Dear Mr Parish and Hodgson. Us paying fans have been putting up with this rubbish since we were promoted in 2013. Do you not think we deserve better in our 11th consecutive season in the Premier League? With maximum attendances of barely 11,000, why is it that Luton and Bournemouth can play attractive football on a shoestring budget, but we can’t? Enough is enough! Change is warranted and due!

We started ok and Olise should have played in Ayew who would have been 1 v 1 with the keeper. Similarly Edouard and Schlupp got in each others way trying to get to the rebound from Ayew's shot. But that was as good as it got. Apart from Lerma's shot we virtually created zilch in the second half. Fatigue would have been a factor but this performance will have consequences and let's hope the squad get a boost in January.

Apparently someone threw an object at Roy on his way off?
Out of order if so, even after a terrible Palace display.
Yes - we could and should have scored but we didn't and we were beaten easily by a team who, on paper, we should beat.
No Eze or Doucoure but other than that we were at full strength - big misses I know but it shows how little depth we have.
Ward was just awful again but he wasn't alone.
Roy and Ray set this up and drill the team and it just isn't good enough any longer.
No invention, less effort from some than expected, no movement - the list goes on.
January looms large and I can see the likes of Anderson looking to leave and an exodus would spell a bigger disaster than we are already experiencing.
Only one team in the league has scored less than us and a poor Edouarde has scored half of our 14 goals - worrying.
I believe that Roy should go but who replaces him?
People mention Cooper but he is doing worse with more talent at his disposal, so why him?
I haven't a clue how to fix this right now but with the fixtures that lie ahead of us is I would suggest that bar a miracle we will be in the relegation zone in January with unhappy players and fans.
This is where Steve Parish will need his wits about him and we can only hope that the players have their own team talk asap to try and stem this kind of performance.
I am unable to go to the game on Saturday and for once I am not sorry.

Players who know they won't be dropped, players who are not good enough and even worse, players who looked like they didn't even wanna be there. We've got Liverpool to look forward to now with probably Clyne and ward as our full backs. I don't even blame Roy, he was only appointed as he was an easy option to try and cover the cracks, we all knew a couple of injuries would see the wall start falling down. We chose not to address it in the summer, if its not addressed in January we only have ourselves to blame.

After the shambles, Hodgson says "The fact is, the fans have been spoiled here in recent times." "All our efforts, all our work, all our toughing it out to keep us in the game didn't create enough goal chances and, as a result, the fans are unhappy because they came here expecting us to blow this tiny Bournemouth team away."

"I think the players' efforts in the second half were worthy of some sort of support really."

"We can't force the fans to stay behind them in those moments. We can't get them to do what they are so famed for doing if they chose not to do that."

So the fans are spoilt in paying an arm and a leg to watch a dire performance that Hodgson is uncritical of. He talks of the players' effort - was he watching a different game? His contempt of the fans and his hubris are appalling.

Edited by georgenorman (07 Dec 2023 7.23am)

Nothing about our football is speedy