You have probably forgotten more about coaching than I will ever know PoP so I can accept that, in pretty much all likelihood, your first impression of him is a lot more informed and accurate than my own.
My viewpoint when he was first linked with the job there was that it would be a mistake for Gerrard to take it at this stage of his career and I haven't changed my mind on that - my fingers are crossed for him but I don't think Rangers have the resources to overhaul Celtic any time soon and that will ultimately be what Gerrard is judged on. I'd just like to see him find his feet a bit more as a manager before drawing any conclusions just yet - I'm not hoping for or expecting anything to suggest he's one day going to be Liverpool manager; in all honesty, I think he would have been better off sticking around as a coach at Kirkby for the timebeing if that is his ultimate ambition as a manager. But I don't want to say he's a Hodgson-type just yet, maybe that is the ilk of manager he will become, I'm just hoping for an awful lot more than that from someone whose finger should be on the pulse of the way football is evolving and who I would like to think is aspiring to be a lot better than that.
I'm being very "glass-half-empty" on it, Djimi, mate.
We have a current and past manager who believed in "Pressing", with slightly different interpretations of the tactic. We're now used to that, as a fan base. "Pressing" takes a lot of physical effort, and although the concepts are simple, it requires a lot of rehearsal so that everyone understands the cues of how, where and when to press. So it takes up a LOT of training time to get right. Possession football takes a lot of time to get right too, especially if you don't have the players to do it 100% of the time. So you have to really invest in those principles as a coach, because you'll be spending a hell of a lot of time practicing, refining and improving them, depending on the evolution of the game from season-to-season. That's why I don't see Gerrard changing from what he's doing now, because to become a "Pressing" coach takes a big time and energy investment from the coach, so most "Pressing" coaches tend to be both zealous about it, and also to have believed in it from the start. Gerrard hasn't started his career as a club manager with a "Pressing" style, so I'm guessing it's not what he believes is the most sustainable way to play the game. And as most managers don't change their game principles throughout their career, I'm also thinking that this is what we'll see for most of Gerrard's management career.
There's nothing wrong with what he's doing, btw - I'm not judging Gerrard on it. But from our point of view, and with a view to him being possibly the next Liverpool manager, we might see a clash of styles when he gets here. That's all I'm saying.