And that is it in one sentence. All our expert fans seem to think that we have a bench full of Messi's. These young lads (bar maybe Mitchell) will not be making it in the top division. There is one reason why they are on the bench BECAUSE we have NO more players to sit on the bench.

Play Meyer
Play Riedewald
Play the young lads.

Play another bloody tune because None of them are good enough and if they were they would play. We even start games with less subs than we are allowed, that says it all about our youth team.

Edited by EddieMac (20 Jul 2020 2.53pm)

because we have no more players to sit on the bench.

When the team has lost 6 games in succession and further defeats could mean ending the season on the back of 8 losses, I would respectfully suggest that sticking with the same formula that ended in those losses is a mugs game.

Change something. please! Dear god do something different.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

When was the last time you played any sport?
If you are going to make comments like that, find something I've said and prove me wrong. Happy to listen, but just regurgitating generic cliches with petty digs isn't the way to have a debate. None of Roy's supporters can ever come up with any reason to support his bizzarre dicision making. The just seem to spout off the same old comments that are pumped out by the clubs media relations team about Woy being a "nice experiance old manager from Croydon" when his track record shows him to be a one trick pony who sucks the joy out of football.

Have you ever tried pulling a team together at the end of the season at an amature level when there's nothing to play for? Even if you can get all your best players out it's most likely that they will be more concerend about the beers at the end of the game than the game itself. Better to take the players from the 2nds and give them a chance to impress. They'll be dead keen, and likely to give the rest of the players a lift. Human nature being what it is, the same is true at all levels, hence why you always get wild scorelines at the end of the season.

Have you ever been asked to sub and not been brought on. That really pisses players off.

Try motivating a player who turns up to training every week knowing that no matter what they do, they'll never get a game. It's the same at all levels.

There's nothing more important to a players development than game time. You can't recreate it in train.

I guess you think players are happy just to make up the numbers on the training pitch? Turning up on match day just to sit on the bench and watch the players who got picked ahead of them lose, knowing that they won't come on.

Roy Hodgson is a laughing stock amongst fans across England. He's managed to do a better job than FDB, the worst manager the Premiership has ever had. Winning league titles in Sweden in the 1980's in no justification to be in charge of a Premiership Club in 2020.

Take our last bench.

9 players. 5 of them have played internationally, including for England, Germany, and the Netherlands.

I guess around half of us suspect we are going down every season but have been proved wrong so far.
I hope we've practised corners for this game. I'm going to go mad if we have 11 corners floated in hopefully to no one whilst Wolves score from their first one.

Red and Blue Army!

The AWB saga puts the "they're not good enough" argument to bed. Like a duck to water - he took his chance and never looked back. In fact I wonder what was going through the minds of his ex team mates as he lined up for Manchester United against them? Look what is possible if you are given a chance.
Hodgson has the opportunity, there's nothing much to play for apart from a potential ignominious 8 game losing streak becoming reality, yet he is fixated in his ways. These past games have been a real missed opportunity to experiment a little, what they have shown is that Hodgson is actually incapable of alternative thought, he does what he does because he is incapable of doing anything another way. It's just not there.

Agreed

How many good young players do we have? Our U23s were only kept of the bottom by Colchester Utd on goal difference in the also rans league!

Roy’s given two lads a run out in recent months. What should he do wheel them all out? Until one turns into a right