that has been dealt to him is a poor one and the time and opportunity afforded him to make the most of it has been wholly insufficient.

But there was something about his mood and his sense of foreboding yesterday that flew in the face of his pronouncement 28 days ago that he was embarking on his dream job. Tetchy and at pains to stress the difficulties he is encountering, Hodgson carried the air of a man who has recognised the size of the challenge facing him.

If this was the dose of reality that his appointment was intended to bring, then it was administered with a surprising brutality given his reputation as a gentleman of football.

Gone were the platitudes about how even the shortcomings of Liverpool in their present state did not make the manager’s job any less attractive. Gone also was the optimism that his arrival at Anfield had ushered in.

Instead, Hodgson cut a surprisingly irritable figure, even finding reason to come out with a cryptic comment of which Rafael Benítez, his predecessor, would have been proud. “All we ever seem to do at Liverpool is have discussions,” Hodgson said, having been asked if he had held talks with the club about the importance of the Europa League and where the competition rated on their list of priorities.

From being invigorated, Hodgson suddenly and inexplicably appeared burdened, to such an extent that he even allowed himself to contemplate the possibility of Liverpool being beaten by Rabotnicki, a club of such modest renown that, when pressed on his knowledge of them, the Liverpool manager could offer little. “We know as much as we were able to find out in a week,” he said.

“If the worst happened and we didn’t get through because Rabotnicki prove to be the stronger team, then we were not able to sustain the current situation. In World Cup years it is a tremendous burden on the senior teams from countries like England, Spain, Italy and Germany to have to play third qualifying round matches on July 29 when players haven’t returned from holiday.

“Everybody, most of all Uefa, knows you can’t bring people off the beach, give them three days’ training and throw them into a first-class game. So the team will be different to that that starts the Premier League season.

“I couldn’t have envisaged at the start of my time at Liverpool a more difficult situation, coming to Skopje, playing a good opponent, having very little chance to work with the first team and not having as many as ten first-team players.

“Does it detract from my first game? You could say that. But the team, I am confident, will not let the club down. We will be trying to win but I’m far from confident that will be the case.”

Talking down his team’s chances is all well and good if it lessens the expectation that has had a crippling effect on Liverpool, but if it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it will be another matter entirely, particularly because one of the biggest challenges facing Hodgson is to convince his detractors that the job he has taken on is not beyond him.

Rabotnicki (possible; 4-3-3): M Bogatinov — G Dimovski, Fernando Lopes, E Belica, V Sekulovski — V Tunevski, N Gligorov, G Todorovski — Zé Carlos, Wandeir, Fabio Silva.

Liverpool (possible; 4-4-1-1): D Cavalieri — M Kelly, M Skrtel, D Wilson, D Agger — D Amoo, Lucas Leiva, J Spearing, M Jovanovic — A Aquilani — D Ngog.

Referee: A Damato (Italy).

by **Reg** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:22 am

This is scandelous! WTF is going on? Roy is a first class manager and after just a few days he's already pi$$ed off enough to state in public “All we ever seem to do at Liverpool is have discussions,”

WTF?! :angry:

What is going on behind the scenes that Roy is so publically pi$$ed off? :angry:

Sweet jaysus as if this job isnt big enough already picking up the pieces after Wafa.

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