Giving Roy time is a luxury we cannot afford

We are currently down in the bottom three and to quote an old Shankly phrase, the way we are playing "we'll take some shifting".

We face a relegation six-pointer against Blackburn on Sunday.

I'll repeat that for those that want our current manager to be given more time.

We face a relegation six-pointer against Blackburn on Sunday.

Two seasons ago with largely the same team we finished second, yet the apologists for our current manager would have us all believe that Rafa Benitez left the club in a dire situation. Actually he left us in seventh place. Dire for him I suppose as in the previous four seasons we'd never finished below fourth but there you go.

The two people who had been systematically destroying the club finally got booted out last week at the High Court in London. The much-hoped -for tarring and feathering never happened but you can't have everything can you?

Quite why our current manager believes he has been left so much in the lurch is a mystery.

Our last manager, Mr.Benitez, was obviously such a poor manager that we had to pay the current Champions of Europe to take him off our hands.

You can imagine NESV's response to that little snippet can't you?

"So, run that by me again Christian, we had a manager that had taken the club to two Champions League finals, won one of them, won the FA Cup, won the Super Cup in Monaco, got the club to second place in the Premiership the season before last and supposedly because he finished seventh last year, you paid the current European Champions to take him off your hands"?

"And the guy you brought in to "steady the ship" has us at the bottom of the table right..? Well I suppose once we hit rock bottom we'll be pretty steady then..."

Ninety percent of Liverpool supporters have voted for our current manager to be removed - before it becomes too late, not just to save the season, but to save the club from a relegation fight that we seem currently ill-equipped to win.

This is Liverpool FC. It is not "Utopia" to expect to win at Goodison Park - it's not like we've never done it before...

We shouldn't lose to newly promoted Blackpool at home.

We shouldn't get knocked out of cup competitions at home by Northampton town.

When Sir Alex Ferguson verbally attacks our main striker, we shouldn't sit there and say nothing.

A nil-nil result away against Naples in the Europa League is not some sort of masterstroke.

Whatever our current manager thinks of what websites may say, or on-line polls, he - and NESV - ignore them at their peril. They mirror what the supporters think.

Many of us have supported this club for a long, long time. Many remember the days of Bill Shankly and everything since, right up to Benitez. We know what we are watching, we are not stupid or blind as some people seem to think.

We have just got rid of two people that were quite simply killing the club.

Before this club can get back to what it was - what it should be - there is much more work to do.

Vital decisions on who decides the team and the tactics. On who spends any transfer budget is key to that future. Get it wrong and we won't have a future.

Not in the Premiership anyway.

Over to you, John W Henry.