I'd refer you back, as I often do, to a certain Tony Pulis, who also liked a solid defensive game, but somehow found a way for his arguably lesser talented side to score a goal or two using the means available to him / them.
I'm tired of all this "Poor Roy, he doesn't have the players" or "Roy can play attacking football, just look at last season" nonsense. PV was lambasted for a period of Patball during a very tricky run of games last season, Roy plays a bit of Royball and it's (again) "He has to play like this while so and so players are injured".
All excuses for a manager who tactical default setting is to negate rather than create.
I'd say get on with it Roy, and be a little bolder against teams like Forest and Fulham. That's all, show some intent.

I would agree that we should show more intent, at least against
mid table and lower teams, and also on the observations re Pulis who seems to be disliked for reasons of his personality as opposed to his achievements.

Yes they did, even though they were not clear cut, they did. The irony is that, despite what Roy said, the biggest period of attacking intensity came when we were already two down and the youngsters introduced to the game. We actually scored a decent goal in that period, alas too late to affect the result.

Pulis took over a team the equivalent of the current Sheffield United in personnel and got it into a mid table position.A remarkable achievement.
I'm also unsure the current League is that much more competitive while Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are in it and Spurs are topping the table.
Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool aren't a patch on their erstwhile teams either.
There's more money splashing around but often for dimishing returns.

I think this is all madness, including Roy’s comments. We were playing against an in form big club who are top of the league. Who like me was really happy at half time, we gave it a good go and restricted them. If it wasn’t for the own goal we could have got something from the game. We should be praising what we managed to do in the game and look forward to the games coming up. More of the same and we will get some points.

Good post, the league leaders had 1 shot on target, and 2 corners in 103 minutes, with no major injuries in their team, i would like to see what would have happened if they didn't have their best to attacking players, Son and Maddison available.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn