Frankly, this would be the only reason for Roy to go. If he cannot get the players to understand why we play the way we do and he loses the room. At that point some players need to go as well to make sure the new guy does not go all gamble-y.

Not many fans will be happy with the style of football, I agree that it can be poor at times. However, this is our best season ever with regards to points after 26 games. We are no longer flirting with relegation season after season and progressing as a football club.

Anyone who hates this style of football but would be fore Sean Dyche to take over needs their eyes testing because the football is exactly the same.

I feel Roy is a scapegoat for the boards lack of support. If we were finishing 17th every season staying up on the last day, we would be calling for better playing squad. However, because we stay up comfortably, Roy is given 3 championship players (1 is injured and the other couldn’t get in the Stoke team), A rb who has barely played in 2 years and released by Liverpool and a chelsea loanee.

If the board are happy with what’s going on, it will filter down to the manager and players.

Somesones bashing the keyboard away looking for an internet fight.....Its really that simple, which I'm so baffled many don't get.

Here's what "We should just be grateful just to be here" mentality gets you.....Players like Zaha (and others who have more about them) leave, no decent players or managers wanting to come and our youths for the future signing elsewhere. other teams evolve while his is happening.

Our pathetic yearly 14th+ finish or counting down the points for us to be safe (when we should be in the top half with our finances and team) turns into our relegation.

It's reeeeeeeeeeeeally that simple!!!

And the new stadium everyones harping on about, how'd you think that would pan out!(No need to answer mush, you've got nothing remotely interesting for me to hear)

Respectfully

I’m surprised (well, actually not very) that some folks think I was actually being serious. As a club, we’ve comprehensively painted ourselves into a corner by maintaining Premier League status on the cheap with little or no investment in the future. This is now going to come home to roost at the end of the season, what with 11 players with expiring contracts, to say nothing of the management team. Hodgson has absolutely done everything expected of him and deserves huge respect for doing it but when he does eventually go, prepare for the Championship. The job of rebuilding is simply too enormous to be accomplished quickly and certainly not without jeopardising our Premiership status and equally not by someone like Eddie Howe.

The future-planning of the board has been flawed, not least by putting a chancer like Freedman in as DoF. All of you calling for Hodgson to go don’t seem to realise or care that we’re actually buggered when he does. And when it does inevitably go tits-up, I’ll find it very difficult not to wag my finger and say “I told you so”. As so many have said, be careful what you wish for.

Nailed it. Agreed.

But Roy

But Roy didn't achieve 4 points out of those performances.

Fulham, a team in the bottom 3, we did not register a single shot on target. We ended the game how we started, 0-0 and a point.

He just didn't lose the game... not really hard feat for a team that hadn't won in 21 of 25 matches. Also, this was supposed to be a response to a match we somehow won, against our 'rivals'

So a London derby, to amend a dire performance, this is poor.

Brighton game, well documented so no need to go over that.

If these two games cannot lift the players, stir the passion... if we get outclassed by both..... then we are in trouble, serious trouble...

This season is an anomaly, for a lot of clubs, no fans has its cause and affects, make no mistake. We got lucky.

This was once a quality forum....