[quote author=dmishra link=topic=42570.msg1211324#msg1211324 date=1288875825]
[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=42570.msg1211303#msg1211303 date=1288874576]
Look, I don't want Hodgson, his tactics have sometimes baffled me, his attitude in the press has often been poor, and in general we all know he was never the man to lead us to where we want to be.
What I can't stand is the generalising and second guessing like it's all 'fact', to act as a means to put the boot in further. We're short on numbers and options so whatever he does will be scrutinised and even if he picks the perfect line-up and we win, it seems by some posters he'll still be crucified for something.
I'm all for getting a new manager in at some point, but in the meantime I'll support the team (and the manager) and providing the lineups aren't catastrophic, forgive me if I don't get all hoolafuckingballoo dissecting every little point of his management, lineup and tactics. If we win I'm happy, the rest will follow either way.
So yeah, he's not good enough, but we're not left in the best state either and that's not all his fault, however much you want to blame him for what's already happened, what you predict (with great success apparently) WILL happen, while generalising over the facts and ignoring the mitigating factors and circumstance involved.
Just do me a favour and point to where I said he's not doing badly? This is exactly the kind of generalising I'm referring to, all I'm saying is through circumstance and the state of the club (and the team) it's not entirely his fault and sometimes his hands have been tied. Like your post about the backbone, talk about quiffing over the facts, Kelly has been injured at times and he didn't have the greatest of games in his last match either, yet you're acting as though playing Carragher there at right back has been a disastrous decision, despite it coinciding with a run of a couple of good results. So feel free to continually be selective with your argument, I'm struggling to see what point you were making when more often than not 4 of your 5 players that make up our spine have played in their natural roles, and in Carragher, at least in a role he's filled many times before. It's a stupid fucking point because it's been one of the pluses of the last couple of games, at least in terms of better defensive play and the performances of Soto.
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It's just the impression you give, and correct me if I'm wrong but didn't you join the Roy out brigade very recently. So I thought I wouldn't be wrong in assuming that you felt he wasn't doing too badly. But fair enough, I guess, you've explained what you have an exact issue with.
As to the rest of the stuff, I've already said we'll have to agree to disagree. I've said it already - the core of the side has OFTEN been absent of its strongest available players (Meireles being played out wide and Lucas/Poulsen playing in the centre, Lucas/Poulsen playing period (when Shelvey and Spearing were available), Carra playing at right-back (when Kelly was available).
As another slight note, it'd be nice if you didn't bring the issue of supporting the team regardless of form. I sort of assume that ALL of us on this site do that anyway. The only reason we come on here and rant and spout our rubbish is because we want to debate. I know someone like Brendan gets a lot of stick about being all happy just because he's proven right. Maybe it's because he rubs it in, but I think it's massively stupid to do so - questioning anyone's support or unhappiness at the state of affairs our club is in. That's something you associate with the RAWK superfan and I hate it seeing on this site. I doubt anyone is ever happy when we lose just so that he can be proven right.
Just saying, in case that's what you meant.
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Sorry it wasn't a dig at you, just the general consensus to the degree where a few divs WERE wishing defeat on us ahead of the Blackpool game so that Roy would go, and I've seen the same sort of things hinted at since.
I'm running out of enthusiasm and fight for it all, the manager will go eventually unless by some miracle he does something majestic but it just angers me sometimes when it seems the boot is being put in for the sake of it, which is why I said about supporting the team through it all and therefore the manager. He is what he is, when he makes mistakes he'll rightfully be ridiculed but as long as the results hopefully continue to go our way he deserves some slack.