One of the potential benefits of Hodgson going at the end of the season is we will get an opportunity to see what the players can do under a different voice.
It is evident that Tuchel at Chelsea has reintroduced players jettisoned by Lampard such as Rudiger, Alonso and Jorginho as Lampard had written them off.
You have to justify your place in the team but Hodgson doesn’t seem to apply this to his favourites.
Can anybody seriously justify the continued selection of e.g Luka and Townsend over the last few months?
It’s all become a bit jaded with players keeping their place regardless of performance.
It’s not exactly motivating for the youngsters not to be included on the bench even when we don’t have enough seniors.
Give them the experience of being with the first team to get a feel for match days .What’s to lose? Hodgson just says there’s no point if he doesn’t plan to use them. What a turn off for the youngsters.

You really really really don't like him do you lol

The question still remains - who are you going to get in before the end of the season.

Lampard is contractually unable to take a new position. Dyche and Cooper are not about to lave before the end of the season.

The leaves Eddie Howe, and I assume SP is not interested in him or he would have done something sooner.

Realistically we are stuck with Roy until the end of the season - he wont walk and SP wont replace.

At several points along the way Hodgson told the club that the players weren't good enough. We know this because he told the press on a number of occasions that he needed signings but that whether they arrived was out of his hands.

The idea that, for the ultimate good of the club, he should storm out in protest or on principle following low level spending is a new, perhaps slightly ambitious criticism.

If I understand your point properly, you'd prefer either a Pulis style approach, where the toys come out the pram and you drop the club as deeply in the s*** as you can once you find the chairman won't spend what the club doesn't have, or the Redknapp approach, where every other club you work for spends years picking up the pieces of the reckless spending you've pressed them into.

Hodgson, perhaps mindful of the published, regulated limits of the club's budget, did neither and instead stayed around to keep us up within the budget we could afford. Whether he was motivated by a desire to keep on working, his salary, or by not wanting his last job at his first club to end badly doesn't really matter to me.

Hodgson did mention about the need for new signings.
However, that was some time ago.
This season he has said the squad has been the strongest in his time at the club.
With this in mind he can't seek to use the squad as a valid reason for the inconsistent performances this season and inability to either defend or attack properly.
The players are of course partially responsible but Hodgson is responsible for selection, motivation and tactics.

Burnley, Newcastle and West Brom play anti football as much as we do. We are in awful form recently whereas they've picked up in form, but the set up and intention is fundamentally the same. Sheffield United are also pretty poor to watch.

I agree that we aren't as clearly defined tactically this season as in previous seasons under Hodgson, and I think that part of the problem (along with player quality and injuries) might be a desire to do a bit more with the ball - either that, or opponents are dropping off us a bit and letting us have the ball more. Our possession stats seem to be up on previous years, but that's made us worse not better. Which leads me back to the previous point - I'm not convinced this lot can play any other way than super negative and get enough points to stay up.

Believe me, I'd love to be proved wrong.

Are West Ham that much of a stronger squad and look how they are going at present.
One half fit striker in Antonio who is very good but can’t stay fit.
They sold their version of Benteke in Haller.
A reject from Watford in Dawson at centre back.
Two cheap but good buys in the right back and Sousek, both of whom would have been well within our budget.
They bought 2 of the better players from the championship in Bowen and Behnrama, but Behnrama has made no real impact yet and we bought Eze who looks at least as good as them.
And we supposedly beat them to Eze as they didn’t have the funds available and had to raise funds by selling their young winger to WBA which their fans weren’t best pleased by.
We don’t have a Rice, but they don’t have a Zaha.
Expensive buys like Yarmolenko, Lanzini and Fornals don’t feature that much in the same way that we don’t use Benteke or Batshuayi .
But Moyes has bought in a strong team ethic and a way of playing that suits the players.
And the stadium is irrelevant to performance, in particular this season.
It sometimes feels fans are looking for excuses to cover Hodgson’s shortcomings.
I doubt West Ham fans would be so generous to Moyes if West Ham turned disorganised performances that we are seeing from Palace.

Looking at in another way.
They have a solid keeper and back 4 , coufal must be one of the buys of the season, cost peanuts and has shown great quality.
In center midfield they have Rice and souchek, I don’t think that any of our preferred midfield 2/3 would even make their bench. They have game changers that don’t even start lanzizi/fornals/yarmalenko.
Also they have a Center forward that scares the life out of defences on his own.
But their average players like Cresswell and Bowen come off the pitch every game having given absolutely everything.
How many of our current eleven would start for them?
But the biggest thing for me is the big money signings Haller and Anderson (the equivalent to benteke and Sakho), they realised they weren’t for them and got them off the wage bill sharpish. Where as we extend their contracts , to ‘protect the asset’ load of bo**ocks.

I agree with much of what you say and also about some of the decisions taken.
But the central point remains that Hodgson is responsible for tactics and team selection.
He has been unable to create a strong team ethic and establish a way of playing which suits our players.
Some of our performances this season have been shambolic and it’s a miracle we have amassed 29 points.
Without Zaha, he hasn’t a clue how to set up to win.
Moyes has found a way of winning without Antonio even in the absence of any other striker.
Moyes leaves captain Noble out even though he’s still decent.
Hodgson persists with captain Luka even even when he consistently underperforms .
And I don’t think Moyes is exceptional by the way.

So are the players disobeying Hodgson with this slow passing out from the back sideways and backwards?
One assumes they are following his tactics.
When Benteke plays and receives only one cross in the air during a match are they disobeying tactics?
When Ayew is selected right of a midfield 4 and spends his whole match anywhere other than on the right is he disobeying tactics?
Put players in their correct positions and play to their strengths.
If they don’t perform, make changes.
It’s not that complicated.