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bavlondon wrote:

dawson99 wrote:

bavlondon wrote:

bigmick wrote:"Great" manager? What two trophies in six seasons and leaving us in 7th after his last attempt? Not "great" for me by a million miles. Houllier must have been pretty special if Benitez was great.

We actually NEED a great manager. That we haven't had one for 20 years goes much of the way towards explaining our decline.

Whatever he was he was a million miles better than Roy. And he gave us the biggest trophey in club football. The closest Roy has ever been to a European cup is probably passing them at work each day.

But yes we need a great manager, easier said than done though. And we don't even have a chariman in place yet.

bav this is just about Rafa mate.. and he was found lacking in the end

Yes that's true but only under circumstances where he his hands were partly tied behind his back by the owners. He wasn't given a 'fair crack of the whip' imo.

aCe' wrote:

jacdaniel wrote:I love that so many people hated Rafa.  That was evidence that we were a real threat.  (not counting LFC fans of course).

He was a constant torn in the side to Jose and Fergie.  The media badly wanted him to fail.  Fat Sam hated him as did MON.  it was great.

And he called the Bitters a small club.  I Loved the game over signal against Blackburn as well.

mm.. The fact that all the other managers in the league hated him tells you that he was a good manager how ?!

Anyways dont bother answering.. What i wanted to comment on was the money thing you refer to in every post... Bar Man City in the last couple of years and Chelsea's 2004-2005 spending spree, Benitez managed to outspend every other premier league club during his time at Liverpool..

bavlondon wrote:Exactly Benny, Fergie only had a bone to pick with him because for the most part during his reign no Liverpool manager had threatened to crash his party.

jacdaniel wrote:Fergie has half the managers and refs in the EPL in his pocket. They're all afraid of him.

It was mostly fergie's buddies that hated Rafa.  And obviously Jose couldn't accept that Rafa owned him in the CL.

Red-er-Dare wrote:At one of those Manager association meetings, Martinez was the only one who had a good word to say about Rafa.

Reg wrote:What a bitter, bitter thread...... the anti-Rafas have found somewhere they can come even after he's gone to spit their hatred towards anyone who'll listen.

Sad bunch you lot and you wonder why theres no unity.

It does appear this thread has more anti Benitez visitors than members who actually supported him as our manager...even relatively new members seem to find their way to this thread despite it's situation in the most obscure areas of the forum....

Reg wrote:What a bitter, bitter thread...... the anti-Rafas have found somewhere they can come even after he's gone to spit their hatred towards anyone who'll listen.

Sad bunch you lot and you wonder why theres no unity.

andy_g wrote:

Reg wrote:What a bitter, bitter thread...... the anti-Rafas have found somewhere they can come even after he's gone to spit their hatred towards anyone who'll listen.

Sad bunch you lot and you wonder why theres no unity.

you've got a point there, reg. for the sake of forum unity everyone should be pining for rafa and finding reasons to belittle hodgson in every post. its obvoious when you think about it.

no, the reason why there is fighting is exactly because of the attitude you are showing here. so what if there are some forum members that didn't like rafa's management and are glad he's gone? and even more so what if they come to this obscure corner of the forum and voice that opinion? the issues come up when people begin to insist that everyone should share their point of view.