Ask yourself what you would do in his shoes. You get a team that is low on confidence, and is missing 3 of the core members from a fairly successful side that have been replaced with emergency signings who haven't worked out in the past. You have no money to improve the squad, so you sign a few guys you trust even if you (and everyone) know they're average players.
The first thing you've got to do is build confidence so that the players can knock the ball around without being afraid of letting a goal in, and that means you *will* go out there to not lose. But you've got no time to arrange the side in any way other than your predecessor's system (which is not a 'plan to not lose' system), and you find yourself fighting with Arsenal, the two clubs from Manchester, and have an away game with club on an unbeaten home run of 12 months!
Fast forward a bit, and now you're 5 games into the season and maybe you're starting to realize that your defensive players are not EPL quality, and therefore your no-lose approach has failed. You've not built that confidence you needed, and now you have to go out there and somehow play positive, attacking, forcing football against sides that will plan to park the bus, hoping to win on the counter, or play route one ball at your backs who are generally weak in the air. With an axe over your head. That's a huge ask.
I said before he signed that Roy would be mad to take the job; only Dalglish would have licence to fail this season. I wonder how he feels about his decision now?
But is the clock really ticking? Roy will be Liverpool manager until we get new owners or spend too long outside the top 10, and we can't judge either of those until we've played most of the sides in the EPL; December at the earliest.
All he's really had time to do so far is gather information. Let's see how he uses it first, rather than calling for his head just to set up another manager to also come in and fail (like, would we really want Martin O'Neill?).
