Really curious about team selection on Craven Cottage. Would like to see Eze and Riedewald playing from start, keep Batman hovering around and inside their box. No ultra-defensive set-up once again, please. Another performance like the two previous ones and the manager will be gone by next week!

I would suspect that the manager's position hasn't come into any consideration whatsoever and as far as I am concerned it is highly chimerical and ludicrous to believe that he will be removed from his position should we lose against Fulham.

Hodsgon has been entrusted with an extended contract, the season is in his infancy we haven't lost all games and getting cut adrift from the pack.

I re-iterate, Hodgson will be with us for the foreseeable future.Should we secure survival and he wishes to continue for another season,there is every chance his contract will be extended yet again.I stress this is a personal view and not something I have heard !!

On the basis that Hodgson won’t change his approach ( he could justifiably argue why should he?) I would like to see what another manager could get out of this group of players.
I am realistic enough to realise this is unlikely to happen unless the results are terrible and a replacement is available.
There were unsubstantiated rumours that the club were unhappy with him during that terrible run at the end of the season, but this would be the same with the majority of managers on such a losing run.
He does seem out of kilter in how he operates with the aspirational Parish and doesn’t seem convinced by Freedman’s scouting other than when he knows the players recruited.
I think they will all continue to rub along unless a crisis appears imminent.

Totally agree. During these uncertain times Roy’s number one objective is to keep us in the league. That’s it.

If he does that then I reckon an offer of another year will be on the table.

We tried playing passing football for 3 games. Didn’t work. Do you remember that 0-3 home defeat by world beaters, Huddersfield. Roy had to come in and save us.

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Lol, this guy is either a member of this board or he definitely reads it.

Very true and at the end of the day points are all that matters to the board. After 5 games gone we are sitting on the same points as Leeds and have more than Brighton. So Roy can argue his case very simply if asked to justify why he doesn’t play like Bielsa or Potter.