Roy Hodgson on Match of the Day, how will he compare to this season's experimental pundit line-up? It's in the studio that MOTD sinks or swims. In recent years it's floated, limp like a broken pancake in a sea of truisms about badly guarded near posts and disappointing marking at corners. Since introducing a rigorous sofa-rotation system this season the programme has felt energetic, varied and modern. Contrasting voices range from Robbie Savage, a man who believes that if he speaks stridently at volume for long enough eventually no-one will be able to discern that he's saying nothing of interest, to the entirely measured and reasonable Danny Murphy. Robbie Fowler has filled the token Scouse chap role that is now mandatory for British football coverage following Sky's hostile takeover of Jamie Carragher and Steve McManaman's emissions on BT. Michael Owen is settling in well to new punditry shoes, while Harry Redknapp, desperate for any chance to escape Championship purgatory, and Roberto Martinez have brought very different versions of current managerial views. Alan Hansen is on his victory lap, and you'd have to be especially blinkered or from Sunderland not to notice the strides that Alan Shearer has made in the past year. While the quality has varied, the variety has been what's made MOTD refreshing again. The changing cast is a belated acknowledgement that this is how people process football now, with a variety of thousands of contradictory and often mildly irritating voices. How will Hodgson fit in? In press conferences he often seems to be on a one-man mission to use words no football manager has ever purposefully pronounced before. It's also unlikely he'll be expounding any notable challenging opinions on Saturday, given his delicate relationships with club managers, his England squad and us dastardly journalists. However he performs, the addition of his voice to a cast that's reaching near-Simpsonian depth is encouraging news. Match of the Day has listened to its critics, and it's cheering to see it try to hard to improve itself. Who has been the best pundit on Match of the Day this season?