Jacks Jackie Jackson

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Well my attitude is this; the appointment of Roy Hodgeson could have been a majestic one IF he had been appointed at a different time. The main problem he has is that, good manager though he undoubtedly is (he took his previous team to the final of a European competition for the first time in its history then won his opening five European games as Liverpool manager for the first time in history) he was appointed at the wrong time. He inherited a bunch of good players imbued with sterile negativity from his predecessor. The cautious style of play was drilled in to the collective and came through so obviously, it became clear how to match them or beat them. He needs time to get the players out of that mentality, buy some more players of his own ilk and blood them in the team. We have to accept it's going to be a trophy-less, difficult season but it will strengthen us as a unit and I think we'll go on to great things with him at the helm. I'm not exactly enamoured with him yet but firmly believe it is bordering on the ignorant to be calling for his head in such a short time.

No, you got that wrong. I wrote that support for Liverpool Football Club seemed conditional for some. I didn't write mine was unconditional for Roy Hodgeson. My point being that it seems to a lot of people that they only want to be associated with success. In my case, I didn't decide to support Liverpool, it came with the DNA so I've no choice. I watch on as an interested observer. But I've seen enough, over several seasons, to believe that Lucas is a digrace. RH hasn't been given a fraction of that time yet.

Sadly, fyds is double-plus un-right. It would be very nice to have England's best manager so most of us give a f*** about having him around. And I don't believe he is utter crap. The best is yet to come.

Now I cannot agree with this in any way. Lucas is NOT a decent player. Yesterday, I was screaming for Hodgeson to take him off and the lads around me asked who for. I reckoned we did need to take him off but it wasn't necessary to bring a replacement on. My opinion is that Liverpool are improved if he isn't around. I'd rather we have ten men on the pitch than him, the complete anti-player, on the pitch. I cannot abide him and despise the sight of him.

I'm saying absolutely not. He should be given much more time. It's like support is conditional for many of our fans. I think he's worth the risk. The risk being relegation, on the one hand, and having England's best manager on the other. Either direction changes my support not a jot. It's all part of life's rich tapestry and sometimes you have to go with the rough and then the smooth looks and tastes better. Roy still has my unconditional backing.

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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Although it would be very welcome to get rid of the Americans, we'd replace them with....Americans. Where's the good in that? We are fed propaganda about the putative owners and our overwhelming desire to bin the current leadership off is banked on so that we'll be expected to side with the new ones as we'd be prepared to have virtually anyone over the current robbers but what's to say it's not a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire? It's reminding me of the scene at gigs; the band you've gone to see make you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait. They make you wait so long, you'd cheer anything that appears on stage even if that happened to be a bunch of perfoming monkeys.

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Isn't that utterly depressing in every conceivable way (you could have lifted that by the judicious use of a hyphen - he wrote in jest). I have stayed out of this for quite some time now, just observing stuff and gauging other people's feelings. There's no joy in attending matches at all anymore, beyond maintaining the lifetime habit, and a mounting frustration at the inability and incompetence of the team and watching a lot of the fans feeling they HAVE to go through the motions. It's as tedious as tedious can be. It's like philisophically accepting the ship is sinking and there's no assistance in sight. Tragic, innit?

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There's a lot of people who think the same thing. There's about 57 pages of responses on the Liverpool Echo website regarding the Wigan match and virtually every poster is condemning Benitez and a huge number want Dalglish to replace him.