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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.

Scams not the man

Submitted by mcbikeman on

If anyone wanted proof that Moyes does not see Scamacca as part of the West Ham team only has to look at the last two games.....playing a cypriot side that would struggle in the national league a chance for Scamm to get some minutes in but nope Antonio played he scored twice came off injured so Scam got a few minutes...fast forward to today against Villa Ings not involved in the game Antonio not available because of injury Moyes can't take Benni off he knows that as much as he'd like to so low and behold Ings off and Cornet on a man coming back from the longest calf injury in history who has played as attacking Wingback or winger well not today today he was put in upfront and with Scamacca on the bench and seemingly stuck there you now no Moyes wants shot of the player and if the tea ladies fit she will get on against the cypriots ahead of Scam.....Criminal Moyes IMO....if you have had a spat with the man grow up stop sulking and give him a chance but no another unpolished gem Moyes treats like a turd will be gone........His man management skills are no existent

Blinkered view

Submitted by mcbikeman on

Moyes wont be sacked as there is nobody out there with Prem experience.....you hear that bandied about a lot but please explain to me what they mean by Prem experience? De zerbi did he have it? Thomas Frank? did he Ten Haag? nope so what the hell do they mean? it is all a load of nonsense as far as i am concerned and lazy thinking.

Good managers manage the players.....the league you are in IMO is irrelevant....Players need to respect and know who the boss is and buy into his philosphy if they dont you get chaos.

So how come we have to have a manager with "prem experience" yet buy players without the same? so please somene explain to me just what they mean? do they mean ex-players with prem experience can be managers? if so see Gerrard/Lamps etc and if they want just a manager who has been there do they mean BFS Benitez.....overlooking the new crop like Kompany and Carrick.

So if your CV does not have Prem experience on it do not bother to apply?.

No Balls

Submitted by mcbikeman on

From the board to the manager to the players none of them have any balls to change and as a consequence we are without doubt of the 9 clubs in the dogfight have the better players of the bunch but what we dont have are players with any fight no scrappers where as all the others have that in there squads....the board no balls for making the decision we all know that needs to be made the manager has no balls to change from his antiquated tactics and the players no balls to try and change things ingame just give up and sulk....but its our fault as fans apparently for not backing the team and manager during the hard times.....Protests dont work they say the board not interested in what "customers" say but if only for one or two games as a fanbase you turn up but dont go into the ground stay outside let the players see and the manager that we wont watch that shit anymore and embarrass the board they may have taken your money with a season ticket but it is time to show them that without us the club is worthless.....Money is all they understand....they can take our money but they can never take our freedom time to make a stand.

School Team

Submitted by mcbikeman on

Watching that utter rubbish yesterday and in the comments i did say we were like a team where the players were picked in the car park and sent out to play 11 strangers trying to work out who plays where and does what....Now just hearing and reading what Shearer had to say will anyone listen? as fans we have been saying it all season but because we have never played or managed at that level we don't no what we are on about...well for those of you who have not read it here is what Shearer had to say....i do not apologise for cutting and pasting the following.

Alan Shearer has given a very clear opinion on where he believes David Moyes stands at West Ham after today’s defeat at Brighton and Hove Albion.

None of us object to getting beaten so long as the Hammers leave nothing on the pitch. Today they couldn’t leave anything because they took nothing onto it.

And don’t ask me to start getting excited about the restart of the Conference because frankly it is of little interest given the appalling form this squad is showing under a manager who scares the living daylights out of me because he is near hopeless in most areas.

I don’t believe he is any good tactically, in the transfer market, from what I hear close to it, dull and boring on the training ground, making pointless substitutions at around the same time most games and usually finding scapegoats – usually, like today, Said Benrahma.

Oh then of course there is the regular stuff about how we can’t score goals and “we are working on that” along with his refusal to give much team news before a game.

He is frightened opposition manager will work out how we are gonna play but there’s one flaw in his thinking: They already know!