We have no strikers at the club who are fit and able to score goals.

Parish has totally failed to furnish the football club with any attacking threat outside of Zaha. We are not just light 1 or 2 but possibly 3 or 4 attacking players - wingers and strikers etc.

Parish is a schoolboy operator when it comes to transfers, still, even after all of these windows.

On to Roy - he is not so much stubborn, as just set in his ways as old timers tend to be. Harry Kane taking corners springs to mind. Hodgson keeps trying to get the team to operate as it did in the Leicester 5-0 game, but without Cabaye and RLC its just not happening.

I thought the Burnley game may have been a turning point but today was abysmal. RH has to be accountable for the tactics and approach and not changing things sooner. Trying to play through the middle of them by having Luka blast passes into the middle of their box through 15 bodies is insane.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

I don't think a change in manager is going to do much all the time we have a lot of players who are on big money and not quite up to it.

I dread to think how much the wages of players like Dann, Puncheon, Speroni, Guaita, Kelly, Jairo, Schlupp, Ward, Sorloth and Williams are costing us per week and they have barely played 10 games between them this season

You can only assume that if the average wage of that lot are £20k a week then that's £200k a week of players that we'd struggle to get off the books and stop us from spending any more on players due too FFP.

The only way out of this is to break FFP and pay the fine for exceeding the wage limit. But we won't do that.

The blame for me has to lie at poor management from the board to have brought in so many players at high cost and wages that have either been ego buys or just simply not good enough. I mean I love Jules but paying what is mooted to be £20k a week for a 39 year old who doesn't play out of sentimental reasons is madness, club legend or not.

I mentioned privately, and maybe here on HOL, that whilst the win was very welcome, we shouldn't read too much into it as Burnley were totally and utterly abject and looked far from being a PL team.

Reality hit us last night and the performance was totally and utterly unacceptable.Lots of negative mutterings about Hodgson and whilst these might have been as emotions were running high, perhaps in the cold light of day these same supporters will be of the same opinion.

Sad to say, another defeat looms on Saturday at W.Ham and another inept performance will only increase the calls for him to be relieved of his duties.Personally I cannot see the Board acting in the near future.

Looking at the forums I would say the reaction is fairly balanced and not just a reaction to the bad defeat yesterday.
Most people agree,
1) our current strikers are not, and are unlikely, to be good enough
2) our scouting is not fit for purpose for a premier club of this duration
3) Hodgson is tactically inflexible and doesn’t know how to effect in game changes
4) he is trying to play the same way that served us well last season but without the same players at his disposal.
He does not react to the opposition and we seemed totally unprepared for Brighton even though we knew exactly how they would play.You cannot employ the same tactics and approach every game e.g it’s different playing Arsenal at home to Brighton away.
One thing is sure - he won’t change his approach so if results don’t improve the board will have a decision to make.

And if the board do decide to change the manager who do you think would be interested in the poisoned chalice of a job

I agree, it's not RH who is at fault, he has little options to play with, the bench last night was really weak because we do not have a good enough squad, Brighton, Watford and Bournemouth have all developed in the PL much better than we have and in a shorter time because they have Chairman who allow their Managers to manage, SP is the one who needs to go and quickly!