Roy has not been backed at all and since he's been at the club we have made a profit of about £25m in player sales and let a lot of players go on frees or return to their parent clubs and not replaced them.

However, his reluctance to play to our strengths and his unwaivering loyalty to certain players could be his downfall here.

To not have got in a striker this window is criminal. I feel sorry for Roy but even with a change in formation and style at this point still doesn't hide the fact that we don't appear to have a striker at the club who is capable of getting more than 5 goals a season at the moment. I don't think playing to Benteke's strengths would change that either.

I was too angry with yesterday's "performance" to post anything when I got back from the game last night. It was very noticeable at the game the lack of signing & the resigned comments regarding the substitutions. We urgently need to get some effort into midfield & leave Benteke out, otherwise we will get relegated. it looks like RH has no clue what to do once the game has started to get away from us. We cannot rely on 3 teams being worse than us to save us, we need to be proactive in our endeavours to stay up.

When things weren't working Roy should have tried changing the formation slightly in the 2nd half by putting Zaha on the wings and Meyer centrally. He should have taken off Benteke and brough in Ayew early.

All great ideas, change this change that but RH is a very experienced manager. The board have NOT backed him in any shape or form during his tenure. SP and the owners are and will carry on taking us downward until RH gets the backing he needs. Tekkers was not his idea so IMO back RH or we have to accept the inevitable.

A workman is only as good as his tools, and RH has got a very limited bag to work with. Whatever way the playing tactics are juggled I fear the result will be the same. The problem lies with SP and his unwillingness to properly invest in the squad now. Newcastle get all the headlines for Mike Ashley's parsimonious stewardship but SP is running him neck and neck. We look toothless with many players who would struggle in the Championship.

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Lyons is right. But if we get relegated their original investment will evaporate and be worth half or even less. As it stands they must be around break even if most of the AWB money has been used to pay off director loans. Or the director loans can now be paid off when cash flow allows it more now following the AWB sale.

Unless the relegation loss maybe less or more likely not that much more than propping the squad up with loaned funds again in January.

I think the US investors weren’t expecting this need for squad investment and with the mistakes by Parish and emergency repairs it’s been a problem we’re stuck with since one or two or theee big repair jobs that have caught up with us, or Parish to be precise.

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