Every team has bad days, such as when we played Chelsea we had an off day. However, it is possible our lacklustre display against Chelsea meant we had the energy to beat Wolves, whereas they spent all theirs beating Spurs.

What Roy does is make us competitive in most games we play. We have the fourth highest number of clean sheets in the league and were it not for misfiring strikers we would be comfortably higher. You can't blame him for the players failure to convert one of 31 chances against Cardiff, can you? When we play teams we're expected to beat we are on the front foot, when it's the other way round we look to counter. Would you do it differently? Chelsea aside we have created chances even against the top four and have achieved draws against Arsenal and Man Utd as well as running Spurs and Liverpool close.

Before we played them how many people thought we'd get 3 wins and a draw out of our last 5 games? Not many I imagine. If Roy's tactic is to somehow make other teams play badly I'll take that!

Every team has bad days, such as when we played Chelsea we had an off day. However, it is possible our lacklustre display against Chelsea meant we had the energy to beat Wolves, whereas they spent all theirs beating Spurs.

What Roy does is make us competitive in most games we play. We have the fourth highest number of clean sheets in the league and were it not for misfiring strikers we would be comfortably higher. You can't blame him for the players failure to convert one of 31 chances against Cardiff, can you? When we play teams we're expected to beat we are on the front foot, when it's the other way round we look to counter. Would you do it differently? Chelsea aside we have created chances even against the top four and have achieved draws against Arsenal and Man Utd as well as running Spurs and Liverpool close.

Before we played them how many people thought we'd get 3 wins and a draw out of our last 5 games? Not many I imagine. If Roy's tactic is to somehow make other teams play badly I'll take that!

I wouldn't disagree with the post but how much of that is down to hodgsons management or the fact his inherited a pretty decent team who can turn it on against anyone every now and then. The frustrating thing for me is we look just one click away from being a pretty decent team and that's down to Roy to make happen but he would rather play it safe knowing the quality we have will just be enough to see us alright. We've got the best defence outside the top 6 and we quite clearly have problems converting chances so how are we looking to improve this ?

We don't seem to be, there's no evolution in our game at all. When benteke was fit, he was played deeper with wilf playing off him and has never looked great as a striker and has always been so much more ineffective and isolated up top on his own. We just play so narrow. Townsend and zaha are just as bad as each other, one wants to take on the whole team and the other just wants to cut in and shoot between 4 defenders and a goalie 9 times out of 10 his shot being blocked. Zaha just seems to take on everyone out of frustration that there's no one good enough to pass to. How many times does wan bissaka overlap only to get ignored because Townsend decides to cut in again. Van aanholt doesn't even bother and just runs to the edge of the box hoping zaha might pass, the rare occasion he does it's always a short pass back to wilf, tho neither are the best at crossing but we don't even attempt to try and change or do anything different.

We can't score and the attitude seems to be oh well we will have just enough quality to stay up anyway. Great 2nd half of the season to watch.

Frustrating to read isn't it, Hodgson is doing a fantastically brilliant job with the players he has to work with, the team has become much much stronger due to players coming back and through improving with his coaching.
The team is creating tons of goalscoring opportunities in almost every game and all some people can do is criticize, I'd only be concerned if we were not creating chances personally.