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.

Sadly, Hodgson needs to go.

Absolutely shocking against Burnley which was a must win against very average opposition.

The recent match against Aston Villa was just about the worst performance in many of late.

Palace made Villa look like Real Madrid. We seem to have no plan, no strategy and the constant delay in any changes during the game is bewildering.

Have the players already packed up for a short holiday now that we are safe?

For the first time ever, since the early 1970s I am nearly on the point of not watching, I feel it is that bad.

If we go on a run of 8 defeats in a row, which on paper appears a likely outcome, Roy should resign. Arguably, our best player, will is playing deeper and deeper and therefore has no real impact and precious few shots, or assists.

In essence, we need a new manager and some new players as the age profile of the squad is becoming a concern.

Mr Parish: please act soon!

Whilst I fully understand your sentiments viz recent performances. You are talking about a Manager who has done wonders in keeping this club up without much support from above in terms of team investment. Please also remember that his win rate with us is circa 42% and with England it was over 58%. So pretty good all round there!

Broadly this same team tried to play expansive attacking football under FdB and look at what happened and as a result Roy was parachuted in and quickly identified the best way to play to the strengths of the team he had and as a result has kept us in the PL and with much the same team selection options for the last three years earning the club significant revenue.

At Villa. he was not slow in making changes and if I remember right he identified some weakness in our play that the first half and immediately made two changes at half time and then within the allowed time frame during the 2nd half.

if you are looking to apportion blame, which as a supporter I perfectly understand, then please look no further than SP/DF because Roy has made it perfectly clear over several transfer windows what strengthening the team required and yet he has not been well supported at all, despite this has stuck to the task when other in the past have walked away.

As Willo has said many times on this thread these are strange times with loads of games in quick succession following a long lay off and therefore there is also match fitness to consider in an aging team playing in the heat of our summer.

Let us all hope that we can get 4/5 smartly sourced players in the transfer window that is about to open and then hopefully we may be able to start scoring again.

this is my biggest problem at the moment. we are safe from relegation. we have an ageing squad, and yet he continues to play the same team. Just cannot understand why he doesn't change it up a bit. Let's face it, it couldn't go any worse. Reidewald played brilliantly when he stepped in at left back, and has played well the odd chance he's had in midfield, PVA has been poor lately, but stays in the team. James Macarthy had a good run, while Milo was out. Milo has been awful lately but still starts. Macartur looks absolutely knackered, but still starts, why not give max a run. Ward looks really poor, but there's no replacement, although reidewald might do a better job there. Then theres the kids on the bench, who must be wondering what they have to do to get a chance. I just don't understand what's going on

I perfectly understand your views and you make valid points, Riedewald and Meyer need to be given a chance but I suspect it is the balance of the team and the tactical options he has with certain that is the problem and of course injuries.

The youngsters, he clearly thinks they are not ready yet and he may be right because the U23 have not been playing well being 2nd to bottom of their league with fairly modest opposition and no stand out striker (27 goals for the whole playing period, so the same problem as the first team, can't score!).

I think our only hope is some new players to increase his options as its is so important for the clubs future that we retain our PL status.

Some seem to be taking the view that he should stay, regardless of poor performance , in the absence of an obvious candidate to replace him.
In that case should we give him a 10 year contract???
Patently this is absurd and Parish should be looking at succession planning anyway as Hodgson only has another year anyway.
There would be no shortage of candidates for a mid table London based Premier club that has just been awarded Category A status.
I think Hodgson will stay, but if we do finish with 8 defeats and the players continue to demonstrate the ill discipline and body language shown against Villa the board will have a decision to make.

Agreed we are at a crossroads the Club has got to make careful purchases during this window ,with or without Roy , as they need to address the weaknesses and the age of the squad. I do think however the way we have been performing it will be 8 losses , not many managers survive that but I think Roy will get another year.
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The Man U game was a fluke. Even though I would say 3 defencive midfielders would be the correct choice against them. Ayew scoring with our first chance then a sucker punch whilst they were hunting for a winner.

We beat 10 men Aston Villa 1-0 with them having a late goal ruled out by VAR. It wasn't impressive.

Against Everton we left Zaha on the bench. Effectively taking off one attacking option for another. Meyer was kept out by Pickford a couple of times. If he was that bad, then Camerasa was sat on the bench as an unused sub.

He got 10 minutes v Sheffield United.

That Grimsbey game was a Hodgson special harking back to the days when he bored everyone off watching England. The only player who looked half decent that game was Reidewald in the holding midfield position. But its a mystery as to why you'd only play 1 striker against a team who are going to shove everyone behind the ball. Having said that, we did have over 30 shots, it's a bit of a freak occourance. Had an early one gone in it might have been a completely different story.

Meyer's efforts against Pickford were feeble. Your statement about the Sheffield Utd game isn't true. Roy no sub hooked him on 65 mins.

Any win at Old Trafford is a good one particularly having the character and attacking intent to bounce back from conceding a 90th minute equaliser.

It's also not true that we were poor against Villa and the pr1ck Grealish got his just desserts.

Too many excuses are made for Meyer including yours for his no show against Grimsby which is fine. What is wrong is how his "apologists" use his all too rare / mythical attacking prowess as one of the biggest sticks to continually beat the manager.