Earlier this morning before I dared to visit the excuse-making one usually finds from players on the official website I wrote that nothing at our club is normal right now.
Having now dared to have a look at the comments emerging on www.whufc.com it seems that I find myself in the less than exalted company of Andre Ayew who is never slow with a word or ten.
And he too appears to believe there is something entirely abnormal about what’s happening to us at the moment.
He said: “There are no words. We came here with lots of determination to do something. We leave here with zero points and four goals conceded. It’s not normal.
We need to get back to work and try and get some points. We need to stay strong, be men, take responsibility and move forward.
It’s not going to be easy, it will be difficult as we have tough games coming up. But we need to tune our mind and fight and try and get the maximum points that we can from those games.”
I don’t think that many fans expect anything other than zero points and a large negative
In the goal average column, from the next three games.
The path from being incompetent to being competent is not linear, there will be bumps in the road, the goal this season is premiership survival, there are a lot of teams down the bottom all performing poorly we are 6 points off 11th place so no need to push the panic button, we have 4 horrible games coming up but they are a chance to improve defensively which is where we have the most improvement to make. We are also not getting many breaks at the moment, Hart made a great save from his penalty and it went straight to Rooney, Pickford likewise and his went well clear, Hart got his finger tips on the Calvert Lewin ball (even though it was still a penalty imo) From every serious attack they scored, that is not normal it was helped by poor defending but still not normal, the only way out of this situation is to dig really deep, deeper than we are at present but although they have had a lot of criticism the players did try until the last minute, if they hadn’t it could have been even worse, with the ball for a period in the secnd half we were pretty good, we are still not moving it quick enough but it is better than under Bilic and the more we work on that the better we will become. It is defensively we have all the headaches our players are not moving towards the player with the ball which is allowing players to pass or shoot with relative freedom and that can’t go on, they have had the entire tenure of Bilic doing the wrong things, taking the easy options, now they have to start getting out of defence and pushing up closing down their opponents and denying them the space they want to pass. It will take time though to fix, We have amazing fans as demonstrated last night and we can make the difference across the season, hopefully the players can keep a grip on perspective and turn it around COYI!!!
Hopefully that’s was woeful & I was past angry last night just depressed.
But drill drill drill. Don’t play players just bc high wages play the ones putting in effort.
And if we can even nick a couple of points from the next 3 great.
Man City are open at the back. We need to start Sakho & play 2 up front him w Ayew or Toni.
If we have the CBs I would go back 3 shame Bryam is injured. But we need a CB in Jan we bought to many players for the short term.
But if Huddersfield & Southampton can come close why can’t we get a point if we get some luck & take out the non performers.
Unfortunately our Injuries don’t help but I really hope Adrian has a brilliant game
Shock horror! Things aren’t normal, well well. At least all those ‘fans’ on the season ticket waiting list desperate to see the mighty Irons will have the pleasure of watching them in the Championship next season. This club will not progress while the current ‘owners’ are giving an excellent impression of King Canute. Time to start up Thames Ironworks again. Any takers?
I can hear the Odyssey song already playing over in the stadium If Your Looking For A Way Out come January mass exodus as this lot aint got the balls for a relegation scrap
Things ain’t normal ;;; damn right there’re not . We are currently talking about the Worst West Ham side we have seen in forty years . Loads of wages and no hard work . Wish I was a limpet like you lot . My kids and family would want for nothing . One years ( or one months ) wages would see us ok . S*d your bad knee , hamstring , ankle , elbow , thumb , earache and knock in the ribs . Most of us are working everyday with worse injuries than any Pooofy football player . We are paying good hard earned money to support you load of lazy f*ckers .
First job , Ayew ; change the Goalkeeper . Second job is do your highly priced job and score goals . I am paid to repair aircraft engines ,,, you are paid to score goals . Your wages are totally exaggerated and beyond control . They should be curbed as just all football players . You ain’t nothing special . You wear the shirt that my fathers fathers father and me wear .
Do me a favour and earn it . Not that you ever will . But try , please .
Ayew should STFU and start doing his talking on the pitch. Dunno about you but I don’t want to hear another squeak from any West Ham player until they’ve sorted this mess out. They created it and stating the effing obvious does nothing for me.
Well 20 million wasn’t normal , just another transfer flop ! He’s a goal hanger at best and can put them away ! But a team player showing some bolloxxx not in a million years mate, he’s one of the individuals on show !! Oh and sully was involved in that one to , he just had to get his man after Swansea beat him to his Monica !! Clueless 😎