"Give the man time!"

I keep hearing suggestions that we should all give the new manager time to get the team playing the way he wants. I don’t think anyone is disputing that this process does take time and of course it would be unrealistic to expect the integration to be complete by now. I think the real issue is whether anyone wants to the team to be playing the way the manager wants.

Granted, we can only make assumptions at this time as to what that might be but there seems to be some pretty solid evidence on which to base those assumptions. All the feed back from people who watched Fulham under Roy, the performances so far this season and the post-match comments from the manager himself suggest the style Hodgson is aiming for is not radically different from what we’re seeing. Why else would we be seeing such performances which are so different from a tactical perspective to those which we saw even last season?

Are people saying we should give the manager time to get the team playing the way he wants or time to convince us that the way he wants the team to play is acceptable? Because if you don’t think that way of playing is acceptable, why would you give the man time to get the team playing that way?

I feel Hodgson has had long enough to give us an insight into what to expect from him and his team moving forward. Shit tactics. Awful performances. Insane team selections. Embarrassing press conferences. Time for Hodgson to go.