Who do you want as the next manager? New poll option.

[Dante Lavelli]

I like the fact that Hodgson has done well with smaller clubs and countries.  If England adopted this strategy which I think reflects the quality and the potential pool of players that we have then I think it could work.  We could become a well drilled team team that realises it’s potential.

Unfortunately the press - except maybe the guardian - will never adopt this outlook and I doubt the egos of the players will either.

[Concrete John]

Hodgson is too much of an honest and straighforward man to safely navigate the nest of vipers that is the England dressing room.  If the FA, and more importantly the press, backed him then he might sort it out and end the international careers of a few of the arseholes, but they won't.

Redknapp was probably a better choice from that perspective.

[Mazrim]

At least the press conferences with Redknapp would have been different. That is, out of the side window of his Range Rover.

[Concrete John]

At least the press conferences with Redknapp would have been different. That is, out of the side window of his Range Rover.

Can you imagine him letting all those transfer tidbits slip?

"Yuh, Wayne did OK in trainin' today, but wuz a bit off 'is game as Man City 'ave just put a bid in."

[barrysleftfoot]

  I like Redknapp, but this acceptance that he is good with "big names", and "getting the best out of them", has'nt really been bourne out in the last 6 weeks with Spuds.

  I don't think Hodgson will do a bad job, the unfortunate thing is that as he is not the presses chosen one,sorry damon, then he will get slaughtered at every opportunity though.

 Back to Villa, and i think it is a good appointment, as i think if Redknapp would have gone to England, then Martinez would have gone to Spuds, i think we have a better chance of getting him now.

[Vanilla]

The knives are already being sharpened for Hodgson sadly by 'arry's chums in the media. He shouldn't be judged on what happens at Euro 12, as he will no doubt be up against the remnants of the golden generation. Judgement should be held to see how he gets on in the World Cup qualifiers and how he integrates younger players into the side, but it won't be.

[pauliewalnuts]

  I like Redknapp, but this acceptance that he is good with "big names", and "getting the best out of them", has'nt really been bourne out in the last 6 weeks with Spuds.

No, but it has for the other 3.5 years he's been in charge.

[barrysleftfoot]

  Thats my point though paulie, the England manager would be under intense pressure, you could argue that Redknapp has'nt handled that pressure very well the last 6 weeks.

 Just an opinion, like everybody else i was expecting/hopeing that he got the job, but i don't think Hodgson is that bad an appointment, and that Redknapp is that good an appointment.

[ozzjim]

Redknapp is tactically clueless though. At Spurs, they have one tactic which is very fast paced, but once up against any team with quality, then he starts to flounder. Spurs have been walloped a couple of times this season against sides that have worked them out. He is also prickly, despite his seeming cheeky chappy image, and I reckon if the going got tough his relationship with the press would sour pretty quickly. 

[Risso]

  I like Redknapp, but this acceptance that he is good with "big names", and "getting the best out of them", has'nt really been bourne out in the last 6 weeks with Spuds.

No, but it has for the other 3.5 years he's been in charge.

And even after a bad run, they're still in 4th place.  And Spurs will probably end up with more points than O'Neill ever managed.

[Merv]

Hodgson's a good coach, I think it's a decent choice. Trouble is, you need to be more than a good coach to succeed with England, and my worry is that large sections of the media have already decided he's not up to it, and it won't be long before they turn him into some ridiculous tabloid caricature called 'Woy'.

I really hope he does well. His big challenge is that he's almost immediately thrown into a major tournament.

[Risso]

You never know, he might actually do OK.

[Mister E]

Biggest problem with Hodgson - apart from his 'man on the Clapham Omnibus' image - is going to be with the egos: after Capello's departure, several of the senior palyeres tweeted that 'arry was their choice. Twitter was apparently noticeably quiet yesterday when Woy was being interviewed for the job.

I also think his lack of success at 'big clubs' - Inter, Blackburn (he took over soon after their  P'ship win), Liverpool - does sort of support the argument that he ain't a big enough personality to deal with the stars. It's a crap reason not be accepted as a maanger, but it's also the nature of the environment.

[ozzjim]

Re being thrown into a big tournement - I think it is a good thing. He has the players away for 6 weeks, and if he over achieves and gets to say a semi final, he is set for the next 3 years, with players respect behind him. If I were him I would pick a decent amount of youth in the squad, and leave out Terry and quite possibly Gerard.

[KevinGage]

Redknapp is tactically clueless though. At Spurs, they have one tactic which is very fast paced, but once up against any team with quality, then he starts to flounder. Spurs have been walloped a couple of times this season against sides that have worked them out. He is also prickly, despite his seeming cheeky chappy image, and I reckon if the going got tough his relationship with the press would sour pretty quickly. 

There's probably a downside to that I don't see.