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Smoke&Mirrors time

Submitted by mcbikeman on

So seeing the various spleens being vented across the West Ham fanbase and a lot saying they will not renew season tickets if Moyes is still there after the Fulham game an alledged rumour now coming out of the club is that they are looking into managerial options! to little to late with our fixture list to come....and funny it is only with the possibility of fans no longer parting with there hard earned that this suddenly comes to the fore.......and i will say it again who would come with the mess we are in one of the boards own making i may add....unless they offer a kings ransom to keep us up on a short term contracr why would any manager worth there salt touch us with a barge pole.

Dino

Submitted by newburkie on

If we're not allready a laughing stock imo we soon will be,after all the dire results this season ,culminating in the embarrassing outcome to last nights little venture ,Moyes still has a job ,i mean its crazy most clubs in the bottom half of the table have sacked their manager, its one of the great mystries why we have not ,i think he maybe the worst in our history ,hes certainly got the biggest stuborn streak ,maybe Roader ( RIP ) and Grunt come a very close second .
But the question remains :,why is our board so intent on playing championship football next year ?,does anyone know the make up of them ,the board, how many are there? ,how much do they get paid ?, is it a democratic vote system ie majority wins or is Sullivan commander in chief ?, i mean there must be some decenting members that want the Dino driven out or are they just a bunch of yes men happy to go along with whatever Sully decides ,either way got to say it aint lookin great ,are only hope is that its so tight down there a lot is going to depend on other fixtures .
Each time we play i get the feeling , this is it ,they have warned him its his last chance ,but no , no big announcement on the radio sports programs, WEST HAM HAVE SAKED DAVID MOYES, its such a shame ,i was looking at all those empty seats towards the end last night and i thought to myself ,is this what its goin to look like in the chumps next year? .
Does anyone else feel a sense of betrayal.?

Morning after the night before

Submitted by mcbikeman on

How are we all after that? i see Talksh**e in full Backing Moyes mode that fool Moose saying he cannot be replaced with so few games remaining and look at Chelski Leicester Spuds all sacked managers but got nobody in so Moyes is our best chance to stay up lol tongue buried in arse most assuredly there.

So how and why does he keep his job? simple really the owners will not lose any money if the club go down....parachute payments the certain sales of Rice Paquetta Bowen and clearly Scamacca will offset any losses and of course they will only have half the rent to pay in the chumpionship so business wise it makes sense.....

So be ready for a very different looking West Ham next season but dont worry Moyes will still be there so get in quick and renew those season tickets after all businesses need Customers not Fans!

Potter

Submitted by newburkie on

Does anyone else feel a bit sorry for him ?, there he was happy trundling along with Brighton ,getting noticed by the big boys and all of a sudden Chelsea come a calling ,can you imagine what he would look like if he turned them down ?, he would loose a lot of cred ,you just don't give them the middle finger , he would have been called all sorts of a coward ,he must have known he would be way out of his depth ,now he'll be lucky to get a mediocre club in the chumps ,I've always prided myself with being a good judge of character , and he seems like a genuine good bloke to me , may not be the sharpest knife in the draw where football is concerned but he didn't deserve this treatment ,he's proberbly sitting at home saying to himself "Jesus, what have i done ", almost every club in the bottom half have sacked their maneger's this season ,except us ,our board are happy with sleepwalking us into oblivion .

Some positives!

Submitted by Hammers65 on

Hopefully we stay up & Moyes parts company! Thank him for what he did but his tenure now must be judged on the last 12 months.We have debatedly our best ever squad of players.With the right manager ( I honestly don't know who that is!!) Bowen,Benny,Pac,Cornet,Emerson ,Aguerd,Scam (if played) could be a real force...Ants on the wing,Ings inside the 6 yard box could work also....Moyes problem is he's too defensive minded,plays an isolated striker on his own & refuses to try something different.He plays players that have been out of form for ages,everyone else can see it but him!There's still a lot of work to be done to stay up!

keep it simple against the Saints

Submitted by mcbikeman on

Don't and that is Don't give fouls away around our box thats inviting obvious trouble......start the game on the FRONT foot and with pace close down the opposition quick force them into mistakes and oh yeah how about two upfront! Naaaa i dont expect to see any of that but come on the results were not that bad yesterday so COYI lets have a big win today and fly us up the table

Can a phoenix rise from the ashes

Submitted by Oldtimehammer on

The mess that is currently our club seems to get worse player unrest coach unrest a manager who cannot see the iceberg owners like ostriches and then the fans who seem to be an afterthought oh what a mess we are in and if we survive and that is by no means certain what then?

Will the board feel vindicated by there stubborness to keep a manager that saved them will the coaches calm down will the players put it all behind them and if so is it not just a recipe to repeat what happens the following season?

Our club is on the precipice and the future can look very bleak either way it tips the reputation of our club could take years to rebuild and i have often seen in the comments that we are a circus and the clowns are running it! so who in there right mind would want to come to our club on the playing side? and lets be honest here the only way we will attract the above average player now is by paying silly wages something i hoped was in the past but it will be our future now i fear.

Players come and go and managers(hopefully) as well the fans are the only ones who can never leave and it is the fans that the foundations need to be built around but the fans well they are just customers and fools and there money are soon parted is the motto of many a football chairman.

Departures

Submitted by Hammers65 on

So the rumour mill has started,players that are expected to leave if we get relegated.Rice is going anyway,Scam back to Italy obviously but the ones I have issue with - Pac will leave if we are relegated,to be expected but hardly ripped up trees 50 mill,will be lucky to get 30! Antonio to leave also,got some front imo.if youre part of the problem at least have the bollox to try & put it right!

The player my mind forgot

Submitted by mcbikeman on

Sunday morning and after yesterdays Spring clean...i no why do women do that and its normally our stuff to be cleaned! well i had to "get shot of my old footy programmes" dont worry lads they went into the loft.

Anway i was looking at the Squad we had on the back of one of the programmes it was for an F.A. cup game against Blackburn back in 1998 and seeing some of the names made me smile but one name i came across i have gone totally blank on and can't even see the player in my minds eye and that is in a squad which included Neil Finn Lee Boylan Scott Mean Samassi Abou etc and going back even further(1982) i saw Sandy Clark play! rare as hens teeth....but the player for some reason i cannot picture and it is killing me is Richard Hall.....no bells ringing the minds gone totally blank and i'm thinking come on bike you do no who he is but nope nothing there so give my memory a bit of a kick can you as it's starting to grate a bit.