And your point is? I’m a Palace supporter, not a Hodgson supporter.

There is no doubt that any football supporter would like to see fast open attractive football comming from their team and winning matches. However to achieve that you need a certain type of player and manager. How many teams in the Premiership provide that? I would say a handful and more importantly these clubs have plenty of funding.The rest of the teams have to make the best of what they have got if they want to remain in the Premiership and that comes down to how the manager sees the best way to use his squad. In our case Roy plays a style which he believes suits the players and keeps us in the league. It is not pretty but has served its purpose.
I sympathise with your desire for a different style of play but I suggest that even with a different manager with this squad of players I doubt they would suit fast open attacking football.
To change we will need funding,different players and a different manager and I can’t see that happening ,in the meantime we have to make the most of what we have.
How do you think our club can bring about the change in style you and probably all of us wish for given our fund availability and still keep us in the league in the next 12 months?

The only points they have dropped at home this season have been against us and Southampton, we had more opportunities only we didn't actually manage to get shots away or play broke down because of our awful passing (Southampton the same) after 32 mins Southampton had had only one other attempt at moan.u goal and yes looking at the stats it looks a lot different from the actual game in which moan.u should have won with their clear cut chances, also moan.u were 2-1 up after 23 mins and having failed to see them off allowed Southampton to gain confidence as the second half went on, our situation was very different moan.u didn't score until the 89th min.

I don’t accept this team has only one way of playing.
Last season I witnessed us winning at Arsenal with Benteke and Zaha playing together up front.
We played more directly and their defence couldn’t handle them.
It also meant Zaha didn’t spend most of his time defending.
What’s wrong with two up front on occasions and getting the ball forward quicker rather than just passing it backwards and sidewards in our own half as we do in most games?
It’s not rocket science.

Admittedly, I was working through my thoughts as I was writing that.

Man U were all over us when Ayew scored, it was an excellent goal and well taken, but we were lucky not to be be several down by that point, but you need the rub of the green in those matches and he got the tactics right for that kind of game. Not many teams would have pressed for a winner in the way they did after they equalised. It was a brave way of playing, which ultimately didn't work and we took advantage. Roy then hasn't changed those tactics for the rest of the season, irrispective of the opposition, no matter how many times it hasn't worked.

That game against Grimsby was a long time ago and my memory has mostly blocked it out. I took to friends who hadn't been to a game before, they were very impressed with our loud, loyal, support especially given the performance. From it I seem to recall we were getting shots away, but still set up cautiously an against a non-league team with 10 players.

Similarly, Hodgson did the same as England manager against weaker sides, which lead to a record that didn't look too bad in terms of results but it was a misrible period. In countrast, Southgate came along and decided that against the likes of Panama, we'd play two recognised centre backs and one full back in the back 3, plus one holding midfielder he realised we didn't really need to defend if we could overload their defence.

If Roy's really cunning, he'd play an experimental team against Man U. Chances are they'd get destroyed and he'd use it to justify to his critics that Reidewald and Meyer aren't good enough.

As these players played well under Roy it would be reasonable to say that they have dropped their performances for them not to be playing well now. If you are saying that the reason they are not playing well now is because of Roy then can you suggest a manager who we can realistically get that would change our style with this group of players and bring the same success as Roy with all the financial constraints he has to work under?

Are you suggesting that you are view on whether Hodgson should depart or not is based on a few games at the end of the season, during an unusual period where teams have to play a number of games in fairly quick succession?

In terms of your comment about a "Results game", our results this campaign under Hodgson have ensured that we will be playing in the PL yet again next season.

So at which point do you draw the line? How many losses combined with terrible performances before you would consider it enough?

I think it would be unfair to judge a manager purely on the basis of 8 successive defeats at the end of a season when he has secured PL survival yet again, particularly with an aged having to play a succession of games in a short period of time.Certainly unusual circumstances.

It's time for a change; woeful. I wonder if Hodgson has lost the dressing room?

The buck stops with the manager. Our game management and even basic passing is totally shocking at the moment.

Totally disagree with Willo; Hodgson needs to go.