To-date, I have heard nothing to suggest that Hodgson will not start the season as our manager, in fact quite the opposite.

Edited by Willo (21 Jul 2020 8.55am)

What was even the point in Woods, Gordon, Kirby and Pierrick being on the bench as he was never going to use any of them and we all knew that?

Roy Hodgson's bizarre subs part 53: lose Sakho to inkury so rather than bringing on Kelly or Woods, go for Kouyate (along with McCarthy an awful signing made by Hodgson who has done nothing in is time here) and is not a proper centre-half; losing the game so taking off Schlupp and bringing on a more defensive player in Riedewald.

Every spot is worth £2m. But in the last few matches it became apparent that we wont get higher than 13th and almost certainly won't drop to 15th.

There's more to football than a club bank balance.

With the side we have been putting out we don't look like scoring, and certainly don't look like winning. We don't pose any threat to the oposition and won't give players that might a chance.

We could have used try out something different for next season, but instead it's just the same old crap that doesn't work.

Based on 7 games, 7 loses, 2 goals. Sunday could be Roy's last game in management. If the players have any respect for him they will come out pumped up to give the old guy a good send off, or a chance to continue next season.

The impression I am getting (Rightly or wrongly) is that supporters recognise what Hodgson has achieved in keeping us up on a limited spend and that key to our survival has been the organisation, shape, discipline etc etc that he has installed in the team.This is the Hodgson methodology.

However, supporters believe that even if we acquire more flair players, the "Hodgson way" will continue with players having to stick rigidly to the mantra with no room for any inventiveness, "Thinking out of the box" etc etc and woe betide any player who slightly deviates in a game from a rigid "Plan A".That said, the "Plan A" has secured survival in the PL for 3 seasons.

Supporters of course appreciate that organisation is important but playing in a "Strait jacket" is not what they want any more and believe that other managers with the same squad could have got more out of them.

The "Hodgson out" camp appears to be growing by the day.

Edited by Willo (21 Jul 2020 9.45am)

Exactly this! Ever since we lost at Home to Burnley six games ago it was a nailed on cert we were going to finish 14th. No one below us could catch us and with our remaining fixtures we weren’t remotely likely to pick up sufficient points to overhaul any of the teams above us at that time (June 29th).

Correct, just thankful we were safe before we faced a run in of difficult fixtures, apart from Bournemouth, they were always going to be difficult with the fight going for european places at the top the division. Those who thought we could be that fight of course were not being realistic.