hodgson was dangled a 1 million bonus if he kept the team up…he has tried and most probably failed to keep this team in the top flight despite the the chairman’s (MAF) desperate attempt to salvage the season…hodgson was a poor choice…YES, he has the pedigree on an international level but his motivational skills are clearly lacking despite his media nouse and calm appearance…their are rumblings of unrest in the changing roon with some players wanting more minutes and i can see why…where is moritz volz??why does danny murphy continue to start despite being past his best and of the pace??..fulham are very much a sinking ship and hodgson is on his way out in the summer for sure…sanchez and to a lesser extent coleman are responsible for fulham’s slide..lets not forget liverpool kept them up last season..but all blame must fall on the board..david mcnally and the bizarre appointments of les reed as director of football have destoryed the club from the inside, out…their heads must roll..do not be surprised to see billic come in and take the reins at fulham next year, as al fayed has already said he will match the wage strucutre to keep push the club up once more and then he can finally sell and be rid of fulham’s costly burdon..

Lawrie Sanchez, was the worst manager we have had. He completely wasted a 20 million pound budget. He purchsed average championship players. Destroyed the spine of the team and played route one football. He was not experienced enough an should never have been given the opportunity to destroy our wonderful club.Hodgson has had to pick up this shambles and has not had enough time to rectify the problems.Wether he was the right man for a dogfight i the question. He has the experience but maybe would be better suite as director f football with a younger more agressive and hungry man under him.

Looking at their respective run-ins over the last 6/7 games, Fulham should have been in the box-seat. Winnable games already gone against Derby, Sunderland and a struggling Newcastle. Result: 1 point. Then games against Reading (winnable), Liverpool (who may put out a 2nd string in advance of the CL semi-final), Man City (nothing to play for), Birmingham (a home 6-pointer) and Portsmouth (focussed firmly on the FA Cup). Compare these to the run-ins for Bolton, Birmingham and even Reading and there should have been hope. Sadly, I don’t sense it.

The team only have themselves to blame. With Bullard and McBride back, and a tightened up defence, they should have been good enough to nick the required points, but instead they are conceding stupid goals (e.g. vs Derby and Sunderland) to throw it away. We have a fair few players out of contract at the end of the season, but I’m not sure how many of the others will be picked off by other clubs (Davies? Bullard? - despite his protestations to the contrary).

To be honest, I would be quite happy if the season had ended yesterday with us in 19th place. At least the agony would be over. Still, knowing this lot, they will now beat Reading to give us another false dawn. As John Cleese said in “Clockwise”: “It’s not the despair…I can stand the despair. It’s the hope!”

Mr Sanchez was the wrong choice to help Fulham stay in the top tier once they survived thanks to Liverpool’s gift game.Mr Fayed was ill advised to give that much money to a manager unable to command respect amongst top flight players. He apparently only felt comfortable with hard workers ( = low skilled) home grown players. 9 points were lost early on by moments of weakness at the back by under par players eg by Tony Warner and Baird. Interestingly he also failed to build fighting spirit and keep effort levels high. Mystifying on this theme was his decision to drop Voltz, who any season ticket holder could tell you had played his heart out, even out of position, against all comers the year before and was at least able to keep up with the opposition forwards. Hodgson should be given a chance to get them back up next year assuming the drop comes.

fantastic point about moritz volz alan…his power and bursts of speed not only get him in the positions to cause trouble but also keep up with the best…a truly undervalued player..let us not forget…he had never played centre mid before and he made it his own during periods of last year…a sad demise indeed

Thanks for your comment Sammy - when you look at those two teams there really is very little difference. I always rated Christanval to be honest - he was slow but he didn’t panic under pressure….I was glad to see the back of Rosenior though!