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Hodgson for England

Post by Strontium Dog » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:27 pm

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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by klr » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:54 pm

Hmmm ... no expensive club contract to buy out. No dodgy past. Plenty of international experience with both clubs and national teams.

This can't be right ... the English FA is doing the right thing. :what:

It doesn't make England any more likely to get out of the first round though ...
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by Strontium Dog » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:14 pm

Plenty of experience of winning nothing, yes.

Finally the rest of the country will get to find out what Liverpool fans already know about the man. Can't wait.
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by John_fi_Skye » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:00 pm

WHO CARES?

(Goes off, singing, "Oh, flower of Scotland".....)
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by klr » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:06 pm

That's what I expected from a True Scot. :{D
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by John_fi_Skye » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:09 pm

klr wrote:That's what I expected from a True Scot. :{D
Fanks. I just we had a better song. Something as anti-English as God Save the Queen is anti-Scots. :funny:
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:48 am

At the end of the day he'll still have a mountain to climb
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by JimC » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:19 am

John_fi_Skye wrote:WHO CARES?

(Goes off, singing, "Oh, flower of Scotland".....)
This one?

I've heard the lilting, at our yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting, before the dawn o' day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning:
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At buchts in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning
The lasses are lonely, and dowie, and wae;
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighing and sabbing,
Ilk ane lifts her leglen and hies away.

In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering
The bandsters are lyart, and runkled and grey
At fair, or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching —
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At e'en, at the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming
'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play;
But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

Dule and wae to the order, sent our lads to the border
The English, for aince, by guile wan the day:
The Flowers o' the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost
The pride o' our land, are cauld in the clay.

We hear nae mair lilting at our yowe-milking,
Women and bairns are heartless and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:40 pm

No. We lost at Flodden. More like

"Sic unco hacks an deidly whacks -
You never saw the like, man!
Lost hands and heids, cost them their deids
That fell at Preston Dyke, man!"

- Prestonpans - one of Charles Edward Stewart's better days.
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by John_fi_Skye » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:42 pm

JimC wrote:
John_fi_Skye wrote:WHO CARES?

(Goes off, singing, "Oh, flower of Scotland".....)
This one?

I've heard the lilting, at our yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting, before the dawn o' day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning:
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At buchts in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning
The lasses are lonely, and dowie, and wae;
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighing and sabbing,
Ilk ane lifts her leglen and hies away.

In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering
The bandsters are lyart, and runkled and grey
At fair, or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching —
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At e'en, at the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming
'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play;
But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

Dule and wae to the order, sent our lads to the border
The English, for aince, by guile wan the day:
The Flowers o' the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost
The pride o' our land, are cauld in the clay.

We hear nae mair lilting at our yowe-milking,
Women and bairns are heartless and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.
Great poem, mind. Great song. :tea:
Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Blah blah blah blah blah!

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Life is glorious.

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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by JimC » Tue May 01, 2012 7:51 am

John_fi_Skye wrote:
JimC wrote:
John_fi_Skye wrote:WHO CARES?

(Goes off, singing, "Oh, flower of Scotland".....)
This one?

I've heard the lilting, at our yowe-milking,
Lasses a-lilting, before the dawn o' day;
But now they are moaning, on ilka green loaning:
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At buchts in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning
The lasses are lonely, and dowie, and wae;
Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighing and sabbing,
Ilk ane lifts her leglen and hies away.

In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering
The bandsters are lyart, and runkled and grey
At fair, or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching —
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

At e'en, at the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming
'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play;
But ilk ane sits drearie, lamenting her dearie
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.

Dule and wae to the order, sent our lads to the border
The English, for aince, by guile wan the day:
The Flowers o' the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost
The pride o' our land, are cauld in the clay.

We hear nae mair lilting at our yowe-milking,
Women and bairns are heartless and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning
The Flowers o' the Forest are a' wede away.
Great poem, mind. Great song. :tea:
I've heard it sung by Kenneth McKellar, a blast from the past...

(My mum loved him...)
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by John_fi_Skye » Tue May 01, 2012 8:55 am

Barbara Dickson did a great version, before she became famous.
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by Strontium Dog » Fri Jun 20, 2014 6:59 pm

Strontium Dog wrote:Plenty of experience of winning nothing, yes.

Finally the rest of the country will get to find out what Liverpool fans already know about the man. Can't wait.
Nobody can say they weren't warned well in advance.

It seems this coward and fraud will keep his job despite proving himself an utter failure on the biggest stage. Twemendous.
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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by Strontium Dog » Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:08 pm

http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2014/09/h ... dias-turn/
AN underwhelming 1-0 win over Norway was greeted by just 40,000 at Wembley tonight. Maybe England fans are finally realising what Liverpool supporters already know. But why does Roy Hodgson still have so many supporters in the media, writes PAUL CANTWELL.

Way back when The Simpsons was still funny there was one of those typically acerbic, tongue-in-cheek lines that at the time had become the show’s signature. When facing imminent death Homer is told by town physician, Dr. Julius Hibbert: “Well, we can’t cure you but we can tell you exactly why you’re dying.” To which the Simpson’s paterfamilias replies with faux amazement: “Wow, what an age we live in!”

It was a line that sprang to mind during Roy Hodgson’s final (and inevitably premature) World Cup press conference in Brazil when the England boss held forth to theorise as to why his England side had just stank out the greatest World Cup in a generation. All manner of areas were covered in Hodgson’s address, from the absence of a mid-winter break in the domestic season, to a perceived lack of opportunities for young English talent in the Premier League. Using a mix of analogies, metaphors and proverbs that no doubt dazzled the many present, Hodgson spoke the sort of great game that makes him so highly respected by the English press pack and at those all-important coaching seminars. Like Dr. Hibbert, Hodgson was able to diagnose at length but not a remedy was proffered.

It is tempting to forensically dissect each of Hodgson’s pitiful reasons for his latest failure, but the performances and results of almost every other nation in Brazil has removed all need to do so. Countries such as Algeria, Costa Rica, USA and Chile – all of whom must cast the most envious of glances at England’s resources – exposed the poverty of Hodgson’s excuses.

Hodgson has portrayed England’s problems as being of an entirely macro kind and beyond his control, casting himself as the little boy with his finger in the dyke (not Greg, the one from the fable.) Whilst some of these macro factors – lack of a mid-winter break, for example– hold some weight, in truth they are more irksome than debilitating with the real reasons behind England’s shambolic performance in Brazil very much of the micro kind, such as playing a 34 year old in a two-man central midfield in the heat and humidity of Brazil; having seven months to prepare for the obvious danger men of Italy (Andrea Pirlo) and Uruguay (Luis Suarez) but still giving both the freedom of the pitch; and generally deploying tactics with all the flexible properties of an erect penis in the advanced stages of rigor mortis.

So how is it that the man who has overseen England’s worst ever performance at a World Cup finals can remain so resolutely bullet-proof? The answer would appear to lie in the fact that so many members of the press have spent so long building Hodgson up into something he’s quite clearly not – a great manager deserving of the best jobs in the game – that to now criticise him would be to call their own judgement into question.

Clearly suffering delusions of grandeur, Hodgson, himself, has never been shy about applying for some of the most difficult jobs in the game, believing himself the equal to any challenge. But whereas the usual course of action with delusional sorts is to gently guide them back into the realm of reality, with Hodgson the media have done the opposite – fuelling an unwarranted and artificially high opinion of his own abilities by writing opinion piece after opinion piece, hailing phantom qualities seen by nobody but themselves. The press, in effect, have become Hodgson’s enabler, allowing him to reside in a fantasy world where his meagre talents are sufficient to return the glory days to the likes of Liverpool and England.

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Re: Hodgson for England

Post by jamest » Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:29 pm

Hodgey is doing okay. Leave him alone.

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