Its Reported Roy Hodgson Approached To Be England Manager

[smokie36]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

The mighty Craig Levein. He was a crap player too.

[MrRed]

Who?

[carmine]

A good example of someone worth listening to was commenting on the Spurs game last night. David Pleat. He has so much football knowledge and interesting insights and views on the game. He also an excellent commentator.

You are not the only one here a fan of Mr Pleat, and whilst i concede he does know his football, i find his commentating manner and style generally a bit dull and tedious.

Yes he's very monotone but if you excuse him this he's very insightful. Good solid football brain.

Mindyou, who wouldn't sound borderline genius when you've been subjected to ninety minutes of Efan Ekoku?

[carmine]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

Who cares? Next...............

[mrbojangles]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

You know what. I'm racking my brains and can't remember either.

Anyway, I think we need to start a Scotland thread and get these sweaty's out of here. I know there won't be much to talk about football wise but they could maybe swap Haggis recipe's

[rixalex]

A good example of someone worth listening to was commenting on the Spurs game last night. David Pleat. He has so much football knowledge and interesting insights and views on the game. He also an excellent commentator.

You are not the only one here a fan of Mr Pleat, and whilst i concede he does know his football, i find his commentating manner and style generally a bit dull and tedious.

Yes he's very monotone but if you excuse him this he's very insightful. Good solid football brain.

He has the face for radio but not the voice.

That's why i'd rather read him on a Sunday morning than have him in my ear when i'm watching the game.

[carmine]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

Now you're asking! It will need to be someone with some major football knowledge to get this right!

[smokie36]

Who?

You're lucky he never played for Rangers. I bet Jockstar aint too happy right now!

[carmine]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

You know what. I'm racking my brains and can't remember either.

Anyway, I think we need to start a Scotland thread and get these sweaty's out of here. I know there won't be much to talk about football wise but they could maybe swap Haggis recipe's

Are the Krankies doing it jointly?

[smokie36]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

Now you're asking! It will need to be someone with some major football knowledge to get this right!

Let's ask Stevie then!

[smokie36]

Anyway Hodgson....4-5-1 it will be a marvellous 0-0 team.

I'm off to the bookies...

[MrRed]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

You know what. I'm racking my brains and can't remember either.

Anyway, I think we need to start a Scotland thread and get these sweaty's out of here. I know there won't be much to talk about football wise but they could maybe swap Haggis recipe's

Or a fancy dress ball

[smokie36]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

You know what. I'm racking my brains and can't remember either.

Anyway, I think we need to start a Scotland thread and get these sweaty's out of here. I know there won't be much to talk about football wise but they could maybe swap Haggis recipe's

Or a fancy dress ball

Yes you lot just keep stoking the fire. I will be back next month for some laughs.

[carmine]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

You know what. I'm racking my brains and can't remember either.

Anyway, I think we need to start a Scotland thread and get these sweaty's out of here. I know there won't be much to talk about football wise but they could maybe swap Haggis recipe's

Or a fancy dress ball

Yes you lot just keep stoking the fire. I will be back next month for some laughs.

Smokie go and stand in the corner for an hour and put that pointy hat back on, theres a good lad..

[MrRed]

There's a good boy Smokie

[carmine]

There's a good boy Smokie

Thats Smokie after our semi final defeat!

Edited May 3, 2012 by carmine

[smokie36]

Keep it up chaps. You know I will have my fun...

[MiG16]

hup holland hup

ohh oops wrong thread

maybe a mod can delete. in the mean time it stays......you see I cant moderate my own posts

[rijit]

Anyway Hodgson....4-5-1 it will be a marvellous 0-0 team.

I'm off to the bookies...

Yeah thats going to be an issue

No doubt England's hierarchy will feel safe with Hodgson. And let's be fair Hodgson has the best cv of any given Englishman at the mo, He organizes teams v v well, gets the best out of good prem players but will hodgson be able to unlock unquestionable potential of the t England players and turn them into world beater's, like Robson almost did, no doubt the potential's there, it just needs the right man to unlock it, will pragmatic hodgson be the one, some how i doubt it..

Edited May 3, 2012 by rijit

[NanLaew]

Just reading on Liverpool's £50 mill losses, part of which is the pay out for Hodgson's inability to work with the Kop 'culture' after only 6 months. So I reckon that's why he's so happy to take on Capello's Losers because his new contract, like his predecessors and his own contract at Anfield, will be guaranteed to have NO performance bonuses but be heavy on the 'golden parachute' terms. So, once again, if Roy's expertise and depth of experience is no match for the equivalent of a clubs unique 'work ethic' and the overpaid dogs refuse to jump through his hoops and they crash out of Europe or get shat on during the World Cup qualifiers, he walks away with more 'experience' on his impressive resume and the fickle fans are left with another <deleted>?! moment courtesy of the FA.

Here is the Liverpool Managing Director's 'official' comment on the matter of the payout;

"It's nothing untypical of anything in football. Contracts are typically fixed term. When you make a decision to terminate somebody, the right and proper thing to do is honour the pay-out of that contract. This relates to Roy and to some of his backroom staff and also to Christian Purslow leaving. It's standard across football. It's unfortunate to have to have them - nobody wants to see anybody go - but in certain circumstances it's right to make a change and that's what that relates to."

To be perfectly honest, I hope that Roy does manage to find England's 'silver bullet'.... and shoots the feckless among the lot he has to whup into a CONSISTENTLY winning footie machine. I hope that he does manage to stage a major game-change and England can legitimately move beyond the stigma of being 'one-hit wonders' under his tenure. However, I disagree that all these 'top caliber' football managers should get a blank cheque when they don't deliver the goods. My contracts all state exactly what I have to deliver and there's no 'outs' for reasons of 'my supervisor hates me' or 'my subordinates didn't accept my style' where I would be let go with a smiling handshake and STILL get enough money to buy a Bentley. If I under-perform, I get paid for only what I delivered and never for what could have been achieved both professionally AND financially. Note: it is obvious that I have not worked directly for a Russian oligarch. Yet.

If things don't pan out and Roy gets canned, there's no way that Redknapp could be mentioned, let alone be approached. The FA's 'sixth sense' and their manufactured media spin at that juncture will dictate that there's obviously no suitable home-grown talent available and the search begins for another foreign-born manager. At that point, they can all forget about Mourinho and those of that ilk but they can probably get Bertie Voigts for a steal and I can wager that he won't have any problems if he under-performs, gets his arse kicked out the door and the FA asks for all their money back.

[cardholder]

Who is the Scotland manager ?

Who cares? Next...............

Do they still have a national team ?

[StevieH]

A good example of someone worth listening to was commenting on the Spurs game last night. David Pleat. He has so much football knowledge and interesting insights and views on the game. He also an excellent commentator.

You are not the only one here a fan of Mr Pleat, and whilst i concede he does know his football, i find his commentating manner and style generally a bit dull and tedious.

i like pleat a lot but he is definitely much better when he writes his tactical columns for the guardian than when he commentates on tv. not the most natural public speaker is david.

[NanLaew]

Not true actually. League position has nothing to do with them being a big club. Liverpool will always big a truely big club like Utd. Put aside all the protentious we only understand ourselves cos were so special tosh (because bar a forthcoming explanation to sharecropper we know thats b*llocks), and the facts are that Liverpool and Utd are the biggest clubs in the country.

Chelsea for example could do the treble and still be a small club that just had a great season

Hahaha get over yourself Carmine. Where have I said I owe Cropper and explanation? You should work for a Newspaper mate your fuc_king great at making stories up!

Now Troll along ... Liverpool FC is a massive club ! Tottenham are not now get over it.

"Bastion of Invincibility" Liverpool Football Club.

So there you have it. The depth of this pissing contest has been defined where we debate on being a big club, a truly big club or a massive club.

Where does the always WINNING club fit into this particularly puerile schlong fest?

[carmine]

A good example of someone worth listening to was commenting on the Spurs game last night. David Pleat. He has so much football knowledge and interesting insights and views on the game. He also an excellent commentator.

You are not the only one here a fan of Mr Pleat, and whilst i concede he does know his football, i find his commentating manner and style generally a bit dull and tedious.

i like pleat a lot but he is definitely much better when he writes his tactical columns for the guardian than when he commentates on tv. not the most natural public speaker is david.

I know he sounds fairly aweful but i'd choose to listen him over the rest of the other so called commentators. I'd also choose to listen to him rather than look at him!!

[carmine]

Not true actually. League position has nothing to do with them being a big club. Liverpool will always big a truely big club like Utd. Put aside all the protentious we only understand ourselves cos were so special tosh (because bar a forthcoming explanation to sharecropper we know thats b*llocks), and the facts are that Liverpool and Utd are the biggest clubs in the country.

Chelsea for example could do the treble and still be a small club that just had a great season

Hahaha get over yourself Carmine. Where have I said I owe Cropper and explanation? You should work for a Newspaper mate your fuc_king great at making stories up!

Now Troll along ... Liverpool FC is a massive club ! Tottenham are not now get over it.

"Bastion of Invincibility" Liverpool Football Club.

So there you have it. The depth of this pissing contest has been defined where we debate on being a big club, a truly big club or a massive club.

Where does the always WINNING club fit into this particularly puerile schlong fest?

I read your earlier post. Believe me, your input is little better.

[StevieH]

I know he sounds fairly aweful but i'd choose to listen him over the rest of the other so called commentators. I'd also choose to listen to him rather than look at him!!

yeah quite, because he knows what he's talking about. same goes for graham taylor on the radio. if you listen to radio five live these days and have to suffer clueless, witless, gobshite morons like steve claridge and robbie savage you're physically crying out for likes of pleat and taylor.

[NanLaew]

Not true actually. League position has nothing to do with them being a big club. Liverpool will always big a truely big club like Utd. Put aside all the protentious we only understand ourselves cos were so special tosh (because bar a forthcoming explanation to sharecropper we know thats b*llocks), and the facts are that Liverpool and Utd are the biggest clubs in the country.

Chelsea for example could do the treble and still be a small club that just had a great season

Hahaha get over yourself Carmine. Where have I said I owe Cropper and explanation? You should work for a Newspaper mate your fuc_king great at making stories up!

Now Troll along ... Liverpool FC is a massive club ! Tottenham are not now get over it.

"Bastion of Invincibility" Liverpool Football Club.

So there you have it. The depth of this pissing contest has been defined where we debate on being a big club, a truly big club or a massive club.

Where does the always WINNING club fit into this particularly puerile schlong fest?

I read your earlier post. Believe me, your input is little better.

Glad you agree about the feckless, one-hit wonders Roy has inherited and the FA's dry old tit on the Three Lions cash cow.

Massive in your dreams.

Edited May 4, 2012 by NanLaew

[rijit]

just to carry on from my last post there is an argument that England are the 'west brom' of international football and Hodgson's pragmatism is what we need. Our qualifying record suggest's other wise, one off games were fine but what we've never, is harsh,but rarely got right is tournament footie,i'm not sure what the recipe is, but for sure there is one, maybe Hodgson can pull them all together, who knows. One thing for sure weve got him for ?? years so best we all get behind him, apart from u smoke's ure excused cos u've got ure own scotland team to chat bout, whoops sori mate they aint got a thread! now thats sad, almost as sad as your national team, but not quite.

[rijit]

I know he sounds fairly aweful but i'd choose to listen him over the rest of the other so called commentators. I'd also choose to listen to him rather than look at him!!

yeah quite, because he knows what he's talking about. same goes for graham taylor on the radio. if you listen to radio five live these days and have to suffer clueless, witless, gobshite morons like steve claridge and robbie savage you're physically crying out for likes of pleat and taylor.

Yeah agreed mate what ive done recently is knock the live chat on the head and listen to 5 lives daily footie podcast it edits most of the bullshit that the likes savage and claridge comes out with and tries to give a balanced condensed view. Taylors recnt interview regarding his time at the England job and his thoughts on the current situ was good stuff. and as i said u didnt have to suffer all the bollacks that's sprouted to listen to it.

Edited May 4, 2012 by rijit

[StevieH]

just to carry on from my last post there is an argument that England are the 'west brom' of international football and Hodgson's pragmatism is what we need. Our qualifying record suggest's other wise, one off games were fine but what we've never, is harsh,but rarely got right is tournament footie,i'm not sure what the recipe is, but for sure there is one, maybe Hodgson can pull them all together, who knows. One thing for sure weve got him for ?? years so best we all get behind him, apart from u smoke's ure excused cos u've got ure own scotland team to chat bout, whoops sori mate they aint got a thread! now thats sad, almost as sad as your national team, but not quite.

i actually think it's a sensible appointment, but that the FA has done it by accident rather than design.

hodgson will lower expectations, he'll have the team organised and the lack of real hype around the bulk of the squad might be something which pulls them together a bit this tournament. think he'll have them unadventurous - which as all recent international tournaments have shown is no bad thing - and then they'll look to nick goals from dead-balls or the odd bit of brilliance by a decent player. it could work.

if he plays a 4-2-3-1 with parker and barry holding, gerrard, young and maybe sturridge off the striker (probably welbeck) then they could actually surprise a few people. centre back pair of terry and ferdinand might be a bad idea though as very susceptible to pace and movement.