If you're saying that part of the reason that Roy is finding it difficult to get the fans behind him due to the fact that he was appointed during the Reign of Terror, then I think you're right.
I guess what I am trying to say is that that isnt logical.
It aint as if he supported G&H. He will have been told by CP and MB what the score was. ie that G&H would be out by mid-October.
Hodgson joining LFC is no different from a moral point of view than Benitez or Houllier.
"A moral point of view" is an interesting phrase to use.
At a certain point, you can't argue with feeling and emotion.
Morally, people feel Rafa was discarded prematurely and improperly and without the diligence that has been the case in most of our previous change of leadership since Shankly.
Morally, people feel that Purslow did not have a mandate to do what he did.
Morally, people felt that Liverpool FC should only ever change their manager if they can secure the services of either an equal or better manager.
Morally, people feel that Rafa had done enough over his tenure to at least deserve another season to rectify his mistakes, and to see if he could accomodate himself into any new system when we get new owners.
Morally, the man who scouted and signed the likes of Torres, Reina and Mascherano, and took us from the pigsty of European competition to becoming a swaggering name again, winning one and reaching another final, to such a degree that under him we became the number one rated team in Europe, winning in the greatest citadels of the game like the Nou Camp, Bernebau and San Siro, so much so that we sent a chill down the spine of any club that drew us, morally speaking, Rafa should his capabilities under the command of a terrible set of ownership and working conditions, suggesting he would be able to at least equal that under a stable situation that helped rather than hindered him, and one terrible season did not singlehandedly wipe out that.
Morally, people felt that at a vulnerable moment in our life, when we were facing such severe pressures externally and internally, that continuity and stability was the most important thing.
Morally, we had a manager utterly in tune with our way of thinking, and the culture of our club and city, to an almost uncanny degree, something evident in his donations to the HJC and Rhys Jones memorial charity and in a million other different ways.
Morally, people felt that every manager must be judged by how they perform relative to a number of factors and the extreme stress in the ground reality of our club over the last few years made Rafa stand in good moral stead.
Morally, Rafa would be subject to review of his fitness for office at the end of another season. Either if he could work under the new owners under their rules, or if he failed to advance us, morally Rafa would have to face up to it.
But morallly, for all those reasons, rooted in a rational approach, there was something especially grubby and callous about the way Rafa was done away with.
So morally, and emotionally, and in their instinct, they feel an assassination took place.
Quite apart from his comparative inferiority as a manager, Roy's conduct has made things worse. The passivity of our play at the beginning of the season exacerbated this. His press conferences, demeanour, and mentality grates. Morally and stylistically.
Having said that, I believe we can still get fourth place and secure Champions League. Roy is going to have to pull his finger out to achieve this. And we have to move on and draw a line under this.
At the end of the day, as much as I disagree with all those who wanted Rafa out, I want to be singing songs of victory with them as my Red comrade, rather than arguing about the morality and efficacy of what took place in the summer.
For the greater good, I want us all to move on, and dream and believe again.