Your wrong, the manager must take part of the blame but so do the players for continuing to underperform, a manager can only prepare them right until they go out on the pitch, then it is soley up to them. Blaming a manager is a complete kopp out, look at tonite how can you blame Hodgson if say Glenn Johnson allows Jarvis to get the better of him in one on one confrontations, how can any player allow there opponent to beat them, surely there has to be some personal pride and tonite there was absolutely nothing and it has f*ck all to do with Hodgson, players are shi*houses with no personal pride, seen perfectly tonite...
I can certainly agree that no one in the squad, from the manager down, is in a good place right now. But really - the way Roy put those players out on the pitch last night was appalling. Gerrard has failed as a CM this season. Meireles has failed in every position OTHER than CM this season. Johnson is not a defender. Torres and N'Gog don't work well together. Soto is only good against an aerial assault and in games where we have many corners (though in truth Roy couldn't start anyone else). But the fact that he made every one of these mistakes once again shows he's stubborn to a fault, still has no plan 'B', and in the light of such irrefutable stupidity I would be surprised of the team is willing to play for him.
You can't win like this. Yes, Roy doesn't kick the ball, nor does he miss the tackles. But morale, tactics, selection. Those are the things he does have control over, but he's just getting worse and worse rather than leading us from strength to strength.
