Wikileak? Roy’s Newcastle tactics

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Thanks to @k0p1te1980 for submitting this photo of what seems to be Roy’s tactics taken from the hotel in Newcastle where the Reds stayed at last Saturday.

I really hope this is not true and such information is not being left in the hotel carelessly, maybe this is why our away form is so bad?
The tactics are being leaked to the opposition.

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  1. Don’t sack him for leaving this behind, sack him for these childish tactics…..my college coach had better tactics than this. Useless tactics in this modern game….

  2. Antione???? I think thatb you are casuing misscheif amongts Liverpool fans and you need to stop trying to cause s…

    Give ROY a bloody break will you because we need new players not a new manager…

    Your so dissapointing!!!

  3. Max enough with this, I can’t even post anything without you criticising it at least spell my name correctly and don’t use fake email addresses when posting as I had to fish your posting from the spam folder.

  4. Max you are a foolish unknowledgeable person. Roy never should have gotten the job and his time at Liverpool has proved that he is not a worthy manager. His record and lack of trophies speaks for itself.

    SACK ROY NOW FFS

  5. Pulling your flank midfielders into the middle of the pitch to allow your fullbacks to come forward away from home does not work because the opposition sees this coming and knows that any aerial cross from the fullbacks will not be won by a Liverpool player. We are also clueless from offensive setpieces, just like under Benitez opportunities like that freekick that Torres wasted in the firsthalf continue unchecked. From defensive setpieces against any team that has 4 to 5 strong headers of the ball we are always going to be in trouble because apart from Soto their is no other established player in the squad that can attack the ball in the air. Carragher was no loss on Saturday, he would not have made any difference. Liverpool fans are a lot to blame for the malaise that the club is in because of their continued devotion to the likes of Reina, Carragher, Gerrard, Kuyt and Torres. NESV are afraid to stand up to these players because they are fearful of a fan backlash like the campaign directed at Hicks and Gillette. Liverpool fans are also dreaming if they think that yet another outside manager like Rijkaard will improve things. We all know that Hodgson is an idiot and is getting paid by Ferguson to screw up Liverpool. Dalglish is the best option in a poor field of candidates.

  6. liverpool being that bad is roy’s fault??i dont think so..the fat f**k benitez did unbelievable damage to our club.little squad consisting of two,three players and players without confidence.Reina,Carragher,Johnson,Gerrard,Kuyt,Torres are players every team would love to have but who is Jovanovic actually??Jovanovic was rafa’s signing.i want the owners to stick to the manager,buy him some players in january and the team will roll over again.Suarez,a left back and a winger would make us even go for the title.in my opinion,one of roy’s faults is not playing joe cole and sticking with that 4-4-2 with torres and ngog.

  7. Max your a dopy prat Hodgson has lost the plot and there is a club now looking for a manager now that Big Sam has been sacked. Go on Woy leave now before you are kicked out.

  8. Max stop chatting shit Roy is shit antoine is bang on he knows what he’s talking about.if you don’t like it then start and maintain your own fan page bet you couldn’t go for a more than a week! Top story ant hodgsons tactics are shit if this is true

  9. Roy Hodgson is the manager of L.F.C the buck stop’s with him,if he cannot get the best out of our player’s then quite simply he should be finished up,we need someone who will grab everyone of the team by the scruff of the neck and lay down the law and if they don’t like it they should go too.There is no pride in the shirt no more just in the money.Dare i say it but we need a manager in the mould of Ferguson but i just haven’t a goddamn clue were we will find one.

  10. Is Max by any chance MR Kanwar? I know he uses many names on hiso wn site to agree with his comments.
    I know he is that low

  11. “Glen + Paul get forward”
    Should read “Glen get forward & Paul get forward and don;t bloody come back”
    Prob the worst LB in LFC history!!!!!!!

    PS: Just had a read of Kanwar site…what a deleuded fool

    Antoine – did he apologise 2 u about the King Kenny comments and how he said it was baseless????

    1. No Saydul he never apologised however later him & I made a truce and agreed not to mention each other’s site I held true to the truce however he broke it today.

      The guy is always looking for a fight, he is a keyboard bully, I bet he stands at 5′ 3″.

  12. When does Roys chance run out? Three weeks ago the title was a possibility (with a solid turn of form) Now, I honestly can’t see anything but mid table at best. Roy now has shown he has more ‘favorites’ than RB and also he’s worse with Subs. I’ve tried my hardest to support him up the Stoke game but since then I’ve had to many WTFs. Get shut of the face rubbing maniac

  13. According to Kanwar, Uncle Woy is responsible for Liverpools diabolical season, but he is not to blame???!!! Imagine you were a general in Helmand Province and lost 3 men due to poor tactics and bad morale (not defending troops, visibly looking clueless, failing to get the best out of my star men, not suring up my defence). I’m about to get court marshalled and I say “Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I AM RESPONSIBLE for the death of 3 of my men, but…I AM NOT TO BLAME…That was the Taliban’s fault” I’m sure that will go down well!

  14. I’m not sure the opposition need spies to figure out Roy’s tactics. They haven’t changed in 35 proud years of management.

  15. ANTOINE

    I am not KANWAR or who ever he is…I am TONY. I am disgusted with the blogs like your’s and Live 4 Liverpool, Kop Source etc that comment on something a Tabloid has wrote (who lie like hell) and then instigate the type of hate filled comments that have not stopped since the start of the season!

    I was gutted on Saturday, I didnt even know it was 3-1 because I switched my PC off after the 2nd goal..and it was so soul destroying after playing so well at TH and againts Villa.

    But this ROY hating is out of order and we should give the man credit for the fact that he came here knowing full well that H&G could have still been in charge for another year or more…

    Say we sack him tomorrow, give the job to another manager, he buys duff players, or we struggle in the prem next year, are we going to create the abuse against him? are we going to sack him and start again?

    WE NEED TO GIVE ROY A FULL SEASON, BACK HIM IN JANUARY WITH CASH AND BACK HIM AS LIVERPOOL FANS!!

    I am sorry but that is what I feel

    1. Max if you are Tony why do you use a name Max?

      Your writing style is very similar to Kanwar however I have verified that you are not him so apologises if we confused you.

      Roy has made it clear that he is fit to manage a big club like Liverpool, we have higher standards than him sorry.

  16. OK ANTOINE

    Who would be the manager Frank R? but the thing is, we aint a sacking club..and as soon as we do that we open a can of worms..we need to back ROY in the short term at least.

    As it stands, too much negative blogs and critiscm is going to filter to the players..just think if SOS had put as much energy into backing the players than screaming in the streets last year we might have had a better season!

    I also have saw us play better againts TH and Villa than I did at any point last season apart from maybe against A Madrid in the semi..

    Roy needs our backing, for the good of the club and the good of our season..so why cant we show some humility, some moral discipline at least until the end of the season and let the board make the big decisions?

    It is upsetting but we need to pull together..

    Thank you
    TONY

    1. Max/Tony I want Kenny Dalglish to be gaffer, he should have been appointed but Hicks/Gillett/Purslow & Broughton appointed Hodgson.

      A full season for Roy would be a disaster, at this rate we will not even make Europa next season.

  17. Antoine,

    I fully agree with you on this one m8, I too was one of the many, that, back in the summer thought to myself, Give Woy a chance, We have, the season is a joke, Spending £100;s per season, to watch garbage like this, A man who’s away record is no less than Diabolical. King Kenny should have had the Job back in July… Not Woy… this was also my thinking at the time, but when Woy was appointed….. I thought to myself….. Give him a go… Now I have nightmares of him rubbing his face like a clueless Idiot, with our crest on his chest…. Garbage… We need King Kenny…. NOW! YNWA!

  18. Forget about what we used to be. We are not a champion team and haven’t been for a long time. So the idea that we don’t fire managers is from long time ago and doesn’t matter today. I would have liked to see Rafa with sensible ownership, but it didn’t happen. Now we have sensible ownership and an out of depth manager. I hear nothing insightful or strategic from Roy. He doesn’t explain why he plays a certain way against an opponent, he just puts players out there and says “ger er done.” Not a modern manager by any stretch of the imagination.

  19. In my opinion I dont rate roy hodgson. If a new manager came in ge should get time but show some improvement in some area of the team.
    I am no manager and am not stupid enough to believe I kno more than Roy but he hasn’t steadied the defence. Even with cleansherts we look shaky at the back, our away form is woeful, we lose to teams I’d never imagine we could, Blackpool at home, WTF!!!! We knew for 3 years we need backup got Torres and still not happened.
    It’s not his side but it’s not an awful one he was left. Raul meireles was a good signing but poulsen n konchesky undo that as konchesky isn’t better than what we had. Poulsen has failed to deliver tho as I thought he’d be a steady option.

    What the club need to do is announce there plan and we get behind then. So with Werner coming out n saying he’s staying we need to swallow it n back him.
    Our protests against the club got rid of hicks n gillett but affected the players on the field and they haven’t recovered. Let’s back the team n hope roy cones good or that the new owner sees sense. Let’s not forget he’s learning in football too.

  20. Max is dead right we are not a sacking club. Well said.
    However we have a great past, which Woy does not, and with new owners we need someone who can lead us there but understands what the principles of the club are and the foundations they are built on. A humble servant with a lêem football mind, a winning mentality and profound identification with the fans is someone we need. His name ends in Dalglish. Woy was wrong to even think he could take up this job. No not a sacking club but a football proud winning club

  21. Isn’t it interesting to see (and forgive me for mentioning these clubs) how Blackburn & Newcastle can Sack their Managers after few Results not going there way… and knowing Liverpool’s Ambitions we’re still stuck with Roy.. now some fans are calling for Roy to be given full season?!…. Well to be honest I agree with Antoine we wont get the Europa spot considering how the away results are panned out. (IMO) best thing is to give Roy till January.. But then Can we trust him (Roy) to buy the right players… Well lets hope Comolli has other ideas.. Just my opinion Feel free to Debate :)

  22. Antoine, what coach could lead us to glory with this squad, the core of Benitez’s squad of 08/09 weakened considerably. Does anyone truly believe our squad is better than that of City, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea or Utd? Some results and performances have been extremely poor, while some have been quite good. Should we not get behind the management and the team for the season? We’re certainly capable of outdoing last seasons performance, when Benitez still enjoyed the majority of the fans support (mine included).

  23. If this picture is true which (I doubt it is) then some of the players are to blame for Saturdays game because some of the things on that board were the good points about the reds performance. It’s interesting to see that the department that followed the instructions was the midfield area, Dirk cut into score the goal Maxi had a great chance with a header and Raul and Lucas had maintained a quick passing tempo in the 1st half and it was Raul’s quickly taken free kick that produced nando with a chance to put Liverpool in the driving seat. Bad finishing and the defence not handling Carroll that’s cost us the game. Martin has not been playing well for awhile now so hopefully this game will give him a kick up the backside improve on his form. I don’t think it going to work out with Roy but his deserves a season to show what he can do, you cant change a club in one transfer window. Liverpool are slowly improving under him it just a case of our top players show us why they are top players which has been a rare sight this season…. Have faith in Roy the season isn’t over yet.

  24. Unfortunately I think he’ll be there until the end of the season. The only thing saving us is our home form, which is amongst the best in the league. The fact that he wins so few away games (surely someone should have spotted THAT from his days at Fulham before appointing him) clearly shows that 1) His tactics do not work 2) He’s no idea how to change things for the better. Very early in his reign he was pleadng for time and saying things like “firing managers so early is not the Liverpool way”. No it’s not Roy, but then neither is playing one up front at home to Blackpool, not supproting your own player when Slur Alex accuses them of cheating, meekly stating that if that same manager made a bid for Torres it would be difficult to fight off, calling winning at Everton “utophia” (funny how Gerrard and Rafa seemed to manage it regulary), blaming the prevous manager for current results (and then backtracking when he stand up for himself) and having a midfield whose only function at times seems to be to stand and watch as yet another high ball gets sent up to the only forward, who has no support wihtin 30 ards of him. Someone should tell him Crouch left us a while ago. Well now that’s off my chest, I think I need a lie down….

  25. How can you support Roy yet call for him to be fired? We can all have dislikes for managers, as with players, but ultimately if he’s going to be here for the medium term atleast, should he not get our full and genuine backing? I don’t mean not to call him on his mistakes, but given the circumstances I don’t think he’s done anything deserving of being fired; hell Rafa made a few and I don’t think he shoud’ve gone!

  26. Uncle Woy is a Huge Let down and has No Idea about tactics, Clueless and Slow to make a change, Lets not become Uncle Woys too..
    Sack his Ass NOW !!!!!!!!!

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