Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson wrote in his column for the Liverpool Daily Post today that it is now only a matter of time before Roy Hodgson will be sacked as manager of the Anfield club:
“One thing Liverpool have always done in front of their own fans down the years is press the opposition and look like a team fighting for their lives to try and win. Hodgson doesn’t seem to have bought into that and it seems the stay-away supporters don’t have much confidence in him being able to turn it round. All in all, the appointment just hasn’t worked. What happens next is for the owners to decide but I will be amazed if there’s no action at some point.”
As Lawrenson rightly points out, the 9,000 empty seats for a crucial home league match against Bolton Wanderers kind of says it all about where Roy and the club stands at the moment. The fans are completely disillusioned with the way things have been going under Hodgson in the last six months and I have read message after message on the message boards stating they just can bring themselves to go to matches anymore as Roy’s negative tactics are being found out by even teams such as Wolves.
I didn’t expect a great deal from this season; I doubt many Reds fans were hoping for more than a Champions League place finish, but we were expecting better than this. Having you worst points total for 50 years at the New Year, having lost already 8 times in the league while also still having eight players who played against Wolves who had been part of the 4-0 thrashing of Real Madrid two years previously, sums up the disastrous season we have had so far.
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Ah but you see.The 8 players that thrashed Real Madrid were rubish – Hodgson has already told us so in his remarks about only having Benitez’s left-overs to work with. The comments about tactics are n ot correct either as Hodgson has also said his tactics are the best as he is the best!
ROY HAS WON WHAT?
ROY HAS DONE WHAT?
THE NEW OWNERS ARE SO FAR A DISGRACE AND US LIVERPOOL FANS ARE STARTING TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE IF THE NESV GROUP, FSG – WHATEVER THEY CALL THEMSLEVES ARE NOT GOING TO INVEST OR PAY OUT THEBN WHY SHOULD YOU MILK US FANS ?
WE HAD 3 YEARS OF PAIN AND HURT WITH THE LAST OWNERS AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE IT ANY MORE. DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE MISSED OUT ON LUIS SUAREZ TODAY, HE IS WNATING TO JOIN LFC, AND HE IS NOW STAYING AT AJAX OR GOING TO SPURS,,, GREAT ANOTHER PLAYER WE HAVE MISSED BECASUE NOT ONE PERSON AT THE CLUB HAS OR IS SHOWING ANY LEADERSHIP.
AT THE MOMENT THE NEW OWNERS ARE ALL HOT AIR, AND FOR ME I WILL NOT KEEP BEING MUGGED OVER BY BUSINESS MEN WHO WANT THE PAYING PUBLIC TO PAY THE BILLS WHY THEY STAND BUY AND DO NEXT TO NO INVESTING?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND I WILL NOT BE GOING TO MY SEAT UNTIL ROY HAS GONE AND A NEW MANAGER WITH PROVEN BACKGROUND HAS BEEN IN PLACE.
BY THE WAY HASE ANYONE NOTICED THE PETITION THAT WAS SIGNED BY NEARLY 19,000 FANS IN UNDER 2 DAYS ASKING FOR ROY TO BE SACKED?
WAKE UP NESV OR GO…
Please shut up. Oh, also the big button on the left hand side next to the “A” is the Caps Lock.
haha!
He’s just preparing his next excuse for another horrible away performance:
“Without Stevie and Fernando, Blackburn was always going to be tough to beat. In the end I think we played very well and should have grabbed a draw. But congratulations to Blackburn, who had all the fans behind them and matched us for effort. We lost to a top class side today.”
i couldnt have wrote it better myself woy hodgson
FANS NEED TO VOTE WITH THEIR FEET AGAIN, LIKE THE BOLTON MATCH, 10,000 DOWN AT ANFIELD!. THAN NESV MIGHT GET THE MESSAGE, THAT WOY HAS TO GO NOW!!!. As much as it hurts, finances dictates!!!!!!!, So go for it lads, you WILL be helping our great club.
While i wouldn’t often agree with these sort of measures, on this occasion i feel there is no viable alternative and feel it would be for the greater good of the club YNWA
So much for You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Very disappointing.
Love him or hate him, he’s our manager and he gets our support. Otherwise we’re no better than the rest of the league.
End of.
Mark….so, should we have stayed with H&G because as you say, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’?. In all honesty mark I for one cannot understand, how you can defend Hodgson, with his dismal managerial (35years of winning ZILCH) record.
Didn’t the fans support Rafa and a fat lot of good that did them/us.
You have to laugh at the media demanding supporters should back Woy when they were primarily responsible for Rafa’s sacking.
Bit of a cheek to tell us to shut up and do what they say, when they live off the money we pay to watch Liverpool.
It’s high time the pundits acted as our sounding board not our masters.
The man in charge is struggling, but I do not think The deserves all this bile and this unfair threatment.
I can see some errors by Roy, but I won’t never share all this bile against him.
Shame on You mate.
Shame on You.
King Kenny backs Hodgson.
Why You didn’t write an article about Kenny’s endorsment?
Even with Steven Gerrard and Torres play away game, we still struggle to win…
If they are not around, I’m not surprised we will lose against Blakcburn…under Roy ridiculous tactic..Fans already know this
Plus…Roy also got bad away record since he manage Liverpool..
To be honest Liverpool have looked crap every time I’ve seen them this season. No urgency, desire or indeed, motivation, I’d say. Despite not having much depth your 1st 11 should have you breaking away with the top 5. I laughed when you got Hodgson but was also wondering if he would make you a force. He’s rated highly by many top managers and the Premier League is extremely difficult and tight to navigate this season. But if the same players can beat Madrid 4-0, it’s got to be motivation. So my advice is ‘hang in there, Roy’ 🙂 The top4 is hard enough without you lot sniffing around. COYS
was’nt it Woy who said he couldn’t turn down the Liverpool job because he had inherited so many fantastic international players? He is not the man for the job. He’s looking around for mediocre players. It’s time the owners put their football heads on and got rid of the last remnants of Hicks and Gillette’s tenure. JH save our club. Sack Hodgson today and appoint Frank Rijkaard as we need to keep our best players and attract top signings. Our style of play has gone missing and we need to get up the table. YNWA
Samuel Charles you’re an idiot. NESV have barely got their feet in their door and you’re blaming it all on them.
The transfer window has only just opened and you have no idea what bids are being put together behind the scenes. I don’t want people from the club in the papers everyday gobbing off about who we’re looking at – we can leave that to Harry Redknapp and the like. It’s not the Liverpool way.
Suarez is a talented player no doubt, but his disgraceful behaviour in the World Cup means I don’t want him at my club. I can’t stand on the terraces and cheer somebody who behaved like that on the world’s biggest stage. I was equally delighted when we didn’t sign Lee Bowyer a couple of years ago; Liverpool is not only about winning football matches – this club is, and has always been about much more than that.
NESV have just pulled the club back from the brink and have invested over £350 million in this club simply to pay off the debt we were landed with by Hicks and Gillette. What’s more they have never said they’re going to throw money around like confetti and have made no promises about what they will spend.
They have said that they’re more interested in investing in and developing young players than paying over the odds for big names in the last few years of their careers and I think that this is a sound long-term policy.
Like all fans, I hope that we can find the money to strengthen a squad that desperately needs it in this transfer window, but I for one am much more grateful that we are now free from the risk of administration and am far more concerned that the club is run prudently and sensibly in the long term than demanding we mortgage the farm and go out and spend like City.
There is a big re-building job to be done at Liverpool, both on and off the pitch, and that starts with stability. NESV have provided some badly needed financial stability at the moment and every fan should be grateful for that.
Whether they are the real deal in the long term remains to be scene but you comment is stupid, narrow-minded and immature and I for one will not shed any tears over you not taking your seat – if your last comment is typical of your attitude, we’re better of without you.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
spot on m8 good read
Top comment, one of the few people who come on here who can type a comment withouy smashing the s**t out of the caps lock button.
The blog title shows an extremely blinkered view, purposefully ignoring the many Liverpool players and legends who have voiced support (whilst also agreeing there have been many poor performances).
Very poor David and of no help to our current position. Hopefully you will try and balance with another article stating Rushies support with a positive headline.
I agree to an extent, I am aware that not all supporters are against Roy. I will amend the blog title slightly as it kind of suggests at the moment that no one is backing him. I was trying to say that when Lawrenson is not supporting the manager, it is desperate times indeed.
I hope the fans are aware of the significance of Anfield without 9,000 fans who stayed away. As I remember clearly when we wanted to oust Hicks and Gillette, the foremost idea was to boycott games as that would hurt them in their pockets. This was derided by some sections of the fans as ‘unworkable’. Apparently there were too many waiting to fill the empty seats left by people staying away. Well it seems from the Wolves game that thats not exactly true and should we want we could easily hurt any owner should they decide to think of just financial gain while not investing in the team. If NESV have any designs on following the path left by our previous owners then I hope the fans realise the power that is readily available should they need it.
kenny said the crowd shoud get behind the team, not the manager, like kenny rush is paid by the club. we cannot be expected to put up with the new nightmare “i need time to mould my own team” if konchesky and poulson are a measure of his team moulding it would be a disaster, i wouldnt let him mould a jelly.
There is only one man to blame for the turmoil at the club and that is Roy Rub me Gob Dodgson. He has no Idea of difference between a good player and a mediocre player i.e. Poulson and Koncheski.
He keeps playing Bable and we all know he does a disappearing act when he starts.
He tries stunts as he did against Wolves playing half the team out of position thinking stupidly that because it was Wolves he’d get away with it, if the idiot was as clever as he tells us he is, he’d have known there is history between Wolves and ourselves and they’d come out of the traps with a point to prove and prove it they did.
I’m sorry, it may not be the Liverpool way as some of the bloggers comments show but it is no longer feasible to allow him to continue and possibly waste more money on useless players on the way to dare I say it relegation.
Gentleman Woy……my arse, if he was he would have resign, weeks ago, but no, he still thinks (in his deluded mind) that, he’s the greatest manager ever. Clueless moron!!!
YNWA: Far be it for me to defend H&G but were in a different situation they got on too deep and were too greedy to get out. Furthermore the club *belonged* to them and so they were largely unaccountable. That said most people gave them a chance before turning against them.
Managers on the other hand *are* accountable but Roy has not been a popular choice nor enjoyed the backing he should have done from Day One.
This season was always going to be difficult – we didn’t finish seventh last season for no good reason. Add to that players were coming back from the World Cup in ones and twos at all sorts of times, plus the loss of one of our most influential players… Expectations were already (understandably) low. And yet the excectations were of overnight success.
Anyone who’s coached any sport at any level knows that success rarely comes overnight. Slamming the coach and players rarely helps… and it’s not Our Way.
Mark
I agree, but disagree. Yes, loss of players and the World Cup had an effect. But theye did not force the club to sign Poulson and Konchesky. Nor did they force the manager to break up a growing midfield partnership between Mereiles and the Lucas to put the former on the right asgainst Wolves. It did not force him to leave Agger on the bench, when Skrtl has been having a nightmare. And it does not force him to appear on TV giving painful interviews that simply add fuel to the fire of claims that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. I was open-minded at the start of the season. I absolutely hate the ‘Woy’ vitriol, but he brings criticism on himself, and there is no excuse.
Mal,
I’m not really trying to defend the guy I’m just trying to say that he inherited a tough situation on and off the field
that no-one could have turned around overnight.
I’m not saying Hodgson hasn’t made mistakes – I was at the Wolves game for starters – or that he doesn’t seem to have a knack of putting his foot in his mouth or at the very least (and more often) of giving quotes for the wolves to feast upon. I think both those signings smack of deadline desperation. Are they any worse that Traore or Diarra? I doubt it.
Meireles on the other hand I like a lot (down the middle).
For all the people baying for Kenny to come back – they seem to have firgotten that he is the one who recommended Hodgson (albeit once it was made clear that he himself was not an option. Was Kenny so wrong?
While everyone seems to have been in agreement that this was always going to be a tough season, no-one seems to be willing to show any patience. I suppose this is a sign of the times we live in. Everyone’s an expert; everyone has a way to make their voice heard; everyone has a quick fix (if only it were that easy) and the media are only too happy to stir it all up.
My point is it shouldn’t be that way. We shouldn’t be that way.
I agree with your final satement completely. My own view is that we are seeing the poison that H&G created. I’ve never seen the fans in such conflict. My own view is that it was a mistake to ditch Benitez when we did. Not that I’m a Rafa fan, but you don’t get rid or someone without an adequate replacement. That’s knee jerk. Hodgson was not that replacement, hence the problems now. That’s why the new owners don’t want top knee-jerk into another mistake. Personally, I think Kenny could be an even bigger error.
I totally agree about Kenny and furthermore I don’t want anything to tarnish his stature at the club.
Rafa was very clever but very political – probably too much for his own good. While he left an average squad, letting him go when a change of ownership was on the horizon is a strange one to me. But then like all of us, I’m on the outside looking in.
When Roy joined Fulham we were all totally underwhelmed. Somehow we stayed up and then miracles started happening and you can’t say it wasn’t Roy. For a start he started signing players who no one else would dream of signing and we all feared for the worst. But what Roy is good at is building a team and after all it is a team game. Every player knew his job and did it and maybe because all the players were glad of this new opportunity they bought in to his system and so he became a legend. Obviously at Liverpool he has got players who believe they can get by on their raw talent but it is a team game and until he has time to instill that discipline on his players it ain’t going to happen. Some managers are team managers (Wenger, Hodgson) and then others like Mourinho are man managers. Maybe to win things at the highest level you just need to be a great man manager and let (hope) the players will sort it out for you on the pitch.