Hodgson - impressed?

[Spionkop69]

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Isn't WBA bottom of the table with 2 defeats in a roll? How can anyone say RH is a top manager?
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That's rather unfair because they lost to late goals at both United and Chelsea, and in fact were very unlucky not to beat Chelsea yesterday never mind lose. They should have been 0-2 up by HT and in 99/100 times would have been but for a brain-fart when 2 on 1 (the keeper) and in the 2H missing a header from 3 yds out. They gave almost as good as they got and played some really nice football, in Odemwingie and Long they have a very potent attacking pair too. They will finish in the top half of the table.
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Mid table manager at best, like D Moyes, Harry R
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Harry Redknapp? Mid table? What you mean the Harry Redknapp who's lead to Spurs to 4th and 5th in successive seasons? Come on Y1, I think you're being a touch unfair to Hodgson and Redknapp with the 2 statements you've made in this thread.

 

[HC]

WBA played some cracking football yesterday, I was very impressed by them. Like their new away kit too.

They could've quite easily come away with a point or three if they'd had the rub of the green.

 

[Y1]

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Isn't WBA bottom of the table with 2 defeats in a roll? How can anyone say RH is a top manager?
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That's rather unfair because they lost to late goals at both United and Chelsea, and in fact were very unlucky not to beat Chelsea yesterday never mind lose. They should have been 0-2 up by HT and in 99/100 times would have been but for a brain-fart when 2 on 1 (the keeper) and in the 2H missing a header from 3 yds out. They gave almost as good as they got and played some really nice football, in Odemwingie and Long they have a very potent attacking pair too. They will finish in the top half of the table.
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Mid table manager at best, like D Moyes, Harry R
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Harry Redknapp? Mid table? What you mean the Harry Redknapp who's lead to Spurs to 4th and 5th in successive seasons? Come on Y1, I think you're being a touch unfair to Hodgson and Redknapp with the 2 statements you've made in this thread.
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Harry R is mid table. Even with the 4th and 5th spots maybe it is a upper mid. Hodgson is definitely mid table. He struggled with us! LFC has been upper mid the last two seasons.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

4th is upper mid? What?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

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Isn't WBA bottom of the table with 2 defeats in a roll? How can anyone say RH is a top manager?
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That's rather unfair because they lost to late goals at both United and Chelsea, and in fact were very unlucky not to beat Chelsea yesterday never mind lose. They should have been 0-2 up by HT and in 99/100 times would have been but for a brain-fart when 2 on 1 (the keeper) and in the 2H missing a header from 3 yds out. They gave almost as good as they got and played some really nice football, in Odemwingie and Long they have a very potent attacking pair too. They will finish in the top half of the table.
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Mid table manager at best, like D Moyes, Harry R
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Harry Redknapp? Mid table? What you mean the Harry Redknapp who's lead to Spurs to 4th and 5th in successive seasons? Come on Y1, I think you're being a touch unfair to Hodgson and Redknapp with the 2 statements you've made in this thread.
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Harry R is mid table. Even with the 4th and 5th spots maybe it is a upper mid.
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[Y1]

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4th is upper mid? What?
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ok Harry R did 4th once. so did Moyes. That does not make them top managers. Not by my books anyway. You can take them if you like. Not me.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

I never said I wanted him.

 

[OLD_Lewy]

ive said it before and il say it again, hodgons a good manager, for whatever reason it didnt work with us, the players he signed and the general tactics he employed didnt really match up to his previous teams, or future teams.

 

[Frogfish]

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ive said it before and il say it again, hodgons a good manager, for whatever reason it didnt work with us, the players he signed and the general tactics he employed didnt really match up to his previous teams, or future teams.
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I think I would agree with that. Decent manager who couldn't handle the LFC hot seat just about sums it up. The more pressure that was put on his shoulders the more he buckled.

 

[Judge Jules]

I agree with that too. At the right club for him he can do, and has done, a good job. This just wasn't the right club.

 

[Squiggles]

Not even a manager of Hodgson's calibre could get England playing decent football.

 

[Portly]

Hodgson has strong credentials as an international manager. He took Switzerland to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup. At their peak while managed by Hodgson, Switzerland were rated the third best international side in the world, according to the FIFA World Rankings.

 

[King Binny]

West Brom boss Roy Hodgson has blasted Peter Odemwingie and claimed the club have “got nothing out of him” since the striker penned a new deal.

Odemwingie, 30, had a sensational debut Premier League season last year, scoring 15 goals after a bargain switch from Lokomotiv Moscow.

Albion then made the forward their biggest earner in the summer on £35,000 a week to fend off strong interest from Wigan.

The Nigeria international has since only started seven games for the Baggies and scored just two goals.

And Hodgson’s patience is wearing very thin at Odemwingie’s on-going injury problems.

“I’m frustrated, because we’ve got nothing out of him. It’s been one problem after another," he moaned.

“For a player who we really put so much into, in the hope he will be the one who will be our major force for staying in the Premier League, we have not had much of a return.

“When you sign that contract and accept a lot more money following a good season, you accept the club thinks you’re the man.”

Odemwingie has been affected by a succession of minor injuries and aches this season.

But Hodgson claimed other players, such as Zoltan Gera, Shane Long, Steven Reid and Jerome Thomas, have played through knocks and been more committed.

“We have a lot of players at the club who will play when not fully fit," said the manager.

“That’s what makes it even harder when you get a player who is frustrated - or is frustrating - as it gets highlighted more when you’ve got the likes of the Geras, the Longs, the Reids and the Thomases, who play through pain every week.

“So you don’t want your star players out for months with injuries. Your star players need to be available.”

Exasperated Hodgson admitted he is unsure if Odemwingie will be fit for Tottenham’s visit on Saturday after sustaining a knee injury in training.

“Peter is difficult to work out – you’d have to speak to the doctor about him," he said.

“This is still the same problem he’s had for a month.

"He was supposed to be fit for the Arsenal game but wasn’t. Then he was definitely going to be fit for the Bolton game, but wasn’t.

“And he is supposed to be fit for the Tottenham game and now there’s a doubt about that, too.

"So I take any optimism with a pinch of salt.

“He didn’t take part in many of the pre-season matches and hasn’t taken part in many of the matches since.”

Ok, maybe I'm reading too much into this but can't help but think this kind of management might've affected Cole's integration into the team last season. :-[

 

[Modo]

Didn't affect Johnson and he took a fair deal of criticism, so did Agger.
Hodgsons man management is fucking dire.